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"Manganese, chromium, nickel?"

"These are prohibited materials!"

In Shimen, an important town that the Pinghan-Han line passes through, a group of Japanese guards inspected a caravan with a Locust Army background and found that all the goods transported were prohibited materials.

Rare materials needed for metal smelting.

and, some chemicals used to make propellants.

And there are a lot of them.

The chemicals alone totaled more than ten tons, and the remaining metal materials weighed up to fifty tons.

If it's a little material, forget it, they can turn a blind eye. After all, the purpose is to make money, and there's no problem in selling some prohibited materials.

But if the people behind such a large-scale transportation of prohibited materials are not big enough...
"This is the order from the male superior."

The Japanese merchant responsible for the escort is Yutaro Shiratori.

Shiratori Yuei's cousin.

"Male senior colonel?"

The face of the inspecting Japanese officer changed.

Although I don’t know the background of this male superior, he is a popular figure in the base camp. In just six months, he was promoted from lieutenant to colonel. He was jointly recommended by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance to form a commercial department.

Control all the empire's companies in North China, and the military-controlled businesses earn money for the empire.

Such a person...
"Let go."

The Japanese inspection officer waved his hand to let him go.

For such a person, transporting just a few dozen tons of prohibited materials is naturally not a problem.

···
"Dozens of tons of prohibited military supplies?"

Soon.

Shimen.

In the economics department office, Suzuki Fanji received the news.

Ogami transported dozens of tons of prohibited military materials, including rare metal materials and military chemicals, to enemy-controlled areas.

"idiot."

Suzuki Fanji could only curse Baga.

Although it is a serious prohibited material, even though it weighs dozens of tons and is placed on the head of an ordinary colonel, it is enough to be seen in a military court and enough to commit seppuku, but Ogami is not good enough.

Nan Shangzhi's business department, like his economics class, is directly responsible for the base camp.

In other words, let alone him, not even Commander Okamura of the North China Front, or even General Shunroku Hata of the China Expeditionary Force, had no authority to deal with Ogami.

It must be reported to the base camp before it can be processed.

Will the base camp deal with male Shangzhi for just a few dozen tons of supplies?
Not to mention dozens of tons, even Ogami transports dozens of tons of prohibited materials to the enemy every day, as long as his business department can bring enough profits to the empire.

Bring enough dollars.

No problem either.

What the base camp cares about now is not whether it can capture the Tubal Road base, or in other words, it has even given up on the North China Military Station plan.

Because there is no hope.

How to deal with Tubal Road, which has terrifyingly abundant food and supplies, millions of human resources, and a total strength of more than 1.5 million including militia troops?

Moreover.

So what if we take over North China?
Is there oil here?

Is there any iron ore here?

Is there any rubber here?

nothing.

The base camp only cares about whether it can obtain enough funds, purchase enough supplies, machinery and equipment, and enhance the empire's combat effectiveness, so that it can go south and obtain enough resources.

The plan of the base camp is probably to wait for the empire to occupy Southeast Asia, obtain enough resources, and develop enough advanced weapons before dealing with the Tubal Road in North China.

only···
Does this plan work?

Suzuki Fanji didn't think much about it.

This is not his thing.

It's not something that a major like him should worry about.

"Someone is coming."

He called his men.

If he wants to be promoted to lieutenant general or even general, he must find ways to obtain more funds financially and gain more benefits for the empire.

···
"The casualties are too great."

It’s also a stone gate.

North China Front Army Headquarters.

Okamura Neji's voice trembled:

“The loss is too great.”

After the railway line near Shuijing Town was destroyed and supplies became more difficult, the North China Front's losses further intensified.

In just two weeks, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed or injured.

Casualties exceeded a thousand almost every day.

Although most of them were minor injuries, there were still more than 200 broken pieces and more than 150 serious injuries every day, which meant that the actual number of casualties was 350 people every day.

Three hundred and fifty people, for an army of 150,000, were very few.

But you must know that the current situation is actually a low- to medium-intensity battle.

The Locust Army attacks in squadron or even squad-level units, and the number is maintained at about ten times a day.

Tubalu seems to be training new troops as well. Their tactics are almost complete defense based on position, and they rarely launch counterattacks. They only occasionally launch counterattacks and encirclements, and each time the target is at the squad level.

