A war that may engulf the whole of Europe, the confrontation between the two blocs, involving almost all the major powers, this is definitely the focus of attention of the whole world for a period of time, the diplomatic deduction of the General Staff on this time, carried out dozens of times, the final result, all point to the war, and with more and more intelligence and information, this sign is becoming more and more obvious, the outbreak of a big war, there is almost no possibility of any resistance.

Now in the European countries, everyone has a clear attitude, before, in order to confuse Germany, Britain is secretly buying all kinds of military materials, after getting Yang Yuanzhao's point, Germany also began to act secretly, now, between the two, it seems to be fearless, unscrupulous, began to openly purchase a large number of various materials, resulting in the price of various important materials in the military field skyrocketing, and even the price of freight has risen by more than 30%, all flights are full, on the route, It's all busy freighters.

The shipping market itself is a good investment market, and the freight increased by 30%, which suddenly detonated the market, those who sold the old ships to Yang Yuanzhao, the replacement of the shipowners, almost did not replenish the new ships, not even one-tenth of the replenishment, all the shipyards that can produce 10,000 tons of 5,000 tons, and even 3,000 tons, have been favored by the shipowners, these owners are almost waving banknotes, asking to order ships, the average price of various ships has increased by 20%, some fast, The price of ships that can be delivered in advance has increased by an astonishing 50%.

The popularity of shipping has also made the Northwest gain direct benefits, and some are not suitable for being incorporated into the fleet. The smaller ship was sold directly by the northwest. The rest were organized into four huge fleets. Each of them has a tonnage of about 600,000 tons, and they are responsible for soliciting business on each continent, making a lot of money.

A large number of military supplies were purchased without fear, first Britain and Germany, then France and Russia also joined in, and finally Italy, Austria-Hungary and Turkey and other weaker countries. It's a pity that most of the resources are occupied by the powers in front of them, and even if they have money, they can't buy much.

At this time, the salesman in the northwest almost logically walked in front of them and sold them the materials in the northwest. In addition to the United States, the world's largest supply of these materials is the emerging China. Even in the eyes of Turkey and Austria-Hungary, China's materials and military equipment have withstood the test.

Orders are pouring in. There are not only Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Italy. It also includes Germany's close ties with the Northwest. Let Germany have a better understanding of the situation in China, and when it was found that the northwest still had spare strength to supply Austria-Hungary and Turkey, it directly increased orders, and Germany began to buy materials from China in July, which increased by three times compared with the previous month, and continued to increase according to the situation.

Not only has the quantity of materials increased, but the types are also changing, before, it was limited to some precious metals used in war, but now, it has gradually expanded to all military materials, steel, clothing, logistics supplies, and even some weapons

China's weapons, the excellent results in Turkey, so that Germany also realized the northwest in the military industry of the excellent process, because of the imminent outbreak of the war, Germany, most of the industrial enterprises have turned to wartime production, the amount of weapons production surged, but the shortage of weapons is still very large, light weapons, all kinds of weapons, now gradually developed to large-caliber artillery, a large number of orders, so that every day from the northwest to Basra ships are endless, The formation of the various ocean-going fleets in the northwest is almost extremely busy, and now, the construction of the double line has begun in sections, and it is expected that in four months, the double line can be completed, and when the time comes, the Baghdad railway, which will have more than three times the current traffic capacity, will become an important lifeline through Turkey, Austria-Hungary and Germany.

When the European war was about to break out and may break out more than a year in advance, the Northwest Secret Research Institute once again came with good news, after several years of accumulation, especially the arrival of Feng Ru and a series of aircraft designers, the aircraft in the northwest has achieved a blowout development, from the original Northwest No. 1, it has been replaced with a new type of engine, and the fuselage has been optimized and strengthened in a certain way, and the performance of the aircraft has also been significantly improved.

Aircraft, itself is a kind of flight chess relying on the engine, the engine has a huge impact on the aircraft, the northwest, the engine developed in advance, divided into two systems of air cooling and water cooling, the current focus on the development of water cooling, compared with air cooling, water cooling is easier to solve, and the original engine is more in tune, the performance is more stable, and the replacement and maintenance are more convenient.

