Chapter 372: The Sword of a Great Power

There are several cadres of the Anti-Japanese Federation who were active in the Soviet-occupied areas because of their heroes saving the United States, and they not only gained a good impression of the Germans, but also gained love. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Yang Zhen finally approved the reports of these cadres after several considerations. However, after returning to China, these cadres were transferred from their original posts as soon as possible.

Although they are already very skilled in this set of business, no matter which direction they are transferred to work, they will pick it up as soon as possible. But it is impossible for Yang Zhen to hand over confidential matters to people who have foreign-related marriages. Even though Yang Zhen believes in their loyalty, the problem is not as simple as that.

According to the regulations of the Anti-Japanese Federation, those who engage in such clandestine work are not even allowed to marry North Koreans. Even if you are looking for a girlfriend, you have to go through a strict political review. Once you are repatriated, you will not be allowed to leave the country for the rest of your life, and the confidentiality of many things is for life. None of the Koreans allowed it, let alone the Germans?

Just considering the hard work and price paid by these cadres in the operation, especially one of them, who was also crippled by a mine. Yang Zhen finally approved these marriages, but the price they paid was not small. What awaits them is not only that they will not be able to do important work after they are transferred back to China, or even that they will not be able to lead troops, but they will also leave comments in the file that restrict their use.

Fortunately, there are only three people, otherwise Yang Zhen would rather beat the mandarin duck with a stick than approve this matter. The most important thing is that these dude's German lovers can help bring some convenience to their work in Germany. And Yang Zhen didn't agree with the practice of using it and lifting his pants and leaving, so he finally agreed to the marriage of these people.

It's just that after these few people returned to China, when they saw the German daughter-in-law that these guys were looking for, Yang Zhen not only secretly sighed that these guys were really shit lucky. The first requirement for engaging in intelligence work is not to be beautiful men and women, the more ordinary the appearance, the better, and the kind that cannot be thrown in the sea of people is the best.

In this way, it is not easy to find a college student in China. As a result, these guys went on a trip to Germany, and not only found that their daughters-in-law were all authentic German beauties, but also college students. One of them is actually a doctor of materials science, and the other two are either doctors or teachers.

Of course, these guys brought back not only their German daughters-in-law, but also their families. Only then did Yang Zhen know that in the West, although the relationship between relatives is not as close as that of Chinese. But when necessary, it's the same. Seven aunts and eight aunts, dozens of people came.

Most of them are still high-level intellectuals, three or four university professors alone. In Germany, where there is a famine right now, life is difficult for all people. Although the war in the East has not yet ended, for these people, after all, China is still relatively peaceful.

So after his family found a Chinese son-in-law, all the big bags followed. There was only one thought on their minds at the moment, and that was to get as far away from the Soviets as possible. For the arrival of these people, Yang Zhen naturally welcomed. Not only did they instruct them to settle down properly, but they also asked for some care in their lives.

But no matter what the anti-Japanese coalition personnel who went to Europe thought of the soldiers in charge of military control in the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. But without some people in these three armies, especially the greedy among the American and British officers, it would not have been possible to obtain such a great harvest by collecting equipment and equipment in the European theater this time.

A large number of equipment and materials that have been continuously brought back, as well as a large amount of equipment, have ensured that the combat effectiveness of the anti-coalition forces entering the customs after the war, especially the fighter units of the air force, has not been cut off under the condition of their own limited output. At the same time, in the Pingjin region, a certain amount of equipment reserves were ensured.

Even the more than 20 Italian third-hand cargo, together with the more than 10 originally equipped by the Anti-Japanese Union, served as civil aviation aircraft after liberation and were used as airborne training planes until the end of the 50s. Even in the absence of a spare engine, and the service life of the airframe is still sufficient. The Wright engine of the B24 bomber was used, and the original Italian engine was replaced.

By implementing these plans, Yang Zhen almost exhausted the reserve funds of the Northeast Bureau. A sum of gold was also requested from the central government and exchanged for a sum of foreign exchange in the United States. Even in order to get enough funds, Yang Zhen also negotiated with his father-in-law and withdrew two years of dividends in advance. The intelligence department of the Anti-Japanese Union also provided part of the funds, which was enough to make up the funds.

The gold requested by the central government is 60% of the funds handed over by the central government from the anti-Japanese federation over the years, as well as from the funds handed over by various liberated areas. If it weren't for Yang Zhen's secret negotiations with the chairman after flying to Peking several times, he finally persuaded the chairman to approve his proposal. This amount of gold, which is almost the last money of the central government, will not be willing to take out so much at once no matter what.

At the same time, in order to ensure the collection of transport planes and fighters, the formation of combat effectiveness before the end of the war. Beginning in April 45, Yang Zhen began to reduce the forces invested in the bombing of Japan under unnoticeable circumstances. In order to free up pilots, the modification of the aircraft can be completed in the shortest possible time.

Of course, the gradual reduction of investment in bombing against Japan is not all because of these plans. Another part of the reason is that after high-intensity use, a considerable part of the Stirling bomber group, which has the largest number of Stirling bombers in the anti-Japanese alliance, has reached the end of its service life.

