Chapter 822: They Are All Desperate
After the naval battle of the Diaoyu Islands, the coast of China became more peaceful.
Apart from strengthening the coastal protection of Taiwan and Hainan, the Japanese did not make any further major moves.
The small fleet can't even deal with the submarine forces of the Huaxia, let alone feed the Huaxia surface warships. And the spearhead of the large-scale fleet is still pointed at the Americans.
Through the intelligence of the Skynet Company, the Japanese also detected a series of actions of the Americans, and the haze of the mountain rain was still suspended in the Pacific Ocean.
From the last Battle of Sydney, the Japanese had recognized the vulnerability of the Zero. The Americans, in particular, began to equip their impressed Hellcats, which made them uneasy.
This time, it was not easy to get the Germans to pull the strings, and temporarily quelled the maritime battle with Huaxia, and established a good relationship with the cottage company, and the Japanese also began to purchase on a large scale.
But the copycat company rejected the request of the Japanese to buy Hellcat in the name of the contract, and even the request of the Germans for mass purchase was rejected, let alone the Japanese.
However, copycat companies that claim to be able to provide tailor-made services for their customers, like the Japanese, have recommended a large number of ultra-zero fighters.
Although the Japanese were once again annoyed by the leak of the Super Zero fighters, their full production line was no longer enough to provide them with more fighters.
The ultra-zero fighter is a strengthened version of the Zero with a modified small Rising engine, due to the improvement of the Rising engine at any cost, so that after the armor is attached, the performance is still slightly stronger than the Zero, but the protection is stronger. But it is precisely because of the difficulties of modifying the engine that not only the cost has skyrocketed, but also the production is difficult. So until now, the Japanese army, which has always been stingy, has not been equipped with many ultra-zero fighters, and even among these elites of HNA, there are no more than a quarter of the ultra-zero fighters.
In the eyes of the Japanese, who emphasize sacrifice more, the ultra-zero is just a benefit to protect those elites, and the cost of adding performance is not as cheap as using human life.
Of course, the Japanese did not spare their lives, but only a last resort due to the lack of production conditions. But now when the copycat company promised to provide 500 super-zero fighters one after another, and the consumption was only part of India's land, the Japanese agreed without hesitation. Even some of the hard currencies were taken out by Japan without hesitation.
Meng Xiang still underestimated the scale of wealth looted by the Japanese. The gold, precious stones, and other riches they looted from India alone would be enough to build a formidable combined fleet.
Historically, the Japanese failed because they had a lot of hard currency for gold and silver but had nowhere to buy weapons.
The British and American allies rarely engaged in these activities, and the Germans were too busy to take care of themselves, and the earth-shattering samurai gold could only be buried in the ground and caves.
Although in this time and space, Meng Xiang is sure that the Japanese will control the treasure land, but who knows if there will be loss halfway, whether there will be American interference, whether there will really be a top-secret treasure mystery, it is difficult to get it. Anyway, at this time, Meng Xiang also needs the Japanese to dance the kitchen knife to buy a little more time for the growth of the Huaxia Navy, and it will not prevent the enemy from doing this transaction.
Even if he loses, in order to gain strategic time, Meng Xiang needs to support the Japanese, not to mention that the Japanese obediently dedicate a lot of real money.
The Japanese had no choice but to be obedient, seeing that the Americans had no intention of wanting peace talks, but were like Xiaoqiang, who could not be killed, and wanted to force them up again, but there were no fighters in the army to carry the tripod.
The performance of the original zero type has been a little worse, the newly developed fighter because of the previous use of the smaller Nakajima NK9K "reputation" 22 star engine, and the performance is difficult to meet the established requirements, at this time the new fighter equipped with the Venus large engine has just been tested, and it is not visible in a short period of time.
The land-based Thunderbolt fighter used to counter the Vanguard began production in October, but the small number and the poor relationship between the navy and the army made it difficult to use it in the navy.
The ultra-zero fighter can also fight against the Hellcat in the early stage that the Americans are using, but the number is a little less, and the 500 proposed by the copycat company at this time is definitely timely rain.
After all, Australia at this time has reached the most critical time.
On the 15th, the news that most of Koga's fleet had been annihilated was diluted by another news that made the Japanese excited.
Canberra fell.
