Facing Gao Jianwu's lion's open mouth, General Smith seemed very cautious and quickly borrowed the radio station here to send back Gao Jianwu's conditions intact.
Sure enough, it was just as Smith expected. Gao Jianwu's other two conditions were quickly responded to by the Allies.
However, General Mike flatly rejected Gao Jianwu's request for a destroyer squadron.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." General Mike almost yelled in a filial voice.
"This is the lion's opening. Tell Smith that they will never agree to such conditions."
"Mike, do you think that without their help, we would have to sacrifice tens of thousands of people to take over the Ryukyu islands?" General Steven asked.
"If anyone can exchange a destroyer squadron for these islands, I will send this squadron immediately.
Actually I can understand their concerns. Fighting on these islands without the support of the fleet would be very dangerous for them.
From the perspective of their own safety, having a squadron under their own command can indeed ensure their own safety to the greatest extent. "
General Steven really understands Gao Jianwu's concerns. He knew how much those people in China valued their own army, which was simply their lifeblood. In the eyes of General Steven, Gao Jianwu was the same as those people.
If one were to send his troops to an isolated island to fight, almost no one would dare to do so.
Because once they landed on the island, the Allied fleet did not follow up with support in time, and the life and death of the soldiers fighting on these islands were basically determined by fate.
This is very different from the combat mode of Gao Jianwu and his expeditionary forces in the Indochina Peninsula. The Indochina Peninsula is very large, and there is still room to run if something goes wrong. But on such a small island, if something goes wrong, the entire army may be wiped out, and there will be no room to run. Can run.
"Our fleet can provide them with full support. But we cannot give them a fleet. This is ridiculous." General Mike said stubbornly.
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The news came back to Gao Jianwu, and Gao Jianwu didn't feel surprised. After all, there was no precedent for this in the beautiful country.
"Without the support of the exclusive fleet under our control, our troops cannot bear the risk of landing on such a desperate island on the Ryukyu Islands." Gao Jianwu said to Smith after receiving the news, "But this does not affect the two of us. The relationship between people, John, we have talked about working together on civil aviation before, this invitation has always been there, and the places where we can cooperate can be all over the world, including the Americas."
"Our market is mainly in Asia and will not have much impact on the civil aviation market in the Americas. If you are interested, we can jointly develop a 30-seat medium- and short-range transport aircraft.
We have designed a twin-engine propeller transport aircraft similar to the Mao Xiong Yin'er transport aircraft, but it is larger than it and has a longer transport range. The preliminary design has 32 to 36 seats. The maximum range can reach 2,000 kilometers and the top speed exceeds 450 kilometers per hour. , a medium-sized passenger aircraft with an economic cruising speed of more than 350 km/h, which can handle transportation between most Chinese cities such as Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Guangzhou, Beijing-Rongcheng, Beijing-Taiwan and so on. "
Gao Jianwu never forgets to recruit Smith. In fact, the domestic aviation industry is too weak. Without the help of an American insider, it is too difficult to build a new aviation industry chain from beginning to end, even if the Y-6 can be manufactured according to the drawings. , many supporting subsystems are not optimal.
To put it simply, Gao Jianwu’s team now has to make a landing gear, and one avionics is enough. As for aero engines, just the propeller engine of the Y-6. With the foundation of the Mustang fighter, the engine is not a big problem, and the jet engine technology for jet fighters such as the F-4 is also in the process of research and development.
Of course, if you wait a few years and Gao Jianwu's electronics industry reaches scale, especially when the first generation of transistor computers are developed and iterates to the 8080 level, Gao Jianwu can also overtake the avionics sector and completely surpass the current level of tube avionics. .
It's just that Gao Jianwu can't wait that long now.
"Gao, you know I am an aeronautical engineer. It is not easy to build an aircraft manufacturing company from scratch." Smith did not expect Gao Jianwu to still stare at him, "Now that I am still serving, I will definitely not be able to come with you. Do this, but I can invite some friends to work with you."
Smith relented.
"That's great. John, we can start this matter immediately. Please introduce any of your friends to us. We will immediately establish an aviation industry chain company in North America. Don't worry, when you retire, the CEO of this company will definitely give you You keep it, we are old friends fighting side by side, and in this regard, I definitely trust old friends more."
