Chapter 398: The Germans' Shock
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spn "China has changed so much. In just two years, it has brought such a big shock to people." When the German Foreign Minister and Hitler's spokesperson for China Ribbentrop led the head of state negotiation team on a Wehrmacht
When the -35 transport plane landed at the bustling Hanking Airport, the members of the negotiating team who had come to China for the first time could not help but be stunned. Even Ribbentrop himself was surprised.
"This, this airport is too prosperous and huge..."
The entire German delegation set off from Europe, passed through Ukraine, which was firmly occupied by the German army, and flew over a Soviet-occupied area. After landing in Central Asia, it boarded the military's -35 medium- and long-range transport aircraft, which has both medium-range and long-range capabilities.
This behemoth of a transport aircraft easily outclassed the most advanced bombers currently in service in Germany.
Of course, these military equipment can be easily seen in documents and spy photos. The accompanying military personnel and representatives who have never been to China are just surprised. Experts will tell that most of the representatives were transported to the transport plane after being boarded.
I was shocked by the superb manufacturing technology inside and the powerful performance during flight.
Although the National Defense Force did not send a more comfortable large passenger plane to transport these distinguished guests, they still arranged seats and blankets. The transport plane was much colder than the passenger plane. However, when the plane landed slowly at Hanking Airport, everything that entered its destination was once again
Shocked most of the delegation.[
In the entire delegation, only Ribbentrop, a translator, and an adjutant to the head of state had been to China before. The others were coming to China for the first time. It is worth mentioning that Hitler was suspicious by nature.
In fact, seven of the German delegations who visited China in 1942 and 1944 were killed by him in the past few years, and most of the others also lost their important positions.
Transport planes are different from passenger planes. When landing, the entire plane descends rapidly at a large angle, which frightened the officials who were accustomed to enjoying themselves in Germany.
Looking out from the side of the plane, the entire airport is actually ten times larger than Berlin's largest airport. From the air, you can see that the ground airport has six runways.
Just as the negotiating team's plane landed, a large silver-white plane rose from the ground. Although it was still a propeller plane, it had a wide fuselage and many small sides on the plane. It was easy to guess that it was
Chinese large passenger aircraft.
"Even the passenger plane is so luxurious..."
Under the envy and complicated eyes of the visiting group, the entire airport took off one after another at an almost non-stop speed. During the entire descent, four planes took off and three planes landed.
This take-off and landing frequency is already very scary as a non-forward military airport.
"According to intelligence, because the Chinese have too many aircraft and it would be too wasteful to store them up, they have converted a large number of military transport aircraft into civilian passenger aircraft to transport supplies during wartime and serve as passenger aircraft during non-wartime. It is said that their routes have reached every city in the country.
A provincial city, this is their capital, and all airports across the country are connected to it. No wonder it is so huge. Now it seems that it is indeed the case."
Colonel von Reus, a director of the intelligence department accompanying the regiment and a nobleman, said with emotion.
"The Chinese people's war potential is terrifying."
In fact, what the Germans don't know is that half of these planes are passenger planes, and most of the others are transport planes. With the development of the national economy, expensive rapid transportation is becoming more and more popular. The simplest example is that you want to eat seafood in the northwest.
It can only be transported from the south, while some high-precision equipment that is urgently needed in the southeast can be quickly transported by air from the southwest.
China's transport aircraft production capacity has already reached a terrifying level, much better than that of the Americans. However, China does not have to shoulder the global supply tasks of the Axis powers at all. What it produces cannot be sold and is used for its own use. And a strategic-level transport aircraft like this
, even Germans can’t buy it, so naturally it can only be used domestically.
The problem is that the battle damage rate is too low, let alone crashing or the losses are even more negligible. The blueprints were originally issued by the Science and Technology Committee, and they have gone through the secondary design of China's unique computer.
After repeated testing of large and super large wind tunnels, 16 years have passed from the -30 large transport aircraft to the present, and the production and R&D system can be said to be very mature. In contrast, the Americans, whose aircraft are in the best condition in other countries, only need one year to complete.
Tens of thousands of aircraft were scrapped due to crashes or various malfunctions.
This is an exact figure. In the history where Zhang Shusheng originally lived, this figure of loss was even more terrifying.
Therefore, just as too many fighter planes are produced and distributed to aviation clubs in various places as training aircraft, it has become easy for transport aircraft to be converted into passenger aircraft or civilian transport aircraft on a large scale. Moreover, even so, all major provinces in the country have
All first-class routes have been opened with only a thousand large aircraft.
Soon, the negotiating team got off the plane, and there was actually a ferry bus parked on the wide tarmac. Next to it stood staff from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China. Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ouyang Ming led a team to greet them at the airport.
