Episode 50 Big Fish

"So, why can't we do that?"

As soon as Xiang Xiaoqiang said this, he coughed twice and said:

"Hmm...... The Soviets clearly treated the pilots as cheap consumables, alas, we can't be like them! ”

None of the others spoke, looking at each other. It is estimated that it is also difficult to express an opinion on this kind of thing. First, whether the Soviets really trained new pilots in this way still needs to be further confirmed, and whether training fighter pilots with excellent machine gunners is really so effective cannot be based on such isolated intelligence alone. This is too bizarre after all. Second, if this is true, and pilots can really be trained so effectively and so effectively, then ...... The Ming army was faced with an awkward choice.

Either they want to do what the Soviet army did, or they still insist on their own "elitism" and win by quality. However, due to the small number of soldiers in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the army has always adhered to "elitism", and the word "fine" has been emphasized in selection and training. Moreover, it is precisely because of the shortage of soldiers and the relatively high cost of training each officer and soldier that we have also developed the tradition of "cherishing human life" and have tried our best to avoid the practice of "filling in with life." If you also learn from the Soviet army's methods, not to mention violating the traditions of the Ming army, even in terms of morality, it is a burden.

Li Gensheng hesitated for a moment and said:

"Your Excellency...... And that's not the only reason. We're not there yet. It is still a local war, and the scale is far from being as large as a reunification war...... Whether it is a plane or a tank, it is still within a certain scale. Now it is not the number of Soviet planes that affects our army's seizure of air supremacy, but those old Soviet pilots, that is, those who have returned from the Spanish battlefield. Our pilots can't beat anyone in the sky. And even if we fight for our lives, this is exactly what the Soviets wanted. They may be hoping that we will be like them, to see who can afford to die. We are certainly no match for the Soviet Union. …… Every month, the Soviets sent new pilots to the Spanish battlefield to rotate and train with the German Condor Legion...... A hundred may be sent and eighty will die, but the twenty who come back will slaughter us in heaven......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang says:

"And we don't have a training ground like the Spanish battlefield?"

Li Gensheng nodded:

"Yes."

"So we're mainly losing in quality?"

"Yes."

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded and sighed:

"I see. So...... Hegong, you go to the War Department and the General Administration of Military Industry in the afternoon to see how the mass production of the Goshawk (BF109) fighter is going. It seems that if we want to regain our air disadvantage in a short period of time, we will have to gather hope and this new fighter. ”

Wang Hexiang nodded:

"Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates will go in the afternoon."

"By the way, my lord," Wang Hexiang said with a smile, "there's news from Taipingji." ”

"Oh?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately became interested. Tai Ping Kee is the largest tank manufacturer in the Ming Dynasty, and it hasn't been seen for a long time since the last time a new half-track armored car was introduced.

"My lord," Wang Hexiang took out a document from his briefcase and handed it over, "This is the improvement material of their Lightning-4 tank." ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang took it and looked at it, and read softly:

"Lightning IV-A series medium tanks: military number SD4A/47L52/36, medium tank units equipped with the Panzer Division of the People's Guard...... The total weight is 24.1 tons, and the main armament is a 47mm, 42 times caliber long-barreled anti-tank gun, with 73 rounds of ammunition in reserve...... Secondary armament: two 7.92mm MG34 machine guns (1,800 rounds for course machine guns and 1,000 rounds for parallel machine guns). Maximum road speed: equipped with Daming engine (low cost) 38km/h, travel 155km, equipped with German engine (high cost) 40km/h, travel 165km...... Armor Defense: Turret front armor: 35mm (without shield), 55mm (with shield...... Hull Front Armor: 25mm, Hull Side Armor: 25mm......"

He looked up, shook his head and smiled:

"I said, isn't this an enhanced version of Lightning-3? My feeling is...... When will we be able to design the simple, durable, inexpensive, and fast-producing tanks of the Soviet Union? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that the atmosphere was not right. Many people looked at him with strange expressions.

"Okay, then let's get here first," Xiang Xiaoqiang coughed twice, waved his hand, and said, "Now that the war is tense, you still need to work hard." Alas, I'm not in good health now, and the doctor told me to lie in bed all day to recuperate, and he wouldn't let me come at this meeting...... It just so happened that Princess Liaoyang also served as the deputy commander-in-chief, and everyone couldn't find me for many things during this time, so I looked for her. ”

Fourteen Gege looked around at everyone and smiled, and nodded.

……

After the meeting ended, Xiang Xiaoqiang returned to the home next door. Fourteen Gege called Xiuxiu into his office and closed the door to study the latest confession of the Japanese spy who had surrendered.

Fourteen Gege flipped through the transcript of his confession and asked:

"I don't know if this person has a stomachache because of the anti-water thing, right?"

