Chapter 527: Transaction (2)
The officer corps sent to China was actually detained for half a month, something that the French had never encountered before, and even the French government became angry.
Although in the French government today, many people are aware of the importance of China. It is even believed that France needs such a strong country in the Far East in order to safeguard French interests in the Far East, and even to contain Russia and Britainββββββ of course, these are all post-war things.
But in fact, most French government officials still have a strong sense of superiority in the face of China.
After all, in the eyes of the French, they have been a great power in Europe for hundreds of years. And what about China? At least from the time they first set foot on Chinese soil, China was already impoverished. Although China has some signs of becoming a great power, the French still do not think that China can compare with themselves.
Now the officer corps they have sent to China has been treated like this, and it is impossible to say that they can endure it.
If it weren't for the fear that China might join the Allies, I'm afraid the attitude of the French would have hardened long ago. But now, you have to know that because the British forced the Turks to the German side, the Black Sea, which was originally used to transport supplies to Russia, was actually blocked by the Turks, and the Battle of the Dardanelles launched by the British has also lost more than 100,000 people, although the British are still gritting their teeth and insisting, but in the eyes of the French, defeat has become inevitableββββββ God knows, when the battle was launched, the British swore that it would only take a few days. They will be able to take Istanbul.
The situation in the Entente was not particularly good at the moment, and the French were not willing to make the situation worse.
But even so, the French have already asked the officer corps after visiting the Chinese's plane. Then he returned to France by boat. Anyway, they don't believe that the Chinese can master any more advanced skills than them, and the so-called visit is just a routine.
Who would have thought...
Not long after the order of the French, the officer corps suddenly sent a telegram from China, claiming that the Chinese government also possessed the skills possessed by the Germans, and that if the Entente could also possess this technology, it would be able to reverse the disadvantage of the Allied aviation forces on the Western Front...
This telegram took the French by surprise, and they did not expect it. The Chinese actually have this kind of skill. And along with the Dao, there is also the British who are thinking about how to mediate the contradictions between China and Franceββββββ although the British are very eager to sow discord between China and France, but the current situation on the Western Front is indeed very bad. Britain, France, and other countries do not know how many young people fall under machine guns every day. Now in England, the bureaucrats and politicians are completely concerned with Europe, and have no interest in everything in the Far East...
After figuring out that the Chinese did have such a skill, Britain and France began to think about how to buy production licenses from the Chinese...
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Somewhere outside Beijing, in an army aviation base. The French officers who had just recently come out of the detention centre. There are also British and French military attachΓ©s in China who are standing aside, and in front of them, a new fighter plane is steadily stopping in front of everyone, and not far away, there is a wooden target placed there.
"Let's start..."Seeing the intently staring at those foreigners, Song Jing said to the pilot on the plane.
Receiving the order, the pilot on the plane nodded, and then the propeller blades in the nose slowly turned. Wait until the rotation reaches a very high speed. On both sides of the lower nose of the aircraft, two tongues of fire suddenly erupted. Easily, the tongue of fire tore the wooden target in front of him to pieces, leaving only a little thing on the ground.
"Guys, how's that?"
After signaling the driver to stop, Song Jing walked over to the British and French.
The British and French military attachΓ©s in China did not speak, but looked at the officers who had just come out. They came to China before the war, and they have no idea what is going on in Europe today.
And after listening to Song Jing's words, one of the officers said to a Frenchman. "It's a technique used by the Germans, it's just ......... How did you get this technique? β
Speaking of this, the officer seemed a little puzzled, he had heard the saying that the Chinese and the Germans were relatively close, and he knew that many weapons and equipment in the Chinese army were purchased from Germany. But such a technique, the German simply could not sell to the Chinese, so he would find it strange.
Hearing the officer's question, Song Jing couldn't help but laugh.
"Got? This technique is originally mine, and I didn't get it from anywhere at all, if you don't believe it, you can ask the military attache next to you, or Dead Thunder? Mr. Copa, we had already used this new type of aircraft during the Shandong Campaign last year, otherwise how could we have destroyed all the Japanese planes without losing a single plane in the Shandong Campaign? Compared to the Germans, we used this technique much earlier than they did..."
