"These are two world powers!" Wang Jitong still did not recover from the shock that Britain would also enter the war, and sighed.

"Xiao Xu, there's really nothing to be afraid of." Yang Rui smiled, "First, these two countries think that this is just a local naval war, Britain has not mobilized at all, and the United States has mobilized half-heartedly; Again, as long as we control the seas, then Britain really has nothing to fear, the only thing to worry about is the United States. They may know that aircraft carriers are the future of the navy, but how to fight a new naval battle and how to deal with a new naval battle, whether they know it well or not, they are still far from being able to do so. The last one is that in the new war budget table compiled by the General Logistics Department, our national strength can fully support this war, and it is nothing more than a more arduous one. By the way, the Light Court will arrive in the evening, so you can listen to his report with me. ”

Wang Jitong completely agreed with the two points that Yang Rui said earlier, but he didn't believe it when he said that the three East Asian countries could defeat Britain and the United States alone, but when he saw the total budget table for the war and military expenditure, he felt a little confused, this is not a standard table, but a general table of military expenditure, obviously, Zhou Sixu has summarized all the account book data in the two safes.

…………………… 28 years...... 29 years...... 30 years...... 31 years...... 32 years...... 33 years...... 34 years... (100 million)

A. Staffing

01. Military salary: ...... 10.4…… 20.8…… 46.7……… 46.7…… 46.7…… 46.7…… 46.7

02. Clothing for support: 17.2...... 34.4…… 77.4……… 77.4…… 77.4…… 77.4…… 77.4

B. Equipment

03, Lu: ............ 35……… 45……… 50……… 40……… 30……… 20……… 20

04, sea: ............ 30……… 60……… 60……… 60……… 30……… 20……… 10

05. Empty: ............ 100…… 140……… 200…… 200…… 200…… 200…… 200

C. Ammunition

06, Lu: ............ 20……… 20……… 40……… 60……… 75……… 75……… 75

07, sea: ............ 5………… 5……… 5………… 5………… 0………… 0………… 0

08. Empty: ............ 05……… 10……… 10……… 15……… 20……… 20……… 20

D. Oil: ......... 15……… 20……… 30……… 30……… 40……… 40……… 40

E. Bereavement Pension: ......... 00……… 01……… 01……… 10……… 05……… 05……… 05

F, Others: ......... 80……… 80……… 80……… 65……… 55……… 55……… 55

Total Military Spending: ...... 317.6….436.2…… 600.1… 599.1… 574.1… 554.1…… 544.1

*

After handing over the concise summary of military expenses to Yang Rui and Wang Jitong, Zhou Sixu said, "According to the operational plan of the Joint Staff. The students basically deduced the military expenses needed for each year, but the basic setting data came from the last war, the battle in East Africa, and many reminders from the husband. So the data obtained is only a rough reference and not exact. However, I believe that even if there is an error, it is within our control.

The years with the highest military spending in the summary table are the 30th year of Shenwu and the 31st year of Shenwu. But the maximum is 60 billion, which shows that in terms of the national strength of the three countries, the war can be borne alone. The only worry is that after 32 years of Shenwu, the annual military expenditure is still more than 55 billion yuan, and the national strength may be difficult to support if the war drags on for a long time. ”

"How many people are there here?" Wang Jitong didn't know the meaning of every number as well as Yang Rui, and he didn't even know the size of the army very basically, but he only saw that the annual military salary in the next few years was 4.67 billion.

"Sir, it is estimated that all the leaders of the army will add up to twenty-seven million." Zhou Sixu replied, "No less than six million of them are migrant workers. In addition, those who occupy the territory and lead the army vote are not included. ”

"So many people?" Wang Jitong was surprised.

"Yes. Mr. Xiao Xu. After he said that, he looked at Yang Rui again and said, "Excluding the six million migrant workers with a monthly salary of eight yuan, the average monthly salary of the remaining 21 million people is fifteen yuan, and then there is one month's salary." ”

"Fifteen?!" Wang Jitong was taken aback, the monthly salary of the soldiers of the Fuxing Army was only three or four yuan, but now it has jumped to fifteen yuan all of a sudden. "Wouldn't everyone have to run away to be a soldier?"

