In the face of Gao Jianwu's lion's big mouth, General Smith was very cautious, and quickly borrowed the radio here to send Gao Jianwu's conditions back intact.

Sure enough, as Smith expected. Gao Jianwu's other two conditions, the Allied side quickly responded.

However, General Mack categorically refused Gao Jianwu's proposal to have a destroyer fleet.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." General Mack yelled almost in a roaring voice.

"It's the lion's mouth. Tell Smith that he must not agree to such a condition. ”

"Mike, do you think that without their help, we would have sacrificed tens of thousands of people to take the islands of the Ryukyus?" General Steven asked.

"If anyone can get the islands in exchange for a destroyer squadron, I'll send it right away.

Actually, I can understand their concerns. Fighting on these islands is indeed very dangerous for them without the support of the fleet.

From the point of view of their own security, having a detachment under their command can indeed ensure their own security to the greatest extent. ”

General Steven really understands Gao Jianwu's concerns. He knew how those people in Huaxia valued their army, it was simply the root of their lives, and Gao Jianwu was also the same existence as those people in the eyes of General Steven.

If it were said that sending their troops to fight on an isolated island, almost no one would dare to do so.

Because once they landed on the island, the Allied fleet did not follow up in time to support, and the soldiers fighting on these islands were basically determined by heaven.

This is very different from Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force operation mode in the Indochina Peninsula, where there is a lot of space, and there is still a place to run if there is a mistake, but on this kind of small island, once an accident occurs, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out, and there will be nowhere to run.

"Our fleet can provide them with full support. But it is ridiculous not to give them a fleet. General Mack said stubbornly.

...

When the news reached Gao Jianwu's ears, Gao Jianwu didn't feel strange, after all, there was no precedent in the beautiful country.

"Without the support of our exclusive fleet under our control, our troops cannot afford to land in a Jedi such as the Jedi on the other side of the Ryukyu Islands." Gao Jianwu said to Smith after receiving the news, "But this does not affect the relationship between the two of us, John, we have said before that we will do civil aviation together, this invitation has always existed, and we can cooperate all over the world, including the Americas." ”

"Our market is mainly in Asia, and it won't have much impact on the civil aviation market in the Americas, so if you're interested, we're working together to develop a short- and medium-range transport aircraft in the 30-seat class.

We have designed a twin-engine propeller transport aircraft similar to the woolly bear Yiner transport aircraft, but it is larger than it, the transport range is longer, the preliminary design is 32 to 36 seats, the maximum range can reach 2000 kilometers, the maximum speed is more than 450 km / h, and the economic cruising speed is more than 350 km / h. ”

Gao Jianwu did not forget to pull Smith into the group, in fact, the domestic aviation is too weak, without the help of an American insider, it is too difficult to build a new aviation industry chain from beginning to end, even if the Y-6 can be manufactured according to the map, many supporting subsystems are not optimal.

To put it simply, now Gao Jianwu's team has to make a landing gear, and one avionics is enough to choke. As for the aero engine, the propeller engine of the Yunliu is not a big problem with the basis of the Mustang fighter, and the jet engine technology of the F-4 jet fighter is also in the process of being developed.

Of course, if you wait a few years, Gao Jianwu's electronics industry will become large-scale, especially the first generation of transistor computers will be developed, and after iterating to the 8080 level, Gao Jianwu will be able to overtake in a corner, completely surpassing the current level of electron tube avionics.

It's just that Gao Jianwu can't wait that long now.

"Gao, you know that I am an aeronautical engineer, and it is not easy to build an aircraft manufacturing company from scratch." Smith didn't expect Gao Jianwu to stare at him, "Now that I'm still in the service, I definitely can't come and do this with you, but I can invite some friends to work with you." ”

Smith said loosely.

"That would be great. John, we can operate this matter immediately, what friends do you have please introduce to us, we will immediately set up an aviation industry chain company in North America, rest assured, when you retire, the CEO of this company will definitely be kept for you, we are old friends who fight side by side, in this regard, I definitely believe in old friends more. ”

Gao Jianwu said happily that his biggest purpose in pulling Smith is nothing more than this, he took a fancy to the deep connections in the aviation industry behind him, and now Smith is in a high position, what he said is more effective for engineers in the aviation industry than Gao Jianwu taking money to smash.