"I don't know," Xiuxiu shook her head, "He took the initiative to surrender, and now he has been arranged by me in a 'safe house' in the city and sent a few cronies to take care of him." This was just delivered. ”

Fourteen Gege looked down at the transcript and asked with a frown:

"What was his attitude when he confessed? Is it a bamboo tube to pour beans? Still is...... Hesitant to keep it? ”

秀秀 says:

"This ...... I didn't go to the trial in person, but I heard Ayu who came back with a confession that it was really not the kind of bamboo tube pouring beans. In the spy network arranged by Japan in the territory of Daming, this person seems to be a high-level figure, responsible for a big spy network in southern Jiangsu. There were eight people who contacted him directly. He seemed to know his worth a lot, he offered two people first, and then he kept bargaining with us. …… Sister Liaoyang, look, ...... these two people? ”

Fourteen Gege stared at the names of the two people on the confession, as well as the identity introduction below, and fell into deep thought.

These two men, one is a civilian officer in the office of the General Staff of the Navy, a major. The other is one of the largest fish in the Ground Aviation Command. He claimed to be the deputy of the person in charge of the spy network in southern Jiangsu, because the spy network had developed relatively large, and the person in charge felt that he was difficult to manage alone, so he repeatedly asked for assistance from the country, and Tokyo transferred this person to assist him.

And this person who defected to Cheng was previously the head of a Japanese spy network in the Northern Qing Dynasty. Now that the Southern Ming Dynasty has unified the whole country, the importance of the various spy networks in the Northern Qing Dynasty has dropped sharply, and Tokyo has begun to gradually transfer the intelligence forces of northern China to the south. Because, now Japan's only opponent in Asia is Nanming.

"Since he already has such a high status...... "Fourteen Gege said suspiciously, as he flipped through the transcript backwards, "Why did he suddenly throw himself at us?" Surely it won't be just for a few bucks. ”

Xiuxiu smiled:

"Sister Liaoyang, I really let you speak. This person...... He was a drug addict. ”

"Oh...... Oh," Fourteen Gege nodded, smiling in satisfaction, "That's right. ”

Xiuxiu then smiled:

"He got a morphine addiction during an operation and hasn't been able to quit since. And because this person has been a senior spy in the Northern Qing Dynasty for a long time, and has been in contact with the high-ranking officials of the Northern Qing Dynasty for a long time, his life is also very depraved, he spends money like dirt, and has various other bad habits, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling. And his boss was very dissatisfied because Tokyo sent him as a deputy. He has also been reprimanded many times, and he has also been sued many times in Tokyo. The main reason is that he has been transferred to Daming now, and the erosive living habits of the original Beiqing can't be changed, and the officialdom of Daming is much clearer, and he can't come to the money at any time like in the Beiqing Dynasty.

A few days ago, his boss showed him a Tokyo telegram and told him to return to Tokyo to report on his work...... He was scared, thinking that maybe Tokyo thought he was a hidden danger and that something bad would happen sooner or later, or maybe his boss found out about his drug use and told Tokyo...... Anyway, he felt that Tokyo was no longer willing to tolerate him, and probably wanted to kill him......"

Fourteen Gege nodded slowly as he listened:

"Well, kill it...... That's really the style of the guys in Tokyo. ”

秀秀 says:

So he thought about it and didn't dare to go back to Tokyo, so he surrendered to us. And we analyzed that even if Tokyo didn't plan to kill him, he probably wouldn't want to go back to Japan to live that kind of poor life. He plans to use the entire spy network as a big gift, and exchange it for future glory and wealth with our Daming. ”

Fourteen Gege nodded and smiled:

“…… And yet that's the kind of person we like. Hehe, it's good to like glory and wealth, I'm afraid he won't like it...... Well, he said that there was a boss who was much more important than him......"

As she said the word "boss," she rolled her eyes a few times and glanced toward the east wall.

Xiuxiu also immediately caught the eyes of the fourteen grids and glanced at it.

The next room to the east is the fourteen-grid lounge. Further east is the Confidential Radio Room. Further east...... That's the other wing of the building. It is the location of the headquarters of the security team. The big office in the easternmost part has a stomachache.

Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment, and immediately lowered her gaze, stared at the table, and made a statement that nothing happened.

And Fourteen Gege also retracted his gaze, smiled, and praised:

"Xiuxiu is good, you guys are really beautiful."

"Thank you, Sister Liaoyang."

Fourteen Gege suppressed his laughter and commanded in a low voice:

"This matter is also to be kept strictly confidential...... We don't have much time, so we can't drag it out too long. Interrogations must be brought to a fast conclusion. As long as the conditions he put forward are within the scope of 'money', we can agree to them first. The first priority was to get the name of the 'chief in charge' in his mouth. Next, if ...... If it's not what we think, then we can leave it to the security team to take it slowly. Do you understand? ”

Xiuxiu's heart sank, she knew what Fourteen Gege meant by "what we imagined". Moreover, she used "we". It seems that Fourteen Gege is also tacitly aware of himself.