Glorious Mission 1937

The U.S. government intervened, so the transaction between Huaxia Arms and the British government went smoothly. On March 1940, 3, the British government urgently placed an order for 28 infantry divisions from Huaxia Arms, and hoped that Huaxia Arms would The company delivered the munitions to the British government within a month.

However, to the surprise of the British government, the Huaxia Arms Company not only accepted the orders, but also informed the British government that they could go to Los Angeles to receive the equipment at any time, but the price of the Huaxia Arms Company was higher than that of ordinary companies.

To be honest, if it wasn't for the fact that the British government really didn't want to make this transaction with Huaxia Arms Company, it wasn't because of the price, but because the British government didn't believe in the product quality of Huaxia Arms Company.Before, they only knew that Huaxia Arms Company had a batch of weapons and equipment in stock, but they didn't know the specific model and quantity.

The news provided by the U.S. government is that the weapons and equipment produced by Huaxia Arms Company are completely self-produced and sold, and will not be sold to the outside world. Based on the equipment of the Chinese military, the weapons produced by Huaxia Arms Company should be German Mauser (official) 1924 Type rifles and Japanese Meiji 38-type rifles, pistols should be Mauser shell guns and Japanese Southern Type 11 pistols, machine guns should be Japanese Taisho [-]-year (crooked handle) light machine guns and Type [-] heavy machine guns, as for mortars Also a Japanese six zero mortar.

但是当华夏军火公司将公司的库存的武器清单交给英国政府的时候他们惊呆了，毛瑟98k步枪、捷克式轻机枪、马克沁重机枪、汤普森冲锋枪、m1911手枪、龙一（79式）型狙击步枪、六零轻迫击炮、八零中迫击炮、m43型120重迫击炮、克虏伯75mm山炮、m101重榴弹炮、日制甜瓜式手雷、m15反坦克地雷，除了没有高射机枪和轻重坦克装甲车之外。所有轻重武器应有尽有，而且里面绝大多数的武器装备都是新式武器以及各国制式装备，性能很先进。

The ecstatic British immediately formed a military expert group on the spot, and rushed to the headquarters of the Huaxia Arms Company in Los Angeles to receive weapons and equipment. Contrary to the expectations of the British government, if the Huaxia Arms Company can deliver the goods immediately, they can transport the goods away at any time.

交货当然没问题了，但是本公司概不赊账。按照英国政府的订单。20个整编师，每个师11200支步枪、1950支手枪、320挺轻重机枪、800支狙击步枪、1200支冲锋枪、36门克虏伯山炮、72门轻迫击炮、36门重迫击炮、36门野战重炮，另外还有手雷10万枚、普通地雷1万枚、反坦克步兵雷5000枚，再加上5个基数的弹药配置。全部武器装备加起来每个师的足足需要580万美元。

This is not counting the supporting hundreds of military heavy trucks.The British government's order is as high as 1.2 million US dollars.Therefore, Huaxia Arms Company asked the British government to pay first before receiving the goods.

Although the British government was very unhappy, people had to bow their heads under the roof.Now the Germans have reached the opposite side of the English Channel. Every day, a large number of German planes go to the UK to bomb. It can be said that without weapons and equipment, the British cannot stop the German army from invading. Although they know that each division has 580 The price of [-] US dollars is a bit expensive, and paying in advance is not in line with the status of the British Empire, but the British government finally succumbed.

After receiving the remittance notice from Citibank, Huaxia Arms Company immediately shipped the goods, and a large number of military vehicles transported boxes of sealed weapons and equipment to the coast of Los Angeles, and then shipped them to the sea for the UK.

In addition to weapons and equipment, the British government also made a request to Huaxia Company to purchase medicines.Before the Australian government was also authorized by the Chen family to produce penicillin, so Chen Feng handed over all the British market to the Australian government.

Under normal circumstances, the annual production of 1000 tons of penicillin by the Australian government can fully meet the needs of the United Kingdom, but once the war breaks out, the number of casualties is calculated in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands every day. What can the Australian government do with that little production? In desperation, the British government also asked the Chen family for help.

Chen Feng did not refuse the British government's request, and it was a good thing for Chen Feng. Not only could he not refuse, but he had to be served with good wine and good food. The customer is God. This sentence is a business worker no matter what the era of good words.

The British are gone, but the French are here. Don’t look at the French who are crying because they are beaten by the Germans, but they are an old western capitalist power after all. They have a deep foundation, and they are the weapons and equipment of 30 divisions. .