"Yes," Zhou Sixu lowered his head, and he glanced at Yang Rui with a smile. Said: "Mr. Xiao Xu, fifteen yuan is the highest average, and according to the different locations, number of battles, and results, the actual number of distributions will definitely not reach 4.6 billion .7 billion." Besides, soldiers' salaries were deposited directly into the soldiers' bank accounts very early. The money may not be paid. ”

"Xiao Xu doesn't care about salary, he will only work hard when he sends more soldiers. The Japanese said that the salary was outrageous, but anyway, the Asian Bank would allocate all the money to him. It was their own business that the Japanese had more and fewer troops. "Yang Rui knows that the **** will definitely drink the blood of soldiers - how can there be a bureaucratic state that does not drink the blood of soldiers? It's just that he doesn't care and can't care, "There is also a high level of food and clothing on our side." For example, food, the soldier's daily food fee is five cents. I was supposed to say I wanted one piece a day......."

"Actually, you're not fighting, you're doing good, right?!" Wang Jitong finally couldn't sit still. Agriculture is prosperous, transportation is convenient, and food prices are extremely low throughout the country. Take the army as an example, before that, each soldier's food expenses were normally only two yuan, and he went to the Beijing restaurant to eat 30 meat dumplings, ordered a plate of fried mutton, and four taels of old white dry, which was only a dime and a dime. This is still the capital, and other places are at most a corner. Now the soldier's food is actually five cents a day, wouldn't it cost fifteen yuan this month! After he stood up, he felt out of shape and sat down again, but his mouth said: "Such a high salary and such a high food, the representative of the Inspectorate will definitely oppose it." ”

"Not only high salary, high food, but also high use." Yang Rui smiled disappreciatively. "The cost of equipment per soldier is eighty dollars per year. The first year was because of the need for hair equipment and new body armor. It's not a lot of money, but it's more every year after that. I haven't figured out how to spend this money yet, but in short, I have to let the soldiers spend it well, eat it well, and dress it well. ”

"Eighty is a lot. A set of good four-pound cotton clothes is only seven or eight yuan. Wang Ji said. He didn't hear it was 'eighty dollars a year,' not eighty dollars at once.

"Mr. Xiao Xu, Mr. is going to give each soldier a tweed coat, as well as a cold-proof down jacket, and don't want a cotton coat at all." Zhou Sixu smiled bitterly on the side, not knowing whether to add fuel to the fire or complain.

"You know what!" Yang Rui disdainfully, "Don't let the soldiers have a personal appearance, I feel that I have never lived in vain in this life, how can the army have a sense of honor?" You have to have money to spend, you have to eat better than the average rich man, and you have to dress beautifully and decently. This soldier makes people feel that they deserve it! It's worth dying! If the Japanese are willing to wear tattered clothes and eat some kind of dried fish that they can't bite into, then let him go. When our soldiers go out, they must think about their personal appearance, and they don't want to be bad to the soldiers, no matter how many weapons you give, it will be in vain. ”

After saying Zhou Si, Yang Rui looked at Wang Jitong again, "Let's not talk about military salaries, the food is really high, but you have to transport fresh meat, fruits and vegetables to North America in refrigerators, and let the soldiers have cigarettes, tea, sugar, wine, and hometown snacks every day, which is not high." There is also wearing. The new body armor in the equipment is only 26 yuan and 5 yuan more expensive, and the tweed coat costs 23 yuan a piece, and the combat boots are also 13 yuan more expensive, and other steel helmets, gas masks, field uniforms, and rubber shoes are not worth much. Down jackets are taken into account not to fight in cold areas. You can equip ...... again in the second year"

"Sir, it's eighty dollars a year!" Zhou Sixu reminded. "When the first five million people who enlisted in the army landed in the United States, there were already three or eighty dollars. Another five million people also have two eighty pieces. ”

