Chai Dongliang was dressed in military uniform, he could see that he had run quite hard all the way, his lips were a little chapped, and he was followed by the Gurkha guards, these short and stout men with black and red faces were in good spirits, and it seemed that the long journey had no effect on them, even the old man who was over fifty years old.

"Governor, why are you here in person?" Feng Ru said with concern: "The front-line soldiers are in danger, you are in danger of the world, and you can't go to the danger in person!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled and said: "It's not so evil, I brought a brigade of soldiers, and four thousand heavily armed Jianghuai athletes can't protect my safety?" You are fighting on the front line, and it is not appropriate for me to hide in Anqing! ”

Chen Zhihang suddenly found that the Gurkha guards had changed their uniforms, and the rope pan was wearing the military uniform of the Jianghuai Army, and it had the rank of major general on it.

Seeing the puzzled eyes of Chen Zhihang and the others, Suopan said happily: "I have been naturalized in China, and now I am the general of the Jianghuai Army, my military uniform is decent enough, right?" ”

Suopan's English accent was extremely strong, but Chen Zhihang finally understood it, and he raised his thumb and said, "Majestic enough!" But he was snickering in his heart, the height of the rope plate was only one meter six, but his body was extremely strong, his neck and head were as thick as ever, almost square, and he always felt a little like a monkey when he wore the general's military uniform.

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Suopan is already the commander of the major general of the guard brigade, and the soldiers of the Gurkha Guards are willing to naturalize in China, and they will be our comrades-in-arms in the future, and they will no longer be guest soldiers." ”

Suopan learned from the Chinese, hugged his fists around, and greeted in half-baked Chinese: "In the future, please, please brothers, take care, take care!" ”

Feng Ru and the others also laughed and said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." ”

Sopan was the only one of the Gurkha who had served as a regimental commander in the British army, and his prestige in the tribe was very high, under his influence, all the 400 Gurkha guards were naturalized in China and became Chinese nationals. The biggest factor in whether a country can be strong or not is the attraction of talents.

The natural conditions in the Himalayas where the Gurkha people live are extremely treacherous, otherwise these fierce mountain people would not risk their lives to be cannon fodder for the British, and only one of the best men in a hundred are eligible to join the British army and get a military salary.

The development of Anhui and Jiangxi, as well as the generous treatment of the Jianghuai Army, made Suopan and others excited, and Nepal has been a vassal of China for hundreds of years, so Suopan and others joined the Chinese nationality without any psychological obstacles. The "Nationality Law of the Republic of China" promulgated in the first year of the Republic of China clearly recognized the legal surname of dual nationality, and the original nationality of Suopan and others was still retained, which made them feel no obstacles.

Dual citizenship is of great benefit to large and powerful countries, and when it is necessary to meddle in the affairs of other countries, expatriates with the national status of their own country are the best excuse. As a major country in Asia, China has a large number of expatriates in Nanyang and other countries, and dual citizenship is the most direct and effective means to intervene in Southeast Asia in the future.

Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia controlled the local wealth by virtue of their hardships and ingenuity, but they were excluded from the power organs by the Western colonial political axe, and were only allowed to work and do business, but were not allowed to join the military and politics. The colonial rule of Spain and the Netherlands is coming to an end, and as long as China is strong enough and there are thousands of overseas Chinese who are willing to help their motherland, it will be easy to receive this colonial legacy.

Once dual citizenship is denied, overseas Chinese will become rootless wanderers, the connection between the wanderer and the motherland will be severed, and the Nanyang colonial heritage that should be at your fingertips will be cheapened, and those natives who will only bask in the sun under the wall and rely on Chinese taxes to feed themselves.

The history that Chai Dongliang is familiar with proves that these natives are only suitable to live under the whip of the colonizers, and without whips and shackles, they would not know what their surnames are. Those overseas Chinese who have worked hard in rubber plantations for generations and traded in harmony were slaughtered and humiliated by those monkeys because they had no motherland.

Overseas Chinese who have made great contributions to the motherland have ended up without the motherland, which is a common shame for all the descendants of Yan and Huang!

Chai Dongliang's memory of China, extremely isolated in the world, looking at the existence of almost no allies in the world, deducted from the people's rations and gave them to those monkeys, but the monkeys who were full of food turned their faces and became enemies. China is easily surrounded from all sides, and there is hardly a good will in its neighbors. The reason for this situation is that it has lost the backyard of Southeast Asia and easily severed the ties between the motherland and overseas Chinese, which is a fatal mistake made by China in modern times. This mistake is even a thousand times greater than the loss of a large part of the country.

