※ Regardless of how enthusiastic the hype from the outside world is, after Pei Chengyi came to Agen's detour, the enemy Gong had to start from scratch. 【】

On February 2, accompanied by three Argentine officers, Pei Chengyi left Buenos Aires. He didn't bring the Tunzawa arranged by the Military Intelligence Agency, nor did he bring other entourage. In the next few days, Pei Chengyi became a real "tourist", but only to military bases. Although subject to language restrictions. Pei Chengyi was unable to communicate directly with the ranks of the Argentine army. But an experienced general can grasp the basic situation of the Argentine army with his eyes.

A week later, in February, Bae Chengyi gave a report to Mr. Lee.

Because all foreign-related military personnel are under the responsibility of the Military Intelligence Agency, Pei Chengyi must report to the Military Intelligence Agency on his schedule in Argentina in accordance with regulations. More importantly, Pei's report will ultimately determine the policy of aiding Afghanistan. That is, only after Pei Chengyi has made a judgment, the military intelligence will submit a report of recommendations to the government, and only then it will be the government's turn to sign a formal arms purchase contract with Argentina. It was in this way that Pei Chengyi arrived in Buenos Aires on the second day. After meeting with the Argentine president, the defense minister, and the chiefs of the general staff of the three armed services, he went to inspect Argentine military installations, and in just one week, he produced an investigation report that was detailed enough to satisfy Li Cunxun.

Of course, in a sense, this report is not very necessary.

If nothing else, with the capabilities of the MIA, it is not enough for an army general to act openly to gather intelligence.

Pei Chengyi also understands this truth, according to his guess, Li Cunxun means to let him understand the Argentine army in the most intuitive way, and help Argentina formulate a new military plan in the form of an investigation report, so as to lay the foundation for future consulting work.

Because it is related to his future work in Argentina, Pei Chengyi is very serious.

In his report to the Military Intelligence Agency, Pei Chengyi started with "Infrastructure. The situation of the Argentine army was analyzed and evaluated in three aspects: "equipment situation" and "quality of soldiers".

Of the three areas, "infrastructure" is the most problematic.

Although from the year of Lie. That is, after Argentina officially launched the modernization of national defense, the average annual military expenditure is about the concave courtyard, because Argentina's economic development is very fast, and the military expenditure before this is very low, so the absolute value of Argentina's military expenditure has increased even more amazingly, but what makes Pei Chengyi a little surprised is that Argentina's military infrastructure is not perfect. In terms of vital air bases, the Argentine Air Force has not built a network of bases, with the exception of a few large integrated bases that are very beautifully built and suspected of "face engineering". To know. Without the support of supporting bases, that is, a network of bases, it is difficult for a large integrated military base as a center to support large-scale combat operations during a war. From the Peninsular War to the Indian War, many large-scale regional wars have proven that a well-developed network of military bases is the most important infrastructure.

Before coming to Argentina, Pei Chengyi did not think that Argentina's military infrastructure would be so bad.

In the investigative report. Pei Chengyi bluntly mentioned the problems of Argentina's military infrastructure and hoped that the Military Intelligence Agency would provide more useful information.

The Military Intelligence Agency is well aware of this problem, but it is helpless.

In the information fed back to Pei Chengyi by the Military Intelligence Agency, several reasons were mentioned, such as the high salaries of Argentine soldiers, the Argentine army's dependence on equipment, the impact of land ownership on the expansion of military bases, and the restrictions of the political system on the construction of military infrastructure. It's just that the Military Intelligence Agency did not mention a more important reason, that is, the negative impact on Argentina's defense construction.

I have to admit that there is not a pound. The government can completely eliminate**.

When strengthening the modernization of national defense, the Argentine army has become a hotbed. Due to the influence of the political system, the ** problems of the Argentine army are very different from those of other countries. To put it simply, because the Argentine government has a very strict approval mechanism for infrastructure construction, and military infrastructure also belongs to the category of basic social infrastructure, which needs to be subject to both government and parliamentary supervision, it is difficult for those in power to get enough benefits from infrastructure construction.

On the contrary, it is limited by the strength of its own industrial base, especially since it has been subject to a military embargo by the Western world for decades. The Argentine government has been much more lax in its control over the import of military materiel, and in many cases has even encouraged the military to use all means to acquire advanced weaponry. As a result, the Argentine army is more keen to import weapons and equipment from abroad than to produce them at home. Similarly, it is not surprising that, with the introduction of a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, the Argentine army did not pay attention to infrastructure.

The year of the knife is enough to form a large-scale interest group.

It can be said that as long as it is involved in "national defense modernization", whether it is an individual or a family, it is a vested interest in Argentina. Not to mention, Argentine President Cerrón and Air Force Chief of Staff Alfonso have benefited a lot from this, and the families behind them are typical representatives of Argentine interests and have a very large influence in political and military circles.

The MIA did not mention the Argentine problem, because no one could solve the Argentine problem.

