Although the central government is more eager than anyone else for those advanced equipment and a large number of skilled workers, more than any country and army in the world, is eager to build its own military industry. Even in the case of such hardship behind enemy lines, where you can't even eat your stomach, you are still trying to create your own military industry.

However, the central government, which has always paid attention to the preservation of people and land, and the survival of people and land, will not take such a big risk to loot the industry in Taiyuan City. In particular, among the troops dispatched, there are also elite tank units of the Anti-United Nations. At such a large price, the central government will definitely not agree to it.

Under the circumstance that the central government would certainly not approve it, Yang Zhen could only adopt the method of cutting first and then playing, taking advantage of the opportunity of the central government's hope that the Anti-Japanese Federation would send some troops to rescue the captured personnel in the continuous sweep of the Japanese army last year, and demolish the military industrial enterprises in Taiyuan to northern Shaanxi as a whole, so as to increase the military industrial capacity of northern Shaanxi and increase the blood supply capacity of the troops in the Guannai area.

In fact, Yang Zhen did this, and there was no way to do it. At present, the entire northeast base area is now overwhelmed. The number of skilled workers is becoming more and more difficult to meet the demand. Moreover, with the continuous expansion of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the production capacity of the military industry is still limited, and the need for internal troops has become more and more difficult to support.

In particular, the support for Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Jinsui is almost unsustainable at present. In the absence of railway lines, all transportation can only rely on roads and air, and the amount of fuel consumed for each transportation can be said to be astronomical.

One ton of ammunition was transported from Qiqihar to Tongliao by rail. In the road transportation from Tongliao to the northwest of Shanxi, after crossing the Yellow River, at least half a ton of gasoline must be consumed on the way. Add in the large amount of car and parts loss, and this cost is too great. During a war, it can be transported at any cost, but in the long run, it will be difficult for the Anti-United Nations to afford.

If the ground connection between the inside and outside of the pass is opened up in this campaign, according to the plan of Yang Zhen and the central government, in addition to rotating the troops in the northeast for training, they will also get an upgrade in equipment. Although it may not be comparable to the Japanese army, it is more than one grade higher than the current one.

According to this plan, after half a year, the main forces in each base area in the Guannai should meet the standard of one light machine gun, two submachine guns, and three rocket launchers for each combat squad, four to six heavy machine guns, four 60 guns, and four recoilless guns for the battalion, four 82-mm mortars and four rapid-fire guns, and four to six 12-mm anti-aircraft machine guns for the regiment.

Each brigade must be equipped with at least one company of mountain artillery, one company of field artillery, one company of infantry artillery, and one company of antiaircraft machine guns. According to this standard, the firepower standard of the internal team will be greatly increased.

However, in the middle of the battle, the amount of ammunition consumed was not comparable. If according to the speed of development of the troops in the Kannai, as well as the ammunition required for the local armed forces. All ammunition and supplies are supplied by the Northeast. Coupled with the need for the expansion of the Anti-Japanese Federation itself, this will be quite difficult for a region to bear.

Especially under the situation that gasoline still needs to rely entirely on the outside world for the time being, the consumption of oil alone is difficult for the Anti-Union to afford now. Although the Anti-Japanese Federation has begun to plan a railway from Tongliao to Jining, there is no shadow of this railway after all. With the technical strength of the Anti-Japanese Federation, I am afraid that it will be difficult to complete the construction by the day of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

However, the situation of the war cannot wait, and the development of the troops in the Kannai cannot wait. However, all materials and personnel rely on road transportation, and the oil consumed is also unbearable. Yang Zhen can't use all the limited oil in this aspect. With the development of the anti-United Nations armored forces, it also needs a lot of fuel.

Although its own oil fields are about to be exploited, extracting them is not the same thing as refining them into gasoline. At least for half a year, this oil will have to rely entirely on foreign aid. What's more, the production of oil is a gradual process. Yang Zhen could not have expected that his own self was also short of blood, and the technicians and skilled workers were always insufficient in industry, and they would be able to meet their own needs at once.

Increasing the internal team's own hematopoietic ability has become the only way to solve this problem. However, there are quite a few large and small arsenals in the various base areas in the Guannai, but most of them lack machine equipment and skilled workers, and most of the ammunition production can only rely on manual manufacturing. Not to mention the small yield, and the quality is not stable.

There are quite a few factories under the military industry in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, but there are only a dozen or so civilian aircraft and equipment. There is not a single professional bullet machine in the arsenal of the whole army. Except for the military industry department of the Taihang Military Region, which has several second-hand bomb bottom making machines and closing machines, all arsenals of the whole army generally rely on local manufacturing. Even the primer of the bullet needs to be reloaded by hand. Basically, all base areas are unable to produce new bullets, only reloading bullets.

It cannot be said that it does not have its own blood-transfusion and hematopoietic capacity, but it is simply unable to meet the development and needs of the troops. In this case, although the Japanese army plundered, Taiyuan, where the industrial foundation left by the Jin Sui Army was still there, became the first choice to solve this dilemma.

And this action is not a whim of Yang Zhen. Not only the military production in the various base areas in the Kannai also requires a large number of skilled workers. Even the military production in the northeast base area is now in urgent need of skilled workers. At present, when the Japanese blockade is becoming more and more tight, the whole world has been divided, and it is no longer possible to mobilize workers from Pingjin in North China and East China to the Northeast, Yang Zhen has already made up his mind to start from the Japanese-controlled area long before this battle.

