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Although the Soviet Union spent a huge amount of unjust money, they imported a large amount of industrial equipment from the Chinese Empire, which was very important for the economic recovery and national defense construction of the Soviet Union, and laid the foundation for the development and growth of the Soviet Union after the Japanese Dynasty. www.biquge.info The Chinese Empire provided a huge loan of 20 dragon coins to the Soviet Union, which also played a key role in the rapid rise of the Soviet Union's National Socialist Economy.

Of course, the Chinese Empire did not deeply understand the tremendous energy of the Soviet Union's national socialist economic model, and although the Soviet Union extorted a huge amount of money from the Soviets in a desperate situation, it did not expect that the Soviet Union would take advantage of this opportunity to quickly establish a national industrial system, and quickly recover its economy in the near future, and it would develop at a high speed all the way, and even once had a huge economic threat to the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire did not anticipate the future, but in terms of immediate benefits, Sino-Soviet trade made the Chinese Empire a lot of money. In particular, the Soviet industry was completely destroyed, and the various commodities of the Chinese Empire were able to enter the Soviet Union in a steady stream and quickly occupy the Soviet market.

In the first quarter of the establishment of trade between China and the Soviet Union, the Chinese Empire exported more than 8 million tons of various commodities and goods to the Soviet Union, with a trade volume of up to 1 billion dragon coins.

The first quarter was the highest in Sino-Soviet trade. Because the Soviet Union urgently needed these equipment and goods to restore the Soviet economy and maintain stability in social life. After that, it began to fall every month, because the Soviets had little money to spend on other than to buy the necessary supplies. Although the Soviets did not have much money, the merchants of the Chinese Empire were able to pull the last penny out of their pockets.

The trade between the Chinese Empire and the Soviet Union was the envy and jealousy of the European countries. Soon, there was no solidarity among the European countries. Sensing the fragmentation of the Allied bloc, Germany resisted the threat of the Entente. Germany decided not to make the mistake of fighting on two fronts during the World War, and took advantage of the fact that Tsarist Russia was replaced by the Soviet Union, and Germany hoped to repair relations with the Soviet Union. In this way, once a major war breaks out again. Germany did not have to fight on two fronts. Only by concentrating on the Western Front did France and Britain have a chance of winning.

As early as the time of Tsarist Russia, Germany supported Lenin's Bolshevik Party in order to overthrow Tsarist Russia, which provided Lenin with great help, so there was a period of friendship between Germany and the Soviet Union.

Germany wanted to establish friendly relations with the Soviet Union, so that it could be guaranteed that Germany would not be betrayed by the enemy. At the same time, the German economy urgently needed to recover, and trade with the Soviet Union was very important to Germany, so Germany sent a deputy prime minister to visit Moscow secretly to meet with Lenin to discuss Soviet-German trade cooperation.

The trade agreement between the Soviet Union and the Chinese Empire was a deeply unequal treaty. For this, the USSR paid a huge price, because the USSR had no choice but to accept. The Soviet Union was very happy to have reached out to Germany, and Lenin attached great importance to the development of trade relations with Germany, because he knew that Germany was technologically advanced, and at the same time Germany urgently needed to restore its economy, and the Soviet Union and Germany had a common language. At the same time, the Soviet Union did not want to be controlled by the Chinese Empire, so the development of multilateral trade was the way out for the Soviet Union.

In addition to maintaining political peace with the Soviet Union and countering the threat of the Allies, Germany's economy was in dire need of recovery. The Soviet Union was a huge potential market. The huge trade volume between China and the Soviet Union made Germany salivate, and if this money could be given to Germany, it would greatly promote the speed of Germany's economic recovery. Germany, on the other hand, believed that their technological reserves were not much worse than those of the Chinese Empire, and that they could trade with the Soviet Union at a more favorable price than the Chinese Empire to rob the Chinese Empire's trade volume.

The Soviet Union and Germany had each other's needs, and they hit it off, and soon signed a bilateral trade agreement. Compared with the Sino-Soviet trade agreement, the Soviet-German trade agreement was very fair, Germany exported technology and industrial equipment to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union tightened its belt to save money to Germany, and the bilateral trade volume expanded to 40 million dragon dollars in less than four months after its establishment, while the Sino-Soviet trade volume fell to less than 50 million dragon dollars.

