Chapter 142

The vehicle carries sixteen rocket launchers, and its hit-and-run feature makes it good at survivability in artillery battles. The disadvantage is that it cannot be separated from the road. This thing will be targeted by other aircraft, and it is a one-shot deal if it is dispatched when there is no air superiority.

.Moreover, this rocket is quite expensive. It looks very powerful, and the firepower is just a waste of money.

Fang Jianxiong cannot equip this thing on a large scale. He will equip five battalions first. It is hard to say when this thing will be used. It is certain that it will suddenly be used by the enemy on the battlefield.

Thinking that World War II is approaching, many preparations for the National Defense Force have not been completed. The reserve training equipment and so on have not yet had time to inspect. Fang Jianxiong is destined to be busy this year. The Republic in parallel history needs to prepare for nuclear war, so arsenals are built in

In the ravines, a lot of investment has been invisibly increased. Fang Jianxiong does not have such trouble in this time and space. There is no shortage of water in the Northeast, the Yangtze River Basin, and the Pearl River Basin. Coupled with convenient transportation, it is an excellent area for the development of heavy industry.

Think about Germany in Europe, which has become what it is now in just a few years despite being bankrupt. From this perspective, Hitler is really an amazing guy. If he hadn't killed too many Jews, he would be incompatible with mainstream Western morality.

The system is contrary to the situation. Even if the war is defeated, he will not be criticized repeatedly by future generations. The funny thing is that many Chinese people also criticize Hitler verbally and in writing. When they mention Adolf, they are talking about this and that. When the German army killed people and set fire to Beijing in the Gengzi Year, it seemed that it was Wilhelm II.

era, right?

Germany's reflection and thoroughness after World War II resulted in the country being divided into two. On the contrary, Japan was much more lucky. Because of the needs of the US imperialism, the liquidation of its ally Japan was not thorough. Afterwards, there were a lot of things like this and that.

The two opposite parties are both responsible. One is to abandon the garrison in Japan to fight the civil war. The other is to get out of diplomatic difficulties and promote Sino-Japanese friendship. It can be seen that politics is really not a thing. As long as the country has this need, the evil ones will dare

To put it bluntly, what is meant by the poisoning of a small number of military-minded elements? Isn’t this nonsense? During the Meiji period of Japan, in order to defeat the Beiyang Navy, everyone from the emperor to the beggars donated money to buy warships, which reduced Japan’s ambition to invade China.

It's not just a day or two. It can't be something that a few people can make. Political propaganda is reliable, even an old sow can climb a tree.

The peace-loving Chinese government announced at the fiscal budget briefing at the beginning of the year that military spending would reach 5 billion, which is equivalent to 1.1 billion U.S. dollars. Moreover, this is also the time when civilian spending exceeds education spending. With such a budget, in

The bill was actually passed by Congress without any dispute. Of course, there were voices of opposition. Members of the opposition Civic Party clamored in Congress that now that the world is peaceful, is it necessary to spend so much military spending? What this clearly means is that the big domestic capitalists control Congress.

The result. Although it is not stated clearly who these big capitalists are, it is very clear what they are referring to.

However, when the Kuomintang's newspapers criticized the government's increase in military spending, they unexpectedly encountered opposition from across the country. Even the United Progressive Party stood up to oppose the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang had a weak economic foundation and was not very active in writing. The domestic political arena was declining.

The situation is quietly taking shape. The Kuomintang people are still unaware of it and continue to oppose for the sake of opposition.

The Republic of China government did not intend to refute the Kuomintang's remarks. It only published some data in newspapers on the annual military expenditures of the great powers. Among other things, the annual military expenditures of neighboring Japan accounted for half of the budget, not to mention the system of the Soviet Union.

Having said that, the whole country is engaged in heavy industry, and the word "weak" in light industry related to people's livelihood is no longer enough to describe it. Our navy is 200,000 tons less than the total tonnage of Japan, our nearest neighbor, and even worse than that of Britain and the United States. Our nearest neighbor, the Soviet Army, is

The scale has reached more than 3 million, and the total number of the National Defense Forces and Army is only 1.2 million.

This is the external environment of the Republic of China! The Republic of China Times summarized it in this sentence after the data.

After the fiscal budget was passed, the Republic of China government announced a new round of military expansion. The number of A-type infantry divisions was restored to 100, and the mechanized corps was expanded to 12. The Air Force fighter wing was expanded to 50, and the bomber wing was expanded to 30.