In fact, as soon as the Battle of Northern Jin began, Yang Zhen set his sights on a large number of skilled workers who had not been evacuated in Taiyuan City, as well as a large number of machines and equipment. Despite the plundering by the Japanese army, there are still some aircraft that the Japanese army did not look down on, as well as the equipment that was left in order to support the war with war.

There are several special bullet machines alone, which are specially designed to produce and manufacture 65 bullets for the First Army of the Japanese Army. Although these devices are generally too old and their performance is not ideal, they are basically still usable. If it is transported to northern Shaanxi, it can greatly strengthen the scale of military factories in northern Shaanxi.

These machines and equipment, kept can only help the Japanese to massacre the Chinese. It's a shame to blow it up. Since the central government has asked the Anti-Japanese Federation to assist in rescuing the prisoners held in the Taiyuan concentration camp, it will be too long to take advantage of this opportunity to do so. He is responsible for the first year of junior high school, and Yang Zhen doesn't care about being fifteen.

And Yang Jicai, who is fighting hard under Taiyuan City at the moment, doesn't know that in fact, Du Kaishan talked to him, and it was his eldest brother who instructed him. In the selection of this candidate, as early as after receiving the telegram from the central government, Yang Zhen had already circled Yang Jicai to implement it after repeated consideration.

In other words, no matter what his choice is, this task will still fall on his head in the end. It's just that Du Kaishan, who knew the relationship between Yang Jicai and Yang Zhen, was a little tactful when talking. If Yang Jicai didn't agree to go, Du Kaishan wouldn't agree.

Of course, at that time, Du Kaishan didn't know that Yang Zhen's handwriting was not just to rescue prisoners of war. If he had known it a long time ago, he would not have let Yang Jicai carry out this task if he was killed. Now Du Kaishan knows why he has to go all the way to Taiyuan as the No. 1, but he has no ability to change the situation.

And the action of the Anti-Japanese Federation in Taiyuan is only part of the action codenamed Harvester formulated by Yang Zhen himself. As for the scale and the number of troops invested, because of the constraints of conditions, compared with the same operation that Yang Zhen did in the northeast, it was also a drop in the bucket.

Almost at the same time that Yang Jicai started in Taiyuan, a similar operation began to be carried out in Nanmanchu in the northeast. However, due to the geographical advantages and the different industrial scales of the hands-on industry, when the plan is implemented in the northeast, the investment force is greater and the action goals are more.

It's just that the only difference is that Yang Zhen is doing it in the Northeast, and he only grabs people and doesn't want equipment. It's not like in Taiyuan, he even wants people to bring equipment. The target in the northeast is, to put it bluntly, the workers of the major factories in Fengtian and the iron and steel workers of Benxi Lake.

The whole of South Manchuria, from Mukden to Dalian, is full of large factories with chimneys towering along the way. Aircraft factories, large arsenals, chemical plants, machinery factories, train and rolling stock factories, etc., are all workers and technicians urgently needed by the Anti-Japanese Federation. If these workers can get to North Manchuria, 80 percent of the biggest problems in the industrial planning of the Anti-Japanese Union will be solved.

In particular, the skilled workers of the Shenyang aircraft factory can allow the Anti-United Nations to build an aircraft industry and save one-third of the training time. Of course, the technicians of this aircraft factory are all Japanese and will not work for the Anti-United Nations. But those skilled production workers are the most urgently needed by the Anti-Japanese Federation at present.

If it is easier to grab, the workers of the oil smelting and fuel synthesis plant in Fushun are also in his plan. This also includes several large coal mines of the Japanese army in Fushun, as well as a large number of laborers in the Benxi Lake iron mine and coal mine, which Yang Zhen also asked for rescue by name.

The entire South Manchurian Army was the area with the highest concentration of laborers in the original jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army, except for the various fortress construction sites in North Manchuria. In terms of quantity and quality, it even surpasses North Manchuria. In particular, Fushun and Benxi Lake, which were the most important coal and iron producing areas of the entire Kwantung Army, had even more laborers than the total number of North Manchuria.

Not counting the iron ore mines and workers in the Benxi Lake, there will be more than 80,000 laborers in the Fushun coal mine and oil shale mines alone. In addition to the coal and iron miners in the Benxi Lake area, the total number is more than 100,000, and most of the rest are strong men, except for the special workers composed of prisoners of war on the battlefield in Kannai.

Even if only one-third of them are able to join the army, it will be a great solution to the current shortage of troops in the army. Moreover, the skilled miners among them can also make up for the dilemma that the output of the coal mines in Jixi, Hegang, and Qitaihe areas has never been able to meet the needs due to excessive conscription.

In particular, the Qitaihe mining area, which is rich in high-quality industrial coal and thermal coal reserves, is very important for the future industrial development of Beiman. Coal production has not been able to rise, which is a fatal impact on industrial development. Being able to bring this group of laborers over can not only greatly weaken the ability of the Japanese army to maintain the war, but also solve the current situation of a large labor shortage in North Manchuria in the shortest possible time.

In order to carry out this plan to seize the people, Yang Zhen held the main force of the independent reconnaissance brigade directly under the military district in his hands before this battle. Except for a small number of troops assigned to the western cluster, this elite army has been held in his hands since the start of the battle, and has not been placed on any battlefield.

Before the war, there were many drills, and from the beginning of the operation to the evacuation, a careful plan was also formulated. In order to ensure the smooth execution of this operation, not only the intelligence department activated all the new intelligence stations in South Manchuria, but also ensured the implementation of the plan. Yang Zhen also specially dispatched a squadron of electronic jamming planes from the battlefield to ensure the completion of the mission.