Chapter 958: The Heir IV
readx; Several subordinates next to him looked at Chen Huajun, who had obviously lost his temper, and they all didn't dare to speak, and immediately a major general stepped forward and said: "Commander, now the chairman is angry, and after a while, the anger will disappear. ”
Chen Huajun said: "He wants me to retire!" My roots are in the army, and how many people can I support after retiring? ”
Although Chen Huajun was unwilling, Chen Jingyun's intention still did not dare to disobey, and a few days later, he took the initiative to submit an application for retirement, and then after several superficial retention, the State Military Commission officially approved Chen Huajun's retirement application. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info then Chen Huajun returned to Nanjing from Belga Province, and lived with his wife and daughter in a style that did not ask about foreign affairs.
And when such a violent political shock occurred in the country, in Ankara, Turkey, Chen Huatian had just returned to the hotel after finishing a conversation with the Turkish prime minister, and someone said something in his ear.
Chen Huatian smiled after hearing this: "It seems that those beam-jumping clowns will finally stop for a moment now!" ”
The person behind him also smiled and said: "Although it is dangerous, but the effect is still good, after this cleaning, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the second son to pose a threat to us!" ”
Chen Huatian nodded: "Don't mention this matter again, now let's talk about Turkey's side, Turkey's attitude is still very tough, and the United States, Soviet Russia and Germany are all involved, it is too difficult to do it!" ”
"Don't worry too much about this, after all, the purpose of our coming here is not to say that we want to reach any real alliance with Turkey, but just to create momentum!"
Chen Huatian frowned: "Even if you want to create momentum, you have to make people believe it!" ”
"In this case, we don't want to raise the conditions a little more, Turkey has not always been resentful of Iraq and Syria over the years, we directly support them, and in terms of equipment, restrictions can also be relaxed, don't they always want to buy our fighters or tanks, F4H and F5E fighters can also be taken out, and T12 tanks still have a lot of inventory in the country to deal with, and they can also be sold to them, even if they dare to ask, You can also buy warships! ”
"I don't believe it, they are not tempted to take out so many things, and we let him join the Asian Economic Reciprocal Alliance, they can't be unmoved by these conditions!"
"Their courage is still too small, they are afraid of that, they are afraid that they can't fight a war with Soviet Russia if they form an alliance, what is there to be afraid of, if they really go to war, Turkey is just a start, just rely on our army to carry out it from the front, and then attack the Caucasus from Iran, where is there still their Turkish affairs." An officer next to him was extremely unhappy with Turkey's cowering.
But then again, it was precisely because of Turkey's cringe and insistence on maintaining a policy of neutrality that it avoided joining this world war, otherwise it would have been involved in this world war long ago. With Turkey's geographical location, no matter which alliance it joins, it will be attacked on a large scale from the other side.
Therefore, in World War II, on the one hand, Turkey maintained general neutrality, and at the same time strengthened its ties with China, purchased a large number of weapons and equipment from China, implemented a policy of armed neutrality, and the number of troops has swelled to hundreds of thousands, while maintaining normal trade with the Axis bloc, and China provided a large number of rare minerals and oil and other resources to the Axis countries through Turkey. Although the allies have repeatedly demanded that Turkey stop trade with Germany, this is actually a game between China and its allies, and Turkey is just an embarrassing role in the middle, as long as China withstands the pressure, then Turkey will not interrupt trade with Germany.
Therefore, throughout World War II, although Turkey pursued neutrality, it was still biased towards Germany and China as a whole, and even Turkey had a voice in Turkey to form an alliance with China and China, and then the three countries jointly attacked Soviet Russia and the Middle East, completely connecting the Eurasian continent. This argument is also widely available in Germany, but there is little interest in China.
However, with the defeat of Ben and the westward shift of the strategic center of gravity of the United States, the pressure on the Axis powers in North Africa and southern Europe has increased dramatically, and it is seen that the Axis powers are about to completely fail in North Africa, and once the Axis powers fail in North Africa, then it is even more impossible to keep southern Europe, especially the Balkan Peninsula, and once the Allied forces land in Greece, it will almost mean cutting off the road ties between Turkey and the Axis powers.
Of course, what is more important is that the complete defeat of the Axis group is already very obvious, and Turkey has to reconsider their foreign policy, so there are voices to join the alliance.
The combination of many reasons has made Turkey waver in the face of China's wooing!