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With the promulgation of the military expansion order, nationwide military recruitment began. Under such circumstances, Curtis's joint venture factory in China was forced to suspend production. It is really a dumbfounding thing to say. The Eagle, which originally had the largest number in the Air Force,

There are about 3,000 aircraft, all produced by the Curtiss joint venture. Now the Air Force requires Curtiss to produce a new fighter jet. For the Chinese market, Curtiss came up with the P40 fighter jet that passed the requirements of the US Air Force. As a result, the Air Force said

This fighter aircraft does not meet the requirements.

This made Pete, the general manager of Curtis Company in China, very anxious. Although he was very busy at work, Feng Ru still took the time to meet with Pete. When he met, Pete asked why the P-40 was not accepted by the Chinese Air Force. Feng Ru

He sighed and said: "I'm not very clear about this matter. Just wait a minute and I'll call and ask."

Feng Ru picked up the phone, dialed a number and talked for a long time. He hung up the phone half an hour later and said with a frown: "Now we are in big trouble. The Sino-German joint venture aircraft manufacturing company in Shenyang

The company has produced a new type of fighter jet. This type of fighter jet can easily climb to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters. It has a small turning radius and strong diving ability. It is said that its performance is no worse than that of the P-40, and the price is only 35,000.

The Air Force is very tempted and plans to purchase modified fighter jets to replace a thousand Eagle-3 aircraft at a price of one thousand US dollars. However, we do not have no chance. This aircraft has not yet been finalized and will need about half a year to be tested."

It was like a bolt from the blue. The P-40 was sold to China for US$40,000 each, and it could not be produced in China yet. The loss of an order for one thousand aircraft was enough for the shareholders of Curtiss Corporation to sell Pete

The body was dismembered. Pete quickly reported the news to the United States, who quickly responded that this must be Germany's latest fighter jet. The damn Germans must not let them succeed and take away Curtis' business.

The headquarters asked Peter to lobby Congress, hoping to win orders from the Air Force through Feng Ru's relationship with Feng Hua.

Pete failed after a month of hard work. The Air Force told Pete directly that even if the performance of the P-40 fighter was better, the Air Force would not purchase it. The reason was simple. Someone above had spoken because Curtiss had always insisted not to purchase it.

Not only are they willing to put the P-40 production line in China, but they also put the production of new engines in the United States. This is a slight against China.

By the time the United States expressed its promise to set up engine and aircraft assembly production lines in China, another month had passed. Peter took action again, but the result was still the same. The Air Force had decided to purchase one thousand new fighter jets from the Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Shenyang. Pete reported the result back home. His P-40 was lost to a guy who had been a bandit.

In fact, the so-called Sino-German joint venture is nothing. It is a cooperative enterprise between Wuhan Aviation Research Institute and Shenyang Brothers Company. The biggest feature of this enterprise is that more than 80% of the workers are Jews, and they have all obtained Chinese visas and traveled to China in the past two years. The number of Jews who came to China in the past two years has been as high as one million. These people are all Jews who have undergone strict screening and have certain qualities. After they came to China, most of them were recruited by various companies as soon as they got off the ship.

Fang Jianxiong considered that the technology of the new fighter jets developed in Wuhan could not be mastered by Americans, so the state funded part of the investment and technology. Zhang Zuolin's brother company was responsible for the rest of the investment. A new aircraft manufacturing plant was set up in Shenyang, with technicians and other personnel Selective flight visas are mainly issued to Jews. In fact, this enterprise was started a year and a half ago. It was brought out at this time, and it was clear that it was to deceive Curtis.

Curtiss' joint venture in China has always been funded by China and Curtiss provided the technology. The Eagle 3 produced is indeed a biplane with excellent performance. But this kind of aircraft is obviously not suitable for Curtiss. They have also been reluctant to set up a new engine production line in China. This directly angered Mr. Fang.

Without the order from the Chinese Air Force, the existence of Curtis' joint venture in China was of little significance. This matter took about half a year. It eventually led to Curtis withdrawing its investment from China and holding 49% of the shares in the Chinese joint venture. , was transferred to its partner Wuhan Airlines at market price. According to Feng Ru, after taking over Curtis' shares, he would either develop new aircraft to compete for the Air Force's next orders, or he would have to switch to the production of training aircraft.

