"Mr.
Dulles, although the Northwest is still only a local government in the Republic of China, it cannot be denied that the Northwest has now assumed the main responsibility for fighting Japan in Asia.
In view of the fact that the Japanese army has caused a large number of casualties to our people Your country also knows that Japan is an island country with extremely poor resources.
Their coal, steel, oil and other resources are not sufficient, especially in Japan.
There is a huge gap in oil.
The Japanese army is so dependent on oil that it cannot maintain normal war operations without oil.
And now that your country is the largest oil exporter to Japan, we hope that your country will.
Can we consider the feelings of hundreds of millions of our people and stop exporting oil to Japan?"
Mr.
Zhou said, sitting opposite Dulles with a serious face.
"Sorry, regarding the export of steel, oil and other materials, it is just a normal commercial exchange between our country and Japan.
Just as our country is still importing a large amount of machinery to the northwest, Japan cannot interfere.
Regarding stopping the export of materials to Japan The sale of these strategic materials is also being discussed in Congress.
But as an ordinary diplomat in the Republic of China, I am not yet the ambassador to China.
I can't give you any answer on this point."
Dulles shrugged. shrugged.
"Really?
As an invader, the Japanese army has seriously violated the Geneva Conventions whether it massacred civilians or used poison gas on a large scale.
As one of the most powerful countries in the world, your country should stand up to uphold the fairness of the convention.
With legality, it is not a wise move to choose to retreat at this time.
The Northwest does have a large demand for machinery produced by the United States, but these are not necessary for the Northwest.
The Northwest also faces Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union.
A large amount of machinery was purchased.
It is not directly used in the war, but the oil used by the Japanese military now comes directly from your country's supply.
It can be said that the Japanese army can maintain such efficient expansion, and it is not without your country's contribution to the flames.
Our people are emotionally The damage is extremely serious.
And with the rise of the Japanese army, the current vested interests will not meet the needs of the Japanese army.
Sooner or later, your country should not offend the next one for the sake of immediate interests.
A long-term and reliable ally.”
After Mr.
Zhou spoke righteously and had an in-depth understanding of the Northwest, Mr.
Zhou also began to display his outstanding abilities at the negotiating table.
"Sorry, this matter is not something I can decide.
You should also know that ending the oil supply to Japan means that our country will directly bear possible attacks by the Japanese army.
Our country cannot allow the United States to do so just because of our sympathy for your country.
At a disadvantage," Dulles, who insisted on American interests above all else, shrugged.
Nanjing, Pingjin, Shijiazhuang, Xuzhou, and Shanghai all fell to the Japanese onslaught within a few months and half a year, and Wuhan took a little longer, close to a year.
They withdrew to Hunan, and now even Changsha has become a front-line war zone.
Since the fall of Wuhan, the Japanese army has fought in northern Henan, eastern Henan, and southern Henan for so long, making many gains and plundering some cities.
Although the Central Plains War Zone where Jiang Liqin is still standing today.
But in the eyes of Americans, they are not very qualified to bargain.
At least the United States is clearly aware that once an oil embargo is implemented against Japan, it means declaring war on Japan.
The rabbits bite people when they are anxious, not to mention the extremely arrogant Japanese soldiers.
"In this case, there is nothing more to say.
Although we are the weaker party, we still have to solemnly remind your country that after your country has suffered losses from the Japanese army, Northwest will make the best choice for itself, even if It’s at the expense of your country’s interests.”
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Mr.
Zhou stood up, smiled lightly, and ended the conversation under Dulles' surprised gaze.
Perhaps this is the first time that Americans have been treated like this in the diplomacy of the Republic of China.
At this time, the strength of Northwest gave Mr.
Zhou a certain confidence.
This feeling of starting to negotiate terms in front of foreigners for the first time also made Mr.
Zhou feel secretly happy.
No wonder those foreigners always look arrogant. , this feeling of having strong support behind you is really good.
It is a pity that the strength of Northwest is still not strong yet.
That kind of confidence and confidence when negotiating with foreigners is not only the art of a personal diplomat, but also the pride of the strength of the government behind it.
"The United States has always been our strong foreign aid before.
Wouldn't it be bad for the United States?
If the United States stops helping us later, wouldn't it be worth the loss?"
After the conversation ended, someone else quickly raised the question The question in my heart said.
"The United States was not only the foreign aid of the Republic of China, but also the energy pillar for the Japanese army to launch the war.
