Chapter 142

Sixteen rocket launchers on board, the characteristics of running after the fight are still good in artillery battles. The disadvantage is that it is inseparable from the road, and this thing will be targeted by other people's planes, and when there is no air supremacy, it is a hammer deal. And this rocket is still expensive, looking at the firepower is very fierce, and all that is shot out is white silver.

With this thing, Fang Jianxiong can't afford to equip it on a large scale, take the battalion as a unit, and then engage in five battalions first. It's really hard to say when this thing will be used, but it is certain that the battlefield will suddenly give the enemy a sudden.

Thinking that World War II was approaching, many of the Wehrmacht's preparations had not yet been completed. The training equipment of the reserve and so on, have not had time to inspect it, and Fang Jianxiong is destined to be busy this year. The parallel historical republics had to prepare for nuclear war, so the arsenals were built in ravines, which invisibly increased a lot of investment. This time and space Fang Jianxiong is not so troublesome, the Northeast, the Yangtze River Basin, and the Pearl River Basin are not short of water, coupled with convenient transportation, it is an excellent area for the development of heavy industry.

Think about Germany in Europe, which has become what it is now in just a few years under the premise that it has gone bankrupt, and from this point of view, Hitler is really a great guy. If it weren't for the fact that he killed too many Jews and went against the mainstream Western moral system, even if he was defeated, he would not have been repeatedly sprayed by future generations. Funnily enough, many Chinese also criticize Hitler, mentioning Adolf this and that. When the German army killed people and set fire to Beijing in the year of Gengzi, it seemed to be the era of Wilhelm II, right?

Germany was reflexive and thorough after World War II, and the country was divided in two. Japan, on the other hand, has been much more lucky. Because of the needs of US imperialism, the liquidation of the allied Japan was not complete. There were a lot of things about this and that, and both sides were responsible. One gave up the garrison of Japan in order to fight the civil war. One is to get out of the diplomatic predicament and promote Sino-Japanese friendship. It can be seen that the political zhì thing is really not a thing, as long as the country has this need, the black one dares to say it in white. What is the poisoning of a small number of militaristic attention elements, isn't this nonsense? During the Meiji Emperor of Japan, in order to defeat the Beiyang Naval Division. From the emperor to the begging for food, all of them were donating money to buy warships, and the ambition of little Japan to invade China was not a day or two. It can't be a movement that a few people can make. The propaganda is reliable, and the old sow can go up the tree.

The peace-loving Chinese Government announced at its budget briefing at the beginning of the year that its military spending would reach 5 billion yuan. Equivalent to $1.1 billion. Moreover, this is also the fact that the expenditure on private funds exceeds the expenditure on education. With such a budget, there was no dispute in Congress. Of course, there are also opposing voices, and lawmakers from the opposition Civic Party are clamoring in the Diet: Is it necessary to spend so much on military spending now that there is world peace? This is clearly the result of the manipulation of Congress by the big capitalists in the country. Although it is not explicitly stated who this big capitalist is, what he refers to is very clear.

However, when the Kuomintang newspapers attacked the government for increasing military spending, they were unexpectedly opposed by the whole country. Even the United Progressive Party stood up against the Kuomintang. The economic foundation is weak, and the Kuomintang is not called an active one. The situation in the domestic political arena is quietly taking shape. The Kuomintang were still unaware of it and continued to oppose there for the sake of opposition.

The government of the Republic of China did not mean to refute the Kuomintang's remarks, but only published in the newspapers some figures on the annual military expenditures of the great powers. Not to mention anything else, the annual military expenditure of neighboring Japan accounts for half of the budget, not to mention the Soviet system, and the weak light industry related to people's livelihood is no longer enough to describe the country's heavy industry. Our navy is 200,000 tons worse than its neighbor Japan, and even worse than Britain and the United States. The size of the Soviet Army in our immediate vicinity has reached more than 3 million, and the total number of Wehrmacht land forces is only 1.2 million.

This is the external environment of the Republic of China! The Republic of China Times summed it up in such a sentence after counting jù.

After the budget was passed, the government of the Republic of China announced a new round of army expansion, with the number of Class A infantry divisions restored to 100 and the mechanized army expanded to 12. The Air Force fighter wing was expanded to 50 and the bomber wing to 30.

