Chapter 42: Re-Cooperation (2)
Zhuo Fei's self-owned delegation did not really see through his intentions, and in the next few days, Zhuo Fei, who was a little interested, personally led the delegation to conduct a detailed observation of the umbrella's base in Australia. www.biquge.info Except for the extremely mysterious weapons laboratory, which was once described by the military commander, all of the Umbrella's facilities and bases in Australia are completely open to the expedition, including the Umbrella's newly established weapons depot.
The weapons reserve depot established by the umbrella company is not the conventional weapons reserve warehouse as expected by the inspection team, but a reserve depot for large-scale weapons such as cloud burst bombs, white phosphorus bombs, or high-explosive bombs. As soon as the Umbrella needs to show its muscles and strength in war, these reserve warehouses will be opened, and the weapons of mass destruction in the reserve will be sent to the battlefield in a steady stream to be assigned to the troops on the front line of the Umbrella.
"Everyone, please see, this is the cloud burst bomb newly developed by our umbrella and passed the preliminary actual combat acceptance, some time ago, the Dangkou Army used this new type of weapon in the battle with the Kwantung Army troops." In the underground fortress, which is completely made of cement rock and thick steel plates, the air-dropped cloudburst bombs that have undergone three rounds of upgrades are stored here, and looking at the cloudburst bomb body the size of an oil drum in front of them, some people in the inspection group are secretly pouting.
The corners of his eyes swept over the disdainful expressions of those people, Zhuo Fei smiled secretly in his heart, and then smiled, "This kind of cloud burst bomb is powerful, don't look at the fact that they are not very big, once they are detonated, the power released is equivalent to several times the volume of high explosives." To use the most appropriate comparison, the naval guns of Japanese warships can be regarded as powerful, right? But the power of the Japanese naval guns is comparable to it, that is, it is a pediatric toy. ”
Seeing that everyone still didn't believe it, Zhuo Fei taught the star officer guarding the reserve to whisper a few words, and later a group of soldiers brought in movie projectors and curtains. "This short film was shot by our weapons engineers when they were doing actual combat tests in Northeast China, and although it is a silent short film, it still records the entire process of putting the cloud burst bomb into actual combat." It was the first time for the members of the delegation to watch a movie in a heavily guarded weapons warehouse, but as the short film began, the members of the delegation were already full of shock.
The huge mushroom cloud on the curtain was so shocking that if it weren't for the short film recording the whole process of the cloudburst bomb from falling to exploding, no one would have thought that the shocking mushroom cloud was released by a small bomb. More than ten seconds later, there was a sound of vomiting among the members of the delegation, and even Zhou Enlai's face was not very good-looking, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in various tragic conditions on the curtain greatly challenged the nerves of the members of the delegation.
"General Zhuo, what is the production of your cloudburst bombs?" An officer surnamed Huo quietly came to Zhuo Fei's side and asked softly, and in the palm of his right hand that he opened to Zhuo Fei, there was an inky triangular seal, which Zhuo Fei recognized as a gift to Chiang Kai-shek when he first met Chiang Kai-shek.
"The Cloudburst Bomb is a powerful new weapon, but the materials it uses are cumbersome to produce, and currently due to the preparation of materials, our umbrella is currently only able to produce about 10 400kg Cloudburst Bombs per month." Although he knew that the other party was Chiang Kai-shek's cronies, Zhuo Fei still didn't tell the truth. In fact, Umbrella's arsenal in Australia can produce at least 100 400-kilogram cloudburst bombs per month if they want to.
The reason why Zhuo Fei said less than ninety percent of the number was to reassure the suspicious Chiang Kai-shek, and on the other hand, it was also to make Chongqing not regard the cloud burst bomb as a big road commodity like an ordinary aerial bomb. The weapons laboratory is intensifying research on the miniaturization of cloudburst bombs, and until the cloudburst bombs are miniaturized enough to be retrofitted to rockets, Zhuo Fei will definitely not sell these cloudburst bombs currently in stock.
The shock of the cloud burst bomb gave the members of the delegation a new understanding of the strength of the umbrella, and in the course of the next visit to the arsenal and weapons test site, the members of the delegation could not wait to keep in mind everything they saw. Whether it was the infantry weapons they saw, or the long-range rocket artillery that could be called a big killer, they were greatly shocked, and at the same time, they also saw a huge gap between them and the umbrella.
After visiting the various facilities of the umbrella company in Australia, Zhuo Fei personally accompanied the delegation to the Gold Coast of Western Australia for a short vacation. With crystal clear shores, turquoise skies, trendy furnishings, and appetizing seafood feasts, the members of the delegation almost couldn't wait to live in Australia after a short vacation of just a few days.
