As soon as Xiang Xiaoqiang said this, he felt something was wrong. He coughed twice and said:
"Well...the Soviet army clearly treats pilots as cheap consumables. Alas, we can't be like them!"
The others did not speak and looked at each other. It is estimated that it is difficult to express an opinion on this kind of thing. First of all, whether the Soviet army really trains new pilots in this way needs further confirmation, and whether using excellent machine gunners to train fighter pilots is really that effective.
, we cannot just rely on such an isolated piece of information. This is too unbelievable after all. Secondly, if this is true, and pilots can really be trained in this way, and if it is so effective, then... the Ming army will face an embarrassment.
choice.
Either they want to do what the Soviet army did, or they insist on their own "elitism" and win by quality. Due to the small number of soldiers in Nanming, the army has always adhered to "elitism" and emphasized the word "elite" in selection and training.
.And it is precisely because of the tight supply of troops that
Zhang, the cost of training each officer and soldier is also high, so he has developed the tradition of "treasuring human life" and trying his best to avoid the practice of "taking lives to fill them". If we also learn from the Soviet army's approach, not to mention it is against the rules.
Military tradition, even morally, is a burden.
Li Gensheng hesitated and said:
"Sir... it's not just for this reason. We haven't reached that stage yet. It's still a local war, and the scale is far from the same as the unification war... The aircraft and tanks dispatched by both sides are still within a certain scale.
Inside. What affects our army's ability to seize air supremacy now is not the number of Soviet aircraft, but the old Soviet pilots, those who came back from the Spanish battlefield. Our pilots are rooted in the sky.
We can't beat them. And even if we risk our lives, that's exactly what the Soviets want. They may be hoping that we will be like them and see who can afford to die. If we risk our lives, we are definitely no match for the Soviet Union... Every month in the Soviet Union
They will send new pilots to the Spanish battlefield for rotation and practice with the German Condor Legion... Maybe a hundred of them will be sent over, and eighty of them will die, but the twenty who come back can kill us in the sky..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang said:
"And we don't have a training ground like the Spanish battlefield?"
Li Gensheng nodded:
"right."
“So we still lose mainly on quality?”
"right."
Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded and sighed:
"I understand. So... Mr. He, you can go to the Ministry of War and the General Administration of Military Industry this afternoon to see how the mass production of Goshawk (bf109) fighter jets is going. It seems that we want to win back the air in a short time.
The disadvantage is that we must focus on this new fighter jet."
Wang Hexiang nodded:
"Don't worry, sir, I will go there in the afternoon."
"By the way, sir," Wang Hexiang smiled again, "there is news from Taipingji."
"oh?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately became interested. Taipingji is the largest tank manufacturer in the Ming Dynasty. Since the last time it launched a new half-track armored vehicle, there has been no movement for a long time.
"Sir," Wang Hexiang took out a document from his briefcase and handed it over, "This is the improvement information of their Lightning-4 tank."
Xiang Xiaoqiang took it over and looked at it, then whispered:
"Lightning IV-A series medium tank: military number sd4a/47l52/36, medium tank unit equipped with the People's Guard Armored Division... Total weight is 24.1 tons, main weapon: a 47mm, 42 times caliber long barrel anti-tank gun,
73 rounds of ammunition... Secondary weapons: two 7.92mmmg34 machine guns (1800 rounds of ammunition for the heading machine gun, 1 ammunition for the parallel machine gun)
000 rounds). Maximum highway speed: equipped with an engine produced by Daming (low cost) 38km/h, range 155km, equipped with a German engine (high cost) 40km/h, range 165km... Armor defense: turret front armor: 35mm (without
Shield), 55mm (with shield)... Front armor of the vehicle body: 25mm, Side armor of the vehicle body: 25mm..."
He raised his head, shook his head and smiled:
"I said, isn't this an enhanced version of the Lightning-3? My feeling is... when can we design a tank like the Soviet Union that is simple, durable, low-cost, and fast to produce?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere. Many people looked at him with strange expressions.
"Okay, let's go here first," Xiang Xiaoqiang coughed twice, waved his hands, and said, "The war is tense now, and I need more work from you. Alas, I'm not in good health right now, and the doctor asked me to stay all day
I was lying on the bed to recuperate. Originally, he wouldn't let me come to this meeting... It just so happened that Princess Liaoyang also served as the deputy commander-in-chief. During this time, if you can't find me for many things, you can just go to her."
Fourteen Gege looked around at everyone, smiled, and nodded.
…
After the meeting, Xiang Xiaoqiang returned to his home next door. Shi Shigege called Xiu Xiu into his office and closed the door to study the latest confession of the surrendered Japanese spy.
Shi Shigege flipped through the confession transcript and asked:
"You don't know about this person's betrayal, so your stomach hurts, right?"
"I don't know," Xiu Xiu shook her head, "He surrendered on his own initiative, and now I have arranged him to live in a 'safe house' in the city, with a few close associates to take care of him. This was just delivered."
