Take Taobao to fight against Japan

Facing Andre's longing eyes, Yang Fan smiled and snapped his fingers and said, "You are right, I still understand the truth of cold lips and teeth!

Well, out of humanitarianism and the friendship of the Allied Front, I can provide the Soviet Union with a sum of valuable paid military aid! "

"What? General Yang, do you really have a way to send aid directly from North America to the Soviet Union? Is this true?"

After getting the answer that he most wanted to hear, Andre was a little bit like Ye Gong, looked at Yang Fan very confused, and asked anxiously with doubts:

"Now that the Japanese joint fleet has blocked the entire Pacific Ocean, even the Americans have no way to transport supplies through the Pacific Ocean. They can only go around a big circle and go all the way to transport the limited supplies to the Soviet Union?"

It's no wonder that Andre was taken aback for a while, and couldn't easily believe that Yang Fan could do this. It was really because there were deep-seated reasons for this.

In World War II, the materials provided by the United States to the Soviet Union had three main arteries, that is to say, they were mainly transported to the Soviet Union through three routes.

Route [-]: From the west coast of the United States, across the North Pacific Ocean, the materials are transported to ports such as Vladivostok in the Far East of the Soviet Union, and then transported to the entire Soviet Union through the large railway.

Route [-]: From the east coast of the United States to the United Kingdom, and then through the Arctic Ocean from the United Kingdom, that is, across the Scandinavian Peninsula where Norway and Sweden are located, to the ports of Murmansk in the Soviet Union.

Then it is transported by land to Moscow, and then transported from Moscow to the whole country.And Americans tend to run this route in person.

Route [-]: Depart from the east coast of the United States, cross the Atlantic Ocean, bypass the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, go northward through the Indian Ocean, arrive at the Persian Gulf, and then transport it from south to north to the Soviet Union by land.

Among these major routes, the route that directly ships materials from the west coast of the United States to the Far East of the Soviet Union is the most important channel for the United States to aid the Soviet Union.Accounted for almost half of all aid.

Someone here may ask, why do you have to go to the dangerous North Atlantic Ocean, and lose a lot of weapons and equipment in vain, why not go directly from Alaska to the Far East of the Soviet Union across the Bering Strait?

On the surface, this route is indeed the shortest sea route and the easiest way to reach the mainland of the Soviet Union. However, the weather here is too cold, and the supplies are easily damaged by freezing. In winter, when the ice is heavy and the waves are high, it can only be suspended.

Moreover, most of the U.S. military factories are located along the Great Lakes, and there are no air routes or railway airports to Alaska, and the Soviet Union has no railway or air airports from Chukotka to the western battlefield.

This is tantamount to requiring the Soviets to transport hundreds of thousands of tons of materials by truck for tens of thousands of kilometers by hand. In this way, the traffic in Vladivostok and Soviet Port is naturally much more convenient.

In terms of aid materials, the usual way is that the Soviets draw up a list, and the United States and the United Kingdom are responsible for producing according to the list. As for food, half of it is decided by Britain and the United States, while weapons, ammunition, medical materials, aircraft, tanks, etc. are all provided by the Soviet Union. Request.

Under this mode of assistance, the United States provided the Soviet Union with more than 14000 aircraft, including a large number of aviation, avionics, radar and other equipment, as well as airstrips.

The United States also provided the Soviet Union with more than 6000 tanks, more than 2000 artillery pieces, nearly 50000 jeeps, and more than 550000 trucks, as well as reconnaissance vehicles and maintenance vehicles.

According to the needs of combat, the Americans equipped each tank with a large number of parts, submachine guns, pistols, shells, first aid kits and other materials even before transportation, so that the Soviet army could drive to the front line the moment they received the vehicles. fight.

The Americans also provided the Soviet Union with a large number of transport ships, icebreakers, submarines, maintenance ships, frigates, submarine hunters, minesweepers, rubber rafts, landing craft, etc. A large number of ships, not only that, the United States also allowed the Soviet Union to lease more than 600 ships of its own Combat ships.

In addition, the United States also assisted a large amount of other materials urgently needed by the Soviet Union, such as more than 420 million tons of food, including copper, aluminum, steel plates, aviation fuel, etc. up to tens of millions of tons of raw materials.

During the entire war, the total value of US aid to the Soviet Union was as high as 102 billion US dollars.

Therefore, during the war, the Germans often saw the Soviets eating American food, driving American tanks and planes, and fighting against themselves with American submachine guns.

