The failure of the third Yangtze River campaign made Sun Dashuai know that his army troops were not good, his new troops of 7 divisions had been trained for a whole year, but they were beaten to pieces by the southern army, and the prosperous cities of Suzhou, Xi and Chang were lost in less than half a month, if it were not for the strength of the northern navy to help him hold up the scene, he would almost be embarrassed this time, and after learning from the pain, he decided to reorganize the army again - the focus is still the army.

One is that he doesn't have so much money to play in the navy, and he can't afford 20 million oceans at every turn, but he still has the strength to get 5-6 million to move scrap steel; Second, he believes that the army is the capital of his own life, and if he also develops the navy, it will arouse the suspicion of the supreme government, and then it will be troublesome, but the development and reorganization of the army will not cause a backlash.

So he made up his mind to get the air fleet and the tractor fleet up, the goal continued to stare at Italy, Contini was also happy, and sold all the Fiat-3000A models that had just been replaced in the Italian Army, due to the diligence of the old handsome man, the old French Renault in Italian inventory had long been sold short, only less than 200 Fiat-3000A, considering that Wu Dashuai and Zhang Dashuai had demand, Contini simply sold them all in one go, of course, it could not be delivered at one time, In this way, the Italian army itself will not have tanks.

In order to speed up the pace of production, he had his subordinates reach an agreement with Fiat: the M1 would be licensed to Fiat for production, and the price paid by the other party was nothing more than a pile of Fiat-3000 parts in stock and a few newly completed but unsold Fiat-3000Bs. The reason for doing this has a origin, because at the beginning Fiat also authorized its own model to the tank factory of the Ansaldo company, and now although the ownership relationship has been transferred, this favor still has to be returned.

Now the Agnelli family has long seen the situation clearly, and knows that unless the United Group changes dramatically, it is something they cannot afford to provoke at present, so they happily accepted this suggestion and obtained an order for 50 M1s from the War Department, but the engine and rapid-fire guns still have to be purchased from outside, and Fiat only got the body and chassis, but 50 units is also a big contract.

Of course, there are considerations for handing over the M1 design to Fiat Contini: Italy cannot have only one tank production plant, otherwise the production volume will not be able to increase in the future, but it seems that Italy's qualified factories are either in their own hands or in the hands of Fiat, so Fiatra must be included in this circle; Secondly, in addition to the improved model of the 3000B, Fiat also has the CV-29/33 in history, which is a pit model, and Contini is a million to look down on, rather than letting them toss useless things, it is better to show them some high-quality products; Finally, if he wants to make some political moves recently, he can't make relations with all walks of life too stiff, and there is nothing wrong with selling Agnelli a face and giving some favors - how can a figure who wants to be a leader be incompatible with Fiat?

Fiat was overjoyed to get the full set of drawings for the M1, and immediately started to produce it under license, and was ready to develop its own subsequent improved model on this basis - this is the development logic that Contini expected to see, but they did not know that in the safe of United Defense, there is also an M2 design that is expected to be 15 tons, which is better in all aspects, and now it is possible to wait for a better engine to come out.

Here, Sun Dashuai gave the final disposition after contacting the army scrap steel and the Guangzhou government over there after making a lot of noise: all the army units responsible for the guard of Zhoushan Port were dismissed, and Chen Shaokuan was also dismissed from all posts because he was considered to have great responsibility, but after all, talent is rare and a bunch of people pleaded for his absence, and finally allowed him to "make meritorious service with his guilt" and temporarily serve as the commander of the training fleet, and the director of the Navy Military Affairs handed over to Chen Ce - this is a compromise between Chang Dashuai and the Cantonese faction in exchange for their support for further army reorganization.

This time, Chang Dashuai is ready to kill the 5th Army, because the 5th Army is the weakest, at the beginning there were only 8 regiments of troops, and it was the reorganization of the Guangdong People's Army, so not only the combat effectiveness is poor but also the style is relaxed, Chang Dashuai resolutely cannot tolerate this, and the leftist figures also have a lot of complaints, and after Wang Jingwei and Li Jishen also agreed, the 5th Army was directly canceled, and the number, subordinates, and ordnance were all included in the command of the 4th Army, expanding the strength of the 4th Army, and making the strength of the 4th Army and the 7th Army roughly restored the balance.

After the Third Battle of the Yangtze River, it was Li Jishen's 4th Army that resisted the front line of Wuhan, the 7th Army of Li and Bai that resisted Anhui in Zhejiang, the 2nd Army that supported the 4th Army, and the Dian Army of the 3rd Army who supported the 7th Army. Therefore, everyone thinks that he is really enduring humiliation and rectifying the strength of the army.

