At this time, the Chinese Observatory Team in Germany was also discussing the war. Several officers from the Air Force, HNA and Land Airlines were gathering together to discuss.

Most of the officers of the observation team in this camp were pilots. Because of Germany's advantages in air combat, most of the pilots and officers went to Germany to be observers.

"Recently, the Allies have added many colonial forces, including 7 Indian divisions, 1 Canadian divisions, B Australian divisions, 1 New Zealand divisions, 2 Burmese divisions, and 2 colonial divisions in the UK. The French side has added 7 Indo-Shanghai Brigades and 4 African divisions..."

Lieutenant Colonel Jinhai from the Air Force put down his telescope and said to his comrades next to him: "It seems they want these people to be cannon fodder..."

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Wangyuan of HNA smiled and said, "This is normal. The casualties in this war are too great, and they can't stand it. Germany has no way to send colonial troops to Europe, and Austro-Hungary has no colonial troops available, otherwise they wouldn't be polite..."

Major Weidabao thought for a while and said, "However, the Allies are in a difficult situation now. Although their colonies have a large population, India and South Africa are in a revolt. Look at this, only 7 divisions have been sent by such a large India. Now, only Australia and Canada can count on it."

Jin Hai smiled: "Haha, according to my opinion, it is difficult for the Allies to mobilize more colonial troops. The most populous India has already had an anti-British uprising, and the situation is getting worse. Maybe they can't mobilize Indians as cannon fodder, but they have to get caught in more local troops..."

"Oh, by the way. Germany is looking for us to buy planes again recently. I heard that it is 306 sparrows..." Wei Dabao said in confusion: "I'm wondering, why do they buy so many sparrows?"

Jin Hai said: "Of course it is used to train pilots. Although Germany has the upper hand in air combat now, the number of pilots is not very large. Don't forget that the Allies have much larger populations. If the training of preparatory pilots is not increased, the manpower will be very tight in the future."

Chu Wangyuan also said: "Indeed, Germany did not have the preparatory pilot training system like ours before, and the number of pilots was very small. Moreover, not only did Germany not have a pilot training system, nor did it, so if a war of attrition was fought, neither side could bear it..."

Jin Hai smiled and said, "If you want to say that, our President Wen is far-sighted and created the [Reserve Club] early, and it has been popularized nationwide. We now have not only enough pilots, but also pilots and sailors... "

In the past, many people at home and abroad disagreed with the "four major clubs" that Wen Desi set up in China, thinking that it was a waste of resources and wasted one by one. However, after the outbreak of the war, everyone realized that the members of these clubs were the best reserves.

The role of shooting clubs is not obvious, because many countries are not banning guns at this time, but aviation clubs, navigation clubs and driving clubs are completely different. These three clubs are all technical troops, which are not like infantry, which can be used on the battlefield after three months of training. These technical troops require a long time of training. If you directly recruit novices from the people, even if you conduct intensive training in the army, it will take at least half a year to become qualified soldiers. If you are like fighter pilots, it will be very difficult to spend a year.

The clubs are completely different, and they can save at least half of their time, because they have received a lot of basic training and practical education in the club and cannot be considered rookies. After entering the army, such people only need a few months of professional training to become qualified chariot soldiers, pilots and seafarers.

Of course, this kind of "reserve club" method cannot be kept confidential, so now that after discovering the effect of this approach, European and American powers have begun to follow suit. However, although this kind of "reserve club" seems simple, not everyone can learn it. First of all, you have to have money, secondly, you have to be very rich, and finally you have to have a lot of money.

You should know that in addition to shooting clubs, it is not much money, but professional clubs are very expensive. Purchasing planes and vehicles costs money, building venues and facilities costs money, and the salary of staff and daily expenses cost money. Moreover, clubs like this must be scaled to be effective. If you only make a few, it will be useless. In this way, the expense will be very large.

The situation in China is different. First of all, the policy of state-owned land has zero land costs, while the lower labor costs and a large number of nationalized enterprises have also made construction costs and daily operation costs. Secondly, because aircraft and vehicles are self-made, most of them come from state-owned enterprises, and the procurement costs are also very low. Therefore, the cost of building these clubs in China is far lower than the international average.

The situation abroad is very different. Most European and American powers have private land ownership, and most of the various production enterprises are private. Conscientious capitalists must make money, and it is not enough to make less. For the same products, when Chinese state-owned enterprises sell to clubs, they usually make about 2% of the profits, but if they change to European and American capitalists, you will feel embarrassed to say hello to others if you don’t make 100 yuan.

Therefore, although the European and American powers are also coining "reserve clubs", the cost is several times higher, and the progress is still very slow. Now, except for the wealthy and wealthy United States, the development of "reserve clubs" in other countries is not very ideal.

