readx; Compared with the wide variety of military aircraft of the Air Force, the carrier-based aircraft of the Navy are much more monotonous, generally only the seaplanes carried on various types of cruisers and other gunboats, carrier-based fighters, carrier-based torpedo planes, carrier-based dive bombers on aircraft carriers, and shore-based long-range bombers and shore-based long-range fighters. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among these types of military aircraft, the Navy has also made full use of the research and development achievements of the Air Force, and even directly adopted the aircraft developed by the Air Force, such as the shore-based bomber, which is actually the B12 twin-engine bomber led by the Air Force, and the carrier-based fighter has also continued to use the F3 and F4 series fighters developed by the Air Force.

It was not until the Air Force began to switch to liquid-cooled engine aircraft on a large scale that the Navy had to allocate a large amount of money to develop a new generation of carrier-based aircraft on its own.

The F8 fighter is the product of this situation, since the new generation of fighters of the Air Force was established to use liquid-cooled engines, limited by some of the special surnames of the Navy's carrier-based aircraft, the Navy's aviation faction advocates the continued use of air-cooled engines, which not only takes into account that the aircraft with liquid-cooled engines is not very suitable for carrier-based aircraft, but also because the domestic production of liquid-cooled engines is limited, and the limited production of liquid-cooled engines is needed to provide F5 fighters and F7 fighters, and it is impossible to supply the Navy in large quantities in a short period of time. However, there is a part of the domestic air-cooled engine production.

Under various circumstances, the Navy still chooses air-cooled engines for the new generation of carrier-based aircraft, and the F8 fighter uses a new generation of air-cooled engines from the Aviation Department of Shanghai Power Company, and the B9 dive bomber and B10 torpedo bomber also use air-cooled engines.

By 1940, the difference between the military aircraft of the Navy and Air Force was already very large, and it was difficult to achieve the same as in the twenties and thirties.

The Sino-Soviet conflict in late February 1940 not only greatly affected the domestic situation in China and the Soviet Union, but also greatly affected the development of the world situation.

When China issued an ultimatum to Soviet Russia on 26 February, Germany and Russia were extremely excited, while Britain and France expressed great concern and shock, hoping that China and the Soviet Union would exercise restraint, because unlike China and Germany, they did not want a war between China and Russia at this time.

If China can fight with Soviet Russia, then it will naturally be happy to see it, and once China loses the war with Soviet Russia, it will be necessary to gamble on the national fortunes and unite with Soviet Russia to attack China.

For Germany, having a powerful country like China to contain Soviet Russia is extremely beneficial to Hitler's eastward expansion plan, and even Hitler can see that Soviet Russia is completely finished under the attack of Germany and China.

Britain and France wanted to maintain the huge pressure of Soviet Russia in the east of Germany, and in fact during this period of time, Britain and France were constantly in contact with Soviet Russia, trying to reach a military alliance, and finally joining forces to destroy Germany.

To put it simply, Soviet Russia in this year is about to become an ally of Britain and France.

The attitude of the United States is much more ambiguous, the outbreak of war in Europe is not only Chen Jingyun's heart is happy, Roosevelt is also full of smiles, orders from Europe let the United States out of the economic crisis in the real sense, otherwise the United States will continue to be mired in an emergency crisis, if Hitler does not provoke a war, Chen Jingyun does not provoke a war, then Roosevelt has to find an excuse to provoke a world war.

This world war is a disaster for many countries, Britain and France are typical unlucky eggs, for some countries is a gamble, Germany, even Soviet Russia is like this, but for some powerful countries it is a feast, a feast with shells and blood, China and the United States are smiling at this moment while making money while sharpening their knives, pondering how to get the most out of this human disaster.

Pure economic interests can no longer satisfy China and the United States, they need more, the United States has not yet entered the war, the British side is to obtain a large number of mothballed destroyers from the United States, and negotiate with the United States to sign a military base in exchange for destroyer programs. There are many military bases around the world, which represents global hegemony, and from the moment Britain's large number of military bases are delivered to the United States, it represents that the earth hegemon on the head of Britain has officially ceded to the United States.

Countries reacted differently to the Sino-Soviet conflict, some expected them to fight, some hoped that they would remain peaceful, from the perspective of ordinary people, based on the fact that China and the Soviet Union were both strongman political countries, China's Chen Jingyun and Soviet Russia's Stalin were both that kind of military strongmen, and it was impossible to make any of them submit, but what they didn't expect was that Soviet Russia turned out to be subjugated.

