The Sino-Soviet Anti-Aggression and Mutual Assistance Treaty was negotiated last year, and it was the second year that the Soviet Union and Russia had passed the discussion and passed it back to China. After the election of the Inter-School, many representatives were afraid of this treaty that caused the hostility of the United States. In addition, some Westernized pro-American and pro-German elements were clamoring, and the treaty was not passed when the Inter-School voted.

But if the contract was not signed with the Soviet Union, the negotiations with the United States were still failed. In this Marshall conflict, many newspapers condemned Japan's inhumane spirit and shot down the seaplane of the United States to search and rescue female pilots. Of course, this time, the newspaper industry was not just the Ta Kung Pao, Yi Shibao, and the voice of the declaration. The Imperial Daily, which was published again after burning, specially invited several senior naval and air force officers to explain the location of the crashed plane's possible emergency landing based on the information released by the United States. The final answer was 1.5 hours of fuel, and even more than 40 miles of headwind, it would not be possible to land in the Marshall Islands six or seven hundred nautical miles away.

The plane made a maximum of 300 to 400 nautical miles northwest of Howland, which is the most optimistic estimate. According to Emilia's report at 8:43, she was only one hundred nautical miles away from Itasca, and only half an hour left in the fuel, so she could only make a landing in the area of ​​fifty nautical miles northwest of Howland. She insisted on declaring the close-in place as the Marshall Islands, a thousand kilometers away, which was obviously a political conspiracy.

The burning of the Empire Daily is news, and it is also news. As soon as it is published, it reports hot events in detail, pointing out that the forced landing of the American female pilot in the Marshall Islands was essentially a political conspiracy, and it immediately caused a thousand waves. How could ordinary people look at newspapers against the map of the ocean? How far is the Howland and the Marshall Islands? How far is the Da Kung Pao, and the publicly-known newspapers declared such a publicly-known newspaper only about the general. They described in detail the exchange of fire between Japan and the United States rather than the crashed plane. At this time, the Empire Daily printed the map of the Central Pacific on the newspaper: the departure city of Lai, and the plan to land on the Howland, Baker Island, Marshall Island, Gilbert Island, and Mariana Islands one by one. Only in this way can readers understand how far the Howland Island is from the Marshall Islands and how important the Marshall Islands are.

The US miscalculated the crashed plane's emergency landing ground, and the strategic significance of the Marshall Islands combined, which made people recognize the views in newspapers. The disappearance of a female pilot should indeed be humanitarian rescue, but it was forced to move the plane's emergency landing ground nearly 1,000 kilometers westward, saying that she had forced the landing landing to the Marshall Islands was a displeasure.

"This Empire Daily..." On the first day of June, Weng Wenhao was in his mansion, a former Qing Beizi Mansion provided by the Ministry of Revenue. Because the Imperial Daily Luoyang paper was expensive that day, he still saw the above discussion article from Hu Shi who was visiting him. The article was indeed reasonable, but this was contrary to the direction expected by the cabinet.

"Although the students burn the Imperial Daily newspaper illegally, their original intention was good." Hu Shi held a cup of tea. Today he asked Weng Wenhao for the arrested student. After two rest days, the Dali Temple in the capital will try the case of arson injury. "Some things are realistic, but these facts have other purposes. This is like bricks and tiles. You can build schools or prisons, so the architect's intention is the most important.

Empire Daily advocated that China and the United States would fight very early. Although it did not make it clear, from the editor-in-chief to the column editor, it was believed from beginning to end that China and Japan should expel the US fleet from Asia to establish an Asian economic circle belonging to China and Japan. This idea is really unrealistic. The industrial scale of China, Japan and North Korea combined is less than one-quarter of that of the United States. If you fight hard, it will only lead to the destruction of the country and the family..."

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If the Marshall Islands fight bigger and bigger, the cabinet can promote that Japan intends to provoke the war. But now, as soon as the article in the Empire Daily was published, humanitarian rescue was actually said to be a political conspiracy, and it was justified and well-founded. This will definitely change the position of some representatives. If the vote is not passed, the matter will be ruined.

Putting aside the proposal of withdrawing from the East Asian Alliance on the third day of the Chinese New Year, Weng Wenhao took a sip of tea and asked, "Is there any way to do this?"

"Just now, I can only strengthen public opinion propaganda," Hu Shi held his glasses, looking like a scholar. "Can the Ministry of Rites of the Empire Daily find a way to temporarily seal it?"