Pei Chengyi is not stupid. After receiving the news from the Military Intelligence Agency, he knew that most of the innocuous reasons were excuses, and it was ** that really affected the construction of Argentina's military infrastructure. In fact, when he went to various parts of Argentina to inspect the situation, Pei Chengyi had a problem, and vaguely felt that the ** problem of the Argentine army was much more serious than he expected. The military intelligence "Ye 2" only confirmed Pei Chengyi's speculation from one side, and also made Pei Chengwei Di. In the case of the reality of not being able to change the concubine. He had to bypass the "minefield"

Fortunately, Pei Chengyi's report has attracted the attention of the Grass Intelligence Bureau.

Although there is no guarantee that the Argentine authorities will be equally highly regarded, Pei Chengyi believes that Li Cunxun is behind Wang Yuanqing, and Yuan will not joke about the Republic's only ally in the Western Hemisphere. What's more, if Cerrón wants to stay in the Argentine presidency for a few more years, he will have to do something earth-shattering and show enough results. In this case. There is no reason for the President of Argentina to ignore the observations and recommendations made by the Republic's top military adviser, much less to continue to ignore the reality of the serious lack of military infrastructure in Argentina. As long as Argentina is willing to invest enough strength. The problem can be alleviated in a few months.

Relatively speaking, the "equipment situation" of the Argentine army is very good, if not excellent, then it can be considered relatively ideal.

If calculated according to the currency value of the milk year, the exchange rate of the yuan is calculated according to the date of signing the contract, and the average annual investment is about 100 million yuan. What can the money do? Also calculated based on the value of Xiaonian's munitions, Gong 100 million yuan can purchase the most advanced heavy air supremacy fighter with a blade, or a multi-role fighter with a field frame, or six large warships of the Koustew class, or eight state-of-the-art electric attack submarines, or the most advanced electric tank of the Fallen Lion, or four sets of electromagnetic cannon systems equipped as standard, if used to purchase individual combat equipment, it is enough to arm nearly 60,000 officers and soldiers of four divisions. For an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers. For a country with a population of less than 10,000 people, the average annual military expenditure of 100 million yuan is indeed very staggering. To put it simply, with such a huge investment, as long as the problem of importing weapons and equipment can be solved, any country will be able to build a combat unit with advanced equipment within the next year.

According to the global defense strength ranking released by "Jane's Defense" at the end of the defense year, Argentina ranked first between Italy and Australia, and became the number one military power in Latin America after Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico.

Although this ranking is open to debate. After all, "Jane's Defense" is a British defense weekly, but in reality, Argentina's defense strength is certainly within the list of its former reputations, and it will not be worse than other Latin American countries. Also according to the data released by "Jane's Defense": At the beginning of the year, the total strength of the three armies of Argentina was Dao Wan, including the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy; The army has a total of one main combat brigade and one reserve brigade, and has more than one main battle rudder, including the main battle tank lock vehicle, infantry fighting vehicle, armored combat vehicle concave vehicle, and more than four mm caliber artillery fighters such as Yu Men and rocket artillery force; The Air Force has four functional commands, namely, tactical aviation, support aviation, patrol aviation, and reserve aviation, and has a surplus of various types of combat aircraft, including "Tuncake tactical fighters" receiving early warning aircraft, large tankers, and eight electronic warfare aircraft; The navy is divided into two fleets, the northern and the south, and has five arms commands, including the fleet, submarines, air forces, bases, and marines. It includes moving destroyers, 8 frigates, 4 amphibious landing ships, 4 large transport ships and blades, including long-range anti-submarine patrol aircraft and summoned carrier-based helicopters.

Quantitatively alone, the equipment of the Argentine army is not striking.

The point is that the Argentine army has a very high quality of equipment.

Taking the most representative air force as an example, the fourth-generation and fourth-and-a-half-generation fighters account for more than 60 percent of the tactical fighters. Zhao Jia said, who is the absolute main force, said that Xiao Ke is the ultimate improved model, a veritable four-and-a-half-generation fighter, and more importantly, the fifth-generation fighter with Xiao Jiu as a typical representative has only been in service for about a few years, so the quality of the Argentine Air Force's equipment is not bad, and it can even be regarded as ideal.

Of course, it is not only the Air Force, but also the Navy that plays a decisive role.

Relatively speaking, the navy is the service with the lowest input-output ratio, and it is also the most difficult service to achieve results in the short term. It is not too much to apply the term "100 years of tree people" to the navy, and the history of any powerful navy in the world will not be less than Tian Nian, that is to say. At the very least, it will take a year to build a first-class navy. In addition to time, investment is more important. It can be said unceremoniously that at no time in history has more than two countries been able to regard the navy as the number one service. Even during World War II, only the United States, Great Britain, and Japan had navies capable of challenging any of their opponents, while the navies of the Soviet Union and Germany, which had the best armored forces, were not powerful. With the strength of Argentina, it is simply impossible to have a powerful navy in the true sense of the word.