"How could Stalin, with his army of millions, succumb so easily?" This is something that many people do not understand, and neither does Hitler.

"When Soviet Russia announced an armistice in Finland, I heard that a large-scale battle broke out between China and the Soviet Union in Siberia!" A German field marshal next to him said so.

"Time is a little tight, although there is no too specific information, but from the feedback from our intelligence officers in China and Soviet Russia, they did fight, and the result is very unfavorable to the Russians!"

When Hitler heard this, his eyebrows jumped: "You mean that the Russians were defeated by Chen Jingyun's army in Siberia?" And this forced Stalin to submit? ”

The elderly marshal nodded: "Although we can't know the specific situation, we can still know who wins and who loses, and the Soviet Russian region is defeated!" It is preliminarily estimated that the Soviet army was routed in just six hours last night, and tens of thousands of troops were routed, with at least tens of thousands of casualties! ”

Hitler became even more excited when he heard this: "I know that these Russians are in vain, they have fully demonstrated their incompetence in the land of the Finns, and it is clear that our friend in the East also saw their weakness!" ”

After saying that, he did not stop, but continued: "If it were our army, how long would it take us to defeat them? Take Moscow! ”

The marshal was full of confidence: "In just three months, we will be able to completely annihilate the main forces of the Soviet army, and in only half a year we will be able to conquer Moscow!" ”

A series of early victories against Poland had greatly increased the confidence of the German army, and they were even more confident in their own blitzkrieg tactics, which they were ready to use in the upcoming French campaign.

The short armed conflict between China and the Soviet Union in the early hours of February 27, 1940 did not spread, and the defeated Soviet Russians kept silent, while the Chinese side understated that it was only a border armed conflict, which would not affect China's foreign policy.

Regardless of the internal details, but the fact that China won in this armed conflict is known to everyone, otherwise how would Stalin have succumbed.

In a tavern in Tokyo, an officer of the Marine Corps sighed: "The army of the people of China has developed faster and faster over the years, hmph, no wonder the army group of red deer has failed miserably again and again." ”

"Hmph, those guys in the army are indeed entrusted by the emperor, and the future fate of the empire depends on our navy." Next to him, he said, "The lieutenant of the Marine Corps also showed disdain for the army.

In the 1940s, it was said that the navy was much stronger than in history, with warships, aircraft, and tanks.

"It's just that now that the Russians and China have negotiated, I don't know what those people in the military department will think, originally I thought that we would be able to land on Korean soil one day!"

Naturally, the lower-level officers of the military department could not interfere in the strategic choice of their own military department, nor did they know how the group of people in the military department would choose their future strategy.

In fact, the top level of the military department is also hesitant about the future strategy, and there are various voices, some advocate uniting with China to fight against the colonization of Britain, France, and the United States in Asia, establish a Sino-Chinese alliance, and jointly build an East Asian co-prosperity sphere, but this kind of proposal is typical and can only be a fantasy, based on the many wars between China and the two countries, and the national sentiment that has been hostile for many years, it is not bad to maintain a state of peace, and if you want to form a military alliance and fight side by side, unless the people of these two countries are dead.

There were also proposals for an alliance with Germany, and then it was said, 'Ben sent troops to the British and French colonies in Asia to expand his own interests.'

But some people are also worried that if they form an alliance with Germany, then they will have to fight against the British and French forces in Asia alone, and the Germans will not be able to cross thousands of miles to provide any useful help, and there is a very uncertain factor here, that is, if Ben sends troops to Southeast Asia and the South Pacific on a large scale, what will be the reaction of China and the United States?'

The United States also has a colony of the Philippines, so can the United States tolerate the expansion of its power in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific?

And can China tolerate saying, 'What about this sending troops to Southeast Asia?'

These are the things that I am worried about.

In addition, there is another opinion, that is, to unite with Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union, and then fight China together, from the point of view of its own military strategy, this is a very great benefit, but China's strength is known to everyone, and if it confronts China at that time, then it is said that "it can only be used as a pawn, and Britain, France, and the United States are well hidden, and even if they win, it is impossible to occupy China alone to obtain too many benefits, which is obviously a thankless task."

Moreover, China's military strength is best known except for the Chinese, not to mention whether the army can turn over and win the Chinese army, and it is basically impossible to break through the Chinese navy's blocking landing.

