Whether to intervene in the Spanish Civil War, Zhang Meng convened a pre-imperial meeting, and the ministers and generals had different opinions.

Since the Tang Army is going to fight against Japan and seize Taiwan, it is possible that a decisive battle will break out in an all-out part of the current local war, and although the Tang Army is full of confidence, there are different opinions on this issue whether it can win or what price it will pay to win the victory.

After listening to the opinions of the main ministers and generals, Zhang Meng decided to use Spain as a weapon for the Tang army. Originally, the Tang Empire was not idle in the past few years, and the National Science Laboratory looted a large number of scientists, engineers, and scholars from the whole Shijie, as well as an astonishing number of scientific and technological inventions and patents, which made the Tang Empire creatively develop and manufacture a large number of new weapons and high-tech equipment in the past few years. However, in the end, because the main battlefield was on the island of Taiwan, the Tang people and the Taiwanese people were born from the same roots, and they did not want to affect the innocent Taiwanese people, so many of the Tang Army's high-tech weapons and weapons of mass destruction were unable to be implemented.

Hitler's telegram of request gave the Tang army a new opportunity to use weapons, and Hitler also wanted the German army to come to Shiyan to shiyan the weapons and equipment developed by the Tang Empire for the German army, and test them on the battlefield in Spain.

Although Zhang Meng formed an alliance with Hitler, it was only to use Germany, and when the core interests of the country really were, Zhang Meng would inevitably kick Hitler away without hesitation to draw a line with him, and Zhang Meng had the ability to grasp that degree.

At present, Zhang Meng is hoping that Germany will continue to grow and consume more liliang in the entire West. Therefore, Zhang Meng wished that the flames of war in Spain were burning, and the powerful weapons and equipment of the Tang Dynasty were brought into full play.

Tang and Germany have their own little ninety-nine in their hearts, which coincides. A unanimous agreement was reached immediately.

Hitler and Mussolini jointly supported the Spanish rebel Franco, and Britain and France wanted to prevent Germany and Italy from intervening in the Spanish Civil War, but in the end, seeing that the powerful Liliang of the Comintern had frustrated Franco's army, they finally chose a neutral attitude and acquiesced in the support of Germany and Italy for Franco's rebels.

In the past few years, the armament of the German and Italian armies has changed a whole stubble, and the army is equipped with the fourth improved M1 D submachine gun of the M1 submachine gun in service in the Tang Army. The performance is much better than before. Others, such as M2 heavy machine guns, 60mm mortars, 155mm heavy howitzers, King Tiger tanks, etc., the Tang Army's proud Raptor heavy fighters and Hellfire heavy bombers were favored by Hitler and Mussolini, and were replaced by land fighters and equipped with land fighters for the German and Italian air forces.

Hitler had a relatively high IQ. It was only selectively purchased from Datang some weapons and equipment that were ahead of the German arms industry, and did not copy all of the active equipment and standards of the Tang Army, and with the appeasement policy adopted by Britain and France against the expansion of Germany's army, Hitler was emboldened. The restoration of arsenals in Germany itself began. The production lines of weapons and equipment developed by Tang and Germany were successively transferred back to Germany for local production, but what made Hitler a little unhappy was that Datang detained a large number of top German scientists, and because of the Tang-German alliance, Hitler didn't care about Zhang Meng's request, and Zhang Meng also cheekily deliberately pretended not to know.

Mussolini's IQ was much worse, and the Italian army almost imitated the equipment and establishment of the Tang Army's active army, navy and air force, and almost all weapons and equipment were imported from the Tang Dynasty. Even the underwear worn by the soldiers of the Tang Army felt much more comfortable than those made in Italy, and tens of millions of pairs were purchased.

At the same time that Hitler suggested to Zhang Meng that they jointly intervene in the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet representatives also expressed the position of the Soviet Union to Zhang Meng, and they hoped that Zhang Meng would not intervene. However, the international political status of the Soviet Union was too low, and Zhang Meng naturally would not take them seriously.

When Zhang Meng rejected the proposal of the Soviets, the relationship between Tang and the Soviet Union was also affected to a certain extent, but the Soviets were not stupid, European and American countries still blockaded the Soviet Union, and many of the Soviet Union's jishu and equipment were purchased by Datang as a middleman, even if Zhang Meng did not give them face, they could only protest a few times and complain.

Under Zhang Meng's instructions, the Datang military reached a specific detailed action plan with Germany and Italy to jointly intervene in the Spanish Civil War, with Germany and Italy responsible for ground fire support, and Datang only sent an air force of 1,000 men to participate in the war. This is also because of the relationship between the Tang and Japanese wars, the limited army of the Tang Dynasty can only defend the territory, and the marines are deployed in the Taiwan battlefield and the islands of the North Pacific, compared with the more than 2 million Japanese troops, the total number of marines and army units in the Tang Dynasty is only 400,000, and it is absolutely impossible to divide troops to participate in the war in Spain.