Hearing Song Jing say this, the officer looked a little incredulous. It was hard for him to believe that this technique was actually invented by the Chinese, and it was invented earlier than the Germans. This was unimaginable for white people with a deep sense of superiority, but he quickly thought of something else.
"That......... What is the skill of the Germans? As if thinking of something, the officer's face became a little gloomy.
Apparently, he thought that the Germans' skills were most likely provided by Chinese, if that was the case......... Doesn't it mean that the pilots who died in the air on the Western Front in the past actually died indirectly at the hands of these Chinese?
Guessing the officer's thoughts, Song Jing shook his head.
"I don't know this very well, after all, I'm just a junior officer, but personally, if we teach the Germans, it should be handed over to you, after all, we have the closest relationship with your country, and Germany can only be ranked second..."
Hearing Song Jing's words, the officer shook his head and didn't say anything more. On the contrary, the British man on the side looked a little strange.
If the Germans are in second place, and the French are higher ahead than the Germans, then ...
How many Britons are there? Third place? Or fourth?
According to rumors, the relationship between the Chinese president and the U.S. government is very good...
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After seeing the tests, the officer corps returned to the legation. Not long after they returned, they received a telegram from Paris. The telegram did not urge them to return to France as soon as possible, but asked whether the Chinese had mastered the same skills that the Germans possessed.
ββ¦β¦β¦ I actually have some questions about this..."Standing next to you, Ray? Copa said hesitantly. "After all, I came to China before the war, and I don't know much about the situation in Europe..."
"Rest assured, Mr. Minister." The officer who had been talking to Song Jing earlier smiled. "You are not mistaken, Chinese is indeed the German in his mastery, and ......... I'm afraid they mastered it earlier than the Germans ...
Talking about the officer to Ray? Copa and the military attache and some other embassy personnel, especially the Briton such as Zhu Erdian, who rushed to hear the news, explained.
"We all know that the use of airplanes in air combat was not so long ago, when pilots used all kinds of weapons, everything, and then someone moved the machine gun to the back of the plane, and then it had some meaning of air combat. But this is very inconvenient, after all, the driver and the machine gunner are not the same person, and it is difficult for two people to reach an agreement when they are in the air, and the requirements for tacit understanding are extremely high. However, if the machine gun is placed in the position of the nose, it is easy for the machine gun to break the propeller blades, so China invented a technique soon after, which is to install a metal slide plate on the propeller blade, so that even if the bullet is shot on the propeller blade, it will be slid away by the slide plate. β
"But it definitely has an impact on the firepower, and the bullets that slide off are flying around, and sometimes they may even fly into the cockpit (fact), but it's still much better than the original combat mode."
Speaking of this, the officer's face changed.
"Until the appearance of the new planes of the Germans, the new planes of the Germans did not have a sliding board, I don't know how, their propeller blades did not seem to interfere with the machine guns in the slightest, and the firepower could be fully exerted, but as a result, we were no match for the Germans at all in terms of firepower, and in the skies of the Western Front we were slaughtered by the German Air Forces, which is also one of the reasons why we came to China, because we wanted to change this fate at the moment..."
When he said this, many people, including the officers, remembered the scene when their brothers were shot down by the Germans one by one on the battlefield on the Western Front.
"In this case, I'm afraid we need to give the Chinese a suitable price..." After listening to the officer's account, Zhu Erdian nodded, and then muttered.
Next to him, Ray? Kopa nodded.
It was at this time that the telegram from Paris came again, this time Thunder? Kopa and Jurdian's task was simple, to get the technique from the Chinese. Even if it costs something, as long as it doesn't go beyond the bottom line of the two countries...
It has to be said that this condition is very generous, but it can also be seen that Britain and France really want to reverse the current situation in the air on the Western Front.
Although the situation in the air may seem unrelated to the ground, many reconnaissance operations of the ground forces rely on aircraft. And on the battlefield, their own air units were constantly shot down, which was also a big blow to the morale of the Entente troops ...
Naturally, in addition to this, there is also the issue of face ...
In recent times, the Germans have been slaughtering the Allied aviation forces, and by now, the Entente has lost almost three thousand aircraft, and the Germans, although not without losses, are very few compared to the Entente, how can this be accepted by the proud British and French ...
In order to reverse this situation, Britain, France and other countries have already made psychological preparations for heavy bleeding. (To be continued......)