And the very important thing is that the mainland of Japan is too close to China, and if the war starts, it is said that the mainland will be immediately bombed by the Chinese air force, and Tokyo will become a sea of fire.

All kinds of scruples about China made him think that going to war with China was a more dangerous thing to do than going to war with Britain, France, and the United States at the same time.

The navy believes that the navy is fully capable of intercepting the naval attack of any country, whether it is the Chinese navy or the US navy, but the navy is unable to stop the bombing of the Chinese air force on the Tsushima Strait, and in addition to the existence of the Tsushima Strait, once the air supremacy over the Tsushima Strait is lost, it will be very difficult for the navy to block China's large-scale landing on the mainland.

Not to mention the quality of military aircraft, but in terms of quantity, it is incomparable, and China's air power is capable of confronting both Soviet Russia and China, and the scale is extremely huge, with nearly 10,000 aircraft of various types added up to the navy and air force. By way of comparison, the total number of military aircraft in Germany is now just over 5,000, and a considerable part of them are still produced in wartime emergencies, and even fewer are supposed to be.

Moreover, this is only talking about the number of aircraft in service, and does not involve the wartime aircraft production of various countries, according to Ben's own projections, if all of Ben's aviation forces are produced after the outbreak of war, even if they are not affected by raw materials and bombing, then the annual production will not exceed 10,000 aircraft. According to the speculation of the "Ben", China's aviation industry, which is much stronger than the "Ben", is now enough to produce 40,000 aircraft per year. After entering the state of war, we will increase investment in the aviation industry, saying that "it is the limit to raise this aspect to 20,000 aircraft at most, but China's potential for upgrading is even greater, and there will be no problem with 70,000 or 80,000 aircraft at that time."

Of course, this is a bigger gap than the United States, the United States' strong industry has always been the most vigilant factor in all countries, with the United States' industrial base capacity, once the wartime conversion is realized, the annual output of 100,000 aircraft is easy, if the occupation continues to be tense, the Americans are forced to a life-and-death juncture, it is estimated that 150,000, or even 200,000 are possible, the United States in World War II in history has not fully brought into play its industrial potential, said Germany will be finished, At that time, the United States had already exploded the annual production of 100,000 aircraft. And if the enemy is stronger and can last, then give the United States enough pressure and time, and if they burst out with full production capacity, there is no problem.

For the United States, in fact, the biggest advantage of the United States is its geographical advantage, it can rely on the two oceans to block the security of the rioters, and there is no need to worry about the homeland being attacked, even if Hitler in Europe and Chen Jingyun in Asia can unite to dominate Asia and the European continent, but at most it is to fight with the United States on the ocean, from this point of view, the United States has been invincible since the day the war broke out.

This geographical advantage is not available in other countries.

Its superior geographical advantages and strong industrial base are the basis for the United States to become the world's number one power after World War I and World War II.

To break this strategic superiority, there is actually only one feasible way to consider from a realistic point of view, that is, to develop nuclear bombs and ultra-long-range bombers, and then use ultra-long-range bombers to bring nuclear bombs to the United States, and the number must not be small, at least a few hundred nuclear bombs must be thrown down to have an effect, and if one or two are left, it is better to directly throw a large number of napalm incendiary bombs.

The same situation actually exists in China, based on China's strong army and not weak navy and air force, even if China and the United States go to war in an all-out way, it is unlikely that the United States will land on the Chinese mainland, and the biggest possibility is that the United States will use the forward bases in the Pacific Ocean to carry out large-scale bombing of China's coastal areas, and the effect of this kind of bombing in a short period of time is not too great, after all, China is not Germany nor is it called 'the original', it has a broad depth, and China has developed and built the central and western regions as soon as possible in the thirties. A large number of industrial bases have already begun to move to the central and western regions, and this is the hand to defend against them, and once China turns all its air forces to the air defense strategy after the war, it will not be able to break through China's air defense network without more than three or four times as many air forces.

In the end, we had to rely on a large number of nuclear bombs to solve the problem.

The mass production of nuclear bombs is unlikely to be achieved before the fifties, so if war breaks out between China and the United States, then it is possible to enter a war of attrition that will last for many years, and both sides will lose the most likely surname.

Chen Jingyun can see these problems, and Americans can also see them, and this is why China has a relationship with the Soviet Union and Russia. Even with Britain and France, but the relationship with the United States has always been extremely close, Chen Jingyun felt that if possible, an alliance with the United States would be the best strategy in this world war.