They supported the Republic of China, but they were worried that the situation in Asia would be unbalanced and beyond their control.
Besides, the Burma Highway and the Burma Railway are now closed.
From now on Equipment from the United States cannot be shipped in for the time being.
If we don’t raise conditions with them at this time, when will we raise them?”
Mr.
Zhou explained, but he was a little worried.
He had already done what he had agreed with Jiang Li.
During the short period when the two roads were closed, traffic in the Soviet Union was busy.
Due to the rapidly changing situation in Europe, the time in the northwest was temporarily ignored.
During this time when the United States was least needed, the Americans were forced to take action.
Although Dulles did not take Mr.
Zhou's words to heart, after all, although the northwest regime at this time had a certain strength, when the northwest wanted to hide its power and bide its time, it looked much worse than Japan, let alone the United States.
Compared to such a behemoth.
When it comes to negotiating terms, you have to be qualified.
However, Northwest's attitude was obviously beyond Dulles' expectations.
The next day, the conversation between President Zhou and Dulles was published in the Northwest newspaper.
When Jiang Li saw the relevant reports in newspapers in Luoyang, he smiled knowingly.
I believe that the Japanese at this time also saw such newspapers, as well as some citizens and students marching on the streets.
Word of the Northwest's discord with the United States would quickly spread.
This further dispelled the worries of the Japanese Navy.
The Northwest has not merged with the United States, and the aviation force of the Northwest Army will not get involved with the United States.
The reason why the Japanese Navy dared to challenge the United States in the early days was that, in addition to the fact that the strength of the Pacific Fleet was worse than that of the Combined Fleet, the most important reason was that the strength of the U.S.
Naval Aviation Force was relatively low at this time.
The various aircraft in service in the United States at this time were simply not enough in the face of the zero battle that the Japanese army had already launched.
Regardless of the fact that Japan at this time was in a war with the Northwest Army, whether it was the greatly expanded armored force or the fuel consumption of the aviation force.
Because of the fuel consumption required for transportation during the war, Japan was more short of fuel than in history.
But even knowing this, Jiang Li still wanted to dispel the Japanese concerns as much as possible.
Let him embark on the road of no return going south as soon as possible.
At the same time, the United States and Japan should also be allowed to gnaw at each other in Southeast Asia for a period of time.
"As of now, all water-cooled heavy machine guns in various arsenals in the northwest have stopped production.
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They are mainly used to produce Hydra general-purpose machine guns and Czech-style imitation light machine guns.
Due to the simple process of the Hydra and the short manufacturing cycle, the current monthly output of the Hydra universal machine gun has increased.
With more than 2,330 pieces, it has become the most produced machine gun today.
Secondly, the current monthly output is more than 1,760 guns.
However, considering the future operations in the South, the General Staff Machine Gun may not be suitable for the high temperature south due to its air-cooled special warfare.
Therefore, the Staff Headquarters suggested.
In addition, a new machine gun will be produced for future use by the Northwest Army in conquering the South and even Southeast Asia.”
Feng Zhanhai made this suggestion.
"Well, due to the hot and humid weather in the south, the Fire Snake general-purpose machine gun fires too fast and heats up too quickly.
It is really not suitable in Southeast Asia."
Jiang Li nodded, "You need to improve on this point.
It is allowed to reduce the certain fire rate of the machine gun.
"Speed, to achieve the purpose of long-term firepower output."
Jiang Li nodded, and now Jiang Li is not ready to come up with some future weapon designs that transcend this era.
After all, a country's military industry cannot rely on one person alone.
Now that the military industry in the northwest has grown to a certain scale, those technicians, technicians, or soldiers in the army should be given a certain space to perform.
It turns out that until now, these researchers have not let him down.
"In addition to the Fire Snake and the imitation Czech type, Northwest produces 127 large-caliber machine guns, 792 aviation machine guns, and machine guns used on Xiangjiang series helicopters.
In total, there are about 1,210 guns in a month.
Total of the above, Northwest produces every year There are about 60,000 machine guns of various types.”
"In terms of rifles, Northwest China has gradually reduced its production of Mauser 79 rifles, and now produces more than 58,100 Feng 918 semi-automatic rifles per month.
It can fully meet the current operational needs of various ministries, and can regularly import a certain number of rifles to the Central Army.
Since 1937, the firearms of various combat units have been initially unified.
It turns out that the Northeast Army The Han Chunlin rifles in the Northwest Army, the 79th rifles in the Northwest Army, and the various miscellaneous rifles of the 29th Army and the 41st Army have all been fully replaced.
