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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 223: Type 96 Fighter

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    Even for the elite troops of the Tsarist Russians, the accuracy of their artillery was limited to this.  But the Tsarist Russians had their own methods, and accuracy was not enough to make up for it with numbers.  It's always right to plow with artillery before starting a fight, but it's just that the combination of infantry and artillery won't work well.

    When Captain Ma saw the Tsarist Russians charging, they were still five or six hundred meters away from the position. Before he could give the order, the subordinates had already started firing.

    Captain Ma faintly heard the shouts of "Ula" from the opposite side amid the sound of gunfire.  This reminded Commander Ma of the time when he first joined the army, and under the guidance of the Tsarist Russian instructors, he also charged with the word "Ula", but Army Commander Sheng Shicai changed his name to "Wansheng" after he rebelled against Tsarist Russia.

    From time to time, soldiers on both sides were knocked to the ground by bullets and shells. Seeing this scene, Ma Chao felt a sense of fear in his heart.

    Reinforcements and artillery support sent by the division headquarters arrived one after another, and the Ma Chao Regiment made it through again this time.  This time, the Tsarist Russians stopped charging after the artillery fire fell, and the soldiers gradually retreated.  The two sides started an artillery battle again.

    The commander of the Tsarist Russia's Xinjiang Expeditionary Force this time is not afraid of artillery battles. A large amount of military supplies has been stockpiled in Alashankou, which will be continuously transported to the front line by cars. In contrast, Shengshicai's artillery shells and bullets have no production capacity.  It will become less and less the more you fight.  After they finish shooting the bullets and artillery shells, the infantry can just go up and take over Urumqi.

    This time, Tsarist Russia¡¯s Xinjiang expeditionary force has only one goal, and that is Urumqi.  After the railway is built to Urumqi, most of Xinjiang will fall under the control of Tsarist Russia.  For the Tsarist Russians, one step at a time is the most important. Like the little Japanese devils who always play the trick of snakes swallowing elephants, the final outcome can only be to strangle themselves to death.

    The ambition to expand territory has been deeply imprinted in the genes of Tsarist Russians for hundreds of years. You must know that the current Tsarist Russian Empire is the largest country in the world by land area.  Before Tsarist Russia began to expand, it was just a small principality in Eastern Europe. At that time, the principality of Tsarist Russia was small in area and had poor resources. Facing the aggressive trend of Eastern European powers such as Sweden and Poland, it had no choice but to move eastward. At that time, the majority of its citizens had just embraced the Orthodox Church.  Slavic barbarians.

    The capture of Xinjiang by Tsarist Russia can be regarded as an explanation to its allies. After all, Xinjiang is also under the rule of the Nanjing government, although it only exists in theory.  In this way, Tsarist Russia can say to its little Japanese ally, look, we have captured Xinjiang and opened up a second battlefield.

    As for moving south or east after conquering Xinjiang, we have to wait until the railway to Urumqi continues to extend outwards. According to the estimates of the military department, the railway laying project is very smooth, and it will take nearly two years to lay more than 1,000 kilometers of railway.  It's time.

    Two years later, the main force of the allies and the main force of the Nanjing government should decide the winner on the Eastern Front.  That was the time for Tsarist Russia to decide to exert force.  Both the Tsarist Russia and the Nanjing government can afford to drag out this war, but the little devils can't afford it now - a population smaller than that controlled by the Tsarist Russia and the Nanjing government actually has more troops than the two countries.

    Thinking about it, you will know that the little Japanese devils will definitely not be able to afford it for a long time, otherwise the military expenditure alone will be enough to completely bankrupt the little Japanese devils' finances.

    When the Tsarist Russians invaded Xinjiang, the little devils were not idle either.  In the past six months, the Little Japanese Base Camp has repeatedly analyzed the failures of several battles and found that air superiority and armor superiority are the biggest shortcomings of the current army - although the Little Japanese does not have an advantage in firepower.

    It¡¯s easier to say that the armor advantage is better. After all, the Little Devils also have Japanese tanks. In a one-on-one battle, they can barely compete with the tanks and armored vehicles of the Central Army. The problem now is that the number of troops and equipment is too small.  Faced with this, just increase productivity.  The budget should also be tilted this way, so that the army will have sufficient ** tanks next year.

    Air superiority is a little more troublesome. The little devils have not yet mastered the aluminum alloy technology used in aviation. If you buy an airplane, it is definitely not worth it. Even the little devils don¡¯t have so much foreign exchange to buy a large number of fighter jets.  However, the domestically produced biplane independently developed by Little Devil has already ruined countless outstanding pilots of Little Devil Airline. When Mitsubishi designs a monoplane and acquires aviation aluminum alloy technology, it is estimated that Airline will borrow pilots from Hainan Airlines.  .

    "If you can't afford it, you can't make it. The last resort is to buy a production line and aluminum alloy smelting technology."  But buying this technology and production line is not easy. First of all, there are no more than ten countries in the world that have this technology and production line, and even fewer are willing to sell it.  After all, selling eggs is more profitable than selling the hens that lay them.

    But, as you say, hard work pays off.  After the little devil spread the word, someone actually came to contact him.  Only this time it¡¯s not a certain country, but Boeing.