Chai Dongliang will never allow this kind of mistake to be made again, and the history of overseas Chinese being slaughtered overseas is not allowed to happen again in this world.

In the future, China should rely on its strong national strength and open mind to attract talents from all over the world in Kyushu to join, integrate into the blood of China, collide with various ideas and concepts, and then integrate into the broad and profound Chinese civilization, and become the nourishment for the Chinese nation.

This new culture, formed by the convergence of traditional civilization and modern thought, is then exported from China to the world, and only when that day can China be regarded as a power in the true sense???? A great country with an incomparably strong economy, science and technology, and culture!

China's history of attracting foreign talents for China's use began with the naturalization of the Gurkha Guards.

"Governor, in this battle of Dagukou, our army has suffered heavy losses, and I am duty-bound as a brigade commander to ask for punishment!" Xue Zilin heard that Chai Dongliang had come to Dagukou, and hurriedly rushed over to ask for guilt.

Chai Dongliang had already listened to Feng Ru and others talk about the battle situation ahead, and said with a pleasant face: "You can't be blamed for this, the famous generals of Yum are all lessons learned from the defeat, go back and summarize it well, and report the list of casualties to the Military Advisory Office for preferential compensation." ”

Xue Zilin's face was full of shame, and he felt deeply guilty about the casualties caused by his greed.

Chai Dongliang waved his hand: "Sit down, let's analyze the gains and losses of this battle." ”

Feng Ru was born as a mechanic, and the technicians didn't have so many messy ideas, so he said bluntly: "This battle fully proves the power of the Air Force, and shows that in the future war, the Air Force will become the decisive force, which is consistent with my judgment before returning to China." However, the weapons currently equipped by the air force have seriously restricted the power that the air strike force should produce, and although we have blown up and sunk five ships of the Chinese army this time, none of them are the main warships, and the bombs of the air force have almost no lethality against battleships and cruisers??? I believe that after suffering this loss, the Chinese army will soon be able to develop air defense weapons, and it may be very small to want to strike at the enemy so easily. ”

Chai Dongliang nodded and did not speak.

Chen Zhihang, commander of the 1st Air Regiment, also interjected: "The air-cooled Makqin machine gun used now has a long time to fire, the barrel is very hot, and it is impossible to replace the barrel in the air, so I think it is imperative to develop a new type of machine gun for the Air Force." ”

"Yes, go on!" Chai Dongliang listened quietly, and the adjutant recorded everyone's speeches in a hardcover book.

"I feel that if the water-cooled machine gun is used, the problem of overheating of the water jacket cannot be solved in the air, and the multi-barrel type is more suitable, in addition, the standard 7.92 mm rifle cartridge is currently used, which is too powerful, and a special large-caliber ammunition for aviation machine guns should be developed, preferably a combination of heavy pointed bullets and incendiary grenades."

After Chen Zhihang was encouraged, he became more confident and talked about his personal feelings.

Chai Dongliang also felt that what he said was reasonable, large-caliber aviation machine guns and even aviation guns are bound to be the development trend, and the 7.92 mm bullet is indeed insufficient in power when used in future air combat.

Zhou Heng saw that Chai Dongliang listened with relish, and also interjected: "The problem of machine guns is not the main thing, the most important thing at present is to solve the problem of heavy aerial bombs and aviation torpedoes, otherwise the air force does not have much advantage over the navy, once the navy develops a weapon similar to our Makqin machine gun that has the ability to shoot at the air, the air force cannot bomb warships at low altitudes, then the advantage will be lost." ”

"Yes, torpedoes, torpedoes are a big problem, and now torpedoes are almost unusable! I've tried it many times, and almost every time it's an early explosion and yaw, it's even more difficult to get it to hit the target in a straight line and then explode! ”

Speaking of torpedoes, Feng Ru also shook his head.

Chai Dongliang also scratched his head a little, and he was constrained by torpedo technology, which almost became a bottleneck restricting the development of the Air Force. At present, the "Huaxia-type" is only equipped with an extremely rudimentary star-ring mechanical sight, and the possibility of hitting an enemy warship from a high-altitude bomb is extremely small. If the bomb is dropped at a low altitude, the accuracy is improved, but if a small bomb is dropped, it will have little effect on the warship, and if a heavy aerial bomb is used, the shock wave generated may cause serious damage to the aircraft, compared to the more practical way to attack an enemy ship with a torpedo from a distance of several kilometers??? Unfortunately, the development of the torpedo has not been smooth.

