"We can give China another support for an aviation unit, the scale is above the brigade level, and we can also support the Chinese army with a batch of weapons and ammunition, and of course, medicine, I know what your front-line troops lack." The confident Molotov squinted his eyes and turned his gaze to Chiang Kai-shek's side, because he knew that these things were nothing to Zhao Zhi, but to the Nationalist Government, they were like the existence of timely rain.

"That's right," Zhao Zhi nodded thoughtfully, but glanced at Chiang Kai-shek, who was slowly sipping tea, seemingly unaware of the conversation between Zhao Zhi and Molotov. After a pause, Zhao Zhile was amused, because he suddenly found Chiang Kai-shek's little finger holding the teacup faintly tapping the teacup in his hand, "Mr. Molotov, I think you are mistaken, our Thunder is not short of fighters, and we still have idle fighters in our hangar." ”

Compared with the Nationalist Government, which lacked excellent pilots, there were still a large number of European pilots recruited by Zhao Zhi in Europe, and as long as there were enough fighters, Zhao Zhi could pull out a few more flight formations to take off into the air at any time. However, Zhao Zhi looked down on the fighters made by the Soviets, and the most important thing was that Zhao Zhi didn't want to have anything to do with the Soviets now.

"Otherwise" Finding that Chiang Kai-shek had put down the teacup, Zhao Zhi suddenly changed his tone, "I have oil fields in Burma, the oil supply is quite sufficient, and I am not short of fighters, but I want to form a few armored forces to play, if you can support us with some tanks and armored vehicles, I think the meeting between us can continue, maybe we can exchange and meet on deeper issues." ”

Joey's Panzer Division swept through Vietnam and Thailand, especially in the plains, and Zhao Zhi had a large number of European-style tanks parked in his warehouse in Kunming, but the big guys had to sit idle there because of the lack of matching parts, and Zhao Zhi needed to find a solution if he wanted them to go to war. Molotov's appearance made Zhao Zhi seem to have found a solution, the Soviet tank was rough and thick-skinned, but it seemed that Zhao Zhi did not have the channel to get these big guys from the Soviets, so his purpose was not the tank, but the engine allocated to them.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Zhi's request was spoken, Molotov's face showed embarrassment, it was not difficult to support Zhao Zhi with some tanks, but the Kwantung Army had blocked the northeast, and Inner Mongolia was also under the control of the Japanese army, Molotov couldn't think of how to send a big guy like a tank to China and hand it over to Zhao Zhi. "General Zhang, I'm afraid this matter is not easy to handle, because I can't think of how the tank can cross the border between our two countries."

Molotov even thought of entering Xinjiang just now, but he quickly vetoed this idea himself, the Nationalist Government's control over Xinjiang is not secure, and there are even several White Russian cavalry units stationed in southern Xinjiang, those White Russians are all against Stalin's forces, and tanks are absolutely not allowed to go to Xinjiang. "General Zhao, the aid we are now providing to China can only be transported by air, and land and sea routes will not work for the time being." Zhao Zhi can only turn a blind eye to Molotov's nonsense, he has been forced to death by the German army, and he is still pretending to be a big man here.

"Boyuan, we still have to consider the actual situation, our border with the Soviet Union is indeed not suitable for the transit of large equipment, but if it is transported by air, there is really no way for the tanks and armored vehicles you just said to arrive." Chiang Kai-shek, who spoke at the right time, was really timely and broke the brief silence between Zhao Zhi and Molotov with a single sentence. Zhao Zhi wanted the tank engine of the Soviets, but it was not easy to put it forward directly, but Chiang Kai-shek's words just now paved the way for Zhao Zhi.

Molotov did not object to Chiang Kai-shek's words, and for him, he acted as a high-ranking messenger to show that the Soviets took the matter seriously. After contacting and talking with Zhao Zhi, Molotov's impression of Zhao Zhi was not very good, because what he was proud of so far did not seem to work in front of Zhao Zhi, because Zhao Zhi had been ignoring him, and his aggressiveness made Molotov very embarrassed.

The speed of the thunder in China was indeed beyond Stalin's expectations, and the Japanese were forced to abandon the whole of Burma, and in such a situation, Zhao Zhi was not satisfied with the status quo and transferred troops into Thailand to continue the fight against the Japanese army. Stalin couldn't figure out why the Japanese would give up the Burma-Thailand-Vietnam Peninsula to Zhao Zhi, and their purpose was not to control the whole of South Asia. It was precisely because he could not figure out these things that Stalin sent Molotov south to China for help when the Soviet Union was in trouble, and if the Thunder's combat effectiveness was indeed intimidating to the Japanese, Stalin might have really found a suitable help for the Soviet Union.

