329 Reflections of Major General Smith
Major General Smith, as in Southeast Asia, also followed Gao Jianwu through the encounter in its entirety this time.
This can't get the little devil to cooperate in advance, if you have to say that there is any connection, it can probably only be said that Major Smith will mock himself.
Although it was a chance encounter, in the eyes of Major General Smith, the whole battle looked like an exercise, with air-ground coordination and infantry coordination, Gao Jianwu used a mechanized battalion to teach a small devil a brigade as a grandson to teach a lesson.
After a burst of bombing, the dense formation of the little devils was concentrated and barbecued by the aerial bombardment, and then the tanks bombarded a burst of artillery bombardment, and the unobstructed little devils cried wolf again, completely losing the battle formation.
In the face of the scattered little devils, after the tanks and the assault companies behind pressed up, one by one the little devils simply became the targets of the tanks and the soldiers of the Southeast Task Force to practice!
After seeing this, Major General Smith knew that Gao Jianwu had won another game, although he didn't hear too clearly that Qiu Renfu took a company to block the back of the little devil, but before the battle, he asked a local to set off with a troop, and Major General Smith didn't need to understand Huaxia to guess what Gao Jianwu wanted to do.
"Gao, it looks like you've found a good way to deal with the little devils. Today's fight was so exciting that I don't think I have anything to worry about. Major General Smith said with a smile.
He saw that this time Gao Jianwu didn't care about it except for directly commanding the deployment, and directly accompanied him to brag about the battle, and Smith understood that this tactic must be a mature routine that the Southeast Task Force had long been familiar with.
"It's not a big problem to deal with the little devils now, but unfortunately there are not many opportunities like this, and such opportunities are fleeting, and it is difficult for us to grasp them every time." Gao Jianwu responded with a smile. "Now we don't have many mechanized troops, plus the mountainous area of the island occupies most of it, there are not even roads in it, and mechanized troops can't get in.
So a lot of times we have to move troops quickly, preferably from the air, which is why I want a couple of transport planes to use the airborne commandos. β
"I know I'll do my best to fight for you, but there's no guarantee." From a tactical point of view, Major General Smith very much agrees with Gao Jianwu's views.
It's just that he is still a little far from the core of decision-making, and he can only fight for it through General Steven.
"John, you're an old friend of ours, and I won't say anything else." Gao Jianwu's words changed sharply, and suddenly cut into another topic.
"John, in my opinion, the war should not last long, it will be over in a year at the fastest, or two years at the slowest, do you still want to stay in the army after the war is over?"
"Huh? This..."Major General Smith was caught off guard and was stunned by Gao Jianwu.
He retracted his gaze that had landed on the battlefield.
"Gao, frankly, I haven't thought about it yet. But I thinkβ" Major General Smith pondered for a moment.
"Although I have a firm foothold in the military world, my ambition is not here, Gao, you know, I was an engineer before I joined the army, an aeronautical engineer, and I was involved in the development of a passenger transport aircraft.
So if the war ends, maybe I'll rejoin an airline. β
Gao Jianwu This is the first time he has heard Major General Smith talk about his past. He really didn't expect Major General Smith to do aviation.
But it quickly became clear that this is not the case on the part of the beautiful country, at the beginning of the war, after the conscription order came down, many engineers joined the army, and then after the war ended, they returned to their old jobs, which was their norm, because in their place, farmers were already very scarce.
Most of them are factory workers or engineers. So it is not too outrageous to say that Major General Smith used to be an engineer.
"John, are you now restricting cooperation with foreign countries in civil aircraft?" Gao Jianwu asked casually.
"Gao, do you want to build an aircraft?" Maj. Gen. Smith asked rhetorically.
"John, to tell you the truth, we are already working on military aircraft, and we can now mass-produce Mustang fighters, although the production is not high." Gao Jianwu's mind was racing, and he seemed to have suddenly grasped a little bit in his mind, and revealed a trace of information to Major General Smith, although this information is still very confidential, but with the mass production of Mustang fighters in Jinyang Heavy Industry into the ranks, this secret will soon be unkept, after all, so many big guys have come out.
"What? You can now mass-produce the Mustang? Major General Smith was taken aback, it was the first time he had heard that Huaxia could mass-produce aircraft.
"I'm sorry, John, we copied the Mustang without your consent, but you know. In this situation, we urgently need such a fighter, so after studying the Zero fighter and the Mustang fighter, we chose to reproduce the Mustang fighter. β
Major General Smith's brain was buzzing, what he was thinking of was not patent licensing, but Gao Jianwu's industrial production capacity had far exceeded their imagination!
The technical complexity of a fighter is far from being comparable to that of making guns and cannons, although at this time there is already patent protection, but in the case of war, infringement is a trivial issue, and the most important thing is the production capacity of this technology!
