320 Middle East Road III
With a faint smile on his face, Luo Yaoguo quietly listened to the seemingly harsh conditions offered by the other party. BMW's wishful thinking probably took the money of the Chinese to develop their engines and then sell them to the Chinese Air Force, right? What a trick of an empty glove white wolf! In exchange, it's just "technology sharing" and involving Chinese engineers in R&D...... Hehe, I'm afraid that China's current aircraft engine engineers are still in college and have not graduated, right?
It's just that at the moment China has no choice, and the future Chinese Air Force really needs BMW's star engines. Luo Yaoguo still understands the difference between the surname of the star engine and the in-line engine in World War II, and basically the star engine has the advantages of high horsepower and good battlefield survivability. The disadvantages are that the high-altitude surname is not good, and the nose is too large to block the line of sight. However, China's main opponent in the future should not develop any high-altitude bombers such as the B-29, right? So the surname of Gaokong is not very important. Historically, the Zero, F4, F6 and P47 active in the Pacific theater all used star engines. And the Americans' B-17, B-24, B-29 and other large bombers are also equipped with Pratt & Whitney's Wasp series star engines...... "Okay." Luo Yaoguo nodded and said with a smile: "We can agree to your request, but ...... I hope that by 1931 the Sino-German aircraft manufacturing companies will be able to design and build fighters and dive bombers suitable for the Chinese battlefield...... It is a light bomber that uses dive bombing as its main attack method. ”
Seeing that the other party actually agreed to BMW's request so readily, Messerschmidt was overjoyed, and he also agreed to Luo Yaoguo's request: "Please rest assured General Luo, we promise to come up with an aircraft that can satisfy the Chinese Air Force before 1931." But...... The premise is that our aircraft factory can start construction immediately. I've already visited your aircraft factory in Shaoguan, uh, it was built with the help of the Russians, right? In general, this factory can still be used, and my plan is to expand the Sino-German aircraft factory on the basis of the Shaoguan aircraft factory. Construction of an engine plant, an aircraft R&D base, a large wind tunnel, and a number of parts factories......"
The Shaoguan Aircraft Factory is a small aircraft factory built three years ago with a Soviet loan, and it is now the only aircraft factory under the Ministry of Armaments, capable of manufacturing and repairing some obsolete Soviet aircraft. However, now that relations between the Kuomintang and the Soviet Union are gradually cooling, they have stopped supplying spare parts, so the aircraft factory is now also in a semi-suspended state. Building a new factory on its basis was a shortcut. The only risk is getting too close to the shoreline...... "Okay, I agree with your plan." Luo Yaoguo did not hesitate for too long to support this plan, with the current progress of heavy industry construction in South China...... By 1938, Xiao Yue was afraid that he would not be able to go to Guangdong, right?
…… In Zhengzhou, Henan, the sign of the General Headquarters of the National Alliance Army has just been hung up.
Liao Zhongkai and other leftist bigwigs also moved from Kaifeng to this emerging city, which will be the base camp for the Kuomintang leftists and the Kuomintang coalition to participate in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains. During this time, the leftists took the lead in the opening battle for hegemony in the Central Plains, so Liao Zhongkai was in a very good mood and looked a lot younger.
"Liao Gong, now our party is fighting hard with the reactionaries in Shanxi, and we urgently need the cooperation of your Kuomintang Coalition Army. The current situation in the north is a three-legged combination of our party, the Kuomintang coalition army, and the reactionary forces headed by the political axe of the central government...... If our party is defeated by the reactionaries this time, I am afraid that it will be your turn next, right? ”
The man who said this was Xuanxia's father, who is now the deputy director of the Political Department of the National Alliance. In fact, he is the general representative of the Chinese and G forces in the National Alliance, responsible for coordinating the relationship between the two sides. In the past few days, he has been urging the National Alliance Army to go out of the Northern Expedition and act jointly with China and G.
Liao Zhongkai smiled and put down the document he was reviewing, and glanced at Deng Yanda, chief of the general staff of the National Alliance Army, who was sitting on the side, only smiling and not speaking: "Choosing a life, you are our chief of general staff, and you have more say in military matters than me." Tell me, should we go on a northern expedition now? ”
Deng Yanda just smiled, he had a thorough understanding of the thoughts of the various factions in North China. Now North China looks like a Three Kingdoms. Feng is the central government and a large number of reactionary warlords are considered Cao Ying, holding the central name and commanding the world. The Kuomintang is now a bit like Sun Wu, sitting on most of Henan and Shaanxi, backed by the big mountain of the Kuomintang, which can be regarded as occupying a geographical advantage. And Zhongg is now a bit like Uncle Liu Huang, although the territory is not big, but it holds people, the upper and lower are united, and the army is good at fighting, and this potential is the greatest.
And today's alliance between the National Alliance Army and the Sino-G Army is also a bit like the Sun-Liu Alliance of the Three Kingdoms. When the two sides were oppressed by the Feng family, they were still able to unite as one, but once they got better...... Everyone is a little distracted. After all, these three kingdoms will still be unified in the end!