However, this kind of thinking is basically impossible to realize, and the premise of an alliance between China and the United States must be enemies and common interests, and in fact, China and the United States cannot find an enemy that needs them to unite together to confront it, and there are serious conflicts of interest between the two sides in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.

These two countries with the world's most powerful war potential are watching the progress of the world war at this moment, and the one caught in the middle of the war will naturally not dare to act rashly, and if one is not careful, it will invite the danger of destroying the country and the nation.

Thus, in the first half of 1940, the world situation entered a very interesting scene, with Germany expanding vigorously, while China, the United States, and the Soviet Union continued to sit back and wait for the opportunity.

In March 1940, with China's strong intervention, Finland and Soviet Russia signed an armistice treaty, and Finland paid nearly 5% of its territory in exchange for peace.

In the same month, after many negotiations between diplomats on both sides, China and the Soviet Union signed a peace agreement, formally ending the state of war between China and the Soviet Union that had lasted for more than two decades, a move that China's ally, the Russian Republic, strongly objected, saying that it would never recognize the peace treaty.

In fact, China and Russia have always maintained a state of war with Soviet Russia, and the signing of a temporary armistice agreement in 1923 is only a temporary armistice agreement, and the main reason is also based on humanitarianism, this temporary armistice agreement can be broken at any time, and this is also the reason why China, the Soviet Union and Russia have broken out many armed conflicts in more than 20 years.

The armistice between China and the Soviet Union in March 1940 officially ended the state of war between China and Soviet Russia.

As for the most important issue in the relationship between the two countries, the division of Russia, China still insists that maintaining the status quo is the best option for the Russian people, and any attempt to break the peace in Siberia is an act of declaration of war against China.

This is a warning not only to Soviet Russia, but also to the Russian Republic, which has not been at peace for several years.

Chen Jingyun believes that now more than 20 years have passed, as long as he insists on it for a few more decades, then the two Russians will become a historical reality, and it is impossible for anyone to reunite them, Russia is not Germany, Germany can restore unity after the Cold War in history, then because they have a unified Germanic nation, and Russia is a very typical multi-ethnic country, especially in Siberia and the Far East, the pure Russian ethnic group is not the absolute main force, There are many ethnic minorities and even Chinese immigrants. And based on the different ideologies of the two sides, and with China's eyes wide open, it is basically impossible for them to reunify again

Although the Sino-Soviet armistice agreement of March 1940 was not nominally not as much as the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, nor was it as obvious as the non-aggression pact between China and China, it could also be regarded as a non-aggression pact from another point of view.

The normalization of Sino-Soviet relations has also brought great shocks to the world situation, and at least so far, countries have been unable to guess what China wants to do. After all, in the past, countries believed that once a war broke out on a global scale, then China and the Soviet Union would have a war, but the Sino-Soviet armistice agreement made people wonder what China's strategy was. Could it be that they want to attack Southeast Asia?

After signing an armistice agreement with Soviet Russia, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed a rubber guarantee agreement with Britain, France and the Netherlands, and Britain, France and the Netherlands promised to maintain the supply of 150,000 tons of natural rubber to China every year. And this rubber guarantee agreement has to some extent broken the biggest conflict of interests between China and Britain, France and the Netherlands.

Rubber in this year is an extremely important strategic material, it is a material that must be used in many military equipment, and a large amount of rubber is also needed in the traditional system of automobiles, airplanes, and even tanks, not to mention many sealant rings and so on.

Due to the extremely single origin of natural rubber, it is basically concentrated in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Indonesia, and basically all countries need to import a large amount of natural rubber to this region.

Germany and Soviet Russia due to the inability to obtain natural rubber, vigorously develop synthetic rubber, but the output has not been high, China's synthetic rubber industry is not large, now there is an annual output of about 10,000 tons, the domestic industrial development of the rubber has always been heavily dependent on the British and Dutch colonies.

From the perspective of China's strategic raw materials, rubber is China's only large-scale lack of important strategic raw materials, in the thirties China's domestic synthetic rubber industry development is not smooth, and in Hainan and other regions of the rubber due to the short time production is not high, China's natural rubber to achieve self-sufficiency to say five or six years later, but China's rubber consumption is huge, the domestic automobile industry and the national defense industry are in large demand, resulting in China's rubber consumption is the second largest consumer after the United States, Therefore, in recent years, in order to expand the import of rubber, it has made frequent moves in Southeast Asia, and the wooing of Thailand is to obtain Thailand's rubber and grain, and Thailand's more than 60,000 tons of rubber production have almost been taken away by China.