"The Empire Daily is a big newspaper, and seizure will definitely cause public criticism, especially at this time." Weng Wenhao thought about it carefully and felt that this seemed impossible. "Don't you think that we have sealed the Empire Daily now. Are you not afraid that they will seal the Great Kung Pao and your independent comments after they come to power?"

"That's true." Hu Shi smiled. "But I didn't consider that far. The current situation is critical. If the Juyi Academy fails to pass the third-year junior high school vote, then we will be dragged into the war by Japan."

"But if Marshall was really an American conspiracy, we would never be able to avoid it." After reading the Empire Daily and combining the negotiations with the United States since the establishment of the cabinet, Weng Wenhao couldn't help but feel a little moved.

"Are Yongni depressed?" Hu Shi smiled even more. He knew Weng Wenhao too much and knew that this person could not stand the excitement.

Sure enough, after hearing what Hu Shi said, Weng Wenhao waved his hand and said sternly: "How could I be discouraged? I just think Americans are really unkind. Shaochuan is like that, but they are still not satisfied. What exactly do they want? We want us to hand over all overseas markets to them and prevent our country from exporting goods? Is this possible!"

For Weng Wenhao, the first thing is to be aggressive, and the second thing is to induce him when he is excited. Seeing Weng Wenhao's temper rising, Hu Shi smiled again: "This is not because our conditions are not good, it is because we talked with Japan. You also know the situation in Japan. They are determined to pull us to fight a war with the Americans. They are so aggressive, how can Americans have a good talk with us? Many things that seem to be difficult are also something that Americans cannot find a reason to refuse, so they have to raise."

"Is that true?" Weng Wenhao asked with his eyebrows hanging. Another line of communication with the United States was that Hu Shi was doing it through the Pacific International Society, and he obtained a lot of useful information from him. At least Washington had learned a lot of knowledge about China. Now that Hu Shi spoke up again, Weng Wenhao suddenly felt hope.

"Of course that's the case." Hu Shi focused his attention, "Americans and the Philippines have allowed them to be independent in ten years, and they still care about annexing our territory? Besides, the domestic political arena of the United States has always advocated justice and freedom. How could it be possible for another great power suddenly to violate the interests? Yongni, don't be deceived by those haters of the United States. They hate the United States and slander the United States only one purpose: that is, to protect our existing political system, to preserve our power and vested interests.

Yong Ni. Only the United States can balance the East Asian alliance in the world today. To borrow Yang Jingcheng's words, the direction of world civilization will be determined by the Pacific Ocean, and the essence is determined by China, Japan and the United States. If China and Japan win, the entire civilization world will fall into darkness forever. Freedom and democracy will never be realized. Fortunately, China and Japan are not as good as the United States in all aspects. The war really happens, and the ending is certain."

"But if we are given twenty years, we may not be unable to win." Then Hu Shi said, Weng Wenhao, who gradually understood the scale of domestic industrial scale, suddenly said.

"But Yongni wants such a country to win?" Hu Shi asked cunningly: "A country with aristocratic autocracy, law cruel, people ignorance, democracy and science without a place. Such a country gains world leadership and will only bring endless suffering and darkness to all mankind."

The topic fell on science again, and Weng Wenhao had to sigh. His and Ding Wenjiang's ideal was that all Chinese people understand science, use science to make everyone live a good life through science. But it is obvious that this is not the case now. College enrollment stopped more than ten years ago. When Huang Renzhi, who was in Shanghai, said that he wanted to build a university town, it was in the end. Only when the enrollment of technical schools was expanded, the junior high school graduation scores of farmers could go to technical schools, and after graduation they went to factories to work as workers. Of course, the salary was better than farming, but the factory owners were still the ones who made a lot of money.

There are more factories, more workers, more wealthy people, more cars, more high-rise buildings, and even more kiln sisters. This is everything Weng Wenhao has seen in the past 20 years of founding. Are the people living better than the Qing Dynasty? Of course, they are better in the country, inside and outside the pass, as long as they are not lazy and not suffering from disasters, the people can basically eat enough; whether they are worn, rag or sewing, basically every household has clothes to wear. But compared with the past, they are actually "poor" compared to the rich, and what makes Weng Wenhao anxious is that such poor people have to donate money for indulgence and oil every month.

Some people have roughly calculated that the money for indulgence and oil donated by the people every year is not less than one billion, which is basically the amount after the government cancels the agricultural tax. It is said that many people have this idea. That is, the emperor is willing to pay taxes without paying taxes, and we people must also have a conscience. The tax will be given to the temple to worship the Three Saints. So: "Temples are everywhere in China, and monks are all fatter than pigs."

