Chapter 223 Type 96 Fighter
Even if it is the elite troops of the Tsarist Russians, the artillery is just like that. But the Tsarist Russians have their own methods, and the number of accurate heads is insufficient. It is always right to use artillery to plow it before starting the battle, but the combination of ins and cannons cannot be played well.
When Captain Ma saw the Russians charged, the Russians were still five or six hundred meters away from the position. Before he could order, they had already started firing fire.
Commander Ma faintly heard the shouts of "Wula" opposite amid the guns and cannons. This reminded Captain Ma that when he first entered the army, he also called "Wula" to charge under the guidance of the Tsarist Russian instructor. However, the commander Shengshi rebelled against Tsarist Russia and changed to "Wansheng" to charge.
From time to time, soldiers on both sides were knocked to the ground by bullets. Ma Chao felt a little scared in his heart when he saw these scenes.
The reinforcements and artillery support sent by the division headquarters arrived one after another, and the Ma Chao regiment survived this time. After the artillery fire fell, the Russians stopped charging, and the soldiers gradually retreated. The two sides launched an artillery battle again.
The commander of the Tsarist Russian Xinjiang Expeditionary Force was not afraid of artillery battles. The Alasan Pass had already stockpiled a large amount of military supplies and would be transported to the front line continuously through cars. In contrast, Shengshicai's team, which had no production capacity, would have fewer and fewer artillery bullets. After they finished firing the bullets, the infantry would go up to receive Urumqi.
This time, the Tsarist Russian Xinjiang Expeditionary Force had only one goal, that is Urumqi. After the railway was built to Urumqi, most of the entire Xinjiang would fall under the control of Tsarist Russia. For Tsarist Russians, step by step is the most important thing. Like the little Japanese devils, the end of the end can only be to hold themselves to death.
The ambition to expand territory has been deeply imprinted in the genes of the Tsarist Russians for hundreds of years. You should know that the Tsarist Russian Empire is the world's largest country on land. Before Tsarist Russia began to expand, it was just a small principality in Eastern Europe. At that time, the Tsarist Russian Principality had to advance eastward in the face of the aggressive trend of Eastern European powers such as Sweden and Poland. At that time, the main body of the people was still the Slavic barbarians who had just believed in Orthodox Church.
Tsarist Russia's capture of Xinjiang can also be considered an explanation for its allies. After all, Xinjiang is also under the rule of the Nanjing government, although it is only a theoretical existence. In this way, Tsarist Russia can say to the little Japanese allies, "You see, we have captured Xinjiang and opened up a second battlefield."
As for the pursuit of Xinjiang, the railway to Urumqi will continue to extend outward after conquering Xinjiang. According to the military estimates, the railway paving project is very smooth, and it will take nearly two years to lay more than 1,000 kilometers of railway paving.
Two years later, the main force of the allies and the main force of the Nanjing government should have won the victory and defeat on the Eastern Front. That was the time for Tsarist Russia to decide to make efforts. Both the Tsarist Russian government and the Nanjing government could afford to delay this war, but the Japanese could not afford to delay it now. The population, which was smaller than the areas controlled by the Tsarist Russian and Nanjing governments, actually had more troops than the two countries.
Just think about it, you will know that the Japanese devils will definitely not be able to afford to spend a long time, otherwise the military expenditure would be enough to completely bankrupt the Japanese devils' finances.
When the Tsarist Russians were conquering Xinjiang, the Japanese were not idle either. In the past six months, the Japanese base camp repeatedly analyzed the failures of several battles and found that air superiority and armor advantages were the biggest shortcomings of the troops now - although the Japanese firepower did not have the advantage.
It’s a little bit better to say that the armored advantage is. After all, the Japanese also have ** tanks. One-on-one, they can barely compete with the Central Army’s tanks and armored vehicles. The problem now is that the number of troops is too small. Faced with this, just increase productivity. The budget is also tilted to this side, so that the troops will have sufficient ** tanks next year.
The air advantage is a little troublesome. The Japanese have not mastered the aerospace aluminum alloy technology yet, so it is definitely not enough to buy aircraft without thinking. The Japanese don’t have so much foreign exchange to buy fighter jets. However, the domestic biplane independently developed by the Japanese has ruined countless excellent pilots of the Japanese Luhang. When Mitsubishi designs a single-wing aircraft and obtains aviation aluminum alloy technology, it is estimated that Luhang will borrow pilots from HNA to use it.
If you can't afford it or build it, the Japanese's last solution is to buy production lines and aluminum alloy smelting technology. But it is not easy to buy this technology and production line. First of all, there are no more than ten countries in the world that have this technology and production lines, and even fewer are inclined to sell. After all, selling eggs is more cost-effective than selling hens that lay eggs.
However, no matter how you say it, hard work pays off. After the Japanese released the news, someone came to contact us. But this time it was not a certain country, but Boeing.
