Since entering the secret warehouse of the Japanese army, Yang Zhen has been busy almost without touching the ground. At night, everyone else rested, and the lights in the war room or in his and Guo Bingxun's bedroom were often on all night.

Translating the textbooks of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, revising the training plan, studying the follow-up combat plan, and drawing up plans to deal with various emergencies in view of the problems that arose during the day's training, many times I had a sleepless night.

There is no way, there are too many things to face when the troops are under the eyes of strong enemies on all sides, and they are in the period of initial creation. During the day, he also led the troops to train and adjust the defensive deployment and fortifications. Many things can only be studied calmly after the training team and the company platoon officers have been taught at night.

After a month, others are stronger under sufficient food supplements and a lot of physical training. He and Guo Bingxun were so tired and thin that they could almost be blown away by a gust of wind.

Looking at Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, whose eyes were red, the commander-in-chief said with some distress: "How can you do this, what have you all become?" It's a long time coming, and you can't eat a fat man in a day. Things always have to come little by little, and there is no rush to hurry. ”

"If you are exhausted and exhausted, what will happen to the troops? Zhang Ting reported to me that the average rest time of the two of you is no more than three hours a day. They often slept only for an hour or two for several days in a row, or even didn't sleep all night, and ate less. It's always going on like this, so what's going on? ”

Although he also felt physically and mentally exhausted, Yang Zhen, who was drawing up the engineer training plan, shook his head and said, "Commander-in-chief, we also want to rest, and we are tired, and we are not iron-clad." But time waits for no one? ”

"It seems that it is almost time for the Japanese army to transport supplies. Once the Japanese supply trucks arrived, it would be difficult to hide our identities any longer. When the time comes, a fierce battle awaits us. Recruits in the unit accounted for almost ninety percent, and the combat effectiveness had declined so much. If you don't hurry up, wait for the devil to react, what will be waiting for us? Everyone knows it. ”

"Although there are relatively complete fortifications here, they are weak in firepower and lack of means to attack the alliance. For the Japanese army, which has complete aircraft and heavy artillery, especially not lacking large-caliber direct-aim artillery, the defensive means here are still too simple and too thin. ”

"In this case, let the untrained troops fight the Japanese army. Commander-in-chief, we are not fighting, but sending them to death, we are committing a crime. A month's time is really not enough. It takes at least three months just for these recruits to fully integrate into the troops, become qualified soldiers, and complete the most basic training. ”

"But what we lack most right now is time. What's more, this is still for those troops with a complete officer system. For us, who are not even junior officers, it will take more time. But as you know in the current situation, once we are exposed, it is equivalent to stabbing a hornet's nest. ”

"The Xiajiang area alone has the strength of two divisions of the devils stationed. Once exposed, these two divisions and regiments will be pressed on all fronts, and whether we can resist it will depend on the results of these days' training. Commander-in-chief, do you think the two of us can do it if we don't work hard? ”

For Yang Zhen's words, the commander-in-chief was silent. As for the situation in Xiajiang, the commander-in-chief, who has been assisting Yang Zhen in training and teaching the team and teaching the officers these days, is even clearer in his heart. After most of the main forces of the Second Route Army were dispersed and defeated, the only remaining Seventh Army of the Second Route Army, which was relatively complete, has not been able to be found. In fact, anyone knows in their hearts that even if they can be found, according to their remaining 200 people, they will lose the ability to fight and fight.

After the main force of the Third Route Army marched westward, the troops left in the Xiajiang area also lost contact, not to mention, and even if they were found, they were unable to cope with the battle because of their limited strength. As for the Second Army that remained in the Jidong area, it has not been able to find any trace since it left the east. Now this force can be said to be facing the situation of fighting alone.

Not counting the heavy army groups stationed in the Mudanjiang area, the Japanese army only had a fourth division in the Jiamusi area, which was close to them. Although I have dealt with this fourth division, I am familiar with it and know how effective they are. But in the Dunhua area, it was just a large number of troops. And Jiamusi, which is close to him, has the strength of a whole division. If a fight breaks out, it's hard to say what the outcome will be.

For Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun's desperate work attitude, although the commander-in-chief also knew that it was a helpless choice under the crisis, the commander-in-chief was really worried about them. This kind of more than 20 hours a day is similar to the intensity of hard work, and it is difficult for ordinary people to endure it.