"I don't want you to warn me." Yang Rui was not angry, he was a little unhappy that Zhou Si supported the Japanese in terms of soldiers. "Xiao Xu. With so much food and clothing, the representative of the Inspectorate will still agree. You look at the table below. It's all about equipment, ammunition, and fuel, do you think it has anything to do with those representatives? Only those representatives who have food and clothing can receive a certain order and make money, and they will agree. ”

What Yang Rui said seems to have some truth, the equipment, ammunition, and fuel purchased by the army are indeed difficult for ordinary merchants to profit. Wang Jitong thought about it, Zhou Sixu had already opened his mouth to continue to explain, he said: "The item of providing clothes and utensils also includes medical expenses of twenty yuan per person per year, this ......" He wanted to say that this was too much, but it can be seen that Yang Rui looked at it, and he hurriedly said the next one.

"The total number of army combat units is 600 divisions, totaling more than 9 million people. Among them, there are 400 infantry divisions, 100 motorized infantry divisions, and 100 armored divisions. The total cost of arming these 600 divisions was 10,288,888,800,000. In addition, 4.5 billion merchant ships, 1.5 billion trucks, 400 million landing boats, 400 million guns for the rear guard, 500 million containers and related unloading machinery are needed, and the total amount of army equipment is 17,588.8 million, which is 18 billion. ”

As he spoke, Zhou Sixu handed over a handwritten list of unit prices of army weapons, and the prices of large-scale equipment weapons were all on it.

Army Weapons .................. Price.................. Ammunition (unit: yuan)

Hand grenade............................................. 1.7/piece

Bazooka............................................. 20/piece

Semi-automatic ........................ 68……………… 40/1,000 rounds

Submachine gun........................ 25……………… 25/1000 rounds

MG34 machine gun .................. 130……………… 60/1,000 rounds

Grenadier ........................ 85………………… 6/shot

60 Forced ........................ 210……………… 12/round

82 Forced ........................ 350……………… 15/round

20 Anti-aircraft artillery ..................... 3000……………… 2/round

85 anti-aircraft artillery (anti-tank artillery) 15,000 ............... 60-80/round

Seventy-five field artillery ..................... 5000……………… 27/round

105 Field Artillery .................. 7500……………… 40/round

150 Field Artillery .................. 11000……………… 65/round

Self-..................... 15000

Self-105.................. 17500

Self-propelled 85 anti-aircraft artillery ............... 25000

Armored vehicles........................ 16000

Wolf Chariot ..................... 37500

Meow Chariot ..................... 59375……………… 60-150/round

Rat Chariot ..................... 126000…………… 100-120/round

Warrior ........................... 600

Five-ton card ........................ 3000

Half-track card ..................... 4500

*

Yang Rui didn't look at anything else, only at the chariots and armored vehicles, and then at the rifles. When he saw that the semi-automatic rifle had been reduced to sixty-eight, he said no more. The number of guns needed is huge, but it doesn't really cost much to equip them. The really expensive things are trucks, armored vehicles, combat vehicles. Seeing that the price of the meow chariot was pressed below 60,000, he smiled and said, "The price of the meow has finally been worn down by you." ”

Before the meow type, it was 80,000 per car. Two and a half times the wolf style, whether it is Yang Rui or the queen, they all think that this price is too high. Yang Rui thought it had to be reduced to less than 60,000 yuan, so protracted negotiations began. Thinking of the difficult negotiations, Zhou Sixiang smiled bitterly, and he said: "At that time, even if the total number of 100,000 vehicles was evenly depreciated, the price was still more than 60,000 yuan, and finally I thought of a lot of ways to simplify some processes. The price has dropped below 60,000. ”

"Will there be a decline in quality and sexuality?" Yang Rui asked. The design principle of meow is that it is easy to produce, and he doesn't know where to go if it's simple, so he's worried about performance degradation.

"Nope." Zhou Sixu shook his head. "The depreciation is a little more than 61,000, and the simplified processes affect the performance, and then the factory gives a part of the profit, and the profit point is reduced by 600 yuan."

