September 10, 1941, Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army

"Only great nations deserve it." Looking at the majestic steel monster in front of him, Yamamoto Kazuki sighed sincerely, it seems that he has seen his troops driving this armored train to attack the strongholds of the Eighth Route Army along the way, but the poor Eighth Route Army still thinks that it is taking advantage of those areas close to the railway from their own hands, but they don't know that everything is a routine.

The attack range of 20 kilometers is enough to cover all the prominent control areas of the Eighth Route Army, and with the help of some mining branches, you can even go deep into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army's base area to do things, as for the ten fortresses built before, they are actually part of their own plan, to put it bluntly, it is to ensure the absolute smooth flow of the railway line.

"The problem now is that if the base camp can't mobilize enough Zero fighters for us, if we don't have enough advanced fighters, we can't restrain the opponent's P-39 fighters, and if we can't seize absolute air supremacy, our railways will still be very dangerous." Hirata Ichiro couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water, the aviation unit of the First Army now has more than 300 fighters of various types, but the vast majority of them are old guys like Type 92 and Type 95, and there are not many chicken ribs like Type 97 fighters, and as for the zero battle that can be compared with the P39 fighter, there is not even one.

Now that is, everyone has not turned their faces, as long as they turn their faces, those fighters in their hands are the targets of the other party. Not long ago, they captured an opponent's trainer plane in Zhongtiao Mountain, but that kind of trainer plane could actually beat their own Type 92 fighter back and forth.

"Didn't the Navy want us to help them train the daredevils? Promise them that we can not only train pilots for them, but also allocate our special warfare aircraft to them for use, as long as we can exchange them for zero combat. "Yamamoto Kazuki has a bit of a headache, General Shinozuka has less than twenty Zero Battles in his hands, but those fighters need to be responsible for the air defense of the entire North China, and they can't cover the railway lines of Jin Province with all their might, so he must find a way to be self-reliant, just like the reason why he collected so many retired fighters before.

As for the so-called special warfare aircraft, it is a suicide plane made by Yamamoto Kazuki at the request of Taiyuan to use a small engine with 200 horsepower, no armament, no armor, no radio, reduced fuel tanks, and even the seats are made of rattan, but it is such a thing, after loading 400 kilograms of explosives, it can fly to a top speed of 600 kilometers, of course, because of the serious overdraft of the engine potential, the engine life of this fighter is only less than two hours, but this is enough.

"But they don't have enough wounded soldiers." Hirata Ichiro is a little embarrassed, don't look at the Imperial Army has been fighting all these years, but the Navy really hasn't fought any decent battles, and because of the particularity of the Navy, the chance of the wounded soldiers being rescued is really not high, so that the huge combined fleet is only insufficient to show the wounded soldiers who meet the requirements, which is not comparable with the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers on the side of the army.

Don't look at just training, but there will be damage, and there are still a lot of mortality and exit rates, plus the navy's daredevils can only use airplanes instead of gliders, so there are fewer pilots who can complete the training in the end.

"As long as they are willing to pay, we can directly transfer trained daredevils to them, and we can also assist them in training pilots to take off on aircraft carriers." Kazuki Yamamoto smiled, he got 30,000 disabled soldiers from the military department to train glider and fighter pilots, but these veterans brought a lot of consumption, after all, as daredevils, their medical and other supplies need to be of high standard, which has brought a lot of pressure to the already stretched funds of the new first army.

During this time, he sold more than 3,000 gliders for various reasons, and correspondingly "transferred" more than 3,000 pilots, but there were still a lot of left, which made Yamamoto Kazuki a little depressed.

"Okay, Your Excellency, I will negotiate with the navy, it shouldn't be a big problem." Ichiro Hirata nodded, the navy paid for it, and the army paid for it, which can be regarded as a routine operation.

"By the way, how is the cracking of the TB-3 bomber by Manchuria Aircraft Co., Ltd.?" Kazuki Yamamoto continued to inquire that the Japanese military has been trying to build long-range bombers, but the plan has not been smooth, and the reason is actually very simple, that is, the technical indicators are too high, and it is impossible to do it with Japan's current technology.

