Chapter 44: Selling Weapons
Blich raised some eyebrows slightly, the German troops that landed in Britain had already occupied half of the British ports, he didn't know what Zhao Zhi meant when he talked about the British coastline radar at this time, didn't he know that the battle between Britain and Germany had spread to British territory at this time?
"Mr. Blicht, don't underestimate the radars of the British, and I have just received news that the British have reached some kind of agreement with the Soviets with their new radar technology, to a certain extent, the Soviets will send troops to contain the troops of the German army on the northern front, and when you are tired of fighting at both ends, the Soviets' new rocket artillery weapons will arrive in the British mainland, which is why British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will issue a summoning order to call those overseas troops to return home and desperately resist your attack, because they need time, The Soviets also needed time to prepare for an attack on the German-occupied zone of Poland"
Zhao Zhi's words made Blich, who had always been calm, stiffen his face, and Andrisi was choked on coffee and coughed repeatedly, the German side always knew that the British were asking for help everywhere, and for this, Germany also paid a certain price to the United States and the Soviet Union. But the most uncertain thing in the world is the word interest, if this information Zhao Zhi said is true, Germany expects that the plan to destroy Britain within half a year will be greatly delayed, and there is a possibility that it will be in vain, and the dirty and nasty Soviets are not so easy to defeat.
"Mr. Zhao, is what you just said true? We don't have many troops on the northern front now, only some second-line troops and the French army that has been reorganized after surrendering, and once the Soviets come over, those French troops may turn against each other," Andrisi's eyes widened, and he really couldn't imagine what would happen to the French army after uniting with the Soviets. However, he could not help but think so, after all, those French troops attached to Germany were units that had just been reorganized, and many of them had great resentment and hatred towards Germany.
"My two mercenary squads are now lurking in the territory of the Soviet Union, this news is that they have just come back, the British envoy is now in the Kremlin to discuss with Stalin about sending troops, in order to repel your landing force to recapture Buckingham Palace, which has been occupied by SS commandos for a year, I think the British are willing to pay half of Britain" Zhao Zhi's words made Andrisi blush, for a whole year, the German army, which occupied the advantage of the English Channel and multiple landing grounds, only sent 200,000 German troops into the British mainland, More of the German elite units were placed by the High Command in France to consolidate the rear line.
"Mr. Zhao, thank you for telling us such important information, the Führer will be grateful to you" Bliclich's face softened a little, the Soviets in the Far East have always been Hitler's henchmen, if it weren't for Zhao Zhi's persuasion in the early stage, maybe Hitler would have waved his army north to fight with the Soviets. The main purpose of Blicht's visit to China to find Zhao Zhi was for the revival plan mentioned by Zhao Zhi and Hitler, who was anxious to destroy Britain, hoped that Zhao Zhi's revival plan could effectively contain the Soviet Union for a period of time and buy time for the German army's upcoming large-scale offensive.
"Mr. Zhao, this is a handwritten letter from the Führer to you" Blich took out Hitler's handwritten letter to Zhao Zhi, "The Führer has been in good health recently, and he also asked me to bring you a Luger pistol, this Luger is the Führer's favorite pistol, the Führer hopes that when the time is right, Mr. Zhao, you can go to Berlin again as a guest, the Führer is very much looking forward to your visit"
"Then I will thank the Führer for the gift" Zhao Zhi put aside the box containing the Luger pistol, and opened the letter written by Hitler to himself in front of Andrisi and Blicht. The whole article in the letter is full of nonsense, and there is no substantive topic at all. Either invited Zhao Zhi to take Rowling to Berlin as a guest, or after the German army occupied LinkedIn, they would leave a room for Zhao Zhi at Buckingham Palace for a vacation or something, and there was nothing about planes and heavy weapons.
"The Führer is really hospitable" Zhao Zhi smiled and put the letter away, as for Andrisi and Blicht did not know the content of the letter at all, they could only judge the intention in the Führer's letter from Zhao Zhi's facial expressions. "Since the two of you are here, come with me to Kunming for a trip, and I'll show you some good things" Zhao Zhi showed Andrisi and Blicy the rocket artillery vehicles made by the weapons laboratory, and the rocket artillery vehicles that arrived at the Kunming base in advance could not be taken out for others to show without Zhao Zhi's order.
Zhao Zhi's real purpose in showing them the rocket artillery vehicle was not to alert Hitler to this new weapon of the Soviets, he wanted to sell this powerful weapon to Hitler, and the Germans had been working on this long-range weapon, but Zhao Zhi's products were launched faster. Zhao Zhi needed the Germans to contain the Soviets from moving south, but as a potential arms dealer, he would not provide these weapons for the Germans in vain, and he would use these new weapons to exchange for what he needed from the Germans, such as Tiger tanks and submarines.
