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ps: It's really terrible.,Memory loss is very strict.,C47 becomes C49.,Forgive me.。 In recent years, I have always made mistakes and strange things when I look at things.

Chapter 198: The City That Must Be Held

At 10 a.m. on November 26, Roosevelt addressed Congress, claiming that the United States had been the victim of a shameless sneak attack. The United States entered the war, and the reason for participating in the war in this time and space is somewhat pale, just like the Spanish-American War, sometimes only one excuse is needed to enter the war, as for what this excuse is, is it important?

Britain and the United States formed an alliance, and Australia, Canada and other minor brother countries followed, and the opponent was the Triple Alliance of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Because of the effect of a certain butterfly wing, this was empty, and the Soviet Union did not fight with Germany, but with China.

The Entente and the Central Powers declared war on each other, and interestingly, the USSR and China made essentially the same statement, neutral for the war between the two camps! It means that you fight you, and we fight ours.

This statement is good news for Germany, but not good news for Britain and the United States. The United States and Britain both expressed their intention to mediate the Sino-Soviet war, and Germany, Japan, and Italy also expressed their intention to mediate. Anyway, the attitude was made. In fact, at this time, it was Britain and the United States that hoped for peace between China and the Soviet Union the most, and without the Soviet Union staring at the mustachioed chrysanthemum behind the ass, it would be too fucking difficult for the US imperialists to land in Europe. The key is that Germany at this time focused on the war against Britain, which made Churchill want to cry without tears.

Churchill continued to hook up with China, and the US imperialists did not give up continuing to do the ideological work of Fang someone. The person who came forward to do this work was Fisher, a well-known financier on Wall Street in the United States, whose total assets of Merlot Bank exceeded one billion.

After Fisher accepted this task, he immediately drafted a telegram with his own hands, starting with the traditional Sino-US friendship, and then talking about the present, past, and future of China and the United States. The five or six hundred words that came up were all about friendship, and then the conversation changed to say that he hadn't seen his grandson for a long time. I want to go to China.

Fang Jianxiong called back and said that he would come if he wanted to, but before he came, he helped with one thing, the US Air Force had a kind of aircraft P-39, which seemed to be clumsy over the United Kingdom, and the Air Force was very dissatisfied. So be it, there is not enough production of Chinese aircraft. If the United States is unwilling to ask for these planes, it should sell them to China cheaper. We use it for training.

The P39 was a fighter provided to Britain by the United States using Lend-Lease, and hundreds of American volunteers went to Britain to fight the Luftwaffe. As a result, the P-39 was quite bad, and the German FW-190 was defeated, especially the lack of high-altitude combat capabilities, which made the American volunteers suffer. The German plane easily climbed to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and then killed the P-39 with a single dive, and the volunteers of the US imperialists gave the P-39 the nickname of the coffin in the air. After the news was fed back to the United States, the US naval and land aviation units stopped doing it, and whoever loves this thing wants it. We don't want it anyway.

The wealthy US imperialists were not willing to dispose of the P-39 as garbage, so they could only slowly replace it and put it in the warehouse. If history had not been messed up, the U.S. imperialists would not have discovered until the outbreak of the Pacific War how unbearable the P-39 was in the face of the Zero, and the Germans corrected the mistake of U.S. imperialism in this time and space.

China wants to buy the P-39 as a training aircraft? This news is kind of funny! The Chinese fighter jets in the sky over Britain are called eye-catching, and the German FW-190 aircraft are not too cheap. That is, a situation of equal proportions, and the British even exclaimed that the Chinese are at the forefront of the world in the design concept of the aircraft.

The US imperialists still have the P-40 to use, so the P-39 can be saved. Historically, the P-39 was basically cheaper, as an aid. This rotten plane in the minds of the US imperialists really shines in the hands of Mao Zi, which has something to do with the worthlessness of Mao Zi's life. Moreover, the P-39's 37 gun, which Mao Zi admires very much, is used for ground attack with a good effect.

These historical American imperialists definitely don't know now, anyway, it's always a good thing that someone buys what they don't want. Fang Jianxiong is also very helpless, because China's aircraft production is indeed limited by many unfavorable factors, at present, all production capacity is concentrated on the Mustang fighter, and the Mustang ground attack is also good, but I am worried that Mao Zi will explode the tank sea in the future, and it is appropriate to use the P-39 of the 37 to bombard the tank.

All in all, the P-39 is a backward cargo that the US imperialist navy and land aviation cannot look down on, and Fang Jianxiong intends to pick up the cheap to make up for the lack of ground attack in the Chinese Air Force. There are Mustang in high-altitude fighting, and the performance of the low-altitude P-39 is excellent, and you can save a lot of money when used together.

Fisher's effect is different, and he got an order before he went to China. When Roosevelt heard the news, he attached great importance to it and immediately let people know about it, and the news was reported that the P-39 cost 50,000 US dollars, and the HNA and Army Airlines were equipped with more than 8,000 planes, or maybe 9,000 planes, anyway, it cost a lot of unjust money.

It's a surprise that someone is willing to ask for this kind of plane. Without Roosevelt's Zhang Luo, the US imperialist Hainan Airlines and Army Airlines are more concerned than anyone else, and only by disposing of these planes can they be replaced with new ones, and there is no pressure at all to do things that everyone is happy about.