It's not that Curtiss doesn't want to produce P-40 in China, but it's because of the constraints of the U.S. government. The P-40 is an active fighter jet in the United States. After receiving the order from the U.S. Air Force, Curtiss, which is busy domestically, made a plan to produce P-40 from China. The decision to divest. This decision ultimately made Curtiss regret. One month after Curtiss divested, their compatriot Boeing received a three-year order for 500 B-17 bombers from the Chinese Air Force. Douglas, also an American company and a wholly-owned enterprise in China, received a new order from China Civil Aviation Administration for 100 aircraft.

After Wuhan Airlines acquired Curtis' shares, it immediately began to develop new aircraft. In fact, the new aircraft was a new fighter originally designed for the Air Force. It purchased 500 Merlin engines directly from the United Kingdom and improved the original joint venture factory production line. After that, samples of the new aircraft were produced within a month. One month after the trial, the Air Force decided to purchase 500 aircraft. This aircraft has a very funny Chinese name - Mustang!

The fighter jets produced by the Brothers Aircraft Factory in Shenyang are actually Mustangs. The engines for the first batch of 500 aircraft were also purchased from the United Kingdom. At present, China itself is not able to produce qualified engines, but Feng Ru predicts that it will take at least one and a half years. , they can fully understand the technology provided by the British and produce engines by themselves. Of course, these are all things later. Feng Ru was quite kind. He purchased Curtis shares according to the market price. The only unkind thing was to force Curtis out of China. market. But this is really nothing, just a business method. Feng Ru did not play any disgraceful role in it. People who do bad things will never get the turn of Feng Ru, who is engaged in technology. Those who came forward were all Wuhan State-owned Assets Management The officials of the committee purchased the shares with a very kind expression.

"Before the end of the year, the Air Force will complete the establishment of the 50th Wing, with 2,500 biplanes, 1,500 monoplanes, and 1,000 bombers of various types, totaling more than 5,000 aircraft. The Navy

The aviation force has a total of thirty wings, including fifteen fighter wings, five torpedo bomber wings, and five dive bomber wings. The total number of aircraft is more than 3,000, of which eight torpedo bombers are old bi-wing aircraft and are in urgent need of replacement.

Now the entire Air Force needs to replace more than 60% of its aircraft, which is a very heavy task. For the Army, one hundred A-type infantry divisions will be restored, and the artillery divisions will be expanded to twenty. With the addition of three central guard divisions, the number of mechanized divisions will reach three.

Nineteen,…”

In mid-1938, the Ministry of National Defense held a high-level meeting of the three services, and Chief of General Staff Xu Shuzheng made a summary report. Fang Jianxiong had been listening carefully. China's current aircraft production capacity was still concealed in external publicity. Once it entered wartime, the first

By the year, the annual production of aircraft can reach 5,000, and they will all be new-type fighter jets.

"The formation of the Air Force needs to be accelerated. There is currently no shortage of pilots, but suitable fighter jets. All the eliminated fighter jets will be sent to aviation schools in various places. Once a world war breaks out, pilots and aircraft will be consumed very quickly.

At that time, the competition will be who can replenish it faster. Therefore, our talent reserve must keep up and strive to train 10,000 qualified fighter pilots before the end of the first half of 1939. HNA's talent reserve must also be accelerated, and

There is priority. Taking off and landing aircraft on an aircraft carrier is different from that on land. The navy must speed up the talent reserve in this area. As for the army, the formation of mechanized troops must be accelerated. The garrisons of the Northwest Military Region and the Far East Military Region will be stationed before the first half of 1939.

Reach one million. Among them, there must be no less than eight mechanized armies. The Soviet Union is the enemy. The Japanese army is not highly mechanized and lacks war resources. They will definitely go south in the early stages of the war. We have millions of troops in the Far East and Northwest

The purpose is to hold back the Soviet Union and allow Mustache to go west with confidence. Intelligence from the Security Bureau shows that secret contacts are taking place between the Soviet Union and Germany. The specific extent is unknown. If the Soviet Union and Germany reach an agreement, by then we will

The pressure will be even greater. Once the Soviet Union and Germany reach an agreement, our army will immediately carry out a new round of military expansion, adding fifty A-type infantry divisions within half a year. We can now make preparations. The Soviet Union and Germany will reach a non-aggression treaty.
Chapter completed!