Germany came out to rob the Chinese Empire of trade with the Soviet Union, which made the Chinese Empire very dissatisfied. Soon, the Chinese Empire intervened, imposing economic sanctions on German companies and enterprises on the pretext that Germany had provided the Soviet Union with high-tech that the Chinese Empire had restricted exports.

Germany was untouched by the World War, so its economy recovered quickly with the support of some loans from the Chinese Empire. However, compared with the Soviet-German trade, the Chinese Empire has always been Germany's largest trading country, and Germany has to import technology and equipment necessary for many fields from the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire holds Germany's national debt of up to 80 billion marks.

But no matter how German officials explained, the Chinese Empire's share of trade with the Soviet Union was affected, and profits involving tens of millions of dragon coins naturally did not rest on its laurels.

In order to make up for the losses of the Chinese Empire in trade with the Soviet Union, Germany transferred an additional 70 percent of the total Soviet-German trade volume to the Chinese Empire to purchase goods on the basis of the normal Sino-German trade volume every year after that.

It was only after receiving assurances from Germany that the Chinese Empire lifted economic sanctions against Germany, but the Chinese Empire would send commissioners to supervise German exports to the Soviet Union, to which the German Zhengfu agreed.

In this way, the Soviet-German trade agreement was tacitly approved by the Chinese Empire.

However, the rest of Europe soon discovered the Soviet Union's big pie as well. Boland, Finland, Sweden and other countries close to the Soviet Union also had a certain industrial base, which was profitable for exports to the Soviet Union. Since Germany had already established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and resumed trade, these countries were naturally not happy to quarrel with their neighbors, so they quickly established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and resumed trade and commerce. The volume of trade between these small countries and the Soviet Union was not significant. It did not pose a threat to the commodity competitiveness of the Chinese Empire, so the Chinese Empire turned a blind eye.

However, for the European Entente, the resumption of cooperation between Germany and the Soviet Union was very worrying for Britain, France and Italy. During the World War, although Tsarist Russia did not achieve a decent campaign against Germany. However, it contained five million troops of the Central Powers and relieved the huge military pressure on Britain and France on the Western Front. It can be said that there is no merit and hard work. The fall of Tsarist Russia once caused the Entente to be almost defeated by the Allies, who knew the importance of Tsarist Russia's containment of the Allies. Now that Tsarist Russia was gone, the Allies had lost an important ally that could contain Germany on the Eastern Front. This already put the Entente at a disadvantage. Originally, the Entente took the lead in forming an international alliance against Soviet production in Europe. One of the aims was to make Germany and the Soviet Union hostile, so that the Soviet Union would continue to play the role of Tsarist Russia. But now the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Germany and the signing of trade agreements have sounded the bell for the Entente.

For this reason, the Entente on the one hand trumpeted in Europe that Germany had been reddened by the Soviet Union and would become the enemy of the European capitalist world, and called on European countries to isolate Germany. At the same time, the Entente countries were about to take Germany to the League of Nations tribunal, because the League of Nations had an important consensus that it was a collective production international. The Entente accused Germany of colluding with the Soviet Union and violating the agreement of the League of Nations, and demanded that the League of Nations impose sanctions on Germany.

However, to the sorrow of the Entente powers, Germany, as a permanent member of the Security Council, vetoed the proposal of Britain, France and Italy. At the same time, in order to protect itself, Germany dragged the Chinese Empire into the water. The reason is that the Chinese Empire also established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and also signed a trade agreement.

Therefore, the Chinese Empire had to help Germany explain and appease Britain, France and Italy. He said that the establishment of trade relations with the Soviet Union was only for humanitarianism, because the Chinese Empire could not bear to see the Soviet Union starving all over the wilderness, purely to help the Soviet people, and had nothing to do with the Soviet Zhengfu. At the Congress of the League of Nations, the Chinese Empire reaffirmed its adherence to the attitude of the International and dispelled the concerns of all member states.

