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.

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

Regarding Gao Jianwu's proposal for a destroyer fleet, General Mack flatly refused.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." General Mack roared 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.

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

The news reached Gao Jianwu's ears, and Gao Jianwu didn't feel strange, and soon skipped it.

Gao Jianwu has a lot of things in his hands, and there are even more problems that need to be solved.

For example, the aviation industry that he has always been thinking about, there are still a lot of missing parts of the transport plane, and after confirming the news, he said to Smith, "Although we can't talk about that matter, it doesn't 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 Ilf transport aircraft, but it is larger than it, and the transport range is longer, with a preliminary design of 32 to 36 seats, a maximum range of 2,000 kilometers, a maximum speed of more than 450 kilometers per hour, and an economic cruising speed of more than 350 kilometers per hour. ”

Gao Jianwu did not forget to pull Smith into the house, 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 now, many supporting subsystems are not mass-produced, in terms of cost, it is simply the nature of research and development, and there is no cost control of large-scale production.

To put it simply, now Gao Jianwu's team has to do everything, you see that a landing gear has to invest a group of people, avionics also needs to invest people, and the engine also needs to invest people.

It's not that the engine doesn't have to be developed in-house, but it's really difficult to mass produce the base now.

If you can buy it and assemble it first, it will be much simpler, and you can develop and build a production line while assembling.

The propeller piston engine of Yunliu is not very difficult for the current technology, with the foundation of the Mustang fighter, it is not a big problem to manufacture this piston engine, but this thing is outdated, not to mention, Gao Jianwu still has the jet engine technology of the F-4 jet fighter that needs to be developed.

If you grab the beard and eyebrows, how many people are not enough, so for this mature product, the technology that will soon be eliminated, Gao Jianwu does not want to invest in more research and development.

If you wait a few years, Gao Jianwu's electronics industry will become large-scale, especially from the first generation of transistor computers, after iterating to the 8080 semiconductor computer, Gao Jianwu can also overtake in the corner, completely surpassing the current level of tube avionics, and the tube avionics system will be outdated by that time.

Therefore, there is no future for repeating the current tube-based avionics.

R&D investment should be used on the cutting edge.

It's just that Gao Jianwu urgently needs Y-6 to build it out now and get his own air transport force, otherwise I don't know when this piece will go. If you can get the purchased subsystem from Smith, it will quickly become a mass production scale.

Although the Y-6 is not tall enough, it is still very useful at this stage.

"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 keep for you, we are old friends who fight side by side, in this regard, I definitely believe in old friends. ”

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 build the Y-6 and be able to fly into the sky quickly, it is obvious that it will 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 directly appear in Gao Jianwu's business territory now, but these are 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, began to develop and manufacture related subsystems according to Gao Jianwu's Y-6 subsystem design.

For this prototype is born in the early 50s of the technical basis of the propeller transport aircraft, there is no technical bottleneck at all, according to Gao Jianwu's requirements, now the 101 factory does not need them to carry out large-scale design and verification, directly according to the drawings of the production on the line, the body of these conventional parts manufacturing speed is naturally fast.

In terms of materials, the main body is made of high-strength aviation aluminum alloy burst out by Gao Jianwu, which completely surpasses the strength of aluminum alloy materials in other countries, and the strength is better than that of the original fuselage, so there will be no problem at all.

After having a competent candidate, the North American airline has completed the preliminary formation and the digestion and absorption of several subsystem design drawings, and they have begun the production and manufacturing of avionics, landing gear and other subsystem equipment needed by Gao Jianwu in a small and bankrupt aviation factory that they have acquired.

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!

The North American branch continued to produce Y-6 parts, began to officially declare for export, due to the low technical content, and Mr. Situ's trading company is now also on the ladder, and soon began to transport to Gao Jianwu in batches in the form of conventional aviation industry products.

By the time this batch of accessories arrives, it should be possible to assemble the Y-6 in its entirety and enter the test flight phase soon.

Gao Jianwu watched the projects he explained to make remarkable progress one by one in such a dull 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.

Lu Heungkook's air force has now swelled to more than 400 aircraft, and the Allied air force worked together to provide air support for the Ryukyu landing force.

Gao Jianwu's goal was for the Allied forces to land on Okinawa Island, which had been fought for more than a month, and he took the commando team and the Fifth Detachment assigned to him by the Allied forces to land on Okinawa Island in Nagahama, which had been occupied by the Allied forces, 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 the battle 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 allies, and these two are much stronger than the remaining fleets in Guozhu, which makes Lin Zun and 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 the fleet to protect the flanks of the Allied main attack force, and played a supporting role in naval artillery attack.

The Fifth Squadron soon came to 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.

"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 island of Okinawa 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 Okinawa, there is no depth at all, and not only can it not block the coverage from the fleet guns. Gao Jianwu also did not believe that under the attack of the 48 155mm howitzers, more than 200 105mm howitzers and more than 400 75mm howitzers under the command of his side, the artillery of the little devils could still make any trouble.

As for the 4 Sherman tank battalions of the Allied Army, Gao Jianwu gave them the task of cleaning up the positions after the artillery fire washed the ground, as for the attack group of the Allied landing, let them wait for the time being, and after he cleaned up the ground positions of the little devils, the army attack group finally pulled the net to kill the little devils.

Gao Jianwu has never been in the habit of forcibly pushing forward and sending people to the head in battle, and he needs to create the maximum result with the least losses.

Ask for a monthly pass, double the period, kneel and beg!

(End of chapter)