With the promulgation of the expansion order, a nationwide conscription began. Under these circumstances, Curtis's joint venture plant in China was forced to shut down. It is really a laughable thing to say, originally the largest number of Eagle Three in the Air Force was about 1,000, all of which were produced by the Curtis joint venture, and now the Air Force has asked Curtis to produce a new fighter. For the sake of the Chinese market, Curtis came up with the P40 fighter required by the US Air Force, but the Air Force said that this fighter did not meet the requirements.

This made Pete, the general manager of Curtiss in China, anxious, and although he was very busy with work, Feng Ru still took the time to meet Pete. When he met Pete, he asked why the P-40 was not accepted by the Chinese Air Force, Feng Ru sighed and said: "I don't know this matter very well, you wait a minute, I'll call and ask." ”

Feng Ru picked up the phone, dialed a number, and then talked for a while, and hung up the phone after half an hour, and said with a sad brow: "Now we have big trouble, Shenyang's Sino-German joint venture aircraft manufacturing company has produced a new type of fighter, which can easily climb to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, with a small turning radius and strong dive ability, and it is said that the performance is not inferior to the P-40, and the price is only 35,000 US dollars a plane, the air force is very tempted, and intends to purchase modified fighters to replace 1,000 Eagle Three." However, we are not without opportunities, this aircraft has not yet been finalized, and it will take about half a year to test. ”

Pitt fell like a bolt from the blue, the P-40 was sold to China for $40,000 a piece, and it cannot be produced in China at the moment. The loss of the order for 1,000 aircraft was enough for the shareholders of Curtis to dismember Pete's body. Pete hurriedly reported the news to the American side, and soon replied that this must be Germany's latest fighter jet doing the trick. Damn the Germans, we must not let them succeed and steal Curtis's business. The headquarters asked Pete to lobby in Congress, hoping to win the Air Force order through the relationship between Feng Ru and Feng Hua.

Pete failed after a month of hard work. The Air Force directly informed Pitt that even if the P-40 fighter was better, the Air Force would not purchase it. The reason is simple. Someone above spoke because Curtiss has always insisted on not putting the production line of the P-40 in China, and the production of new engines is also in the United States, which is a contempt for China.

By the time the United States said it had promised to set up engine and aircraft assembly lines in China, another month had passed. Pete is active again, and the result is still the same, the Air Force has decided to purchase a thousand new fighters from the brother aircraft manufacturing company in Shenyang. Pitt reported the results back home. His P-40 lost to a guy who had been a bandit.

In fact, the so-called Sino-German joint venture is nothing, and this is a cooperative enterprise between the Wuhan Aeronautical Research Institute and the Shenyang Brother Company. The biggest feature of the company is that more than eighty percent of the workers are Jews, all of whom have come to China with Chinese visas in the past two years. In the past two years, the number of Jews in China has been as high as one million. These people are all Jews who have undergone strict vetting and have a certain amount of prostitution. After they came to China, most of them were recruited by various companies as soon as they got off the ship.

Fang Jianxiong considered that the new fighter developed in Wuhan could not be mastered by the Americans, so the state funded part of the technology. Zhang Zuolin's brother company bears the rest of the contribution. A new aircraft factory was built in Shenyang, and the technicians were mainly Jews who were selectively flying visas. In fact, this business started a year and a half ago, and when it was taken out at this time, it was clear that it was going to pit Curtis.

Curtis's joint venture in China has always been funded by China, and Curtiss has contributed technology, and the Eagle III produced is indeed a biplane with excellent performance. But this kind of aircraft is obviously not suitable, and Curtis has been reluctant to set up a new engine production line in China. This directly angered Fang someone.

Losing orders from the Chinese Air Force would make little sense for Curtis's joint venture in China. This matter has been tossed for half a year. Eventually, Curtis divested from China and transferred 49 percent of its shares in the Chinese joint venture to its partner, Wuhan Airlines, at market value. According to Feng Ru, after taking the shares of Curtis, he will either develop a new aircraft to compete for the next order of the Air Force, or he will have to switch to the production of trainer aircraft.