Shi Shigege looked down at the transcript and asked with a frown:
"What was his attitude like when he confessed? Was he pouring beans out of a bamboo tube? Or... was hesitant and reserved?"
Xiuxiu said:
"Well...I didn't go to the trial in person, but Ayu who came back after hearing the confession said that he really wasn't the kind of person who pours beans through a bamboo tube. In the Japanese spy network deployed in the Ming Dynasty, this person seems to be a high-ranking person.
He is responsible for a large spy network in southern Jiangsu. There are eight people who have direct contact with him. He seems to know his own value. He first gave out two people, and then kept bargaining with us...Sister Liaoyang
Look, these two people...?"
Shi Shigege stared at the names of the two people on the confession, as well as the identity introduction below, and fell into deep thought.
Of these two people, one is a civilian officer in the office of the Naval General Staff, a major. The other is a secret agent of the Army Aviation Command. He claims to be the deputy to the chief of the southern Jiangsu spy network.
, because the spy network had grown relatively large, and the person in charge felt that it was difficult to manage it alone, and repeatedly requested assistance from the country, so Tokyo transferred this person to assist him.
And this person who surrendered was previously the head of a Japanese spy network in Beiqing. Now that Nanming has unified the country, the importance of the original spy networks in Beiqing has dropped sharply, and Tokyo has also begun to gradually reduce the intelligence power of northern China.
It is necessary to transfer to the south. Because now Japan's only opponent in Asia is Nanming.
"Since he already has such a high status..." Shi Shigege said suspiciously as he flipped through the transcript, "Why did he suddenly invest in us? It's definitely not just to exchange for a few dollars."
Xiuxiu smiled and said:
"Sister Liaoyang, I really let you talk. This person...he takes drugs."
"Oh...oh," Shi Shige nodded and smiled with satisfaction, "That's right."
Xiuxiu then smiled and said:
"He became addicted to morphine during an operation and has never been able to quit. Moreover, because this person has been a senior spy in the Beiqing for a long time and has been in contact with high-ranking officials in the Beiqing for a long time, his own life has also been very depraved, spending money like water, and
He is quite involved in various other bad habits, including eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling. And his boss is guilty of stuff.
He was very dissatisfied when Beijing sent him as his deputy. He also reprimanded him many times and went to Tokyo to complain against him many times. The main reason was that he was now transferred to the Ming Dynasty, and he had the same corrupt living habits in Beiqing.
He couldn't change it, and the officialdom in the Ming Dynasty was much clearer, so he couldn't get money at any time like he could in the Beiqing Dynasty.
"A few days ago, his boss showed him a telegram from Tokyo and asked him to go back to Tokyo to report on his work... He was scared, thinking that maybe Tokyo thought he was a hidden danger and that something bad would happen sooner or later, or maybe his drug abuse was known to his boss.
, and then told Tokyo... Anyway, he felt that Tokyo was no longer willing to tolerate him, and might want to kill him..."
Fourteen Gege listened and nodded slowly:
"Well, get rid of it...this is indeed the style of those guys in Tokyo."
Xiuxiu said:
"So he thought about it and didn't dare to go back to Tokyo, so he surrendered to us. And our analysis shows that even if Tokyo doesn't plan to kill him, he probably doesn't want to go back to Japan to live a poor life. He plans to spend his whole life
The spy network is a great gift in exchange for future glory and wealth from our Ming Dynasty."
Fourteen Gege nodded and smiled:
"...However, this is the kind of person we like. Haha, just like glory and wealth, but I'm afraid he won't like it... Then, he said there is a boss who is much more important than him..."
When she said the word "boss", she rolled her eyes a few times and glanced at the east wall.
Xiuxiu also immediately caught Shi Shigege's eyes and glanced over.
The next room to the east is the fourteen-square lounge. Further to the east is the confidential radio room. Further to the east... that is another wing of the office building. That is where the security team headquarters is located. The easternmost large office,
Just a stomachache.
Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment, then immediately lowered her eyes and stared at the table, acting as if nothing happened.
And the Fourteenth Princess also looked away, smiled, and praised:
"Xiuxiu is good, you guys did a really nice job."
"Thank you, Sister Liaoyang."
Fourteen Gege stopped laughing and ordered in a low voice:
"This matter needs to be kept strictly confidential... We don't have much time, so we can't delay it too long. We must let the interrogation produce results quickly. As long as the conditions he proposes are within the scope of 'money', we can agree first."
Come down. The top priority is to get the name of the 'chief person in charge' he mentioned. Next, if...if it's not what we think, then we can leave it to the security team to figure it out slowly. Do you understand?"
Xiu Xiu's heart trembled, she knew what Shi Shi Ge Ge meant by "as we imagined". Moreover, she used "we". It seemed that Shi Shi Ge Ge had a tacit understanding with her.