"Sell, why don't you sell?" Regarding his plan to buy a Nagato-class battleship, Meng Xiang agreed without hesitation.

If he plans to buy an airplane, it is resolutely not possible, even if he wants to buy the Bailu destroyer, Meng Xiang has to think about it. But the battleship, said how much he wanted, how much he sold. As long as the vanguard maintained air superiority over himself, the vanguard was not afraid of his Nagato-class battleships. Many of the aircraft manufactured at the base in the late stage of World War II could already pose a relatively large threat to battleships.

Although the vanguard army is not yet able to attack with Yue himself at sea, as long as it has air superiority and the assistance of giant artillery, the coastline also belongs to the vanguard army.

From an economic point of view, it should also be sold to Yue himself. I said that if I want to buy the same, I need to take out a lot of real money. Not to mention that Meng Xiang made another big profit, it was also a greater burden on his finances. I said that my finances are limited, and even if it is a search, there is a limit. It is even more impossible to overspend military spending for many years. The Navy bought battleships, and either other ship plans slowed down, or the Army's military spending slowed down. Either one is beneficial to China.

As for the fact that he has two Nagato-class navies and his strength has increased, the most nervous is definitely not the vanguard. Thirty kilometers of coastline were ceded by the sky, and the vanguard army still had inland areas to maneuver, but many islands in the South China Sea could be attacked directly from one end to the other with naval guns. While the Americans were doing business with him, he was paying attention to the changes on the other side of the rope. If they are going to get out of control, they will definitely tighten the rope. At this time, although the rope was not put around Yue himself's neck, the economic fence had already trapped Yue himself. In order to reach out, you must first break it. It is not unreasonable to say that the navy's plan for attacking the south is not unreasonable.

Besides, since the vanguard army had the Zhenyuan, he knew how powerful this oil tiger was. He said that if he had a few more Nagato-class ships, the shortage of oil would not find the top of the head of Huaxia, a recognized oil-poor country at this time.

"I took their order, but the time had to be delayed, at least until I beat him back this time. Let's order them for five months, we need time to produce anyway. In five months, our cannon will be upgraded. Meng Xiang said with a smile.

The giant cannon can be directly upgraded to the second level in the second-level base, and at the same time, Meng Xiang also discovered that war weapons such as giant cannons also have merit points. After asking Xiaohua, it turned out to be so. After the exploits of the giant cannon are enough, it can be promoted to the third level. Except for some functions that cannot be used due to the level of the base, other surname abilities will be strengthened.

Meng Xiang has always wondered how the caliber of the Great Berta Cannon during World War I was already 420 mm, and how the giant cannon was upgraded to 280 mm. In order to upgrade the giant cannon, Meng Xiang even built one of the big Berta and assigned it to the Second Artillery Corps, but the giant cannon upgrade still did not change. It wasn't until Meng Xiang figured out the merit points of the giant cannon that he learned some of the secrets of the giant cannon's upgrade. The same cordon has a similar merit point sub-item, but the other buildings do not. There are no real weapons produced by the base, so Meng Xiang can't help but guess that this may be exclusive to Red Alert weapons.

"Sell them battleships with back doors." Meng Xiang instructed again.

This backdoor is not destructive, it is just a positioning device. The base will have a positioning display for each Red Alert building unit. When Meng Xiang sold the first battleship to the Germans, he asked whether it could show the positioning on other objects, and Xiaohua gave a positive answer. It is possible to transfer the location of a Red Alert building unit to another object. It's just that the star value is also taken up.

The battleships of the Germans had little effect on the vanguard army, and many parts of Europe were already beyond the remote control of the secondary main base by 10,000 km, which Meng Xiang did not place at that time. Those battleships on the South American side just can't get out of the house, and they are not worth installing. The Nagato class that the Americans bought is definitely going to be studied. will not become the main combat power of the Americans, so the Americans did not add to that ship.

There were only two Soviet Russian ships and one Dutch one, and Meng Xiang chose the cheapest machine gun fortress and moved to the top. Maozi has a lot of secrets, and the battleship of the Dutch may pose a threat to the South Seas, which is worthy of secret surveillance.

said that the battleship I want to buy needs to be monitored.

Although it is out of the direct jurisdiction of the base and can only be located, this is enough. That's enough to provide precise coordinates for the V3 missile.

