Facing Gao Jianwu's lion's open mouth, General Smith appeared very cautious and quickly borrowed the radio station here to send back Gao Jianwu's conditions.
Sure enough, as Smith expected, Gao Jianwu's other two conditions were quickly responded to by the Allies.
General Mike flatly rejected Gao Jianwu's request for a destroyer squadron.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." General Mike shouted in an almost roaring 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.
"Our fleet can provide them with full support. But we cannot give them a fleet. This is ridiculous." General Mike said stubbornly.
When the news came back to Gao Jianwu, Gao Jianwu didn't feel surprised and quickly ignored it.
Gao Jianwu has a lot on his hands and more problems to solve.
For example, the aviation industry that he has always been thinking about, there is still a lot missing in the area of transport aircraft. After confirming the news, he said to Smith, "Although we can't agree on that matter, it does not affect the relationship between the two of us. John, we have I once said that we would work together on civil aviation, and this invitation has always been there. We can cooperate in places 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 Bear Il 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 cities in our country. "
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 mass-produced. In terms of cost, they are simply in the nature of research and development, and there is no cost control for large-scale production. In this regard, it is naturally optimal to directly buy the finished products first.
To put it simply, Gao Jianwu’s team has to do everything now. You see, a group of people need to be invested in a landing gear, avionics also needs people, and the engine also needs people.
This is not to say that the engine does not need to be developed by oneself, but it is currently very difficult to mass produce it.
It would be much easier if you can buy it and assemble it first. You can develop and build a production line while assembling it.
As for the propeller piston engine of Yunliu, it is not very difficult for the current technology. With the foundation of the Mustang fighter, manufacturing this piston engine is not a big problem, but this thing is already outdated. Gao Jianwu still has F -4Jet engine technology for this kind of jet fighter needs to be developed.
If you scratch your beard and eyebrows, there won't be enough people to use it. Therefore, Gao Jianwu doesn't want to invest in more research and development for this mature product that will soon be phased out.
If we wait a few years, Gao Jianwu's electronics industry will become large-scale, especially after developing the first generation of transistor computers and iterating to the 8080 semiconductor computer, Gao Jianwu will also be able to overtake the avionics sector and completely surpass the current level of tube avionics. , electronic tube avionics systems will also be obsolete by then.
Therefore, there is no future in repeated research on the current tube-based avionics.
R&D investment must be spent on the cutting edge.
It's just that Gao Jianwu now urgently needs to build Y-6 and develop his own air transportation force. Otherwise, he doesn't know how long it will take to do this. If we can obtain outsourced subsystems from Smith, we can quickly achieve mass production scale.
Although Y-6 is not fancy enough, it is still very useful at this stage.
"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 build the Y-6 and fly into 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 directly 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 Gao Jianwu's Y-6 subsystem design.
This prototype is a propeller transport aircraft based on the technology of the early 1950s. There are no technical bottlenecks at all. According to Gao Jianwu's requirements, Factory 101 does not need them to carry out large-scale design and calculations. It can be produced directly according to the drawings. , the manufacturing speed of these conventional parts of the airframe is naturally very fast.
In terms of materials, the main body is made of high-strength aviation aluminum alloy developed by Gao Jianwu, which completely surpasses the strength of aluminum alloy materials in other countries. It is stronger than the original body, so there will be no problems in this regard.
With capable candidates in hand, this North American airline has completed the preliminary establishment and digestion and absorption of several subsystem design drawings. They have started the avionics, Gao Jianwu's needs in a bankrupt small aviation factory they acquired. Manufacturing of subsystem equipment such as landing gear.
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!
The branch in North America continued to produce Y-6 accessories and began to formally declare for export. Due to the low technical content and the fact that Mr. Situ's trading company had now reached a higher level, it soon began to ship in bulk in the form of conventional aviation industry products. Gao Jianwu's side.
Once this batch of accessories arrives, the Y-6 should be fully assembled and ready to enter the flight test phase soon.
In such ordinary but fulfilling days, Gao Jianwu watched the projects he handed over 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.
Lu Xingguo's air force has now expanded to more than 400 aircraft, and the Allied air forces have provided air support for the Ryukyu landing force.
Gao Jianwu's goal was to land the Allied forces on Okinawa, where the bloody battle had lasted for more than a month. He took the commandos and the fifth squadron assigned to him by the Allies to command independently, and landed in Nagahama, which was occupied by the Allied forces on Okinawa. He quickly established a temporary Command and Logistics.
"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 in the battle to seize the island. Except for the orders of our headquarters, you will ignore anyone else's orders. If there is a place to cooperate with the Allied Forces in coordinated operations, orders must be issued through our 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 in the Allies. These two are much more powerful than Guo Preserved's remaining fleet. 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.
After a day's rest, Gao Jianwu took the fleet to protect the flanks of the Allied main offensive force and served as an auxiliary role in naval gun attack.
The Fifth Fleet quickly arrived at the Shuri defense line of the little Japanese Liu Daoman!
"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 They dug a lot of tunnels and continuously launched suicide attacks 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 explained the intelligence to Gao Jianwu .
"It doesn't matter. We are not in a hurry to break through. We will eliminate the Japs' firepower points one by one before we talk." Gao Jianwu unfolded the high-definition three-dimensional map in his mind, and the entire Okinawa 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.
Okinawa's elongated terrain has no depth at all, and it cannot block the coverage from the fleet's naval guns. Gao Jianwu also didn't believe that under the attack of the 48 155mm howitzers, more than 200 105mm howitzers and more than 400 75mm howitzers under his command, the Japanese artillery could cause any trouble.
As for the four Sherman tank battalions of the Allied Forces, Gao Jianwu gave them the task of clearing the positions after artillery fire. As for the attack group of the Allied Forces landing, let them wait for the time being, waiting for him to clear the ground positions of the Little Japs. Finally, the Army attack group finally pulled out a net and drove out all the little Japs.
Gao Jianwu has never been in the habit of forcing his way into a battle and killing people. He needs to create maximum results with minimum losses.
Please give me a monthly ticket, double the period, please beg me!
(End of chapter)
