Lee Kong-young's presence in Ryon-yun was due to his heavy responsibilities, one of which was to build trust between the navy and the government, and Japanese intelligence was only one aspect, more of a support plan. The pen and the fun and the cabinet www.biquge.info asked Kong Xiangxi to confirm that the information transmitter was also based on the worst-case plan - assuming that the two sides could not trust each other, then at least the Japanese army intelligence would still be transmitted; Assuming that the two sides can establish the same trust as in the early days of the war, and Chang Kaishen does not interfere with the Navy's activities in China, then the Navy can do the following:

First, naval aircraft can support ground operations. The Saboteur attack aircraft is actually a smaller version of the Skyraider attack aircraft, its bomb load is greater than that of many twin-engine bombers, and its bombing accuracy is ...... In Li Kongrong's eyes, it is only a little worse than Stuka, and it cannot achieve a nearly 90-degree dive, but it is much higher than the Japanese 99 shipburst and the American SBD dreadnought dive bomber, which can only dive at 60 or 70 degrees (the US Army Airlines, which determines whether the aircraft can be exported, did not drive the saboteur to dive at an angle of 85 degrees, so it did not discover its superiority, and later learned that they confused the saboteur attack plane with the saboteur torpedo bomber).

If China can maintain a squadron of saboteur attack planes, with a bomb load of nearly two tons, with the help of radar and radio navigation networks, it will certainly be able to bring a fatal blow to the Japanese army at a critical moment in the campaign. Another small plan is a hunting plan, if there is accurate intelligence support, with the help of air tankers, saboteurs are the best weapon to carry out decapitation operations, the only concern is that Chang Kaishen will be afraid. If he fears that he will also be decapitated by the Navy, the hunt plan will be difficult to implement.

Second, V1 radio missiles bombarded Japanese troops on the front line. As soon as he negotiated with Kong Lingkan, Lu Jingyun, the head of the Swiss Jet Engine Research Laboratory, took people to Lei Yun. Compared with Switzerland's narrow test site, mountainous Yunnan is the best test site for the V1 missile, and the 300-kilometer, 500-kilometer, and longer models will be frequently tested from Leiyun starting this month, targeting Dali and Lijiang. Once the test launch is complete, the first radio-guided missiles will be put into actual combat.

Although missiles can fly and attack automatically, the missiles themselves need to be surrounded by personnel and transported to a launch site 300 kilometers away from the front line, which necessitates the formation of a tactical missile unit. Li Kongrong's idea was to set up the original Marine Corps on the basis of the original Marine Corps, and the production was gradually localized by the domestic Xinzhong Company in order to reduce costs. But he was worried that Chang Kaishen would snatch control of this army, and he was even more worried that the V1 wireless missile would be used by him to curry favor with the Soviet Union or the United States.

The third is a transport aircraft unit consisting of 314 seaplanes. The Navy Staff believes that six of the 12 additional 314 water transport planes should be transport planes, and with the addition of the original three, nine transport planes can deliver at least 100 tons of supplies within 1,000 kilometers and 50 tons within 2,000 kilometers. Because of the wide cabin, large load capacity, and convenient loading and unloading of the cargo hatch, a 150mm German-made howitzer weighing more than five tons can also be carried in the case of a land field.

In the case of a land field, each aircraft can transport 100 people within 1,000 kilometers of fully armed soldiers, and there is no landing field parachute at least 50 people each time (not that it cannot carry more soldiers, but that the parachute time is too long, so the plane must always hover in the parachute airspace, and the probability of being shot down increases). ）

How to use this transport force is a problem, and this strategic transport force must be under the command of the Supreme High Command in order to be most effective. However, Li Kongrong was very worried about the people in Chongqing, especially the Air Force, who did not care about airplanes very much. The Soviet pilot Kurishenko had many persuasions about this, and the American Chennault also described it in his memoirs

-- On one occasion ('the most intense weeks before the Japanese attack on Shanghai'), the Martin bomber squadron, which had never practiced flying, had to practice flying because of Chang Kaishen's strict orders, and the squadron leader had to take off as a last resort, flew around the airfield a few times, and then returned to ask for landing. When landing over the runway, he turned off the throttle and deliberately taxied to the side, so much so that he crashed the heavy bomber into the ground. The propellers were bent, the wings were twisted, the whole plane broke in two, and the two engines fell off their fixations and rolled onto the lawn. The squadron leader, on the other hand, got out of the crashed plane as if nothing had happened, unscathed, with a look of disdain on his cold face.

