"What do you think of this list?" Roosevelt convened the meeting again, and the main topic of this meeting was the list of military aid submitted by Victor, and Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson, as Secretary of the Army, was naturally one of the participants. The list of military aid left by Victor became the focus of the meeting, which did not surprise Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson, because he had helped draw up the list and no one was more familiar with the new weapons and equipment than the Secretary of War.

A job as a consultant with an annual salary of more than $200,000 and a South Asian villa is the main reason why Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson would help Andy and Victor. With an annual salary of more than 500,000 yuan, even President Roosevelt does not have such treatment, not to mention that the treatment offered by Zhuo Fei can still be enjoyed by Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson immediately after retirement. The deal with Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson was only known to Victor, but Andy was kept in the dark, and Zhuo Fei didn't want to expose all the strength of the umbrella at once.

Roosevelt himself was not surprised by the list issued by the Umbrella Company after a night of careful consideration, after all, it was the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company who had to face the Japanese army, and the US government only provided some weapons and equipment and financial support. Weapons and equipment can be bought for money, but human life is priceless, and everyone present, including Roosevelt, knows that the United States is facing this catastrophe, and if the United States itself is fundamentally injured in this catastrophe, their administration is likely to become the most incompetent government in American history.

The list was quickly flipped through, and among the people attending the meeting, the first to speak was still Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson, after all, the annual salary of 200,000 US dollars is not so easy to get, Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson is preparing for a happy life after retirement. "Although there are many new equipment on the list issued by the umbrella company that we have just put into the army, I personally believe that the use of weapons and equipment worth tens of millions of dollars to obtain the support of hundreds of thousands of mercenaries is not a loss, on the contrary, it is extremely beneficial to our US government."

"If you think about it, in the current situation, it is very difficult for us to send troops to support the Philippines, and it is likely that the Japanese army has already sent reinforcements to prepare for another landing on the west coast. Once the Japanese army has increased its troops, not only will we need a large number of troops to be stationed in the defense line we have set up in the country, but we will also have to watch out for the Mexicans who are taking advantage of the fire. What else can we do in such a situation? Only by trying to contain the Japanese army and buy time for the navy, otherwise the situation facing the United States will deteriorate. ”

Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson said very bluntly, the people who attended the meeting were not fools, and there was no one who knew what the United States needed at the moment more than these people. With the help of Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson, Roosevelt did not have much effort to gain the support of the top level of the government. It was only in consideration of the war at home that Roosevelt and the high-level government officials discussed and reduced some military aid equipment on the basis of that list, but the remaining figures still exceeded Victor's expectations by a lot.

The military aid plan with a total value of more than 80 million US dollars was passed so easily, which Victor did not expect, and what he did not expect was that with the help of Henry 61 Lewis 61 Stimson, Roosevelt and the others just took out the catalog of communication equipment and artillery in the military aid list on the grounds of inconvenience, while the number of warplanes was not less at all. "It's okay now, a full 800 fighters, it only takes half a month, and these 800 fighters belong to the umbrella." Victor's joy was all on his face, and Roosevelt and the others didn't actually know that the fighter plane was the focus of the umbrella company.

In addition to the military aid, which totaled more than $80 million, the U.S. government also approved a $40 million grant to order arms directly from the Soviets through the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union for the arms needed by the Umbrella Company. The Soviet government has always been secretly wooing Chiang Kai-shek and striving for the Nationalist government to contain the Japanese army for the Far East, but the Soviets are very picky, and even if they win over the Nationalist government, they only provide two aviation units, which are called to help the Chinese fight the Japanese invaders, but in fact it is convenient for them to use the Sino-Japanese war to accept their new models.

The Soviets made weapons that were stupid and crude, but they were difficult to use, especially the Deggalev light machine guns used by the Soviet army, which could almost ignore the battlefield environment. The Chinese army is currently lacking more than just infantry weapons, basically the Chinese army lacks all the weapons and equipment needed for combat, but the cunning Soviets will not agree to export heavy weapons to China, so from the beginning, the umbrella company sought to order enough infantry weapons from the Soviet Union, especially the powerful Deggalev light machine gun and a large number of explosives.

