After taking Hakan and Falkenhausen around the shipyard, Bingwen took the two of them to civilian enterprises such as automobile factories and refrigerator factories. There are no confidentiality requirements for these factories, and it is not difficult for a lieutenant general to bring two friends to visit. Even though they didn't see any secrets, the emerging Chinese manufacturing industry still impressed the two of them. In the end, Falkenhausen also took Hakan to take the newly opened subway with great interest, and the neat and spacious interior facilities made him cry out unexpectedly.

After sending the two back to the consulate, Bingwen drove to the western suburbs villa next to Hongqiao Airport. Recently, the president was in a bad mood, and even he was scolded several times, so he came to Yue Peng's room first.

Yue Peng, who was looking at the book, was taken aback by him, and scolded with a smile: "Someone came to me just now to complain, saying that the fleet commander left tens of thousands of mouths to meet guests privately. ”

Bingwen knew that he was joking, today's itinerary had been filed with the National Security Bureau, if there was a problem, it is estimated that someone would have blocked the door and not allowed him to visit, and he also joked with a smile: "Have you heard that the chief of staff wants to buy our naval guns, aircraft carriers and submarines?" ”

"Is this a good thing?" Yue Peng said: "If Germany can offer a good price, I will sell, and I have spent a lot of money recently, and it is also excellent to get some extra money." Looking at him, it doesn't look like a joke, Bingwen is a little puzzled, didn't he just allocate 9 billion? How to listen to the tone seems to be not enough. He asked, "Chief of Staff, isn't it the money that has just been allocated?" ”

Speaking of Qian Yuepeng, he also has a bitter stomach, 9 billion seems to be a lot, but it is only 1.8 billion per year for five years, and the annual increase in military spending in peacetime is not very much, so it can only be regarded as a transition from a hard life to having white noodles to eat, which is far from being well-off. However, the most important thing is that the Air Force has recently begun to worry again, because the development progress of several heavy bombers and transport planes is faster than expected, although there is no need to buy a lot first, but these big guys cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each, and it will cost a lot of money to purchase some casually.

So he hated to get into the wartime system right away, saying, "It's not the Air Force yet." The president met the other day. Asking the Air Force to increase the number of pilots trained per year to 10,000 from next year, do you know how much it costs? ”

Rao is navy spends hundreds of millions at every turn, and he was also taken aback by this number. Aircraft are easy to build, and pilot training is not cheap, especially domestic agricultural aviation and aviation clubs have just started, which is 108,000 miles worse than Europe and the United States, and in order to ensure the number of pilots and flight ability, the only way to use the troop training system is to use. A minimum of 200 flight hours per year must be ensured, so that the troops must be equipped with sufficient aircraft.

In the case of the HNA Airlines, the number of aircraft on the six aircraft carriers is almost 600, and the number of training aircraft and shore backup aircraft will be doubled. Now that four more aircraft carriers are being built, how can you count the Navy alone with two thousand people. Plus coastal patrol aircraft, seaplanes, transport planes and so on, which are under the management of HNA. The total number of pilots in Hainan Airlines has remained at 4,000. Due to the large size of the country, the Air Force needs more personnel and aircraft, and it has already made more than 11,000 sorties, one-third of which are training aircraft in order to ensure the training of the team.

At this scale, if the number of pilots trained each year is increased to 10,000, at least a few thousand more trainer planes and other aircraft must be procured, otherwise it will be difficult to meet the sufficient number of flights. The number of flights is the key to evaluating pilots, and veteran pilots who have flown for three years can easily pick up rookies who have been flying for a few months even if they are at the bottom of the army.