That's the result of the exercise. He shouted at General Mao and me, and the two of us witnessed him crashing into the ground and destroying the plane! (This person deliberately destroyed the plane without any punishment until he was shot by a firing squad during the battle for disobeying orders and not joining up with friendly teams to bomb indiscriminately)'[Note 79]

Whenever he recalled this account in Chennault's memoirs, Li Kongrong vowed never to let the Air Force touch any of his planes. The 314 seaplane cost more than $400,000 each, and if any pilot dared to deliberately damage the landing like the squadron leader, so that 'the propellers were bent, the wings were twisted, the whole plane was broken in two, and the four engines fell off the fixation,' he would surely shoot the pilot's whole family together.

At this time, the navy had to cooperate with Chongqing in many aspects, and the above three things were only the big ones, as well as the small ones such as radar early warning, weapon support, and helicopter assault battalion operations. Next year, we will increase the major tasks of Nanyang Singapore's war against Japan, the evacuation of overseas Chinese, the wartime construction of Madagascar, and the defense of the Kyaukphyu-Magway transportation line. Each of them is crucial, but the only force that Li Kongrong can rely on is Kong Xiangxi and the half-hearted Central Commander, as well as the theater commanders with their own intentions.

"Hansheng, if President Roosevelt is re-elected, what can we do to get aid faster?" Li Kongrong thought about all-round cooperation with Chongqing, but Kong Xiangxi was worried about the long-awaited US aid. Just now, Li Kongrong only talked about his foreign strategy for this year and next, but did not elaborate on the specific strategy toward the United States.

"Up to now, the United States has several plans for war. Generally speaking, there are three main types: one is to defend the Western Hemisphere and not to intervene in the Eurasian war; The second is not to intervene in the war in Europe, but to defend the interests of democracies in the Pacific; The last is to maximize involvement in the war in Europe while maintaining a strategic defensive posture in the Pacific.

The second is the most beneficial for us, if the Asian theater ends the war earlier than the European theater, then as the victorious country in Asia, we can share in the interests of all countries in Asia; On the contrary, the victorious European countries distributed Asian interests before intervening in the Asian theater, and we were still in a war of resistance, but they finished sharing the cake. Li Kongrong took a breath and took a puff of cigarette before saying: "My judgment is that the United States will definitely choose Europe first and then Asia, rather than Asia first and then Europe, and this decision will be made at the end of this year and early next year."

If the United States adopts this strategy, then it is not a question of how we can get aid -- I am talking about billions of dollars in aid, not tens of billions of dollars in loans, and Chen Guangfu is fully capable of doing the loan -- but how to reach an agreement between Britain and the United States. The key to reaching an agreement is the distribution of post-war benefits, and the second is how to avoid the US neutrality bill. It was a troublesome bill that forbade the president from aiding warring nations before the United States entered the war.

But I'm sure the U.S. Congress and President Roosevelt will figure it out, and what we're going to do is jump on the boat after the policy is introduced. The Americans gave Britain a billion in supplies, and we were satisfied with 100 million. Soong's strength was that his family, especially his father, had a deep relationship with the church; He also has many classmates at Harvard and has alumni association connections; Finally, there is the hand, what do you want the Americans to do for you, not that you beg him, but to seize the handle that can ruin him, or give him any benefits, anyway, it is a direct threat and an exchange of benefits. Few people on our side understand this kind of skill, Hu Shizhi is absolutely not good, his identity is enough, but he does not have this kind of skill. ”

"How is Gu Shaochuan?" Kong Xiangxi listened and listened to the cigar had gone out, and came back to his senses and began to light again.

"Gu Shaochuan shouldn't be a problem." Li Kongrong remembered his performance at the Paris Peace Conference and nodded. "But it will cost a lot of money to get some congressional lobbyists, and the New Zealand and China companies in the United States should donate a large amount of money to the Roosevelt campaign fund in the near future....... By the way, how should the money donated by Xinzhong Company be calculated? Why can't you let the Navy out? ”

"Of course it's from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Kong Xiangxi's cigar is on again, and he doesn't care about getting US aid, especially if he can bypass Song Ziwen to get US aid. "Don't worry, I'll give you tin, tungsten sand, tung oil, and bristles, and I'll ship whatever you want."

The Navy's loans to the Treasury Department were similar to Soviet military aid loans, secured by the delivery of physical goods, and amounted to between $10 million and $20 million. The navy came forward with the Xinzhong Bank, and the Ministry of Finance came forward with a leather bag company set up by Kong Lingkan, which not only charged huge commissions, but also tried its best to suppress the delivery price of the Resources Committee and make a domestic difference.

