Chapter 377: Solving the Problem
Wang Haitao's words made all the German officers look at each other, and after a while, the two Krupp technicians woke up like a dream and shouted: "Go back to the ship immediately, we have to report to the company headquarters!" So the group returned to the freighter again. As soon as the two Krupp technicians got on the ship, they went straight to the telegraph room, and those German officers were even more polite to Wang Haitao.
Although he had not yet seen the chariot that Krupp had brought for Wang Haitao, Wang Haitao was not in a hurry at all, and he believed that Krupp would not be able to give up the advanced weapons he brought. Then Wang Haitao began to receive the weapons and equipment of that infantry division. Holding a thick stack of lists, Wang Haitao looked at it with a smile. The number of a standard infantry division of the German army reached 17,200, a figure that surprised Wang Haitao.
If you look closely, a standard German infantry division consists of a division headquarters, a reconnaissance battalion, a communications battalion, three infantry regiments (three infantry battalions per regiment), an artillery regiment, an anti-tank battalion, an engineer battalion, and a baggage brigade. Among them, there are 158 men in the division headquarters alone, equipped with two light guns, 17 motorcycles, and 31 various automobiles.
Of the total equipment on the list, 3,681 pistols, of which 3,200 were Mauser shell guns. Of the 12,609 rifles, 4,000 are new semi-automatic rifles, and the rest are Mauser K98 rifles. There were 521 submachine guns, 90 anti-tank guns, and 425 light machine guns, of which 200 were Czech light machine guns and 110 heavy guns, all of which were the most advanced MG42 machine guns.
84 50 mm mortars, 54 81 mm mortars, 20 75 mm field guns, 36 105 mm light howitzers, 12 150 mm heavy howitzers. 2 light armored vehicles, 530 motorcycles, 394 cars of various types. There were still hundreds of horse-drawn carriages, but considering that the horses were difficult to transport, the carriages were converted into trucks, and 500 bicycles were transported.
In addition to these weapons, there are five bases of bullets, artillery shells, anti-walkie-talkies, radios, special vehicles, gas masks, marching backpacks, fuel and so on. Wang Haitao finished reading it for a long time, and a smile appeared on his face. The people around him couldn't read German at all, and they also stretched their necks and looked at Wang Haitao's hand for a while, but except for some numbers, they couldn't see anything famous at all.
After patiently waiting for Wang Haitao to finish reading, several people asked at the same time: "Commander, are the numbers correct? The Germans won't fool us, right?" Wang Haitao glanced at a few people and said: "Fool us? There are more than 12,000 rifles, hundreds of machine guns, hundreds of artillery, and thousands of motorcycles and automobiles here.
Wang Haitao's words stunned all his subordinates, Wei Changxing muttered: "Obediently, there are 17,200 people in one infantry division, and it is about to catch up with our two divisions, military seat, how can you say that this infantry division still has thousands of vehicles, more than all our vehicles?" Wang Haitao smiled and said: "The German army is a world-class strong army, it can sweep through Europe and defeat the British and French powers, what do you think you kid can rely on?"
When Tang Yonggang heard what Wang Haitao said, he also asked: "Commander, with these equipment, can't we also become a world-class strong army?" Wang Haitao replied: "The world's first-class strong army, weapons and equipment are one aspect, and more important is the quality of the soldiers. ”
Wei Changxing said excitedly: "We won't go to war with the German army, as long as we can get rid of little Japan." While a few people were talking, two technicians from Krupp Company rushed in, and one of them took a telegram and said to Wang Haitao: "General Wang, the telegram that Director Alfred Jr. personally gave you. ”
Wang Haitao took the telegram and looked at it, the telegram little Alfred first greeted and congratulated a long paragraph, and then mentioned two weapons, the new tank is okay, especially the self-propelled rocket launcher, little Alfred expressed his hope that Wang Haitao can be lightly conceded to the Krupp company, for which the Krupp company not only exempted Wang Haitao from all the money owed, but also promised Wang Haitao to provide another batch of combat vehicles and new tank vehicles, these combat vehicles and tanks shipped this time were naturally given to Wang Haitao.
After Germany launched the war, the competition for the arms business in Germany also became fierce, not only the Krupp company, but also the Mauser company and the Rhein company were all vying for the supply of arms. Krupp occupies the largest market among several companies with the technology given by Wang Haitao, but if it does not develop, other companies will definitely catch up.
Through the description of a technician, Alfred Jr. has already identified a huge business opportunity with his keen sense of smell, so Alfred Jr. decided to get his hands on these two new weapons at all costs. Wang Haitao naturally understood Alfred's thoughts, in Wang Haitao's opinion, even if there is a new type of weapon in hand, it is useless to not be able to produce it, it is better to use it in exchange for the greatest benefit.