So, with the intervention of the president's office, the US imperialists reported a conscience, and $15,000 a fight, that is, a three-fold discount. It is said that this price is already very good, but President Fang Da's reaction is very faceless, and he called back and said: 10,000 US dollars a plane, if you are willing to sell it, you will have a 3,000 first, we will use it to try it.

After receiving the reply, the US side was in a hurry, how could it ask for 3,000 planes? Too little, it has to be too little. Anyway, it will be difficult to see the day when these planes are lost to warehouses, and with the production capacity of US imperialism, the planes should not be built too quickly. Therefore, the US imperialist side said that 10,000 US dollars per plane can be considered, but it cannot be less than 8,000 planes.

The two sides bargained with each other by telegram, and Fang Jianxiong quickly replied that 8,000 could be considered, but the price should be a little more favorable. Out of the desire to hold China, Roosevelt paid great attention to this matter, in fact, according to his meaning, it is not impossible to give it to China for free, and in history he gave it to the Soviet Union as an aid.

So Roosevelt called Fisher into his office and talked to him alone: "It seems that China is feeling great pressure in the war against the Soviet Union, especially their military production capacity. This phenomenon can be used as a bargaining chip with China, and as long as China joins the allies, the United States can consider assisting China with a certain amount of arms. ”

Fisher nodded and said: "I think Fang Jianxiong's main concern is that he still doesn't want to fight on two fronts, but he will not indulge Japan to run rampant in Asia, which can be seen from the deal he reached with the British, now that China is stationed in Burma, the possibility that Japan wants to attack India directly from the ground is shattered." After the entry of the United States into the war, Japan's main adversary certainly became the US Navy, especially the Pacific Fleet. I think it is possible to postpone negotiations with Fang Jianxiong on the issue of aid, and wait for the U.S. Navy to teach the Japanese Navy a lesson, and then consider the issue of China joining the alliance. Even this time the deal can be put on for a while. ”

Roosevelt saw this analysis as pertinent, given that China is a great power and has the ability to pose a threat to American domination of the Pacific. Therefore, China must be shown that the US imperialism is strong, and then it will be relatively easy to negotiate. Roosevelt told Fisher to set off as much as he could, and sent a special plane to fly first to India and then to Beijing.

As for the P-39 deal, it bites 15,000 dollars a plane, and 8,000 planes must be purchased at a time. This change in the attitude of the United States has directly led to the breakdown of the deal. Probably because he felt that Fang Jianxiong wanted to buy the P-39, he seized the weakness, and the attitude of the United States became a little tougher.

While Fisher was still on his way, the campaign in Central Asia reached a critical point. Chen Mingren's army stormed the hilltop position held by the Soviet army, and in order to buy enough time, Zhukov gave a death order to block the squadron in the middle.

The Soviet army that played with their lives was extremely ferocious, which Chen Mingren quickly realized. The infantry tactics of the Wehrmacht are indeed very classic, and the effect is also very good, the first wave of assault battalions attacking Chen Mingren rushed to the position of the Soviet army, and before they had time to rejoice, the Soviet army's death squad rolled down with cluster grenades, and rolled more than 30 in one go. The elite of a battalion lost more than half of it in the face of a suicide attack, and Chen Mingren watched the continuous roar on the mountain, and he didn't notice that the roots of his teeth were bleeding.

Unwilling, Chen Mingren organized another attack, this time covered by twenty tanks. After a heavy bombardment concentrated at one point, the tanks covered the infantry and rushed forward. Unexpectedly, the Soviet army had already prepared and dug an anti-tank trench hidden inward, and ten tanks were planted in the trench and blown up with cluster grenades by Soviet soldiers hiding in the trench. The infantry that followed was also defeated, and the battle was a laborious one. Unfortunately, the light snow stopped and it began to rain again, and the planes were simply unable to support it.

The authorities repeatedly ordered him to break through as much as possible, and Chen Mingren had no choice but to storm the Soviet position. After attacking for three days in a row, the nameless heights were finally defeated, and more than 1,000 casualties were paid for it. The Soviets were no better, and they were not lightly wounded.

Seizing the commanding heights, the artillery carried two 75 mountain guns up the hill and bombarded the Soviet positions. Unexpectedly, the Soviet artillery, which had always been very moderate, suddenly concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces and fiercely bombarded the nameless heights, and then the infantry charged and recaptured the position. The two armies repeatedly tug-of-war on the nameless heights, and after another day of fierce fighting, they finally looked forward to a sunny day. The planes came, and the Soviets were honest, at least during the day. Chen Mingren hurriedly ordered the fortifications to be repaired to ensure that the position was not lost.

At this time, the situation of the Soviet army did not improve much, and Bai Chongxi's 10th Mechanized Army rushed to Pengikent, which was only a hundred kilometers away from Samarkand. Li Zongren's troops rushed to the city of Vonay and cut off the railway from Samarkand to Vonay, and Zhukov had few options to make.

But at this time, Moscow called Zhukov again, asking him to delay as much time as possible in Samarkand and Vonay to buy time for the transfer of supplies by the Soviet logistics department. Zhukov said that there was no point in continuing to hold out, but Moscow called back, and the message signed by the bearded man had this paragraph: Samarkand is a city that must be held in Central Asia!