afterglow

Chapter 267 German Proposal; How Are You?

The next day, the first day of April.

The spring rain in mid-spring came and went without a sound. When the most diligent citizens woke up from their sleep, they realized that it had rained half the night last night.

Although the air is fresh, the streets are extremely humid. Puddles of water have accumulated in places with poor infrastructure, and the delicate bamboo shoots seem to have grown half a fist overnight.

"At 6 o'clock in Nanjing time, convective clouds slowly moved northward in the west and south of the airspace of Gaoqiao Airport. The cloud tops were 4 to 6 kilometers high, and there were scattered clouds at an altitude of 600 meters. The ground wind direction was 280, the wind speed was 4.3 meters per second, and the visibility was 17. Kilometers, the approaching flight must pay attention to the influence of airflow fluctuations, the runway is slippery..."

Due to the rapid development of civil aviation in various countries in the world in the past two years, the growth momentum of domestic and international flights is very impressive. It is no longer possible to land only two flights a day as before.

Therefore, the Daming Air Force halved the previous interval of reporting weather conditions every two hours to cope with the increasingly busy air traffic.

Two Junkers Ju-52 passenger planes carrying more than [-] diplomatic personnel from the German Embassy emerged from the clouds, descended slowly, aligned with the runway, and landed with the nose slightly tilted for landing.

In addition to the regular turnover of embassy staff, the Germans also intend to open negotiations on trade issues.

The sudden drop in the import of rare metals has significantly affected the industrial production of Deutschland, and some factories have to apply for the use of rare metal stocks in strategic reserves in order to maintain production.

Excluding a few people who shouldered important responsibilities, the remaining fourteen men and five women were all transferred to the German Society's embassy in Daming for rotation, which was considered a routine routine.

Among the ranks of military attaches, the chief military attache is Maj. Gen. Justus Kohler.The Stasi Reconnaissance Directorate changed the identity of Chris Richter to a financial professional technical major of the Army General Staff, and came together as a technical military attache in this capacity.

Of course, the actual task is naturally to engage in intelligence collection, compilation, and collation.

Even though everyone knows the truth of "distance from distance and close attack", the differences in ideology still gave these Germans special treatment-as soon as the plane landed, the agents of the foreign police factory came over and did not allow them to move around without authorization.

For native speakers of Germanic languages, it is almost impossible to master Chinese in a few months.

Looking at the huge Chinese vocabulary on the signboard, Chrissy's recognition mode is almost to try to recall the meaning of each word in her mind, and then piece them together one by one.

Fortunately, the basic Chinese grammar is simple and straightforward, otherwise it will only be more difficult to distinguish - because if you can't skillfully stitch the meaning of words in grammatical order, you can also not understand the meaning of words or sentences.

I don't know whether it is to save money or trouble, but the Deutschland Legation still uses the building of the legation of the German Empire.

This is a Renaissance architectural style courtyard, with two large buildings and one small building, the main color is off-white, with a unique sense of symmetry and geometric beauty in configuration; the black, red and yellow tricolor flag with a hammer and compass in the upper left corner is in the Fluttering in the breeze.

"...for the handover work, important documents must be signed, photographed and archived, and confidential documents to be destroyed must be taken to the shredder by the custodian."

Looking at the mountain of documents and excerpted notes, Chris couldn't help but be speechless—is this too much?
If I had known that coming here would be both restrictive and labor-intensive, I might as well go to Wellington or San Diego.

What I thought at the time was to be able to play outside of work, but now it seems that I have undoubtedly made a wrong decision.

Because the German Society was in a hurry, the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Rites and the Commerce Department of the Ministry of Industry quickly sent officials to participate in the talks, and the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion were no exception.

Reasonable use of the loopholes in the terms to take advantage of the loopholes is far from maliciously violating the agreement in nature. For the Ming court, which generally pays attention to the country's reputation, taking advantage of the loopholes is almost the acceptable upper limit.

The Germans roughly estimated what the Ming people wanted, and this time they brought a lot of videos and individual objects of weapons, technology, and equipment. The film alone contained two special safes.

"Bear the brunt" is the DB600 V-shaped liquid-cooled engine produced by the state-owned Stuttgart First Automobile Group (Daimler-Benz).

The left and right double-exhaust cylinders are arranged in a V-shaped 60° angle, with a displacement of 33.9L, a weight of 575kg, a bore of 150mm, and a stroke of 160mm. Each cylinder has two inlets and two rows of four valves, including one stage and one speed. Advanced supercharger, four carburetors, the maximum output power can reach 1000 horsepower.

If you don't consider the British Rolls-Royce company, this type of liquid-cooled engine from Mercedes-Benz is absolutely top-notch today.

Liquid-cooled engines and air-cooled engines have their own advantages and disadvantages, and there is no difference in overall performance-the former has a smaller frontal area and lower wind resistance, but it is very difficult to maintain; the latter is just the opposite, because it is air-cooled. To ensure the contact area with the air, the cylinder should be tiled on the front, so the appearance is round and blunt.

The Ming Air Force did not want to go all the way to the black air-cooled engine. Some people suggested that it might still need to have a usable liquid-cooled engine, so that it would be easier to build a fighter with top performance, even if its reliability and attendance rate were not good. how.

Therefore, the Air Force is preparing another way recently, which is to seek the technical source of liquid-cooled engines.

Naturally, the British would not agree. In addition to the air-cooled engines of Wright and Pratt & Whitney, the Americans only have liquid-cooled in-line engines from Allison, but they are not excellent.

Since they have already chosen to introduce foreign technology for the sake of saving trouble, they must try their best to make the best, otherwise it is better to develop it themselves.

