Chapter 229: Wu Zhongguo's suspicions
Jinxi Military Department,
"Good, well done." When he learned that the Stuka squadron had blown up and sunk the aircraft carrier Kaga at the cost of two fighters, Wu Zhongguo, who basically didn't leak his true feelings in peacetime, finally couldn't help it, and applauded repeatedly.
An aircraft carrier is no better than an airfield, this thing is a mobile airfield, and the cost is much higher than that of an airfield on land. Isn't it just that the cannon of the giant ship and the fighter planes taking off from the aircraft carrier can support their ground forces at any time?
At that time, the Chinese people fought a miserable fight, and at the beginning, they didn't know what an aircraft carrier was, and when they watched the fighters of the Yue army flying from the sea to support them, they even thought that the fighters flew from the mainland, and this was also a reason to break the confidence of the ancestors.
Because at that time, everyone thought that foreign countries were very far away, although the mainland was only more than 1,000 kilometers away from the northeast, and Weihai was even closer, only about 800 kilometers, which was less than the distance from Guangzhou to Wuhan in China, but at that time, the Chinese people saw the fighters of the Yue army flying from the sea, and what kind of thoughts people had was that made people remember deeply.
Wu Zhongguo will never forget that scene back then, he was just a recruit that year, not long after joining the army, his troops were wiped out in the blow of the naval aviation of the Yue Army, and now he finally has a chance to take revenge, and at such a small price, how can Wu Zhongguo not be excited?
"Contact Umezu Mijiro and ask him to find a way to contact the two cruisers, so that they can save our four pilots, and hand over the four of them to us safely, I am willing to pay one million, but if there is anything wrong with those four pilots, the Tsumoto naval fleet that entered the Bohai Sea will not want to leave." In half an hour, I want to know the results. Su Dao said coldly, he was not distressed by the loss of the fighter or anything, the key was the four pilots.
Everyone knows how hard it is to train a pilot, how much effort Su Dao has spent, how much money and fighters have been invested to get to the size of today's air force? The two fighters didn't seem to be many, nor were they few, but they cost Su Dao two percent of his air power, and after thinking about it again, Su Dao still decided to ask for someone from his side.
He didn't know if he would hand people over to him Su Dao, but he had to do it, he couldn't watch his soldiers fall into the hands of him and be indifferent, he didn't know what virtues he had, don't think about preferential treatment of prisoners of war at all, it's good if you don't beat you, and there are even fewer who survive.
It is precisely for this reason that Su Dao made this extremely incomprehensible decision, coercion and temptation, I will give you money if you hand over someone, and don't think about it if you don't hand over someone, this is what Su Dao thinks now. The level of the Bohai Sea is too shallow, and the submarine cannot secretly evade the reconnaissance of the Navy to go to the sea area where the incident occurred, and even if it is now, it is too late to set off.
Moreover, before the Air Force took off, the fleet had just arrived at the port, and it was still being replenished, as far as the water level of the Bohai Sea is concerned, it would be good if the sea water could cover the body of the submarine, as for the operation, don't think about it at all, it is a little difficult for the Jinxi-class battleships to fight in it, and if it is not good, it is easy to hit the reef, let alone the submarine.
Thinking that the surname of the person he handed over was not too big, Su Dao immediately ordered: "Inform the navy to finish the supply within twenty minutes and prepare to leave the port for operation." Stuka's squadron was refueled immediately after landing, waiting for orders. ”
"Throne, isn't that right? The troops have just experienced a big war, especially the navy, which has basically not rested for a day and a night, and if they go to sea to fight continuously at this time, I am afraid that the effect will be greatly reduced. Wu Zhongguo swept away his previous happiness and said worriedly.
"If this bit of combat intensity is enough to defeat them, it won't be long before we have to disband the navy." Su Dao did not directly reply to Wu Zhongguo's question, but said thoughtfully.
The scale of the navy is too small, which makes Su Dao, who has an atlas, also very helpless, in terms of equipment, how much he wants, but the problem is that there is no one in the navy now, and the only few people are still just enough, at most, the one hundred and ten people who were originally equipped with each ship are pulled down and reorganized into a new warship personnel, but in this way, their combat effectiveness and personnel supply have become a big problem.
If there are no suitable personnel to replace the war-wounded, the combat power of warships can only get smaller and smaller until they disappear. What a joy it was in the early stage, when I looked at their naval aviation in Hawaii, how many cattle forks, directly sank a US fleet, but their own losses were very small.
After the Battle of Midway, the losses of the naval aviation were almost the same, and the aircraft carriers were the same, and it was even more tragic to go further, the kamikaze drones all came out, and these people didn't even want to bring ammunition to the sky, so they directly looked at the other side's warship and crashed headlong into it.
What does this mean? Isn't it precisely because the supplies of the personnel and so on in the later stage of the book can't keep up? At this time, Su Dao was very similar to the late stage of World War II in history, they were all soldiers who lacked high-tech arms, and it didn't matter what the army was, they could be trained within one or two months, and then they would be pulled to the battlefield to fight, and those who survived were even veterans, and the navy and air force were different.
