Glorious Mission 1937

The five aircraft production lines that Chen Feng exchanged for at a large price have now been put into production, although due to the problem of raw materials, the output in the past two months is only about half of the designed production capacity, and only 5 fighters have been produced so far.However, this number is already astonishing. Even Germany, which is now feared by countries such as Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, has an annual output of only about 810 fighter jets. It is also 1500 times the annual output of France.

Compared with Japan, this output is already amazing. Now Japan’s annual production of aircraft is only 1400. Even if the raw material problem of the eighth war zone can’t be solved, four months of production at this speed will be more than the annual output of the Japanese army. More than 200 more.However, Chen Feng also knew that the production advantage was only temporary. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army's aircraft production would have a huge increase, and its annual production could even reach an annual production capacity of [-] aircraft.

But Chen Feng wasn't worried either. The Air Force is not a branch of the air force because it has a large number of fighters, it depends on the quality of the fighters.Just like this Wuhan battle, the national government had more than 300 fighters, while Japan had only more than 700, which was only a little more than half of the national government.However, because the Japanese army had more than ten of the latest Zero fighters, the National Government lost nearly 600 fighters in this battle, while the Japanese army was only shot down 240. This is the gap.

现在第八战区装备的伊15、16战斗机性能确实不如日军的零式战斗机，但是新生产的歼5和歼6战斗机却要比日军的零式战斗机先进两代左右，其性能已经全方位超越了零式战斗机。即便是只有100架也要比1000架零式战斗机的战斗力更为强大。

Moreover, now that the Eighth War Zone has built three new heavy industrial zones, the problem of raw materials can be solved in half a year at most, so Chen Feng is not worried at all that his air force will be inferior to the Japanese army. [

However, due to the installation of new fighter jets, most of the old fighter jets will face the embarrassing situation of being eliminated. Therefore, how to deal with the remaining 600 Iraqi-15 and 16 fighter jets in the eighth war zone has become a problem. In addition, the 500 fighter jets that Chen Feng ordered from the Soviet Union There are still 16 Iraqi-200 fighters that have not been delivered, which means that there are more than 800 fighters in Chen Feng's hands to continue processing.After much deliberation, Chen Feng decided to talk to Lao Jiang. It would be best if he could take over everything.

Lao Jiang was overjoyed when he received a telegram from the eighth war zone.When I really fell asleep, someone brought me a pillow.After two battles in Wuhan, the Air Force of the Nationalist Government was left with only an empty frame. Only 26 fighter planes in the entire army could still fly normally, and the rest were all scrap iron.

For this reason, Lao Jiang deliberately sent a request to the Soviet Union for help.It is hoped that the Soviet government can support some more fighters.But the Soviet Union was busy with European affairs.So he rejected the request from the national government. Unexpectedly, Chen Feng was willing to sell fighter planes to the national government, and he sold 300 of them.

得到康泽的证实之后。老蒋立即派来300名飞行员北上，以每架战机5万美元的价格向第八战区购走伊15、16战斗机各150架，另外还想陈锋预定了300架。

Chen Feng not only wanted to let the Soviets know the secrets of the new fighter jets, so he proposed to Stalin to gradually reduce the number of Soviet pilots in the Eighth Theater. The reason was that the number of pilots in the Northern Air Force had exceeded 4000, and the task of Soviet pilots as instructors had been completed. .

More importantly, the casualties of the pilots were too heavy, and he couldn't bear to let more Soviet pilots die in China.These words are not adulterated at all. Since 38, the Soviet Union has supported the eighth war zone with a total of 726 pilots, including 1 major general, 4 colonels, 12 lieutenant colonels, and 54 majors.However, after a year and a half of fighting, there are only 483 pilots who aided China, and 74 of them were injured to the point of disability, and the casualty rate reached 44%.

Even though the dead were all from the Soviet Union, Chen Feng still couldn't bear it. After all, they all died for the cause of China's war of resistance. Therefore, Chen Feng has never been stingy in terms of pensions. Each family of the war dead will receive 1 yuan. US dollar pension, the injured will receive a pension of 1000 US dollars. This pension standard is much higher than the average standard of the Eighth War Zone, and higher than the national government's casualty pension standard.

The reason why he gave such a high pension is entirely because the family members of these Soviets are in the distant Soviet Union. Apart from using money as his condolences to the families of the Soviet men who died on the Chinese battlefield, he cannot give them more. Much care.The soldiers in the Eighth War Zone are different. As long as they are soldiers in the Eighth War Zone, after they die, in addition to receiving pensions, their families will also enjoy many preferential policies, such as free schooling for their children, and priority for adult children. Work, exemption or reduction of taxes at home, etc.