For a third-rate country like Argentina. In the case of being able to give up the navy, the only way to show the way is to be uneven... Set up a navy. Undoubtedly, the best option is to concentrate on a particular type of maritime power. From the point of view of safeguarding national interests, such a maritime force must meet three necessary conditions: first, it must be within the country's ability to withstand it, second, it must pose an adequate threat to potential enemies, and third, it must be effective in the short term. Obviously. Only submarines meet these three necessary conditions.

In fact, under the circumstance that the pursuit of maritime interests is limited, or the influence of the sea is limited, concentrating on the construction of submarine forces is an inevitable choice for almost all countries. Even a large country like the Republic will put limited resources on submarine forces in the early stages of naval construction.

There is the Navy of the Republic as an example. The Argentine Navy attaches great importance to underwater power.

Among other things, comparing the number of submarines with large warships shows the importance of submarines in the Argentine Navy. If you take into account the performance of the ship. You can show it. The Argentine Navy pinned almost all its hopes on submarines. According to the generally accepted view, after the outbreak of war, as long as the British Navy's aircraft carrier battle group reaches the area of engagement, all surface warships of the Argentine Navy will stay in the harbor, and may even take the initiative to withdraw to the northern ports far away from the battlefield, so as not to be suddenly attacked by the British Navy. Only submarines were able to go out to sea, and only submarines were able to threaten British warships operating outside the strike range of shore-based aviation.

Objectively speaking, the old attack submarines of the Argentine Navy are definitely not to be underestimated.

Although the construction of the Argentine Navy is not much different from that of the navies of other countries, the submarine forces are built according to the method of "taking turns to advance", that is, the old attack submarines belong to 2 classes each, each catty. There are 8 ships of the class, and the service interval is around the old year. In this way, it is possible to always have at least one of the most advanced submarines; And reduce the pressure of replacement. From the point of view of practical use, 6 submarines belonging to 2 classes of fighters can also ensure that at least one class of submarines will not be affected by some uncontrollable factors and will not be able to go to sea to fight.

Even according to the most conservative estimates, the entry of micro-attack submarines into the theater of operations could pose a threat to the British fleet!

Because the main task of the Argentine Navy is not to seize sea supremacy, but to undermine the sea supremacy held by the adversary, it can still effectively complete its combat mission even when it can only dispatch submarine forces.

Of course, Pei Chengyi has to admit one thing, that is, he can't expect too much from the Argentine Army.

In the Argentine tri-armies. The level of equipment of the army is the most backward. This is not surprising, in the battle to recover the Falklands, the most unreliable is the army.

Finally, there is the "quality of a soldier". In his report to the Military Intelligence Agency, Pei Chengyi did not pay much attention to this issue, because it is not a separate issue. As with the information provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, the Argentine military personnel are paid very well, but the unfair military system has dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Argentine military personnel. In the Argentine army, officers are the most well paid, and even the lowest-ranking ensignants are paid enough to support their families. The second is technical non-commissioned officers, especially in the Air Force and Navy, and the treatment of some technical non-commissioned officers is even better than that of some junior officers. Comparatively speaking, the treatment of ordinary soldiers is unsatisfactory, and can even be described as "bad".

According to what Pei Chengyi learned, in the Argentine army, the difference in treatment between ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers is more than o times that of thugs. It has to be said that such a system is very unreasonable. Although Argentina has been following the example of the Republic and promoting the professionalization of the army since the second west, increasing the proportion of officers and non-commissioned officers, the Argentine army has ignored a very crucial, even decisive, factor, that is, Argentina's basic national conditions. Among other things, Argentina's military service ratio, that is, the ratio of the total population to the number of soldiers, has been reached, and the republic is in the heart. The United States is above that, and Pakistan, which has the same level as Argentina's economic development, is about 4 people. That is, Argentina has a very high ratio of military service, which leads to a significant increase in the cost of service. If the salaries of military personnel were to be determined by a market approach, the Argentine military would have to come up with salaries that were attractive enough to attract enough young people. There is no doubt that with the comprehensive national strength of Argentina, it will certainly not replace the original military service system with comprehensive professionalism like the republic. In fact, Argentina did not do this either, but gave up halfway through, thus becoming a semi-professional army. It is precisely because of this that those soldiers who have enjoyed the benefits of professionalism, that is, officers and technical non-commissioned officers, are treated very well, while those who have not enjoyed the benefits of professionalism, that is, soldiers, are not treated very well.

Unfair treatment will certainly have a great impact on the morale of the soldiers, and Turley is the morale of the soldiers

Sound.

As vested interests, the vast majority of officers and non-commissioned officers hope to make meritorious contributions and achieve greater achievements in the war, while few ordinary soldiers who are sacrificial interests have no hope of breaking out the war, and few are even willing to go to war.

is the same as the ** question, because he has no right to speak, so Pei Chengyi did not dwell on this catty too much.

Title.

When Pei Chengyi received the reply from the Military Intelligence Agency, it was already February, and according to the arrangement, he would go to the Argentine Ministry of Defense the next day. On behalf of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic, Argentina formally signed a military assistance agreement.

Because he paid too much attention to the things in hand, Pei Chengyi ignored the big things that were about to be born.