[Anti-Japanese Iron King] Chapter 1067: News of the Battle of Midway (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

It has to be said that, compared with the corrupt and incompetent Qing government and the smoky Nationalist government, the Japanese Government has indeed established a relatively glorious image in the hearts of the Japanese people in the past half century or so, so the Japanese Government's war mobilization order, like the previous two war mobilization orders, has won the support of the Japanese people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the war mobilization order was issued, thousands of conscripts, and many even many, fanatically donated some or all of their family property to pay for the war for the survival of the empire.

Perhaps in the eyes of many Japanese, what the government is doing now is a replica of the Sino-Japanese War of 1904, when the government of China, like the decaying feudal dynasty, should and must submit to the Japanese Empire.

Almost all Japanese believed that the Chinese government would have to pay huge war reparations for its stupidity, and even cede certain land as imperial spoils, such as Taiwan's 1905 spoils.

The news of the Asahi Shimbun was quickly reprinted and distributed by major newspapers in China, and soon most of China was reciting Ma Zheng, the magical general, and the name Ma Zheng once again set off huge waves in the land of China.

Under the pressure of domestic public opinion, the Nationalist Government once again commended the Saibei Corps and Ma Zheng. However, in Ma Zheng's own opinion, this is not as real as 10,000 oceans, and Lao Jiang is very familiar with Ma Zheng by releasing empty cannons like this, and he doesn't need to take it to heart at all.

Speaking of Ma Zheng himself, although the department once again achieved a huge military victory, but also paid a huge price, not to mention that the guard company was almost completely wiped out, the transport convoy was not one out of ten, and even Ma Zheng's own extremely precious air team also suffered great losses.

The already small number of fighters was broken this time, with only 26 of the 44 fighters left, and 18 were lost; 41 bombers remained 36 and 5 were lost, making a total of 23 fighters shot down in this battle.

Compared with the loss of fighters, Ma Zheng was more concerned about the death of the pilot, only 9 pilots of the 23 fighters parachuted and survived, and all the rest died. Although it is difficult to replenish aircraft, in Ma Zheng's opinion, the value of a pilot with rich combat experience is far greater than that of a fighter.

Fortunately, two days ago, news came from the United States that the P40 fighter plane ordered by Huaxia Company for Ma Zheng's department had arrived in Hawaii and would fly to China in the near future. The U.S. side demanded that Ma Zheng's department provide a corresponding venue for the plane to land.

The news from the United States came in a timely manner, which eased Ma Zheng's distressed mood a little. Subsequently, after reporting the details of the battle and the list of losses to the central government, Ma Zheng continued all the way north under the protection of a cavalry regiment of the Chahar Military Region.

Beginning in early November, after Ma Zheng arrived in the Chahar Military Region, he began to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the entire corps' defense area; he went deep into the villages and grassroots units to understand the people's lives and sufferings, and also learned about the situation of the grassroots troops, and mastered a large amount of first-hand information.

Ma Zheng is an anxious person, every time he encounters a problem, he solves it on the spot, and if he can't solve it at that time, he directly hands it over to the local government and asks them to help solve it.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-December, and at this time, Ma Zheng had completed his inspection of the three major military regions of Chahar, Suiyuan and Rehe, and was preparing to return to the front line in Tianjin.

However, at this moment, an exciting news came from the front, the United States had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway. In this battle, at the cost of small casualties, the US military sank four large Japanese aircraft carriers, one cruiser, 332 aircraft, and also killed hundreds of experienced Japanese pilots and 3,700 sailors.

After confirming the accuracy of the information, Ma Zheng was overjoyed, and he was well aware of the significance of Midway Island for the Pacific War.

This battle changed the balance of strength between Japanese and American aircraft carriers in the Pacific region, and after this attack, the Japanese army was left with only 2 large aircraft carriers and 4 light aircraft carriers. From then on, Japan began to lose its strategic initiative in the Pacific theater, and the situation of the war took a turn in favor of the Allied forces.