What Boeing wanted to buy for the Japanese was the production line of the P-26 fighter, the prototype of the Civil 22 fighter. Speaking of the P26 fighter, it was a tragedy. In 1932, Boeing spent a huge amount of research to develop the most advanced P26 fighter in the early 1930s, the Mid-Underground Department only ordered more than 100 aircraft. In peacetime, these aircraft were bought to train pilots, but this amount was not enough for the airline to fill the stomach.
The domestic isolationism is serious, so Boeing has to go to the international market, but in the past three years, only Spain has bought a display machine. Is it serious? Is it a big loss for this model?
In contrast, the copycat version of the P26 - the Type 22 fighter jet resold by the Nanjing government to the international arms market, is very popular. Not to mention Asia, even Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other countries in the Americas are asking the Nanjing government to purchase Type 22 fighter jets. Several countries in South America are now equipped with hundreds of Type 22 fighter jets.
Boeing couldn't think of it anymore. The sales gap between aircraft with similar performance is so big.
The countries that buy the Civil 22 fighter jets also have their own reasons. First of all, the Civil 22 fighter jets sold by the Nanjing government are cheap. Boeing costs $100,000 for a P26. The Nanjing government costs $100,000 for two Civil 22 fighters. If you buy an aircraft with similar performance, it will be calculated whether it is better to buy one or two high combat power.
Boeing said that 50,000 US dollars per plane is just enough to cost, okay? Who can we transfer our R&D funds to? Copying and other things are indeed too hateful.
Secondly, buying Boeing’s P26 requires foreign exchange, and if you don’t have pounds, you need US dollars. Otherwise, you can just give gold a discount. But the Nanjing government is not doing this anymore. It doesn’t have money to get discounts, including rice, white flour, cocoa, coffee, refined oil, asphalt, tobacco, cigars, wool, and fur. What do you want? Anyway, the Nanjing government will definitely not lose its own money when it comes to every inflow. The country has more than 400 million people, and it’s not worth eating.
However, Boeing does not operate agricultural products, so it is not troublesome to make a deal.
Finally, there is the matching sales of the Nanjing government. Those countries do not buy aircraft separately, all sea, air, land and air equipment are included. The Nanjing government even said that if you buy cruisers today, we can sell you battleships after you get familiar with them. Today, if you buy aircraft, we can sell them to your aircraft carriers after training excellent pilots. The Nanjing government sells arms simply for trade, without technical blockades and political demands.
Boeing said that we are professional in selling aircraft, but we cannot sell aircraft to countries and regions that Midi explicitly banned. For example, the domestic oil fields have been completed and the Rockefeller Consortium has greatly offended Mexico.
For Boeing, the most important thing is that more than three years have passed. In the 1930s, when aircraft technology was soaring, the P26 fighter was no longer advanced enough in the mid-1930s. What is certain is that the P26 fighter was destined to be out of date in a few years.
Anyway, Boeing, which is too unsold, heard that the Japanese wanted to buy the production line of the monoplane fighter, and immediately sent someone to negotiate. Now, it is not too much to deal with the production line and inventory, and maybe even a small profit can be made. After a few years, the P26 model will be completely out of date, and the P26 model will really lose all its money.
As for aviation aluminum alloy technology, it depends on whether the money given is enough. Anyway, aviation aluminum alloy technology will be ruined in a few years.
When the two sides talked, the Japanese almost exploded. It was so dark. Boeing's heart was all black.
Boeing proposed the condition that first of all, it is necessary to buy the accessories of the fifty P26 fighters in stock and fifty P26 fighters. Then the assembly line and aviation aluminum alloy technology are calculated separately. Not too many, these two items are equivalent to the price of 100 P26 fighters.
How much is that? Is it worth 30 million US dollars? Although the US dollar has been depreciated a little now, it can still be worth 80 million yen (there is not only the US dollar has depreciated recently. Because the Japanese have expanded their troops too seriously, they issued an additional yen to make up for the fiscal deficit, and the relative yen has also depreciated).
What is 80 million yen? The cost of the battleship Mu Ao was only 100 million yen before the yen depreciated. Now the monthly salary of domestic workers in the Japanese is only a few dozen yen per month. One yen can spend a day in a big city like Tokyo, and eat and drink well.
The Japanese negotiators immediately said that it was absolutely not possible. Besides, with production lines and technology, we also bought high-priced aircraft and accessories for what to do. We asked only Boeing's production lines and technology, and the package price was 8 million US dollars. If there was more, we would have no money.
The two sides had a disagreement here, and the negotiations lasted for three months. Finally, after several repeated consultations and research with Boeing's negotiators, smoking, drinking, and a love trap.
The Boeing representative, who was tested by alcohol, finally adhered to the principle, saying that aircraft, accessories, production lines and technology must be sold in packaged. However, the price can be negotiated, and revealed Boeing's bottom line, packaging sales are certain, and the aircraft and accessories cost at least 8 million US dollars, and the packaging reserve price of technology and production lines is also the same, a total of 16 million US dollars.
Chapter completed!