However, in Yamamoto Kazuki's view, there is no need at all, compared with the world's advanced level of strategic bombers, the most important thing is to solve the problem first, and the TB-3 bomber with simple technology is obviously their best choice, according to the ground staff of the army aviation, the TB-3 bomber is made by a few carpenters and blacksmiths in the barn, there is no technical threshold at all, otherwise, he would not have handed over the imitation task to Manchuria Aircraft Co., Ltd.

"The mapping has been completed, the replacement engines have been determined, and now, Manchuria Aircraft Co., Ltd. is studying the weight reduction of the aircraft, after all, the alliance uses too much wood and iron sheets, resulting in too much weight of the aircraft, which seriously affects the performance of the aircraft." Ichiro Hirata hurriedly reported.

"I have no objection to them upgrading the TB-3 bomber, but it must also be done in moderation, not overkill, nor endless upgrades, and it can be improved while producing." Kazuki Yamamoto explained very seriously.

In the eyes of Japanese technicians, the alliance's aircraft are faulty everywhere, and even the screws on the top have room for improvement, but there is really no need, because there is no perfect weapon in this world, only the most suitable weapon, just like the Taisho 11-year machine gun, which even the Japanese themselves can't look down on, but for the Japanese army's equally fragile supply capability, the Taisho 11-year model cannot be completely withdrawn even now.

"Okay, I will tell the representatives sent to Manchuria Aircraft Co., Ltd. to let them put into production the TB-3 bomber as soon as possible." Ichiro Hirata wanted to remind him of something at first, but in the end he didn't speak.

The TB-3 bomber has slow speed, low altitude, weak self-defense firepower, and the fighters facing the opponent have no survivability at all.

"We don't have a choice, I know that the TB-3 bomber does not perform well on the European battlefield, but that is also under the premise that the Alliance Air Force completely loses air supremacy, as long as the tactics are appropriate, these shortcomings can be avoided." Yamamoto Kazuki naturally also saw Ichiro Hirata's desire to speak and stopped, in his opinion, it is basically impossible for bombers to have more advantages than fighters, since this is the case, it is good to put it badly.

"Your Excellency, Morita Kuroshima has already obtained a sample of the Zeppelin airship, which is currently being tested in the mountains, do you want to go and see it?" Hirata Ichiro nodded and his boss agreed, even if the TB-3 bomber was almost okay, at least it could be a long-range transportation bureau No, after all, it was one of the very few planes in their hands that could fly to Central Asia, and with their increased support for local forces, their dependence on aircraft was getting higher and higher.

"I still won't go, there are too many people staring at me, even if the military commanders, the central commanders, and the social department are also staring at me, and there is no secret when I move." Yamamoto Kazuki smiled bitterly, the height is unbearable, I'm afraid that's what it means, right?

"It's not just them, Hans's, the Alliance's, Bald Eagle's, and the intelligence agencies of several major countries are also staring at us." Hirata Ichiro is also a little staggered, when he was the captain of the gendarmerie, he also managed the intelligence department, but it is the first time to face such a complicated situation as now, and now, there are at least a dozen intelligence officers outside the headquarters of the First Army who are staring here, and there are many people who want to kill Yamamoto Kazuki, especially the British, but they gave Yamamoto Kazuki a reward of 100,000 pounds, which is pounds, almost 80-1 million oceans.

"Let's get to the point, how about the Zeppelin that Black Island got from you?" Shen Benyimu continued to ask, they also wanted Hans to seek to buy the blueprints of the Zeppelin, but Hans couldn't give them at all, because there were at least 30 kinds of new materials on Hans's Zeppelin that needed to be implemented, involving many aspects such as chemical industry and smelting, and the consumption of this would definitely be an astronomical amount if they wanted to get the production of Zeppelin.

