readx; Chapter 753: Thailand's Expansion (2)

In October 1940, over Cambodia, several planes painted with the Thai Air Force livery flew over the jungle, and dozens of French [***] people of the Vichy French colonial army below looked up at these planes, and one of the lieutenants scolded: "These damned Chinese, everything is sold, not only guns and tanks, but even these advanced planes!" ”

China's F4 fighter jet, as the main fighter of the Chinese Navy and Air Force in active service, is not small in the world, and not only the Chinese Navy and Air Force are equipped with a large number of equipment, and the countries with close relations with China are also equipped a lot, the Republic of Russia, the Republic of Korea, needless to say, Persia, Thailand, Finland are equipped, and even some countries that have no close relationship with China are also equipped with a lot, Chile in South America, Turkey near Europe, and even Spain in Europe are equipped with a lot of F4 fighters

From an export point of view, China's F4 fighter was the most successful fighter in the late thirties. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In arms sales, China's planes sell much better than warships, and even sell better than army equipment, which is mainly exported to allies and countries with close ties and purely relies on political superiority, while naval ships mainly rely on price superiority to compete. However, in China's arms sales, the only one that can rely on the advantage of surname Neng is the combat aircraft of the Air Force.

The development of China's air force has always been in the leading position in the world, a series of Chinese fighters are extremely famous, from the early days of World War I, China's F1 fighter is sold to Britain, France and Russia, the export of F2 fighters in the twenties is not very good, but this is mainly affected by the disarmament of countries after the war. But after the thirties, China's F3 fighter export situation was much better. For some small and medium-sized countries that are not affected by political factors, if the first choice for buying warships is the United Kingdom, then the first choice for buying aircraft is China.

The Thai Air Force is no exception, and even before Thailand and China became close, Thailand purchased Chinese aircraft when preparing to build its air force, from the beginning of F2 to F3 to F4, the aircraft used by the Thai Air Force were basically imported from China.

The reason for this is that it has a great deal to do with the development of China's aviation industry, when countries are still in the research and development of biplanes, China has already begun to serve all-metal monoplane aircraft in the twenties, and when the maximum speed of fighters in various countries is still at 300 kilometers, China's F3 fighter has reached 350 kilometers. While countries are still working hard to develop all-metal monoplanes to counter China's F3 fighters, China's F4 fighters have long been in large-scale service.

For example, the most famous German BF109 in the Western world, the British Spitfire, etc., basically began to be developed after 1935, and were only put into large-scale service on the eve of the war in 1939, and at that time, China's F4 fighter had already formed combat effectiveness, and the new generation of fighter F5 began to enter service.

It is not surprising that China's aviation industry, with such advantages, has been able to obtain aircraft orders from many small and medium-sized countries.

And after 1939, Europe was in a mess, Britain, France and Germany could not sell fighter jets too much, and said that "there are a few good fighters in this book, such as the Navy's Zero type, but the production of this is too small, they are not enough of their own families, and it is impossible to sell them on a large scale, the United States has not yet begun to exert force, and their several fighter surnames are not too good, and now on the eve of the world war, countries will basically not sell the most advanced fighter jets to the outside world, and China has not put F5, F6, The F7 and other series of advanced fighters are sold out, and the large-scale export is still the F4 fighter jet, which has been in service on a large scale since the mid-thirties.

And the planes sold by China to Thailand are now used on the heads of the French, which makes the French very dissatisfied.

Seeing that the plane overhead had already flown away, the soldiers of the dozens of French colonial troops below began to move again, and they were going to reinforce a French stronghold.

Since Thailand launched a large-scale attack on the Indochina region to which Vichy France belonged, it was naturally impossible for the colonial army of Vichy France to surrender directly, and there were still more than 10,000 people, and they also resolutely resisted.

Although the French were defeated in Europe, but that was because they were facing the German [***] team, not that their army was vulnerable, in fact, although their army in Vietnam and Cambodia was only more than 10,000 people, it still made the Thai army suffer enough, in a battle a French company repelled the attack of a battalion of the Thai army, and then successfully retreated after blocking for up to five hours, this time the battle made the Thai army lose more than 100 people, and the French left only a dozen corpses.

The initial losses of the Thai army were quite large, which greatly dissatisfied the advisers of the Chinese [***] officers in the Thai army, and reported to the domestic performance that the Thai [***] army was empty, but it was only a façade.

Nanjing Chen Jingyun looked at these reports, but he did not frown, he had psychological expectations for the low combat effectiveness of the Thai army, and he never expected how capable these Thais would be, and it was expected that there would be losses.