The current Jin Army also has some of the Fengxi rifles replaced with the funding of the Northwest Army.
Type 918 semi-automatic rifle.
Part of the original converted weapons was resold to the Central Army, and part of it was used by the second-line garrison troops and armed police.”
"In addition, there is the production of submachine guns.
Now Northwest's production capacity of submachine guns has also increased a lot.
It can produce more than 82,300 submachine guns a year."
"In summary, as mentioned above, the Northwest has now formed a relatively complete infantry light firepower output system.
The Fire Snake universal machine gun is used to suppress the Japanese light and heavy machine guns, as well as some grenade launchers.
The light machine gun is then used to suppress the Japanese individual firepower.
Submachine guns are used for trenches, positional warfare, It plays the role of killing a large number of Japanese infantry and trying to close the gap between the two sides in hand-to-hand combat.
Up to now, as the equipment of machine guns and submachine guns continues to increase, the casualty ratio between our army and the Japanese army has gradually increased since last year.
Develop for the better.”
"In terms of artillery, especially in the past year or two, with the substantial increase in steel production, the improvement in artillery is particularly obvious.
There are 101 cannons and 87 150 howitzers.
In addition, as conditions permit, considering the future counterattack against the Japanese army Needed, in order to conquer the Japanese positions, the artillery factory has planned to produce 6 210 and 4 280 train guns. " "Compared to these main battle artillery, the production capacity of mortars has also been greatly improved.
The annual output of mortars has now reached 8,000 and 6,000 respectively.
There are 2,160 mortars.
According to the information provided by the Tibetan General Manager The data will arrive in the next two Within three years, the northwest's steel production will gradually increase to five to six million tons.
With sufficient supply of raw materials, the northwest's artillery production can at least double or triple, especially after the constraints on large-caliber artillery are lifted.
The speed can even reach four to five times.”
"What is the production of our tanks and armored vehicles now?
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Why has there been no movement after expanding a few armored mixed brigades?"
Yang Hucheng is obviously very concerned about this topic.
At this time, on the battlefield in the Central Plains, since the Battle of Wuhan and the Central Army retreated from Hunan, there are now even Changsha fell.
The pressure on the Central Plains Theater is several times higher than before.
The two armored mixed brigades have always acted as firefighting teams.
In the case of artillery firepower and air firepower still inferior to the Japanese army.
The field corps relied on more intensive light firepower output to fight a difficult defensive battle with the scattered tank troops.
Fortunately, the Tomahawk series of tanks and the powerful attack power of the sword-type assault gun always kept pressure on the Japanese tanks, so that they could barely maintain the front line.
Yang Hucheng naturally took a high look at the Northwest Armored Forces, which had made immortal achievements on all fronts.
"In view of the needs of future operations in the south, Avengers 6 is still being produced in small batches, but so far, the monthly output has been maintained at about 4 vehicles.
It has not continued to be deployed on the northern battlefield, but has been used as an armored force in the rear, working with the armor school.
Learning vehicle.
Used for various exercises to simulate future mechanized corps operations.
After several years of hard work, the Avengers tanks of the three armored mixed brigades have been almost eliminated, and now they mainly use Tomahawk series tanks and Swords.
Mainly series assault guns.”
"So far, the artillery of Sun Liren and Zhang Chujiu's two mixed armored brigades has not been changed.
However, the armor strength has been greatly strengthened.
The original organization was one tank regiment with 2 battalions.
Now it has been expanded.
A battalion of Sword assault guns, and a Snow Leopard Tank battalion.
Currently, a mixed armored brigade already has a total of 237 Tomahawk tanks, Sword assault guns, and 72 Snow Leopard armored vehicles.
Although the Japanese army has been replenished several times, compared with the Japanese army and the Northwest Army in terms of armor strength in the Central Plains Theater.
It has always been the upper hand.”
"The northwest currently produces 26 Tomahawk tanks, 35 Sword assault guns, and 33 Snow Leopard armored vehicles per month."
"Disregarding armored vehicles, the number of tanks and assault guns alone is close to a thousand units a year.
Based on the speed of more than 370 tanks and assault guns of various types lost in battle last year, even if last year's production was not as high as this year's, In the past two years, a large number of tanks and armored vehicles have been saved, which is even larger than the armored mixed brigade.
"Has the commander formed any troops in the rear?"
Ma Zhanshan couldn't help but ask
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