Li Kongrong did not want to criticize the Kong family's business, he went on to say American aid. "Once Britain and the United States reach an aid agreement, and they haven't even reached an agreement, Gu Shaochuan will have to find a way to hitchhike up. The Navy will also find ways to support President Roosevelt in the aid package as soon as possible. I think this will happen in the first half of next year, if nothing else.

Then it's a matter of logistics. First of all, the United States needs to set up an arms company, and in addition to diplomatic talents, all the personnel from the domestic military industry bureau must be sent there, so that they can figure out which weapons we need and what kind of weapons the Americans have sufficient supply and are suitable for the Chinese battlefield. You must know that the UK has the first priority, and we can only pick up their scraps; The second is transportation, the navy now has a merchant fleet, with a tonnage of about 500,000 tons, but the navy also needs merchant ships when fighting, so there must be someone who is responsible for leasing and managing merchant ships in case of emergency.

Finally, there is the Kyaukma Pass, which must not only be repaired and completed quickly, but also the army must not retreat. In this way, U.S. aid can be continuously transported into the country. To this end, it is necessary to make some diplomatic concessions to Britain, send troops into Burma as soon as possible in the name of the Sino-British alliance, and build fortifications or positions on the south side of the passage as soon as possible. I have a suggestion to this, if the British want us to postpone our entry into Burma, then let Long Yun's troops infiltrate the border. When the British found out, they said that this was Long Yun's private action, and the government didn't know about it at all, so if it didn't find out, it wouldn't say anything. ”

"Really?" Kong Xiangxi had been listening and remembering carefully, but when he heard that Long Yun's troops had infiltrated from the border, he was confused again. "Burma is the land of the British, what if there is a fight?"

"With the example of Britain in the past, it is not difficult to lobby Roosevelt, it is not difficult to set up an arms company, there is a 500,000-ton merchant fleet of the navy, and it is not difficult to transport, and the most difficult thing is to hold the Kyaukma passage. Britain would rather Burma be occupied by the Japanese than occupied by us, and the Japanese army can recover it after it is occupied, and if we occupy it, it will be very troublesome to recover it in the future.

The Sino-British alliance is just a gimmick, the British want to use us to hold back the Japanese army, if they can keep the colonies, they will keep the colonies, and if they can't keep them, they will throw them to the Japanese, and what we value is that after the alliance, we can send troops into Burma or Singapore. Once the Japanese attack will be very fast, and Thailand is next to Burma, there is only a few days of window time, and the fighters are fleeting. At that time, the British were too late to escape, how could there be an exchange of fire? There was an army that met the Japanese and protected them as they retreated, and they were too late to rejoice. ”

"Hey......" Kong Xiangxi's cigar went out again, he simply stopped smoking it, and said, "This matter still has to be decided by the Military Committee." He looked at Li Kongrong again, "Hansheng, can't you go to Chongqing once?" These things are only useful if they are told to my brother. ”

"I'm going to Chongqing?!" Li Kongrong smiled, "It's already very risky for me to come to Leiyun, I can't go to Kunming, let alone Chongqing." The only thing I can agree with is for the military council, or the chamberlain, to send someone to Lei Yun to convene a military meeting, but I have to leave after the meeting, the earth is very dangerous. ”

"Okay, then I'll send a telegram to Brother Jie in a moment and ask him to send someone over for a meeting." Kong Xiangxi said immediately.

"If you want to come, come as soon as possible, all the people come, and solve the problem at one time." Li Kongrong thought of the 1st Marine Brigade dozens of kilometers away, and felt that he was quite safe here. After he finished speaking, he continued: "There are two other things that must be explained in advance for US aid: the first is that after taking US aid, the Americans will naturally send people over to coordinate the command, and the person who will coordinate the command is very important, and we must not be sloppy; The second is not to accede to the request of US planes, especially US bombers, to be stationed in China to fight. ”

"Why?" The first Kong Xiangxi knew that he couldn't be sloppy, and the second he didn't understand. "American bomber ......"

"It is very expensive to repair airfields, especially large bomber airfields; And the standard of food for American soldiers is one dollar a day, and more than 100,000 people come here, and we will definitely be eaten. Li Kongrong said that he remembered that the Americans had eaten all the cattle in Yunnan Province at that time.

"This ......, this is foreign exchange." Kong Xiangxi smiled when he heard that the food was one dollar a day, and this was a good opportunity to earn foreign exchange.

"The daily consumption of an American soldier is equivalent to a hundred nations. Soldiers, 10,000 is an army of 1 million. They still have to eat beef every day, and after the cattle eat the buffalo, how can there be cattle ploughing the fields at that time? Li Kongrong asked rhetorically. This is not how the money is made, and in the later stages of the Anti-Japanese War, the government simply cannot afford to support these American soldiers. ”