Chapter 684 - Saudi Statehood (16)

Shi Xiaolou and Wu Peifu knocked on the door of Yue Peng's office, and found that there was no movement inside, and they thought that he was not there and was just about to turn back, when they suddenly saw Chen Shaokuan coming to the navy this time in the limelight, using a destroyer to awaken the support of the whole country, plus the 21st fleet contained dozens of British ** ships in the Indian Ocean, which forced the British Royal Navy to be unable to blockade Malacca with all its might. It is said that people from all walks of life in China are very dissatisfied with the fact that the navy is still using the old destroyers built by the United States before the European war, believing that this is a typical irresponsible behavior towards soldiers, saying that a big country should have a big navy, and even the Congressional Finance Committee has been scolded for this. So this time, the government and Congress are ready to allocate funds again to allow the Navy to completely eliminate the old warships.

In this regard, the army also has some small pimples in his heart.

After the war in Europe, national resources began to tilt towards construction, and the military has always tightened its belts to get by. None of the dozens of divisions of the army are fully staffed, and the main work is focused on reforms such as training, non-commissioned officer training, and military mobilization regulations, so Yang Qiu created the Blue Sword Brigade to polish the troops, because he was afraid that the troops would be wasted. But the army eats porridge, but the sea and air are big fish and meat without interruption. Needless to say, the president spends tens of millions of dollars every year on the construction of aviation schools, pilot training and technical reserves, and recently tendered more than a dozen types of aircraft in one go. The Navy is even more unsound, from destroyers to battleships, there are warships under construction on the slipways along the coast at all times. Recently, because the tonnage limit of the treaty has been completed, the construction of logistics warships has begun again, and it is said that another type of warship called a landing ship is also planned.

However, having said that, unlike the army, as long as there are enough grassroots non-commissioned officers, the navy can quickly complete the expansion, and it often takes three or four years for the navy to go from laying the keel to becoming an army with a single ship. And if a navy wants to complete the replacement, it will take at least one or two decades to renew, so these army officers can only pinch their noses and admit it.

So seeing Chen Shaokuan's face beaming with joy, Shi Xiaolou, who has always been outspoken, still couldn't hold back, and said with a smile: "Houfu looks good today, it seems that Xu Xiujun has spent a lot of money, right?" ”

Chen Shaokuan is a typical British-style admiral, who is rigorous and obsessed with the navy. Although we have heard of the resentment of the Army, the Navy has recently gained great momentum, and the whole country has vigorously supported it, and many outstanding college students have chosen to join the Navy. So he was completely unaffected, and deliberately laughed: "Brother Xiaolou won't be red-eyed, right?" In fact, there are only a few small sampans, which cannot be compared with the expansion of your army. ”

"Okay! I see that Houfu, your cheekiness is about to catch up with the city wall, and you are the only one who calls the 10,000-ton warship a small sampan. Wu Peifu glared and said in a high voice.

"Each other, haha." Chen Shaokuan was not ashamed but proud, laughed and accepted the "compliment", and became a hedgehog that made people unable to speak. In this regard, Wu Peifu could only scratch his head and smile bitterly, since Sa Zhen Bing, these navies are all like birds. However, when Shi Xiaolou heard the last sentence, he asked in surprise: "The army wants to be expanded?" Why haven't I heard? ”

"The first few ** were decided when I was in Yunnan. The Soviet Union's military growth was rapid last year, so the president demanded that the 1st and 2nd divisions be converted into armored divisions, and two more infantry divisions would be added. After Chen Shaokuan finished speaking, he continued to ask: "By the way, why don't you go in?" ”

"I knocked on the door, and it seemed like no one."

"Why, I called just now to ask." Chen Shaokuan walked up and knocked hard a few times, and finally a voice came from inside. After opening the door, the three of them saw that Yue Peng was concentrating on things, and he pointed to the sofa without even raising his head: "Sit down first, pour yourself water and drink, I'll be fine in a while." ”

Shi Xiaolou and Yue Peng are comrades-in-arms who fought together, and they were secretly surprised when they saw his eyebrows wrinkled and concentrated, in addition to always ignoring politics, this current pillar of the National Defense Force is about to become another Yang Qiu.

