Chapter 293: The Temptation of the Battleship (II)

On the one hand, the bait has changed from one to two, which makes Stalin even more uncontrollable, on the other hand, there are only two battleships left in the Japanese Navy today, and although the battleships of the Soviet Red Navy are only relics of the imperial Russian era, there are as many as three, plus Japan, as an island country, cannot have the courage to take out all the ships and fight hard, coupled with the overwhelming superiority of the Soviet Union in the army, Stalin is confident that Japan will not dare to turn against the Soviet Union for this, even if they jump over the wall in a hurry, The Soviet Union doesn't have to be as jealous as it was at the beginning, it's a big deal to help China teach those oriental monkeys a lesson, who is afraid of whom?

Having said that, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the Soviet side did not make the matter public, but only privately negotiated with the Chinese and two parties.? Come on,.! Chiang had always attached little importance to the navy, and was keenly aware that this might be a good opportunity for the Soviet Union to go to war against Japan, so he agreed to the Soviets' request. In particular, the price offered by the Soviet Union is indeed not low, and they promised to provide the Nationalist Army with Soviet-style weapons sufficient to equip 20 Light Infantry Divisions of Class A and ammunition supplies sufficient for them to fight several major battles, although some of them (especially the rifles are old-fashioned Mosin Nagant) are old-fashioned equipment that the Soviet Army has eliminated in the past two years, but the total price is not less than 20 million US dollars (Note 1) at the international market price (Note 1), and Lao Chiang has so far provided the Third Fleet with several hundred idle naval officers and men. This is almost the same as a white wolf with empty gloves, so a fool doesn't do it!

However, the Red Party reacted differently, Taizu was also a "giant ship artilleryist" in his bones, and the Soviet Union's attitude of ambition to win had stabbed his national pride. But after calming down, Taizu also realized that the industrialization of the Northwest Frontier Region was still inseparable from the help of the Soviet Union for the time being, and Zhou Gong was right, Hu Weidong had to be consulted on these things

Hu Weidong's first reaction after learning of this incident was also angry, but after all, he was born in Jishu, and his personality was not very impulsive, so he quickly calmed down, he understood that the current Chinese Red Party could not turn its face with the Soviet Union, so this request could only be agreed, so all he could do was to get as much benefit as possible from the Soviet Union. Although he was unwilling, Hu Weidong could only comfort himself that the maintenance of battleships was too expensive, and this thing was about to become obsolete

After some deep thought, Hu Weidong listed in a telegram to the party Central Committee that he wanted to make three demands and three conditions. First of all, China has no giant ships and cannons, then it can only develop "flying and diving", the Soviet Union must provide China with the required personnel and equipment, Hu Weidong also specifically named and asked the Soviet designer Tupolev, who has a very high level in both aircraft and ship design, to come to China for three years to guide and help China design and build its own torpedo boats and other small ships (for large and medium-sized ships, including submarines, Hu Weidong did not want to introduce from the Soviet Union, on the one hand, the Soviet-related jishu is relatively backward, on the other hand, Eggs cannot all be put in one basket), and participate in the development of Chinese aircraft. Stalin was not unaware of Tupolev's talents, but his eagerness to get two battleships made him agree to this condition, anyway, Tupolev is still in prison, so give him a chance to atone for his crimes.

Soon, Tupolev, who had been unjustly imprisoned in the Great Purge, finally regained his freedom and left the 29 Research Bureau of the General Directorate of State Security (the predecessor of the KGB) to go to China, Stalin also agreed that he would take an assistant and a barely enough number of senior mechanics, Tupolev's son, Sukhoi, a young aircraft designer who has now made a name for himself in aircraft design but has not yet been able to take charge of his own affairs, resolutely gave up the project in his hand that was about to be completed to others, and followed his mentor to China as an assistant, and by the way, he escaped the intensification of the situation, the Great Purge that caused panic in the hearts of the people

Then, Qingdao's air defense task was very heavy, so Hu Weidong demanded that all the anti-aircraft weapons on the two battleships be removed and left in Qingdao, and Stalin agreed to this request, ordering the Soviet Pacific Fleet to prepare a sufficient number of ships to transport anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft shells to Qingdao to re-equip the two battleships, anyway, since the distance from Vladivostok to Qingdao was much closer than the European part of the Soviet Union to Qingdao, they must have arrived first. In this way, Qingdao's air defense Liliang has undoubtedly been further strengthened during the rearmament, even if the caliber of the Soviet-style anti-aircraft guns is relatively strange, the Central Plains border region will not open a new production line of anti-aircraft artillery shells for temporary needs, and the effect of the old-fashioned fuses used in the air defense operations of these anti-aircraft guns is not worth looking forward to, but even if it is only to disperse the forces of the devil's air raids, it is beneficial. And it must be explained that just in case, Stalin asked the Soviet Pacific Fleet to bring three times the required amount of anti-aircraft guns in one go, if the devil is an air attack, the probability of the Soviet anti-aircraft guns being blown up is definitely greater, and the effect of this cannon fodder is absolutely trustworthy

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Hu Weidong also suggested that the Soviet side directly send personnel to come over by land, anyway, the line from Suiyuan to the south has been recovered, and after arriving in Zhengzhou, take a train directly to Qingdao to board the ship, and drive the two battleships back to the Soviet Union, which is much safer than spending the fleet over. Of course, the entanglement of these thousands of people along the way also had to be paid by the Soviets themselves, and with the current treatment of the Soviet Red Navy, this trip would have to cost millions of dollars, plus the fuel and ammunition needed by the two battleships could be charged, adding up to millions of dollars. ”

In order to prevent the two battleships from being blown up by the Japanese fleet before the Soviets arrived in Qingdao, Hu Weidong also demanded that during this period, the Soviet Union's air force also provide air support to the Central Plains border area. And after the two battleships are driven away by Maozi, on the one hand, the devils may not invest such a powerful aviation force in Qingdao now, and on the other hand, the border arsenal should also be able to produce more anti-aircraft guns and send them to Qingdao to strengthen the defense. Airfields are a problem, but on the one hand, the Shandong base area has been building field airfields on a large scale, and on the other hand, most of the planes in the Fifth Theater have a combat radius that is within reach of Shandong

Note 1: Stalin once offered 60 million to 100 million US dollars to buy a battleship from the United States, but the United States refused to sell it, but after all, the King Kong-class battleship was converted from a battle cruiser, and it has been more than 20 years since it was launched, and it is not a new type of battleship at the leading level of Shijie, even if the devil has been modernized, if it is real, one is worth at most 30 million US dollars, and the Soviet Union is not too low in terms of half of the property rights

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