The original Northwest No. 1, the engine horsepower is 590 horsepower, such horsepower supports the aircraft to fly at a speed of 250 kilometers, and after technological innovation and breakthroughs, at present, the engine horsepower has broken through 1100 horsepower, which is 2 times faster than the previous Northwest No. 1, the most critical is the overload horsepower, the highest horsepower reached 1420 horsepower This amazing number.

The single-engine has basically achieved the design effect, with the help of adhesives and surface hardeners, ordinary wood processing plants can process the body, and after the special parts are strengthened, the performance of this aircraft will not be much weaker than that of all-metal aircraft, excellent ultra-low altitude performance and speed, which has become his reliance, and the bomb load of about 1.5 tons makes this aircraft have the possibility of large-scale bombing.

The direct effect of this is that the speed of the aircraft exceeded 370 kilometers, and the weight of the entire fuselage was not increased much.

Airplane, in the current cognition of the Northwest Army, bomb load is an important factor, before the choice between the plane and the airship, the small bomb load of the aircraft is a huge problem, 500 kg of bomb load, it takes dozens of planes to have the bombing capacity of the airship, but now, an aircraft has increased by 3 times, then the overall bombing effect will also be greatly increased.

Single-engine Northwest No. 2, for the Northwest No. 1 improvement is very significant, Yang Yuanzhao praised the researchers, and continued to put forward suggestions for improvement, that is, on the basis of the Northwest No. 2, the development of twin-engine aircraft, relative to the performance of a single engine, the total number of twin-engine horsepower, can reach 2200 horsepower, which is for an aircraft, not only the speed has been increased, but the bomb load has also been greatly improved.

However, compared with the single shot, the double hair is a little more difficult, and there is not much clue at present, but it is the Northwest No. 2, which has been sought after by everyone. In addition to the aircraft named Northwest No. 2, aerial bombs have also made breakthroughs, integrated bomb sights, compared with the previous indiscriminate bombing, the minimum accuracy has increased by 10 times, and even some specially trained elite bombardiers can even ensure that they can be thrown into an area of about 200 meters.

Such bomb delivery accuracy, not to prepare for land warfare, the real fixed-point removal of firepower points, or rely on artillery, such aerial bombs, for naval warfare, this is also Yang Yuanzhao thought of the only way to protect China's maritime frontier and Borneo, relying on the roadbed air force, in the case of insufficient anti-aircraft firepower, for the battleship has this huge lethality, 2.5 tons of bomb load, the maximum can carry 500 kg of bombs, different from the 500 kg shells of artillery shells, even if it is 1000 kg of shells, It also has a maximum charge of about 150 kilograms, but aerial bombs can be 80% or 90% explosives, which is definitely much more powerful than ordinary artillery shells.

The Northwest No. 2 was officially finalized, compared with the previous model, both the bomb load, speed, and stability have been greatly improved, and quickly, after recognizing its power, the army began to order 1,500 aircraft.

The appearance of the Northwest No. 1 has enriched the tactics of the army, especially the role of the aircraft that Yang Yuanzhao casually mentioned, and in the later training, it has also been applied to the tactics of the army, and the aircraft is almost the natural enemy of artillery, as long as the artillery position is discovered by the aircraft during the exercise, a group of planes have passed, and almost the artillery is eliminated at a fixed point, and the northwest has also tried to develop antiaircraft machine guns, and equipped them with combat units, but for the aircraft that flies at high speed and drops bombs at high altitude, the effect is not good.

Also because of the excellent role of the aircraft, the Northwest Air Force has developed rapidly, since the last order, the Northwest has also begun a large-scale training of pilots, itself, the aircraft of this era, there is not much difficulty in piloting, after a few proficiency, it is good, because at present, the world's oil is extremely cheap, except after the price of gasoline has risen, other kerosene and diesel, there is no relatively large increase, as one of the strategic resources, the use of oil is slightly smaller.

In the eyes of many countries, in addition to the naval field, some warships use a hybrid of oil and coal, and the rest, which is also used by automobiles, and in wartime, these things will be restricted, so it will not have much impact, and oil and various oilseeds are still open to sale.

The Northwest is the first to attach importance to oil reserves, he is very clear, the impact of oil on a war, but also knows the development of motor vehicles, for the promotion of war potential, China is not an oil-poor country, but the oil reserves are not much, in addition to the northwest has developed the Shaanxi oil field, several other oil fields in the northwest did not try to develop, but as far as possible to import foreign oil, no matter what, these oil is also very cheap. (To be continued......)

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