Gao Jianwu and the forces behind them must be re-evaluated.
Although Major General Smith does not have much of a big picture, as a high-level military attache of the beautiful country in Asia, he still has a more or less strategic vision.
All along, Gao Jianwu has asked for this and that from him, and Major General Smith feels that this team, like other preserved fruit troops, will use it well.
Who knew they even had a replica of the Mustang fighter. That's an amazing ability to learn and imitate.
"Gao, tell me, what weapons can you all produce now?" Major General Smith asked after calming down for a moment.
"On the army side, we can make most of the weapons ourselves." Gao Jianwu thought for a while, and said to him very seriously, "We have production lines for artillery and tanks, among which we produce T34 for tanks, which is authorized by them." β
Major General Smith shook his head, and sure enough, to be able to produce Mustang fighters, their military industrial strength has developed to a height that was unimaginable before.
The intelligence services were obviously negligent in their duties, and they did not even react to such important information.
Maj. Gen. Smith didn't wronged the intelligence service.
Because of this information, the Far East Intelligence Center has actually received a lot from the preserved fruit, but the superiors think this is nonsense, because they know exactly what the military industry of the preserved fruit looks like, and the cannons above 105 mm are now unable to make qualified products, and you want to say that the Jin Province can still build tanks and planes, isn't that funny?
This is all fake information to cheat the funds and thus put it on the shelf.
Even now that organized tanks and Mustang fighters have popped up in Jin Province, the intelligence department still thinks that the northern aid and Gao Jianwu have secretly detained it to the Jinsui side.
This information was not communicated to the top at all.
"John, if you say," Gao Jianwu looked at Major General Smith, "do you think there is such a possibility that the two of us will cooperate to start a civil aircraft company on Wanwan Island?" β
Although he knew that this was a bit fantastical, Gao Jianwu still wanted to try.
"This..."
Major General Smith stopped Gao Jianwu with this question.
Frankly speaking, according to the current state, Major General Smith does not think that there is any big obstacle to this, and now he and Gao Jianwu are both members of the Allied Army, and they are still comrades-in-arms in the same trench.
There should be no restrictions on the establishment of any enterprise in civilian cooperation.
However, aircraft have their own special side, and many technologies are difficult to distinguish between military and civilian use.
Therefore, from the perspective of technical control, civil aircraft should be restricted.
But!
Gao Jianwu: They can even produce Mustang fighters by themselves, what other technology does this civil aircraft have that Gao Jianwu and they don't have? What can be restricted?
So, "High, I'm not sure, but I personally don't think it's too much of a problem." Major General Smith replied with some hesitation.
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"That's great, John, let's do it together!" Gao Jianwu decisively extended an olive branch, he knew that in the beautiful country, the military and business could be switched at any time for them, if Major General Smith said that he would start a career together, then the civil aviation sector might really be able to make himself up!
After all, now the key technology, aero engine and aviation aluminum have been overcome by themselves, and the new civil engine is iterated on the Mustang fighter engine, which is not an insurmountable peak in the hands of the masters who have dug it out.
It is difficult to go from 0 to 1, from 1 to 2 to 3, that is, there is already a way to be found, Gao Jianwu gave them the complete design drawings and process design parameters of the entire engine, not a thing obtained by reverse engineering.
Many of them can be checked and confirmed. If they can't come up with something new on this basis, these masters will be too watery.
But Gao Jianwu knew that there were parallel goods in this period, but there were more real Taishan Beidou talents!
Many of the masters he remembered had now been introduced into the country through the Nanyang Working Group in a covert operation.
He didn't want to wait until his honeymoon with the beautiful country was over.
Major General Smith had a ridiculous feeling, obviously he was still on the battlefield in full swing, but Gao Jianwu stubbornly treated this place as a golf course and began to talk about big business.
"Gao, isn't it a bit early to talk about this?" Maj. Gen. Smith pulled his thoughts back with some embarrassment.
"No, not at all, John, you know I'm far more interested in construction than war, and if it were peacetime, I would probably be either in the factory or on the way to the factory." Gao Jianwu smiled and said an old stalk that only later generations understood.
But Smith still made fun of his meme.
"Gao, you're more of an engineer than I am." Maj. Gen. Smith said. "Back to the topic just now, Gao, in fact, according to my wishes, I am willing to cooperate with you, you are a trustworthy partner, I believe that no matter what you do, you will succeed."
Maj. Gen. Smith: That's true.
It is also his perception after dealing with Gao Jianwu for so long. I don't know when Major General Smith found himself and Gao Jianwu almost obedient.
But it's not blind obedience, but what Gao Jianwu said, all of which have become reality!
This is a tacit understanding to work with the strong!
Therefore, if Major General Smith is to choose one person to cooperate with in Huaxia, that person must be Gao Jianwu!