The intervention of the Chinese Empire rescued Germany, so that the League of Nations did not pass a proposal to sanction Germany. At this time, Italy also compromised, because the world war did not bring benefits to Italy, Britain and France did not fulfill their promises, so Italy and the Entente camp separated, at this time Italy found that Germany's economic recovery was faster than that of Britain and France, so Italy, the wallhead, decided to show goodwill to Germany, and finally came forward with the Chinese Empire to relieve the siege of Germany.

Britain and France, seeing that the League of Nations did not bring down Germany, planned to unilaterally impose economic sanctions and political isolation on Germany. However, the domestic economic recession of Britain and France is still too early to recover, and the economic sanctions against Germany do not work, because Germany's largest trading country is the Chinese Empire, and trade with Britain and France has always been in the single digits because of hostile relations. The economic sanctions were ineffective, and the political isolation of Germany did not cause any trouble, because Germany had a close relationship with the Chinese Empire, and the Soviet Union also tried to help Germany, and the European countries did not want to offend Germany, for fear that they would be attacked again in a future war.

On the military level, Britain and France had planned an armed invasion of Germany, as France had always been haunted by the German-occupied Alsace and Lorraine, hoping to retake them one day. However, both Britain and France were worried about the outbreak of another major war, and they were unable to do so, and neither the Chinese Empire nor Italy agreed to use force, so they gave up.

In the end, Britain and France had to admit the status quo and have no way to take Germany for the time being. However, Britain and France did not want the Soviet Union and Germany to establish friendly relations, so in order to win over the Soviet Union, Britain and France established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1923 and resumed bilateral trade.

The Soviet Union was quite happy about this, and the intrigue between the European powers and the Chinese Empire in the East was precisely what allowed the Soviet Union to benefit from it. As a result, the Soviet Union had many trade channels, and no longer wanted to be slaughtered by the Chinese Empire, so it could shop around and choose the channel with the highest price ratio to buy the goods it needed.

In this way, from the autumn of 1923, the Chinese Empire clearly felt that the volume of Sino-Soviet trade had fallen sharply and shrunk, and that profits were not as good as before. To this end, the Chinese Empire sent a note to Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries to discuss countermeasures. The five countries all wanted to make money from the Soviet Union, so they quickly reached an agreement, that is, the two sides would set a unified price for the materials exported to the Soviet Union, one standard, according to the current trade volume of the five countries with the Soviet Union, and raise the price to prevent the Soviet Union from getting bigger. Subsequently, the plan drawn up by the five countries was adopted at the Congress of the League of Nations, and all member states unanimously agreed to establish uniform export standards for trade with the Soviet Union and raise prices in order to curb the development of the Soviet Union.

As a result, from September 1923, the trade prices of the member countries of the League of Nations with the Soviet Union increased in an all-round way. Key commodities skyrocketed by 200 percent, countries unified standards, and trade quotas were equalized, so much so that the Soviet Union's plan to make a profit went bankrupt and returned to square one. But. The National Socialist economy of the Soviet Union had recovered somewhat by this time, and key equipment and supplies had been bought. The USSR was working to reduce imports, improve the national industrial system, and developed the first five-year plan of the USSR.

The Soviet Union entered the era of a planned economy. This is similar to the economic development model of the Chinese Empire. However, it was more thorough than the Chinese Empire, because all the funds, manpower, and material resources of the Soviet Union could be concentrated together to do one thing, while the Chinese Empire was subject to various restrictions, and only part of the concentrated human, material and financial resources could not be done to the extent of the Soviet Union.

Therefore, all countries, including the Chinese Empire, underestimated the fighting spirit and capabilities of the Soviet Union, did not have a comprehensive economic blockade of the Soviet Union for the sake of current interests, and it was no longer enough to wait until the Soviet Union developed and then sanction the Soviet Union.

The growth of the Soviet Union is a matter of later story, as far as the present is concerned. The Chinese Empire gained considerable benefits from the use of the Soviet Union, and the gains outweighed the losses as a whole.

The first reward was that in the third month after the establishment of Sino-Soviet trade, part of the weapons and medical equipment exported by the Chinese Empire to the Soviet Union was used to help the national liberation movements of third world countries.

