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    PS: It¡¯s really terrible, my memory loss is very serious, c47 has become c49, please forgive me.  In recent years, I have been misremembering things and doing strange things.

    Chapter 198: The city that must be defended

    At 10 a.m. on November 26, Roosevelt addressed Congress, claiming that the United States had been subjected to a shameless sneak attack.  The United States has joined the war. The reasons for joining the war in this time and space are somewhat pale. Just like the Spanish-American War, sometimes just an excuse is enough to join the war. As for what this excuse is, is it important?

    Britain and the United States formed an alliance, and younger countries such as Australia and Canada followed suit. They faced the Triple Alliance of Germany, Japan, and Italy.  Because of the effect of a certain butterfly wing, this empty Soviet Union did not fight Germany, but fought fiercely with China.

    The Entente and the Central Powers declared war on each other. Interestingly, the Soviet Union and China issued essentially the same statement, remaining neutral in the war between the two camps!  This means that you fight yours and we fight ours.

    This statement is really good news for Germany, but not good news for Britain and the United States.  The United States and Britain both expressed their intention to mediate in the Sino-Soviet War, and Germany, Japan and Italy also expressed their intention to mediate.  Anyway, the attitude is established.  In fact, the people who most hope for peace between China and the Soviet Union at this time are the United Kingdom and the United States. Without the Soviet Union looking behind the buttocks and looking at the anus of the mustache, it would be too damn difficult for the American imperialists to land in Europe.  The key is that Germany at this time was focusing on the war against Britain. This made Churchill want to cry.

    Churchill continued to flirt with China, and the American imperialists did not give up and continued to do Fang¡¯s ideological work.  The person who came forward to do this work was Fisher, a famous financier on Wall Street in the United States today. His subsidiary Miller Bank has total assets of more than one billion.

    After Fisher accepted this task, he immediately drafted a telegram by himself, starting from the traditional friendship between China and the United States, and then talking about the present, past, and future of China and the United States. Anyway, the telegram was very long.  The first five to six hundred words were all about friendship, and then he changed the topic and said that he had not seen his grandson for a long time.  I want to visit China.

    Fang Jianxiong called back and said that he could come if he wanted to, but before he came, he wanted to help with something. The U.S. Air Force had a P-39 aircraft that seemed to perform poorly over Britain, and the Air Force was very dissatisfied.  Let's see, China's aircraft production is insufficient.  If the United States doesn't want these aircraft, it can sell them to China at a cheaper price.  We use it for training.

    This P39 is a fighter jet provided by the United States to the United Kingdom through the Lend-Lease Act. At the same time, hundreds of American volunteers went to the United Kingdom to use this aircraft to fight against the German Air Force.  As a result, the performance of the P-39 was quite poor, which completely defeated the German FW-190. In particular, the lack of high-altitude combat capabilities caused the American volunteers to suffer a lot.  The German plane easily climbed to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and then killed the P-39 in a single dive. The American volunteers gave the P-39 the nickname "Aerial Coffin".  After the news was reported back to the United States, the U.S. sea, land and air forces stopped working. Whoever liked this thing wanted it.  We don¡¯t want it anyway.

    The wealthy American emperor was not willing to dispose of the P-39 as garbage, so he could only slowly replace it and put it in the warehouse.  If history had not been messed up, the U.S. imperialists would not have discovered how vulnerable the P-39 was in the face of the Zero until the outbreak of the Pacific War. In this time and space, the Germans corrected the U.S. imperialists' mistake.

    China wants to buy P-39 as a training aircraft?  This news is a bit funny!  The Chinese fighter jets performed very well in the skies over Britain, and the German FW-190 aircraft did not take much advantage.  It was a very even situation, and the British even exclaimed that the Chinese were at the forefront of the world in terms of aircraft design concepts.

    The US emperor still has P-40 available, so just save up the P-39.  Historically, P-39s were basically cheap and were used as aid.  This rotten aircraft in the eyes of the American emperor really shined in Maozi's hands. This has something to do with Maozi's life being worthless.  Moreover, Maozi admires the P-39's 37 cannon, which is very effective in ground attack.

    ¡°These historical American imperialists certainly don¡¯t know about it now. Anyway, it¡¯s always a good thing that someone will buy the things they don¡¯t want.  Fang Jianxiong is also very helpless, because China's aircraft production is indeed restricted by many unfavorable factors. Currently, all production capacity is concentrated on the Mustang fighter. The Mustang is also good at ground attack, but he is worried that in the future, the Maozi will explode into a sea of ??tanks and use the P-39's 37 cannon to attack it.  The tank is just right.

    All in all, the P-39 is a backward product that even the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force looks down upon. Fang Jianxiong intends to take advantage of it to make up for the Chinese Air Force's lack of ground attack.  For high-altitude combat, there is the Mustang. The performance of the low-altitude P-39 is excellent, and you can save a lot of money when used together.

    The effect of Fisher's action is different. Before he even went to China, he got an order.  Roosevelt took the news very seriously and immediately asked people to find out about it. The feedback was that the P-39 sold for $50,000. Hainan Airlines and Army Air Forces equipped more than 8,000 of them, maybe 9,000. Anyway, it was a lot of money.  money.

    ¡°It¡¯s a surprise that there are still people willing to buy this kind of aircraft.  No?Roosevelt made plans, and the U.S. Navy, Hainan Airlines and Army Airlines were more concerned than anyone else. Only by disposing of these aircraft could they be replaced with new ones. It would make everyone happy and there would be no pressure at all.