Not only V3 missiles, but even V1 and V2 missiles, Meng Xiang has long wanted to produce them. But even after the upgrade, Xiaohua still suggested that the conditions were insufficient, and Meng Xiang thought of the birth of the French giant cannon and began to arrange personnel to study rocket and missile technology. In Meng Xiang's mind, there is only one more famous Qian Xuesen in China. This year, I just received my Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in the United States, and I was recruited by the Vanguard Army to preside over this rocket research. Because rockets are involved in the study of atmospheric climate, Zhu Kezhen recommended Zhao Jiuzhang, who had just obtained a doctorate from the University of Berlin.

Rocket technology may seem simple, but it is difficult to study in practice. Qian Xuesen had just started his research for a month or two, and there were few personnel, so it was impossible to make great achievements in a short period of time. Meng Xiang thought of introducing talents from outside. It will be more convenient to introduce talents, and it will also bring new inspiration to their own research. But later generations called the German von the father of missiles. Braun was already presiding over the research on the V2 rocket at this time, and he couldn't attract him at all.

However, spies in the United States have found a rocket expert - Robert? Goddard.

Meng Xiang didn't have much impression of this person, but when he heard that he had launched a liquid-fueled rocket in 26 years, Meng Xiang remembered that there was indeed a scientist in the United States who studied rockets and studied rockets all his life, but his achievements were not recognized by Americans until after his death, and he was not known to the world until many years later.

Of course, Meng Xiang didn't know that Goddard still had 212 patents on rockets. If Braun is the father of missiles, then he is recognized as the father of modern rocketry. The Goddard Space Center and the Goddard Space Research Center of the Americans are named after him.

But at this time, his achievements are not valued by the American political axe at all, and the short-sightedness of capital will only hunt targets with a bloody taste.

Meng Xiang was very interested when he heard this, and immediately arranged for someone to invite.

"I do!" Goddard has been working on rockets since 20 years, and there is no funding for long-term research. If it weren't for the aviation pioneer in the United States, Lin Bai, who flew a plane across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, supported him with $50,000 after hearing about his situation, but I am afraid that he would have stopped long ago. But after Lin Bai's eldest son was kidnapped and killed in 32, his interest in rockets dropped significantly. Goddard faced another lack of funds.

At this time, someone was willing to give 1 million US dollars to support his research on rockets, even if he heard that it was in Huaxia, he did not hesitate for long, and came with his family. And the American political axe did not care about it at all.

With Goddard's 18 years of experience and Meng Xiang's bits and pieces of tips, the rocket research team made rapid progress and quickly built a liquid rocket.

"The weather will be sunny in the next two days, and it should be a rare good weather without wind!" Zhao Jiuzhang had just come down from the airship that had actually been detected and analyzed from the air, and he used the data collected and observed to analyze the data.

"Then we'll test it tomorrow!" Qian Xuesen said categorically. Although Meng Xiang didn't give them a time, he said that the sooner the better. After laboratory calculations and tests, there is no problem, what is missing is only outdoor test launches.

“10、9、8…… 2、1。 Ignition! With the echo of Qian Xuesen's first countdown to this world, the six-meter-high test rocket ignited in Weifang. With a continuous thunderous roar, the smoke that spread over the launch test bench rose up, and the rocket with a huge flame spraying its tail rose and soared into the sky.

However, after the news of the rocket's landing came from the reconnaissance plane observing near the mouth of the Yellow River in the Dongying area, the more than 100 people present immediately became boiling.

"We made it!" Goddard suddenly hugged Qian Xuesen next to him and shouted loudly. Because Huaxia is relatively poor and backward in the eyes of Europeans and Americans, only one of his four right-hand men came. If it weren't for the help of Qian Xuesen and others, this rocket would not have been successfully test-fired so quickly. Qian Xuesen was also very grateful to Goddard, whose arrival opened a new door to science.

"Launch vehicles, manned into the sky. Landing on the Moon! Qian Xuesen thought about the prospects of the future rockets that Meng Xiang described to him, and couldn't help muttering excitedly.

When the liquid rocket test flight was successful, the shadows of V1, V2, and V3 appeared in the menu bar of the base.

The cost of production for each V3 system is not high, only 300,000, but it takes 10,000 yuan to produce and fill a rocket. Once the rockets are produced in the tank factory, they can be transported using the V3 rocket launcher's own carrier, which can carry up to 9 rockets at a time. Add one on the launch rack, and after replenishing these ten V3 rockets, I'm afraid you will need to add another 100,000 yuan.

It costs 10,000 yuan for one shot, which makes Meng Xiang feel a little distressed. But compared to the base cost of 59,800 marks after the half-price discount of V2, it can be said to be a lot cheaper. Moreover, V3's surname can be a little higher than V2's.