When the reinforcements arrived from the Americans were still fighting to defend Sydney, 120,000 Japanese troops relied on the 97 tanks and 97 modified tanks supported by the sub-base and many artillery pieces that the Japanese were good at breaking through the Allied defense line, stepping on the corpses of more than 60,000 Allied soldiers, and rushing into the city of Canberra on the 12th.
The main Allied forces were forced to retreat, and the more than 30,000 officers and men who were besieged and left behind quickly erected a white flag on the 13th after receiving the guarantee that the Japanese promised not to kill prisoners.
Aware of the stubborn will of the Australian soldiers, the Japanese, in order to smoothly receive more wealth and not reduce the land of wealth in Australia to piles of ruins, recently controlled the aboriginal killing of whites, and trumpeted their preferential treatment of captives.
In the face of life and a glimmer of hope for life, those Allied officers and soldiers chose to be prisoners with luck.
So the capital of Australia was completely delivered to the Japanese.
Canberra, and Sydney, which has lost its connection with the outback, is also in danger. At present, it can only be supported by overseas aid.
The Americans refused to give up this excellent springboard and immediately advanced the support operation.
The Japanese also realized that the time had come to decide the fate of Sydney and the entire Australian continent. Sitting on a continent, the dream era of conquering the Pacific and Indian Oceans with a powerful navy is approaching, and the Japanese will have to fight hard.
In addition to arranging more protective positions on the Indochina Peninsula to block the southward movement of the Chinese army, the center of gravity of the Japanese, who could not resist the mainland plot, was still on the Australian mainland.
The Japanese Navy's focus is even more on intercepting the United States.
Perhaps when they fully occupy the Australian mainland, the Americans will abandon this futile long-distance journey and go to the negotiating table, when the Japanese will have time to deal with the slightly stronger navy of China.
Meng Xiang's temptation to use the humble navy was successful again.
The harvest is that the superficial relationship with the Americans is better. At the end of November, with a large order of 300 million US dollars from China, the annual total economic and trade volume between China and the United States reached a new high. At this time, the number of Chinese students studying in the United States also climbed to an all-time high of 80,000.
In addition to Germany, where 50,000 students remain, most of those students from other parts of Europe, including the United Kingdom, have withdrawn and become the backbone of various industries in China.
But as the war intensified, even Germany, which had already begun to be bombed by Britain and the United States, was no longer safe. The United States became the last place to study abroad.
The cost of 80,000 people exceeded 500 million US dollars, and Meng Xiang spared no effort to scatter the banknotes. Although it is inevitable to be influenced by the American plot, it is also an opportunity for China to go global. And this opportunity to go abroad on a large scale may soon be closed.
When the rising China competes for the interests of Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East, it is inevitable that it will collide with the Americans.
Not only are the Japanese desperate, but Meng Xiang is also desperate, but not militarily, but desperately throwing money to strengthen China's industrial base system.
The huge windfall profits earned by copycat companies and umbrella companies soon changed hands into piles of machines and stacks of drawings, or thick salaries in the hands of hired foreign talents.
At this time, the world knew that the generosity of Huaxia's foreign talents was more generous than that of the Americans.
Although the humanistic environment in China made those Western scholars and experts unaccustomed to it, on the basis of a stable life and higher salaries, many big bulls in Europe gave up the United States, which had become more and more war-like, and came to China to work part-time.
Meng Xiang also did not expect them to become long-term workers, and it would be difficult to retain these talents after the conflict with the Western world in the future. Moreover, most of them are counting on returning to their home countries.
It's a pity that the beacon fire on the European side is burning more and more.
The war in Great Britain has turned Britain, which used to be the gathering place of the world's elites, into hell, and a large number of talents have fled to give Meng Xiang the opportunity to compete with the United States for talents.
And the rest are embroiled in a war that threatens the fate of Europe. Both the British and the Germans were desperate.
London has been reduced to ruins by the repeated tug-of-war between the two sides, and many iconic buildings that once stood at the center of world civilization have become a stage for soldiers on both sides to show the most primitive aspects of humanity.
The sky there has been obscured by the flying instruments of human civilization, obscuring the sighs from heaven, leaving the British everywhere with the ashes of the infernal magma rolling.
In order to grow the flower of hope again in this land that has been corroded by hell, the British had to fight hard.
The crown of honor and ambition was already carried by the interests of the war, and the Germans began to fight desperately. Because the pressure was even greater, after all, the Russians, who were already in a critical state in both Stalingrad and Moscow, began to fight for their lives.