However, Datang's air force is the largest in the world, under the influence of Zhang Meng's military strategy, the total number of Datang air force is very large, accounting for almost one-third of the total strength of the air force of all Shijie countries, sending 1,000 people to participate in the Spanish Civil War does not affect Datang's war against Japan.

The Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group has always been on alert against Japan, so it can only be the Datang Air Force Army Aviation Unit that will go to Spain to participate in the war, and the Tang Air Force Army Aviation Unit, which has been ignored by the international community, has been shown to the world for the first time.

In the past, European and American countries only paid attention to Datang's naval aviation, and they had never heard of any achievements of Datang's army aviation, and they all thought that the fighters used by Datang's army aviation were the same as naval aviation's Raptor, Hellfire, etc., but in fact, on the contrary, Zhang Meng knew that Datang was the terrain of the archipelago, and the navy and air force were the foundation of national defense. Uninhabited islands are used to build alternate airports, and even strategically located islands and reefs, even if the area is too small, airport runways are built by piling up through reclamation.

The Datang Air Force's army aviation unit is huge, with a complete range of light and heavy fighters, reconnaissance planes, bombers, and other aircraft, and its performance indicators are much more powerful than those of the HNA aircraft. For example, the total combat weight of the Army Aviation's Black Hawk heavy fighter is more than five tons heavier than that of the Navy's Raptor heavy carrier-based fighter, the wings and fuselage are much longer, the range is long, and the speed is fast, and the 30-millimeter cannon is much more powerful than the Raptor's 20-millimeter cannon.

Of course, the real killer feature of the Datang Air Force Army Aviation Unit is not on fighters, but on the strategic strike capability of bombers, making up for the inability of naval aircraft carriers to carry powerful expeditionary heavy bombers.

The TH-9C bomber is the first long-range strategic bomber of the Datang Imperial Air Force, and it is also a bomber successfully developed by Datang's engineers and designers under Zhang Meng's urging thousands of times.

Previously, Zhang Meng was too much to pull out the seedlings, so that the Tang Army suffered a setback on the bomber issue, only a popular Thunder Dragon medium bomber without too many characteristics was developed, although the Thunder Dragon bomber shined in the last war against Japan and won many praises, but it was not the advanced bomber that Zhang Meng requested.

Being able to take off from the local airfield and bomb all over Shijie is Zhang Meng's requirement for strategic bombers, and it is also a real killer feature that can ensure that the Tang Empire will seize global air supremacy and strategic deterrence in the future.

It's a pity that although the Tang Empire has gathered the most advanced machinery and equipment and Jishu personnel for development and production, it has always hit a wall on the issue of the most critical aero engine for strategic bombers. Although with Zhang Meng's efforts, Datang Heavy Industries has the ability to develop and produce the world's first turboprop aero engine, but unfortunately the hardware capacity is not enough, and the processing capacity of key materials cannot reach the real turboprop engine standards of later generations, and can only be said to be at the initial level.

This problem has been exposed in recent years, before the Tang Army was proud of the Raptor fighter and Hellfire fighter because of the use of turboprop engines have been greatly improved, but it is precisely because of the problems in the manufacturing of turboprop engine materials that Datang Industry has problems in the synthesis process of manufacturing turboprop engine materials, so that the service life of the turboprop engine is too low, and the engine has to be replaced after almost 1200 hours of normal flight, which brings a great financial burden to the Tang Army.

Of course, Zhang Meng knew about this problem a few years ago, and the war against Japan was imminent, and he couldn't take care of the cost problem and later maintenance problems, but with the end of the first Tang-Japanese war, the daily maintenance funds were huge, and even if Datang was rich in funds, it could not withstand such consumption.

So in recent years, Zhang Meng has been urging the national science and technology laboratory to develop special materials suitable for turboprop engines at any cost, after countless shiyan, under Zhang Meng's prompting, material engineers from Australia's rare earth ore extracted a variety of new materials that can extend the life of turboprop engine blades, and finally can ensure that the service life of the aircraft's aero engine is extended to an average of 10,000 hours, but the cost has also risen a lot, within the affordable range of the Air Force.

Of course, Zhang Meng also instructed the Air Force Administration to carry out a new exploration on the issue of turboprop engine drive, the real turboprop engine should be used to drive jet fighters, and all the planes that use turboprop engines in the Tang Army are now driving propellers, and the use efficiency is naturally very low. But this is also a helpless thing, Zhang Meng wants to use the turboprop engine on the jet aircraft in advance, but unfortunately at the moment, in terms of Datang's scientists and Jishu ability, it can't be done.

However, what is exciting is that as Datang's aviation experts have finally developed a long-range strategic bomber, and it is completely developed according to Zhang Meng's preferences.

The TH-9C bomber, as can be seen from the number, the previous models from one to eight A and B were all unqualified, which shows how difficult it was to develop a strategic bomber in the mid-thirties, but the more difficult it is to develop something, whoever develops it first will get the first big crab and get great benefits.

Zhang Meng is convinced that this comes from the huge success story of his first aircraft carrier battle group to defeat Japan. (To be continued......)