As for buying finished products? Hans really don't have much in their hands, and if they want to buy it, they can only wait for the factory to build it, not to mention the long cycle, and the quantity is not much. The Umbrella Corporation's Zeppelin was now their only option.

"The quality is very good, helium filled, a lot of nylon and fiberglass fibers are used, the structure is very strong, the safety is also super high, according to our tests, if it is a thin soldier, a blimp can carry 500 people, and it can easily fly over the Pacific Ocean or the Siberian wilderness." Ichiro Hirata was also a little excited when he introduced it.

"It's really interesting, five hundred people, if it were before, I'm afraid that such an airship could occupy a Chinese city." Kazuki Yamamoto stared at Ichiro Hirata with burning eyes.

Not long ago, in order to help Hans cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway, he wasted a lot of effort to throw dozens of people into Western Siberia, which could not carry enough ammunition supplies, forcing the special forces to create a large-scale wildfire to block the railway, if there was such an airship in hand, he only needed an airship to complete the mission goal.

"Not before, it can be now, whether it is the alliance or the bald eagle, the city's defense force is very weak, except for a very few large cities, 500 locust troops are enough." Kazuki Yamamoto smiled, he had been running around with diplomatic visas for a few years in Hans, and he had a certain knowledge of cities in Europe and the Americas.

"But both the alliance and the bald eagle have a perfect mobilization system, and the alliance's industrial and mining enterprises have militia units, and the bald eagle simply does not ban guns, and the most feared thing is that there will be large-scale resistance." Hirata Ichiro is obviously not very optimistic, the Hans are still busy "suppressing bandits" in the occupied area, and they can pull out a militia company from any farm, so they don't dare to think about it at all. If it weren't for the help of a large number of puppet troops, the Hans's offensive would have stopped.

But Japan and Hans can't compare, there is still a supply channel between the Hans and the alliance, and they can also use the puppet army to build a front-line military industrial system, but they can't, Siberia has a railway and highway system, but there are too few people, it can't support them to engage in a front-line military industrial system, and the bald eagle is even worse, across the Pacific Ocean, there is no timely supply at all, maybe there is no supply at all, if you encounter large-scale resistance, I am afraid that you can only use bayonets to suppress it.

"Professional soldiers are incomparable to those of them, just like the Normenkan, obviously we were defeated, but the losses of the alliance are still greater than ours, and the quality of the soldiers is low, even if there are more new weapons, they can't make up for it." Kazuki Yamamoto sneered, the alliance is even worse on the European battlefield, millions of people have already been captured, and the loss of technical weapons is enough to arm several small countries.

"Your Excellency, the price of this airship is not cheap, one will cost 500,000 oceans, how many shall we order?" Hirata Ichiro was a little entangled and said, the entire First Army does not have a million oceans in its treasury now, this airship is so expensive, they can't afford it at all, okay?

"Buy, at least twenty ships, so that even if you are carrying heavy weapons and supplies, you can transport a wing of troops at one time, Hirata-kun, can you imagine the scene of our armored wing galloping across the land of Bald Eagles? Such an airship can carry more than a dozen T27 tanks, which is really a militaristic weapon. Kazuki Yamamoto is even thinking about how to bypass Bald Eagle's air defenses.

It is said that Bald Eagle has already built a radar network in the Pacific Ocean, and if the Bald Eagle radar station cannot be solved, these Zeppelins are almost like targets.

"Why don't we go to the border bank for a loan?" Ichiro Hirata asked weakly.

"What kind of collateral to take, although they are better than Zhengjin Bank, but that also needs to be mortgaged." Hirata Ichiro has a headache, poor, people with hundreds of thousands of troops are as poor as the sky.

"The treasures and jadeite rough that we got back in northern Myanmar should be okay, and it is said that the border banks have been buying these things, especially the jadeite rough, and the price is several times higher than the place of origin." Ichiro Hirata explained.

"Don't take out a loan, just sell it to them, we all understand that peace won't last long." Kazuki Yamamoto shook his head slightly.

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