After Yue Peng looked up after reading the document, he found that Shi Xiaolou was actually there, and said in surprise: "Xiaolou? When did you get back? ”

Shi Xiaolou smiled, this guy really didn't care about anything except the military, and said with a smile: "My chief of staff, isn't this what you came back to me?" Yue Peng remembered that he sent a telegram to him back a few days ago, and slapped his forehead: "Look at me, I'm all busy and confused." How's going on in India? Did Chandra make any changes to our negotiations with the British? ”

After taking over the affairs of the Asian liberation movement, Shi Xiaolou has been secretly manipulating this matter in Yunnan, so even Wu Peifu and Chen Shaokuan pricked up their ears, it is a critical moment in the negotiations, and whether Chandra cooperates is extremely crucial.

Shi Xiaolou cleared his throat and said, "It's messy! After Chandra led his troops to attack Dhaka and Calcutta, the force had expanded to more than 10,000, and I had ordered another batch of guns and ammunition to be sent over. The Military Intelligence Agency also left him all the banknotes, cash and weapons seized from the two places, and now the momentum is soaring! The offensive may not be enough, but it is no problem to have the help of the North Korean battalion to protect itself, and it depends on whether it can develop in the past few years. Now radicals in the Congress and young people from all over India have contacted him to join the Indian Independence Council. Nehru was furious about this, saying that he deliberately split the Congress Party and expelled him from the Congress Party a few days ago! ”

"Hehe, this Nehru really dares to do it."

"yes, we didn't expect Nehru to actually fire him. But that's fine, at least Chandra will be more dependent on us. Chen Guofu has sent a national social team to help him reorganize his party, and the Security Bureau has infiltrated it. Shi Xiaolou lit a cigarette and continued: "Nehru hooked up with Britain after removing Chandla, and Britain also hoped to use his hand to eliminate Chandra. Plus the Muslim League and GC International, hehe, it's all a pot of porridge. ”

India is in turmoil that everyone wants to see, because the more chaotic Britain is, the less energy Britain has to manage China. Although Chen Shaokuan was also very happy in his heart, he still sighed: "You say, why does the president still have peace talks in such a good situation?" If you push it, Britain may not be able to make big concessions. "This matter is also something that Shi Xiaolou can't understand, for today's sake, it took so much effort for several years to make peace talks, and it's no wonder that there is no resentment in the army.

Even he was full of resentment: "The Adu Island and Reef are not as big as Natuna, and there is a serious shortage of fresh water, even if we don't want the British, we are ready to give up." Malacca and the Sunda Strait can't be obtained, so what's the use of just being an island? The garrison is also an empty word, if there is another conflict, how can the troops be sent over without a fairway? ”

"That's right, tens of millions of tons of oil every year, it's always not easy to put it under people's noses." Wu Peifu is not good at words, but he has a deep understanding of the importance of oil, especially after more and more equipment that needs gasoline, and he is also worried about being cut off again.

Seeing the three of them muttering and muttering a lot of grievances, Yue Peng was secretly amused, and took out something from under the pile of documents and threw it to the three of them: "Let's take a look at this first." ”

The words "top secret" on the cover made the three of them stunned, and they hurriedly opened it and took a closer look. This is a top-secret report on the results of domestic oilfield exploration, but before Chen Shaokuan could finish reading it, he suddenly opened his mouth wide and jumped up, and said in surprise: "When did this happen?" ”

"In August last year, Huachen Petroleum Company invited Li Siguang and other geology professors to investigate, and found that the blowout was obvious after the first drilling was drilled. According to the calculation of the amount of gas, the reserves will not be much smaller than those in Sumatra! ”

"So big!" Not to mention the navy, a big oil and oil user, even Shi Xiaolou and Wu Peifu jumped up. They didn't expect that the country had quietly discovered a large oil field no smaller than Sumatra! Yue Peng smiled and withdrew the top-secret documents, and his expression gradually became serious: "You guys, you still don't understand this game of chess!" Do you know why Henderson is here? Are people really afraid of us? No! It's because they've found out what they're wrong. During this period, the Security Bureau received information one after another that someone was spying on China's oil smelting, which showed that Britain had basically grasped China's oil production, knew that our current oil field production could not keep up with the country's growth and consumption, and was heavily dependent on external oil.