After the depreciation was evenly apportioned to the total amount of orders, the profit of the military factories was also determined at 15 percent. Seeing that it was just a point of profit reduction for the factory, Yang Rui didn't say anything, he asked. "The total equipment of the army is 18 billion, but you ...... on this general table"

The cost of army equipment on the summary table is only a few billion yuan a year, so Yang Rui is a little incomprehensible. I don't want Zhou Sisi to speak yet, but Wang Jitong said: "This is going to equip part of it every year." He said again: "Is it the thirty-first year of Shenwu landing in the United States?" ”

After Wang Jitong reminded Yang Rui to come to his senses, obviously. The total cost of army equipment in the four years before the war was 17 billion, and considering that there were already a lot of ordnance before the war, the difference of 1 billion is not a problem. I didn't want to think about it, but said, "Yes." Mr. Xiao Xu. The plan of the General Staff was to land in North America in the summer of the 31st year of Shenmu. ”

"Summer?!" Yang Rui and Wang Jitong were surprised. Wang Jitong was surprised that summer is the typhoon-prone season, so why did the General Staff choose to make landfall in summer? And Yang Rui was surprised that he landed in the summer. The 4 billion yuan of equipment for this year can only be counted as half at most, and the 140 and 15 billion troops are afraid that they will not be fully equipped; Then the landing time is put in the thirty-first year of Shenwu. This war has been fought for four years, and it is no wonder that the General Staff thinks that the war will be fought for seven years.

After understanding the concerns of the two gentlemen, Zhou Sixu first replied to Wang Jitong, and he said: "Mr. Xiao Xu doesn't know, the season in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is just the opposite of ours, we are calm in summer and calm in autumn and winter, they are stormy in winter and calm in summer. Considering that North America is northerly, the temperature in summer is not too high, so unlike the landing in Panama, the General Staff believes that it should make landfall in North America in the summer. ”

After he answered Wang Jitong, he replied to Yang Rui: "Sir, the problem that the General Staff considers is that the troops can't be put on the table after they go up, so it's not a big problem if the equipment is not a big problem, and if there are 300 divisions going up, thank God, the subsequent 300 divisions can be slowed down first......

"In that case, why did you put it in Shenwu for thirty-one years?" Yang Rui asked, "Give the Americans one more year, and the difficulty of landing will be doubled." After taking Panama, the Americans will definitely know that we are going to land in North America when they see that we are still building ships on a large scale, and this cannot be hidden. ”

"Sir, a year ahead of schedule will be lacking in stamina." Zhou Sixu said, "Under the limitation of national strength, we can only arm 600 divisions in four years. The General Staff believes that it would rather prepare for an extra year than give the United States an extra year or half a year to react after a firefight. We must fight forward as soon as we exchange fire, and we can't wait. The Meow can only be used when landing in North America, and previously only Wolf and Rat vehicles could be used, and it is best not to use it until the Blitz tactical landing. ”

"I agree." Hearing the rat-shaped Yang Rui, he smiled, this is an electric drive chariot weighing more than 100 tons, the purpose is to lead countries around the world to the wrong road - countries that lack reliable electric drive technology. The result is only an infantry fighting vehicle with extremely slow speed, poor climbing, and poor stability, while the tungsten core armor-piercing shells fired by the Meow 85mm tank gun can completely destroy the front armor of these heavy vehicles with a hundred or one hundred and fifty millimeters. It's just that Yang Rui still has a worry. He said: "I'm afraid that Germany will start the war first." He fought a blitzkrieg in Europe, and the US Army must have equipped armored divisions. ”

"Sir. What if the United States has armored divisions? Zhou Sixu asked rhetorically: "You can't master the essence of armored warfare without experiencing actual combat." Judging from the situation of the 7th Mechanized Cavalry Brigade of the United States in the joint deployment of chariots and cavalry, they are afraid that they will not even be able to grasp the correct configuration of the armored division, and the combat regulations are even more ......."

As an old man, Zhou Sixu knew very well how much effort his side had spent on armored warfare. In his view, combat is the optimal integration of weapons, allocations, methods (regulations), and resources. The combat regulations of the armored division are the SOP standard procedure documents in the factory management, and they have written countermeasures to various situations, and each combat order is condensed by blood, sweat, and corpses.