"Oh!" Weng Wenhao sighed heavily after losing his mind. He really couldn't figure out why Yang Jingcheng had gone on the evil road after the rebellion in the capital. Before the political reform, he had great hope for this country, but later, he became more and more worried. After tidying up his thoughts, Weng Wenhao said: "Shizhi, I won't talk about this brain-hard and troubled thing. Just say, what do you want to arrange the students?"

"The students may hold a parade in the third year of junior high school." Hu Shi knew that he persuaded Weng Wenhao back again, and his expression was relaxed.

"March? Parade at this time?" Weng Wenhao thought of the students petitioning in front of the Beijing Police Department two days ago, and something happened almost to the accident.

"Yes. We have to march before the vote of the jury Academy." Hu Shi said, "Yongni, don't talk about the parade, it's just an anti-war parade. It is to mobilize the country's peaceful forces to force the representatives of the jury Academy to carefully consider the proposal to withdraw from the East Asian Alliance. You can push the proposal to the fourth day of the jury to vote. The parade starts in the morning of the third day of the jury and ends at noon, and there will be no chaos."

"How many people participated in the parade?" Seeing that it was an anti-war parade, Weng Wenhao put his eyebrows hanging down, "What is the slogan?"

"There are roughly estimated that there are more than 3,000 people in the capital. In addition, there will be parades in Tianjin, Nanjing, Taiyuan, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, and Wuhan." As soon as Hu Shi spoke, he immediately left Weng Wenhao stunned. He just heard him say: "The slogan is: anti-hunger, anti-war, anti-persecution; to eat, peace, and freedom."

The other slogans are fine, but when Weng Wenhao heard the 'anti-hunger', he smiled, "You are too much. There are still students who are not full now? I heard that they all drink milk from the Northeast!"

"The Northeast is the Northeast. At least some places in the pass are not good for students." Hu Shi said. "Since it's a parade, you have to give some benefits. Being able to eat enough does not mean you can eat meat." Seeing Weng Wenhao still laughing, Hu Shi said again: "Yongni, the only thing we can rely on is these progressive students. This force is not cultivated when it is in power. Should we wait to step down before training? Even if we don't plan, this will allow American friends in China to see our sincerity for peace."

"But what if something happens? How about it?" Weng Wenhao is really a taboo about the parade.

"You asked the Ministry of Civil Affairs to order patrol police from all over the country not to interfere in the parade. What else can happen?" Hu Shi asked back.

"But..." Weng Wenhao was still a little worried. But when he thought about the proposal to withdraw from the East Asian Alliance, he had to say: "Okay, it's just that you must take good care of the students and never make any trouble."

"I promise this is a civilized parade!" Hu Shi saw that Weng Wenhao finally agreed, and immediately laughed. He believed that this time, the power to defend peace would grow rapidly, and the power of darkness would be greatly weakened. If the proposal to withdraw from the East Asian Alliance in the fourth day of the lunar month is really passed, it can basically be concluded that the possibility of a war is slim.

Some people try their best to avoid war, while others plan war with all their heart. The first day of the lunar calendar is a rest day. In addition to Xu Jingxi, who has too big a goal, Wang Jitong, Zhou Sixu, Chen Guangshou, Zhang Kun, Zhang Shi and others went to Tonghua on the night before. Just after breakfast, a group of people held a meeting to discuss the issue of preparation for war, the focus was on wartime materials, wartime manpower, and wartime funds. The former was chaired by Zhou Sixu, while the latter was chaired by Chen Guangshou, the former Minister of Personnel, and Zhang Kun of the State Bank.

However, before reporting on the production of wartime materials, Zhou Sixu came up with a new plan for the Naval Design Bureau.

"Sir, the Navy Design Bureau's consideration is that since the speed of the tanker is to reach thirty knots, it is simply changed to a simple aircraft carrier, which can also increase the number of carrier-based aircraft." Zhou Sixu took out a tanker design drawing as soon as he got up, telling the new plan. "Although the modified tanker can only carry 15,000 tons of oil, the upper deck is still 163 meters and 20 meters wide. Move the main engine of the bridge to the tail, build a simple hangar, and install a catapult, which can carry about twelve to eighteen carrier-based aircraft."

