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"Mr. Xizi, this time the Southwest is equal, three points are military and seven points are politics. Your focus is to win over Xiong Kewu and Liu Xianshi and use them to attack Tang Jiyao. The ultimate goal of the Nationalist Government in the Southwest is to bring this place into the Nationalist Government At the same time, all armed forces in the region are included in the youth army system. Those who are unwilling to be reorganized can leave, otherwise I will arrange for troops to enter the southwest region to attack these reactionary troops with force," Wang Zhenyu said very domineeringly.

Yang Du thought for a long time and asked: "Committee, there are two questions here. The first question is how many troops we dispatched into the southwest region, and where is the first stop? The second question is this operation. How much is the funding? After all, whether it is to win over, divide or buy, money is needed!"

Wang Zhenyu nodded and said: "This has been considered for a long time. This time the Southwest dispatched troops is more about precision than quantity, and we can't keep up with more logistical support, so after much deliberation, at most three divisions will be transferred to the Southwest, each from Sichuan. Enter with Guizhou. Specifically, I am considering Li Zhenkui of the first division and Li Pinxian of the seventh division. They will go to Sichuan, and Deng Keng of the No.14 division will go to Guizhou. So Mr. Xizi, your work is very important, you must do it Convince Xiong Kewu and Liu Xianshi to join us. As for the army under their command, I agree to give the designation of the four divisions, but like my army, the officers of these armies must be graduated from the mainland, and the management system is also under the leadership of the Military Commission. The important thing is that they will be transferred to other provinces. As for Xiong Kewu and Liu Xianshi, my opinion is to respect personal opinions. Liu Xianshi can stay as the governor of Guizhou Province, and Xiong Kewu can be transferred to the Military Commission as a member. The specific position can be arranged as a minister Anyway, our Military Commission is still putting on airs and needs high-level talents. As for Tang Jiyao, anyway, I will give the number of the second division to the Yunnan Army. Here I might as well reveal some information to you, the last of the six divisions They will all be transferred out of the Southwest, and if conditions permit, they will go to Europe as the second echelon of the expeditionary force."

Yang Du and Yang Yongtai couldn't help but gasp when they heard this, they were so cruel, it showed that they still didn't trust these non-direct descendants.

Naturally, Wang Zhenyu knew what his two advisers were thinking, just kidding, he is not a saint, why should he treat direct line and non-direct line equally in this troubled world?Didn't the great man treat the Kuomintang's uprising troops and throw them directly to North Korea?It is understandable for me to do so, and I have another idea, as long as these six divisions of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan can survive the cruel European war, then they will be my direct descendants in the future.If they are accidentally wiped out, then he will not revoke the designations of these six divisions. Wang Zhenyu will not do the method of revoking the designations of non-directed descendants at will, because in his opinion, this It is a desecration of military honor.

Yang Yongtai is different from Yang Du, he has done this kind of internal communication work more than once, so he doesn't need to ask Wang Zhenyu's request in detail about going to Henan, anyway, he is sure that he will submit an answer that satisfies Wang Zhenyu.However, the later development of the situation obviously greatly exceeded Wang Zhenyu's plan, which also made Yang Yongtai more and more important to Wang Zhenyu.

After seeing off the two great advisors, the next thing Wang Zhenyu wanted to care about was another issue.

It is very difficult to develop a navy. Firstly, Japan, a bad neighbor, has the third largest navy in the world, with a tonnage of 10,000+. Now I can’t even get a fraction of that. It is not easy to catch up with them in this tonnage ( Shipbuilding is not made of construction steel, but military steel).More importantly, according to Wang Zhenyu's observations of the naval system in the past few months, it is an existence that cannot be inserted into a needle or splashed with water.It was hard to get back the navy's personnel rights this time by borrowing one billion Chinese yuan, but it is impossible to really control the navy in less than a year.And the navy is an offensive service. After a few years, even if the tonnage finally reaches the standard, the combat level may not be comparable to that of Japan. Don't spend a lot of money to train a Beiyang navy. It's a joke.Wang Zhenyu didn't want to be a paper papermaker like Li Hongzhang, he was so worried about the Qing Dynasty, he was scolded all the time, and in the end he had to wear the hat of a national thief.Therefore, the navy was positioned by Wang Zhenyu as a diplomatic or pirate type, and the important task of China's rise was not placed on the navy.