If you want to send the Y-6 to the sky quickly, it will obviously be faster by relying on the strong foundation of the North American aviation industry.

He did not need to manufacture the whole machine in North America, but disassembled the whole machine and completed the production and manufacturing of most of the subsystems in North America, and the fuselage part was manufactured and assembled at the aviation base in Jinyang or the Hankou aviation base.

The joint operations business of the Allied Forces was not negotiated, but Gao Jianwu reached a private business cooperation deal with Smith, of course, Smith did not appear in Gao Jianwu's business territory now, but these are all tacit things.

Now in terms of the general environment, the two sides are close allies, Smith has no taboos about these, really for Gao Jianwu to set up a North American United Aviation Industry Company, Mr. Situ and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce as the majority shareholders behind the scenes control the absolute controlling stake, and Smith introduced several influential engineers in the aviation industry respectively served as CEO/CTO and other positions, the company soon recruited talents with great fanfare, and began to develop and manufacture related subsystems according to the design of Gao Jianwuyun-6 subsystem.

For this transport aircraft born out of the technology of the 50s, there is no technical bottleneck at all, according to Gao Jianwu's requirements, they do not need to carry out large-scale design and verification, which is naturally very fast.

By the time Gao Jianwu dragged General Mack for a month, the North American airline had already completed the preliminary assembly and digestion and absorption of several subsystem design drawings, and they had already begun the production of the first prototype equipment in an acquired bankrupt small aviation factory.

In this wartime, many products are such a model, Smith's aviation friends are not surprised, Gao Jianwu to this company to set aside 30% of the processing gross profit space, which makes Smith's aviation friends full of energy, according to Gao Jianwu's production capacity planning, they do not need to worry about market sales, a year sales can reach tens of millions of dollars, gross profit of 3 million US dollars, this is a lot of money.

In addition to the company's operating expenses and taxes, the profit in a year is more than one million dollars, which means that there are at least tens of thousands of dollars in dividends for the company's management!

Gao Jianwu watched the projects he explained to make remarkable progress one by one in such a peaceful and fulfilling day.

However, General Mack, who had increased the casualties of tens of thousands of soldiers, finally could not withstand the pressure of his colleagues and at home.

In view of Gao Jianwu's excellent past record of having no friends, and the fact that Deputy Shiraya was maneuvering, General Mack first agreed to allocate a detachment to Gao Jianwu as a condition for direct and full command, but the ownership of the ships would be returned to the Allies after the war.

But Gao Jianwu flatly refused.

General Mack had to give in, on the basis of giving Gao Jianwu the command of a detachment composed of 2 cruisers and 5 destroyers, and at the same time promised to have 2 Fletcher destroyers sent to the Eighth Route side after the war as the latest conditions.

He had already recruited more than 700 people in the country, which was exactly the number of crew members of two destroyers, which was the bottom line of the psychological price of his appearance, so as soon as the conditions were negotiated, Li Yunlong received a full set of US weapons and equipment at the port of Dalian, and began to push the Bangzi Peninsula with 80,000 fully mechanized troops and Zhang Dabiao's soldiers in two ways.

Gao Jianwu and Ding Wei, Chu Yunfei and others immediately completed the modification of American weapons from several ports such as Wanwan Island and Yongcheng, and according to the scale of two attack groups and twelve attack groups, they took the transport ships of the allied forces and began to go to the Ryukyu Islands.

In the north, Lu Xingguo personally led a cluster to support Li Yunlong's actions, and in the south, Ye Shaoshang led another air force group, using Wanwan Island as an air base, and the allied air forces together to provide air support for the Ryukyu landing force.

Gao Jianwu's goal was for the Allied forces to land on Chongsheng Island, which had been fought for more than a month, and he took Ding Wei and Chu Yunfei's two large attack clusters, as well as the Fifth Detachment Fleet assigned to him by the Allied forces under his independent command, to land on Changbin, which was occupied by the Allied forces on Chongsheng Island, and soon established a temporary command headquarters and logistics.