    What Boeing wants to buy to the little devil is the production line of the P-26 fighter jet, the prototype of the civilian 22-type fighter jet.  The P26 fighter jet is a tragedy. After Boeing spent a huge amount of research money in 1932 to develop the most advanced P26 fighter jet in the early 1930s, the Boeing Department was only symbolic.Ordered more than a hundred aircraft - these aircraft were purchased during peacetime to train pilots, but this number is not enough to satisfy the airlines.

    Domestic isolationism is serious, and Boeing has no choice but to enter the international market. However, in the past three years, only Spain has bought a display aircraft.  Is it serious to start construction? Is it possible that this model will pay a lot of money?

    On the other hand, this copycat version of the P26, the Min-22 fighter jet that the Nanjing government resold to the international arms market, has become very popular. Not to mention Asia, even Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other countries in the Americas have asked the Nanjing government to purchase the Min-22.  Type 22 fighter jets, several South American countries are now equipped with hundreds of civilian Type 22 fighter jets.

    ¡°Boeing can¡¯t imagine why there is such a huge gap in sales between aircraft with similar performance.

    Countries that buy Min-22 fighter jets also have their own reasons. First, the Min-22 fighter jets sold by the Nanjing government are cheap.  A Boeing P26 costs $100,000.  The Nanjing government sells two Min-22 fighter jets for US$100,000.  For aircraft with similar performance, whether to buy one with higher combat effectiveness or two with higher combat effectiveness is something you can figure out even if you haven¡¯t been in elementary school.

    Boeing said that US$50,000 per aircraft is just enough to cover the cost of the aircraft, okay? Who should our R&D funds be passed on to?  Copycats and such are really abominable.

    Secondly, buying Boeing's P26 requires foreign exchange. If you don't have pounds, you need US dollars, or you can directly discount it for gold.  But the Nanjing government has no such problem. It has no money to discount things, such as rice, flour, cocoa, coffee, refined oil, asphalt, tobacco, cigars, wool, and leather goods.  That's what people want. Anyway, the Nanjing government will definitely not lose money when it comes in and out.  There is nothing that the country¡¯s population of more than 400 million to 500 million cannot eat.

    "However, Boeing does not deal in agricultural products, so this is not troublesome enough.

    Finally, there is the Nanjing government's matching sales. Those countries do not buy separate aircraft, but all sea, air, land and air equipment are sold together. The Nanjing government even said that after you get familiar with buying cruisers today, we can also sell you battleships.  If you buy an airplane today, we can sell you an aircraft carrier after you train excellent pilots.  The Nanjing government sells arms purely for trade, without technical blockade or political demands.

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    ??The most important thing for Boeing is that more than three years have passed.  In the 1930s, when aircraft technology advanced by leaps and bounds, the P26 fighter jet was no longer advanced enough in the mid-1930s.  What is certain is that the P26 fighter jet is destined to be outdated and eliminated in a few years.

    ¡°Boeing, which couldn¡¯t sell it anyway, heard that the kid wanted to buy the production line for the monoplane fighter, so it immediately sent people to negotiate. Now that it¡¯s not a big loss to dispose of the production line and inventory, it might be possible to make a small profit.  After a few years, when the P26 is completely outdated, the P26 model will really lose all its money.

    As for aviation aluminum alloy technology, it depends on whether the money given is enough. Anyway, aviation aluminum alloy technology will be ruined in a few years.

    When the two sides talked, the little devil almost exploded.  Black, too dark, this Boeing company is very dark at heart.

    The condition put forward by Boeing is that it must first buy the fifty P26 fighter jets and accessories for the fifty P26 fighter jets that Boeing has in stock.  Then the assembly line and aviation aluminum alloy technology are accounted for separately.  It¡¯s not too much. These two items are roughly equivalent to the price of 100 P26 fighter jets.

    How much is that? Is it thirty million US dollars?  Although the U.S. dollar has been devalued somewhat from silver, it is still worth 80 million yen (not only has the U.S. dollar depreciated recently, the Japanese have issued additional yen to make up for the fiscal deficit due to their military expansion.  The yuan has also depreciated).

    How much is 80 million yen? The Mutsu battleship cost only 100 million yen before the yen depreciated.  Nowadays, the monthly salary of domestic workers is only a few tens of yen a month.  One yen can buy you a whole day in a big city like Tokyo, with plenty of food and drink.

    The negotiators of the Little Devil immediately said, absolutely not.  Besides, if we already have production lines and technology, why should we buy high-priced aircraft and accessories? We only want to buy Boeing¡¯s production lines and technology, and the package price is eight million US dollars.  Any more and you¡¯ll have no money.

    The two sides had differences here, and negotiations continued on and off for three months.  In the end, after repeated discussions between the little devil's public relations staff and Boeing's negotiators, cigarettes, alcohol, banquets, and peach traps, the decision was made.

    The Boeing representative who was tested by alcohol finally stuck to his principle and said that the aircraft, accessories, production lines and technology must be packaged and sold.  But the price can be negotiated, and it revealed Boeing's bottom line. Package sales are certain, and the aircraft and accessories cost at least US$8 million.The base price for the package of gold, technology and production lines is also the same, a total of 16 million US dollars.

    This time the little devil breathed a sigh of relief. Although the price was not low, it was still within the range that could be considered.  If it weren't for the Nanjing government's ban on sales to the hostile little devils, the little devils would all want to buy the Nanjing government's Min-22 fighter jets.  Although the little devil's foreign exchange is extremely tight, he still has some reserves - a 300 million gold ruble loan from Tsarist Russia that had no designated purpose.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to become a registered member of Piaotian Literature to recommend this work. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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