Wang Haitao asked the two technicians to call back Alfred Jr. and agreed to completely transfer the two new weapons to the Krupp company, but Wang Haitao also asked for 50 self-propelled guns, 30 heavy armored vehicles, and 20 Cheetah tanks. As a sign of goodwill, the two new weapons could be shipped back to Germany on freighters. The two technicians hurriedly ran to call Director Alfred Jr. back.
Wang Haitao spent another half a day translating the list of weapons to be received into Chinese, selecting important ones, and handing them a copy to Tang Yonggang and Wei Changxing, so that they could take people to receive them separately, otherwise relying on Wang Haitao alone, so many weapons and equipment may not be able to receive them in half a month. When Wang Haitao saw boxes of brand-new guns, brand-new artillery, and brand-new cars in the warehouse, they were excited at the same time, and the question of how to transport them back to Longzhou safely couldn't help but appear in everyone's hearts.
The best way was to ship everything back by ship, but now that Guangzhou had fallen into the hands of the Japanese, it was impossible to bring back this shipload of munitions even if it arrived in Guangzhou. For this reason, Wang Haitao, who was thinking hard, almost had the urge to lead his troops to take Guangzhou. Five days have passed in a blink of an eye, the reception has come to an end, and two new weapons have also been transported to the cargo ship, although the Germans have not yet spoken, Wang Haitao also knows that it cannot be delayed any longer.
Just when Wang Haitao was thinking about a way again and again, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind and he thought of a way. Now that Vietnam is a sphere of influence of the United States, if we can contact the American manager Pete, through the Morgan family, will it be possible to let the freighter dock at the port of Vietnam and then transfer it from Longzhou to a small freighter? Although it is possible to encounter a warship of the Japanese Navy on the way from Vietnam to Longzhou, it is safer to travel a long distance than to travel a long distance by land.
Thinking of this, Wang Haitao immediately came to the ship's telegraph room and sent a telegram to Tang Renli in Longzhou, asking Tang Renli to contact the United States immediately and strive to let the freighter dock at a Vietnamese port through the Morgan family. Wang Haitao anxiously waited for Longzhou's reply, time passed little by little, and finally a few hours later, Tang Renli's call back arrived, and the reply said that the United States had been contacted, but the specific reply had to wait a little longer.
At noon the next day, Tang Renli's second telegram arrived in Wang Haitao's hand, telling Wang Haitao that the Morgan Company of the United States had agreed to let the German freighter dock at Saigon Port through their relationship, but in addition to the port fee, it was also necessary to pay a docking fee to Morgan Company, and the supply contract signed with Morgan Company would also be traded at Saigon Port.
Wang Haitao was naturally very happy to solve two problems at once, one problem was that a shipload of munitions could be shipped here, and the other problem was that American supplies could be transferred to Longzhou. It's just that two problems seem to be solved, and one of the biggest problems is that it requires a lot of money. It has only been more than two years, and the money that Wang Haitao got in the Bank of Japan has been almost used, no wonder even the Nationalist Government is difficult to feed a large number of troops, and this raising troops is really expensive. But Wang Haitao didn't think about how he raised soldiers!
After the problem was solved, Wang Haitao went to negotiate with the Germans about turning the ship to the port of Saigon in Vietnam. After discussion, the shipowner agreed to turn the ship to Saigon Port in Vietnam in the form of Wang Haitao paying a freight fee. Wang Haitao handed over the task of escorting the munitions to Tang Yonggang and the guard battalion, while he and the reconnaissance company had to stay in Shanghai for two more days.
Wang Haitao's purpose in continuing to stay in Shanghai was naturally to make money, and with the experience of robbing the Bank of Japan last time, Wang Haitao thought of doing it again to solve the problem of insufficient funds in his hands. After the freighter left Shanghai, Wang Haitao returned to his residence and once again set his sights on the Bank of Japan in Shanghai.
After some reconnaissance of several Japanese banks in Shanghai, Wang Haitao still chose the "Imperial Bank" that he had visited last time. After making sufficient preparations, Wang Haitao and ten soldiers came to the back wall of the "Imperial Bank" in the middle of the night, and climbed over the wall with the same ease as the previous two times. Perhaps because Shanghai had become an occupied area by the Japanese army, the people guarding the bank were all Japanese soldiers.
Wang Haitao, who had been here once, avoided the guards from the hall and came to the gate of the vault again, and the door of the vault was replaced with an updated password lock with an alarm device, which was very advanced in this era at that time, but Wang Haitao was still too old, and it was not difficult to decrypt and unlock. Fifteen minutes later, Wang Haitao successfully opened the door of the vault and broke into the vault.
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