It takes constant trial and error to get the right approach, which eventually evolves into a series of operational orders. But it is not enough to have an order, it is only a soldier's personal effort to deal with the war. The most powerful thing about the Army is that it responds to war not only in terms of individuals, but also in terms of weapons, equipment, and resources, in other words, it is the active response of the entire war system to war.

In order to better reflect this, the structure of the army at this time is more like an industrial company than a purely military unit. In the case of armored divisions, in addition to combat officers and logistics officers, there are special production managers, quality managers, and product managers who travel throughout the battlefield. The first two discuss the 'five whys' with staff officers, officers at all levels. and analyze the previous operations and marches from a management perspective, and prepare new SOP documents (regulations) for the troops; The latter is responsible for collecting feedback on the use of their own products on the spot, which is summarized and analyzed by engineers, thanks to a flexible production system connected by a fax network. Most of the suggestions are quickly reflected in new products.

Plan-Do-Check-Correct, the PDCA cycle of mass makes the entire army an organism that constantly adjusts its massive bones (weapons) and movements (orders). Repeatedly give fatal blows to the adversary, and what does the US Army have?

From the end of the European war to the thirty-first year of Shenwu. In total, they invested only $167,000 in armored units. At the same time, from the end of the European war to the thirty-four years of Shenwu. The U.S. Army produced only thirty-five combat vehicles. In addition to these figures, it is impossible for the US cavalry, the cavalry superintendent to constrain armored divisions, the bureaucratic atmosphere of the entire military circles, and the various military industrial enterprises, and it is impossible for it to have good armored divisions, and it is even more difficult to form a war organism before the appearance of piles of corpses. It was for this reason that the General Staff decided to prepare for the landing again, believing that by the end of the year, the Panzer Division would be able to wash its boots on the Mississippi River under the batter of a hundred armored divisions.

When Zhou Si wandered slightly, Yang Rui thought of the Battle of Kesselring Pass in World War II, which woke up the U.S. Army and played a huge role in the construction of armored divisions after the U.S. Army, which made him more insistent on his own point of view: some battles are won and lost, and some are the opposite, and lost but won.

"The army's equipment is like this, and the ammunition is ......," Zhou Sixu continued to explain the general table, but did not say that the navy equipment would follow, but suddenly jumped to the army's ammunition. We estimate that 200 million rounds of artillery shells of various calibers will be consumed annually after the start of the landing, and 9 billion rounds of various shells will be consumed at the same time. Based on an average of 30 pieces of large and small artillery shells and 50 pieces of ammunition per 1,000 rounds, 6 billion artillery shells and 450 million guns and ammunition will be consumed every year, and taking into account other weapons such as grenades, explosives, rockets, cruise rockets, and so on, the army's annual combat ammunition expenditure is basically 7.5 billion. Because the landing was in the summer, it was counted as six billion that year. ”

The unit price of ammunition is also on the weapon price list, and there is also ammunition cost in the years before landing, so Yang Rui nodded and said, "No problem." ”

"The cost of naval equipment is set at six billion a year, compared to five five hundred and fifty-five, five thousand five hundred and fifty-five million in the past. However, because the aircraft carrier armor is borrowed from the iceberg plan, it is now replacing the original expensive composite armor with ice armor, and the composite armor will be used in combat vehicles and aircraft in the future. Zhou Sixu said. Obviously, there's good news here.

"Ice armor?" Yang Rui said with a smile, he also hated more than 30 million composite armor. I don't want ice armor to pop up here.

"The reason why the iceberg base is bulletproof and torpedo-proof is because it is protected by thick ice. That's why the Japanese thought of putting this special ice below the flight deck as armor. Ice is only 0.9 times denser, which is one-eighth that of steel. But its hardness is related to temperature, if it can freeze the special ice to minus 40 degrees, then its hardness can reach 4, minus 50 degrees to reach 6. Regardless of whether the hardness is four or six, anyway, its density is only one-eighth of steel, and three inches of steel armor turned into ice armor is twenty-four inches, which is sixty centimeters, and even a thousand kilograms of ice such thick ice cannot penetrate. ”

"That's ......," Yang Rui remembered a photo he had seen thirty years ago of the Russo-Japanese War, where 280mm shells hit Russian fortifications covered with ice and snow. Not only did it not explode, but it also bounced, and the temperature at that time was more than minus 30 degrees.