Hitler did not expect to be able to immediately let Zhao Zhi visit Berlin with two of his envoys and a letter, he was only expressing his importance to Zhao Zhi in this way. Zhao Zhi's calm and meticulous mind and grasp of the war situation are all important to Hitler, and it is precisely because of Zhao Zhi's plan that Germany will so easily take the whole of France, and then land in Britain, Hitler even often thinks about how good it would be if Zhao Zhi was a German.
After a short rest in Wan Town, Zhao Zhi took Andrisi and Brich to Kunming with the mercenary team that escorted him, and went to Kunming first, where the Jewish refugees and legions were already safe when they entered China, and there were mercenary teams arranged by Zhao Zhi to pick them up along the way, and Zhao Zhi had more important things to do. The convoy went straight to the Thunder Steelworks in Kunming, saying that it was a steelmaking plant, but in fact, Molun occupied a large area 100 kilometers away from Kunming, including two rivers and several hills, and hundreds of warehouses were full of various materials that Zhao Zhi had looted from Myanmar.
The base built around the steel mill was full of busy Jews, Zhao Zhi's arrival made the Jews in the base extremely happy, these Jews who were forced to leave Europe by Germany left their homeland and came to this strange place, it was Zhao Zhi who gave them a place to live, food and dignity as a human being, plus the employment contract between Zhao Zhi and the high priest, so in their minds, Zhao Zhi was like a protector god.
Three 8-barrel rocket launchers were parked in the open space, this was the most powerful weapon in Zhao Zhi's hand, and it was also what Zhao Zhi was about to demonstrate for Andrisi and Blicht. Touching the cold barrel of the rocket artillery vehicle, Zhao Zhi smiled, "This is the newly manufactured 8-barreled rocket artillery vehicle in my weapons laboratory, we call it Vulcan, they are obviously different from the rocket artillery of the Soviets, my Vulcan moves faster than their rocket artillery, has more powerful firepower, and has a longer range, a Vulcan car can cover all targets within a radius of 100 meters within a distance of 3500 meters, and after the armor-piercing projectile is installed, the Vulcan can penetrate 30 mm steel plates."
Zhao Zhi handed Andrisi and Boley the hope telescope, signaling them to look at the place where the flag was planted in the distance, and more than a dozen British Sherman tanks appeared in the telescope, and these abandoned tanks that were about to be returned were used by Zhao Zhi as targets. The commander of the Vulcan calculated the distance and instructed his soldiers to start loading armor-piercing shells into the barrels, the Sherman tanks were more than 3,000 meters away from here, and Andrisi and Blich, who were paying attention to the movements of the commander of the gun truck, did not think that these rocket launchers could really destroy those tanks at such a distance.
After the rocket was loaded, after Zhao Zhi nodded, the arm raised by the commander of the artillery truck fell heavily, and "open the cannon" With the order shouted by the commander, the operator pressed the rocket artillery firing button, and the rocket that was triggered by the current flew out instantly, and the white tail smoke formed a beautiful picture in mid-air. The distance of 3,000 meters is not close to a person, but for the fast-flying rockets, the Sherman tank in the "boom" "boom" telescope is shrouded in smoke and fire, and Andrisi and Blich, who are holding the telescope, have their mouths wide open, and their eyes are full of disbelief.
The launch of an 8-barrel rocket launcher was only a matter of moments, and after the smoke cleared in the distance, Zhao Zhi invited Andrisi and Blich to join him to see the Sherman tanks that had been bombarded. The Sherman tanks, which seem to be beasts, no longer have their former hideousness, after being ravaged by rocket artillery, they have become a pile of smoking scrap metal, huge craters are all over the target circle, and the German heavy artillery also has such power, but the movement speed of the heavy artillery is not as fast as the rocket artillery vehicle, and the power of a rocket artillery vehicle is comparable to the effect of a salvo of several heavy guns.
"This is only the power of the 8-tube Vulcan, my weapons laboratory is working on 12-tube and 24-tube Vulcan vehicles, once the more powerful Vulcan vehicles are equipped with my troops, the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles will lose their role. If I had a rocket artillery unit on my hands, the Soviets' tank formations would be vulnerable under their salvo fire" Seeing the shock of Andrisi and Blicht, Zhao Zhi lost no time in continuing to tout his rocket artillery vehicles, believing that the Germans would be interested in Vulcan if they really wanted to defeat the Soviets.
Is the bait, no, Zhao Zhi never admitted that it was a bait thrown at the Germans, he was just showing his German friends the power of the rocket artillery vehicle, and did not sell them this new weapon, as for whether the Germans would purchase this weapon for their own troops, that is the Germans' own business, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Zhi.