But after fourteen days, the number of offensive troops under his command exceeded 2,300, and the number of troops was reduced by more than 4,500.

It is expected that this war will continue until summer.

It may even continue like this for a long time and forever, until the empire can no longer obtain funds from North China.

Such casualties,

Almost 5,000 people are lost every month, and 10,000 people are lost.

The empire cannot afford this.

Not to mention, in the future, as the strength of Tubal Road increases, they will inevitably launch a counterattack. If the Locust Army wants to block these counterattacks, it will inevitably pay a considerable price.

"Report."

Just when Ningji Okamura was worried about the huge casualties, a staff officer rushed in:
"Report from General Ghana Junzheng."

"Read!"

Okamura Neji's expression changed.

Ghana Shunzheng, North China Front Army Aviation Brigade Headquarters.

"This morning, our brigade dispatched fifteen bombers, escorted by fifteen fighter jets, and took advantage of complicated weather to launch an air attack on the enemy's frontline material distribution center."

"The purpose is to destroy the material distribution center in Nanzhen and blow up the Tubal truck fleet entrenched in Nanzhen."

Tubal Truck Team···
Hearing this, Okamura Neji showed envy.

According to information obtained by the intelligence department, the ten-wheel military heavy-duty truck named Taihang 100 model truck by Tubal Road has extremely powerful transportation capabilities.

In the case of tires that are as tall as a person, because a large amount of aluminum alloy materials and even titanium alloy materials are used, the empty weight is only 30 tons.

The engine horsepower reached 750 horsepower.

Standard load capacity is sixty-five tons.

On flat hardened roads, the standard load capacity reaches one hundred tons.

Of course, this is not what Okamura Neji envies the most.

What makes him jealous the most is that this kind of equipment can transport 65 tons of supplies to a supply base 300 kilometers away every day.

Because this kind of truck, even for high-intensity cross-country transportation, is fully loaded with 65 tons of materials and can be transported at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour on muddy roads.

Failure only occurs once every eighty hours.

And it can be repaired quickly.

Not to mention Imperial trucks, even American trucks, if fully loaded and traveling off-road, the average breakdown would be as high as two hours each time.

The gap is so huge that it's disappointing.

If he were given 150 of these Taihang trucks, he would be able to solve the current serious transportation problem of the Locust Army and completely stabilize the situation.

And Tubal Road,

There are over six hundred Taihang trucks.

"All planes were shot down by Tubal Road."

After the staff officer finished speaking, he lowered his head deeply.

"Nani?" Okamura Neji suddenly stood up.

He knew the attack plan this time.

In fact, we did not want to destroy the frontline supply center and truck convoy on Tubal Road.

Tubal Road's J-1 fighter has a level flight speed of more than 840 kilometers, a maximum flight altitude of 13,000 meters, a range of 3,000 kilometers, and is equipped with four 20mm cannons.

The advanced performance made the Locust Army despair.

No Locust fighter can match it.

However, Tubal Road has insufficient numbers of such aircraft, or in other words, insufficient pilots. According to the confidential information of T&G, there are only ten deployed on the front line.

Therefore, his plan was to place the aircraft on the front line, rely on complicated weather, conceal and quickly dispatch aircraft to bomb, and then retreat quickly, without giving Tubal Road time to pursue.

This bombing can affect the material supply of Tubal Road to a certain extent and reduce the pressure on the front line.

According to information from the intelligence department, there was a radar on Tubal Road that could detect flying targets in the air, so he took advantage of the complicated and cloudy weather to go out.

but··

"How come none of them came back?"

Okamura Neji was in disbelief.

Although the thirty imperial planes are all old-fashioned planes, they are all deployed only forty kilometers away from Nanzhen, and the airport is only ten kilometers away from the front line.

The round trip is only eighty kilometers.
The time before and after the bombing will not exceed twenty minutes.

Could it be.

Tubalu shot down thirty of his planes with ten planes in just twenty minutes under complex weather and cloud conditions.

"According to reports from frontline soldiers, they discovered a large number of Imperial aircraft wreckage."

The staff officer could only say this.

"It seems..."

Okamura Neji smiled bitterly:
"Their radar technology is more advanced than we imagined."

The clouds are thick today.

They are all cumulonimbus clouds.