However, in the current time and space, great changes have taken place due to the butterfly effect. First, the Japanese wiped out the Pacific Fleet and controlled the entire Pacific Ocean.

Although the Americans have been fighting on the west coast for a long time now, launching ships non-stop to regain the initiative in the Pacific battlefield, but often these freshly baked naval ships have not yet formed enough combat effectiveness, and they are taken away by the devil fleet in a wave. turn!

So far, the Americans have been crushed by Japan in the Pacific battlefield, and there is no way to break through the heavy blockade of the Japanese fleet to transport materials to the Soviet Union.

So the most important blood transfusion aorta has long been abolished, and it has been interrupted for half a year.

As for the second and third routes, either the transportation distance was extremely long, or they were deeply damaged by German submarines. The transportation difficulty and loss were very high, and it was really difficult to fully meet the Soviet Union's war consumption.

It has to be said that, under circumstances that are several times more difficult than before, the fighting nation is still fighting until now, and has not been beaten to the ground by German tanks. This is really not easy, but the casualties paid are much higher. Beyond another time and space.

Yang Fan really doesn't care much about the life and death of the Soviet Union, but one thing must be clear, that is, the Soviet Union cannot fall now, and it is still necessary to rescue it.

U.S. Dongxing Group Co., Ltd. is really poor now and only has money left. Not only has it grown madly in the United States, its subsidiaries in many industries have become industry unicorns, and it has extended its tentacles to Canada early. , Mexico, and South America and other American countries.

The various assets, stocks, and cash controlled by Dongxing Group have already exceeded tens of billions of dollars. If he wants to know how much, Yang Fan has to sit down and count for half a day to get a rough estimate!

However, there is a very real problem here, that is, although the Dongxing Group Company is very rich and poor, but now the United States has transferred to a wartime economic system and has implemented very strict military control. There are targeted quotas for the produced weapons and equipment and various war materials.

Especially technical equipment such as aircraft, tanks, artillery, and ships are extremely strictly managed.

So in this regard, Yang Fan really can't start the shopping mode willfully, and can buy and buy as much as he wants in the United States.

Otherwise, would Yang Fan still need such hard work to be self-reliant?

Although American weapons and equipment are not as popular as those sold in their own system malls, and you can choose the best and willful DIY free combination, but these weapons and equipment are more than enough to fight little devils!

So here comes the question, since Yang Fan took the initiative to take over this matter, how will Yang, who has never traded at a loss, resolve this contradiction?

Chapter 1127

Naturally, Yang Fan would not do business at a loss, and it is impossible to spend precious wealth points to transfuse the Soviet Union.

It's just that there is a workaround here, that is, Yang Fan can act as a middleman, sign a directional purchase and sales contract, and be responsible for purchasing the weapons, equipment and military supplies needed by the Soviet Union from the United States, and then responsible for the safe delivery to the Soviet Union.

Dongxing Trading Group now not only owns several [-]-ton transport giant ships, but also has a certain size of escort fleet. Although this escort fleet is more symbolic than actual existence, it cannot compete with the Japanese fleet and German submarine force at all.

But Mr. Yang has a system in hand, and can pay a courier transportation fee to ensure the safety of transportation.

This operation has three major advantages. Not only can you earn a certain price difference, but also make the Soviets owe a lot of money and great favors, and greatly reduce the transportation loss of Allied materials!

Spending a small amount of money can renew the life of the fighting nation, allowing them to stand in front to absorb more firepower, which is equivalent to allowing the Chinese nation to greatly reduce casualties and save more energy. This deal is naturally a bloody profit.

It may not be possible to sign large orders at the beginning, but with Yang Fan's current means and resources, it is absolutely no problem to make a few small orders worth millions of dollars first, and to gain some character and reputation.

Once the Americans believe that they can miraculously transport it to the Soviet Union without damage, even if Yang Fan doesn't ask the Americans for an order, the Americans will cry and ask Yang Fan to help "unified purchase and sales"!

As for post-war conflicts of interests, that is a matter for the future. The most important thing at present is to fight against the aggression of the Axis Alliance, so that the Allied camp can win the final victory as soon as possible, so that the Chinese nation can get rid of suffering as soon as possible and realize the great rejuvenation as soon as possible!

"I do have a way to transport materials to the mainland of the Soviet Union. As for the risk of the process and the loss of transportation, you don't have to worry about it, you just need to pay the bill!"

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Yang Fan threw out his thoughts and nodded again confidently: "It doesn't matter if you don't have money now, you can pay back slowly after the war is over, but you have to pay a certain amount of interest according to international practice.

