Chapter 30 Sending troops north
"Are you sure to send them to the Far East?" The recruit unit that had been trained hard for a year was sent to the Far East to help in the war, Zhuo Fei said in his heart that he was not worried that it was a lie, but in front of Angela, Zhuo Fei still had to pretend that nothing happened. It's just that he has been with Zhuo Fei for a long time, how can he deceive Angela with this little bit of caution, and Angela, who knows how to comfort Zhuo Fei, didn't say anything at all, just threw a ledger to Zhuo Fei, which made Zhuo Fei completely get rid of his loss.
"This is our general account, and so far, our umbrella has completed about 70 percent of the project, and the benefits from it are not bad, at least enough to feed the umbrella owners for a few lifetimes." Angela's words were really a good way to divert Zhuo Fei's attention, looking through the account book for a while, Zhuo Fei's face finally became a little more happy, and the efforts of the past few years have not been in vain.
"Buy land, continue to buy land with the British, preferably the whole of Western Australia." Returning the ledger to Angela, Zhuo Fei had only one thought in his mind, that is, to take Western Australia as soon as possible. Western Australia is rich in resources, and the climate is pleasant and has a long coastline, even if the umbrella does not rely on mining to survive in the future, at least you can use these coastlines to play eco-tourism, not to mention Australia's fishery resources are also very rich.
Zhuo Fei said that he wanted to buy land, and Angela was very disdainful of Zhuo Fei's behavior of being a native of old wealth, but Zhuo Fei's decision never seemed to be missed, and Angela had to act according to Zhuo Fei's decision. The umbrella is now a big business, and although it costs a lot, the umbrella that can control the entire five countries of South Asia and one-third of Southeast Asia is more profitable. A large number of rough-processed minerals are shipped to Australia, and a large number of meat and seafood produced in Australia are shipped back to the five South Asian countries and even China.
It's just that what Zhuo Fei saw was not necessarily that the umbrella had been put in his pocket, in fact, the expenditure of the umbrella company was also huge, just the consumption of research equipment and equipment materials for the tens of thousands of Jewish scientists and top engineers was astronomical, not to mention that there were an equal number of family members waiting for the umbrella to support. Zhuo Fei's base town in Western Australia is actually to settle the families of Jewish engineers and scientists, and this part of the expenditure has actually accounted for more than 60% of the total income of the umbrella.
"Are we going to cut some of the spending on weapons labs? Especially their new long-range missile project, I look like a bottomless pit, no matter how much money we have, it is not enough to toss so much. After Zhuo Fei carefully looked through the account book, Angela put forward her own suggestion in a timely manner. The current situation is extremely favorable to the umbrella, especially after reaching an agreement with the British, Angela believes that the main task of the umbrella now should be to build the territory under its control with all its might, in order to obtain more benefits.
Zhuo Fei and Angela had a tacit understanding for a long time, and knew that Angela's words were not deliberately aimed at the weapons laboratory, so Zhuo Fei just explained with a smile, "No, our cooperation with Britain and the United States will only be temporary, once the war is over, we will be a piece of delicious fat that everyone wants to take a bite of." If we don't have the weapons and strength to counter our opponents, maybe the fruits of our hard work over the years will eventually go to others, and only by mastering absolute force can we have the right to speak in the face of the world. ”
Although Zhuo Fei's explanation sounded a bit far-fetched, Angela knew that Zhuo Fei was by no means a belligerent, and since he said so, there must be such a reason and consideration. Zhuo Fei explained this because he has decades of memories more than everyone in this era, after World War II, American hegemony began to gradually rise, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States became the world policeman who could hit whoever he wanted. The umbrella was built by Zhuo Fei and others, although it is still very weak, but Zhuo Fei does not want the umbrella company in the future to survive under the shadow of the world police.
The battle on Kalimantan Island has come to an end, and Yamashita Fengfu used a gecko tail breaking tactic to successfully evacuate most of the Southern Advance Corps from Kalimantan Island. MacArthur can be said to have shown his face this time, the once invincible Yamashita Fumimi was besieged by the coalition forces under his command, and almost lost his life on Kalimantan Island, and the humiliation he had suffered in the Philippines could be regarded as all returned to the Japanese.
Just as MacArthur was planning a counteroffensive against the Philippines, Zhuo Fei sent an order to Kalimantan Island, and not only the shining helicopter attack squadron would be transferred out of Kalimantan, but also 80,000 indigenous servants were also in the sequence of transferring out of Kalimantan. "Why?" MacArthur was a little annoyed as to why the Umbrella would make such a decision when he was planning a counterattack on the Philippines.
