Chapter 350: The Great War Resumes
In order to end the battle as soon as possible, these military officers not only mobilized a large number of fleets and air forces, but also used white phosphorus incendiary bombs that Fang Xiaoyu had been reluctant to use.
"You really don't feel sorry for spending money, you look at 1,000 tons of white phosphorus bombs, more than 2,000 tons of artillery shells, and they actually blew up New Guinea to the bottom, you are very capable." Seeing Fang Xiaoyu angry, these usually high-spirited Navy and Air Force officers could only bow their heads and listen quietly.
The officers of the Navy and Air Force bowed their heads, but the officers of the Army stood by with a look of schadenfreude, because there was nothing to do with the Army in this operation.
In recent years, the navy and air force have occupied a large amount of funds, which has made the officers of the army very unhappy; although they will cooperate closely on the battlefield, they are still very happy to see each other make a fool of themselves when watching this kind of drama in private.
"Look at it, 70 million military spending, not to mention that all the large warships of the navy need to return to Hong Kong to replace their gun barrels, how much is this, can't you save me some money?" Fang Xiaoyu pointed to the documents on the table and roared.
"Young Master, didn't you say you wanted a quick solution this time?" Zhang Haiyang felt that he was a little too wronged.
Fang Xiaoyu said: "But I didn't let you blow everything up, you see, although we destroyed New Guinea this time, we didn't get anything except those islands, and the accumulation of hundreds of years in New Guinea was all blown up and burned by you, what to use to plug this high military spending gap." Do you want me to stop the construction of new warships and airfields? ”
As soon as Fang Xiaoyu said this, the faces of the navy and air force officers immediately appeared anxious, if these war funds crowded out their troop construction funds, they would not regret their deaths.
Liu Junguo suddenly raised his head and said, "Young Master, I think there is still a remedy." ”
Fang Xiaoyu glanced at Liu Junguo and said, "Oh? Tell me about it. Liu Junguo said: "There are many newly acquired islands in New Guinea, and they are all on the sea route in the north of the wild continent, can the government sell some islands to the Chinese consortium in exchange for funds?" This not only saves development funds, but also fills the gap in military spending. ”
Liu Junguo's words made Fang Xiaoyu very moved, originally his original intention of making up his mind to destroy New Guinea was to completely control the northern waters of the Wild Continent, so as to complete his complete defense circle against the Wild Continent and prevent the leakage of high-tech there.
"This can be considered, but even if I can close the gap, you will remember this lesson for me. The next time you waste ammunition like this, I'll withdraw you. Hearing Fang Xiaoyu say this, it seemed that he had forgiven them, and the sea and air officers all breathed a sigh of relief.
Feng Shichang leaned over with a smile and said, "Young master, you can't be partial, our army should also invest more money." ”
Fang Xiaoyu glared at him fiercely: "It's none of your business, go cool down." ”
After the officers left, Fang Xiaoyu hung up the phone to Deng Jiaxiang as soon as possible: "Brother Deng, I'm Xiaoyu." ”
"Young master, how can you have time to call today, do you have any new ideas to tell me?" Deng Jiaxiang asked, now the scientists of the China Foundation have formed a habit, as long as they see Fang Xiaoyu, they will ask him if he has any new ideas.
Fang Xiaoyu didn't answer, but continued to ask, "What kind of research is Brother Deng's team doing now?" ”
Deng Jiaxiang replied: "Since the completion of the research on the three-stage nitrification method for the large-scale production of TNT explosives, we have been conducting research on new propellants. Oh yes, and there is also oil cracking that is also being systematically studied. ”
Fang Xiaoyu said: "Let go of the new propellant first, and concentrate on the napalm I mentioned last time, this project is very urgent, and we must go all out to study it." "The cost of the white phosphorus bomb is too high, and every time it is used, Fang Xiaoyu feels pain in the face of that large amount of military expenses.
However, the senior generals of the Chinese army, who were defeated, had a soft spot for incendiary bombs, and in order to reduce costs, relatively cheap napalm was very necessary.
Deng Jiaxiang held the phone in one hand and rummaged through the pile of documents on the table with the other, which was full of papers and ideas that could make chemists in the whole world go crazy, which were all given to him by Fang Xiaoyu.
"Napalm, I found it." Deng Jiaxiang checked out a document that was not thick and said: "This is not very difficult, it should be possible to get it out within half a year." ”
After receiving Deng Jiaxiang's affirmative answer, Fang Xiaoyu was quite satisfied, and he instructed: "Soon, start studying it immediately." ”
Fang Xiaoyu found that it was not wise to just hand over a large number of papers to these scientists, these scientists had no concept of priorities at all, nor did they have any strategic vision, their research order was based on their own preferences, and many urgently needed projects were shelved by them.
When Fang Xiaoyu decided to give them papers in the future, he must indicate the research level and standardize the research order for them, so as not to always have things like napalm research being shelved.
It was a matter of course that the New Guinea Islands were included in the Chinese Empire, but the newly acquired land was divided into two parts, most of the islands in the northern archipelago became the new Papua County, and the dozen or so islands in the south were purchased by the Chinese consortium for 100 million Chinese dollars as outposts on the Wild Continent.
After this series of actions, Fang Xiaoyu finally added a lock to the north and south passages of the Wild Continent, with such a tight defense, I believe that the Wild Continent can sit back and relax. For the sake of secrecy, the surviving New Guineans were sent to the St. Martin Empire, next to the Maori, and the fertile land vacated was left for the new immigrants from the Chinese Empire.
Of course, the benefits are not only that, after this battle, the Chinese Empire finally completely controlled a series of island chains on the east coast of the Eastern Ocean, plus the allies of the ASEAN, the entire Eastern Ocean was almost under Fang Xiaoyu's control, and the position of the Boston Empire was even more precarious, and their west coast had been completely exposed to the range of the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire without worries.
Winter is going to spring, and it's another year coming. As soon as the spring of 905 began, unprecedented troop movements began on the fronts of various countries, and a large number of updated armies were transferred to the battlefield, and all countries hoped to end this senseless war in the new year and achieve the most final victory.
Several years of war have brought the domestic economy to the brink of collapse, and a large number of young and middle-aged laborers have been sent to the battlefield, resulting in a shortage of factory workers, and a large number of women and the old and weak have to be sent into the factories to work in order to produce enough ammunition to support the front line, and the lack of labor has caused a large number of fields to be barren, so that the food reserves of countries that are not very good at food will immediately bottom out.