The matter of the air force was done like this, and then Chen Feng turned his attention to the South Pacific. Now the Australians are still on the way, and Yan Changxi and others are also on the way.The Australians came to China to obtain penicillin production technology and equipment, while Yan Changxi and others came to China to accept the territory.

Now that the island purchase plan has been successful, the next question is how to develop and utilize these two islands. According to Chen Feng's idea, of course, the seaport should be built first as the base of the navy, and then a large number of docks and industrial plants should be built on the island. , Produce weapons and equipment, warships, aircraft, etc. on the island.

However, there are a lot of problems that need to be solved. The first is how to ensure the safety of the island. Although the Australian government has promised to protect New Guinea and Tasmania for three years, the factory does not believe it. Australia's strength, with their mere [-] army and that insignificant naval fleet, couldn't stop the Japanese at all.If the Japanese army wanted to forcibly attack these two islands, the only thing Australia could do was protest verbally. Chen Feng did not think that Australia had the strength to protect these two islands.

The second is where to find raw materials for the factory, how to solve the problems of workers, equipment can be purchased from the United States, but it is not easy to solve, first of all, New Guinea is almost a desert island that has not been developed, and there are only a few hundred thousand on the island. Population, almost no heavy industry, the only developed mineral resources are two small iron mines and three copper mines, and there is nothing else.

More importantly, there are only a few 10 people on the island. When it is learned that Australia will sell the two islands, some of the population will definitely move out. By then, the population on the island will exceed 30. It is already very good. Without the population, there will be no labor force. If there is no labor force, where can workers come from? Without workers, it is impossible to talk about opening factories and developing islands.

After thinking for two days, Chen Feng finally decided to wait until the Australian government delegation arrived in Guisui. After all, he was not very clear about the situation on these two islands, so he couldn't make a perfect development strategy.

On October 10, the Australian delegation finally arrived in Guisui. They first arrived in Hong Kong by warship, then arrived in Chongqing by plane, and finally arrived in Guisui by connecting plane. In order to prevent the Japanese army from intercepting them, the British government and the Australian government jointly gave the Send a diplomatic message, hoping that the Japanese government can restrain the army on the Chinese battlefield and not affect normal trade exchanges.

This time the leader of the team was still the Minister of Finance of the Australian government, Arthur, and Chen Feng received Arthur and others with the highest etiquette.Arthur and others came to China this time mainly for three things. The first thing was to bring the production equipment and production process of penicillin drugs to Australia.The second thing is to visit the territory of the Chen family in China.The third thing is to personally have a meeting with Chen Feng, the leader of the Chen family, to find out who is a hero, and to see how he plans to be a neighbor with Australia.

The production equipment and process Chen Feng has already prepared. This set of equipment was made by Chen Feng to the factory below. According to the process flow, pure penicillin can indeed be produced, but the output is not very high. The annual output of pure penicillin does not exceed five tons. , In addition, the formula of the drug is not presented.

It is a well-known fact that the output of penicillin is not high. Australia and other countries have already known this. The production of 10 tons is far beyond their expectations. Moreover, this production line is not very complicated, as long as it is carried out according to its specifications If it is imitated, the production capacity will be increased by ten or twenty times soon.

However, the formula of that drug baffled Australia. They also knew that there were 35 types of penicillin drugs sold by Chen Feng. Repeated requests, and at the cost of Australia's full cooperation with Chen Feng's department in taking over the two islands, they finally got 1 liquid and 2 oral clinical drug formulas from Chen Feng. [

In the next five days, accompanied by Yang Yi and others, Arthur and his group visited Baotou Heavy Industry Zone and Guisui Light Industry Zone, and also visited the guard division of the Eighth War Zone. Arthur was extremely surprised, the strength of Chen Feng's troops exceeded their expectations.

The most profound impact on him was the huge iron and steel plant in Baotou Heavy Industry Zone. According to the Chinese officials accompanying the visit, the iron and steel plant can produce 500 million tons of refined steel and 1500 million tons of iron a year. Surprised, this is equivalent to two years of Australia's steel production.

In addition, the well-equipped and powerful army also greatly shocked the Australian delegation. They originally intended that China, which was bullied by Japan's Marunokuni, must be extremely unbearable, but now they have seen that the Chinese army is not only not Rubbish, but surprisingly good, surprisingly powerful.What surprised Arthur even more was that Colonel Johnson, the deputy chief of staff of the National Defense Forces who came with him, told him that with this one division alone, the Chinese could sweep the whole of Australia!

What he saw and heard made Arthur feel very uneasy about this family that was about to become a neighbor in Australia, so Arthur requested to have a meeting with Chen Feng as soon as possible. He wanted to know what kind of purpose Chen Feng had for being a neighbor with Australia. ! (to be continued...)