Chapter 786 Strategic Air Force
"His he intervened?"
Roosevelt pushed his wheelchair and took the newspaper from Heddle. The cold and hot weather made him catch a cold, but when the huge title "China intervened in the Persian Gulf" appeared, he suddenly forgot to feel uncomfortable and his eyebrows began to slowly approach.
Hopkins never cares about other people's feelings. Even if the president is still catching a cold, he will light a cigarette whenever he considers the problem. The choking smell of cigarettes floats in the room, but Roosevelt was abnormal this time without any complaints. After carefully reading the report of Perfect Alliance, he raised his head: "Is there no transaction?"
"I heard that it has not been fully reached." Secretary of State Heddle waved his hand and tried to disperse the smoke ghosts around him: "According to the UK, China has asked Singapore, West Borneo and East Siberia to be autonomous, and to obtain command of the war zone in exchange for their troops to deal with Japan. However, after the accident in Tehran, it has taken the initiative to soften its attitude, but we have not yet obtained any information on the negotiation results."
"A special external intelligence agency should be established as soon as possible. That guy Hoover will abuse his power and has no idea what we need." Hopkins was dissatisfied with him. Compared to Europe and China and Japan with a complete intelligence system, the United States is like a blind man and a deaf man. In his opinion, this is all because of Edgar Hoover, who is greedy for power, unwilling to decentralize power, and also likes men.
"Harry!" Roosevelt scratched his eyebrows and glared at Hopkins. Although he was also dissatisfied with the inefficient and chaotic US intelligence service, as a private consultant, he should not speak on such occasions. The voice made Hopkins realize his mistake, smiled apologetically, and put out the cigarette butts: "From the current situation, he took action too early. Taking the initiative to challenge the Soviet Union will only put the entire border in danger. When he is restrained in the northwest and Iran, Japan can easily gain control of the Philippines. The British hope is that he will stand up the most now.
To take on their responsibilities and resist the expansion of the Soviet Union. But as a capital country, Europe and we will not give up on the pursuit of interests. Moreover, judging from Afghanistan's performance, his army did not show too strong strength. Although the Soviets were backward in equipment, they relied on their number of advantages to stabilize the situation. So I don't know where his confidence comes from, but one thing is certain: if he gains an advantage, Britain and France will stand up to support the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union has the advantage of his northwest and South China Sea, it will be a disaster."
Hopkins was right. Although Afghanistan started vigorously, it then exposed the weakness of mountain combat supporting huge logistics needs. But Roosevelt felt something was wrong. He had carefully studied Yang Qiu. There were almost no cases of aggressiveness since he took power. Could it be that he would make mistakes when he was old? Of course, it cannot be said that this intervention was all wrong. The British's stupid foreign policy had led to credit bankruptcy. If China could defeat the Soviet Union and restore the Iranian regime, then Yang Qiu could establish the image of a great power that was brave and responsible in Arab, Asian and even South American countries.
But does it really have that strength? It depends on the delivery and purchase of 2 million tons of materials to Saudi Arabia in advance? Roosevelt became increasingly confused and asked, "Hell. Is there any latest news about the Soviet Union?"
"Stalin has clearly refused to withdraw from Iran. He complained to Chamberlain that if the Caucasus region cannot be secured, the Soviet Union would not withdraw from the region. He also hopes that Britain and France will provide support. To jointly expel China's infiltration into the Persian Gulf and safeguard European interests. To achieve this goal, he has ordered the continued increase of troops to Iran and has temporarily taken over the Anglo-Iranian oil fields and refineries to provide fuel to the troops stationed in Iran. According to news from Armenia, at least twenty-three military trains and 100 aircraft entered Iran through the Caucasus in one day yesterday. A large number of rail and railway equipment were also transported to try to transform and strengthen the traffic capacity of Iran's old railways."
"Where is Beijing? Has the fourth fleet been sent?"
"There is no fourth fleet, only 1 Xiangjiang-class cruiser, 5 Qinling-class destroyers, 16 territorial waters-class frigates, and 1 territorial waters-class frigates, with ten landing ships protecting yesterday afternoon and one supply ship departing from Guangzhou. It is expected to arrive in Saudi Arabia in two weeks, but the number of aircraft from the northwest to Saudi Arabia has increased from 3 to 12 per day."
"Landing ship? I heard General Jin (Ernest Joseph King) say that this is a very interesting new warship."
"Ambassin Jansen sent a telegram in the morning saying that Beijing had been in contact with Japan and it is said that the two sides are likely to reach an agreement to extend the leasehold right on Sakhalin Island recently."