Through the Comintern, the Soviet Union set up groups around the world to incite local armed forces against the colonizers of the European powers. The first to bear the brunt is Turkey, because Turkey has collapsed after the war, coupled with the military invasion of Greece, Britain, France and Armenia, which has led to the loss of large areas of land, including Egypt, Syria, Lebanese, Arab, Iraq, etc. Iraq was assigned to the sphere of influence of the Chinese Empire by Turkey, and the Chinese Empire's garrison in Kuwait was dispatched to suppress the armed uprising in Iraq, but it installed an Iraqi puppet. Obeying the will of the Chinese Empire, it has actually separated from Turkey**, and Turkey has also acquiesced to this.

However, Turkey is not willing to lose Egypt, Syria and other places, because Egypt has the Suez Canal, which can be exchanged for huge revenues for Turkey. However, because Egypt has a Suez Canal, it has also become a focus of fierce competition between the Eastern and Western powers.

Before the world war, the Chinese Empire chose to withdraw from the Suez Canal, cashed out its shares, and directed a brilliant drama of great contradictions between the Allies and the Entente, which became one of the triggers for the outbreak of a major war between the two major military blocs.

After the war, the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao knew that the world would be peaceful for a long time, trade would flourish, and that the Suez Canal would be hugely profitable, so he wanted to regain control of this important economic and strategic route.

Similarly, after the war, the Entente and the Central Powers reached the Treaty of Madrid, in which Britain, France and Germany regained control of the Suez Canal. In view of the fact that Germany could not take care of the Suez Canal during the world war, it involved a considerable amount of German army strength for the sake of a Suez Canal, and the Panama Canal controlled by the Chinese Empire had long been successfully operated, and the Suez Canal was not important to Germany, because German merchant ships no longer needed to go through the Mediterranean Sea controlled by France to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean through the Suez Canal, and it was safer to pass directly through the Panama Canal controlled by the Chinese Empire. Therefore, Germany planned to give up its stake in the Suez Canal and resell it to the Chinese Empire for 13.3 billion Reichsmarks.

Excluding the depreciation of the mark, this money is actually only equivalent to 20 million dragon coins, which is no different from giving it to the Chinese Empire. Of course, this was actually a political deal between the Chinese Empire and Germany, which naturally cheapened the Chinese Empire by selling its stake in the Suez Canal to the Chinese Empire in the event of a significant devaluation of the mark. In return, in addition to ensuring the unimpeded passage of the Baghdad Railway to Germany, the Chinese Empire allowed Germany to use the Panama Canal during the war. The latter was quite important for the German Navy, because it would allow the German Navy to quickly deliver around the world, and during the war, it could quickly enter the Indian Ocean to threaten the British and French colonies there.

Austria-Hungary's stake in the Suez Canal was directly acquired by the Chinese Empire on the sole grounds that Austria-Hungary owed the Chinese Empire a huge debt, to which Austria and Hungary did not object.

Similarly, Turkey's stake in the Suez Canal was also given to the Chinese Empire, which was one of the conditions for the Chinese Empire's commitment not to support the Ottoman Mehmed VI Zhengfu and the recognition of the Kemalist Revolution Zhengfu as the only legitimate Zhengfu for Turkey.

In this way, the Chinese Empire had actually received 50% of the shares, while Britain, France and Italy never gave up their stake in the Suez Canal. This made the Chinese Empire very dissatisfied.

Soon, the opportunity came.

After the World War, Britain and France took advantage of the invasion of Turkey by Greece and Armenia and sent troops to seize Egypt. In order to strengthen their control and enslavement of Egypt, Britain and France declared Egypt under the protection of both countries. Egypt became a protectorate of both countries.

After the Second Greco-Turkish War, Britain and France promised to return Egypt to Turkey. However, the two countries secretly played tricks to maintain Egypt's protectorate status, and the Chinese Empire did not want Turkey to reconcile with Britain and France. Default is selected for this. Turkey reluctantly accepted the Anglo-French terms. This provoked strong opposition from the Egyptian people.

The Egyptian bourgeois party, the Waffle Party, proposed to fight for Egypt's complete ** "by peaceful means", which was supported by the people.

At the same time, the Soviet Union also aimed at Egypt, and in order to achieve the strategic goal of global redness, Lenin instructed the Comintern to lead the Egyptian revolutionary movement and take the opportunity to overthrow the Egyptian regime.