Seeing that the commander-in-chief was silent, Yang Zhen smiled and said, "Commander-in-chief, don't worry, I can still hold on." When I really can't do it, I'll take turns with the chief of staff to rest for a while. We are still clear about our own physical condition. Rest assured, nothing will go wrong. ”

Regarding Yang Zhen's insistence, the commander-in-chief sighed slightly and said: "If the main force of the Second Route Army is still there, and the main force of the Third Route Army is still fighting in the Xiajiang area, with their mutual cooperation, you don't have to work so hard." ”

"I don't care what you say, but there is one thing you have to remember, you are the supreme military commander of this force, and you must take care of yourself. Everything needs to be considered and considered more for the troops. Your entirety, including your body, is no longer one person's. "The last sentence was very important to the commander-in-chief.

Regarding the commander-in-chief's words, Yang Zhen nodded slightly, but did not speak again. His eyes just looked out the window at the distance where a little green forest had emerged nearby, and he was silent for a long time before he said: "I hope God can buy us a little more time, even if it's only half a month, or even seven days." ”

For Yang Zhen, being tired is one thing, but the key is that the lack of intelligence makes him always feel uneasy. Only the disappearance of the captured original Japanese garrison and the Japanese army headquarters and the Jiamusi Japanese army liaison radio station was really limited.

Because Yang Zhen saw in the captured Japanese army materials that the Japanese soldiers here did not ask much about other things except for reporting the situation here and receiving orders from their superiors. In other words, the Japanese army here was almost isolated from the outside world.

Although in order to make up for the lack of intelligence, Yang Zhen sent the reconnaissance battalion out in turn to conduct reconnaissance after more than 20 days of intensive training, the information collected was extremely limited. There is still a huge difference between tactical reconnaissance and strategic reconnaissance on the battlefield and the acquisition of enemy information.

Last year, while the Japanese army launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression of Xiajiang, it also brutally suppressed the underground party in the Xiajiang area. Under the betrayal of the traitors, except for a few whose identities were not exposed, more than ten county party committees in the Xiajiang area and the underground party organizations of the Jiamusi Municipal Party Committee were destroyed.

More than 300 underground party members and cadres were arrested and killed. The underground party organizations in the entire Xiajiang area have been completely paralyzed. The commander-in-chief sent people to Jiamusi, Fujin, Tongjiang, Luobei and other places several times to look for underground party organizations, but they all returned in vain.

It was impossible to penetrate deep into the interior of the Japanese army, and the means of obtaining intelligence sources were too simple, so that intelligence work always lagged behind. Yan zhòng delayed Yang Zhen's judgment of the enemy's situation. It was also a source of unease in his heart.

The only thing that can make Yang Zhen feel relieved is that his efforts to find military workers have not been in vain. Yang Zhen didn't expect that the person he was looking for was now right under his nose, among the laborers he rescued here.

These dozen or so laborers were originally workers in the Shenyang Arsenal, but later defected to the Anti-Japanese Federation under the leadership of a party member worker, and together with some cadres and fighters drawn from the Anti-Japanese Federation, they formed the Arsenal of the 11th Army.

At the end of last year, before the heavy snow closed the mountain, in order to destroy the only arsenal among the various departments of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the Japanese puppet army mobilized more than 3,000 troops to carry out a sweep of the Qixinglizi area at the junction of Huanan and Jixian, where the arsenal is located.

In the main force of the 11th Army with the Third Route Army to the west, the army commander disappeared after entering the Soviet Union at the beginning of the year and never returned. After the left-behind troops were all sacrificed under the heavy siege of the Japanese puppet army in Luobei, and they had already lost a single reinforcement, the guard troops and workers of the arsenal, which were surrounded by only more than 50 people, did not give in, and took advantage of the dangerous terrain to stubbornly resist the attack of the Japanese puppet army.

Under the condition that the Japanese puppet army could not attack for a long time, they brazenly released poison gas, so that all the guards and workers were poisoned and comatose and captured, except for those who died in the battle. Although the equipment of the arsenal had been buried in advance, the site of the factory was completely destroyed.

The reason why these skilled workers survived and were not captured and slaughtered immediately like the cadres and fighters of the guard force is because they are all skilled workers. The Japanese army built this fortification, and when it was impossible to use the Koreans, who usually work as skilled workers, they left a life, and they were sent here as skilled workers to be closely monitored.

With a few workers as the backbone, ready-made machinery and equipment, and a large number of raw materials and semi-finished products, Yang Zhen's arsenal was soon up and running. However, Yang Zhen did not put the arsenal in this secret warehouse of the Japanese army. Instead, all the equipment and semi-finished products were transferred to the primeval forests of the Blue Black Mountain.

