Chapter 343: Sudden Interview
The smiling Anan Weiji said very easily, Ishihara Wan'er listened to a cold war, this is not a matter of a few hundred or a thousand people, but a dozen or two hundred thousand people, these people are now Manchukuo is in urgent need of young and strong laborers, now nearly one-third of the young and strong in Manchukuo have fled to Rehe, many places have long been desolate and empty, not to mention how to collect these 200,000 young and strong laborers, even if they are collected, it will definitely not be a short time, and this King Kong direction can really be built within two years? Then it is best to pray that Zhang Xuewu will not have any restlessness in these two years, or that the empire can sign a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet Union will recognize the interests of the empire in China, and as a last bargaining chip, it will be ceded to Soviet Russia to satisfy the appetite of the polar bear.
How did Ishihara know that Anan Yuji's father had done civil engineering and was still a small contractor, and after hearing and witnessing, Anan Weiji also learned a lot of his father's tricks, so that as long as it was something that Chief Umezu Mijiro confessed, there was nothing that could not be achieved, and there was a lack of conditions to deal with fooling, in fact, Anan Yuji fought this abacus, because in terms of the national strength and current situation of the company, not to mention building a 400-kilometer defense line, it was difficult to build 40 kilometers, You must know that the Macedonian defense line was built by France on the day of the armistice of World War I, and more than 300,000 "French citizens" from various African colonies died before and after.
If compared with Zhang Xuewu, Anan Weiji does not think that the empire has the resources to build fortress cities like Chaoyang and Zhangjiakou, it can be said that Anan Weiji has thought of the very few resources he can use, so Anan Weiji has thought of a workaround, then the only way is to use the unique reinforced field fortifications with permanent fortifications, mobile artillery support, minefields and anti-tank trenches, infantry oblique sections to cooperate with each other, to put it bluntly, large-scale countermeasures, because there are not enough steel and concrete, Therefore, the fortifications can only be simplified, and the permanent fortifications can be replaced with the overall moat structure, in fact, in terms of the effect alone, it can barely achieve three-fifths of the effect of the permanent fortifications, but the workload of the excavation earthwork is very amazing, which is equivalent to digging in a strip of 400 kilometers long and ten kilometers wide, making it difficult for people to move an inch.
Due to the shortage of labor in the early stage, Anan was ready to report to Umezu Mijiro that he was ready to transfer seven Manchurian [***] brigades to take charge of the early construction and later vigilance, and to transfer the 13th Division, 18th Division, 101st Division, 114th Division, and 116th Division of the North China Front Army under Okamura Ninji, and the other four Reading Force Mixed Brigade Regiments to participate in the construction of the defense line in Jinzhou!
However, Anami Yuji also made preparations in two aspects, because Okamura Ninji was subordinate to the North China Front, and his military headquarters and staff headquarters were not included in the Kwantung Army, so even Umezu Mijiro, the commander-in-chief, I am afraid that he could not command, and everything had to be carried out in a negotiated manner, so in the early stage, Anan Yuji could only order the troops to enclose the entire village and the entire town one by one in the name of arresting the anti-Japanese elements, forcibly escort all the young and middle-aged people, and shoot and burn their villages and towns directly if they escaped. Anan Weiji's project has just begun, and the hundreds of kilometers between Jinzhou and Fengtian have become a no-man's land?
In order to escape the capture of laborers by the Kwantung Army, many people chose to flee in the direction of Chaoyang, and after the defeat of the army, the defense of Chaoyang that had almost been completely abandoned, moved all the focus back to the Jinzhou line, and the fortifications built in Shanhaiguan before were also given to Zhang Xuewu in disguise.
On the one hand, Zhang Xuewu instructed the Northeast Cluster to make every effort to deal with the refugees entering Rehe, and at the appropriate time, the armored regiment was used as a unit to make a short attack under the air cover, so as to ensure that the passage for the refugees to flee to Rehe was unblocked, and instructed the local political axe to resettle and take care of it.
This time, after the war, Zhang Xuewu also realized a problem, that is, the BF-109F, BF-109K, and Saker fighters are not suitable for ground attacks, simple bomb throwing, etc. can also be carried, and the accurate ground attack is very difficult, especially the attack on the armored target on the ground, and if the rocket is added, then the rocket nest will affect the maneuver of the aircraft, so the Baotou Aviation Design Institute has developed a ground attack aircraft, which is also a strong attack aircraft!
