Chapter 102: Good Business Found
This business was a little unfavorable to Li Guang, that is, the heavily armed submarines could not be loaded, and Li Guang needed to go to Germany to pick up the goods in person, and the Germans gave a 30% discount.
After the talks, Li Guang provided the Germans with a delivery location, that is, the desert island dozens of kilometers away from Uruguay.
In this business, the two sides do not talk about whether they trust each other or not, but at least there is no need to hurt each other. For a business that is beneficial to both sides, the Germans will not suspect Li Guang, and Li Guang is not afraid of the Germans playing tricks.
The Pixiu submarine is not a vegetarian either, and Li Guang even has the heart to compare himself with the German submarines. The soldiers on the Pixiu had fought for more than a year, and the Germans had only been in contact with the war for a few months, and Li Guang did not think that his naval resistance army was inferior to the Germans.
The deal was negotiated very quickly, and the next day the Germans replied that the first deal required 300 tons of batteries. And the Germans will also bring rifles and 200 20mm cannons to Li Guang (the purchase of American P40 fighters has already arrived, and Li Guang is extremely dissatisfied with the weak firepower of the P40. I'm going to use these cannons on warplanes).
Li Guangxi said that the rifle was only priced at $16 a piece, which was equivalent to $4,000 a ton (K98 weighed only 3.9 kilograms). Even if it is an old gun, it will be at least fifty oceans when it is shipped to the country. In the first transaction, the Germans delivered 30,000 rifles. It seems that there is a lot of German tattered rifles collected and stockpiled. In the eyes of the Germans, these old rifles were already rubbish, but in the hands of the impoverished Chinese army, they would be a sharp weapon against the invaders.
The battery factory on the island of the statue is once again working at full capacity, although the island has a lot of stock, but the rifle is the cheapest, and the Germans have already said that if the first cooperation is satisfied, the next time the weapons will be supplied not only rifles but also light machine guns.
For the subsequent trade in used weapons, it is necessary to start preparing sufficiently now, after all, the battery plant can only produce 200 tons per month at full capacity. Among them, there are only thirty or forty tons of high-quality products.
For this kind of transaction, Li Guang was slightly dissatisfied that the Germans actually chose ordinary batteries, and did not ask for high-quality products. You must know that high-quality products are huge profits among huge profits. Ordinary batteries are five times more profitable, while premium products are ten times more profitable.
Li Guang is sure that as long as the Germans start using this battery, then sooner or later they will buy the best products. You must know that this kind of battery is used in important parts such as fighters and tanks, and plays no less role than submarines and torpedoes. Sooner or later, the Germans will not be able to resist using more expensive batteries.
After confirming the deal, Li Guang immediately recruited Lippmann from the ship design institute. Explain it like that.
Li Guang took the initiative to modify the battery pack for the Germans, not to learn from Lei Feng. He wanted to take the opportunity to get acquainted with the submarine technology of the Germans.
The Germans moved extremely quickly, and in mid-January, three German submarines sneaked to Uruguay. One of them is a U2 submarine, the other two are U4 submarines.
The U2 (IIB) submarine is a submarine suitable only for offshore operations, with a displacement of just over three hundred tons underwater, and it is not known how it got to the South Pacific. Li Guang estimated that the Germans must have supply ships at sea, otherwise this little thing would not have been able to run so far.
The U4 "IX" submarine is a submarine with an underwater displacement of more than 1,200 tons, which is about the same as the medium-sized submarine that Li Guang is building. (The famous U7 has not yet been born)
The three submarines were loaded with more than 300 tons of cargo, and looking at the appearance of the German submariners, it is estimated that they are not lightly deflated. The bunks and engine compartments of the submarines, and even the torpedo compartments and command compartments were full of guns, and the German sailors suffered a lot for this transport, and after docking, everyone except the two submarines were on guard, and everyone else ran to the island to breathe.
The Germans were not afraid of Li Guang's tricks, because the shipyard had only forty or fifty workers, a small freighter, and they did not carry weapons.
Lippmann was responsible for unloading and loading batteries for the Germans. Loading and unloading so much cargo is not an easy thing for a submarine with only one exit. It takes three or four days for a submarine to load and unload cargo and install batteries, and it takes the Germans and Chinese to work together to achieve this efficiency.
In more than 10 days, the submariners of the Naval Resistance Force made a clear picture of the inside and outside of the German submarines.
In this contact with the German submarine, the person in charge of the technical side was Lippmann, and the person in charge of the military side was the torpedo Chang Quan Yonghai on the original Pixiu No. 1.
This time, the two submarines of the Maritime Resistance Army attacked together, and Quan Yonghai did not attack with the army. He has been designated by Li Guang as the captain of the medium-sized submarine Instigator, and is now training new recruits.
