Mediterranean hegemon

The failure of the Third Battle of the Yangtze River made Sun Marshal know that his army troops were not good. His new troops of 7 divisions had been training for a whole year, but they were beaten to pieces by the Southern Army. The prosperous cities of Su, Xi, and Chang He lost it after only half a month. If it hadn't been for the strength of the Northern Army and Navy, which helped him hold on to the situation, he would have been in a panic this time. After learning from the pain, he decided to focus on the army again in reorganizing the army.

Firstly, he doesn’t have that much money to spend on the navy. He can’t afford 20 million yuan, but he can still afford 5-6 million to move scrap steel. Secondly, he believes that the army is the capital for his livelihood. If he also develops the navy, it will arouse the suspicion of the supreme government, which will cause trouble. However, developing and reorganizing the army will not cause a backlash.

So he made up his mind to build up both the aviation fleet and the tractor fleet, and continued to focus on Italy. Contini was also happy and sold all the Fiat-3000a models that had just been replaced by the Italian Army. Because the old coach bought Diligent, the old French Renaults in stock in Italy have long been sold out, and there are less than 200 Fiat-3000a. Considering that both Wu Dashuai and Zhang Dashuai are in demand, Contini simply sold them all in one go. Of course, they cannot deliver them all at once. If this is done, the Italian Army will have no tanks of its own.

So he ordered United Defense to hand over the M1 Joint Tank to the Army, and at the same time he took back the Army's goods. In order to speed up the production pace, he asked his subordinates to reach an agreement with Fiat: authorize the M1 to be produced by Fiat, and the other party would The price paid was just a pile of Fiat-3000 parts in stock plus a few newly completed Fiat-3000bs that could not be bought or sold. The reason for doing this is because Fiat also licensed its own models to the Ansaldo tank factory. Now, although the ownership relationship has been transferred, the favor still has to be returned.

Now the Agnelli family has seen the situation clearly and knows that unless there is a huge change in the United Group, they cannot afford to offend them at present. Therefore, they happily accepted this suggestion and obtained an order for 50 M1s from the Ministry of War. However, the engine, Rapid-fire guns still have to be purchased from outside. Fiat only gets the body and chassis, but 50 vehicles is considered a big contract.

Of course, there are considerations in handing over the M1 design to Fiat Contini: Italy cannot have only one tank production factory, otherwise the production volume will not increase in the future, but it seems that Italy has a qualified factory either in its own hands or It is in the hands of Fiat, so it is necessary to bring Fiat into this circle; secondly, in addition to the improved model 3000b, Fiat has historically also had cheating models such as cv-29/33. Contini is a million people who look down on him. Instead of letting them toss around with useless things, it is better to show them some high-quality products; finally, if he wants to make some political moves recently, he cannot make relations with all walks of life too tense, sell Agnelli to save face, and give away There's nothing wrong with a little favor. How can a person who wants to be a leader be so incompatible with Fiat?

Fiat was overjoyed after receiving the complete set of drawings of the m1, and immediately started producing it according to the authorization, and prepared to develop its own follow-up improved models on this basis. This was the development logic that Contini expected to see, but they did not know that in United Defense In the safe, there is also the m2 design, which is expected to weigh 15 tons and is superior in all aspects. It is now waiting for a better engine to come out before it can be released.

Here, Marshal Sun was contacting the Army for scrap steel. Over there, the Guangzhou government made a fuss and gave its final opinion: all the Army troops responsible for guarding Zhoushan Port were dismissed from their posts. Chen Shaokuan was also considered to have major responsibilities and was dismissed from all positions. However, after all, talents are rare and a lot of people begged for mercy because he was not present. In the end, he was allowed to "take advantage of his crime" and temporarily serve as the commander of the training fleet. The director of naval military affairs was handed over to Chen Ce. Commander Chang compromised with the Cantonese faction in exchange for their support. support for further military reorganization.

This time Marshal Chang planned to kill the 5th Army, because the 5th Army was the weakest, with only 8 regiments at the beginning, and it was adapted from the Guangdong People's Army, so it not only had poor combat effectiveness but also had a lax style. This was absolutely intolerable, and there were many criticisms from leftist figures. After Wang Jingwei and Li Jishen agreed, the 5th Army was directly abolished, and the designation, subordinates, and ordnance were all brought under the command of the 4th Army, which expanded the strength of the 4th Army. , which roughly restored the balance between the strength of the 4th Army and the 7th Army.

After the Third Battle of the Yangtze River, it was Li Jishen's 4th Army that held Wuhan's front line, Li and Bai's 7th Army that held Zhejiang and Anhui, the 2nd Army that supported the 4th Army, and the 7th Army that supported it. The Yunnan Army of the 3rd Army, and the 1st Army, dominated by direct descendants of Huangpu, mainly controlled southern Jiangxi and Guangzhou, and gradually became a left-behind force, but did not expand further, and even the territory was not large. Jiangxi and Guangdong's territory tax revenue only supported Guangzhou. government, while other sites can be used directly to support the army. So everyone thinks that he is really enduring the humiliation and focusing on improving the strength of the army.