But after Contini received the intelligence report from Carlo Ancelotti, the first deputy director of the Shenzhen Special Administrative Zone Management Committee, and Huang Xinguo's analysis, he knew what Chang Dashuai was going to do - history may be late, but it will not be absent. Others don't understand this history, so how can you not be a member of the Iron Ambition expert group?

After thinking for a long time, he sent a telegram to Ancelotti: "No matter how the situation on the other side changes, we will not get involved, and in the end we will deal with the people who actually control the Guangzhou government, in any case, the construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong railway, Shenzhen port, airport and power station cannot be interfered with, if the opportunity is right, we can give the other party certain benefits in exchange for our expansion of the scope and number of security personnel, and at the same time allow the special transport team of the United Group to be stationed." ”

Fat Ann understands this - like Contini through the era, this is also a fat man, and often smiles, giving people an extremely generous feeling, but that is just the appearance, Fat Ann is much more fierce than Dr. Toth, who looks fierce on the surface, how can he gain a foothold in Naples if he is not fierce?

Now that the Guangzhou government is going to renegotiate the purchase of naval scrap steel, Chang Dashuai sent a note, imploring the sale of Earl Cavour's ship of the same class Caesar in installments at a price of 18 million oceans, he is really fed up with the British paper boats, no matter who is responsible, it is intolerable for this kind of 28 million giant ship to be killed by a small torpedo, as for the 10 million oceans that the British lion opened his mouth, he didn't want to pay attention to it at all, because the Americans also extended an olive branch, saying that they could provide this service- Although the U.S. charges are not necessarily cheap, it is also valuable if it can be used to establish good relations with the United States.

And the goodwill released by the Americans is very interesting: during the salvage and repair period, the United States can lease a battleship to the Guangzhou government for transition - the Wyoming or the Arkansas, at a cost of 2.4 million oceans / year. Now the Americans have also learned wisely, since all European countries are selling scrap steel, then the United States can also do the same, the Wyoming is destined to play no significant value, it is better to lease it out, and do not violate the terms of arms sales. According to common sense, the Revolution can be repaired in 3 years, but even then 7.2 million oceans can be credited, and the benefits are not small.

Therefore, the Guangzhou side could not argue about whether to rent an American ship or buy an Italian ship, and in addition, it really had no money, so it had to give the Americans 2 million oceans and let them salvage the Revolution from the anchorage first.

Contini didn't care about this little action of the Americans: You yourself are about to be in a big disaster and you have to make this little fortune, you simply don't know whether to live or die, he intends to fulfill the Americans' business, so he said: "If you can sell it to the Northern Army, you will sell it, if you can't sell it, you will take the Caesar, and prepare to dismantle it and change it to a special transport boat, we will definitely not have one." ”

The Count Cavour-class 2 ship is destined to disintegrate, as for the Count Cavour itself, the president said that this one should not be sold, and Italy should also keep a warship and half a naval museum, which will inspire the pride of the people and completely witness the revival of the new Roman Empire, which Mussolini strongly supported, as for the money, he left it alone - you go to the president! Contini had supposed to return home in April and announce his appointment in May, but he continued to stay in the United States on other grounds, and the secretary of state for education could not remain vacant for long, and finally appointed Capello as secretary of state for education on the recommendation of many. But I felt a little uncomfortable.

But if it's uncomfortable, it's uncomfortable, and Contini won't come back at least for the time being, so let's talk about it later, maybe the situation will change in the future?

Adriana returned at the same time as the passenger liner the heavy cruiser Trieste and four destroyers, ostensibly for the purpose of sea trials, after completing the relevant training courses to communicate with the United States Navy and return to Italy, their task will be replaced by the heavy cruiser Trent, which has re-entered the sea trials, but in reality only a few people know that these destroyers and heavy cruisers are carrying $500 million worth of gold and a full $100 million in cash collected by the Union Bank. This is all to be transferred to the headquarters of the Union Bank in Rome.

Only a figure like Contini can call on the navy to serve him in peacetime, and during his time in the United States, he repeatedly used diplomatic immunity, bulk purchases, etc., to carry out cargo deliveries, most of the time through combined shipping ships, but this time the number was so large that he had to use warships.

Adriana didn't know that Contini was hiding a lot from her, and if she knew, she would not leave the United States and return home first: now that the dark ones, Roman warriors, presidential guards and even German commandos who have arrived in the United States have exceeded 500 people, and even tanks and armored vehicles have been transported, in order to protect the escort, Contini knows that his last few steps are the most dangerous, and there is inevitably the possibility of capsizing, so he must try his best to strengthen his force.

But now that it's so dangerous, how could Contini possibly leave her behind? Naturally, he said that he wanted her to go back, and only when the person he was concerned about went back could he let go of it......