Roosevelt listened quietly to the conversation between the two, and had already made plans in his heart. After all, he slowly raised his head and looked at Hopkins: "Harry, what do you think our position should be in this war?" If anyone in this world can understand Roosevelt, then Hopkins will definitely be in the top three. He knew too well the dream of this man who was suffering from illness every day in a wheelchair. His experience in serving in the navy gave him a more clever vision than his previous ones. For him, a European dominated by the United States and an American Pacific were a lifelong dream.
Chaos in Europe have already formed, but the Pacific Ocean is still full of fog.
Japan in the East has already gone first, but the country, economy and resources are destined to not laugh to the end. On the contrary, Yang Qiu, who was originally surrounded by Britain and Japan, took advantage of Japan's opportunity to separate the Pacific Ocean and continuously strengthened and expanded the naval power. He originally had to take into account the feelings of Britain, but now Britain has withdrawn from the Far East. He has no scruples and has ushered in the best opportunity for naval expansion. This is becoming increasingly unfavorable for Roosevelt, who dreams of dominating the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Ocean must be from the United States, and everything in the United States will be placed on this vast blue sky in the future! That's why Roosevelt had this problem. His previous solution was to withdraw from the Philippines and let China and Japan start the war first, and this goal was to be achieved. But this was not enough. Japan could stop it for a while, but it could not stop it for a lifetime, so the Sino-Soviet war was a good opportunity to restrain it.
Of course, none of these problems are the biggest, the biggest problem is the old stubborn group in Congress!
If it weren't for Congress and domestic isolationist restrictions, why should I use the risk of withdrawing from the Philippines to provoke the Sino-Japanese War? Every time I think of this, Hopkins feels a little loss: "Franklin, we must abide by neutral legislation, and we also need to make some necessary reserves and appropriately increase the size of the army." Roosevelt hesitated for a moment, looked at the window for a long time before looking at Huddle: "Hull. If the other party makes a request, we can provide some slight help to Stalin."
Heddle knew very well what "slight" help was, just like the embargo on Japan, which was suspended on the surface, but in private DuPont and Merlin were still conducting various secret transactions. Even last month, Hoover reported that DuPont sold a set of synthetic ammonia explosives equipment to Japan through a third time. American Steel also provided Japan with 200,000 tons of high-melting point "scrap steel" and a large number of aluminum ingots through Peru. At the end of last year, Scheller even sold 60 P35 fighters to Japan, and Douglas sold 36 C47s and old engine technology.
If it weren't for Roosevelt's instruction, these things would definitely be a disaster once they were exposed. This is also the reason why Roosevelt was willing to endure Hoover's monopoly of power. However, since the president has made a choice, he, the secretary of state, must be responsible for this goal. So he nodded, but was about to leave, and suddenly remembered something again, and pulled out two enlarged photos of warships from his bag: "By the way. Mr. President, this is a photo of the Qinling-class destroyer taken by the Navy in the South China Sea three months ago. Look at this picture, the top of the mast was originally a large box-like object with unknown purpose, but look at this picture again, this is a photo after the box was lifted. Navy's Navy
After analysis, the Ministry of Technology has confirmed it! This should be the same thing as the radio detection radar we have secretly studied. According to Major General Jin, from the analysis of antenna appearance, external volume, etc., Beijing's technology is likely to be higher than us. And it can be confirmed! They have broken through the difficulties of mass manufacturing and not only began to install each destroyer, but also in Tianjin, Beijing, Dalian, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Shanghai, Natuna and Saudi Arabia. There are at least 57 radar stations that have been determined! On the Beijing-class battleships, Anhai-class battleships and heavy cruisers, at least three radars with different functions have been found to be installed at the same time."
Heddle's words made Roosevelt's body, who was originally calm, suddenly shook, and his eyes were fixed on the large photo on the left. The tile-shaped antenna specially circled with a red pen.
China has intervened?!
Like the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries have begun to study the news that suddenly came from Mount Lu. Whether it is the ecstatic Britain and Japan, the worried and worried magic, the sharpening of the knife, or the Soviet Union, which is preparing for a war, they can no longer shake Yang Qiu's determination to intervene in advance!
Once the national war machine rotates, the energy that bursts out will be unpredictable.
A series of closely protected military trains rushed northwest from the North Line of the Ring China Railway (formerly East-West Siberian Railway), Longhai Line, and Central Passage Line (Harbin to Kashgar). Some of them eventually gathered at Kashgar Airport, the second largest aviation hub in the northwest. On the left side of this sparsely populated airport, there are densely packed Yunjiu long-range transport aircraft. On the right, there are also brand new H-5 medium-range bombers and H-7 long-range bombers that are also invisible and emit the smell of engine oil.