But this will not affect China's layout in Asia, after all, no matter how poor the combat effectiveness of the Thai army is, there are hundreds of thousands of people, and it is not a problem for dozens of people to fight one, and the defeat of the colonial army of Vichy France is only a matter of time, and this time will not be too long.

"Vichy France has already lodged an official protest against the war between Thailand and France, and the Germans want us to mediate a normal war!" Gu Weijun said.

As the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the most important Chinese diplomat of his time, Gu Weijun was aware of China's current strategy, but unlike many military dignitaries who were expecting to go to war, Gu Weijun opposed China's participation in the war against Indonesia or Thailand against Vichy France, and in his words: "If we can get the benefits we need without going to war, then why should we go to war?" ”

He is one of the few anti-war factions in China, but his anti-war tendencies do not affect his overall diplomatic strategy. Beginning in 1939, Gu Weijun began to visit abroad for half a year, to Europe, to the United States, and only returned to China after arriving at the book.

"Mediation is certain, but we have to wait!" Chen Jingyun's hope that Thailand will stir up the situation does not mean that he hopes that Thailand will expand its interests too much, and that it is enough for Thailand to recover some old territories, and there is no need for Thailand to occupy the entire French Indochina region, and according to Chen Jingyun's ideas, even Cambodia cannot be allowed to be occupied by Thailand.

But now is not the time to restrict Thailand, it is necessary to wait, and this wait is the activities of those ethnic reading forces in Vietnam.

In the Military Intelligence Department, Lin Changzhang frowned: "Why hasn't Ruan Antong taken Hanoi yet, he has given them so much support, why haven't they taken it after two or three months!" ”

"This can't be blamed on them, although the strength of the Reading Force front is okay, but in the end it is a guerrilla, it was okay to let them fight the French stronghold before, but now they are going to attack a large city, and it is understandable that they can't take it for a while!" The major general of the Southeast Asia Division of the subordinate Military Intelligence Department replied.

"I think we need to increase our assistance to them, and we can't let them continue to delay and hinder our overall strategy!"

After Lin Changzhang said this, he got up, and then went straight to the presidential palace, to strengthen assistance to the reading front, and Chen Jingyun had to approve it.

After arriving at the presidential palace, Lin Changzhang saw Chen Jingyun and reported this matter to him, Chen Jingyun didn't think about it for too long, just said: "It's okay to strengthen aid, but don't show too much traces, at this stage, we still have to keep a low profile, and we can't burn the fire on ourselves!" ”

"Also, since northern Vietnam has strengthened assistance, and the royal family of Annam and the Jiaozhi side must also be properly mobilized, I don't want to see the Reading Force front dominate at that time!"

Vichy France's colonial rule in Asia is about to collapse, not only because of China's actions behind the scenes, but also because France's own defeat in Europe has made the local national readers unwilling to continue to be colonized, and Chen Jingyun is just instigating it.

Although people all over the world know that it is China that is playing tricks in the Asian region, this is only a secret thing, and it has not been officially exposed, as long as China takes the initiative to send troops to Southeast Asia one day, then Britain and the United States will not find an excuse, and in the face of their accusations, China can completely veto and shirk responsibility.

Vichy France was already desperate about the situation in Asia, although the French colonial army in Asia desperately resisted, but still could not resist the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops in Thailand, and at this time, the three major reading forces in Vietnam launched an armed rebellion one after another, Hanoi was already in crisis, and the royal family of Annam in the central region also put forward a request to the French colonial authorities to read independently, and the guerrillas controlled by the royal family of Annam had even begun to march to Hue.

In the southern region, Saigon is also not calm.

At this time, Vichy France also had to find China, hoping that China would set an example for the situation in Asia that a major country should have, which was actually mediation.

November, Nanjing

"The actions of the Thais are almost the same, and if they continue to fight, it is estimated that they will hit the Vietnamese region!" Zuo Yugang was a little worried that the situation would get out of control.

Shen Gang on the side also said: "I think it's almost over, it's time for the Thais to stop!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Well, go and meet the French and the Germans, well, call the Americans and the British, as well as 'myself!'" The Southeast Peninsula can't go on like this! ”

On November 5, at the request of Vichy France, China discussed the chaos in Southeast Asia with its ambassadors to China.

And at the meeting, in addition to the representatives of these powers, there were also diplomatic ambassadors of Thailand. At the same time, there are also representatives of the Vietnamese Reading Front, representatives of the royal family of Annam, and representatives of the southern Vietnamese Fu [***].