"Hehe, you guys..." Yang Rui looked at the new design drawing and felt that this must be the idea of ​​Chen Honglie of the Navy Office. The deck of the tanker was indeed flat, and he didn't want him to even let it go. He asked, "Before, each combat formation was equipped with ten 26,000-ton tankers. How did you match it like this? How much does the construction cost of each formation increase? Is it produced?"

"Before, each formation had 200,000 tons of oil. After modification, it was also equipped with 200,000 tons. However, because each ship was only equipped with 15,000 tons of fuel, it was necessary to use 14 ships. The cost of each ship... The Design Bureau and the Japanese Navy Ministry of Naval Shipbuilding Headquarters conducted a thorough test on the ship type, changed a lot of designs, and the cost was still 6 million per ship after comprehensive strengthening. This is equivalent to the budget of each formation exceeding 24 million. In fact, this is very affordable, and the extra money for a simple aircraft carrier has the capacity of two aircraft carriers. In addition, because of the small tonnage, the speed is faster than that of large tankers."

Zhou Sixu had a lot of dealing with the master of the Reporter Academy. After he compared it, Yang Rui could only nod. But his next sentence gave Yang Rui a headache: "Sir, it's just that the new calculations of the Navy Office show that 200,000 tons of oil is not enough, especially the tankers themselves consume fuel, so..., each formation now requires twenty 15,000-ton tankers. The total estimated that the construction cost of each formation will increase by 60 million, which is exactly the price of two simple aircraft carriers."

Zhou Sixu's last sentence made Yang Rui laugh and cry. He asked, "How much does such a formation cost?"

"There are a total of 7680 million yuan, not more than 7770 million yuan." Zhou Sixu said. "The budget for shipbuilding is 4.2 billion yuan, with five formations each year, that is, 3850 million yuan. Overall, there is still a surplus."

"The treaty with the Soviet Union was not signed, so the army's 500 million cannot be moved." Yang Rui thought about the anti-aggression mutual aid treaty, "It would be not enough to reduce these 500 million yuan. There is also the 30 billion military expenditure per year is just an initial estimate. What if you can only receive 25 billion yuan?"

"Then the aircraft carrier can only be laid with three inches of nickel steel armor." Zhou Sixu said. "In this way, the cost of each formation can be reduced by 180 million, with a total price of less than 590 million, and the five formations are 2.95 billion. If the money is less, the number of destroyers and cruisers can be reduced. Such a formation can be compressed within 500 million, and five formations are 2.5 billion. The students' idea is this: I would rather have fewer escort ships than less oil tankers. Maritime combat is the most important thing."

"This is the case with the combat formation, what about the logistics formation?" Yang Rui briefly wrote down the cost of the combat formation and asked about the logistics.

"The temporary organization is like this. Two combat formations form a combat fleet, and each fleet arranges a supply base, that is, the iceberg base. It includes an oil storage base, a maintenance base, and a submarine base." Zhou Sixu said. He took out the iceberg base map and actually looked no different from ordinary ships. Yang Rui couldn't tell which one was the oil storage base, which one was maintenance, and which one was the submarine base.

Zhou Sixu, who knew Yang Rui's intention, placed three simple pictures on the table and said: "For the sake of navigation, the iceberg base is designed to look like a ship, but the size is larger. The oil base is 600 meters long, 60 meters wide, 24 meters draft, and can carry 500,000 tons of fuel; the maintenance base is 600 meters long, 70 meters wide, and 30 meters high, and is divided into two layers. The upper layer is responsible for aircraft maintenance and the lower layer is responsible for ship maintenance. It is actually a ferry, with an entrance in the middle of the lower, that is, the bow and stern each have an entrance with a width of 35 meters and a height of 20 meters. The aircraft carrier can enter this entrance, but considering that the dock is difficult to bear weight, this can only be a floating dock;

The submarine base is similar in size. However, the entrance is smaller, with a width of only 22 meters and a height of 12 meters. Two submarines can be docked side by side. A large submarine of 110 meters long can be docked ten. Considering that the submarines are shallow in the draught and light weight, this is a dock, which can drain the sea water during maintenance."

After talking about performance, Zhou Sixu, who knew Yang Rui was sensitive to price, began to say the cost again: "Wood pulp and ice water are not valuable, but the mixed ice needs to be cooled continuously or it will melt; and the temperature is only as low as minus 16 degrees Celsius, so the hull will not deform and fall. This makes the previous estimate of seven million not enough [Note: The initial estimate of the ice aircraft carrier was 700,000 pounds, and then because it was to maintain a low temperature of 16 degrees Celsius, the price later increased to 2.5 million pounds, andre (2005).j.d.bernal: the.private.], and now it has been built, including 120,000 horsepower power ships. The cost of each base is less than 30 million."