In fact, China lacks more resources, otherwise uranium ore, copper ore, and rubber are very lacking, uranium ore is now mainly provided by large-scale development of uranium ore in North Korea, and rubber is dependent on imports from Southeast Asia, and is also vigorously developing synthetic rubber. In terms of copper mines, the domestic copper mine output is basically used for industrial production, and cannot meet the needs of the military.

Artillery shells and bullets in the army need a lot of copper, and due to the lack of copper production, China began to study the scheme of replacing copper bullets with steel bullets as early as the twenties, and in the late thirties has completed the feasibility of surname research and mass production, this kind of steel copper-plated bullets are slightly inferior to pure copper bullets in terms of surname, but the cost is much lower, for a country like China with a huge number of troops, the consumption of bullets is astronomical, the benefits are naturally self-evident.

China has a lack of resources, there are some relatively large reserves of resources, such as oil, iron ore and coal, and tungsten ore is a very typical unique resources in China, this year China's tungsten ore production accounted for more than 90% of the world, other countries are only a few hundred tons of thousands of tons per year, even the United States has only 2,000 tons of output, Britain from the Burmese colony to develop tungsten ore, now can only get from Myanmar about 4,000 tons of tungsten ore, but China's tungsten ore sand production is as high as more than 100,000 tons per year, Before the outbreak of the war, it was basically exported to the world, and it was a restricted export material, and the annual export to other countries was limited and quota, not that there was money to be able to import enough tungsten ore from China, China naturally did this to avoid other countries hoarding tungsten ore as war materials.

However, exports to Germany were much more relaxed, and China sent a large amount of tungsten ore to Germany in the pre-war period, and after the outbreak of the war, China also supplied thousands of tons of tungsten ore to Germany through neutral countries in the second half of 1939 and 1940. The aim was, of course, to increase Germany's strategic reserves of resources, so that they could last longer, not only in tungsten ore, but also in oil. In recent months, Britain and France have intercepted a lot of Chinese oil tankers bound for Europe, and they will not confiscate them directly, but they will buy them forcefully to avoid the flow of oil into Germany.

Anyway, whether it is China or Britain, there is no shortage of oil, and Britain has no problem with forcibly buying Chen Jingyun at a high price, and it will not enhance Britain's oil strength, so it is good to export some gold, and it should stimulate the development of the domestic oil industry.

China's surplus tungsten ore production makes China develop rapidly in tungsten alloy technology, and the armor-piercing bullets used in tanks have begun to widely use tungsten alloy warheads, which is a pure luxury in the eyes of other countries, Britain, France, the United States, Germany and the Soviet Union can not afford to use it, and only China can have sufficient tungsten ore resources to support such a loser.

In the first half of 1940, there were all kinds of things, the Sino-Soviet conflict, the Sino-Soviet armistice agreement, the German attack on Denmark and Norway, the Sino-British, French-Dutch rubber guarantee agreement, and so on.

And almost every indication is that China is trying to maintain peace with other countries, but if you think about it, you can see that China is making a final diplomatic offensive to enter the war, but people don't know what China's goals are.

While China's actions aroused the alarm of various countries, Germany once again unleashed its formidable military force, and after the occupation of Denmark, the German military high command believed that it had the basis for a large-scale offensive against Western Europe.

At the beginning of May, Germany's yellow plan was launched, using powerful armored corps to attack the Netherlands and Belgium, and a large-scale war broke out again in Western Europe, which had been dormant for half a year, and this time Hitler was determined to sweep Europe away.

In the face of Hitler's attack, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg quickly fell, and the Maginot Line, which had been expected to be great, did not play its due role, and France was in the most dangerous situation.

If Hitler's attack on Poland, Denmark, and Norway was only the appetizer of this world war, then Germany's official attack on France meant that the world war had officially been served.

After receiving the news that Germany had launched an offensive in Western Europe, Chen Jingyun said to Lin Changzhang of the Military Intelligence Department with a calm face: "It's time to give Ben some reasons!" ”

On May 3, a large-scale anti-Japanese rebellion broke out among the local indigenous people in Indonesia, and on the same day, more than 100 people were slaughtered and many were injured.