Gao Jianwu said happily that his biggest purpose in pulling Smith was nothing more than this. He took a fancy to his deep connections in the aviation industry. Now that Smith is in a high position, what he said is more valuable to engineers in the aviation industry than Gao Jianwu's money. It still works.
If we want to send Y-6 to the sky quickly, it will obviously be faster to rely on the strong foundation of the North American aviation industry.
He does not need to manufacture the entire aircraft in North America, but disassembles the entire aircraft and completes most of the subsystem production and manufacturing in North America. As for the airframe part, it is manufactured and completed at the aviation base in Jinyang or the Hankou Aviation Base. Assemble.
The alliance's joint operations business was not settled, so Gao Jianwu reached a private business cooperation deal with Smith. Of course, Smith did not appear in Gao Jianwu's business map now, but these were all tacit things.
In terms of the current general environment, the two sides are close allies. Smith has no taboos about these. He actually organized a North American United Aviation Industry Company for Gao Jianwu. Mr. Situ and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, as the major shareholders behind the scenes, controlled absolute controlling rights. , and several influential engineers in the aviation industry introduced by Smith took on positions such as CEO/CTO. The company quickly recruited talents with great fanfare and began to develop and manufacture related subsystems according to the Gaojian Wuyun-6 subsystem design.
For this transport aircraft, which was born out of the technology of the 1950s, there are no technical bottlenecks at all. According to Gao Jianwu's requirements, they do not need to carry out large-scale design and verification, and the manufacturing speed is naturally very fast.
During the month that Gao Jianwu dragged General Mike away, the North American airline had already completed the preliminary establishment and the digestion and absorption of several subsystem design drawings. They had already started the first operation in a bankrupt small aviation factory they had acquired. Manufacturing of prototype equipment.
In this wartime, many products were of this type, and Smith’s friends in the aviation industry were not surprised. Gao Jianwu set aside 30% of the processing gross profit margin for this company, which made Smith’s friends in the aviation industry one by one. They are very motivated. According to Gao Jianwu's production capacity plan, they don't need to worry about market sales. The annual sales can reach tens of millions of dollars and the gross profit is 3 million US dollars, which is a lot of money.
Excluding the company's operating expenses and taxes, the profit in a year exceeds one million US dollars. For the company's management, this means at least tens of thousands of dollars in dividends!
In such dull but fulfilling days, Gao Jianwu watched the projects he assigned make significant progress one by one.
However, General Mike, who had added tens of thousands of casualties, finally could not withstand the pressure from his colleagues and domestic pressure.
In view of Gao Jianwu's past record of being so good that he had no friends, and the White House deputy's manipulation, General Mike first agreed to allocate a squadron to Gao Jianwu's direct and full command as a condition, but the ownership of the ship must be returned to the Allies after the war.
But Gao Jianwu flatly refused.
General Mike had to give in. On the basis of giving Gao Jianwu command of a squadron consisting of 2 cruisers and 5 destroyers, he also agreed to send 2 Fletcher destroyers to the Eighth Route Army after the war as the latest condition. After this After much tossing, Gao Jianwu finally accepted it reluctantly.
He had already recruited more than 700 people in the country, which was exactly the number of crew members for two destroyers. This was the bottom line of his psychological price. So once the conditions were negotiated, Li Yunlong received a full set of beautiful equipment at the Dalian port. Later, 80,000 fully mechanized troops and Zhang Dabiao's troops were divided into two groups and began to push the Bangzi Peninsula flatly.
And Gao Jianwu, together with Ding Wei, Chu Yunfei and others, immediately completed the modification of beautiful weapons from several ports such as Wanwan Island and Yongcheng. According to the scale of two attack groups and twelve attack groups, they took advantage of the Allied forces. The transport ship began its journey to the Ryukyu Islands.
Lu Xingguo's air force has now expanded to more than 400 aircraft. It is divided into two clusters, the north and the south, to coordinate the troops going out. In the north, Lu Xingguo personally leads one cluster to support Li Yunlong's actions. In the south, Ye Shaoshang leads another. The Air Force Group uses Wanwan Island as an air base, and the Allied Air Force provides air support for the Ryukyu landing force.
Gao Jianwu's goal was for the Allies to land on Chongsheng Island, where the bloody battle had lasted for more than a month. He led the two large attack groups of Ding Wei and Chu Yunfei, as well as the fifth squadron assigned to him by the Allies to command independently, and occupied Chongsheng Island. After landing at Changbin, a temporary headquarters and logistics were quickly established.