"It's not expensive." Yang Rui was very relieved to hear that the price of just a simple aircraft carrier was just a simple aircraft carrier.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Sixu continued: "But this can only be used in high-latitude areas. If it is to be used near the equator, 120,000 horsepower is definitely not enough, and the air conditioner is not enough. The insulation layer inside and outside the ship must be thickened. The entire cost is estimated to be 60 million."

"Why did it double this?" Yang Rui thought of only 30 million before.

"Sir, the cost of the iceberg base is all about insulation materials, air conditioners, air conditioners, steel pipes, supporting aluminum alloys and power generation ships. Even so, it cannot be moved to the equator in summer. Be sure to avoid the months when the temperature is higher, otherwise the hull may deform, and once it is deformed, it will be difficult to recover." Zhou Sixu said. "Single ship is indeed expensive, but it is not so expensive to spread on two combat formations.

In terms of logistics plan, to the east of the supply base, the high-speed supply ships assigned by the combat formation are responsible for the high-speed supply ships assigned by the combat formation; to the west, the low-speed merchant ships and low-speed oil tankers are responsible for the low-speed oil tankers. Taking Panama, the farthest combat location, as an example, the straight-line distance from Japan is 13,500 kilometers, and based on the route, it is about 14,000 kilometers. The average speed of the merchant ship is 12 knots, and if it is not staying for thirty days, you can sail 15,000 kilometers, which means that the transportation time is exactly one month.

An aircraft carrier fleet has two combat formations under its jurisdiction, which consumes about 500,000 tons of materials every month, which requires 500,000 tons of merchant ships. Together with the ones that go back, there are a total of 100. In addition, there are repairs, loading and unloading delays, and sunk by enemy submarines. It is conservatively estimated that an aircraft carrier fleet needs to be equipped with 180,000 tons of merchant ships, that is, 1.8 million tons. The construction of a 2.5 aircraft carrier fleet every year requires 4.5 million tons of merchant ships.

At present, our plan is to build 300 million yuan of low-speed merchant ships and 500 million yuan of low-speed oil tankers every year. The cost of merchant ships is 100 yuan per ton, and the cost of oil tankers is 200 yuan per ton, which is equivalent to building 3 million tons of merchant ships and 2.5 million tons of oil tankers every year, a total of 550 100 tons of ships. These 550 ships require escorts from 55 escort carrier formations, each escort formation is under one 100-ton class escort carrier carrier and two low-speed frigates, with a cost of less than 7 million yuan, and the total cost of 55 escort formations is 385 million yuan.

In this way, an aircraft carrier fleet costs a total of 2022 million from combat to logistics transportation. The aircraft carriers are calculated at 65 million per ship, and the supply base is calculated at 30 million. By the way, submarines are not counted. The cost of submarines per ton is estimated to be between 3,000 and 3,500. If they are all two thousand tons, then 83 can be built every year, if it is smaller, it will be a different matter." Zhou Sixu calculated here and suddenly asked: "Sir. Submarines should not be active with the aircraft carrier fleet, right?"

Zhou Sixu was counting, and Yang Rui was counting. Military expenses, ship construction costs, cost, and other things, as long as there is no disturbance between others, he can count for three days and three nights. In Yang Rui's opinion, everything else is fake, and numbers are real. Of course, people who are good at using these numbers should also be good at using Zhou Sixu. At this time, he put down his pen and said, "Of course you are moving alone. But if there is a supply base, submarines can be smaller, half to half, half two thousand tons, half seven or eight hundred tons, so there will be 120 ships, right?"

"It's almost the same." Zhou Sixu nodded. After saying that, he looked at Zhang Kun again and said with a smile: "We are actually just a shortage of money, not a shortage of workers. Except for aircraft carriers, all other ships are built on flat ground. Just a floating dock is just a watering dock." After saying that, he continued the previous topic: "Then from the front line to the port, a fleet of 222 million will be 5055 million, and a fleet of 2.5 will be 5055 million, plus the 500 million submarines, a total of 555 million, 5555 million."

It seemed as if the old bull had chewed back halfway, Zhou Sixu calculated the cost of building a ship again. He was in a good mood and said: "Including twenty high-speed tankers and eighteen escort aircraft carriers, each fleet needs 2,200 to 2,300 aircraft. Two-point five units requires 5,700 aircraft. The combat consumption is unpredictable. But just counting the 2,55 fleet, 10,000 aircraft a year is enough. But this does not involve renewal. If it involves renewal, by the time we have ten fleets, the air force's military expenditure will not be able to withstand it. If the situation is adjusted well, it will happen in the fifth year. If the adjustment is not good, the military expenditure in the fourth year will be short of limits."