What are your views and opinions on this proposal? "

"Is this really possible?"

Andre trembled all over, reached out and grabbed Yang Fan's hand tightly and said: "General Yang, as long as you can safely deliver the supplies to the Soviet mainland port, you will really help us a lot, and the interest is not a problem!"

Although he didn't know where Yang Fan's self-confidence and courage came from, let alone what method Yang Fan used to safely deliver the materials to the local port of the Soviet Union, Andrei did not doubt Yang Fan's ability.

Yes, the process is not important, what matters is the result.

"It's fine if you don't have any comments. Let's split up and act immediately. You are responsible for reporting this situation to Comrade Stalin and making a demand list. I will send someone to persuade the Americans to hand over the demand orders to our Dongxing Trading Company. operate!"

"Okay, okay! The great Soviet will always remember this great friendship, and after the war is won, the Soviet will definitely repay it double!"

Andre was really excited. Although things didn't change on the surface, weapons and military supplies were still produced from the United States, and then they had to be transported across the ocean to the Soviet Union, and Yang Fanyan had to pluck their hair.

But the problem is that the Americans' current transportation capacity is quite limited, and the transportation process is extremely lossy, and the aided military supplies are no longer in time.

If you can spend a little more money to greatly increase the transportation efficiency and success rate, it is equivalent to an extra chance of winning and a little more war potential.

At this time, money or not is really not important, saving life is the most important thing.

On the morning of July 7th, the White House, Oval Office.

Not long after President Roosevelt went to work today, he ushered in two uninvited guests: William Marshall Bullitt, the Soviet military attache to the United States, and Xia Houcheng, the head of Dongxing Trading Company.

After some in-depth discussions, President Roosevelt finally sent the two visiting guests away, promising to carefully consider their request.

After the secretary closed the office door, President Roosevelt turned to Secretary of State Hull and said, "Hull, what do you think of this matter?"

"This proposal is really unbelievable and incomprehensible."

Hull pondered: "It's understandable for businessmen to seek profit, and it's also understandable for Soviet people to go to the doctor in a hurry, but I can't imagine how Dongxing Trading Company can safely deliver the goods to the mainland of the Soviet Union!

You know, even the powerful United States of America has a large number of warships escorting it, and it is difficult to guarantee the safety of the route!

Could it be that they discovered some unknown safe route?This seems unlikely! "

Marshall interjected: "That's right, I'm also puzzled by this proposal, Dongxing Trading Group has indeed developed very rapidly in recent years, has a strong economic strength, and even has the tendency to evolve into a business empire.

But the fleet they own is only a commercial transport fleet, and they don't have the strength to open up routes independently! "

Roosevelt frowned and said, "But their proposal seems to be very sincere, and no matter from what point of view, this matter is not risky for our American government. It seems that we have no reason to refuse?"

Roosevelt was indeed fooled. He really didn't understand what the Soviets were up to. He actually believed that Dongxing Trading Company's transoceanic transportation capacity was stronger than that of the United States!

After discussing and discussing, the three still couldn't understand the joints, until finally Hull woke up President Roosevelt with one sentence: "Your Excellency, I think at this time, the process is not important, we just need a good result.

The Soviets are indeed in danger, and our transportation capacity of the United States of America can no longer meet their war needs!

What's more, we are now fighting extremely hard on the North African battlefield. If we are not careful, Egypt and the Suez Canal will be handed over to others.

The American people are almost overwhelmed, and they really need a new breakthrough.

As your Excellency the President said, this plan poses no risk to the United States, and once they are really capable of opening up a safe new route that can quickly and safely deliver supplies to the Soviet Union, it will be equivalent to helping the United States solve the problem. A difficult problem! "

After a pause, Hull said in a persuasive tone: "Your Excellency, anyway, every time we transport across the ocean to the mainland of the Soviet Union, we lose more than 500 million US dollars in supplies under the attack of enemy submarine forces!

In this case, why don't we give it a try?Anyway, with the financial guarantee of the Huaxia people, even if it fails, it will not lose too much to the United States!Am I right? "

Chapter 1128 What if it succeeds?

The Soviet Union is now an ant on a hot pot. As long as it can continue their lives, whether it is a life-saving straw or a gut-piercing poison, they will swallow it without hesitation, even if it only allows them to live for an extra minute.

In the same way, is it not the case here in the United States?