There are 19 arms on submarines, and the requirements are high, and it is not easy to train. Almost every soldier who undergoes three months of intensive training as a recruit is picked once. The main reason is that Li Guang's 36-hour dark silence test is actually quite high.
In the past, it was difficult to complete the manpower of the two submarines, but since the arrival of new recruits, the reserve soldiers of the submarines have gradually become abundant, and now if the number is only counted, it has reached more than 500 people. However, most are still in the process of professional skills training. Quan Yonghai admired Ji Keliang very much, not because he admired Ji Keliang's hearing, that thing was innate, what he admired was that Ji Keliang trained and caught more than a dozen of the best recruits for Pixiu No. 1 in the last training.
Those recruits, even Quan Yonghai is envious, and many of them can be used as veterans almost directly. He Quan Yonghai is also playing this idea now, he is responsible for training, so he naturally wants to find some good seedlings for himself.
Quan Yonghai was sent here this time, not only to get a feel for the technical and tactical level of German submarines, but more importantly, Li Guang gave him a task -- to get a German electric mine.
After Li Guang stole a steam torpedo from the Germans, Director Yu and Chief Engineer of the Torpedo Factory were very excited, and they played a great role in the development and production of torpedoes by the Naval Resistance Army, especially for thermodynamic torpedoes.
However, when Li Guang learned that the German electric mines could reach a speed of 35 knots and a range of 4.5 kilometers using batteries provided by Rameau. Guess that if the Germans use their best batteries, I'm afraid they will be able to reach a range of seven or eight kilometers. This level is much higher than that of the Naval Resistance Army.
The technology of the Germans is definitely not comparable to the Naval Resistance Army, and the Naval Resistance Army is difficult to compare with Germany in any case.
This task belongs to Quan Yonghai, only Quan Yonghai can speak a little simple German, so he can communicate. Quan Yonghai knew what submariners liked the most, and prepared a large amount of fruits and wine for the Germans, and began to eat and drink as soon as they came into contact with each other, so as to get closer to each other.
In the first few days, the Germans did not dare to be presumptuous when they were worried about the British sneak attack, but after two days, seeing that the arrangements of the whole Yonghai were quite in place, and the top of the island was constantly on guard for 24 hours, and they slowly relaxed their minds.
The southern tip of South America is itself a corner of the world, and the sinking of a German Navy warship can attract the attention of tens of thousands of people, so you can imagine how remote it is.
Quan Yonghai knew how to build relationships, and after the five chefs had done their best to make a series of Chinese dishes, the soldiers of the German submarine let down their guard and began to enjoy food, wine, and delicious fruits.
For a while, the German [***] officers and soldiers and Quan Yonghai began to call each other brothers, and the atmosphere began to be harmonious. There are many thieves in the whole Yonghai, and inadvertently asked the Germans about many submarine tactics.
You must know that the training of the Naval Resistance Army is purely the experience that Li Guang gained from watching movies, and then perfected it in actual combat, that is, it is still perfecting the training content and tactics bit by bit. Groping on your own is undoubtedly slow, and in the eyes of insiders, sometimes a sentence is an extremely important tactic. In his dealings with the Germans, Quan Yonghai benefited a lot.
During the repair of the first submarine, Quan Yonghai had a very good relationship with the Germans. In the process of repairing the second submarine, Quan Yonghai obtained a German manual on submarine training and warfare, and when it came to the last submarine, Quan Yonghai used a strong monetary offensive of 20,000 marks to get a torpedo.
And the German submarine captain Captain Bikbi only wrote a sentence in the navigation diary that when testing the new battery power, he test-fired a torpedo, and the effect was excellent.
This incident told Li Guang that the Germans are not all rigid guys, as long as the hoe is swung well, there is no Great Wall that cannot be dug down.
In the ensuing business, the technical department and submarine force of the Maritime Resistance Army carefully observed almost 20 submarines used by Germany for ocean-going operations, and gained a lot.
Quan Yonghai half-jokingly made a proposal to the German submarine captains that if they saw the ships of Boss Li's shipyard, they should be merciful. There is a clear sign on Boss Li's boat - a five-clawed golden dragon.
In the exchange, Quan Yonghai even instilled a Morse code into the German Navy: "Your Majesty, do you remember the summer rain lotus on the shore of Daming Lake?" ”
Oh, wrong. It should be: "Brother, remember the Chinese food in Uruguay?" ”
This is what Li Guang specially explained, and I hope it will be useful. Who knows when the cargo ships of the Maritime Resistance Army will go to the North Atlantic. If he was sunk by a German submarine, then Li Guang would not be a carpenter with a flail and suffer on his own.
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