The Soviets would not export weapons to China, but with the intervention of the US government, coupled with Stalin's constant prolongation in Europe, from the time the US government intended to hire umbrella companies, Zhuo Fei already knew that a large number of Soviet-style weapons would flow into China. Even the greedy Stalin could not ignore the olive branch extended by the Americans, and if it were not for the temporary control of the Pacific Ocean by the Japanese Combined Fleet, the deal would probably not have fallen on the Soviets.

The Soviet Union, Moscow, has received the arms purchase plan from the American ambassador, and the top leaders of the Soviet Union in the Kremlin are smoking cigarettes. While many countries in the world seemed to have been involved in the war, the Soviet Union had been watching from the sidelines, and the current world situation made it somewhat difficult for Stalin to make a decision. Japan and Germany are allies, and the Soviets do not want the troops on the eastern front to go south to attack the Japanese army, and it seems that their western front is attacked by the German army, and it is not good news for the Soviet Union to face a two-front war at that time.

The British and Americans have deliberately ignored, or avoided mentioning, the fact that neither China nor Germany has declared war so far. In other words, even now the two countries still have an inexplicable relationship. As soon as Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. However, Japan and China have been fighting for so long, China has already declared war on Japan, but Germany has maintained an odd silence. This made the Soviet Union more uneasy.

It was thought that Germany, which had taken the initiative to provoke the war, would be completely mired in the quagmire of war in Europe. But I didn't expect the French and British to be so impatient, and they were cleaned up by the Germans in three or two strokes. The Maginot Line, which seemed to be a natural barrier, actually became a burden, and the German blitzkrieg opened the eyes of the Soviet Union, and similarly, the surprise attack launched by the Japanese in the Pacific theater also sent a chill down the spine of the Soviets, what is wrong with the world? Does tiny Japan dare to land directly in the United States and provoke a war?

Now, the attitude of the US government is even more surprising to the Soviets, and the Yankees, who have always been sullen and rich, seem to have no good way to deal with the Japanese army, and actually think of hiring a mercenary force to help them contain the Japanese army in South Asia. Stalin welcomed the arms purchases proposed by the US government, and the United States was given the opportunity to rise because of its large-scale arms supply in World War I, and Stalin did not mind that the Soviet Union would also learn from the Americans.

However, the current situation made Stalin feel a sense of uneasiness in his heart, regardless of whether the Japanese army sent more troops to continue to land on the American mainland, after all, the United States and the Japanese army were still separated by the Pacific Ocean. However, since the Soviet Union joined hands with Germany to divide Poland, the territory of the two countries has actually bordered, and the Soviets, who have a certain complex for the land, have long been in Europe, and if it were not for the admiration of the strong combat effectiveness of the German army, and without the co-optation and lobbying of the United States and Britain, the Soviet Union might have already sent troops to Europe.

"Although I am not sure of the timing, I am sure that Germany will eventually choose to go to war against us." Stalin said to the audience with a calm face. "Maybe after they take the UK. It could also be during their attack on the British. But there was no doubt that Germany would attack. Stalin's top brass kept their faces silent, and they were indeed a little frightened by Germany's great strength, and even the regional powers of the whole of Europe were united for less than a few months.

Stalin did not think that the Soviet Union was now strong enough to match the whole of Europe, and at the same time he understood that it was only a matter of time before Germany would start a war against the Soviet Union. Stalin couldn't help but sigh to himself that the great Soviet Union was now facing the threat of the Germans, especially since the Soviet Union was still helping the Germans to produce weapons and ammunition needed for the war.

The strong industrial base of the Soviet Union was a prerequisite for Hitler's agreement to join forces with the Soviet Union, which had been producing weapons and ammunition for Germany and training technical units such as pilots and tank crews since before the two countries joined forces to partition Poland. Because of the economic blockade and sanctions imposed by Britain and France on Germany, the Soviet Union received a large number of orders from Germany, and Stalin now regrets that if he had known that the German army was so strong, he should not have agreed to a temporary alliance with Germany in the first place.

The olive branch extended by the US government at this moment gave Stalin a glimmer of hope, and in order to deal with the possible threat and aggression from Germany, it was impossible for the Soviet Union to stay out of the situation, and the only option was to form an alliance with Britain and the United States. This contract from the U.S. government was an opportunity, and if the Soviet Union seized this opportunity, perhaps in the near future, when the Soviet Union faced the German invasion, the Soviet Union would be able to receive assistance from the United States.