The five aircraft production lines that Chen Feng spent a lot of money on are now in production, although due to raw material problems, the output in the two months is only about half of the design capacity, and only 810 fighters have been produced so far. However, this number is already very surprising, even Germany, which is now feared by Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries, has an annual production of only about 1,500 fighters, and the number of the Eighth Theater is equivalent to about half of Germany's annual output, and it is also 8 times the annual output of France.

Compared with Japan, this output is already very amazing, and now Japan's annual output of aircraft is only 1,400, even if the problem of raw materials in the Eighth Theater cannot be solved, at this rate of production in four months, it will be more than 200 more than the Japanese army's annual output. However, Chen Feng also knew that the advantage of Ludao's production was only temporary, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army's aircraft production would have a huge increase, and its annual output could even reach the capacity of 10,000 aircraft per year.

However, Chen Feng is not worried, the air force is not a large number of fighters, it depends on the quality of the fighters. Just like this battle of Wuhan, the Nationalist Government had more than 1,300 warplanes, while the Japanese had only more than 700, which was only a little more than half of the Nationalist Government. However, because the Japanese army had more than a dozen of Liu's latest Zero fighters, the Nationalist government lost nearly 600 fighters in this war, while the Japanese army was only shot down 240 fighters, which is the gap.

At present, the performance of the Yi-15 and 16 fighters equipped in the Eighth Theater is indeed inferior to the Japanese Zero fighters, but the newly produced J-5 and J-6 fighters are about two generations more advanced than the Japanese Zero fighters, and their performance has surpassed the Zero fighters in all aspects. Even 100 of them are more powerful than 1,000 Zeros.

Moreover, now that the Eighth Theater has built three new heavy industrial zones, the problem of raw materials can be well solved in half a year at most, so Chen Feng is not worried at all that his air force will be worse than the Japanese army.

However, due to the installation of new fighters, most of the old fighters will face the embarrassing situation of elimination, so how to deal with the remaining 600 Yi-15 and 16 fighters in the Eighth Theater has become a problem, and in addition, there are still 200 of the 500 Yi-16 fighters that Chen Feng ordered from the Soviet Union that have not been delivered, which means that Chen Feng now has more than 800 fighters in his hands to continue to deal with them. After thinking about it, Chen Feng decided to talk to Lao Jiang, if he could take it all over, it would be the best.

After receiving a telegram from the Eighth War Zone, Lao Jiang was overjoyed. When I was really sleepy, someone brought me a pillow. After the two battles of Wuhan, the Nationalist Government Air Force was left with only one empty shelf, and only 26 fighters in the whole army could still fly normally, and the rest were all scrap metal.

For this reason, Lao Chiang specially sent a request for help to the Soviet Union. It was hoped that the Soviet government would be able to support some more fighters. But the Soviet side was busy with European affairs. He rejected the request of the Nationalist Government, but he did not expect Chen Feng to be willing to sell fighters to the Nationalist Government, and as soon as he sold it, it was 300 planes.

After being confirmed by Kangze. Lao Chiang immediately sent 300 pilots to the north and purchased 150 Iraq-15 and 16 fighters from the Eighth Theater at a price of $50,000 each, and also ordered 300 planes from Chen Feng.

The secrets of the new fighter were not only known to the Soviets, so he proposed to Stalin to gradually reduce the number of Soviet pilots in the Eighth Theater of Operations, on the grounds that the number of pilots in the Northern Air Force had exceeded 4,000 and that the task of Soviet pilots as instructors had been completed.

More importantly, the casualties of the pilots were too heavy, and he could not bear to let more Soviet pilots die in China. This is not an adulteration at all, since 38, the Soviet Union has supported a total of 726 pilots in the 8th theater of operations, including 1 major general, 4 colonels, 12 lieutenant colonels, and 54 majors. However, after a year and a half of fighting, there are now only 483 pilots left, of whom 74 are wounded or disabled, and the casualty rate has reached 44%.

Although the dead were all Soviets, Chen Feng still couldn't bear it, after all, they were all sacrificed for the cause of China's War of Resistance, so Chen Feng has never been stingy in terms of pensions, and each family of the war dead will receive a pension of 10,000 US dollars, and the wounded will receive a pension of 1,000 US dollars, which is much higher than the average standard of the Eighth War Zone and higher than the casualty pension standard of the national government.

The reason why the pension is so high is entirely because the families of these Soviets are far away in the Soviet Union, and he can't take more care of them except for being able to use money as some condolences to the families of those Soviet men who died on the battlefield in China. The soldiers of the Eighth War Zone are different, as long as they are soldiers of the Eighth War Zone, after they die, in addition to pensions, their families will also enjoy many preferential policies, such as free school and medical treatment for their children, priority work for adult children, exemption or less taxes at home, and so on.

