On March 28, 1940, the British government urgently placed an arms order for 20 infantry divisions with the Huaxia Arms Company, and hoped that the Huaxia Arms Company would deliver the arms to the British Government within a month.

However, to the surprise of the British government, the Huaxia Arms Company not only accepted this batch of orders, but also informed the British Government that it could go to Los Angeles at any time to receive equipment, but the price of the Huaxia Arms Company was higher than that of ordinary companies.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fact that there was no way for the British government to really want to make this deal with Huaxia Arms, it was not because of the price, but because the British government did not believe in the quality of the products of Huaxia Arms. Previously, they only knew that the Huaxia Arms Company had a batch of weapons and equipment in stock, but they did not know the specific model and quantity of the road.

The information provided by the US government is that the weapons and equipment produced by the Huaxia Arms Company are completely self-produced and sold, and will not be sold to the outside world. Judging from the armament of the armed forces, the weapons produced by the Huaxia Arms Company should be the German Mauser (Central Official) 1924 rifle and the Japanese Meiji 38 Year rifle, the pistol should be the Mauser barge gun and the Southern Japanese Type 14 pistol, the machine gun should be the Japanese Taisho 11th year (crooked handle) light machine gun and the Type 92 heavy machine gun, and the mortar should also be a Japanese 60 mortar.

But when Huaxia Arms handed over the list of weapons in the company's inventory to the British government, they were stunned, Mauser 98K rifles, Czech light machine guns, Maxim heavy machine guns, Thompson submachine guns, M1911 pistols, Longyi (Type 79) sniper rifles, 60 light mortars, 80 medium mortars, M43 120 heavy mortars, Krupp 75mm mountain guns, M101 heavy howitzers, Japanese-made melon grenades, M15 anti-tank mines, except for the absence of anti-aircraft machine guns and light and heavy tank armored vehicles. All light and heavy weapons are available, and most of the weapons and equipment in them are new weapons and equipment of various countries, and their performance is very advanced.

The ecstatic British immediately set up a group of military experts on the spot and rushed to the headquarters of the Huaxia Arms Company in Los Angeles to receive weapons and equipment.

Of course, there is no problem with delivery, but we do not pay on credit. By order of the British government. 20 integrated divisions, each division 11,200 rifles, 1,950 pistols, 320 light and heavy machine guns, 800 sniper rifles, 1,200 submachine guns, 36 Krupp mountain guns, 72 light mortars, 36 heavy mortars, 36 field heavy guns, plus 100,000 grenades, 10,000 ordinary mines, 5,000 anti-tank infantry mines, plus 5 base ammunition allocation. All the armament adds up to $5.8 million per division.

This is not counting the hundreds of military heavy trucks that are matched. The British government's order is as high as $120 million. Therefore, the Huaxia Arms Company demanded that the British government pay first and then receive the goods.

Although the British government was very unhappy, people had to bow their heads under the eaves. Now the Germans have hit the other side of the English Channel, and a large number of German planes go to Britain every day to bomb, it can be said that without weapons and equipment, the British will not be able to stop the invasion of the German army at all, although the price of 5.8 million US dollars per division is a bit expensive, and the advance payment is not in line with the identity of the British Empire, but the British government finally gave in.

After receiving the Citibank remittance notice, the Huaxia Arms Company immediately shipped the goods, and a large number of military vehicles transported boxes of sealed weapons and equipment to the coast of Los Angeles, and then loaded them onto ships and sailed to Britain.

In addition to weapons and equipment, the British government also made a request to Huaxia to purchase medicines. Previously, because the Australian government had also obtained the authorization of the Chen family to produce penicillin drugs, Chen Feng handed over all the British market to the Australian government.

Under normal circumstances, the Australian government's annual output of 1,000 tons of penicillin drugs can fully meet the needs of the United Kingdom, but as soon as the war broke out, the number of dead and wounded every day was calculated in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, what can the Australian government's production do, and the British government has no choice but to ask the Chen family for help.

Chen Feng did not refuse the request of the British government, and this is a good thing for Chen Feng, not only can he not refuse, but he also has to be entertained with good wine and food, and the customer is God, this sentence is a golden word for business workers no matter what era.

The British are gone, but the French are coming, don't look at the crying father and mother of the French being beaten by the Germans now, but after all, they are old Western capitalist powers, with a deep heritage, and as soon as they open their mouths, they are 30 divisions of weapons and equipment.