Although the mountains of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains are not as numerous as the caves in the karst landforms of the south, as a mountainous area, there are still a large number of caves. After three days of painstaking investigation, Yang Zhen personally selected a new factory site near the Motianling of Qingshan Mountain.

It is surrounded by mountains, the terrain is dangerous, there are cliffs everywhere, and there is only a narrow road from the outside world, that is, even horse-drawn carriages cannot pass. And everywhere is primeval dense forest, dense vegetation, excellent concealment.

After selecting the new site, Yang Zhen secretly transported all the machinery and equipment to the semi-finished products and raw materials in the Japanese warehouse as quickly as possible. In order to meet the power needs of the arsenal, Yang Zhen even transported two small generators and a hand-cranked generator from the Japanese army warehouse there. Even half of the seized mountains of gasoline were transported.

In order to establish the arsenal as quickly as possible, Yang Zhen did not hesitate to interrupt the training of the engineer regiment and specially dispatched a group of veteran backbones to assist in the establishment of the arsenal. Fortunately, there is enough wood in the pristine forest there, and it is large enough. There is also a large natural cave in itself. It only took half a month to put it into operation.

In order to protect the safety of this arsenal, Yang Zhen not only selected the two most effective companies as special guard units, but also selected the best 15-watt radio station and the best telegraph operator from the Japanese army warehouse.

At the same time as the transfer of military equipment, the materials in the warehouses also began to be transferred one after another. Equipment, ammunition, clothing, medicine, and food, except for some spares, were all scattered into the primeval dense forests of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains. All transfers were carried out at night.

The transport troops were also carefully selected, and all the old backbones trained by the old black-topped secret camp were used, and no new recruits were used, so strict secrecy was achieved.

The secret location of the reserve materials and the specific location of the arsenal were only known to Yang Zhen and a limited number of people such as the commander-in-chief, Li Yanping, and Guo Bingxun. Not to mention ordinary cadres and soldiers, even a few regiment commanders are not clear. The map marked with the specific location, Yang Zhen always carried with him.

In order to protect these materials from mistakes and losses due to poor storage, especially ammunition, food, and clothing that are afraid of moisture, Yang Zhen almost used up the tarpaulins in this Japanese warehouse.

At the same time, in order to avoid the destruction of the wild animals that are still abundant, these material reserves still need to be repaired in order to avoid being protected by the troops. At the very least, a rodent infestation requires strict prevention.

Moving these supplies is easy to say, but extremely difficult to do. It is not only necessary to maintain strict secrecy, but also to do a good job in repairing the reserve sites of the reserve materials so as to avoid non-combat losses, and at the same time to strive to complete the work in the shortest possible time.

Fortunately, when Yang Zhen entered and occupied this place, this Japanese army's combat readiness warehouse had not yet been completed, and all kinds of materials and tools were still sufficient. Under the circumstance that Yang Zhen used a large number of captured Japanese military vehicles to assist in transportation, after more than ten days and nights of hard work, these tasks were completed before the end of the month.

Of course, it is impossible to build warehouses on a large scale like the Japanese army, and Yang Zhen does not have so much labor and not so much reinforced concrete. The most important thing is that there is not that time. Only under the existing conditions, as far as possible to do a good job of protective measures.

Looking at the warehouse that had been emptied for more than half, Guo Bingxun said to Yang Zhen: "Commander, as long as these materials are in our hands, we will have the confidence to fight the Japanese army in the future." If nothing else, just these food and clothing can ensure that we will not suffer from cold and hunger in winter. ”

Regarding Guo Bingxun's emotion, Yang Zhen nodded slightly and said: "In this sparsely populated North Manchurian with a harsh winter climate, our enemy is not only the Japanese puppet army. More often than not, we have to fight God. ”

"In the winter here, the extreme cold of minus thirty or forty degrees is even greater than that of the Japanese puppet army. Hunger and cold can be said to be the biggest enemy of us and all the anti-Japanese forces. ”

"Last winter, many of the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union were not defeated, but frozen and starved. Do you remember what the commander-in-chief looked like when he went to the old black top secret camp? It's 30 or 40 degrees below zero, and what does it feel like to be wearing a single coat? For the sake of the future development and survival of the troops, these materials must be kept well, and there must be no mistakes. ”

Guo Bingxun nodded and said, "Yes, these materials can be said to be the lifeblood of the army." Once lost, it will be quite difficult to replenish in this sparsely populated North Manchuria. Especially under the strict blockade and control of the Japanese puppet army. These tens of thousands of winter clothes alone are difficult to solve. With these supplies in hand, we can roughly say that we have no worries. ”