But after Contini received the relevant intelligence report from Ancelotti, the first deputy director of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Administrative Committee and analyzed it by Huang Xinguo, he knew what Marshal Chang was going to do. History may be late, but he will not be absent. Others don’t understand this history. How could a member of the “Hearts of Iron” expert panel not understand?

After thinking for a long time, he sent a telegram to Ancelotti: "No matter how the situation of the other side changes, we will not get involved, and finally deal with the people who actually control the Guangzhou government. In any case, the construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Railway, Shenzhen Port, airport and power station cannot be disturbed. If the opportunity is right, we can give the other party certain benefits in exchange for expanding the scope and number of our security personnel, and allowing the United Group's special transport team to move in."

Fat An understood this. Just like Contini's time travel, he is also a fat man, and he often smiles, giving people an extremely honest feeling, but that is just an appearance. Fat An is much more fierce than Dr. Toth, who looks fierce on the surface. How can he gain a foothold in Naples if he is not fierce?

Now the Guangzhou government is negotiating to buy scrap steel from the navy again. Marshal Chang sent a note, begging to sell the Caesar, the same class ship of Count Cavour, in installments at a price of 18 million oceans. He is really fed up with the British's cheating paper boats. No matter who is responsible, it is intolerable that such a 28 million ocean giant ship was destroyed by a small torpedo. As for the 10 million oceans that the British asked for, he didn't want to pay attention at all, because the Americans also extended an olive branch, saying that they can provide this service. Although the US charges may not be cheap, it is also valuable if it can establish good relations with the United States.

The goodwill released by the Americans is very interesting: during the salvage and repair period, the United States can lease a battleship to the Guangzhou government to transfer the Wyoming or Arkansas, at a cost of 2.4 million oceans/year. Although the American iron turtle runs slowly, it is at least durable. Now the Americans have learned to be smart. Since European countries are selling scrap steel, the United States can do the same. The Wyoming is destined to be of no great value. It is better to lease it out without violating the terms of arms sales. According to common sense, the Revolution can be repaired in 3 years, but even so, it can earn 7.2 million yuan, which is also a considerable profit.

So Guangzhou argued about whether to rent an American ship or buy an Italian ship. In addition, it really had no money, so it had to give the Americans 2 million yuan to let them salvage the Revolution from the anchorage first.

Contini didn't care about the Americans' little move: You are about to face a disaster and still want to make a little money, you are simply courting death. He intended to help the Americans with this deal, so he said: "If you can sell it to the Northern Army, sell it. If you can't sell it, take the Caesar and prepare to dismantle it and rename it a special transport boat. We definitely don't have enough."

The Count Cavour-class 2 ships are destined to disintegrate. As for the Count Cavour itself, the president said that this ship should not be sold. Italy also wants to keep a warship and half a naval museum to inspire the people's pride and fully witness the revival of the new Roman Empire. Mussolini strongly supports this. As for the money, he will let it go and you can ask the president! Contini originally agreed to return to the country in April and announce the appointment in May. As a result, he continued to stay in the United States on the grounds of other matters, and the domestic Minister of Education could not be vacant for a long time. In the end, Capello was appointed as the Minister of Education under the recommendation of many people. But I felt a little uncomfortable.

However, even though he was uncomfortable, Contini would not come back at least for the time being. Let's wait and see. Maybe the situation will change in the future.

The heavy cruiser Trieste and four destroyers returned with Adriana on the passenger ship. On the surface, these warships were for sea trials. After completing the relevant training subjects and communicating with the US Navy, they returned to Italy. Their mission will be replaced by the heavy cruiser Trent, which has re-entered the sea trials. But in fact, only a few people know that these destroyers and heavy cruisers are carrying $500 million worth of gold and $100 million in cash collected by the Union Bank, all of which will be transferred to the Union Bank headquarters in Rome.

Only a person like Contini can call on the navy to serve him in peacetime. During his time in the United States, he repeatedly transported goods under the cover of diplomatic immunity and bulk purchases. Most of the time, he used United Shipping's cargo ships, but this time the quantity was so huge that he had to use warships.

Adriana didn't know that Contini had concealed a lot of things from her. If she knew, she would definitely not leave the United States and return home first: the number of dark people, Roman warriors, CEO guards and even German commandos who have arrived in the United States has exceeded 500, and even tanks and armored vehicles have been transported up to escort them. Contini knew that his last few steps were the most dangerous and there was a possibility of capsizing, so he had to do his best to strengthen his military force.

But now it was so dangerous, how could Contini leave her behind? Naturally, he had to persuade her to go back. Only when the person he cared about went back, could he let go and act...