Chapter 1050: To buy an airplane

Qiao Youhua nodded and said, "It's been almost a year, it's time to send a telegram to Li Yansan and them, ask them if they have completed their studies, if you can, it's time to return to the country to serve the country!" ”

"Li Yansan? Do you mean the group of fighters you sent to study in Germany? Zuo Quan had also heard before that Qiao Youhua had made some deals with the Germans and sent a group of outstanding soldiers to Germany to secretly participate in the training and study of pilots and the Air Force.

However, Qiao Youhua never told him in detail, and he didn't ask, after all, it was the plan that Qiao Youhua had arranged before, if the time was ripe, I believe that Qiao Youhua would take the initiative to tell him, isn't it now?

Qiao Youhua's cigarette was almost finished, he threw away the cigarette butt, lit a new one, and handed Zuo Quan one, then sat on a chair and said: "I feel that under the premise that I have spent so much money, Li Yansan and they should have learned almost enough, after all, the war in my country is tight, and I can't give them too much time to study, so I ask the German side to give them the most rigorous training."

And there is no limit to test flight training, and now is the time for them to return from their studies and serve the motherland. ”

Zuo Quan listened to it with a half-understanding, and said in confusion: "But, even if they come back from their studies now, we don't have enough fighters for them to use, aren't there hundreds of students you sent?" ”

"Well, plus the qualified ground crews who were selected and sent one after another, there should be more than five or six hundred people, and when they come back and lead a group of new soldiers to take charge of the ground crew, it is enough to form a regiment-level flight unit." Qiao Youhua took a puff of cigarette and said, "As for the fighter, I'll figure it out!" ”

"You're going to figure it out?" Zuo Quan's mouth opened wide in surprise, and he was very curious: "What can you do?" That's a fighter, I'm afraid one will cost tens of millions, or even more, I'm afraid we don't have the financial resources to buy so many fighters, and a flying regiment will need 50 fighters, right? Excluding the twenty or thirty Japanese fighters we captured at Tianjin's Wanjiazhuang Airport, we still need more than 20 more planes, at least hundreds of millions of silver dollars, and even the central government may not be able to come up with so much money now. ”

Qiao Youhua smiled mysteriously and said, "Chief of Staff, sometimes if you want to buy something, you don't necessarily have to pay for it?" ”

"Don't pay for it? Can the seller still give it away for nothing? Zuo Quan said in surprise.

"It's not for nothing, Chief of Staff, what do you think is the value of the arsenal of our Dragon's Tooth Column in Pingshan County?" Qiao Youhua asked with interest.

Zuo Quan was surprised, he really hadn't thought about this problem, but he had participated in the preparation of the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the construction of the arsenal of the Yan'an Left-behind Corps, and all the main equipment was purchased at a great price, while the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters could only produce ordinary rifles, light machine guns, imitation grenadiers and mortars, and even heavy machine guns, and the output was extremely low.

The arsenal of the Dragon's Tooth Column can not only produce rifles, pistols, general-purpose machine guns, but also howitzers from grenadiers to 105mm caliber, and even heavy howitzers of 150mm caliber are almost ready to be produced.

In addition, it also has the ability to mass-produce tanks, armored vehicles, military trucks and jeeps, although the production of these high-end equipment was very slow at the beginning, but now with the acceleration of the run-in in all aspects, the production has slowly increased.

The tanks, armored vehicles, anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, and various artillery and individual equipment required by the four divisions of the Longya Column have been gradually perfected, and they can be stocked for reproduction in the future, whether it is to reequip the brother units of the Eighth Route Army or to form new units.

And how much should such a well-functional, well-equipped arsenal complex be worth? I'm afraid it's far from being comparable to dozens of fighters, right?

I don't want to know, think about it carefully, Zuo Quan really has a feeling of being frightened, unconsciously, in this short period of three or four years, Qiao Youhua's dragon tooth column has not only made great achievements, but also buried itself in the development of such an unprecedented scale of industrial factory groups, and trained a large number of related technical personnel.

With such a large scale, even the Northeast Army, which was originally dominant in the four provinces outside the Guanhai and most of North China, was difficult to match.

The Northeast Army was able to produce tanks and airplanes with backward performance in the end, but it took more than ten years for the two generations of Zhang's father and son, and the financial, material and manpower spent during this period was simply incalculable.

Therefore, thinking of this, Zuo Quan couldn't help but be in awe of Qiao Youhua and the four brothers, starting from a small mountain village, they have created such a large foundation in just a few years, which is simply a miracle, but, just like the miracles they have created on the battlefield, although it seems so impossible and incredible, they did it!

The reality is in front of them, and no one can not believe it, and such people would have had every opportunity to choose to become a warlord on the hegemonic side in this troubled era, but they did not do so, but took the national and national interests as the priority, and chose to join the Eighth Route Army, if it were not for Qiao Anbang, they were really loyal to the party and completely obeyed the orders of the headquarters and the central government, Zuo Quan couldn't even believe that this was true.

And the reason for all this, in Qiao Youhua's own words, the four brothers all believe that only the Communist Party of China can save China, and only now, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee headed by Chairman Mao, can they save the Chinese nation in dire straits, and lead them to become rich and strong again.

And later history also proved this, just imagine, during the Manchu Qing Empire, the invasion of the eight-nation coalition army, what a humiliation, what a show of martial power, but only a few decades later, the Chinese People's Liberation Army fought a fierce battle on the Korean battlefield with the most powerful army at that time.

At that time, the armies of Western countries led by US imperialism were as many as 18 countries, known as the 18-nation coalition army, which had the most powerful navy and air force in the world at that time, the most complete logistics system, and the most sophisticated weapons and equipment, but they were forced to sign an armistice agreement by most of the Chinese troops with millet and rifles.

That war played out the backbone of the Chinese, played out the military soul of the Chinese, laid the foundation for the world's top five seats, and announced to the world that the oriental dragon had awakened and the Chinese nation was no longer the sick man of East Asia who was bullied by others.