In the winter of 1918, Zaghrul, the leader of the Egyptian bourgeois national movement, and others asked the British colonial authorities for the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt and the complete approval of Egypt.

1919 chun. The British colonial authorities categorically rejected this reasonable demand and arrested the leader of the Waffle Party, triggering a great uprising of the Egyptian people against the British.

In March 1919, starting with the anti-British demonstrations of students in Cairo, the chaos of student strikes, workers' strikes, and merchants' strikes quickly swept the country.

In 1922, ineffective peaceful demonstrations, with the covert support of the Soviet Union, turned into spontaneous armed uprisings, with fierce street fighting taking place in Cairo and other major cities. The peasants, under the command of the pro-Soviet leader Emir, waged a guerrilla war in the countryside, attacking the British. Sabotage of railways.

By the end of 1922, the Emir's uprising had grown to a large scale, with more than 300,000 partisans scattered throughout the country.

In January 1923, the Emir captured Cairo, the Anglo-French forces retreated to the fortress of Port Said, and most of the Suez Canal was occupied by the Egyptian rebels.

On January 15, the British and French forces could no longer support it, and the domestic calls for war in the two countries were overshadowed by waves, and since the disarmament of the Five-Power Pact, the British and French armies were seriously undernumbered, and after fighting for such a long time, the British and French military expenditures were huge, and the finances could not support them.

So Britain and France appealed to the Chinese Empire for help, on the grounds that the Suez Canal also had a stake in the Chinese Empire, and it could not be taken back by the Egyptian rebels! But the Chinese Empire seized the opportunity to demand the acquisition of British and French shares in Egypt. In this regard, Britain and France were quite angry and scolded the Chinese Empire for taking advantage of the fire to rob. However, Italy quickly flattered the Chinese Empire at this time, and took the initiative to transfer Italy's shares to the Chinese Empire for 9 million dragon coins.

The British and French did not agree to the terms of the Chinese Empire, and as a result, the Emir soon led his army to capture Port Said, and 50,000 British and French troops were forced to surrender.

The emir quickly established the Egyptian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the whole world knew that the Soviet Union was the master behind the emir, and relations between Britain and France with the Soviet Union deteriorated rapidly, canceling all trade exchanges.

The Soviet Union vainly attempted to occupy the Suez Canal and instructed the emir to unconditionally recover and restore the Suez Canal. This touched the interests of the Chinese Empire, so the Chinese Empire sent troops to Egypt under the pretext of protecting the Suez Canal.

In February of the 23rd year of Guanghua, more than 20 warships of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Empire arrived near Egypt and shelled Port Said and coastal cities of Egypt along the way. The Cypriot military base of the Chinese Empire dispatched three air wings to attack Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and blew up the presidential palace of the emir.

In March, the 3rd Marine Division of the Imperial Chinese Navy landed on Turkish territory and launched an attack on Egyptian troops from the Sinai Peninsula, and a military operation codenamed "Desert Storm" was launched on a large scale.

In the vast desert, hundreds of warplanes roared across the sky, and hundreds of chariots on the ground formed an attack group, roaring forward, rolling up the sky full of sand and dust, like a sandstorm coming.

Although the Egyptian army defeated the British and French coalition forces, their morale was like a rainbow, but they were facing the armored division of the Chinese Empire armed to the teeth, and the emir was overconfident, thinking that he could defeat the opponent with the tactics of the sea of people and the power of the Red Se Soviet, but he was very wrong, the flesh and blood Egyptian army encountered only one result from the impact of the steel torrent, that is, flesh and blood flying.

The bloody battle of March 5 became the most brutal battle in Egyptian history. The armored forces of the 3rd Marine Division of the Chinese Empire defeated the 170,000 elite troops of the emir, and the armored three musketeers of the Chinese Empire created a terrifying Sinai meat grinder, slaughtering 60,000 Egyptian troops in three hours, terrifying the Egyptian army and crushing the 170,000 army at the touch of a button.

In the face of a one-sided massacre, Amir was helpless, and within three days the Egyptian army ceded six cities in a row and retreated to Cairo, and the Chinese emperor ** then occupied three cities on the Suez Canal and restored the Suez Canal navigation.