The courtesy car from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not enter the airport. Everyone arrived at the terminal from the shuttle bus. The modernly designed terminal shocked the Germans, including Ribbentrop, once again. The various complex
The design, although not luxurious, is very practical decoration and decoration, giving the entire terminal a very modern atmosphere.
"God, how could the Chinese think of building such a building?"
Some Germans think that the airport should not be surrounded by a wall and then board the plane directly on the tarmac? In the modern terminal building in front of them, this thing is relatively new.[
The Hanking Airport terminal was fully completed in the past year or so in order to cope with the growing domestic aviation demand. As the world's largest international metropolis, Hanking also needs something to demonstrate its strength and
international status.
It is no exaggeration to say that today's Hanking is no different from Beijing in Zhang Shusheng's memory in the 1970s and 1980s. Many urban designs and architectural styles even exceed it.
After leaving the terminal, Ribbentrop was about to board the train and leave, but he discovered that there was a special passage at the airport exit, which was spacious and marked "Airport Light Rail".
He suppressed the doubts in his heart. With his status, he couldn't be as curious as a child.
After getting into the limousine, a new Zhonghua brand car was dazzled by its streamlined design. The German elites who had seen various Chinese cars from pictures and news reports were still shocked. Think of Berlin.
Those classic cars on the street, the so-called national cars, and then look at the shiny black, streamlined and majestic Chinese cars in front of them, the Germans were hit again.
The convoy set off, and soon Ribbentrop understood the meaning of the 'airport light rail' marked on the passage just now.
After leaving the airport, you can actually see a railway track extending towards the distant city. A roaring electrified train is pulling out of the airport station and slowly heading towards the suburbs more than 20 kilometers away.
In today's world, even in Germany, the airport is not too far from the city. But this time, the Germans once again saw a different China. Their fleet passed two airport light rail trains and saw the city in ten minutes.
In the suburbs, Ribbentrop looked outside. The wide and straight roads stretched out into the city. The speed of the cars was at least several times that of classic German cars on the shabby streets of Berlin.
Smooth, smelly, fast...
Before entering the city, the Germans saw the tall buildings. Although the Americans have the tallest buildings in the world, there are actually not many tall buildings.
As soon as they enter the city, everyone sees bustling streets, very wide multi-lane highways, and a constant flow of various cars entering and leaving the city. Of course, trucks are the main ones here.
The buildings on the roadside are all six-story or higher, and many shops can be seen on the street.
Gradually, the motorcade entered the bustling downtown area. This time, Ribbentrop could no longer bear it and said to Ouyang Ming, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic beside him, "Mr. Ouyang, the changes here are really great. I
It was incredible when I came here in 1942 and 1944, but now I think Hanking is completely the world's largest megacity."
What came into his eyes was Hanking Avenue, which ran through the entire main city. The more than 100 meters wide street directly made a car of Germans who had never been to China dumbfounded. Although the wide streets could be seen in the photos, they were also mentioned in the news reports.
Text description, but actually seeing the real scene, the visual impact is too strong.
The wide streets, the constant flow of cars, the motorcycles on the semi-motorized lanes, and the bicycles on the non-motorized lanes, and of course the dense crowds of pedestrians, countless shops on the streets, and buses on the streets
It is completely different from two years ago. At least it looks more open in appearance and is covered with various advertisements. Ribbentrop even looked up and saw a very special electronic display playing advertisements...
"So many tall buildings..."
This time it was the turn of other Germans to continue to marvel. When Ribbentrop came to Hanking in 1944 to coordinate the Pacific War, the entire Hanking was already very developed and prosperous, but at that time, there were not as many high-rise buildings as there are now.
The streets were not as beautiful and grand as they are now, and the commerce was not as developed as it is now, but it was only two years ago.
Looking up, there are no buildings on both sides of the street below seven floors, and the highest ones are even dozens of floors. However, you can actually see many such tall buildings at a glance, stretching into the distance along both sides of Hanking Avenue.
"The chairman of the Generalissimo governs the country with strict economy, but economic development and urban expansion have brought inevitable results. These buildings did not exist two years ago, or there were only a few, but our building speed has reached one floor every five days."
Ouyang Ming pointed to a ten-story building under construction in the distance. There was a very tall machine at work on it, quickly hoisting building materials that would have been very difficult to hoist.
There are similar machines in Germany, but they are far less large and flexible than the ones in front of us. There are three such construction machines on the entire construction site.
For a moment, Ribbentrop, who was originally confident about this trip and believed that the Chinese would definitely agree to his request, became more uncertain than ever. He visited China three times, and this time he felt the most uneasy. The details are revealed, and he started from this
In the world's largest city, which is gradually maturing, I have experienced many things.[
China is far more powerful than the Germans imagined.
Chapter completed!