We must concentrate our efforts on tackling this problem, otherwise before the navy of the Jianghuai Army is formed, it is possible that the weak Yangtze River Fleet will be completely wiped out by the combined fleet. It doesn't matter how many old warships are sunk, the key is that China only has a few people who can drive warships, and the damage to personnel is the unbearable price.

Speaking of the torpedo, everyone has a bitter face, since Chai Dongliang arranged the task, the aircraft research and development center has spent a year, spent countless money and manpower, and the torpedoes that have been tested many times cannot meet the requirements of actual combat. Feng Ru's hair turned gray even more.

Suddenly, Chai Dongliang had an idea, and the "Huaxia style" used the Eagle V-shaped twelve-cylinder engine! And it is an aluminum alloy fuselage, compared to this biplane, the use of such a powerful engine and the current expensive staggering aluminum alloy is simply a catastrophe.

The power of the Eagle engine can completely increase the speed and maneuverability of the aircraft by more than one step, and the impact force generated by the high-speed dive and pulling that the average wooden aircraft of this era cannot withstand is not a problem at all for the light and strong aluminum alloy fuselage.

Instead of hanging on the torpedo tree, it is more realistic to improve the aircraft. The engine is the heart of the aircraft, and with the support of the material industry, it is very easy to upgrade the aircraft. The production of the current "Huaxia-style" biplane with an Eagle engine and aluminum alloy is tantamount to making a small bench out of good sandalwood - a loss of materials!

Of course, this is not the fault of Feng Ru and other R&D personnel, they are crossing the river by feeling the stones, underestimating the potential of the Eagle engine, and there is no accurate judgment on the huge impact force that the epoch-making material of aluminum alloy can withstand, and they should believe that the aircraft is unable to withstand the impact force generated by sharp dives and pulls, and still use what they think is the most secure way to develop the aircraft.

As a result, the "Huaxia type", which is currently the most advanced aircraft in the world, but is also destined to have no future, was born.

Since the Eagle engine can output a lot of power, and the aluminum alloy fuselage can withstand huge impact forces, wouldn't it be easy to build a dive bomber? Isn't the best way to attack surface ships be to use dive bombers? As for heavy aerial bombs, this is even less of a problem, and the shells of naval guns can be used completely with a slight modification.

The aerial bomb dropped from the air has a vertical contact with the deck of the warship, and the impact force brought by gravity makes the alloy warhead itself have a good armor-piercing ability, and the power of the heavy aerial bomb that explodes inside the enemy ship is not much smaller than that of a torpedo!

A low-flying dive bomber, with a highly maneuverable surname, is not so easy to fight with anti-aircraft weapons!

No matter how expensive an airplane is, it is much cheaper than a battleship, and a hundred all-metal dive bombers are worth no battleship, and a hundred dive bombers are far more powerful than a battleship, whether they are used to attack surface ships or bomb ground targets.

Moreover, the reason why the Eagle engine and aluminum alloy are ridiculously expensive is because the current production is too low, as long as the production is expanded to form a scale, the cost will be greatly reduced.

The Air Force will also be made into a series, and high-altitude bombers, dive bombers, fighters, and reconnaissance planes will all be classified into different categories, and the training of pilots will also follow the path of specialization. As for the "Huaxia style" that played a prestigious role in the battle of Dagukou, it happens to be used as an export model, so that the great powers can fight in the skies of Europe??? Of course, the engine had to be changed to a V-eight.

The future sea power will be an extension of air supremacy, and how can we talk about maintaining sea power without air supremacy? When the giant ship cannon, it will be terminated by the war eagle in the blue sky. No matter how much the admirals of the navy were obsessed with hilly battleships and unreasonable twelve-inch guns, they could not change this history.

Thinking of the two Dreadnought-class battleships being produced by the Shanghai Guanghua Manufacturing Factory using the drawings provided by the Americans, Chai Dongliang shuddered in distress, all the raw materials were provided by the United States, and the funds were also borrowed from the "Bethlehem Contract".

Loans, after all, must be repaid, and they must be repaid with interest, otherwise they will be international scoundrels and will cause huge damage to China's image in the future.

Chai Dongliang patted his head and said bitterly: "It's a detour!" ”

(To be continued)