Zhou Zhirou's anger was really justified, at least in Zhou Zhirou's opinion, Su Jinhe's former subordinate in front of him was completely blackmailing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Don't underestimate the ability of those military commanders and the central commanders in the hands of Chairman Chiang, they are not as incompetent as later generations say, although they have no way to get their hands on those advanced fighters of the Third Army, but they still can find out whether the performance of these fighters is excellent. The achievements of the shrew fighter since its service Zhou Zhirou, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy command of the Air Force, has long seen it in his eyes, and he has long coveted this excellent fighter in his heart, so when Chu Yuan said that he would exchange fifty fighters for one hundred and fifty pilots, he was miraculously not too angry in his heart, but when he heard that the other party did not use the shrew fighter to replace people, but to replace people with another fighter plane that he had never heard of, the anger in his heart immediately exploded.

"Commander Chu, you are also the one who went out of the Fourth Brigade. Although you are now a major general and division commander, you must not forget that you are still under the jurisdiction of the Nationalist Government, and you and your Commander Su plan to fool us with this kind of? ”

Looking at Zhou Zhirou with an angry face, Chu Yuan smiled bitterly, for the anger of this old chief, Chu Yuan was actually prepared in his heart. To be honest, he had never flown the P-40, and he didn't know how well it performed, but he had seen the description and various performance reports of the aircraft nicknamed "Tomahawk", and to be honest, he himself was not very optimistic about this fighter. Compared with the Zero, the Zero's climb speed is twice that of the P-40, and the maximum ceiling and flexibility are much stronger than the P-40.

However, it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders, and since Su Jin gave an order, he could only carry it out, but the result was just as he expected, and he was sprayed by Zhou Zhirou to the fullest.

After Zhou Zhirou finished getting angry, Chu Yuan took out a document from his pocket and handed it to him and said: "Sir Zhou, this letter is written by Chief Su himself, which explains the advantages and disadvantages of the P-40 fighter, and how to use the P-40 to deal with the Zero, he said that if you still insist on not wanting this fighter after reading it, then if I didn't come this time, we will have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future." ”

"Humph!"

Zhou Zhirou snorted lightly and took the envelope, opened it and looked at it. When he had read the letter, he fell into deep thought, and it took a long time to raise his head, and although his expression was still dissatisfied, his tone was much more relaxed. I saw him look at Chu Yuan and snort lightly: "I still say the same thing, your Chief Su has no sincerity, and you use some rags to fool me." And it's a dream to exchange just 50 planes for 150 pilots. ”

Since the former boss was unhappy and wanted to scold Chu Yuan, what else could he do, so he could only stand aside helplessly and dare not say anything. However, Zhou Zhirou was also embarrassed after scolding, it stands to reason that he should refuse Su Jin's "unreasonable" conditions without even thinking about it, but the reality is always cruel, today's Japanese can be described as aggressive, as the accompanying capital, Chongqing will be bombed at both ends in three days, especially after the Japanese army's zero type has been put into service one after another since today, the only remaining fighters in the **** are almost exhausted, Chongqing has almost become an undefended place, Chairman Jiang scolds his mother almost every day, but what can he do, there is no plane in his hand. Today's **** Air Force has almost become an empty shelf, what does he use to resist the Japanese planes, and now someone is finally willing to send the plane, it is impossible to say that he is not tempted, but the problem is that the other party's requirements are not low, a full 150 pilots, and now the entire Air Force has less than 600 pilots, and this guy wants to go a quarter, how can this work.

After struggling for a long time, Zhou Zhirou said: "This matter is very important, and I can't make the decision, you stay here for two days now, and I will talk about it when I personally consult the chairman!" ”

A few hours later, Zhou Zhirou personally flew to Chongqing, met with Chairman Chiang, and reported the matter to the chairman of the committee.

Chairman Jiang didn't say anything for a long time after hearing this, nor did he become as angry as expected, but instead looked at Zhou Zhirou deeply and asked, "What do you think of this condition?" ”

Zhou Zhirou didn't answer for a long time after hearing this, and Chairman Jiang frowned slightly and said, "What are you afraid of, just say it!" ”

"Yes!" Zhou Zhirou said boldly: "Commission, the ministry thinks that the price offered by Su Sansi is too low, we can raise it a little more!" ”

"Hmm!" The chairman nodded, "Then what conditions do you think should be offered?" ”

Zhou Zhirou blurted out: "At least seventy planes should be needed, otherwise it will not be enough to protect the sky of Chongqing and the safety of the commission!" ”

"Seventy ......" The chairman chewed in his mouth and then asked: "Then how is the performance of this P-40 aircraft, and how is it compared to the shrewd aircraft that Su Jin uses now?" ”

Zhou Zhirou felt a layer of white sweat on his forehead when he heard this, he took a deep breath and said honestly: "It is naturally quite inferior to the shrew aircraft used by the Third Army, but according to the aircraft user manual sent by Su Jin and the combat experience and skills of the Japanese Zero aircraft, this kind of aircraft is not useless against the Japanese Zero, as long as you pay attention to the use of skills, you can also fight with the Zero." ”

"That's ......"