"Yes, sir." Zhou Sixu said, "The Japanese Ship Administration Headquarters has already experimented, they have selected thirty centimeters of ice armor, one under the flight deck, one on the main armor, and one on the lower deck, only the protection of the boiler is still steel armor." The source of electricity is the conversion of two of the eight boilers from mechanical transmission to fly-by-wire. In peacetime, a part of the electricity is allocated to keep the ice armor at minus 30 degrees, and before the battle, the power is fully supplied to keep the ice temperature close to minus 50 degrees, so that the protection power is much higher than that of the composite armor. ”

It's a clever way to do it. Yang Rui smiled: "What if the power is suddenly cut off, then don't you run naked?" It's also troublesome to catch fire, and there are two boilers to go to. The speed of the aircraft carrier also dropped sharply. ”

"This ......," Zhou Sixu also smiled, "sir." The three lines of ice armor add up to a meter thick, and there are three lines in the bow and stern of the ship for the sake of circuit safety. So a power outage is unlikely. On fire, as long as the bomb cannot be thrown in and the protection is in place, it is very difficult to catch fire. Speed is indeed a problem, but the ice armor has thick insulation measures, and when avoiding enemy aircraft, the power is stopped for half an hour, and the temperature does not see where it will rise. The most important thing is that it is cheap, and if you build 30 aircraft carriers a year, if you save 30 million for one, you will save 900 million yuan a year. The Navy fully agrees with this, and the four aircraft carriers built by Japan this year are equipped with ice armor. ”

"Okay, you just need to use it well." Yang Rui said lightly, he didn't believe in things he hadn't heard of, but fortunately, the Japanese tried it first, so let's take a look first. He then pointed to the Air Force equipment and said, "The Air Force equipment includes naval aircraft, right?" ”

"Yes. Training fees for carrier-based aircraft and carrier-based pilots are included. Zhou thought about it. We have calculated from scratch that each combat aircraft, that is, a single-engine aircraft, is single-engined, and twin-engine and four-engine are calculated separately, and the total price is no longer calculated together. That's roughly 60,000 single-engine combat aircraft, 100,000 twin-engine transport planes, and 250,000 four-engine bombers.

After the adjustment of military spending, it is estimated that 50,000 combat aircraft will be produced every year and 30,000 pilots will be trained, which will be 7.5 billion. 10,000 four-engine bombers are produced annually and 60,000 pilots, which is six billion; Finally, there are 4,000 twin-engine transport planes and 15 million pilots, totaling 1.5 billion. The remaining half billion is for radar, airport facilities, spare parts and jets. ”

He said this and looked at Wang Jitong, "Mr. Xiao Xu, the first generation of jets is expected to be equipped in thirty years at the test site?" ”

"It's not thirty years, it's thirty-one years." Wang Jitong nodded, and he immediately said, "Jets are not expensive, at most twice as many as single-engine fighters." It's just," he looked at Yang Rui, "didn't you say that you would wait for the second-generation engine with a thrust of 1,500 kilograms to come out before entering service?" Now the thrust of a single engine is only 1,000 kilograms, and the range is less than ......"

"The first generation produced 10,000 aircraft, and it is always necessary to train pilots." Yang Rui explained. "The price of a jet pilot who trains a propeller fighter for 150,000 yuan and doubles the price, tsk......" Yang Rui suddenly felt pain, and then said: "Anyway, the second-generation jet must be equipped with at least 10,000 per year, and the pilots must be sufficient, and if the money is not enough, the propeller will be cut." And the range should be sufficient - from the west coast of the United States to the east coast, that is, only 3,800 to 4,000 kilometers, and the distance after landing is even shorter, we can shuttle bombing, bombers land on iceberg bases, I think it is better to be escorted by jet fighters. ”