Attack aircraft are actually a major classification of combat aircraft, mainly used to attack enemy tactics from low altitude, ultra-low altitude or targets in the depth of shallow and close campaigns, and directly support ground force operations, also known as close air support aircraft, strong attack aircraft have a good low-altitude longitudinal surname, a stable surname and good ability to search for small ground targets, can be equipped with a variety of ground attack weapons, in order to improve survivability, generally have armor protection in its vital parts.
Historically, the attack aircraft was first used by Germany, and the earliest attack aircraft was the Junkers Ji aircraft developed by the German Junkers company, which completed its first test flight in 1915, and was a biplane equipped with aluminum alloy skin and protective armor, and it was also the earliest all-metal aircraft. The aircraft is equipped with machine guns, carrying a small number of bombs, which can strafe and bomb ground targets at low altitudes, and later Juncker developed a more advanced CLI-IV attack aircraft, which was changed from a double wing to a lower single wing, and its speed and maneuverability have also been improved.
Its improved version is the famous Junkers 87 dive bomber, that is, the Stuka dive bomber, which uses high-angle dives to attack marching columns and tanks, etc., and directly supports ground forces in combat.
However, it is a pity that the Germans have never exported Stuka technology to Zhang Xuewu, in fact, the Germans are now annoyed by the technology, production line and a large number of aero engines that they sold the BF-109F fighter jet back then. As a result, inadvertently, an arms race of air fighters began.
This kind of strong attack aircraft named "Falcon" is still in the experimental stage, six prototypes fell one, and the remaining five have successfully completed all the test items and combat missions, but judging from the degree of ground fire, the Falcon fighter also needs to add armor, replace the more powerful aero engine, and be equipped with two 37 mm caliber aviation guns, specially used for low-altitude anti-tank combat.
Zhang Xuewu suggested that the front of the fuselage should be equipped with a bulletproof steel plate to completely protect the engine, fuel tank, and driver shooter from small-caliber bullets, and that the fighter should be able to load machine guns, machine guns, rockets, and be able to carry a 500-meter aerial bomb.
This data is actually not too high, the only problem is that the overall surname of the Falcon fighter seems to have reached the limit, due to the use of too much streamlined design when designing, but the fighter is still a piston propeller aircraft after all, not a jet fighter of later generations, so once the aircraft enters the tail spin state, it is difficult to easily change the flight out, and the dive speed of the aircraft is much higher than that of the Stuka, so that the overall pressure on the fuselage, the greater the anti-twisting load, before getting a full test report, Zhang Xuewu did not plan to start producing and training falcons, because Zhang Xuewu could not afford the huge losses of a failed model, and the main enemy of the falcons was not Yu himself, but his close neighbors with a large number of armored troops.
In Zhang Xuewu's dictionary, there are only national interests, national interests, no international interests, the purpose of the existence of international law is to be violated, Zhang Xuewu is reckless at the same time, giving the outside world a very belligerent wrong impression, in fact, this is a posture put on by Zhang Xuewu, that is, to show all hostile forces, whether at home or abroad, don't mess with me easily.
On July 2, 1938, Zhang Xuewu had completed the supplementary training of the troops, and a large amount of food, ammunition, materials, and oil aided by the Soviet Union basically arrived at the Dingyuan camp, and the train dispersed and transferred materials day and night for 24 hours, because the Soviets felt that Zhang Xuewu would give him a thunderous blow, so he generously provided all the materials that Zhang Xuewu needed, and for the deep friendship of the Soviet people, Zhang Xuewu secretly swore that he must take back all the [***] incompetent Manchu political axes thrown away, Lest the Russian people starve and cold in the Siberian Far East, let the friendly Chinese people suffer for the Russian people in the future! This is the true spirit of nationalism that deserves to be celebrated.
Zhang Xuewu, who was about to enjoy a rare leisurely afternoon, was told by the Political Department that a reporter from Time magazine named Maria wanted to interview him? Zhang Xuewu was indeed a little shocked, he was able to be on Time Magazine? Although Time Magazine is not as well-known as later generations, its influence is extremely far-reaching, because Zhang Xuewu knows that Time Magazine is the most influential news weekly in the United States and is known as the world history bank. Was March 1923 by Henry? Luce and Britten? Founded by Harden, he has considerable influence around the world, but is this interview about his own cover? If so, Zhang Xuewu didn't want to waste such a great opportunity to give a wake-up call to Americans who were benefiting from the rampant loneliness, lest it would be too late to scream when he was beaten later.
"Hello General Zhang, in the words of you Chinese, long admiration, long admiration!" Maria, a female reporter of Time Magazine, whose Chinese skills are still there, surprised Zhang Xuewu.
(To be continued)