The establishment of the Japanese field heavy artillery wing is six squadrons of the second brigade, with four 150mm heavy guns per squadron, while the establishment of the independent field artillery wing is four squadrons of the second brigade, with four 240mm heavy guns per squadron, if it is equipped with 150mm heavy guns, then there are three squadrons in that brigade. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Previously, one 240mm squadron and two 150mm squadrons were moved to the front, and now there are seven 150mm squadrons and one 240mm squadron left in the two wings.

Although the headquarters of the Japanese 2nd Army had an order to blow up the artillery before retreating, Kanaoka did not expect the pursuers to come in such a hurry, let alone that they were not rushing from behind but from their sides, and the pursuers advanced too quickly, and there were too many troops to attack the defenders' positions before, and it was too late to bomb the artillery for a while. The tanks rumbled into the artillery group, and the Japanese gunners were either shot and fell to the ground or avoided them under the machine-gun fire, and when the infantry rushed down the tanks, the Japanese had no chance to explode the artillery, but the sky was about to dawn soon.

"It's been a firefight!" At the headquarters of the 88th Army in Beiguan Town, Liao Yaoxiang, who had not slept for two days, was pale, he had just received a report of a front-line firefight, and he couldn't help but suggest: "The Air Force should take off immediately, otherwise it will ......."

"......" Liao Yaoxiang hoped that the air force would take off as originally planned to fight for air supremacy on the battlefield, but Xu Tingyao and Du Yuming were silent, and now Hu Xianqun's refusal to return to help is already a violation of the military order, and he also wants the air force to assist, and the chairman of the committee will probably not agree.

"I'd better report back to the principal." After a while, Du Yuming opened his mouth and said, he felt that it was not a way to hide it if he didn't report it.

"I'd better do it!" Xu Tingyao stopped Du Yuming and reached out to the phone.

"Okay, I see, I know." Liu Fei answered the phone, and at this time, the chairman of the committee after being angry had already fallen asleep. "The 88th Army has caught up with the Japanese heavy artillery wing and captured more than 30 field heavy artillery, is the Air Force ......?" Liu Fei, who answered the phone, told Lin Wei about the situation of the 88th Army.

"How did the 88th Army do it?!" Lin Wei's face was full of unhappiness, now the Japanese tank cavalry controlled a large area outside Lanfeng City, Chen Liukou had already exchanged fire, but the 88th Army ignored the military order, which was really lawless. "They captured the heavy artillery, can they drag it back? If you can't drag it back, what's the use of seizing it? ”

"As long as the air force covers them for half an hour, the heavy artillery can be hidden first, and it can be dragged back after dark. Isn't that what the chairman of the committee wants? Liu Fei retorted. What about the remnants of the 14th Division occupying Chenliukou, they could not withdraw in a day. ”

"It's impossible for the 14th Division to withdraw in one day, but what about Tu Feiyuan?" Lin Wei asked rhetorically. "If Tu Feiyuan runs away, who can afford to take this responsibility? Public opinion at home and abroad will say that our army's war reports are fraudulent and that the results of our military are not feasible. ”

"The soil is the soil and the fertilizer, and the battle record is the war record. These heavy artillery guns are shown out, who dares to say that our record is bragged? "Liu Fei originally wanted to say that you bragged about it in the battle report, but now he wants the whole army to wipe your ass for you, but he still endures it." Now it is necessary to send the air force to cover the 88th Army, otherwise all efforts will be in vain. ”

"Are you going to wake up the chairman?" Lin Wei simply let go and watched how Liu Fei cleaned up.

"I ......" Although Liu Fei is the director of the First Department of the Military Command Department, Lin Wei is the deputy director of the Military Affairs Department. Liu Fei walked around the room twice, and when he saw Lin Wei smoking casually, he had to walk to Chang Kaishen's bedroom.

"Director Liu, the chairman of the committee has already fallen asleep, if you have any military information, you should report it slowly." Wang Shihe was standing guard at the door of Chang Kaishen, and when he saw that it was Liu Fei, he immediately persuaded him.

"It's urgent, I... I can't go without the chairman. Liu Fei said stubbornly. Now the 88th Army has captured the enemy's heavy artillery, and if the air force does not send support, the heavy artillery is likely to be blown up by enemy aircraft......"

"Ahem......" Liu Fei was talking, and there was a cough in the bedroom inside, and Chang Kaishen was awakened. Is it Director Liu? ”

"Yes, I'm sorry to disturb the chairman's rest. Now the 88th Army has captured the heavy artillery of the Japanese and urgently needs air force support. Seeing that Chang Kaishen woke up, Liu Fei reported the situation on the front line in the shortest possible time.