"I'm in a hurry." Wang Jitong saw that Yang Rui's requirements were so high, and shook his head at the moment. "Thirty-one years of landing, according to the progress of the second generation engine will take at least thirty years to mature, even if the design of the airframe is synchronized, thirty-one years of test flight, if you are lucky, it will take thirty-three years to enter service, if you are unlucky, it is estimated that it will take thirty-four years. Where did the army advance at this time? I'm afraid that I don't want to shuttle and bomb anymore, just fly over and fly back again. ”

Wang Jitong said that Zhou Sixu smiled, and he agreed: "When the army occupies Arkansas, I am afraid that there will not be many US planes in the sky." ”

"Is it true that bauxite in the United States is concentrated in Arkansas?" Although he knew the strategy for a long time, Wang Jitong still didn't believe it.

"At first glance, I was right," Yang Rui explained, "that the bauxite in the United States is concentrated in Littletown River, central Arkansas, and it is very concentrated, and it is an open-pit mine. As long as he bombs this place, then his aluminum production will be greatly reduced during the war. It's not that there are no bauxites elsewhere, there are bauxites in Georgia and Alabama next door. But we must not forget the fact that these two states are closer to Cuba.

Once the Americans feel that the sea control is not guaranteed, they will develop their own aluminum mines, that is, Arkansas aluminum mines with high silicon content - before the United States aluminum industry did not use it, because the high silicon content is difficult to refine, Arkansas aluminum will definitely be mined in large quantities during the war, but when we occupy Cuba or enter Mexico to start bombing, Arkansas can only give up, Georgia, Alabama are also within the range of bombers. The mine has a belt of bauxite, and it has now been ascertained that this bauxite belt is located in the southern states of the United States. Over the past year, the Intelligence Agency has set up points for bauxite in these states, and bombers will bomb wherever they mine, guaranteeing that the Americans can only use wooden planes in the end! ”

"There is no bauxite in Canada?" Wang Jitong looked at Zhou Sixu, saw that he shook his head without hesitation, and asked again: "Then it can't be airlifted from Europe, their bomber with a range of 6,000 kilometers can be changed into a transport plane." ”

"Mr. Xiao Xu, it takes three tons of bauxite to smelt one ton of alumina, and two tons of alumina to smelt one ton of pure aluminum. This is still a rich mine, if it is a poor mine, it is likely to take four to five tons of bauxite to smelt one ton of alumina, and 500,000 tons of aluminum will require five million tons of bauxite, which cannot be transported by air, not to mention that the United States also needs materials such as manganese ore and lead. If the output of aluminum suddenly declines, then it will be difficult to weigh whether to build fighter planes to defend aluminum mines, or to build transport planes to transport bauxite to Europe.

As for the transportation of aluminum from Europe, we have no control only in Soviet Russia and Germany, Germany does not have aluminum mines, and of course his occupation of Hungary is another matter. In addition to Hungary, bauxite in Europe is basically in France, Italy and Yugoslavia, and aluminium is smelted in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, France and Germany. Among them, the output of aluminum in Germany is more than 100,000 tons, France is more than 30,000 tons, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, and Italy are more than 20,000 tons, and the output of Soviet Russia is unknown. [note 170]

Britain lacks raw materials to produce aluminum, France is on our side, Italy and Yugoslavia are easy to buy, and on the Mediterranean side, it is impossible to send an air force to bomb the local bauxite. And Germany and the Soviet Union, we are sure that Germany will take the opportunity to go to war, Göring's ultimate goal is Soviet Russia, and if the two sides really fight, then the whole of Europe, that is, only Switzerland, a neutral country, can exist alone. Not to mention his small output, we also signed a supply and marketing contract with the other party, and if it doesn't work, we will spend money to raise the price. ”

Not only North America, Zhou Sixu also introduced bauxite and aluminum smelting in Europe, hearing that this was the case, Wang Jitong finally nodded, he smiled, and said: "That's right, aluminum is indeed the lifeline of the United States!" (To be continued.) )

PS: Note 170: After May 12, mining production is basically from the "World Economic Statistics Summary"