After a few months of fumbling in Afghanistan. These generals of the Republic of China can appreciate the importance of the aviation era more than other countries, so the big aviation theory has a huge market in the national defense force, which is also Yue Peng's biggest headache, scratching his eyebrows and saying: "What the president means is that we must do a good job in the plan of training 200,000 pilots in ten years!" Hey, you said let me go there and get so many planes. Forget it, let's not talk about the broken things, you came to me to ask how to deal with relations with Germany, right? ”

The relationship between the two is well known, so Bingwen did not hide it. "Germany is geographically narrow. Lack of resources, it is indeed not a good partner for alliances. But I think we can still cooperate with them on the Soviet issue. ”

Yue Peng's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he shook his head and stood up: "Bingwen, this matter is not so simple!" Do you think the president did not consider an alliance with Germany? Didn't think of joining forces with Germany to fight the USSR first? I might as well tell you that there are no less than 100 drafts of the battle plan and deduction after the alliance with Germany, all of which have been simulated in actual combat exercises, and many confrontation and deduction competitions have been organized. Bingwen was taken aback, although he knew that the navy had deduced the naval combat situation after forming an alliance with Germany many times, and had simulated the situation of confronting the United States, Britain, France and the Japanese combined fleet in an extreme situation more than once, but he did not expect that Yang Qiu and the General Staff would do it quietly hundreds of times, and also come up with a detailed combat plan. This made him even more curious, if he was so important, why was he still so far away?

"The national thing is not to play games." Yue Peng picked up the red wine from the bookshelf, poured two glasses and handed it to him, and continued: "Who to form an alliance with, whether to form an alliance or not, depends on the local situation at that time, and you need to analyze the gains and losses and how much it costs. And you have to remember that alliances are no different from gambling, and we are no longer insignificant countries, but rather have built up an image of talking the talk during the Saudi crisis. This is even more difficult to operate, once the alliance is formed, it is a matter of buying and leaving! Changing the fortune halfway will only hurt yourself, because the next war will definitely be a world war! No matter which side it is, it will not stop until the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

The current situation is very complicated, and I also tested Hitler's tone when I visited Germany last year, but in his eyes, he still regarded Poland and France as the number one enemy, which means that if war broke out, he would definitely attack these two countries first. We must have hoped to strike at the Soviet Union first and leave France alone, because to move France would be to form an irresolvable mortal enmity with Britain. Once Britain is implicated, it is impossible for the United States not to take action, and although Britain and the United States have contradictions, the ultimate strategy of the two is the same, that is, there cannot be a big power that dominates the intercontinental continent.

We are tied to the Soviet Union and to Japan

, there are also contradictions with the United Kingdom, and there is gradually cold with the United States. The Soviet-German contradictions were also dead knots because of Hitler's coming to power, Germany and France were dead knots, and the Anglo-Soviet contradictions were also increasing. Once Japan goes south, the contradictions between Japan and Britain and Japan and France will become a dead end! Among these great contradictions, there are also the dispute between the Soviet Union and Turkey, the dispute between Italy and France, the dispute over the passage of the Persian Gulf, the struggle for dominance in the Atlantic, the struggle for sea power in the Pacific, and so on. Finally, there is the United States, which relies on geographical advantages to hide in North America, and it is best for us to fight until we have no strength to reap the benefits of fishermen.

Any move of these chess pieces can change the situation. Approaching Germany will inevitably fight Japan and the Soviet Union. However, for Germany, France cannot fight the Soviet Union without solving the problem, but if it fights France, it will be an all-out war with Britain, and the Soviet Union will become the savior of Britain. In order to keep the Soviet Union from consuming Germany, Britain would instigate the United States to fight us, and the United States would desperately support Japan even if it did not make a move, and even if they finally lost the Japanese mainland, as long as they borrowed us to fight Japan, they would be stationed in the Aleutian Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Midway, Australia, Rabaul, the Dutch East Indies, and even Singapore. It will be able to merge the British forces in the Persian Gulf and India, and even open India and the Persian Gulf to the Soviet army, go to the southeast peninsula to flank us, and achieve the goal of strangling us to death in the South Seas. Unless we start a war with the United States in advance, after cleaning up Japan, we will have to face the joint efforts of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands. Finally, there is a protracted war of attrition. The price we have to pay to break through the islands, which are garrisoned by the United States financially and materially, and to hold the 4,000-kilometer-long western front from Siberia in the north to the southeastern peninsula, is considerable.