"Commander Lin, except for the two destroyers of the Fifth Fleet, which are completely controlled by our own people, each of the other ships must have our people as the first mate, equipped with radio and walkie-talkies to maintain uninterrupted contact." After Gao Jianwu went ashore, he said to Lin Zun, who was temporarily serving as the naval commander of the Fifth Fleet.

"Your only combat mission is to cooperate with our Ryukyu First Attack Group and the Second Attack Group to seize the island, except for the orders of our headquarters, no one's orders will be ignored, and if there is a place to cooperate with the allied forces, orders must also be issued through our headquarters."

"Yes, Mr. Gao, the only task of our navy is to cooperate with the army brethren!" Lin Zun replied with high spirits, and in his words, he was full of respect and even admiration for Gao Jianwu!

Lin Zun is a senior admiral of the navy mobilized by Gao Jianwu from the original preserved navy, under the banner of Gao Jianwu's own navy of the Eighth Road, Lin Zun believed that Gao Jianwu had nothing at the beginning, and he took his old man and more than 700 subordinates to Wanwan Island to stand by and familiarize himself with the Allied ships.

Gao Jianwu believed from the beginning that General Mack would not be able to endure the huge casualties and eventually had to give in to his own conditions, so he was very sure to gather his men first, and through the relationship between Smith and General Steven, he was able to intern on Allied cruisers and destroyers.

Sure enough, when Lin Zun and the others were just familiar with it, Gao Jianwu's delaying strategy was successful, and they got two destroyers as they wished, which made Lin Zun, who didn't have much expectations, simply shocked Gao Jianwu.

Therefore, even if Gao Jianwu hardly understands the navy, these people are still willing to regard Gao Jianwu as the father of the Eighth Route Navy!

You must know that the two destroyers obtained by Gao Jianwu are the most cutting-edge Fletcher destroyers in the Allied Forces, and these two are much stronger than the remaining fleets in Guozhu, which makes Lin Zun and the others, who are disappointed in the Guoguo Navy, immediately raise their eyebrows and have great respect for Gao Jianwu.

They don't know now that Gao Jianwu has more surprises in store for them.

...

After a day's rest, Gao Jianwu took Chu Yunfei and the large army to pounce on the stubborn Naba, while Ding Wei led another part of the troops to attack the direction of Anfu, but they were responsible for protecting the flank of the main attack force of the allied army and temporarily played an auxiliary role.

And Gao Jianwu took over from the Allied forces with heavy casualties as the main force of the new offensive of Naba. What is blocking Gao Jianwu's progress is the Shuri defense line of the little devil Liu Daoman!

"The little devils have concentrated their main forces here, they not only built dense pillboxes, trenches and barbed wire, but also concentrated armored forces and artillery in this small area, the density of fire is unusually high, at the same time, they also dug a lot of tunnels, and constantly launched suicide attacks through the tunnels at night, and the Allies suffered a big loss in the attack on the defense line of Mugang." Lieutenant General Smith, who returned to Gao Jianwu's side as chief of staff, carefully explained the information to Gao Jianwu, Chu Yunfei and others.

"It's okay, we're not in a hurry to break through, let's eliminate the little devils' firepower points one by one." Gao Jianwu unfolded the high-definition three-dimensional map in his mind, and suddenly the entire Chongsheng Island was presented.

While listening to Lieutenant General Smith's introduction, he corresponded to the map in his mind, and soon anchored the combat area on the map, marked these terrain and landforms out of the regional coordinates, and slowly formed a battle plan in his mind.

With the slender terrain of Chongrope Island, there is no depth at all, not only can it not block the coverage from the fleet guns. Gao Jianwu also didn't believe that under the attack group of 48 155mm howitzers, more than 200 105mm howitzers and more than 400 75mm howitzers on his side, the artillery of the little devil could still make any trouble.

As for the 4 Sherman tank battalions, Gao Jianwu gave them the task of cleaning up the position after the artillery fire washed the ground, and as for the huge army attack group, it was the last resort to drive out the little devils in the last resort.

Gao Jianwu did not push forward with the idea of sending people to the head at the beginning.