That's how the Air Force did it, and then Chen Feng turned his attention to the South Pacific, and now the Australians are still on the way, and Yan Changxi and others are also on the way. Australians came to China to get penicillin production technology and equipment, while Yan Changxi and others came to accept territory.

Since the plan to purchase the islands has been successful, the next question is how to develop and utilize the two islands; according to Chen Feng's idea, of course, the seaport will be built first as a base for the navy, and then a large number of docks and industrial plants will be built on the island, and weapons and equipment, warships, and planes will be produced on the island.

Although the Australian government has promised to protect the islands of New Guinea and Tasmania for three years, to be honest, the factory does not believe in Australia's strength, and with their 90,000 army and the inaccessible naval fleet, they can't stop the Japanese at all. If the Japanese were to force an attack on the two islands, then the only thing Australia could do was to protest verbally, and Chen Feng did not believe that Australia had the strength to protect the two islands.

First of all, the island of New Guinea is almost an unexplored desert island, with only a population of hundreds of thousands, almost no heavy industry, and the only mineral resources that have been exploited are only two small iron mines and three copper mines, and there is nothing else.

More importantly, there are only a few hundred thousand people on the island, and when it is learned that Australia will sell the two islands, there will definitely be a part of the population moving out, and the population of the island will be more than 300,000 at that time.

After thinking about it for two days, Chen Feng finally decided that it would be better to wait for the Australian government delegation to arrive in Guisui, after all, he was not very clear about the situation on the two islands, so he could not make a perfect development strategy.

On October 12, the Australian delegation finally arrived in Guisui, they first arrived in Hong Kong by warship, and then arrived in Chongqing by plane, and finally arrived in Guisui by plane, in order to prevent the Japanese army from intercepting, the British Government and the Australian Government jointly sent a diplomatic message to the Japanese Government, hoping that the Japanese Government could restrain the Chinese troops on the battlefield and not affect normal trade exchanges.

This time it was still Arthur, the Minister of Finance of the Australian Government, who led the team, and Chen Feng received Arthur and others with the highest courtesy. Arthur and others came to China this time mainly for three reasons, the first thing was to wait for the production equipment and production process of penicillin drugs to be presented to Australia. The second thing to do is to visit the Chen family's territory in China. The third thing is to have a personal meeting with Chen Feng, the head of the Chen family, to find out which heroic figure he is and how he is going to be a neighbor with Australia.

Production equipment and process Chen Feng has been prepared, this set of equipment is Chen Feng let the following factories do it themselves, according to the process can indeed produce pure penicillin, but the output is not very high, the annual output of pure penicillin does not exceed five tons, in addition to the formula of the drug.

It is a recognized fact that the output of penicillin drugs is not high, which Australia and other countries have long known, and the output of 10 tons has far exceeded their expectations, and this production line is not very complicated, as long as it is imitated according to its specifications, it must soon be able to increase the production capacity by ten or twenty times.

However, the formula of that drug stumped Australia, and they also understood that Chen Feng's department sold 35 kinds of penicillin drugs, if they didn't have a formula, pure penicillin drugs alone would not work, after repeated requests from Arthur and others, and at the cost of Australia's full cooperation with Chen Feng's department to receive the two islands, they finally exchanged for 1 liquid and 2 oral clinical drug formulas from Chen Feng's hands.

In the next 5 days, accompanied by Yang Yi and others, Arthur and his entourage visited Baotou Heavy Industry Zone and Guisui Light Industry Zone, and also visited the guard division of the Eighth War Zone.

He was most impressed by the huge steel mill in the Baotou Heavy Industrial Zone, which was told by Chinese officials who accompanied her that it could produce 5 million tons of steel and 15 million tons of iron a year, a capacity that shocked Arthur and others, which is equivalent to two years of steel production in Australia.

In addition, the well-equipped and powerful troops also gave the Australian delegation a great shock, they originally intended to be bullied by the Japanese projectile country into such a China, and its national defense strength must be extremely unbearable, but now they see that the Chinese army is not only not rubbish, but surprisingly excellent and surprisingly powerful. What shocked Arthur even more was that according to Colonel Johnson, the deputy chief of staff of the Defence Forces, who came with him, this division alone would allow the Chinese to sweep across Australia!

These things made Arthur feel very uneasy about this family that was about to become Australia's neighbor, so Arthur asked to have a meeting with Chen Feng as soon as possible, and he wanted to know what kind of purpose Chen Feng had in order to be a neighbor with Australia! (To be continued......)