"Captured Japanese heavy artillery?" Inside was the movement of tables and chairs, and Chang Kaishen's voice was very surprised.

"Yes, Chairman. The 23rd Division stopped the Japanese in the south of the Shusha River, and the 88th Army was caught off guard when they heard the sound of gunfire, and captured 31 heavy artillery pieces of more than 150mm caliber, including four field heavy artillery of 240mm caliber...... "Liu Fei specially mentioned the 240mm caliber field howitzer after reporting the results in order to let Chang Kaishen agree to send the air force. The army is unique.

'Bang', Chang Kaishen, who was in a hurry to get up, broke another cup, but his voice came: "Immediately order the Air Force to support, immediately order the Air Force to support ......"

When Li Kongrong arrived in Rio de Janeiro, what he saw from Zhou Yingcong was a few days ago. The army's battle report: more than 60,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, and 28 Japanese heavy artillery pieces were captured. He smiled and said: "What's so good about this kind of blowing water war report, you just watch this if you're bored?" ”

Brazil is in the southern hemisphere, and the summer in the southern hemisphere is the winter in the northern hemisphere, and Li Kongrong, who has just arrived from Switzerland, does not notice the difference between the northern and southern hemispheres, but only feels that it seems to be cooler than Zurich.

"It's too boring to see these things." Zhou Yingcong has been abroad for almost a year, and it is indeed too boring - under the search of the Japanese army, the Ninghai hides in Tibet, and has to hide in the waters of Alaska for many days, so naturally there is no loot for him to deal with, he spends most of his time looking for a production base according to Li Kongrong's requirements, and finally he feels that Brazil is acceptable.

"These countries in North and South America, except for the British and American countries, and those with close relations with Germany, are only Brazil and Mexico, and Mexico is seriously anti-Chinese, and Brazil is left in the end." Zhou Yingcong invited Li Kongrong into the car and began to explain why Li Kongrong came to Brazil.

"Brazil doesn't exclude China?" Li Kongrong had no impression of Brazil, and he thought that Zhou Yingcong would look for Chile.

"Brazil is anti-Chinese, but it does not slaughter Chinese, there are very few Chinese here; Mexico is Tu Hua, there were two times in the early Republic of China, and no one knows if there will be in the future. Chile also has some small steel mills, but Chile is pro-German, didn't you say that it can't be pro-German? Isn't that just Brazil left. Zhou Yingcong replied. Also, these countries are all military governments and have a lot of resources, but I don't know what you're going to do here, you really want to build a shipyard here? ”

"I don't know what I'm going to do here." Li Kongrong told the truth that he couldn't figure out what production to put in Brazil. During the war, many raw materials had to be imported from the United States, and it was better to put them in Brazil than to put them in the United States, so that they would not have to pay tariffs at least twice. He might be able to build a shipyard outside the United States, but the shipyard needs steel, and he has to build a steel plant — which would be like rebuilding a series of large upstream factories, and he doesn't have the money.

"Then we ......" Zhou Yingcong saw that Li Kongrong had no idea, and he was also a little difficult. The country says that you are very big in Switzerland, and that there are already thousands of people, you ......"

Thousands of people are just Lin Xianxi's bragging, and when Li Kongrong of Switzerland left, there were just 100 people. Li Kongrong immediately said: "How can there be so many people? According to the plan, there are only a few hundred people at most, and there will be more people after there is a factory, but this factory is ......" Thinking of the penicillin project that died abruptly, Li Kongrong frowned, and he said: "Have you got a visa to go to the United States?" ”

"It's done, what's the matter, I'm going to the United States soon?" Zhou Yingcong asked.

"Hmm." Li Kongrong nodded, he was hard to determine how much money he had in his hands, rather than this, it was better to go to the United States first.

"But I've already made an appointment." Zhou Yingcong was taken aback, Li Kongrong seemed to mean that Brazil would dry first.

"If it's someone on the domestic side, it's gone." Li Kongrong said. "If it's someone from the Brazilian government, I can only see what I'm going to do here in the future, but I can't talk about anything."

"They are all domestic people, Minister Xiong is very interested in the navy being able to settle here, and he is willing to ......."

"Now funding is the bottleneck!" Li Kongrong looked at him and couldn't help but sigh, "If this problem is not solved, everything will be in vain." ”

"Didn't you say before that you were absolutely sure that you would solve the funding problem?" Although Zhou Yingcong is a close confidant of Chen Shaokuan, he is also a member of the navy, and he wholeheartedly supports the navy to rebuild it. Lin Xianxi bought four 20,000 US dollars North American Airlines TB-9 trainer planes to return to China, after seeing the trainer plane, everyone in the navy was moved, and everyone put their hopes on Lin Xianxi and Li Kongrong, but they didn't expect Li Kongrong to say that he had no money.

