Chapter 319: The European War Situation and the Air Force
On Monday, June 24, Zheng Pingrulai told Li Junhao that Chen Baohua had handed over the contact password, and she had already contacted Xu Enzeng directly many times, and it had basically been negotiated......
Oh? Li Junhao became interested and listened to her introduction.
The two sides agreed that the first substitution: Xu Enzeng was responsible for secretly rescuing the six air force personnel and handing them over to the US Yangtze River Fleet to take to the Shanghai Sea; Zheng Pingru was responsible for secretly releasing 22 Zhongtong personnel who were serving hard labor and handing them over to Zhongtong Huhai Station.
In the second barter trade, Xu Enzeng was responsible for regularly delivering various goods (including tungsten sand, pig bristles, tung oil, etc.) to Hong Kong Island; Zheng Pingru was responsible for bringing industrial products (including cotton cloth, cotton yarn, stationery, ink, mechanical and electrical accessories, etc.) produced in Shanghai to Hong Kong Island, where the two sides conducted barter trade.
Hey! Li Junhao was very surprised, this Xu Enzeng can, he can actually deliver the goods to Hong Kong Island! By the way, does that mean there is no need to do currency exchange anymore?
Zheng Pingru smiled, the three sisters brainstormed and thought of a lot of ways, and even the telegram negotiations were carefully considered, and finally achieved the goal, and there was no need to exchange dollars for Xu Enzeng, avoiding a lot of losses. Of course, Xu Enzeng did not suffer a loss, this kind of barter trade, between one in and one out, he can earn two shares, and the profit is also not small.
"Not bad! You guys did a great job! Li Junhao did not hesitate to praise, this result is much better than he expected. It seems that he is going to re-evaluate the ability of the three female generals.
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European news, watching the German army galloping across the land of Western Europe, the Soviet Union could not help it.
On June 27, the Soviet Union sent troops to occupy the three Baltic states, including Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, recovering the territories lost after World War I.
In this regard, Germany and the Soviet Union praised each other's military exploits, Hitler expressed his approval of the Soviet Union's action, and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov expressed "warm congratulations" on the series of brilliant victories of the German army.
This situation has made all countries in the world nervous, for fear that these two countries will really unite and divide the world! ——
In the Huhai Concession, in the Joint Command, Li Junhao saw this war report, threw it aside, and laughed in his heart, the Soviet Union's toss at this time was actually all useless, except for affecting its own reputation, there was no practical benefit, and this time next year, the German army should fight it! ——
At the end of June, Zheng Haicheng and five comrades-in-arms arrived in Shanghai on a U.S. warship, and Zheng Pingru came forward to receive them and arranged for them to rest in the concession for a few days, during which they took their younger brother home to reunite with their father Zheng Yue.
Subsequently, after Zheng Pingru solicited the opinions of these six people, Li Xiaoyu arranged for them to go to Yan'an through the secret communication line of the underground party, and the future development will depend on them.
In this process, Li Junhao did not show up, his current identity is relatively special, and some people are not easy to meet directly. However, he asked Zheng Pingru to take $10,000 and give it to these six people, and he didn't care whether they kept it for himself or handed it over to the organization.
After Xu Enzeng fulfilled his promise, Li Junhao also instructed the police station to release the arrested and forced labor personnel of the Central Command and hand them over to Chen Baohua to take away, so that Zheng Pingru could fulfill his promise.
As for the subsequent barter trade, it will still take some time, and the two sides will have to agree on the type and quantity of goods, etc., which will be handed over to Zheng Pingru and them, Li Junhao just introduced a few British friends on Hong Kong Island to her, and the Consulate General in Hong Kong, just let his secretary Milia contact her.
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In July, the situation in the Shanghai Concession was still very stable, but on the European continent, thousands of miles away, Germany had occupied all of Western Europe, controlling the entire Atlantic coast from Norway in the north to Spain in the south, leaving only the last and most stubborn enemy, Britain.
The British Isles are in a difficult situation, and the British Empire has changed from being a blockader to being a blockad, and the situation is precarious, and it can only keep asking for help from the United States, its last ally.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt also realized the critical situation and successively asked Congress to increase defense funding, strengthen war preparedness, and at the same time vigorously aid Britain, but was still prevented by conservative forces.
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Seeing the war reports in Europe and the news coming from the United States, Li Junhao knew that the largest air war in history was about to begin. Whether in terms of courage, process, or results, the British did a very good job this time, withstanding the German air raids and persevering until victory, which can be described as a very rare thing.
Thinking that the Luftwaffe was able to dispatch nearly 3,000 aircraft to strike at the British mainland, Li Junhao was extremely envious, not that there were many German planes, but that there were many pilots! He can't even get three pilots out of it now.
Previously, three of Zheng Pingru's younger brothers and several of his comrades-in-arms were pilots, but their identities can be determined to be underground parties, if they are left behind, I am afraid that the news will soon leak out - you must know that they are all members of the Kuomintang Air Force!
Xu Enzeng was able to get them out, he must have played a trick of "changing the tanuki for the prince", once these people are found to appear in the Huhai Concession, then the matter will be troublesome!
In his current capacity, he can sympathize with the underground party, and even help the underground party, but he must not work with it, because then it will break the bottom line of the US government.
So he knew that leaving Zheng Haicheng and the others was the most beneficial thing for him, but he couldn't do it, it was very painful!
At this time, he suddenly remembered the famous "Flying Tigers" in the history of his previous life, when did this air force from volunteers come to China? He patted his head and tried to think about it, but he couldn't remember.
He asked the people from the Consulate General to check, and the reply was that there was no such thing! Well, that's not time yet.
Could he have taken this option? After thinking about it, he found that it was very difficult, he was now an incumbent of the government and the army, and it was absolutely impossible for him to allow the establishment of an air force force without permission, which was completely different from his own getting a plane and driving it himself. What a headache!
At this time, Chief of Staff Yang Shixiong came to him to report on the training plans of various troops, and Li Junhao took the plan and hastily flipped through it, patiently listened to the other party's report, and signed the plan with a stroke of his pen.
Seeing that Yang Shixiong was about to leave when he got back the plan, he hurriedly grabbed him and told him his troubles.
Yang Shixiong's eyes widened when he heard Li Junhao say that he wanted to establish his own air force, although he also thought that having an air force was very beneficial to the concession, but now there is no such condition!
But seeing Li Junhao's expectant eyes, Yang Shixiong could only try to help find a way......
(End of chapter)