On top of that, as Japan's navy suffered heavy losses, so did its control over the entire Pacific. In addition, the fleets sent by the Japanese Navy to the Chinese battlefield were hit hard one after another, so this made Ma Zheng see an opportunity, an opportunity for the Chinese Navy to return to the mainland.

The Chinese navy that Ma Zheng mentioned is naturally not the naval fleet of the Nationalist Government commanded by Chen Shaokuan, but the naval fleet under the Chinese Communist Party formed by Hu Yanbing in the United States. This fleet is composed of Li Lanqing who came forward and spent money with the US Government to purchase retired ships of the US Navy. There are 44 ships of various types, including two old aircraft carriers, 6 cruisers, 8 destroyers, 12 frigates, 2 minelayers and supply ships, 1 minesweeper, 1 landing ship, 8 torpedo boats, and 2 submarines.

Although these ships are all tattered goods retired from the US Navy, and some of them are old things before World War I, this is still quite valuable in Ma Zheng's opinion.

What's more, when the Huyan Military Institute was resting and training at the naval base on the west coast of the United States, Ma Zheng specially asked Huaxia Company to contact a well-known ship factory in the United States to refit these old warships.

More than a year has passed, and those old ships have finally come back to life. Although it still can't compete with the most advanced ships of the United States and Japan, it should not be much of a problem if it only carries out missions in the near sea.

Moreover, Ma Zheng is proposing to the central government, and the central government will come forward to make a trade request to the Soviet side, hoping to buy the Soviet Far East Fleet in the Far East.

Yes, that's right, to buy the Far Eastern Fleet. First, the reason is that the Soviet Union now owes Huaxia about $800 million in goods and cannot be repaid, but for the sake of the overall situation, Huaxia has to sell materials, including penicillin drugs, to the Soviet Union, and if this continues, the Soviet Union's debts will inevitably increase.

What's more, the Soviet Union and Japan already signed a neutrality treaty, and with both the Soviet Union and Japan each mired in war, it was impossible for the two countries to fight. In this way, the Soviet fleet that remained in the Far East became an ornament.

Of course, if the Soviet government wants to agree to the sale of the Far East Fleet, it must show sincerity, or come up with something that will appeal to the Soviet side, otherwise the Soviets may not agree.

This time, Ma Zheng is ready to take out both assault rifles and bazookas, Ma Zheng is very aware of the difficulties faced by the Soviet Union now, and he knows the value of assault rifles and bazookas. It is no exaggeration to say that with these two sharp weapons, combined with the strong industrial production capacity of the Soviet Union, the war could be ended at least a year earlier.

The reason why Ma Zheng took these two sharp weapons at this time was because of necessity on the one hand, and because the rocket launcher technology was mature, and it would not be long before the United States and Germany would equip the whole army with this kind of anti-tank weapon. If you don't trade it before then, the value of the obsolete bazooka will be greatly reduced.

Of course, all this depends on the meaning of the central government, and he can only put forward an opinion.

But what made Ma Zheng happy was that the Party Central Committee was very interested in his proposal, and after discussing it with several bigwigs in Yan'an, they decided to give it a try.

Soon an urgent telegram was sent from Yan'an to Moscow, and then forwarded to Stalin by the comrades stationed in Moscow.

Stalin was not really interested in the requests of his friends in the East, mainly because he did not think that the Chinese could design an arms suitable for the Soviet army. However, considering that the Soviet Union still owes hundreds of millions of dollars to Huaxia Company, and that the Soviet Union and Germany are now at the most tense moment, the support of penicillin is really indispensable.

After thinking about it, Stalin put forward a compromise proposal, that is, first let the commanders of the Siberian or Far Eastern Military Districts talk to Ma Zheng to see if the weapons designed by the Chinese are as good as they boasted, and then see if the weapons are suitable for the Soviets, and then make a final conclusion.