"Your Excellency, Commander, we have transferred back part of our troops only to support the Soviet troops in the Far East. The Japanese army is currently gathering heavy forces to carry out a strong attack on the Soviet forces in the Far East, and if it does not receive timely support, perhaps after the Japanese army breaks through the Far East, it will turn south again. At that time, the Japanese army may be able to withdraw troops to support the Southeast Asian theater, and we are doing this to reduce the pressure on the Southeast Asian theater. The operational staff officer sent by Zhuo Fei to Kalimantan was a bit eloquent, and he couldn't catch up with what MacArthur said.
Indeed, the Umbrella Company provided hundreds of thousands of native servants to the coalition forces, and now they have withdrawn only a third of their troops, so MacArthur has no power to blame them. Whether MacArthur liked it or not, the Umbrella Company's helicopter strike squadron and 80,000 Native servants were redeployed back to Sumatra for a short break, and in the next half month, they would go north with the Umbrella Recruits who had completed their training.
At this time, Zhuo Fei received the latest battle report from Chongqing, and the Chinese New Army, which had rushed forward, had taken Jinzhou and sunk several Japanese ships in the Bohai Bay. The fact that the troops of the New Army were able to take Jinzhou did not surprise Zhuo Fei at all, and with the weapons and sophisticated equipment equipped by the troops of the New Army, at least more than half of the troops in the Japanese army were not opponents of the New Army. But the new army not only took Jinzhou, but also sank the Japanese warships in Bohai Bay, which was somewhat beyond Zhuo Fei's expectations.
After sending many telegrams back and forth with Chongqing, Zhuo Fei ironically figured out the reason for the incident, and dared to sink the Japanese warships in Bohai Bay, the main force was actually the flying team sent by the umbrella to help the northeast to help the war. The air-planted air-to-ground rocket weapon developed and manufactured by the umbrella company looks very clumsy, but for the time being, it is the only one in the world. 48 fighters equipped with rocket launchers launched an attack on the Japanese ships, and the scene of smoke and fireworks in the sky was intoxicating to think about, and Zhuo Fei had seen it twice.
"Now we all understand, this is the advantage of mastering advanced weapons and equipment, we do not have the so-called navy under our umbrella, but we have weapons to restrain the navy. Once the air-to-ground rockets used by the flying team are upgraded, we will be able to fully control the security of the coastline as long as there are enough fighters. If there are a few more aircraft carriers, our umbrella will have the opportunity to dominate the seas, and as long as the fighter planes can reach it, it will be our stage. Zhuo Fei's words were quite uplifting, and the staff officers present all cheered, and the strength of the protective umbrella indicated that their future would be better.
The purpose of Chongqing to send the latest battle report to Zhuo Fei is to let Zhuo Fei send more fighters to the northeast to help in the war, and of course, the air-to-ground rockets that have made miraculous achievements are indispensable. Zhuo Fei did not refuse or agree to this, and removed the part of the aircraft that helped the Northeast and supported the US-Australian coalition forces, and Zhuo Fei had less than 100 fighters at hand, and it was impossible for Zhuo Fei not to leave some fighters to protect his own interests, especially in Southeast Asia, which was within the attack range of the Japanese fleet.
The umbrella did not continue to increase the number of fighters, but directly dispatched more than 100,000 troops to the north to participate in the war, which can be regarded as a comfort to Chongqing. Fortunately, because of the immigrants going south, the troops who went north to help the war under the umbrella only needed to take the train back north to go north smoothly, but Chongqing would never have thought that the troops drawn by the umbrella would have a strong combat effectiveness that would make the Japanese army fearful.
"Boss, don't you give them heavy weapons?" Seeing the last batch of recruits board the military vehicle and follow Zhuo Fei to see off the recruits to the north to help in the war, Huffman was a little worried. Although the recruits are well-equipped, after all, they are only infantry equipment, and those who see the real chapter on the battlefield still have to pay attention to equipment and weapons.
"Huffman, have you forgotten what tactics our umbrella troops are good at?" Huffman's worries seemed superfluous to Zhuo Fei, especially this recruit unit that had poured almost all of his heart and soul into it. "You know, this recruit unit of ours is different from other troops, not only in terms of individual equipment, but also in combat tactics. They do not have to fight with heavy weapons units, as long as they are within the range of heavy weapons, they can use communication equipment to call for fire support from heavy weapons at any time. ”
"The Soviets will never sit idly by and watch their troops in the Far East be eaten by the Japanese, so the Soviets will prepare heavy equipment weapons for us. Our technical units only need to receive the heavy equipment weapons provided by them, and after a short period of familiarization, they can provide fire support to our recruit units at any time, and it is not our own equipment anyway, even if it is used badly, it will not be distressed. Zhuo Fei's complacency made Huffman speechless, and his boss did not forget to calculate the Soviets at this time.