    So, with the intervention of the President's Office, the American imperialists offered a conscientious person $15,000 a piece, which was a 30% discount.  It was said that the price was already very good, but President Fang Da's reaction was very disrespectful. He called back and said: One unit costs ten thousand dollars. If you are willing to sell it, you can get three thousand units first, and we can try it out.

    After receiving the response, the United States was anxious. How could it only ask for 3,000 aircraft?  Too little, must be too little.  Anyway, it is difficult for these aircraft to see their future if they are thrown into warehouses. With the production capacity of the United States, aircraft should not be built too fast.  So the US imperialists said that they could consider purchasing one aircraft for US$10,000, but the purchase amount should not be less than 8,000 aircraft.

    The two parties used telegrams to bargain with each other, and Fang Jianxiong quickly replied that eight thousand aircraft could be considered, but the price should be more favorable.  Out of the desire to win over China, Roosevelt paid great attention to this matter. In fact, according to his intention, it was not impossible to give it to China for free. Historically, he gave it to the Soviet Union as free aid.

    So Roosevelt called Fisher into the office and talked to him alone: ??"It seems that China felt great pressure during the war with the Soviet Union, especially their military production capacity. This phenomenon can be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China, as long as  When China joins the Allies, the United States can consider assisting China with a certain amount of arms."

    Fisher nodded and said: "I think Fang Jianxiong's main concern is that he still doesn't want to fight on two fronts, but he will not allow Japan to run rampant in Asia. This can be seen from the deal he reached with the United Kingdom. Now China has stationed troops  Burma, Japan's possibility of directly attacking India from the ground has been shattered. After the United States entered the war, Japan's main opponent has definitely become the U.S. Navy, especially the Pacific Fleet. I think that negotiations with Fang Jianxiong on the aid issue can be postponed until the U.S. Navy  After teaching the Japanese navy a lesson, we can then consider the issue of China joining the allies. Even this transaction can be postponed for the time being."

    Roosevelt believed that this analysis was very pertinent. After all, China is a big country and has the ability to pose a threat to the United States' unification of the Pacific.  Therefore, China must be made to see the power of US imperialism, and then negotiations will be relatively easy.  Roosevelt asked Fisher to leave as soon as possible and sent a special plane to fly first to India and then to Beijing.

    As for the P-39 deal, it costs 15,000 US dollars each, and 8,000 of them have to be purchased at a time.  This change in the attitude of the United States directly led to the collapse of the deal.  Probably because they felt that Fang Jianxiong's desire to buy P-39 captured a weak point, the United States' attitude became a little tougher.

    While Fisher was still on the road, the campaign in Central Asia reached a critical point.  One of Chen Mingren's troops stormed the hilltop position guarded by the Soviet army. In order to buy enough time, Zhukov gave a fatal order to block the Chinese troops in the middle.

    The Soviet troops who risked their lives were extremely cruel, which Chen Mingren soon realized.  The infantry tactics of the National Defense Forces are indeed classic and very effective. The first wave of assault battalions attacking Chen Mingren rushed to the Soviet position. Before they had time to rejoice, the Soviet death squads rolled down with cluster grenades in their arms.  More than thirty people rolled over.  A battalion of elites lost more than half in the face of suicide attacks. Chen Mingren watched the continuous roaring on the top of the mountain, biting the roots of his teeth and bleeding without even noticing.

    Unwilling to be reconciled, Chen Mingren organized another attack, this time with twenty tanks covering him.  After a fierce bombardment concentrated on one point, the tanks covered the infantry and rushed forward.  Unexpectedly, the Soviet army was well prepared and dug a hidden anti-tank trench. Ten tanks fell into the trench and were blown up by Soviet soldiers hiding in the trench with cluster grenades.  The infantry that followed were also beaten down, and the battle was extremely strenuous.  Unfortunately, the light snow stopped and started to rain again, and the aircraft was unable to support them at all.

    The superiors repeatedly ordered to break through as soon as possible, so Chen Mingren had no choice but to bite the bullet and attack the Soviet position.  After attacking for three consecutive days, the unknown highland was finally defeated, at the cost of more than a thousand casualties.  The Soviet army was not much better, they were all seriously injured.

    After seizing the commanding heights, the artillerymen carried two 75 mountain guns up the mountain and blasted the Soviet positions.  Unexpectedly, the Soviet artillery, which had always been very gentle, suddenly concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces and violently bombarded the unknown high ground. Then the infantry charged and took back the position.  The two armies saw each other repeatedly on the unknown high ground and fought fiercely for another day. Finally, they were looking forward to sunny weather.  The plane arrived and the Soviet army became more honest, at least during the day.  Chen Mingren quickly ordered the repair of fortifications to ensure that the position was not lost.

    At this time, the situation of the Soviet army did not improve much. Bai Chongxi's 10th Mechanized Army rushed to Penjikent, which was only a hundred kilometers away from Samarkand.  Li Zongren's troops rushed to the city of Vonany and cut off the railway from Samarkand to Vonany. Zhukov had few choices to make.

    ??But at this time, Moscow called Zhukov again, asking him to delay as much time as possible in Samarkand and Vonnai to buy time for the Soviet logistics department to transfer supplies.  Zhukov said there was no point in continuing to hold on, but Moscow called back, and the message signed by the bearded man contained this sentence: Samarkand is a city in Central Asia that must be defended!
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