readx; As the head of the officer delegation sent by the Chinese side, Qiu Yi naturally took on the command of the entire North Philippine Defense Force, and now everyone is waiting for his reply, whether to send troops to reinforce Basmat Island, or to concentrate troops on Samar Island first. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Now our offensive on Samar Island is relatively smooth, and the five divisions of our army have expelled the forces of the Southern Army to the southernmost part of Samar Island, and as long as we increase our forces, we will be able to completely seize Samar Island, and then advance the battle line to Leyte, which is controlled by the Southern Army. And as long as Leyte Island is taken, the strength of our army can completely land on Mindanao under the cover of the Navy and Air Force and strike an all-out blow at the nest of the Southern Army! Qiu Yi said.

"As for the Basmat Island side, it's okay to hold off the enemy for the time being, and there's no need to rush to attack on the Panay Island side, just stabilize the front!" Qiu Yi said: "Now our strategic focus is still on Samar Island and Leyte Island, and there is no need to rush the competition for other islands!" ”

"So I decided to reinforce the 25th Division of the newly formed army to Panai Island, and the 17th Division, which had been rested, was also sent to Panai Island to replace the 8th Division, which suffered relatively large casualties." Qiu Yi quickly made such a decision.

In the face of Qiu Yi's decision not to reinforce Masbate Island, although several generals disagreed, but there was no way, although this Qiu Yi was only the head of a delegation, only with the false title of chief of army staff, but relying on the support of the [***] side behind him, this Qiu Yi became the actual commander of the Philippine Defense Forces in the north, and those indigenous generals of the Philippine Defense Forces did not dare to question Qiu Yi's decision.

After the military meeting ended, Qiu Yi walked together with several Chinese generals who were on the same delegation.

"Lao Qiu, didn't we say last time that we asked for some light weapons support from the country, why hasn't it been so long!" At this time, a middle-aged general with the rank of major general asked.

Qiu Yi said: "I have already called the report, and the State Military Commission also gave a reply last week, saying that domestic military supplies are in short supply in a short period of time, so let's wait for a while!" ”

"Oh? With this, how is this possible, thinking that those light weapons in the country are piled up, and if a full-scale war does not break out, it will not be used up for more than ten years, how can there be a shortage! "One of the colonels was skeptical.

"Do you think the military only cares about us? This Philippines is just a secondary battlefield, and it can't affect the overall situation, if a big war really breaks out with the United States, do you think that these Filipinos can stop it, and it is not our army that needs to be dispatched? Now, it's just fighting. And now the situation is so tense that the military's focus is on Europe. In order to keep Germany up to the pressure of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, more than 800 tanks and more than 2,000 planes were sent over alone. ”

Qiu Yi is not wrong, now China's military strategic focus has been concentrated on Europe, especially Germany, in the past period of time to Germany to provide a large number of all kinds of material aid, from heavy weapons and daily necessities, although these aid is all money, but now the Germans are poor and white, can only rely on loans, to put it bluntly, IOUs, the model is the same as Britain and France to buy American military supplies. However, this kind of loan is actually what China wants and even needs, because only by putting down a large number of loans can Germany be controlled from the economic source.

In addition to supporting Germany, China is also spending a lot of effort in Europe to support several other allies, such as Finland and Turkey, both of which are important allies of China in Europe, although the number of Finland's troops is not much, but Turkey's army is a lot, last year, Turkey's troops were only at the level of World War I, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Turkish army, to share the huge pressure from Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union for the Chinese troops stationed in Europe, China also spent a lot of effort to arm the Turkish army, For example, it sold them a large number of small arms such as 1937-style semi-automatic rifles, sold them some old T9\12 series tanks, and bought a batch of old propeller planes and small warships.

However, in this military aid, in order to avoid the fact that the Americans sold F14 fighter jets to Iran in history, and Iran soon defected, China has always strictly controlled the outflow of advanced weapons, such as warships, most of the ones sold are torpedo boats, gunboats, frigates of hundreds or thousands of tons, and the best is only destroyers of two or three thousand tons, and the electronic equipment on these warships sold is also old, as for cruisers of several thousand tons and the like, There are no similar examples of China, except for two ships sold to the Thai Navy in the late thirties. The same is true of airplanes, which are now sold out on a large scale by propeller aircraft, and as for jets, except for the sale of a part of the F10 to Germany, there is no such example.

China's large-scale military aid is basically based on the sale of second-hand weapons, and will never directly sell the latest weapons. Now the Chinese Army has begun to gradually replace the 1944-style assault rifles, from last year to now, in less than a year, China has relied on its huge military production capacity, has produced up to more than 800,000 1944-style assault rifles, these produced 1944-style assault rifles, basically all of them are the first to equip troops stationed abroad, including the two group armies stationed in Europe, stationed in Southeast Asia and the troops called 'Ben', and according to the forecast of the Ministry of Equipment, if the situation deteriorates, In the event of a full-scale war, China is fully capable of producing at least 3 million 1944-style assault rifles in a year and completing the rearmament of the entire army.