Moreover, under the situation that the Americans are investing more and more in the bombing of Japan, there is no longer much need for the Anti-Japanese Union to maintain the original bombing intensity. Therefore, in April of four or five years, Yang Zhen began to ground the remaining 500 or so planes of this kind one after another on the grounds that the Stirling bomber had reached its service life.

By the end of May, almost all of these British-made bombers had withdrawn from the front line of bombing against Japan. Some of it was transferred for transportation, some for maritime patrol aircraft, and most of the rest was mothballed. A group of aircrews was freed up to receive the newly arrived German-made transport fleet.

At present, the British have stopped providing spare engines and parts for the Stirling bombers of the Anti-United Nations, which gives Yang Zhen a good reason. Not only the Stirling bombers, but also the B24 bombers, which had begun to resist the United Nations in early June, also began to gradually withdraw from the front line of bombing against Japan.

In fact, by this time, the entire Japanese mainland was basically left with no worthwhile targets to bomb. The remaining number of targets is simply not enough to use so many bombers. If it continues to blow up like this, Yang Zhen's follow-up plan will be greatly affected.

Regarding the gradual reduction of the Anti-Japanese Union's bombing investment in Japan, the United States did not believe Yang Zhen's somewhat clumsy excuse. But after the end of the European theater, the Americans who have completely freed their hands. However, it was on the slope of the donkey, and gradually stopped the confrontation with the United Nations to provide spare parts for the B24 bomber.

Moreover, with Pearson's transfer to the Southwest Pacific Theater Headquarters, the Americans completely stopped providing ground weapons and equipment, and assistance from other areas also began to decrease significantly, and even began to stop some material assistance one after another. The relationship between the Anti-Japanese Union and the United States has also become colder and colder, and at present, the two sides have only maintained a superficial relationship without breaking down.

Although the US air base in North Manchuria is still in use, and its bomber group in North Manchuria, the vigilance of the anti-United Nations side is becoming more and more severe, and the consultation with the anti-United Nations side is becoming less and less. The Americans have made it clear that they do not want post-war Japan to be joined by the Red Chinese.

Yang Zhen, who is well aware of the Americans' practices, does not care about the attitude of the Americans who are gradually estranged, but is steadily and quickly secretly implementing his plan. Bomber pilots were successively turned into transport pilots. But this does not mean that all the bomber pilots who have been withdrawn have all been converted to transport pilots. The backbone of it should still be retained.

In Yang Zhen's view, the rare experience gained from bombing Japan must not be discarded. Although post-war China, these strategic bombers, I am afraid, have little use. But these bomber groups stationed in the northeast are enough to create a sufficient deterrent in any way, both internally and externally.

The strategic air force is not a tactical air force, and it is certainly not easy to set up, and it also costs a lot of money to use, especially the design and manufacture of strategic bombers, which is a test of a country's overall scientific and technological and industrial strength. Countries and armies that do not have a certain strength cannot afford to raise even a bomber like this.

However, the strategic air force has a strategic deterrent capability that the tactical air force cannot match. Once activated, it will play a role that the tactical air force cannot match. If the tactical air force, which has always been strong, can build a sky umbrella for its own country. Then a well-trained strategic air force is the sword of a country.

When your enemy wants to invade you, he will repeatedly weigh your means of revenge. Especially at present, and for a long time to come, strategic bombers are the only means capable of launching large-scale strategic retaliation against enemy countries during war.

Yang Zhen doesn't want to have the kind of time when others can hit you, but because your arms are too short and you can't reach others, you can only suffer losses but can't retaliate. Just like Germany and Japan before and Japan now. The homeland was bombed by the Americans, but they couldn't reach the Americans if they wanted to retaliate.

To weaken the strategic air force is to cut off one of one's most powerful arms. The power of the internal strategic air force and the small surrounding countries is far inferior to that of the tactical air force. However, in foreign operations, especially in conflicts with major powers, the strategic air force has an incomparable advantage over the tactical air force.

He has painstakingly developed the air force, and in the face of the extreme shortage of qualified personnel in the base areas, he has worked hard to ensure the replenishment of air force personnel. From picking up Polish junk and Japanese trophies, to accumulating little by little from American-made P-39 fighters and Soviet-made Il-4 bombers.

After several years of development, it has grown from scratch to now has an aviation unit that is second to none in terms of scale, quality, and efficiency, and has paid a lot of effort for this. The experience he has accumulated in carrying out air raids against Japan under so much pressure from within the party and the military, especially the experience gained in the formation and command of heavy bomber groups, and in long-range navigation, must not be easily discarded.

No matter what the direction of China after the war, there is one thing that Yang Zhen cannot doubt. If you want today's events not to be repeated in the future. What is needed is not only nuclear weapons that will make the enemy fearful, but also an air force that can be both offensive and defensive, and a combination of far and near.

Especially in the future, China's navy will only be able to operate in coastal waters for a long time. China's technological foundation will not be available for a long time under the condition that there will be no other means of strategic deterrence. Having a real means of strategic retaliation is the mission and capability that the Chinese Air Force should have in the future.

The current gradual cessation of activities does not mean complete dissolution. What should be retained should be retained, and what should be repurposed. Yang Zhen not only wanted to retain the establishment of the strategic air force and the combat aircraft group, but also demanded that the aviation industry department speed up the surveying, mapping and imitation of the B-29 bomber. It is hoped that within two to three years, such aircraft will be put into production.