Gao Deyu nodded and said: "Yes, we can't retreat anymore, not only the oil in Baku, but also the Donbas region under our feet is also a coal-rich region, and it cannot be lost." But now we have a total of only 4 million troops, less than half of the opponent's strength, and the defense is still very difficult. ”

Wang Qiguang said: "What if we contact the other two armies? ”

Gao Deyu asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Wang Qiguang pointed to the map and said: "Now the Axis Middle Route Army is pressing on us step by step, but they are fighting too fast, especially when the other two routes have lost one after another, their attack speed has completely exposed the flanks in front of us, but we have no extra troops, so we can't threaten them." ”

Gao Deyu felt that it made sense, and he encouraged: "You go on. ”

Wang Qiguang said: "Perhaps we can ask the North and South armies to give us support, the Cossack army in the North only needs to maintain pressure on the Axis North Route Army, and the South Route Army has completely controlled the Istan Peninsula and blocked the Dardanelles and the Esphorus." Now the Iraqi navy still has control of the Black Sea, allowing them to cover General Gao Hong's troops and land from the Crimean Peninsula to flank Howell's army. ”

"That's a good idea, let's contact them first." Gao Deyu also agreed with this plan very much, now that the Axis Central Army was too large to compete with his army, he had to turn to friendly forces for help in order to completely eliminate the last reliance of the Axis powers.

The Boston Empire's weapons supply is becoming increasingly tight, but fortunately, after several years of construction, the Nantes Empire, the Saar Empire and all the industrial areas of the Yaman Empire they occupy have been transformed into powerful military industrial clusters, and the production of weapons and equipment here has become higher and higher, which can basically meet the daily needs of the more than 20 million troops of the Axis powers in the Western Continent, including the replacement of consumed ammunition and normal weapon consumption, in addition to many new high-power weapons have been manufactured.

After the number of weapons and equipment deliveries has been greatly reduced, the Boston Empire's airship troops traveling to and from the ocean have shifted the focus of transportation to oil and food, if the supply of oil is solved from the Baku area, the Axis Countries' material supply task will be very easy, and even if the Boston Empire is defeated, the army of the Western Continent will have sufficient materials to carry out the war to the end, so the defense of the Donbas region has become the top priority.

In the three months of the tug-of-war between Howell and Golder in the Kharkiv region, a large number of new weapons have been put into production in various industrial areas of the western continent, and the first batch of weapons has been produced and delivered to the troops, including 150 Rat fighting vehicles, 300 18-barrel rocket artillery vehicles, 47 360-millimeter heavy guns, and 20 F104 fighters, and other advanced weapons are also under development.

As soon as this batch of weapons arrived on the battlefield, Howell carried out a battlefield assault with the Mouse tank, and the twenty newly arrived F104 fighters were added to the air cover group. Although the Chinese Empire has begun to fully replace the Golden Eagle 5 fighters, the main supply object is now the battlefield of the Boston Empire.

Due to the great loss of aircraft, and the production of Golden Eagle 5 fighters has not been raised for a while, most of the fighters used by the Chinese Air Force on the battlefield of the Western Continent are still Golden Eagle 4B fighters. Fortunately, the supplies of the Boston people are also insufficient, so the Axis air force on the battlefield on the Western Continent also uses F86 fighters.

The air forces of both sides have always been relatively balanced, but after twenty F104 fighters joined the battle, the balance in the air began to be unbalanced, and the F104 fighters that could reach supersonic speeds had strong impact and could easily shake off the tail-biting attacks of the Golden Eagle 4B fighters, which won a lot of initiative for the Axis air force, and the Chinese air force had to retreat to avoid excessive losses.

Seeing that the air force was at a disadvantage on one of the most difficult battlefields, Fang Ruijun was very anxious, and he immediately ordered the Far East Aircraft Factory to speed up production and strive to provide Golden Eagle 5 fighters for the troops of the Ural Military Region as soon as possible, but at this time, the designers of the Northwest Aircraft Factory launched a new Golden Eagle 4C fighter.

It turned out that after the Golden Eagle 4B fighter was approved by Fang Ruijun to start production, the company's leaders knew that in the war, the performance of weapons and equipment of various countries improved by leaps and bounds, and the Golden Eagle 4B fighter did not improve its performance much, and it would soon be surpassed, and its performance was far inferior to the Golden Eagle 5 fighter, so they quickly began the development of new aircraft after the Golden Eagle 4B fighter was put into production.

Since the Northwest Aircraft Factory did not receive a tender from the military, they did not receive financial support from the state at all, and they had to pay for the new aircraft out of their own pockets, and because there was no number given by the military, their new aircraft, although completely redesigned, had to bear the name of a Golden Eagle 4C fighter.

The most important thing about a fighter is the engine, which is as important as the heart of the aircraft, and the engine of the Golden Eagle 4B fighter is just an improved version of the Golden Eagle 4A fighter, and the engine power is only 2,358 horsepower, which is completely insufficient in the face of larger and larger aircraft sizes.

After much effort, they obtained the engines of a Golden Eagle 5 fighter from the Zhongxia consortium, a single turbojet engine with a thrust of 7,220 horsepower, and each Golden Eagle 5 fighter was equipped with two, and its thrust was quite impressive, but the engineers of the Northwest Aircraft Factory did not intend to do this.

Although the thrust of the two engines is large, there are also many problems, the overall structure of the aircraft will be more complex and the weight will be greatly increased, in addition to the cost will be much higher, and the Northwest Aircraft Factory has always produced single-engine fighters, and is more familiar with this aircraft model, so these engineers decided to play to their strengths and continue to develop single-engine fighters.

The high-thrust engine used in the Golden Eagle 5 fighter was specially supplied by the Zhongxia Consortium to the Chinese Consortium, and the Northwest Aircraft Factory did not have a supply quota, and now the Chinese Consortium does not accept new applications, so they can only rely on themselves, and after completely understanding the technology, they finally copied the engine of the Golden Eagle 5 fighter. Although the engine they copied was only about 6,700 horsepower due to the slightly inferior technology, it was a qualitative leap compared to the previous two engines.