With the large number of equipment of the 1944 assault rifle, coupled with the 1943 general-purpose machine gun used together, these two infantry weapons formed the basic equipment of the infantry squad, so that the 1937 semi-automatic rifle, the 1936 submachine gun and the 1921 series of light machine guns that were heavily equipped in the previous [***] team were withdrawn from the front-line troops. Until last year, the Chinese Army's infantry squad was still mainly equipped with 1937 semi-automatic rifles, 1936 submachine guns, and 1921 C light machine guns. Among them, the oldest in use is naturally the 1921 light machine gun, the service life of this light machine gun has reached more than 20 years, basically accompanied by the Chinese Army to fight all foreign wars, the Russian Civil War, the first Sino-Soviet War, the Sino-Soviet and Russian War, the second Sino-Chinese War, the Southeast Asian War, the Sino-Soviet Olav conflict, the third Sino-Chinese War, and even the 1921 type light machine gun can still be seen in the ongoing European war. The conversion potential of the 1921 light machine gun, which had been in service for many years, was almost exhausted, and it was not until last year that the 1943 universal machine gun entered mass service with the aircraft of the front-line troops was withdrawn.

With the large-scale retirement of a large number of 1937 semi-automatic rifles, 1936 submachine guns and 1921 light machine guns, and the amount of equipment in this part is very large, if all of them are used for mothballing, even the army with a big business cannot withstand the pressure of redressing, so it is a pretty good choice to sell it to ally countries as a surplus.

Although China and Germany have gradually entered the era of assault rifles, and the United States, Soviet Russia and the United Kingdom are also following up in time, for those second-rate countries that are still in the World War I era, semi-automatic rifles are still a treasure-like equipment.

With the Chinese Army fully replacing the 1944 assault rifle, China's allies such as Iran, Turkey, and Thailand will be able to cheaply replace the 1937 semi-automatic rifle.

China's foreign military aid has never been free, but cheaper, and it often takes the form of loans to these countries, so that these countries can use the loans to buy weapons, and then these countries will pay back with various industrial raw materials, crops, and other materials.

The United States has to support the consumption of war materials for the entire Allied Army, and China also has to support the combat consumption of the entire Allied Army, so even if it is a big business, there are many second-hand weapons that have been replaced, but for a while, it will not be able to free up too much for the Philippine side.

"But don't worry too much, I have already asked Marshal Chen Yi in his personal name, and he also gave him a verbal promise that he would support us with a batch of rifles and ammunition next month, as well as a batch of artillery captured last year, called 'This army!'" He said, "Although my artillery is not good, it should be able to relieve the pressure on this side!" ”

Last year, after the complete surrender of Ben, the army was all disbanded, leaving a large amount of military supplies, and among these military weapons, the Chinese [***] side of the navy received a lot of warships, other aircraft and army equipment are not looked down on by China, a large number of weapons here are directly and cheaply supplied by China to some countries in Southeast Asia, such as Thailand and Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and other countries.

At present, China still has a batch of artillery on hand, which is called "its own army", and this support to the Philippines can also relieve the pressure on many Philippine defense forces.

"If that's the case, it's even better, our problem is that there are too few heavy weapons, alas, it's too much to command these indigenous Filipino troops to fight, if it is replaced by our own troops, it will take more than half a year there, and it won't take half a month to take the Philippines!" The person next to Qiu Yi was full of dissatisfaction, obviously very dissatisfied with those indigenous soldiers in the Philippines.

"Do you think that if we send troops directly, the Americans will sit idly by, and then it will not be a civil war in the Philippines, but a direct war between us and the Americans. Although the Americans are useless, it is not something that you say can be defeated in half a month! Qiu Yi said disapprerovingly: "This kind of thing is not something you and I can talk about, and now our task is to help the Filipinos win this civil war and completely control the entire territory of the Philippines to ensure the security of our country's entire Pacific defense line!" ”

China's reason for vigorously supporting the Philippines in fighting a civil war is naturally to control the entire Philippines and thus discourage the United States from acquiring naval and air bases in the Philippines.

The civil war on the Philippine side is still fighting, but on the European side, there is a strange calm, Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, China and Germany, the luck of the five European armies, plus the troops of other countries, the total strength of the entire Europe is definitely more than 15 million, and such a large scale of the [***] team is calm, no large-scale war broke out, and even the small-scale battles that have always been there before have stopped.

In October 1945, Chen Jingyun sent another telegram to Truman, Churchill and Stalin, expressing his willingness to act as a mediator to mediate the war between Germany and Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

In response, the Federal Republic of Germany also announced that Germany would promise to renounce all sovereignty over all territories acquired since 1936 and to allow the many occupied territories under German control to be reinstated or returned to former subjects.

On the surface, this is a sign of resignation by China and Germany, but in fact, in the eyes of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, especially the United States, this is already China exerting huge pressure on the United States to try to completely solve the German problem before the United States develops a nuclear bomb.

"This Chen Jingyun, do you really think that we can suppress it at will, they want the European market, they want Germany as an ally, hmph, how can there be such a good thing!" Truman was not in the least impressed by Chen Jingyun's mediation.

Negotiate with Germany now, this is not Germany's softness, but the United States' softness, and this kind of softness is no longer as simple as losing face, what will be lost will be the future European market and the future global strategic advantage!

At the military intelligence meeting, Truman said: "America will never bow down to anyone!" Whether it is war or peace, we will be there for it to the end! ”