Attacking aircraft can easily hide in the clouds and avoid pursuit.

Clouds can also weaken enemy radar tracking.

Logically speaking, Tubal Road could not destroy all the planes, but the result was... Thirty planes, none of them came back.

Based on this calculation, there is only one possibility. Their radar can effectively detect targets even in bad weather and even in the face of cumulonimbus clouds.

"technology··"

Okamura Neji was speechless.

This bombing actually had another purpose, which was to test the technology of Tubal Road and the performance of the aircraft, so as to provide technical support for the research and development of the empire's next-generation aircraft.

Each aircraft is equipped with a camera to obtain the aerodynamic shape of the enemy aircraft.

Unexpectedly, none of them came back alive.

"Command all front-line regiments."

Gangcun ordered:
"Reclaim the Imperial Plane Wreck."

The Imperial Weapons Research Department needs the appearance of enemy aircraft to improve the Empire's aircraft.

Since the Special High Technology Department cannot obtain it, they can only rely on aerial photography.

"Hi."

The staff immediately began to implement it.

···
"How many?"

The next day.

Northern Review.

Business Class Office.

Matsuzaki Naoto asked Ogami nervously.

They took huge risks to transport prohibited materials to the enemy, and they were prohibited materials that could be used to produce weapons and ammunition, as well as other materials, including ink, special metal materials, etc., totaling more than 1,500 tons of various materials.

In order to transport these materials, they even mobilized train transportation.

The purpose is to make enough profits.

If the profit is insufficient, then he will inevitably be liquidated.

"The other party paid in U.S. dollars."

"In the past week, we transported materials and made a total profit of US$3.5 million."

A Japanese officer in the economics class reported statistical profit data.

"Three and a half million dollars."

Matsuzaki Naoto suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and even became happy.

In his opinion, as long as there is a profit of one million US dollars, not only will he not be held accountable, he will even receive rewards.

Unexpectedly, he ended up with $3.5 million.

You know, the US$3.5 million here is profit, and the US$1 million he expected is income.

"With current transportation capabilities."

Ono Shangzhi said calmly:

“We can increase our weekly trading volume by five times, which is $18 million a week, or $85 million a month.”

"Eighty-five million dollars."

Matsuzaki Naoto swallowed his throat.

$85 million a month,

That’s close to a billion dollars a year.

What a terrible income is this?

According to the confidential information he learned, in order to develop industry on a large scale, the imperial budget this year is 20 billion yen, which is three times the amount of less than 7 billion yen last year.

Calculated at one to four U.S. dollars and yen, that's five billion U.S. dollars, and the empire's gross national product is only about two hundred and four billion U.S. dollars.

In other words, this batch of transactions alone can generate revenue equivalent to one-fifth of the empire's finances.

"Yoshi."

Matsuzaki Naoto was overjoyed.

This time, let alone Suzuki Fanji, not even Okamura Neji, or even Hata Shunroku could organize their business class.

The base camp will even order the North China Front to assist them in transporting supplies.

After all, nearly 30,000 tons of supplies are shipped every month. Without the help of the military, it would be difficult to transport them.

As for whether there will be anyone organizing it at the base camp.

It is absolutely impossible.

A billion-dollar-a-year profit trade.

There is no way the Prime Minister can stand in the way.

····
Water waist.

"Ha ha··"

Zhang Wanhe laughed heartily.

"Things went well?"

asked the head of economic and industrial development in the base area.

"More than successful."

"Although we have raw material factories, machinery and equipment, it will take one year at the earliest, and we will not be able to officially provide raw materials until June next year."

"But now, it is expected that we can obtain 8,000 tons of various raw materials and materials every month. With these materials, our production line can be initially put into operation."

"Although it can only produce some bullets, submachine guns, and rifles, it can still meet the basic needs of the troops."

"And the most important thing is, with these supplies, we can train skilled workers a year in advance."

"One year!"

"One year!"

The person in charge of economic and industrial development of the base area (Qian Vice President) also sounded excited.

He knew that this year was a short time for industrial development.

However, you must know that this year, there are some technical experts who teach the technology step by step with five belts and one. With the ability of those experts, in fact, one can gain five years of experience in one year.

Training 50,000 is equivalent to having skilled workers for five years

A mere billion dollars is a steal. (End of chapter)