"Commander Lin, except for the two destroyers of the Fifth Squadron which are completely controlled by our own people, each of the other ships must have our people as first officers, equipped with radios and walkie-talkies to maintain uninterrupted contact." After Gao Jianwu came ashore, he said Lin Zundao, who temporarily served as the naval commander of the Fifth Squadron.
"Your only combat mission is to cooperate with our Ryukyu First Attack Group and Second Attack Group in the battle to seize the island. Except for the orders of our headquarters, no one else's orders will be ignored. If there is any place to cooperate with the Allied Forces in coordinated operations, , and orders must also be issued through our command headquarters.”
"Yes, Mr. Gao, our navy's only mission is to cooperate with our army brothers in combat!" Lin Zun replied vigorously, his words full of respect and even admiration for Gao Jianwu!
Lin Zun was a senior naval general whom Gao Jianwu mobilized from the original Guozhou Navy. Under the banner of Gao Jianwu's construction of the Eighth Route Navy, Lin Zun believed in Gao Jianwu who had nothing at the beginning. He took his old friends and more than 700 of his subordinates to Wanwan. Island standby and familiarization with Allied ships.
Gao Jianwu believed from the beginning that General Mike could not endure the huge casualties and had to surrender to his own conditions, so he was very determined to gather the troops first. Through the relationship between Smith and General Steven, he was able to intern on the Allied cruisers and destroyers.
Sure enough, just when Lin Zun and the others were getting familiar with it and getting started, Gao Jianwu's delaying strategy was successful and they got two destroyers as they wished. Lin Zun and the others, who didn't have much expectations at first, simply shocked Gao Jianwu.
Therefore, even if Gao Jianwu barely knows anything about the navy, these people are still willing to regard Gao Jianwu as the father of the Eighth Route Navy!
You must know that the two destroyers acquired by Gao Jianwu are the most cutting-edge Fletcher destroyers of the Allies. These two destroyers are much more powerful than the remaining fleet of Guo Preserved Navy. This made the frustrated Lin Zun and others in the Guo Preserved Navy immediately He felt proud and had great respect for Gao Jianwu.
They don't know yet that Gao Jianwu has prepared more surprises for them.
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After a day's rest, Gao Jianwu led Chu Yunfei and a large force to attack Naba, who was stubbornly resisting, while Ding Wei led another part of the force to attack in the direction of Anfu. However, they were responsible for protecting the flanks of the main Allied offensive force and temporarily served as Supporting role.
Gao Jianwu took over the role of the Allied forces who suffered heavy casualties as the main force of the new offensive in Naba. What blocked Gao Jianwu's progress was the little Japanese Liu Daoman's Shuri defense line!
"The little devils have concentrated their main force here. They not only built dense bunkers, trenches and barbed wire fences, but also concentrated their armored forces and artillery in this small area. The firepower density is extremely high. At the same time, they also Many tunnels were dug and suicide attacks were launched continuously through the tunnels at night. The Allies suffered heavy losses during the attack on the Mugang defense line." Lieutenant General Smith, who returned to Gao Jianwu as chief of staff, carefully communicated the intelligence with Gao Jianwu and Chu Yunfei and others explained.
"It doesn't matter. We are not in a hurry to break through. We will eliminate the Japs' firepower points one by one before talking." Gao Jianwu unfolded the high-definition three-dimensional map in his mind, and the entire Chongsheng Island suddenly appeared.
While listening to Lieutenant General Smith's introduction, he matched it with the map in his mind. He quickly anchored the combat area on the map, marked the regional coordinates of these terrains, and slowly formed a combat plan in his mind.
Chongsheng Island's long and thin terrain has no depth at all, and it cannot block the coverage from the fleet's guns. Gao Jianwu also didn't believe that under the attack of his own attack group of 48 155mm howitzers, more than 200 105mm howitzers and more than 400 75mm howitzers, the Japanese artillery could cause any trouble.
As for the four Sherman tank battalions, Gao Jianwu gave them the task of cleaning up the positions after artillery fire. As for the huge army attack group, it was the last resort to draw a net to drive out all the little devils.
Gao Jianwu did not advance the idea of killing people at the beginning.