Of course rich Chen Feng would not refuse anyone who came, the old rule is to pay first and then pick up the goods.However, France is not as straightforward as the United Kingdom. The French government proposes to pay half of the payment first, and ask for the rest within one year.This pit is huge, Chen Feng knows that the French government can't support it for a long time, if they give them credit, it won't know how long it takes to get the money back.After that guy de Gaulle came to power, he might not admit to this account, so Chen Feng decisively rejected the French government's request.

In desperation, the French government had no choice but to turn its target to the US government again, hoping that Roosevelt would come forward to intercede for the French government.The U.S. government played the glorious role of a broker again, but this time Huaxia Arms Company did not give Roosevelt any face, but after all, his company is on other people's territory, and the necessary explanations have to be given, so Chen Feng personally sent Roosevelt He sent a telegram, bluntly saying that France could not last long, not even half a month.

Chen Feng's meaning is very straightforward. If he only has half of the funds, he can only sell weapons and equipment to 15 French infantry divisions.But if the U.S. government is willing to protect France, he can sell equipment to 30 French divisions, provided that the Americans are willing to be the guarantor.

However, although the U.S. government does not believe that France, a traditional big country, will be as vulnerable as Chen Feng said, the U.S. government also believes that the French government cannot end this war in a short time, so it is unwilling to guarantee France. In the end, the French government Only 8250 divisions of weapons and equipment were purchased from Huaxia Arms Company for US$15 million.

During this period of time, good things continued for Chen Feng. The outbreak of a world war not only made Huaxia Arms Company a success, but also improved China's international status.Both Britain, France and the United States and the Soviet Union have now seen the important role of China, especially the Soviet Union.The strength of the German army made the Soviets very disturbed. Although there was the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", both Stalin and Hitler knew very well that as long as the other party wanted, it was just a piece of paper that could be torn apart at any time. It's just waste paper.

Although the Germans are now in Western Europe, their guns are also aimed at Britain and France.However, the powerful fighting power of the German Army shocked the Soviets. Compared with the German Army, the Soviets found that the Soviet Red Army they were proud of was actually a scum.

It took the Germans 28 days to defeat Poland, and then it took 4 hours to force Denmark to surrender. Then it took more than 20 days to defeat Norway, Luxembourg surrendered without a fight, and Portugal was defeated in four days.

The Soviet Union also launched a war of aggression against Finland at the end of 39, but to the embarrassment of the Soviet leadership, the war lasted for nearly four months, and the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses, but they still could not force the Finnish government to surrender.

Although the Soviet Union declared so far, the Red Army suffered 207608 casualties in the Winter War, of which 48745 were killed and 158863 were injured.But Chen Feng knew that this report was just a propaganda method of the Soviet Union, and it did not reflect the actual casualties of the Soviet Red Army at that time, it was a greatly reduced data. In 1970, Khrushchev, the former general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, mentioned the losses of the Soviet Red Army in the Winter War in his secret published personal memoir "Memoirs of Khrushchev" and said, "We lost millions of dollars. people".

In this war, the Soviet Union's resistance to Finland was underestimated.Before the war, the former Soviet Union believed that Finland was a small country with weak national strength, weak military power, and unpopular government. Once the Soviet Union sent troops, the Finnish people would respond, thus ending the war in a short time.

This kind of miscalculation led to the hasty dispatch of troops by the Soviet Red Army, paralysis and underestimation of the enemy, insufficient preparation, and failure to invest decisive forces at the beginning of the war: Finland concentrated 13 people and 500 guns on the main battlefield, while the Soviet Union only invested 20 people And 900 guns, although there were 1 tanks, they were not used properly, but suffered heavy losses. The Soviet army did not prepare the equipment for fighting in the forest in winter, and used a large number of combat vehicles. Will freeze, causing a disastrous failure for the 24st attack.

In addition, the Sufen border is crisscrossed with lakes, dense forests, sparsely populated, inconvenient transportation, and severe cold climate.It is not conducive to the actions of the Soviet Red Army with heavy equipment and large forces, but suitable for the use of light equipment and small forces by the Finnish army.The Soviet army that participated in the Winter War was mainly composed of troops from the south, unsuited to the Finnish winter cold and fighting in the forest.

The Soviet Union fought this battle for four months, but they did not defeat the Finns. Although under the coordination of the Swedish government, the Finnish government was forced to surrender to the Soviets, and the Finns were forced to give up 10% of their land as a price. This war is over.

Although the Soviets won the final victory in terms of the results of the war, the top Soviet leaders were extremely dissatisfied with the performance of the Soviet Red Army.This is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods. Compared with the German Wehrmacht, the Soviet Red Army is like an army composed of beggars, which is far behind! (To be continued..)