Speaking of this, Zhou Sixu had to cough and solemnly emphasized, "Sir. My opinion is that it is best not to fight land wars! In general, land wars are the most expensive. A single 100 million shells will cost 5 billion, which is basically the same as the cost of building ships. This does not include guns, tanks, and trucks. If it is just a naval battle, the war can last at least six years, but once a land war is fought, not to mention four years, it is likely that it will not last for three years."

Zhou Sixu's view would definitely be angry if the army heard it, but what he said was completely true. Even the most expensive torpedo in aircraft carrier naval battles was difficult to use 10,000, and 30,000 per 30,000, and other aviation bombs were not worth the most; the most used air defense was 20mm anti-aircraft shells, but it was difficult to consume 10 million rounds in a few years, and the price was less than 100 million.

But in war, we cannot completely fight with money, nor can we completely ignore military spending. So Yang Rui asked: "What do you think?"

"Sir, will the Americans who occupy Hawaii have a peace talk?" Zhou Sixu asked. Wang Ji and the others were very bored after hearing the master and apprentice's calculations for a long time. Now, they heard Zhou Sixu talk about this issue and saw them all over.

"It's very difficult!" Yang Rui lit a cigarette and sent one to everyone. "Our strategic goals are very clear. The Philippines needs no mention, Hawaii and Alaska are best independent..."

"Alaska?" Zhou Sixu thought about the place where he transformed, and was a little puzzled.

"Alaska is very close to us. The Rockets don't need to be far from us. It's even closer than Hawaii, especially the island chain, which is closer." Yang Rui said. "Hawaii and Alaska are best independent and will never become military bases for the United States. This is one; the second is compensation, which is just like the previous question, which is very difficult. According to how much military expenditure we spend, Americans will definitely be liable for the debt like Germany, so after thinking about it, it's the most realistic thing to move gold. They now have 7,000 tons of gold in their treasury, and at least half of it will be compensated."

"Difficult!" Wang Ji. "If it were just de-armed by Alaska and Hawaii and then paying another $10 billion, it might be easier."

"That's meaningless." Yang Rui shook his head, "Like the German Rhine Demilitarized Zone, it's useless. In fact, it's best that we take Alaska and Hawaii, but all countries are going to whine again."

"Sir, what if the United States does not negotiate if it is occupied Hawaii? Can we unilaterally make the truce?" Zhang Kun asked. He was actually responsible for raising the money. He believed that 30 billion military spending could last for up to four years. With the year of starting, the war will only be five years. If it continues, it will be a revolution.

"You can't make a quit!" Yang Rui and Zhou Sixu said in unison. Zhou Sixu said: "If the Americans don't have a peace talk, we can only choose one of them in California and Panama. From a logistics perspective, it is best to choose Panama. There are indeed oil fields off the coast of California, but the Americans will definitely blow them up before retreating. Panama is different. Oil fields are in Venezuela. If you deal well, oil fields can be protected. Eighty percent of the combat materials are oil materials, and these heavy oils can be purchased directly from Venezuela. Food supplies can also be purchased locally, with only ammunition, weapons, aircraft, and gasoline transported from the country, so the logistical pressure will be greatly reduced.

Another advantage of choosing Panama is that it is the isthmus, which cannot contain too many troops, and the army's operations are greatly affected by sea control. Although the United States' land-based aircraft can maintain the sea control of the Gulf of Mexico, it has been difficult for him to control the sea control of the Caribbean for a long time, which can save military expenditure to the greatest extent."

"How much oil is in Venezuela?" Yang Rui asked.

"Shenwu exported more than 100 million barrels in the 17th year, and now many oil fields have reduced their output. The good production managed should reach 20 million tons. Save some and can be used by four fleets." Zhou Sixu smiled again: "If we really block the entire East Coast of the United States, the price of oil in the world will increase. It seems that the Germans' North Sea oil fields should produce oil as soon as possible."

Seeing Zhou Sixu talking about Germany, Yang Rui just smiled slightly. He really didn't expect the Germans to find the North Sea oil field. He shook his head and suddenly asked: "Venezuela is still too close to the United States. Not to mention Florida, even Georgia and Alabama can get long-range bombers."
Chapter completed!