"Duke Zhou, the Japanese will definitely be driven out of China, but if the Japanese are driven out, the contradictions between the factions in the country will be prominent. I don't want to see the things happening in the same room, but I know that there are some things that cannot be stopped by personal will, and I want to say that the world is very big, and if things really develop to the point where they cannot be avoided, I hope that you can see the comradeship of the common war of resistance, and do not kill your opponents. ”
Seeing that there was no one left and right, Zhuo Fei couldn't control it for a while, and said the worry that had been hidden in his heart for several years. Zhou Enlai was shocked when he heard this, although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party joined hands to resist the war, but the friction between the various ministries has been coming for a long time, and it is far from being eliminated by a common war of resistance. Moreover, within the CCP, there are also preparations to be vigilant against the Kuomintang turning its face, and when Zhuo Fei suddenly heard such words, Zhou Enlai suddenly thought that there were agents lurking under the umbrella around the CCP's top leaders.
The momentary panic in Zhou Enlai's eyes did not escape Zhuo Fei's eyes, and Zhuo Fei immediately smiled, "Zhou Gong don't worry, our umbrella doesn't have a hobby of inquiring about other family's secrets, the reason why I said those words just now is just for the sake of the future, multiple friends are better than multiple enemies for no reason." Zhuo Fei said this just to reassure Zhou Enlai, but the more he was like this, the more difficult it was for Zhou Enlai to calm down.
"Duke Zhou, you should know the ultimate plan, the ultimate plan was planned by me at the beginning, the Jewish Independence Army went south to seize the five countries of South Asia from the Japanese army, which was to lay the foundation for China's foreign expansion. It's just that what I didn't expect was that you rejected my kindness for the sake of a so-called international reputation, and now, the areas controlled by the umbrella include Malay and half of Indonesia, and the indigenous people in these places have been almost killed by the Japanese army, and overseas Chinese will become the main body of these areas. ”
"In order to support the Anti-Japanese War, the overseas Chinese community in Nanyang has paid a lot, whether it is donating money and materials or sending their children back to China to participate in the war, the overseas Chinese in Nanyang have been worthy of the little Chinese blood on their bodies. I just said that I don't want to see my roommates, because of these overseas Chinese in Nanyang, you are not willing to accept my kindness for the sake of a broken reputation, then I have to run these territories by myself. I need people, I need a lot of Chinese to fill these places, rather than brothers cannibalism to make enemies happy, it is better to directly cheapen me. ”
Zhuo Fei's words made Zhou Enlai more and more incomprehensible, and Zhuo Fei had to make his words clear, "Once the Anti-Japanese War is over, because of the difference in political ideas and the instigation of Western forces, conflicts will definitely break out between the CCP and the Kuomintang." I believe that not all Kuomintang soldiers are willing to participate in the civil war, and similarly, not everyone within the CCP is willing to point their guns at their former comrades. I hope that in the event of a military conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, those soldiers who do not want to participate in the war will be able to leave on their own, and as for whether they are willing to come to Nanyang or not, the umbrella will not interfere arbitrarily. ”
What Zhuo Fei said was too important, and Zhou Enlai couldn't express his position at this time, until the delegation left Australia, Zhou Enlai was still wondering whether there were intelligence officers lurking around the CCP's top brass. Through this on-the-spot visit to Australia, the Chongqing side finally had a clear understanding of the strength of the umbrella, because of the goodwill shown by the umbrella and Chongqing's demand for new weapons under the umbrella, Chongqing quickly made a decision to fully cooperate with the umbrella's military operations in the near future.
With the full cooperation of the Chongqing side, the next thing went much smoother, and the umbrella engineering unit from Burma soon went north to Shandong to build an advance base and airfield in the positions that had already been determined. The troops of the New Army, which had received orders from Chongqing, also continued to march northward, and the second-line troops from north China began to make all-out efforts to repair roads and railway lines, and a large number of ordnance from Kunming to the north began to be transported to Jinzhou.
The Japanese army, which had originally held a wait-and-see attitude, finally came to their senses, and they could finally affirm that the Chinese army was going to go north to the northeast with all its might, unlike the caution of the Kwantung Army, the Japanese army in the Far East, which had just defeated the Soviet army, was at a time when its combat strength was high, and they did not think that the Chinese army's northward movement could have any effect, after all, those were the defeated generals of the imperial army in the past.
The Japanese troops in the Far East divided into two routes, one through the Far East and into the territory of the Soviet Union, trying to flank the Soviet troops on the Western Front according to the German plan, while the other way, more than 400,000 Japanese troops turned south, trying to crush all the Chinese troops in the northeast in one fell swoop. The Japanese forces that turned south from the Far East were menacing, and they tried to recreate the frenzy of the 37-year war against China, trying to crush the Chinese army with minimal casualties.
"Order the first division to let go of a hole and let the little devils in for me, I don't believe they are all three-headed and six-armed. Even if the little devils have three heads and six arms, I don't believe that their heads can be harder than Lao Tzu's tank armor, and tell the armored troops to get ready, and when my order is issued, the armored troops must chisel through the little devils' positions for me as soon as possible. The new army, which was waiting for the battle, was the first to encounter the Japanese army going south, and the arrogance of the Japanese army made Dai Anlan furious, and decided to teach the Japanese army a lesson first.