In another time and space, until the end of World War II, only 40% of the US economic share was transferred to the wartime system,

But in the current time and space, the U.S. economy has invested more than 60% of its economy in war, but it still cannot meet the war consumption of the Soviet battlefield, the North African battlefield, and the native west coast.

The current U.S. government is also in dire straits, and a series of problems have emerged in the domestic economy and people's livelihood. If it does not improve for a long time, even the world's largest industrial and economic power will not be able to complain.

So President Roosevelt really didn't have the courage to completely reject this tempting and persuasive proposal.

Yes, a person should have dreams. If there is no dream, wouldn't it be no different from a salted fish?

What if, what if it really succeeds?

"Well, you're right, we really need a breakthrough! To be honest, I'm also looking forward to the miracle that the Huaxia man will do to amaze us again!"

After much deliberation, Roosevelt finally nodded reluctantly.With the idea of ​​giving it a try, let's see what kind of medicine is sold in Yang Fan's gourd.

"The order of 500 million US dollars seems a bit small. Since they are so confident and rich, why don't they directly increase it to 1000 million US dollars!"

After a pause, Roosevelt added with condensed eyes: "This time, we will focus on gasoline, diesel and kerosene, which are most urgently needed by the Soviets. Let's give it a try!"

In the early days of the war, the Soviet Union’s oil-producing areas and refineries were not completely lost, so there was very little oil to be provided by the United States, and only crude oil was needed;

But now Moscow in the Soviet Union has been captured by German tanks, and the Soviet Union's oil-producing areas and refineries have basically been lost.Oil is basically completely dependent on the United States.

At present, the Soviet Union requires the United States to provide a large amount of oil, and the varieties are also very detailed, such as the amount of gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, because the Soviet Union has lost its ability to process oil.

"Okay, Your Excellency, I will do as you say!"

Hull nodded slightly, and now he can only be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

"Well, I hope a miracle will happen!"

After finalizing the contract, Roosevelt looked at Marshall and said, "General Marshall, what is the current situation in the Myanmar theater? Is there any new military action?"

"Your Excellency, there are indeed some new developments in the Myanmar theater of war."

Marshall nodded and said: "First of all, the Japanese side adjusted the candidate for the commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Expeditionary Force, replacing Umezu Yoshijiro with Okamura Neiji, and according to intelligence, the Japanese side is forming a larger Burmese Expeditionary Force.

It seems that the Japanese will not give up their attack on Burma, which is very good news for the United States! "

"Well, that's right! In this way, the Japanese will not be able to land and fight in North America!"

President Roosevelt nodded thoughtfully, and then asked: "What about the Chinese Expeditionary Force, how did they deal with it? Are they capable of stopping a larger-scale Japanese attack?"

Marshall replied: "The national government promised to transfer 12 additional troops from the country, and the Huben Expeditionary Force is also vigorously expanding the army in Myanmar. It is estimated that there will be no problem in restoring the total force to 50."

"Is there only 50 total troops? And basically all recruits? Can this withstand a larger combat group of the Japan-Myanmar Expeditionary Force?"

Hearing this, President Roosevelt frowned. He was doing a special research on the whole process of the Burma campaign.

He clearly saw that although the Huaxia Expeditionary Army won the final victory, the Huaxia Expeditionary Army suffered a lot of casualties. The national army's elite troops were almost lost, and the Huben Army was not much better.

At this time, Hull said: "I don't think you need to worry too much about this, the Chinese Expeditionary Army has lost a lot of elites, so why not the Japanese?

The most elite ace troops of the Japanese Army are either exhausted in one move, or they are currently playing a role in other key battlefields. It is not so easy to draw them out! "

"Okay! As long as the Chinese can hold on to Burma and the northern Burma industrial zone, and prevent the Japanese from cutting off the Burma Road and attacking India, no matter how hard it is in the Burma theater, it won't hurt."

After a pause, President Roosevelt took a deep breath, frowned, and said, "Then it's time to face the terrible North African battlefield. It is said that there are signs of Turkey turning to the Axis alliance? This is not good news... ..."

Tak Province, Thailand, Japan-Myanmar Expeditionary Army Headquarters.

After several days of ups and downs, Neiji Okamura finally arrived at his destination, but the journey along the way was not smooth at all.

Just when he arrived at the port of Thailand and before he had time to go ashore, Okamura Ningji encountered the first air strike from the Chinese Air Force in his life.

More than 200 P-51 Mustang fighter jets and 30 heavy bombers launched large-scale air strikes on Japanese targets in downtown Bangkok and Japanese warships anchored in Bangkok port.