Beiyang reactionaries

Therefore, I don't know how many people in the navy despise Shimada Shintaro, and satirize Shimada Shintaro as Tojo's adjutant.

"General Yamamoto believes that once a war starts, the first battle must be successful. He hopes to gather half of the army, preferably with four or five escort aircraft carriers, to destroy the US Pacific Fleet. Then control the US in the Pacific Ocean in a short time Those islands, completely expel the American influence in the Pacific Ocean. At the same time, Australia must be controlled, as long as these are completed, the United States will have nothing to fear."

"How did I hear that the escort aircraft carrier is useless."

Hideki Tojo was puzzled.

Although Hideki Tojo was born in the army, he also has some understanding of the navy.At present, the combat concept in the world is still naval gun play, and the same is true of the Japanese Navy's combat concept.Although Japan pays more attention to the development of aircraft carriers than other countries, Japan has never given up on the development of battleships.Even after the attack on Pearl Harbor in history, Japan did not give up the development of battleships.Therefore, Japan has invested heavily in building battleships and heavy cruisers in recent years.

As for the so-called escort aircraft carrier?

"General Yamamoto believes that escort aircraft carriers are easy to build, have a wide range of functions, and are suitable for mass construction."

"Ah."

Hideki Tojo nodded.

Hideki Tojo is radical, but not a lunatic who knows nothing.Hideki Tojo himself is a soldier, and he understands better what it means to be suspicious when you are in war, and not to be suspicious when employing people.Since the navy is going to fight, and since it has decided to trust Yamamoto 56, Hideki Tojo will not hold back.Therefore, Hideki Tojo still said: "Shimada-kun, tell General Yamamoto. I will give him 5 months of preparation time. During this time, let him train well and assign all the pilots with the most experience and strength to him. I will give him what he wants. Doesn’t he want to escort the aircraft carrier? Within 5 months, no matter what method I use, I will guarantee to prepare 5 escort aircraft carriers for him. But again, if it fails in the end, then he is the Empire The sinner, let him not come back when the time comes."

"Yes."

"Foreign Minister, I hope you and China will implement the matter of cooperating with China to build an escort aircraft carrier as soon as possible. Let their shipyards step up production. Don't they like gold? These escort aircraft carriers are considered urgent. Pay directly in gold."

"it is good."

Matsuoka Hiroyuki nodded.

A fanatical warmonger doesn't mean he has no brains.

Hideki Tojo is very courageous, he wants to really expel the United States.In order to achieve this goal, Hideki Tojo has formulated a complete plan.The reason why Yamamoto 56 is used is not only because this person made such a plan when Yoshiichi Tanaka was there, but also because he is a very good general of the navy.

The same goes for Yamamoto 56.

Although he himself made a plan to expel the United States, including how to attack the US naval forces.But he himself does not approve of war with the United States.But now that Hideki Tojo has decided, he will go all out.

Since Yamamoto 56 has made a request, Hideki Tojo will meet it.The so-called escort aircraft carrier has no technical difficulties.Most of the escort aircraft carriers in World War II were transformed from cargo ships.

Now in the hands of Chinese shipyards, Tojo is not worried about technical issues.Although the technical capability of Chinese shipyards is not as good as that of Britain, the United States and Japan, there is no problem in building [-]-ton rounds.It is easy to make some modifications on this basis to become an escort aircraft carrier.

But this is a temporary stopper project.

In order to let China complete it as soon as possible without delay, Hideki Tojo readily paid for it.

"By the way, there are more. The Asian joint organization meeting must be properly prepared. This time, we must unite these Asian countries and clearly formulate a document to expel the British, American and Western countries."

"I know."

654

"Chairman, the contract on the transfer of weapons has been signed."

After Duan Xun and Molotov finished talking, the progress of the negotiations between the two sides began to become very rapid.Molotov is a very smart diplomat, he will not think of solving all problems at once.If you want to solve all the problems at once, you may not be able to solve any problems.