The chairman just said softly and didn't make a sound, put his two hands on the desk and gently tapped to make a rhythmic sound, and Zhou Zhirou didn't dare to breathe and wait for his boss's decision.

After a long time, Chairman finally opened his eyes and said: "In this way, you tell Su Sansi, I agree with his conditions in principle, but fifty planes are absolutely not good, and you have to add more!" ”

"A hundred?"

Chu Yuan was taken aback by the price code offered by Zhou Zhirou, these guys really dare to shout the price, and it was doubled in one breath.

"No...... Absolutely not......" Chu Yuan's head shook like a rattle: "Sir Zhou, you have to know that a P-40 is 44,000 US dollars, and a hundred is 4.4 million US dollars, which is converted into an ocean and is 13.2 million oceans, do you really think that our plane is blowing in a strong wind?" Absolutely not! ”

"Don't pretend to be garlic with me, boy." Zhou Zhirou sneered: "Your Commander Su cheated the Americans and the French a total of 90 million US dollars the day before yesterday, and he put all this money into his pocket, shouldn't he take out a few million US dollars to help the great cause of the Anti-Japanese War?" ”

Chu Yuan shook his head: "Chief Zhou, what you said is unfair, how much money Chief Su can get is his business, but you can't rip off the bamboo pole." Besides, do you know how much Commander Su spends every year to maintain the more than 100,000 men and horses of our Third Army? I might as well tell you objectively, now the entire Third Army 150,000 people have to use up tens of millions of oceans just to eat and chew horses, plus fighting with the Japanese, pensions, changing weapons and equipment, etc., Chief Su has to use at least 20 or 30 million oceans every year, has the government given a penny of this money? ”

Hearing this, Zhou Zhirou was silent. Judging from his experience, Chu Yuan did not lie in this matter, in fact, the war was fought with silver, and the fundamental reason why the Nationalist Army was defeated repeatedly was that there was no money, and if Huaxia was as rich as the Yankees, I am afraid that Chairman Chiang would not be struggling to maintain the situation now, but would be thinking about how to garrison troops in Japan. Isn't the fundamental reason why Su Jin has won many battles against the Japanese since his debut is that he is well-equipped and well-trained? And none of this requires a lot of money.

Speaking of this, Chu Yuan also felt that the tone of what he spoke just now might be a little heavy, and then said: "Sir Zhou, let's do it, we can give you seventy-five P40s, and we also promise to give you another fifty sets of spare parts, what do you think?" ”

Zhou Zhirou thought about it, this price is still a little higher than the bottom line in his heart, and the most important thing is that the other party also promised to give him a batch of spare parts, which is the most attractive to him, so that he doesn't have to worry about the plane being damaged without spare parts and can only be scrapped in vain.

After the two sides finished talking, Chu Yuan did not stay long, and soon drove the plane back to Hangzhou to report to Su Jin, as for the next selection of pilots and receiving the plane, the following people naturally had to do it.

Su Jin didn't say anything after listening to Chu Yuan's report, but nodded in agreement with the plan. The current Nationalist Air Force has only one empty shelf left, and it uses seventy-five P40s and a batch of spare parts

It is not a loss to exchange 150 pilots with the other side, and it can be said that both sides take what they need.

Some people may say that Su Jin, you are a time-traveler with a golden finger, why are you so stingy, even helping your own country to resist the war is also a baht, like a grande. If you have that ability, why not just give the Chongqing government hundreds of planes or hundreds of artillery pieces or even tanks to strengthen the national army. But Su Jin, who came from later generations, knows the ugliness of human nature, if he really does this, the result will be to put himself in danger, and then I am afraid that he will have to fight to the death with the Japanese while also guarding against the **** who has grown stronger. You must know that Chairman Jiang is by no means a good man, once he thinks that his strength is enough, he will not let a guy who is not under his control entrenched in his hometown in Zhejiang.

In the following days, Chu Yuan was busy, on the one hand, he had to send people to Hunan, Lanzhou and other places to select pilots, and on the other hand, he was busy forming a new flight squadron, so the time soon came to July 1940. (To be continued.) )