Of course, Chen Feng who has money does not refuse, the old rule is to pay first and then pick up the goods. However, France is not as happy as England, and the French government offers to pay half of the payment first, and the rest within a year. This pit is very huge, Chen Feng knows that the French government will not be able to support it for long, if it is credited to them, I don't know if the monkey will be able to get the money back. When de Gaulle came to power, he didn't necessarily admit the account, so Chen Feng decisively rejected the French government's request.

In desperation, the French government had no choice but to turn its target to the US government again, hoping that Roosevelt would intercede for the French government. The U.S. government once again played the glorious role of a broker, but this time the Huaxia Arms Company did not give Roosevelt face, but after all, his own company was on other people's turf, and the necessary explanations had to be given, so Chen Feng personally sent a telegram to Roosevelt, bluntly saying that France could not support it for long, and even half a month.

Chen Feng's meaning is very straightforward, he has only half of the funds now, so he can only sell weapons and equipment to 15 infantry divisions in France. But if the U.S. government is willing to protect France, it can sell 30 divisions of equipment to France, provided that the Americans are willing to do so.

However, although the US government did not believe that France, a traditional power, was as vulnerable as Chen Feng said, the US government also believed that it was impossible for the French government to end the war in a short time, so it was unwilling to guarantee France, and in the end, the French government could only purchase 15 divisions of weapons and equipment from the Huaxia Arms Company for $82.5 million.

This period of time was really a good thing for Chen Feng, and the full-scale outbreak of the World War not only made the Huaxia Arms Company, but also improved China's status in the world. Both Britain, France, and the United States and the Soviet Union now see the important role of China, especially the Soviet Union. the strength of the German army; To the great uneasiness of the Soviets, despite the existence of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, both Stalin and Hitler knew very well that if the other side wanted to, it was just a piece of waste paper that could be torn apart at any time.

The Germans, though now in Western Europe, are also aimed at Britain and France. But the Soviets were shocked by the powerful combat power of the German army, and compared with the German army, the Soviets found that the Soviet Red Army, which they were proud of, was actually a scum.

The Germans took 28 days to defeat Poland, then 4 hours to force Denmark to surrender, and then more than 20 days to defeat Norway, leaving Luxembourg without a fight and Portugal defeated in four days.

The Soviet Union also launched a war of aggression against Finland at the end of 39, but to the disgrace of the Soviet leadership, the war was fought for nearly four months, and the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses, but it still could not force the Finnish government to surrender.

Although the Soviet Union claimed that the number of casualties of the Red Army in the Winter War so far was 207608, of which 48,745 were killed and 158863 wounded. However, Chen Feng knew that this report was only a propaganda method of the Soviet Union, and did not reflect the actual casualties of the Soviet Red Army at that time, and it was a greatly reduced data. In 1970, the outgoing former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev, in his secretly published memoir "Memoirs of Khrushchev", referred to the losses of the Soviet Red Army in the Winter War, saying that "we lost millions of men."

In this war, the Soviet Union's resistance to Finland was underestimated. Before the war, the former Soviet Union thought that Finland was a small country, with weak national strength, weak military strength, and unpopular government, and that once the Soviet Union sent troops, the Finnish people would respond and end the war in a short time.

This miscalculation led to the hasty dispatch of troops by the Soviet Red Army, paralyzing the enemy, under-prepared, and failing to invest decisive forces at the beginning of the war: Finland concentrated 130,000 men and 500 guns on the main battlefield, while the Soviet Union only invested 200,000 men and 900 guns, although there were 1,000 tanks, but they did not use them well, but suffered heavy losses, and the Soviet army did not have the equipment to prepare for fighting in the forest in winter, and used a large number of combat vehicles, which had to be unturned for 24 hours to ensure that the fuel would not freeze, Caused a crushing failure of the first attack.

In addition, the Soviet-Finnish border lakes are crisscrossed, the forests are dense, the population is sparse, the transportation is inconvenient, and the climate is cold. It was not conducive to the actions of the Soviet Red Army with heavy equipment and large forces, and was suitable for the use of light equipment and small forces of the Finnish army. The Soviet troops participating in the Winter War consisted mainly of units from the south and were not adapted to the cold winter of Finland and the battles in the forests.

The Soviets fought this battle for four months, but they did not defeat the Finns, although the Finnish government, under the coordination of the Swedish government, was forced to submit to the Soviets, and the Finns were forced to give up 10% of the country, ending the war at the cost.

Despite the fact that the Soviets had won the worst victory in terms of the outcome of the war, the Soviet top brass was extremely dissatisfied with the performance of the Soviet Red Army. This is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods, compared with the German Wehrmacht, the Soviet Red Army is like an army of beggars, far behind! (To be continued......)