These are all things that cost a lot of money and energy to do, and in terms of industrial capacity, the whole world can't catch up with Su Dao's exchange speed, so the most painful thing for Su Dao now is the problem of soldiers. And to increase the number of more than three warships per month, in fact, Su Dao planned to have three per month, and then pulled out the recruits who were equipped to study on each ship and put them on the new warships.
For example, now the standard personnel of a warship is 100 people, so now Su Dao is equipped with about 150 people on each warship, and there are one or two recruits in each post to study, and when the time comes for the new warship to serve, some of the veterans and recruits on the ship will be transferred to serve on the new warship.
And so on, with the increase in the number of warships, the number of skilled naval soldiers will also increase, and it will not take more than a year to continue, Su Dao wants to form a navy with hundreds of warships, it is no problem, as for the degree of familiarity with the new warships, it seems that it is not very important, the old warships have already formed combat effectiveness, even if some people are transferred, it will not affect the battle.
When the time comes, the new warship will follow and hone it, or the old warship will take the lead, and after one or two battles, you can basically participate in the battle. This is also the reason why Su Dao cares so much about the safety of soldiers, the air force is much more troublesome than the navy, so Su Dao did not hesitate to pay a ransom of one million in exchange for these four pilots.
Umezu Mijiro's reply was very fast, and the result was also very disappointing, and he directly told Su Dao that if he couldn't contact the navy, there would be no follow-up, but Su Dao didn't take Umezu Mijiro too seriously, and he knew better than anyone that the little contradiction between the navy and the army, and the lack of resources in this defeat was only one of the reasons, and the disagreement between the navy and the army also played a very important role.
"Inform the navy to go out of port to fight, don't show mercy, sink all the warships, and tell Yang Shuming that the three new warships are already waiting outside, and after they defeat the navy, new warships will be replenished, one Jinxi-class (Iowa-class), two Dahua-class heavy cruisers (Des Moines class), and the Stuka squadron will arrive later." Su Dao ordered lightly.
Since Umezu Mijiro refused his request, then the navy will have to pay the price, although he sank one of their aircraft carriers, but Su Dao doesn't care about that, he only cares about the safety of his pilots, it's normal to sink your aircraft carrier during the war, and it's normal for you to capture my soldiers, but if you don't give me a chance to redeem the prisoners, that's your fault.
As for the prisoners of the two divisions who were captured in Jinzhou before, Su Dao can't be blamed for not returning them, but he didn't open that mouth at all, so Su Dao won't run up and return the captives to them like a good person, although they waste a lot of food every day, but it can be regarded as a free labor, and there is no need to use it in vain.
"Okay." Wu Zhongguo was stunned suddenly, although there were many doubts in his heart, he still followed Su Dao's orders.
In fact, Wu Zhongguo has always been curious, where did Su Dao get these equipment? The army has hundreds of thousands of guns, as well as huge ammunition, and artillery or something, every time they send someone to receive it, they will always be in an underground warehouse, and the materials are neatly placed, without a trace of dust, obviously this is just a short time after they are put in, but every time they go to receive it, it is always empty, not even a soldier guarding the door.
And there was also the warship last time, there was no sound at all, and even the soldiers in the naval port did not find out when those warships were leaning on the dock, and who came with the warship? There must be at least a ceremony or something to hand over the warship, and under normal circumstances, a contract must be signed, which is the kind of contract that is delivered for use, but there is nothing here in Su Dao, which has to arouse Wu Zhongguo's suspicions.
But these things can't come out of thin air, so no matter how much Wu Zhongguo doubts, he only wonders if Su Dao has some other secret power, and it hasn't leaked out within the Ninety-ninth Army? Otherwise, with so much advanced equipment, even I can't get it, where did Su Daoshang do it?
The young master of a big German family? No matter which family comes to deliver so much equipment, it is impossible to throw things away without even seeing a figure, this problem is too strange in Wu Zhongguo's opinion, of course, Wu Zhongguo's mind is not open enough to think that Su Dao is an alien or something, because he doesn't know where the earth where he is, let alone aliens.
And this question was not solved until many years later, Wu Zhongguo was also puzzled, and later when he asked Su Dao, Su Dao only smiled and said nothing, and Su Dao's family also clarified many times that the equipment provided by the Su family to Su Dao in World War II was only a U-boat and part of the funds, etc., and the rest were not provided.
The origin of Su Dao's equipment has been debated for hundreds of years after the war, some people say that Su Dao came from outer space, and all equipment was transported from outer space; Some people say that Su Dao has a huge R&D force and manufacturing base in his hands, but he doesn't know where this base is; Some people say that it is even more suspenseful, Su Dao's equipment is all stolen, and this faction is also instantly scolded and collapsed, who has the ability to steal the equipment of millions of people?
These are just afterwords, not to mention for the time being, although Wu Zhongguo was very puzzled, he didn't open his mouth to ask, and Su Dao is now thinking about how to fight the next battle? Bringing all the troops together is naturally to fight a battle, but if you fight hard, Su Dao may not be able to fight, and you must use some skills. (To be continued.) )