"Our army has mobilized 2 million troops on the front line, and the Japanese army is only 1 million. If the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info attack, there is an 8 percent win rate. ”

During the cabinet meeting, Cai Yi personally explained the battlefield situation to a group of high-level officials.

"How to break through the defenses of the barbed wire fence in the machine-gun trenches?"

Huge casualties have always been what Yang Chao fears.

Li Yuanhong They only listened but didn't speak, because they really didn't understand, Yang Chao's battles were never the same as what they saw, because even Li Yuanhong, who started with the Xinhai Revolution, had only seen the rebel army fighting against the Beiyang Army, and his understanding of the war was that whoever had more artillery would be powerful.

"The best way is to suppress them with heavy artillery, let the airships destroy their fortress with heavy bombs, and cover the infantry to launch a surprise attack. ”

This is the best tactic they can think of.

Yang Chao shook his head: "What about the other party's prevention and control system?" Can the safety of the airship be guaranteed. ”

Cai Yi said: "It is inevitable to pay a certain sacrifice, sacrificing a soldier of the airship unit, you can sacrifice one less infantry soldier." ”

He thought that Yang Chao was taking care of the casualties of the airship troops, which made Cai Ye a little unhappy, and in his opinion, the lives of all soldiers were equally valuable.

Yang Chao sighed: "The casualties are too great. Can it be besieged for a long time. Our army is not afraid of a war of attrition. ”

Cai Yi shook his head: "It doesn't make sense." Japan has emigrated at least 3 million people along the Heilongjiang River, and at least 200 million acres of farmland have been opened, which is already Japan's largest grain base. There is no point in besieging them. ”

The Japanese were in the economic crisis caused by Yang Chao two years ago, and Youpeng in Shan County took the opportunity to emigrate to the northeast in large numbers, and they were all militarized immigrants, and many of them directly served as soldiers on the spot.

The immigrants engaged in by the Japanese are very distinctive, and it is not surprising that they send money and food, and they also give out daughters-in-law.

It is easy to find the daughters of poor families in the mountains and distribute them directly to those poor youths, and it is easy to form immigrant families in the northeast.

Yang Chao frowned: "In this naval battle, the losses of the airship troops are too heavy. And they will continue to carry out air strikes to prevent the Japanese from repairing their warships. In addition, it is necessary to bomb Japan's railway lines and bridges and completely paralyze Japan's transportation network. If you go to the northeast to cooperate with the army, you will be a little weak. ”

Cai Ye was a little discouraged, in this war, the airship unit was the most brilliant, the young people who were willing to fly to the sky were more wild than ordinary people, so they were more brave in the battle, and they had absolute technical superiority, and the Chinese airship was absolutely suppressed when it met the Japanese airship, so it was compared with other arms.

But what Yang Chao said is also reasonable, in fact, thinking about it is not to care about the casualties of the airship troops, up to now, the downed airships have been almost a thousand, for a total of 10,000 airship troops, one-tenth of the casualties are more than the army in addition to the navy, as the chief of the army's general staff, Cai Yi, really can't blame the airship troops for avoiding the war.

This feeling made him feel even more disheartened, he really had a complex of taking the army to conquer the city and expand the territory, but the truth hit him hard.

"If there is no air support, then the infantry will have to be sacrificed."

Cai Yi sighed, this is a national war, and all arms will make due sacrifices.

Yang Chao shook his head: "Don't worry. Waiting for months. Our immediate priority now is to rebuild our navy and then cut off Japan from the mainland, and the main task of the air force is to blockade the whole of Japan, in addition to continuing to bomb. Not a single grain of grain, not a drop of oil, not a single iron ore can be transported to Japan, and Japan will be cut off from the whole world. There is no point in blockading Tohoku, but it will certainly make sense to blockade the main island of Japan. As for the continued stalemate of the army, a small-scale infiltration force can be formed. ”

Cai Ye was very disappointed, a kind of loss of uselessness for heroes, he even wanted to resign on the spot, but reason told him that Yang Chao was out of overall considerations.

After the cabinet meeting, Yang Chao was the first to walk out of the presidential palace.

Cai Ye was the last to leave, and Li Yuanhong left him alone to comfort him for a while.

Li Yuanhong felt more and more that Yang Chao was a little arbitrary, and that his president was becoming more and more like an empty shelf, and in the end he didn't know whether the president had cultivated the tradition of not having real power, or whether the warlords had continued to exercise dictatorship.

"As long as the timing is right, I will still support you."

"Thank you for the president's support, but Lord Yang is thoughtful, and he is not thoughtful."

Cai Ye didn't understand that Li Yuanhong was trying to win him over.

He didn't go back to the front line immediately, but took a leave of absence, planning to go back to Yunnan, Cai Ye has a romantic character, not a lustful amorous manner, but a casual amorous manner, casual and free, which makes him very infectious among the officers who follow him, but in fact, his character is very unsuitable for being an official.