Due to the long stretching of the battle line, the Chinese Emperor took a three-day rest, during which the Chinese Emperor successively transferred four marine divisions from the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean to land at Port Said and Port Suez respectively, forming a three-sided attack on Cairo.

On 22 March, two armored divisions and three mechanized infantry divisions of the Chinese Emperor completed their combat deployment and rapidly advanced deep into Egypt. The entire Egyptian desert swept up 180 kilometers of sandstorms from east to west, sweeping vertically across Egypt.

The emir saw the strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese Emperor, and the gap between the British and French forces and the Chinese Emperor was huge. The disparity in strength could not be bridged by the strength of the gods and the tactics of crowds, and the fact that the emir's subordinates were basically peasant guerrilla troops put the newly established Soviet power in a huge existential crisis.

The emir relied on the support of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's weapons and equipment were naturally inferior to those of the Chinese Empire, and many weapons and equipment were actually imported from the Chinese Empire by the Soviet Union. When the Chinese Empire launched the Desert Storm military operation, it naturally put pressure on the Soviet Union, forcing the Soviet Union to no longer dare to support the emir.

Under these circumstances, the emir was rapidly divided internally, and the local bourgeois forces in Egypt, unwilling to be ruled by the Soviet power, quickly moved closer to the Chinese Empire.

A member of the Egyptian royal family, a bourgeois politician and military strategist, Al-Fud, quickly seized the opportunity to carry out a military coup in Cairo, arresting the emir and the leading members of the Soviet zhengfu. The restoration of the Egyptian royal family was supported by many Egyptian patriarchs and nobles, while the peasant army led by the emir had no political foresight and lost their fighting spirit after being defeated by the Chinese emperor, so they had illusions about the restoration of Afude.

Afude immediately established the Kingdom of Egypt and appointed himself King Afude I of Egypt, and at the same time actively sent a negotiating envoy to contact the Chinese emperor.

Originally, the Chinese Emperor ** was ready to take Egypt in one go, but a sudden xing problem made the Chinese Emperor ** extremely embarrassed. The reason is that the M16 tank used by the armored forces of the Chinese Emperor ** has a serious failure, and the high-intensity military operation that lasted for many days in the desert made the M16 tank violent A fatal problem, that is, there is no sand prevention system, and the failure rate of the tank has skyrocketed due to the sand, and more than half of the M16 tanks and Z16 anti-tank tanks have broken down one after another, and the armored division has been forced to stop advancing. Although the W16 wheeled infantry tank can still be used, it lacks the ability to attack fortifications, and the Desert Storm operation command has canceled the offensive order.

When Afud sent people to sue for peace, the Chinese Empire immediately agreed to suspend the attack, and the two sides began peace talks.

The Egyptian side had been frightened by the battle of the previous week, and did not notice the abnormality of the Chinese emperor at all, and was bent on peace talks, so the conditions put forward by the Chinese empire The Egyptian king agreed to all of them.

The two sides reached an agreement in less than three hours of negotiations, Egypt recognized the control and management of the Suez Canal by the Chinese Empire, and allowed the Chinese Emperor to send troops to garrison the canal, and Egypt was not allowed to garrison troops within 100 kilometers around the canal, and the Chinese Emperor was managed by the Chinese Emperor within 10 kilometers. The Chinese Empire's control of the Suez Canal was extended to 99 years, starting in 1924. Egypt compensated the Chinese Empire for its economic losses on the Suez Canal, as well as the Chinese Empire's military expenditures totaling 10 million dragon coins, controlled Egypt's protests and speeches, gave the Chinese Empire one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, and allowed the citizens of the Chinese Empire to open factories in Egypt.

After the negotiations were reached, the Chinese emperor withdrew to the Suez Canal Zone one after another, and stationed in the three fortresses of Port Said, Ismailia and Port Suez.

It wasn't until many years later, when a military strategist of the Chinese Empire published a military paper on Operation Desert Storm that the Egyptian military knew that the Chinese Emperor's ** armored forces at that time had encountered a fatal disaster, and if the Egyptian army could seize the fighter plane and quickly counterattack, the outcome might change, even if it could not win the entire war, but at least save some face