To make matters worse, Turkey's policy of neutrality that has been maintained for several years is difficult to maintain, although Germany has lost, but there is also China, China wants Turkey to join its side, as a bridgehead out of Europe, and the allies also want to win over Turkey, want to let Turkey as a position to contain China from entering Europe, and at the same time to contain Soviet Russia from moving south.
When Chen Huatian led a high-profile delegation to visit Turkey, Britain, the United States and Soviet Russia also reacted most violently! I won't mention diplomatic protests and the like, because it's useless.
The most direct thing is that Soviet Russia began to withdraw troops from the Western Front to defend the Eastern Front, that is, the Siberian Line, and at the same time strengthened its forces in the Caucasus, which clearly wanted to prevent China's attack.
At the same time, the United States is also extremely nervous, and the joint navy of Britain and the United States in the Indian Ocean is already extremely nervous, guarding against the movement of China's Third Fleet.
Of course, more importantly, in the Pacific region, which has just stopped fighting, the US Navy is also moving frequently!
Almost in the global direction, the confrontation between China and its allies has reached the most intense stage!
As if in response to China's challenge in the Middle East, the United States passed the Naval Expansion Act on February 12, which not only resumed the construction of a number of Essex-class aircraft carriers that were halted after Ben's surrender last year, but also increased the construction budget for four Midway-class aircraft carriers.
In response to the American side, the Chinese Navy officially announced the thirteenth phase of the development plan, approving a budget for the construction of six aircraft carriers, as well as twelve cruisers and up to thirty destroyers.
The naval race between China and the United States has not stopped because of the end of the war in the Pacific region, but has intensified further!
You must know that at the beginning of 1945, the size of the navies of China and the United States was already extremely large, let alone further expansion, even maintaining the size of the existing fleet was unlikely, and if it was not disarmed, it would not take many years for the high military expenditure to drag the two countries to death.
With an annual military expenditure of five or six billion US dollars, even China will not be able to support it for long! Last year, that is, in 1944, China's gross national income was only about $160 billion, while the United States had more but only about $220 billion, but their military spending was even higher, reaching nearly $90 billion.
Even though during World War II, in order to support the expansion of military spending, China has generally raised the level of taxation, increased the proportion of personal income tax, expanded the taxing population, and also added taxes such as special war taxes, so that the political axe income has doubled continuously, but it still cannot support the huge military spending, and a considerable part of the military spending still has to rely on the issuance of treasury bonds to support.
However, now that the world war is still going on, and what is more crucial is that the situation between China and the United States is tense, and an all-out war seems to be on the verge of breaking out, and neither China nor the United States dares to relax in the slightest, so they are forced to continue to maintain a large amount of military spending.
Of course, China's situation is relatively better, after all, although China still maintains a large army, but the war has ended, and the absence of a large amount of consumption during the war means that the amount of military spending is far less than that of the United States, which is still in the state of war against Germany.
After all, although the military expenditure required for the expansion of the army is huge, the military expenditure during the war is even greater!
During World War II, China and the United States were also expanding their armies, but why China was able to keep up with the pace of the United States with its relatively weak overall industrial economic strength was mainly because China's main expenditure was spent on military expansion, and there was not much time for the real war, that is, from 1941 to 1942, it fought a war with the Russian Republic, and last year it fought a war with Ben, both of which did not last long, only about half a year, and during the war because the opponent was not strong, the losses were very small.
However, the United States has been continuing to wage war, and from 1941 to the present, it has continued to be tense and fierce, losing tens of thousands of planes every year, and the continuous war has also caused the United States to consume more military spending than China.
However, it has also led to a situation, that is, due to the war attrition on the part of the United States, a large number of old equipment have been lost, and now they have new equipment, and the planes are all of the latest models, but although the total amount of equipment held by China can be comparable to or even exceed that of the United States, there are a large number of old equipment in China's three armed forces, and there are not many new equipment that can really meet the technical standards of 1945.
Last year, the total number of planes of the Chinese Navy and the two armies combined reached more than 80,000, but the number of planes actually participating in the war was less than 20,000 at most, not that the Chinese Navy and Air Force did not want to send more planes to participate in the war, but that the rest were some old-fashioned planes, and the losses on the battlefield would be too great, and more could not be deployed, so the Chinese Navy and Air Force generally dispatched the most advanced aircraft to participate in the war, and those old planes were left in the country, taking fighter planes as an example. The navy is fighting with the latest F8G, while the Air Force is dominated by the F5E and F4H, and the other older models are rarely on the battlefield.
The conflict between China and the United States has erupted again over Turkey or Germany, and has even triggered the latest round of naval expansion competition, which has caused concern among many people.