Wang Zhenyu felt that in order to really raise China's national defense power, the most reliable way is to make great efforts to develop the air force.There are two reasons:

First, Wang Zhenyu's awe and love, or admiration, for the Air Force in later generations.This is still the credit of the US emperor. The army of the US emperor in later generations is not as large as that of North Korea, but he can control the order of the entire world. What is the reason?It is their aircraft that is a whole generation ahead of other countries.There is no more extravagant army than the U.S. Air Force. A large number of aircraft that have been ahead of the world for decades have been left in warehouses, and they have gone to war with aircraft that are only one generation ahead of other countries.In all American war movies, the one thing American soldiers who are beaten by the enemy often do is pick up the phone and ask for air support, and then the enemy is in tragedy.World War II was the most glorious era of the Air Force. Tanks and artillery, known as the king of land warfare, were just a decoration in front of the plane.After the end of World War II, airplanes became even more terrifying conventional weapons. To deal with airplanes, they could only rely on airplanes, because the technical work of flying airplanes has become a luxury for the army.However, when the First World War is currently going on, the Air Force has just entered the stage of history, and in many countries they are not even an independent service.Even in World War II, Japan did not have an independent air force, they only had army aviation and naval aviation.The indifference to emerging military services can also be said to be an important reason why Japan was more like playing suicide in World War II.It’s no wonder that the army at that time didn’t pay much attention to the air force. The performance of the aircraft at that time was really unimportant. They couldn’t even bomb the army. The biggest role was to conduct aerial reconnaissance. Not sure what to hit.That kind of trembling biplane really hit people's expectations of them, so they were naturally ignored.Historically, China paid the most attention to the air force. When the founding father, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, was still in charge of the military government in Guangzhou, he set up a separate air force system, although there were only three or two planes at that time.However, it is useless to pay attention to it. Because of the lack of a strong industrial base to support it, the performance of the Chinese Air Force during the entire War of Resistance can only be described as tragic.In addition, they also did a bad thing. In Bailonggang, Shanghai in 1937, a Chinese pilot named Shen Chonghui drove a Northrop 2e fighter jet and chose to use an airplane A Japanese warship was crashed and sank, and this tragic scene inspired the Japanese to set up a kamikaze special attack team, so the American boys began to tremble.

The second point is a very practical issue. At present, the air force is a new arm for the world. In this arm, China and the big powers are on the same starting line.Although the industrial base is not as good as others, it does not seem to need a strong industrial base to have an absolute advantage in a certain military branch. The Brazilian Football Association's management is so backward, does it not prevent Brazilian football from producing excellent forwards?Wang Zhenyu firmly believes that if he grasps well and persists, it will not be difficult to build the Chinese Air Force into a first-class air force, and a world-class air force will be the greatest capital for the rise of the Chinese nation.

Thinking of taking action, Wang Zhenyu immediately asked the attendants to find someone.

At present, there is a unit under the General Staff Headquarters called the Flight Department. This organization was established before and after the War to Protect the Nation. It has not many members and insufficient funds, so the effect is naturally not obvious.Most of its main members are friends of Feng Ru, the father of Chinese aviation: Tan Gen, Zhu Zhuquan, Zhu Zhaohuai and Situ Biru.

The China Aviation Corporation in Wuhan is currently being organized by this flight office. Among the four, Tan Gen will serve as the general manager, and Zhu Zhuquan, Zhu Zhaohuai, and Situ Biru will serve as engineers. Their main task is not to form an air force, but to aircraft development.

When Wang Zhenyu was in Anjiang, he promised to allocate [-] million Chinese yuan to them for research and development, but Wang Zhenyu has changed his mind now, and Wang Zhenyu has new ideas about the construction of the Air Force.

Wang Zhenyu talked to the four flight experts sitting on the sofa: "In my opinion, there are three things that are very important in an airplane. The first is speed, the second is flight mileage, and the third is carrying capacity. And these three The same comes from the engine, fuel tank and volume. Our future Chinese Air Force needs faster, farther and more destructive aircraft, and the quality of these aircraft must be qualified, so that they don’t fall off before they go into battle. This It requires the products we develop to be more standardized in production and assembly.”

The four agreed with this, and Tan Gen stood up on behalf of the four and said, "Then, Mr. Chairman, have you read the airline development plan we formulated?"

Wang Zhenyu immediately picked up a document from his desk, which was the plan drafted by the four of them.

Wang Zhenyu said: "I've read the proposal, it's very good, but it still doesn't meet my requirements. Your positioning of the air force is wrong. I think I need to emphasize here that the air force should not be a reconnaissance auxiliary force. , They should be the masters of the entire battlefield, they can bomb the enemy's artillery positions, they can destroy the enemy's solid buildings, and they can attack the fleets of the great powers that are showing off their power in our country's territorial waters."

Tang Gen was a little dissatisfied and said: "But the plane is not so powerful, what will they use to fulfill your request?"

Wang Zhenyu was not angry because of Tan Gen's contradictory, he waved his hand and said: "I know what you said, the current aircraft are not that powerful at all, but what is the purpose of our establishment of China Airlines, not to build some aircraft immediately Mass production, but to turn my idea or dream into reality. So our current direction needs to change, the flight team needs to be established, and the factory area needs to be established, but the scale must be reduced, and the production type must be transformed into a research and development type. In the future The Chinese Air Force must have two institutions of higher learning, one is the Air Force University, which trains qualified Air Force soldiers; the other is the Air Force Engineering University, which trains Air Force technicians."