"Look."
"God! How many planes should there be!"
"My mother, can this one hold hundreds of people?"
"You guys say, why didn't I expect to join the Air Force back then?"
The Fourth Army soldiers who had been training in Kashgar and other places for half a year began to gather from all directions, but when the trucks entered the airport, everyone was attracted by the silver-shining ocean in front of them. But the soldiers did not know that only a small part of them were here. In order to achieve rapid increase in troops in the Persian Gulf, the Air Force could be said to have all the trump cards this time. Not only did they use eight airports, including Kashgar and Anjiyan, but they also took out an air force that was enough to intimidate the world.
Two strategic transport aircraft brigades and 400 Yunjiu long-range transport aircraft.
A medium-range transport aircraft wing, with 256 medium-range transport aircraft.
A long-range bomber brigade, 118 H-7 long-range bombers.
A medium-range bomber wing, 256 H-5 medium-range bombers.
In addition to the complicated oil transport aircraft, long-range reconnaissance and communication relay, a total of 916 fighter jets will travel from here to Saudi Arabia. This is only the first batch, and more tactical aircraft will be transferred to the Muslim control area in the future and then head to the Persian Gulf to participate in the war.
Xu Huansheng, who participated in this largest aerial operation in history, had his eyes narrowed. When the world's eyes were still staring at the growing Chinese Navy, when they recalled the Chinese Army that became famous in Reneeville's battle, they did not know that after more than 20 years of development, relying on the will of the country, concentrating resources and strength, the Air Force is the real ace!
Sitting in the cockpit of the H-7, waiting for takeoff, his eyes were always on the Yunjiu, which had a pattern of fangs and claws and bears on the fuselage opposite. This pattern I saw for the first time represents a mysterious unit of the Air Force with the power of a barbarian bear.
Air Force Strategic Transportation Plane Brigade.
The emergence of the term strategic transport aircraft is closely related to the development of aviation technology. Considering factors such as national territory and territory, the Chinese Air Force had stricter requirements in terms of range, ammunition load and other data at the beginning of its establishment. Therefore, after the end of the World Expo, the Air Force immediately began to adjust its layout and cut off all old models of production lines that did not meet the requirements in one go. While saving funds, it concentrated its efforts to manufacture fist products and continued to study new processes and manufacturing technologies.
After research, five of the existing transport models have been retained. They are the 1500-horsepower Y-7 (PC6) general aircraft with a single 1,500-horsepower Y-6 (C47), the 1,600-horsepower Y-1 (C46), the 1,600-horsepower Y-8 (Boeing 307 strengthened) and the 1,600-horsepower Y-9 (DC4 strengthened). Especially the latter two, the maximum load capacity exceeds 8 tons, the maximum range of no-load exceeds 6,000 kilometers, and the range can reach 3,500 kilometers when carrying 66 light infantrymen.
Because of early attention and layout, the mysterious breakthrough speed in technology, the president's support at all costs, the tilt of national power, the practice of two Afghanistan applications, etc., it finally allowed the Air Force to have 4,288 medium-range transport aircraft and 1,327 long-range transport aircraft three months ago, and more than 200 new additional aircraft will be added every month. Looking at the whole world, no one can make up such a luxurious transportation lineup! This is just the beginning. After the advent of larger-horsepower engines, the Air Force has already started a new round of bidding for super transport aircraft in response to the lack of effective transportation heavy equipment capabilities and the inability to land at field airports, etc., and major domestic aviation manufacturers have also come up with corresponding models, and are red in their faces.
In addition to aircraft, the Air Force also listed the long-range transport aircraft with strict take-off and landing conditions separately according to the president's suggestion, forming the world's first strategic transportation force, specializing in long-range and some major transportation tasks. Currently, the troops have six brigades under their jurisdiction, each brigade of 200 Y-8 or Y-9. If you just count the transport soldiers, only six strategic transport brigades will have the ability to deliver nearly 80,000 soldiers at a time, not to mention that the president has made up his mind to form twelve units, totaling 2,400 strategic intercontinental transport aircraft by the end of 42 years.
However, the establishment of the Strategic Transportation Brigade is very confidential because most of their bases are located in the central and western regions and northeastern regions, so the outside world cannot know the specific number of equipment. Even he only knew the existence of this army today.
"Let's go." Xu Huansheng, who was in a daze, pushed and pushed, hundreds of propellers began to rotate...
Chapter completed!