Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

As for the promise made to the south at this moment, I can’t care about it anymore.

So, the man met with Zeng Jiwen urgently.

After a long and in-depth talk with Zeng Jiwen, Zeng Jiwen began to return to China.

No one knows what Zeng Jiwen talked about with that person, and even the later decryption did not record the specific content of the conversation.

People in later generations could only analyze from various decrypted materials and conclude that this conversation marked the beginning of China's industrialization.

Because after this conversation, Irkutsk and Chita, which are close to China in the north.

Major industrial areas in the northwest, such as Almaty, Tashkent, Omsk, Barnaul, Astrakhan, and Ufa, began to move vigorously towards the northwest of China.

In return, many years later when the blood of Siberia dyed the birch forest red, the sunflowers did not fall in the bitter winter, but welcomed a "ray" of warm sunshine.

This trip to the north can be said to have exceeded Zeng Jiwen's expectations.

But what followed was constant busyness.

July 6th.

On that day, other people from the Tainan Military Region also rushed to Changzhi.

At this time, Changzhi was about to become the largest industrial infrastructure construction base in the Tainan Military Region.

The large amount of air defense equipment that Zeng Jiwen had previously ordered from the north was placed around important facilities in the base.

The area around Changzhi has the most air defense equipment.

In order to prevent Japanese reconnaissance planes, Zeng Jiwen even asked for two of the latest models of 52-K 85mm anti-aircraft artillery regiments with a total of 96 artillery pieces when talking to the person in the north.

Even in the north, this type of anti-aircraft gun was only produced on a small scale at that time.

To this end, Zeng Jiwen used the funds released by Delin and the penicillin produced by the Lanzhou laboratory.

He paid more than a thousand peninsulas and received five hundred kilograms of gold in return.

At the same time, Zeng Jiwen said that this medicine will be provided to the north free of charge when the time is right.

Moreover, at this point in time, the Japanese troops in North China were shrinking to large and medium-sized cities, and southwestern Shanxi was recaptured by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

This allowed all kinds of equipment to be safely transported from home through Yanchang and Yichuan, and finally from Hejin, Jishan and Houma in southwestern Shanxi to southeastern Shanxi.

As for the Jinsui Army in southwestern Shanxi, if it had passed through Yan Laoxi's territory last year, Zeng Jiwen might have had to put in some effort.

But now, it’s not that Zeng Jiwen looks down on others.

Over the past year, Yan Laoxi's Shanxi-Suiyuan Army has expanded rapidly from a few tens of thousands of defeated soldiers to four armies.

In the first half of this year, the inflated Yan Laoxi began to have ideas about southeastern Shanxi.

So he sent his Seventh Army to the Qinshui area to stir up trouble, hoping to occupy Qinshui, a key pass between southwest and southeast Shanxi.

As a result, the troops of the First Military Division surrounded the Seventh Army tightly in Qinshui County, making it unable to advance or retreat.

In the end, Yan Laoxi filed a complaint with the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, but the Eighth Route Army Headquarters pushed the case to Zeng Jiwen who was still at home.

Zeng Jiwen sincerely apologized to Yan Laoxi in the telegram and said that he would evacuate the troops of the first division as soon as possible.

As a result, there was still no news after more than half a month. Finally, Yan Laoxi realized that he, the king of Jin, was now a phoenix with its feathers plucked, worse than a chicken.

Only after paying a lot of conditions did Zeng Jiwen allow the troops of the first division to pass.

One of the conditions was that the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army would not block the transportation of supplies from home to the front line.

At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the transportation route, the original Seventh Army's defense zone was replaced by the Youth Column.

In this way, equipment, supplies and support personnel from the northwest began to flow into the Tainan base continuously during the past six months.

After all, in Zeng Jiwen's eyes, once this year is over, it will be a question whether the southwestern part of Shanxi will be named Yan or Zeng.