However, the countries participating in the war are in another situation. They are not afraid of spending money now, and the country has entered a state of emergency, so it is much more convenient to requisition land and other things than usual. But now it is urgent. It is definitely too late to start clubs like neutral countries such as China, so they spent more money and directly opened N clubs across the country.

It is definitely too late to manufacture aircraft, cars and other equipment by themselves, and it will occupy a large amount of production capacity, which is not cost-effective. Therefore, China's aircraft and automobile industries have received large orders. The trainer aircraft with simple operation and reliable performance are particularly popular. Since the outbreak of the war, it has received more than 1,560 orders from countries around the world. Not only did the participating countries buy in large quantities, but also many neutral countries have bought a lot.

The manufacturing cost of the Tea-L-type "Sparrow" trainer (Wo 2 Magic Revised Edition) is very low. The initial cost was 60 yuan. However, with the improvement of the process, the cost of raw materials decreased. Plywood instead of solid wood boards, etc. The price dropped significantly. Now the cost per aircraft is less than 400 yuan, which is still the increase in manual prices. Although most of these domestic aircraft factories are state-owned enterprises, they all adhere to the principle of "making money before foreigners". It is very cheap to sell to domestic users. The military and government users are about 500 yuan, and the enterprise and private users do not exceed 700 yuan. But it is different to sell to foreigners. The unit price starts at least 106 yuan. Not only aircraft, but also cars.

September B, 23rd year of the Republic (1915 AD), Hanjing.

At this time, the First World War had been going on for almost a year and a half. Unlike the First World War in the Original Time and Space, there were not so many countries involved in the First World War, at least not so many at present.

The reason is very simple. Everyone was scared by the terrifying casualties. As of the end of the B month, the number of casualties in the Allies had reached more than 360,000, including 170,000 to 30,000 in Russia, 30,000 in France (including colonies), 80,000 in Britain (including colonies), 20,000 in Serbia, 20,000 in Japan, and about 700,000 in Belgium. The number of disabled people exceeded 800,000, another 60,000 were captured, and more than 700,000 civilians died and 1.4 million were injured.

The losses of the Allies were smaller. Germany suffered more than 30,000 people, Austro-Hungarian Empire suffered more than 400,000 people, and Bulgaria suffered more than 40,000 people. A total of 770,000 officers and soldiers died, another 36 were captured, and 180,000 people were injured. In addition, there were B,000 civilians and 20,000 wounded.

This level of casualties does exceed the psychological bottom line of many people, making many countries with some ideas dare not end easily. Of course, imperialism has no moral integrity. For them, how many people die is nothing more than a cost issue. If they don’t end now, it does not mean that they will not end in the future. For example, Italy is now trying to win them over, but they are now vaguely shirking them, at least they will not participate in the war this year. They are waiting, and when both sides fight almost, they will come to pick peaches.

Not only Italy thinks so, but many countries think so, Ottoman thinks so, the United States thinks so, and China thinks so, and everyone is waiting for the opportunity to end while buying things and making money.

"Mr. Wen, now it seems that the situation of the Allies is very difficult..." Xin Jie said.

"Well, it doesn't matter. I believe they can survive it. How difficult it is to make a country prosperous," Wen Desi said with a smile.

"Will the United States still participate in the war? If they do not participate in the war, the Allies may not be able to withstand it. Now the exchange rate between them and the Allies is, and if they continue to fight like this..." Gu Xiaolu asked with some concern.

Because Wen Desi, the "little butterfly", history has been very different and the script has been changed too many times, Gu Xiaolu is a little worried that his layout will be missed.

"Don't worry, the United States will definitely participate in the war," said Wen Desi with full confidence.

After the outbreak of World War I, the British Empire, France and Russia kept putting out massive orders, bringing huge profits to the US military-industrial complex. However, the Allies were not the biggest customers of these chaebols, but in fact, the real biggest customer was the United States itself.

Although the United States has only a hundred thousand standing troops now, it would be completely different if the United States came to the war in person. In the history of original time and space, the United States formed a total of more than 600,000 troops after participating in the war. How much does it cost to arm US soldiers with more than 5 million? How much does it cost to build tens of thousands of aircraft? How much does it cost to build hundreds of warships? Just think about it, how much money can these military budgets bring to the chaebols in the United States.

There is a prerequisite for these, that is, the United States must come to the war in person, so that the US government will withdraw huge military expenditures from the finances to purchase arms. But if the United States does not participate in the war, don’t think about this huge military expenditure. Therefore, even if the US government does not want to participate in the war, the greedy American chaebols will try their best to drag the United States into the war. The most important thing is that the US government is just the spokesperson of the chaebols.

Wen Desi sneered and said, "Hmph, the United States has not participated in the war now, but the chaebols think that the best time has not yet arrived, and it does not mean that they really don't participate in the war."

"Isn't the public opinion in the United States very anti-war now?" Gu Xiaolu asked.
Chapter completed!