It's not that Curtis doesn't want to produce the P-40 in China, but because of the constraints of the U.S. government. The P-40 is an active fighter in the United States, and after getting the order from the US Air Force, the decision to withdraw from China was made by the domestic company Curtis. This decision ultimately made Curtis regret it. Because their compatriot Boeing, a month after Curtiss divested, received an order for five hundred B-17 bombers for the Chinese Air Force in three years. Douglas, also an American company, is a wholly-owned enterprise in China, and has received a new order for 100 aircraft from the Civil Aviation of China.

Wuhan Airlines immediately began to develop a new aircraft after acquiring a stake in Curtis. As a matter of fact, the new aircraft is a new type of fighter originally designed for the Air Force, and after purchasing 500 Merlin engines directly from Britain and improving the production line of the original joint venture factory, samples of the new aircraft were produced within a month. A month after the trial, the Air Force decided to purchase 500 aircraft. This aircraft has a very nasty Chinese name - Mustang!

The fighter produced by the brother aircraft factory in Shenyang is actually a Mustang. The first batch of 500 engines was also purchased from the UK. At present, China is not able to produce qualified engines on its own for the time being, but Feng Ru expects that in a year and a half at most, it will be able to understand the technology provided by the British and produce its own engines. Of course, these are all later words, Feng Ru is still kind, and the only unkind thing about the Curtiss shares acquired at the market price is to force Curtis out of the Chinese market. But this is really nothing, it's just a commercial means, Feng Ru didn't play any dishonorable role in it, and people who do bad things can't take the turn of Feng Ru who is engaged in technology. The officials who came forward were all officials from the Wuhan State-owned Assets Management Commission, and they bought the shares with a very kind expression.

"By the end of the year, the Air Force will complete the formation of the 50th Wing, which will have 2,500 biplanes and 1,500 monoplane fighters. There are 1,000 bombers of various types, and the total number of aircraft is more than 5,000. There are thirty wings of naval aviation, fifteen fighter wings, five torpedo bomber wings, and five dive bomber wings. The total number of planes is more than 3,000, of which eight torpedo bombers have become old biplane aircraft, which are in urgent need of upgrading. At present, more than sixty percent of the planes in the entire Air Force need to be replaced, and the task is very heavy. On the land side, the number of infantry divisions will be restored to 100, the number of artillery divisions will be expanded to 20, and the number of mechanized divisions will reach 39 with the addition of three divisions of the Central Guard,......。 ”

In mid-1938, the Ministry of National Defense convened a high-level meeting of the three services, and Xu Shuzheng, chief of the General Staff, made a summary report. Fang Jianxiong has been listening very carefully, China's current aircraft production capacity is still hidden from the outside world, once it enters a wartime state, the annual output of aircraft can reach 5,000 in the first year, and all of them are new fighters.

"The formation of the Air Force must be accelerated, and there is no shortage of pilots for the time being, just the right fighters. All the obsolete fighters were sent to aviation schools everywhere. Once a world war breaks out, pilots and planes will be consumed quickly, and when the time comes, it will be up to who will replenish faster. Therefore, we must keep up with our talent pool and train 10,000 qualified fighter pilots by the end of the first half of 1939. The navy must speed up the reserve of qualified personnel in this area, and give priority to it; unlike those on land, the navy must speed up the reserve of qualified personnel in this area. As for the army, the formation of mechanized corps should be accelerated, and the garrisons of the North-Western Military District and the Far Eastern Military District reached one million by the first half of 1939. Among them, there could not be less than eight mechanized armies, the Soviet Union was the great enemy, and the Japanese army's mechanized range was not high, and the war resources were lacking, so they would definitely have to go south in the early stage of the war. Our purpose in the Far East and Northwest is to hold back the Soviet Union and let the mustache go west with confidence and boldness. Intelligence from the Security Service indicates that secret contacts between the Soviet Union and Germany are underway, and it is not known what exactly happened. If the Soviet-German agreement is reached, then the pressure on us will be even greater. As soon as the Soviets and Germany reached an agreement, our army immediately carried out a new round of expansion, and within half a year increased the number of infantry divisions by 50. Preparations can be made now, there will be a great possibility that the Soviet-German non-aggression pact will be reached, and it will be irresponsible to the country to expand the army when war breaks out,......。 Fang Jianxiong made a summary at the end and made the final war preparations and deployment. (To be continued......)