When Cai Ye walked out of the presidential palace, he found that Yang Chao was blocked by a group of reporters and asked all kinds of questions, but he didn't stop and left quietly.

"We intend to rebuild the Navy. The soldiers who died in the navy were all strong men and heroes. Our navy is not dead, because our people are still there. The president has promised to allocate 1 billion to rebuild a powerful fleet with 30 super dreadnoughts as the core. Our navy will only be stronger and more powerful than before, and full of enthusiasm and courage to defend our homeland and country, which will make those who try to invade our generals weigh in and insult the price of China. ”

Yang Chao praised the navy in a big way, he had just proposed to rebuild the navy, Li Yuanhong had no reason to refuse, Li Yuanhong was very smart, if something could make Yang Chao unhappy and not damage his majesty, he could do it, but now he has no reason to do this kind of thing to rebuild the navy.

Because in the case of the huge sacrifices made by the navy and the death of two veterans, Liu Guanxiong and Sa Zhenbing, if he said that he did not rebuild the navy, he would be condemned by the whole country.

"May I ask Lord Yang, some experts say that the reason why the Chinese Navy was able to hold back the Japanese Navy in this naval battle, instead of being destroyed by the Japanese Navy early, is because of the airship. Some people say that it was the fleet of heaven that defeated the fleet of the sea, and the navy actually did not play any role. If there was no navy, the Japanese navy could still be wiped out if the airship force suffered heavy casualties. ”

A reporter said that he was talking about a popular theory recently, and there was also a report under the name of "Heavenly Fleet", which explained in detail the naval battle, saying that the navy's death was completely meaningless.

Yang Chao refuted with a calm face: "What kind of expert is this?" I will say three things: First, if our navy had not fought with the Japanese navy for half a day, leaving the Japanese soldiers exhausted, our airships would not have dared to attack in the air, which would be tantamount to suicide; Second, if there was no navy to block the Japanese navy, it would be impossible to completely annihilate them; Third, if the Chinese Navy had not entangled the Japanese Navy with the fearlessness of the same fate and begged the airships to bomb in spite of their casualties, there would have been no chance of annihilating the Japanese Navy at all. Therefore, this naval battle is not only a victory for the Air Force, but also a victory for the Navy. ”

After saying that, Yang Chao asked people to push away the reporters, left in a hurry, and got into a black Mercedes-Benz, which was a gift from the Germans with an airship, thanking him for cashing out the 20 billion mark loan in advance.

After leaving Beijing and going directly to Yantai, a large number of wounded were placed in the Yantai hospital at this time, most of them were wounded by the navy and air force, and the number of those who were treated in the last naval battle reached 30,000, of which more than 25,000 were naval officers and men.

"The Navy will definitely be rebuilt. You need to get well quickly, and it's up to you to take care of the formation. ”

Yang Chao reassured the naval officers that the honor of this naval battle must fall on the navy, and they need honor more than the air force and army.

Only honor can make the navy of the mainland nation have combat effectiveness, because they do not have a sense of mission and urgency, and they do not have the maritime nation to always resist the responsibility of defending the country on their shoulders, and they are the first and often the last line of defense of the country.

Only a day has passed since the naval battle, and the news has just come out, and there are all kinds of crooked comments, which make Yang Chao a little annoyed.

After leaving the hospital, he instructed Wang Qiu to immediately start the propaganda machine, invite experts from all walks of life, pseudo-experts, vigorously analyze, encourage and praise the performance of the navy, and the navy accounted for at least eighty percent of the role in this naval battle.

Wang Qiu was much more active and calm this time.

After being dismissed, he worked meticulously in the industry, and continued to innovate the production process in a few years, and the output has expanded from the initial 100 tons, to 10,000 tons, and has now expanded to 50,000 tons, and various technologies have basically matured.

Nylon has been identified as a product specifically designed to replace raw silk, acrylic to replace wool, polyester to replace cotton, and so on.

But there were also problems, Rockefeller raised the price of oil.

For Rockefeller, he has been pioneering the way for petroleum products, which from the beginning could only provide kerosene for lighting, later began to be used as fuel for engines, began to refine medicines, and now the invention of the Chinese proves that oil can even become clothing for the body.

How this does not excite Rockefeller, but at the same time he needs to master this technology in his own hands, so that he can expand the power of his oil empire and control clothing, which is more important than drugs, because the consumption of oil by drugs is negligible, and clothing is another industry that can consume oil on a large scale in addition to fuel.

So Rockefeller's intention is to force the Chinese to cooperate with him by controlling oil, and he doesn't need to monopolize this interest, but he needs to control, just like he monopolizes the U.S. oil market, he will monopolize human clothes.

Fortunately, the Americans raised the price, but the British supplied the oil fields in Persia on a large scale, and the British coffers were almost empty, and they urgently needed to export to make money.

When he first learned that Rockefeller had raised prices, Yang Chao was about to dig the Dongying Oilfield, but after thinking about it for a while, he held back and decided to leave the oil resources here to his children and grandchildren! (To be continued.) )