So he divided the negotiations into several parts.

The purpose is simple.

One is to increase efficiency so negotiations can go hand in hand.Even if some negotiations don't go well, some of the easier ones can be fruitful.Because for Molotov, as long as any of the agreements can be reached, it is a result and it is good for the Soviet Union.

The other one is also for the general direction.

Even if some difficult-to-reach negotiations do not come to fruition for a while, as long as one of the negotiations has a result, it will give the appearance that the Sino-Soviet negotiations have made great progress.More importantly, as long as there is progress in one negotiation, it means that China has been temporarily stabilized.This is the purpose of Molotov's coming to China.

In order to stabilize China, Molotov is prepared to make some concessions.So several negotiations went smoothly.It is precisely because of a lot of progress that Wang Jingwei brought these negotiating teams to report to the Supreme Committee.

The first to report was Han Linchun.

Han Linchun was talking about the Soviet weapons seized in the Sino-Soviet war last year.Now the frontline troops of the Soviet-German War have been defeated and a large number of important weapons have been lost.The loss of planes, tanks, and artillery was uncountable.

A large number of retreating troops, coupled with those reserve troops gathered in Moscow, are seriously insufficient in weapons and equipment.Now China has a large number of Soviet weapons and equipment in its hands, which is suitable for the Soviet army that currently lacks weapons and equipment.

"This time the Soviet Union was in a hurry, so they made a lot of concessions on the price, and we didn't insist on it. After all, these weapons are worthless to us, and our troops will not want them."

"Talk about the price and let us be happy too."

The captured Soviet weapons are really useless to China.

You can't really treat these weapons as scrap metal. It is definitely a surprise to be able to sell them now.

"Converted to gold, that's 177.4 tonnes of gold."

"About [-] million U.S. dollars."

"Yes. According to the normal price, this is very affordable. The number of weapons and equipment we sold to the British and Indian troops is far inferior to the weapons we handed over to the Soviet Union this time, but the price is several times the price. The military’s assets in China for the arms at that time were worth about 5.3 million U.S. dollars according to later statistics. However, the transfer of Soviet weapons this time is a little different from that time, so the final price reached was 177.4 tons of gold.”

"Sure enough, the arms trade is the most profitable."

Duan Xun smiled.

Although what Han Linchun said was that it was sold cheaply.After all, among the seized weapons, there are thousands of aircraft, thousands of tanks, and thousands of cannons. If they are really sold at the price, that is not a small amount.

But nothing.

Originally, it was scrap copper and rotten iron, and the Chinese army would not be able to use it. It is also a good thing to sell at these prices.

"Since you have negotiated the specific price, let's follow your opinions. 177 tons of gold, not bad, really not bad."

Duan Xun is very happy.

At present, China's gold reserves are about 800 tons, all of which have been accumulated through the war in the past two years.Especially after entering 1940, China's gold reserves soared.When these arms are sold, China's gold reserves will be about 1000 tons.

This is the time when the Chinese government's gold reserves were the highest since the founding of the Republic of China.

"Implement it as soon as possible."

"Yes."

At present, the Soviet Union is more anxious.

After all, the Soviet army was completely passive on the Kiev battlefield, and the top Soviet leaders had already begun preparations for the Moscow campaign.Many people said that the top Soviet leaders were completely unprepared for the Battle of Moscow, and that it was a hastily fought battle.

This is all bullshit.

The top Soviet leaders are not fools.Stalin did make many mistakes in the early days of the Soviet-German War, and made many wrong orders for the previous battles.As a result, the Soviet army suffered heavy casualties.It should be said that Stalin was not a qualified general, and his understanding of the military was limited.

But his problems in military command do not mean that he is also wrong in his strategic vision.

The current situation of the Soviet-German war is so obvious that anyone who is not a fool knows that the final goal of the German army must be Moscow.After all, Moscow was the political center of the Soviet Union, and taking Moscow must have shocked the Soviet Union greatly.