Chapter 107 Design drawings of the feud-class aircraft carrier
"Support?!" Ouyang Yun asked with a frown and a sneer.
Wavell said "Ah" and quickly added: "That's not what I meant. What I meant is that I hope you can provide fifty of them at one time. The price is easy to talk about."
Ouyang Yun met with Wavell in a temporarily rented house. As soon as Gu Lianyun walked out of the door, he met Jiang Huangyong who came over after hearing the news. The latter asked her: "Mr. Bai, is Wavell inside?"
"Um."
"What is he here for?"
"Buy fighter planes from us. You're here just in time. My elder brother asked me to send the electricity back to Guangzhou and ask if we can distribute some fighter planes to the British."
"I understand, Mr. Bai, you can go in later and leave this matter to me." After saying this, Jiang Huangyong walked in. Then, Bai Liusu heard his voice: "Sir, come here."
Guest?"
Bai Liusu also knew that the purpose of sending electricity to Guangzhou was to show the British people, so he stood at the door with his arms folded and listened quietly.
In the room, Ouyang Yun introduced Weiweier and Jiang Huangyong. Jiang Huangyong was familiar with them, and soon he and Weiweier had a lively chat, and he accidentally let slip that another fighter production line in Xuebing Army had been put into production.
Bai Liusu counted the time and walked in when Wavell once again asked Ouyang Yun to purchase a fighter plane.
The old British man's eyes immediately fell on her and asked: "General Bai, I don't know how Guangzhou responded."
Bai Liusu ignored him and reported directly to Ouyang Yun, saying that Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li called back. In view of the large-scale mobilization of Japanese fighter planes detected by the frontline air defense posts, by the end of the year, all newly manufactured fighters will be sent to the front line, and there is really no way to distribute them.
When Wavell's translator finished translating these words, Ouyang Yun shrugged at him and said, "You heard it. It's not that I don't want to help. I really can't do anything."
The muscles on Wavell's face twitched, and he gritted his teeth and said: "We will pay double the price. If we don't have enough cash, we will use precious metals as compensation."
Ouyang Yun was embarrassed: "It's not a matter of price."
Wavell: "Three times!"
The price of the Baiji Dolphin is quite high. Based on the price sold to the French, one has reached 190,000 US dollars, while the most expensive L-19 (actually the B-29) in the US military is only 290,000 US dollars.
Now the British are offering three times the price. Even if Ouyang Yun has ulterior motives and wants to pursue other things, he has to be tempted. One plane is 570,000 US dollars, ten is 5.7 million, and fifty is two
Eighteen and a half million U.S. dollars, with the current purchasing power of the U.S. dollar, this is definitely a huge sum of money. Fighter aircraft are wearing parts, and the British will definitely have to buy accessories, so 30 million dollars will definitely not be able to run, and they can build a
A heavy patrol ship with a class of more than 20,000 tons was launched. "MD, are the British so rich? By the way, the money does not belong to the exploiting colonial countries, so they don't feel bad about spending it," Ouyang Yun had this thought flashing through his mind.
, took a deep breath and said: "Since the Commander-in-Chief is so sincere, I think there should be no problem if you squeeze in. But if you want the General Headquarters to be approved, I'm afraid you have to show more sincerity!"
Not long after the London air battle began, the British government, under pressure, began to consider purchasing fighter aircraft from the United States to alleviate the embarrassing situation of fighter aircraft production capacity not keeping up with losses. At that time, the main fighter aircraft in the United States were P-40s, and the P-38 had not yet been modified.
, the P-47 has just been finalized and has not been put into production. Therefore, the British purchased all P-40 fighters during this period. However, in actual combat, the P-40 was not a match for the German Me-109g aircraft at all, so the Americans had to
began to consider the production of more advanced fighters, and the British also gave up their attempt to purchase fighters from the United States to support the Far East battlefield.
The U.S. and its own fighter planes are not strong enough, and transportation is also a problem. The fighter planes of the Xuebing Army have suddenly emerged. The British government decided to purchase the fighter planes of the Xuebing Army nearby to supplement the Far East Aviation Force. It is really a helpless move at the end of the world. Churchill and others
He also had other plans for the Xuebing Army, so he did not hesitate to use money to his advantage. In his instructions to Wavell, he gave him a fairly generous financial expenditure limit. This was the confidence that Wavell dared to come to the door in the middle of the night, but three times the price was too much.
After firing, Ouyang Yun actually said that he was not sincere - Wavell knew that the other party was convinced that his side was desperate to get a fighter opportunity and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail him. He suppressed the anger in his heart, his eyes flashed green, and spoke word by word.
Said: "More sincerity? Can you be more specific?"
Ouyang Yun saw the expression of the old British man and couldn't help but worry that his appetite would be counterproductive. He looked calm and said: "We need the design drawings of the 'Enmity-class' aircraft carrier."
"I can't make the decision on this," Wavell said with a dark face. He told the truth, not to mention that he didn't have the relevant drawings in hand. Even if he did, he wouldn't dare to make the decision and leave it to Ouyang Yun.
There may seem to be no comparison between a semi-finished "Revenge-class" aircraft carrier and a bunch of design drawings, but in fact, the value of the latter far exceeds the former.
The old British man refused very decisively. Ouyang Yun didn't waste any words and said directly: "This is a prerequisite."
The talks immediately reached a deadlock.
A few minutes later, when the old British man finished smoking the cigarette that Ouyang Yun had handed him before, he compromised and said in a hoarse voice: "I need to ask London for instructions."
Ouyang Yun expressed his understanding, and then asked Jiang Huangyong to take the old British man and his men to the telecommunications car.
After the British left, Bai Liusu asked him: "Brother, what do you want from the design drawings of the Enemy-class aircraft carrier? Do you want to learn from the British design plan?"
Ouyang Yun nodded. The handheld computer Ouyang Yun brought actually contained design drawings about the aircraft carrier, but compared to this era, it was too advanced and the technical requirements were too high. Haikou No. 1 Shipyard was established last year
A special team was formed to start building aircraft carriers, but because they were starting from scratch, the progress was very slow. In this case, if there is a ready-made design drawing of an aircraft carrier of this era, it will not only get twice the result with half the effort, it will even be done immediately.
Can be put into use.
As the world's largest naval power, Britain's aircraft carrier manufacturing technology is, at least for now, ahead of Japan and the United States. Take the "Revenge-class" aircraft carrier as an example. In order to adapt it to the harsh marine environment of the Atlantic Ocean, the British adopted
Fully enclosed, armored flight deck structure - what does that mean? Take the flight deck as an example, the "Fenghui-class" aircraft carrier uses all armored plates, which have certain anti-strike capabilities, while the aircraft carriers of the United States and Japan use armored plates.
It is a wooden flight deck with extremely poor impact resistance.
The design drawings of the "Vendor-class" aircraft carrier are related to military secrets. Not to mention that Wavell did not dare to make any claims, even Churchill did not dare to use it in exchange for the friendship of the military. Wavell's telegram played a role in London
, immediately caused an uproar. The first reaction of almost all senior British political officials who learned the news was that the Chinese were too arrogant, and then they all condemned it. Then, what worried Ouyang Yun happened, and the British government not only refused
In this request, he also said that he would reconsider the alliance with the Cadet Army, and made it in a threatening tone: In order to maintain the dignity of Great Britain, the United Kingdom must reconsider the leasing of Karachi.
It seems that Ouyang Yun has gone too far.
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Try to write as well as possible and speed up the process as much as possible)