On the contrary, if Britain is elected, the current situation is not clear, mainly because we don't know whether Britain will use our hands to clean up the Soviet Union, for Britain without the Soviet Union, it may face the threat of Germany, the former we can rest assured that we can make bold moves, and even use the Persian Gulf to directly attack the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, if the latter Britain will not let us enter and exit the Persian Gulf freely in wartime. If you just hit Central Asia and Siberia, the consumption will be too great, and you will return to the road just now.

There is also an important factor, the attitude of the United States! Geographically, even if the United States enters the war, it will not damage its homeland, and if there is no war on the homeland, it will not really damage its national strength, but the more fiercely we fight, the more benefits they will have. But we are all fighting at home, and we do not rule out the possibility of destruction of the homeland. Don't look at Bei Zuyi, the economic data on their side is very good. That's because the United States is napping. If we lose too much. After the war, the right to speak will be much weaker, and it will lack the confidence to compete with the United States or even fight a new war.

You know the temper of the president. When he is unsure, he will never press his chips indiscriminately, and has always used the minimum investment to obtain the maximum profit as much as possible, and he must ensure a high probability of victory before making a move. This kind of temper is uncomfortable for us soldiers, who are strategically confused and stumbling, and cannot fight happily. But lucky for the country and the people! So he is still weighing, no matter how to fight this battle, first of all, we must ensure that the strategic situation is clear before joining, otherwise we must not be able to devote all our strength to fight this battle! ”

"So what do we do now? We can't always be strategically unclear. ”

"Don't worry, you're much more anxious than we are." Yue Peng smiled and took out a document from the drawer: "We just need to do our own thing." Look at it, in the morning the president has already approved the construction of four battleships. The specific data is all in it, you can see for yourself. ”

Passed?! Bingwen's face was ecstatic, and he hurriedly grabbed the document and looked at it carefully. It is 281 meters long, 38 meters wide, 11 meters draft, four axles, the design maximum speed is 29 knots, the bulbous bow, the Atlantic bow and the square stern design standard displacement is 59,880 tons, the maximum is 72,600 tons, the endurance is 15 knots/15,000 nautical miles, and the average trouble-free interval of the main engine is 25 knots/110 hours. It will use 4 triple 406 mm/L52 naval guns, box inclined armor layout, 410 mm main load, 470 mm in the turret front and conning tower, and at least 152 mm on the armored deck, and will also enhance protection in important areas.

A series of astonishing statistics made him both excited and puzzled, because this plan had been rejected before, so the navy retreated to come up with a standard 45,000 tons of 9 406 mm naval guns, why did it suddenly change course?

"I fought for the president." Yue Peng walked to the window, smiling indifferently, without the excitement of winning four world-class battleships for the navy, his tone was calm but as penetrating as a golden stone: "I don't understand the navy, but I know the people's hearts!" After the First Sino-Japanese War, everyone in the whole country did not want to rebuild their navy and completely defeat Japan. However, after Xinhai, the national strength was weak, and the navy had to follow behind Japan. After these years, he finally caught up, but in order to avoid a conflict with the United States too early, in order to obtain the means of production from foreigners, he endured and endured again and again, and deliberately used Japan as a buffer in the middle, making himself like a pack of wolves.

Is it that Yue Peng can't beat Japan or is he afraid of Stalin?

Now that all countries have begun an arms race, it is a foregone conclusion that Japan's Yamato will start construction next spring, and Stalin is also strengthening its armaments. We are not afraid of these, but what about the people? We know that airplanes have the ability to defeat battleships, but ordinary people will not say that airplanes can deal with battleships, they will only worry that they are not as good as others.

In some respects, the significance of weapons has actually transcended itself, and I don't want to be spit on the Japanese warships after the capture of the Yamato in the future. Since this is the last battleship of the first class in our country, waste it. Even if it doesn't work, as long as it can boost the morale of the people, let tens of thousands of compatriots see and touch it, and let them never worry about being targeted by other people's naval guns, this is enough! ”

Yue Peng turned around and smiled brightly: "Arms race, if you don't fight to the death, you and I can count it as a competition?" Anyway, the first one who can't hold on is definitely not us! ”。