"It's hard to explain this, let's talk about it when we get to the hotel." Li Kongrong smoked hard, he was full of confidence earlier, half of his confidence had been knocked out by penicillin, and now only the other half was left.

In general, Brazil is a relatively affluent country, exporting three-quarters of the world's coffee production every year, but after the 29-year economic crisis, coffee exports plummeted, and the economy that made money selling coffee also collapsed. The economic downturn is natural and the political situation is turbulent, this is a law. Eight years ago, the revolution broke out in Brazil, and it was Getulio Vargas who came to power.

Coups in these countries in South America are extremely normal, and Li Kongrong is not surprised, he is really concerned about Brazil's industrial base, investment environment, and military strength. The situation of the former is similar to that of China, with a weak industrial base and an annual output of less than 100,000 tons of steel; As for the investment environment, under an authoritarian regime, the investment is in military weapons, and the government is naturally supportive. Provided, of course, that they understand the value of the weapons produced, such as radars, and if the Brazilians do not know the value of radars, it is unlikely to be supported.

Zhou Yingcong had visited the Brazilian Navy before this, and briefly discussed intentional issues with the other party, although the answer was not very supportive, but certainly not opposed. It's just that Brazil's military strength is too weak, in the national army, the army is less than 50,000 people, the navy is better, but it is not much better, there are two battleships, two armored cruisers, ten destroyers, six torpedo boats, four submarines, the number is about 20,000, but these ships are old ships before and after World War I, in addition, the country has no air force, the army has no more than 100 aircraft, how many can fly to the sky.

"How does it feel here?" After a brief introduction to the situation in Brazil, especially mentioning his relationship with the Brazilian military, Zhou Yingcong began to continue the previous topic. In his opinion, Brazil is the only place that meets the requirements.

"I can't tell!" Li Kongrong is hard to say. He thinks that the most suitable places are actually only Europe and North America, and if a war breaks out in Europe, the rest can only be North America, but he is unwilling to put everything in the United States. And the problem in the United States is that because of the restrictions of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the number of people who can enter the country is very limited.

"I won't mention anything else, at least the Brazilians agree that we train here, and that's the most important thing." It was difficult to talk in the car before, and Zhou Yingcong finally said the fundamental reason why he chose Brazil.

Li Kongrong also guessed this, and he said: "What if Japan puts pressure? ”

"Then it depends on how much we pay." Zhou Yingcong said. "Brazil and Japan don't have much to do with each other, and even if Japan knows, all the Japanese can do is protest."

"What's the price now?" Li Kongrong asked.

"An aircraft carrier." Zhou Yingcong said.

"An aircraft carrier?!" Li Kongrong was taken aback.

"Yes. And then there's the money to spend everywhere, probably five million Milres. Zhou Yingcong added.

"No, it's too flamboyant." Li Kongrong shook his head, "If we train here, the result is that the Japanese are staring at it every day, which is not good." Besides, our aircraft carriers are all stolen cruise ships, but they are just refitted, and the Japanese will definitely guess that this is their cruise ship refit. With this premise, it is not impossible to go to war. ”

"So where are you going to put the Navy for training?" Zhou Yingcong asked rhetorically.

"I'm going to ......" Li Kongrong also thought about the issue of training, maybe the pilots can train in the Great Lakes region, then the entire aircraft carrier still has to go to sea, but the problem is that the Chinese are not allowed to enter the United States. The only way I can think of is to get on the boat halfway. ”

"Halfway to the boat?" Zhou Yingcong looked at him in surprise.

"Yes. The aircraft carrier is flagged with the American flag and is not armed, it is equivalent to a cruise ship, and we will get on the ship when we get to the high seas......" Li Kongrong said as he felt that something was wrong, and he added. "This problem can always be solved, the cost of an aircraft carrier is too great, we don't have a few in the first place, and now you go to one as soon as you agree."

"That's how the other party made the offer, what can I do?" Zhou Yingcong said helplessly. In the negotiations with the Brazilian Navy, it is natural to talk about aircraft carriers, and the Brazilian Navy only has battleships and no aircraft carriers, so it is natural to want one.

"But ......" Li Kongrong suddenly thought of the two paddle steamer aircraft carriers in the Great Lakes in history, which were training aircraft carriers of the US Naval Aviation, and it was said that they only cost a hundred thousand dollars to buy them, which is cheap enough. Maybe we can revisit that. He added. (To be continued.) )