The Soviet tanks may not be the strongest and best tanks in the world, but the Soviet Union will definitely have one of the largest numbers of tanks in the world, and if Germany had not annexed the large number of heavy equipment military factories in Britain and France, the German army that fought with the Soviets would never have so many tanks and armored vehicles. While the Germans continued to consume and destroy Soviet tanks, the proud Germans were able to replenish their troops with a steady stream of new tanks from the rear through their solid supply lines, while the production capacity of the Soviet army could no longer keep up with the war attrition, and some units were even using tractor-welded steel plates as tanks.

In the melee of the German army, the Soviet army found that the invading German army could be called the king of rags, at first the Soviet army did not think so, when more than hundreds of Soviet tanks of various types that were hit and abandoned changed their livery and appeared in the German battle sequence, Stalin and his generals realized the crisis. The Germans fighting with them destroyed the heavy equipment of the Soviet army while repairing and using these trophies, so the Soviet tankers had one more task before being hit and abandoning the vehicle, that is, to completely destroy the tank, so as not to be used by the Germans as combat effectiveness.

"Since we can't transport those big guys in by land, let's do it another way." Zhao Zhi lit the cigar in his mouth, and looked at Chiang Kai-shek very vaguely, smoking in the villa on the south bank was a privilege that Chiang Kai-shek specially gave Zhao Zhi, and others did not have this honor. "I want a tank engine, yes, I only need a tank engine, I don't want anything else, you can just fly it over." Seeing that Molotov was a little puzzled, Zhao Zhi accentuated his affirmative tone.

Molotov knew that Zhao Zhi had an arsenal, and he also knew that Zhao Zhi had a group of Jewish military technicians under him, but he couldn't think of any use for Zhao Zhi's tank engine. The tank is not a truck, it is not assembled and can be driven on the battlefield, there are many parts that are matched with it, the speed and power are considerable, but the tank without weapons is simply an empty shelf, no different from a tractor welded with steel plates, and even more fuel-intensive than a tractor.

"2,000 high-horsepower tank engines and 100 engine technicians, this is my request, as long as the things are sent to China, the production process and parameters of the incendiary bombs will be handed over to you immediately, I think you should not want Lang to spend too much time, so I only give you three days to reply, I am very busy, there are still many things to deal with, so I will miss the company first." Molotov's pride was completed in front of Zhao Zhi, and after putting forward his final request, Zhao Zhi got up and said goodbye and left, but Molotov didn't know that Zhao Zhi did not leave the South Bank villa, but quietly went to Rowling's room.

"Boyuan, what do you want so many tank engines for? The Soviets are good, but they are too crudely built, and although you have raw materials in the oil fields and steel mills in Burma, when will 2,000 tanks be produced? Zhao Zhi, who saw off the chattering Molotov and got together with Rowling, hurried to Chiang Kai-shek's study, and as he thought, Chiang Kai-shek was really puzzled by his request for tank engines from the Soviet Union.

"There are still a lot of European-style tanks in our Thunder warehouse that cannot be repaired because of engine problems, and besides, my arsenal in Kunming has long been able to produce heavy armored vehicles, if there are these tank engines, Thunder can at least put more than 300 tanks and about 200 armored vehicles into the Shandong battlefield. What we need is the strong destructive power and protection of tanks, and if you add heavy machine guns to tanks without shells, then they are not bad as cavalry and personnel carriers. In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's doubts, Zhao Zhi only revealed a small point of his intentions.

Stalin made it clear in his secret letter that if he could not draw 40 divisions from the Far East before the Germans launched a new offensive, then the Soviet Union would probably cease to exist, so Stalin asked the Chinese government to send troops as soon as possible to contain the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army. It is best to let Thunder's elite troops follow the model of the Burma operation, and select a few main divisions and regiments among the Kwantung Army's units as the main target to defeat them, so as to achieve the goal of attracting the attention of the Kwantung Army and win opportunities for Stalin to transfer troops from the Far East.

Thunder is a mercenary organization, war is the foundation of mercenaries, if there is no war, mercenaries will lose their role, so Zhao Zhi is not excluded from sending troops to the northeast to help the Soviet army contain the Japanese army, he will only make a decision after getting the corresponding remuneration. Taking control of Jiaodong, Zhao Zhi could at any time allow his troops to land in Dalian by sea and then advance to the northeast, and such an operation did not violate the original intention of helping the American army contain the Japanese army.

The vast terrain in the northeast is very suitable for armored forces to fight, and while Joey's armored division is fighting all the way north, Zhao Zhi needs to prepare more heavy equipment to deal with the fierce battle from the Kwantung Army. After some explanation, it seems that Chiang Kai-shek also agreed with Zhao Zhi's request for tank engines, but the Bobosha submachine guns currently installed by the Soviet troops were also included in the aid list.