But they never imagined that we had discovered a big oil field! According to Professor Li Siguang's prediction, if such a large oil field is properly developed, 20 to 30 million tons per year can absolutely be guaranteed. So in three or five years at most, our country will be able to get rid of the hat of lack of oil. The reason why the president did this was only to show weakness and make Britain mistakenly think that it was actually stuck in our necks! ”

The three of them were not ordinary people, and they quickly understood. It turned out that Yang Qiu had already known about the new oil field before the Saudi crisis, and the reason why he continued to launch it was completely deliberately to make the weakness of "oil shortage" known to the whole world, making people mistakenly believe that China needs to rely on overseas oil for further development. Britain didn't understand it at first, so they fought hard, and it wasn't until after the investigation that they knew that they had stuck China's neck, and it was not worth it to risk losing India and Singapore at this time to let Yang Qiu completely revitalize this game of chess!

It's like if you have a knife on the enemy's neck, and the enemy has to look at your face at all times, and you yourself have given up on slashing with other people's axes, which the British shrewdness would never want to do. As long as the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Strait are guaranteed, and the stability of India is guaranteed, the Chinese Navy can be closed in the South China Sea, and it will not be able to escape the palm of the British hand in this life!

This kind of means, this kind of scheming! It made all three of them feel a chill down their backs.

"This is a message that Moscow has just sent back." As if he was ready to let everyone open his mind once, Yue Peng took out another document: "A few days ago, Tukhachevsky proposed at a military conference that he would take action against India and Persia as soon as possible to obtain access to the Indian Ocean to prevent being surrounded by us. ”

"In this way, the clause that someone threatens the oil fields and automatically garrisons troops is actually to guard against the Soviet Union, and so is the addition of 2 divisions." Shi Xiaolou figured it all out. A Saudi crisis first made the world mistakenly believe that China's oil lifeline was pinched in the hands of Britain, made the Soviet Union worry about being completely surrounded, brought Sino-US relations closer and set out billions of funds, and finally increased the contradictions between the old and new worlds again!

Oh my God!

Can we pinching the current complex international relations so accurately and laying out so many bends and curves in the midst of the crisis, can people still come up with this? The Soviet Union is now making every effort to build the country, but when its strength recovers to a certain level, it will inevitably have to hold high the banner of GC** to seek a breakthrough, and when the million Soviet troops go south, who else can fight with the Soviet Union except China, which has Andijan and can radiate the whole of Afghanistan?

At that time, Britain will probably cry and shout to beg the Wehrmacht to help! In this way, it can legitimately march into the Persian Gulf, and the ultimate goal is to completely solve the century-old border trouble! Swallow the permafrost of the USSR east of the Yenisei River! Divide Central Asia! Open up the Persian passage, maybe imagine the Suez Canal, or even dominate Asia?

"Two years at the earliest, five years at the latest, there will be a war in Persia! So, it's time for us to get ready. Yue Peng smiled, raised his head and looked at the towering mountains like Wolongs outside the window, and said softly: "The president's heart, who can understand it?" His dream is probably to make this Wolong return to the clouds. ”

Although the voice was soft, it made the shoulders of the three people present tremble! But just as he was about to speak, there was a sudden knock at the door.

Zhang Xiaozhun rushed in with a flushed face, and clenched his fists hoarsely and excitedly: "Zi'an, good news!" 2 destroyers of the Japanese Navy entered the port of Timor-Leste, saying that a soldier had disappeared while on vacation there, and had telegraphed Portugal to demand the surrender of the murderer! ”。 (To be continued.)