But how do you deal with it now? To be honest, Deng Yanda also felt a headache. Now the Chinese and the reactionaries are fighting hard in Shanxi, and although they are still in the upper hand, they can vaguely see the decline. After the Red Second Front Army conquered Datong, there was no further action, and it is estimated that the casualties were a little larger, and it was also possible that it was threatened by the Feng army in the direction of Chahar and had to divide its troops to return to the defense. The Red Army also seems to be in some trouble now, and the Jin Army has received assistance from the direct army from Henan, and it seems that it has stabilized its position. If the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Feng family join the warband...... It is likely that the Central Red Army will return with a feather.
If the Central Red Army retreats to Suiyuan in northern Shaanxi, the next thing Feng will have to deal with will inevitably be the Nationalist Alliance. It's really a bit of a cold mouth!
"Brother Chosen Son, now is the critical moment of the revolution! It's all in your mind! ”
Deng Yanda was meditating, and the voice of Xuanxia's father sounded in Leng Buding's ears again. As if awakened from his thoughts by Xuanxia's father's words, Deng Yanda sighed, and there was no longer a trace of a smile on his face, just frowning as if he was thinking hard.
"Liao Gong, Sword Soul. At the moment, our National Alliance Army is not actually united. Although Feng Huanzhang's First Army was numerous, its combat effectiveness was not strong, and it had suffered heavy losses in the previous war, and now its morale was also a little low...... However, there is no problem with the combat effectiveness of our Second Army, and the morale is also high. But this number is really a bit small, if you don't count the troops collected by the First Division of Henan, it is currently 30,000 people, and it is not enough to guard most of Henan, where is there still the spare strength to help the Chinese G fight Shanxi? Otherwise...... How about we bluff and put on a shelf for the Northern Expedition? ”
Liao Zhongkai smiled slightly and looked at Xuanxia's father: "Sword Soul, do you think this will work?" We just bluff. If you scare the Feng system, maybe they will concentrate their forces on the front line of Handan to guard against our Northern Expedition. ”
Xuanxia's father frowned tightly, thought for a while, and then nodded helplessly: "Okay, just scare Zhang Zuolin, if only I could scare him." ”
…… At the end of December of the 15th year of the Republic of China.
The streets and alleys of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, were suddenly filled with countless officers and soldiers of the National Alliance. According to the good deeds to these officers and soldiers, it seems that the elite of all departments of the National Alliance Army have gathered in Zhengzhou, and it seems that the National Alliance Army is about to go on a northern expedition.
And soon after a rumor came out, it was said that the Nationalist Alliance Army had gathered 200,000 troops in Zhengzhou, and that it would cross the Yellow River north in January next year to seize Zhili and Jingshi, and then welcome Sun Yat-sen to the north to take charge.
This rumor spread along the Jinghan Railway, and within a few days, it spread to the whole world.
Naturally, the Zhang family father and son in Yanjing Zhongnanhai also got the news.
In the study room of Juren Hall, the henchmen of the Zhang family father and son gathered together, and everyone was solemn, all of them held their breath, as if there was some earth-shattering event to be decided at today's meeting.
Suddenly, there was a snap. Zhang Zuolin stood up, raised his right hand and pointed into the distance and scolded: "The surname Feng, the surname Liao, you fucking bastards!" I've already got Henan and I'm still insatiable, it's only been a few days! I'm going to take our Zhili and Yanjing, and I'm not afraid of fucking choking! This time, they have forced our Feng army to a dead end, and the only way to do this is to provoke on the Middle East Road and turn the civil war into a national war! If they are not afraid of being pointed at the backbone and scolded Han Annihilation, as long as they are in conflict with Soviet Russia, our internal worries will naturally be alleviated. I have summoned you here today to hear your opinions one last time. If you have to, make it clear here, and if you don't get out of this door, you are not allowed to chew your tongue again. We must unite as one, and we will definitely be able to pass this hurdle! Okay, if you have something to say, let's let it go! ”
Looking at the murderous Zhang Zuolin, where do the generals standing below dare to have any different opinions? Again...... The current situation in the Feng Department is really rotten. As soon as the news of the Northern Expedition of the National Alliance Army came out, the tickets on the market fell by more than half! If it falls again, this ticket should become a waste of paper, and I don't know what to use to pay hundreds of thousands of troops when the time comes?
"No one has anything to say, is there?" Zhang Zuolin glared at his subordinates, nodded and said, "That's good, let's unite like this." Now I order that from January 1 next year, the sovereignty of the Middle East Road will be recovered, Xiao Liuzi (Zhang Xueliang), you will be responsible for the implementation of this matter! We must take back the Eastern Railway intact and into the hands of the state......"
“…… Zeng Muhan (Zeng Qi) You are responsible for propaganda and diplomacy, and you must let the people of the whole country know that we are driving out the great powers, we are good people, and whoever opposes us is a traitor! ”
(To be continued)