Therefore, the Air Force has taken a fancy to the 12Y-21 liquid-cooled engine of the French company Hispano-Suiza (this is actually a Spanish company), and it is already preparing to issue a production license application.

It costs money, though.

In contrast, the chips put out by the Germans are obviously very important-the quality is good, and there is no need to spend real money.

The two parties quickly reached a consensus on this point, and the process went very smoothly.

As for other weapons and equipment, the Germans did not hide it. They generously displayed all kinds of weapons equipped by the People's Army, and even took out new gadgets that were still in the experimental stage.

新型7.92㎜重机枪、新型20㎜高射炮、新型13㎜航空机枪、新型533㎜过氧化氢鱼雷、新型20t级步兵支援坦克……

A large array of weapons, these videos, blueprints, and scaled models were placed in front of the Ming negotiators.

However, most of them are nothing rare, and only hydrogen peroxide torpedoes can attract the attention of smart people.

Although there was no Versailles peace treaty to restrict the development of heavy machine guns by the Germans, the universal machine gun was still born.

Treaty restrictions are only one of the factors that promote the development of general-purpose machine guns. People's exploration of the application of "machine guns" is also an important factor-I just want to have both fish and bear's paws, and I want a machine gun that can be used for light and heavy purposes , suitable for infantry tactics, how about you try it?
因而德国人在研发了传统的重机枪MG28以后，基于MG31（历史上的MG13）和MG30又还是折腾出了MG34通用机枪。

Because the Germans kept a high degree of secrecy about MG34, the military expedition team sent by Daming to Spain did not obtain samples, and only collected oral descriptions and some photos based on hearsay.

On the contrary, the International Brigade has used it because it has received a batch of weapons directly aided by the German Society. Zhou wrote a report in the Qixia Military Prison and specifically elaborated his evaluation. national conditions.

The military personnel who reviewed the report accepted his opinion, but now after watching the video, several military personnel present were a little shaken—nothing, only sharp ears!
With a high rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute and a weight of 12kg, it can be quickly switched between the bipod light machine gun state, tripod heavy machine gun state, and anti-aircraft anti-aircraft state. It is really excellent in terms of performance.

However, after inquiring about the technical details, they "changed their minds".

The utilization rate of raw materials is only 25%, and it takes about 50kg of high-quality steel to manufacture each piece?

The total number of parts for the whole gun is as many as 200, which is more than [-]% more than that of the Type [-] heavy machine gun.

The failure rate of continuous shooting is close to 1.5%, which is far below the 0.2% standard stipulated by the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War.

Are the Germans making guns or craft toys?
MG34 failed to catch the eyes of military personnel, but they felt that the design idea of ​​light and heavy dual-purpose machine guns was valuable.

As for the hydrogen peroxide torpedo, the Chinese representatives clearly expressed their intentions—the navy has been tossing about this for many years and it has not gone well.

Although the proposal to establish basic defense cooperation was rejected, a consensus was reached on the idea of ​​exchanging technology and machines for resources. This win-win situation made both sides feel very good.

This day was at noon on the fifth day of April. After the meeting, the two sides held a low-key lunch in a harmonious atmosphere.

"Today's report was approved, but it must be accompanied by personnel from the security department."

"okay, I get it."

The military attache of the embassy is a military intelligence officer disguised as a diplomat, which is recognized all over the world.

Although on the surface it does not restrict the personal freedom of diplomats, the imperial court obviously cannot tolerate foreign military attaches wandering around the capital, so it is mandatory to go out only when they are accompanied by agents from the foreign police factory, and the travel route must be reported in advance and cannot be changed without authorization.

Because of this, Chris has regretted it a lot now.

If the application route includes the military station, it will be rejected; if it will pass through the combat readiness warehouse, it will be rejected; if it will pass through the air defense position, it will be rejected; if it may overlook the security deployment of the Forbidden City, it will be rejected.

You can't go anywhere together, can you?Why didn't you inquire carefully at the beginning?Fortunately, I chose to come to China excitedly.

Even though protests were expressed, officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Rites still ignored them, and the answer was always:
And this thing?

It's none of our business.

Wait a second, the bosses are still researching.

Your request is inappropriate, not allowed.

Fortunately, her application yesterday was approved - she can visit the other party, but she must be accompanied by someone.

Yesterday was the last day of Zhou Changfeng's leave. He planned to fly to Tokyo tonight, but he was told that an uninvited guest was about to arrive.

Shen Yu called, "Do you know this woman?"

Zhou Changfeng was dumbfounded when he heard it, "Huh? From the embassy? German? Female?"

At the side, Xia Xiaoshi was walking with a plate of purple-red mulberries, and stopped immediately upon hearing the sound.

"Anyway, prepare yourself. After all, you are obviously a foreign affairs official, so you should be treated with courtesy. I'll be there later."

"Row."

Foreign intelligence agents visiting their own military officers by name?And it's someone like Zhou who has a "conviction".

Considering that ordinary agents might not be able to handle it, Shen Yu decided to come in person.

"Xiaoshi, don't look at me like that, I really don't know."

"Hmph!" Xia Xiaoshi waved her hand, with an expression of "I knew it", "Oh, everyone has come to the door, and you still say you don't know?"

"It's too wronged, I really don't remember it."

After half an hour.

There was a knock on the door, and Zhou Changfeng, who had been wandering in the front yard for a long time, glanced at Xia Xiaoshi, and then stepped forward to open the door.

Blue eyes, golden hair, tall stature...

In an instant, Zhou Changfeng's memory was dragged back to Talavera, in the headquarters of the [-]th Brigade, one of the two captains who took the liaison plane to deliver orders.

"Is that you?" he asked tentatively. "In Talavera?"

(End of this chapter)