Now Yang Zhen, who is eight out of ten unbelieving in the promises of the British, thinks that the British who are almost about to be under tremendous pressure from Southeast Asia and North Africa at the same time will be so terrifying? While Admiral Wavell was in the Northeast, the tanks supplied by the British had already been shipped from North Africa and first sent to India for repair and modification.

It also joined up with a total of 120 Battle light bombers, 50 Skua dive bombers, 30 British Tiger Moth trainers, and more than 100 flight and tank instructors who assisted the Anti-United Nations in their conversion training, which were currently stationed in India and had been prepared by the British for a long time. As soon as the agreement is signed here, the tanks and planes that have been prepared on that side will be ready for shipment immediately.

In order to make concessions at the negotiating table, the British can be said to have made a bloody investment. Although the Battle light bomber and the Skua dive bomber, including the Crusader cruiser tank, were obsolete or beginning to be obsolete for them. But it is also quite an easy thing to get the always stingy British to come up with so much equipment.

At least in the eyes of the British, they are out of blood. Although among the aircraft offered, the Battle light bombers and the Skua dive bombers had taken a back seat to the British. It has been replaced by the Mosquito and Blenheim with better performance, and has completely withdrawn from the front-line operation.

The tanks supplied by the British were all early Crusader MK II tanks, as well as the slow, Matilda II tank, which acted like a live target in front of the German 88 caliber anti-aircraft guns. Their latest version of the Crusader MK III, armed with a six-pounder gun, was not supplied to the Anti-Union at all.

It was not until a large number of American-made tanks arrived in the North African battlefield in 42 that they began to transfer MK-3 tanks with more powerful artillery and thicker armor to the Anti-Japanese Union. The British were still very powerful, and when they supplied cruiser tanks, they all eliminated the old models themselves.

In terms of infantry tanks, they provided the Soviets with the better-performing Valentine, while the old Matilda II infantry tanks were supplied to the Anti-Japanese Union. And he tried to find a way to pull the American-made tanks with better comprehensive performance and higher reliability into his own hands.

For example, when the British 7th Armored Brigade was transferred from the Middle East to Burma, all of them were M 3 Stuart light tanks. Except for a few British-made armored vehicles, none of the hundreds of tanks in the Seventh Armored Brigade, known as the Desert Rat, were made by the British themselves.

And these M3 light tanks were all lost to the Japanese when the British army retreated. On the contrary, he became an accomplice of the Japanese army's attack on India. It was precisely with these M-3 American-made light tanks captured in Burma, plus dozens of tanks of the same model captured in the Philippines, that the Japanese army, which had built a shortage of tanks by itself, went on a rampage on the battlefield in India.

Not only did it cause considerable confusion to the British troops, who also used the M-3 light tanks transferred from North Africa, but also caused heavy losses to the British. In the end, the British themselves withdrew all the M-3 light tanks they were equipped with from the battlefield and replaced them with the newly provided M-3 tanks provided by the United States, and the four-medium tanks stopped the chaos and decline.

Although the British provided their own obsolete equipment, it was still a huge amount of equipment for the British, who had always been good at making money. In particular, the armor-piercing and high-explosive shells used by the 140,000 two-pounder guns that came with the ship were not sufficient for the British at present.

Although at the end of 41, their two-pounder guns began to be eliminated from their own army and replaced with six-pounder guns with better performance, and the two-pounder guns were all discontinued. The latest, more powerful 17-pounder anti-tank, has also begun mass production. But by providing these old guns, which had fallen behind on the battlefield in North Africa, the British still considered themselves to be generous.

The equipment provided by the British, along with the German steel helmets and artillery captured on the battlefields in North Africa that arrived at the same time, and of course the batch of Italian rags that Yang Zhen had already refused. At the end of 41, two days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Resistance Union was transported.

Moreover, this batch of planes and tanks was shipped from Egypt in North Africa to Vladivostok, a port in the Soviet Far East, via India. It did not pass through the most dangerous route from Britain to Murmansk, and the entire route was within the range of German bombers and submarines, so there were no losses.

This batch of equipment was the first batch of equipment that the British transferred to the Anti-Japanese Federation through Guò Vladivostok. Shortly after the arrival of this batch of equipment, with the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor Incident, the Japanese captured the entire Dutch East Indies and the Philippine Islands, as well as the Malay Peninsula.

At the same time, the continuous air raids on the Colombo naval base completely cut off the passage of the British to the ports of the Middle East, India, and the Soviet Far East to transfer equipment to the anti-union alliance. All the equipment had to go through the long and dangerous Arctic route with the British aid to the Soviet Union.

From March to June of '42, under the interception of the Luftwaffe Navy and Air Force in Norway, the British, who suffered heavy losses, did not give any equipment to the Anti-Union. It was not until July 42, after most of the Crusader tanks were replaced by American tanks, that the British once again provided a batch of Crusader cruiser tanks to the Anti-Union. Moreover, the aid of the British, also in four or three years, also with the development of the war, finally came to an end.

And the British did not know what ecstasy they had given the Soviets, who were counterattacking the German forces around Moscow at the height of the Battle of Moscow. They didn't do anything with the tanks and tactical planes they also desperately needed. All the equipment, not a single part is less than the whole safe transport of the resistance to the joint.

When the Italian, German, and national tanks supplied by the British, as well as situational tactical bombers provided by the British, arrived. Yang Zhen, who didn't expect the British to be so nimble, shook his head and smiled bitterly, regretting that the buffer time he fought for was too short.

Moreover, although the British army provided 300 QF two-pounder anti-tank guns in one go, the gun carriages of these anti-tank guns were too bulky, and they were extremely slow to deploy and retract. In order to put it into front-line combat, the Anti-United Nations also needs to improve the artillery mount, which will take time.

After the British army arrived, he found that he had somewhat underestimated Yang Zhen, who was in the eyes of the British. For the British, who have always been slow to react, this rare Mali can only smile bitterly. But the agreement has already been signed, and the British, who are accustomed to default, but cannot accept the default of others, will never allow themselves to delay backwards.

Of course, these things have not been deeply pondered by Yang Zhen at the moment. After a night of talking, Yang Zhen, who finally managed to get Wavell, was a little tired. However, he still insisted on personally accompanying Hopkins to visit and inspect the factory of the radio communication equipment of the Anti-Japanese Union.

Seeing is believing, Hopkins lamented that the Anti-Japanese Federation had built such a large-scale factory under such difficult conditions. Hopkins, who knew Yang Zhen's thoughts, but didn't pick them out, could only shake his head and smile bitterly, sighing in his heart that this guy was bold enough to think about things too comprehensively.

However, after inspecting the production capacity of the radio communication equipment of the Anti-United Nations on the spot, after careful consideration, Hopkins before getting on the plane. In the end, it was signed with the Anti-Japanese Federation that the United States would provide part of the raw materials and some of the corresponding equipment, and the Anti-Japanese Union would produce it for the Soviet side, and the United States would assist the Soviets with a share of 37.5 percent of the total demand for radio communication equipment.

As for the cost of manufacturing this batch of telecommunications equipment, at Yang Zhen's repeated insistence, the Americans delivered weapons and equipment to offset it, and the United States transferred the production technology of two diesel engines and one gasoline engine, as well as the manufacturing technology of two trucks.

After signing the last contract for the US-UK delegation to the Northeast at the airport, all of Yang Zhen's thoughts came to fruition. Yang Zhenqi, who had just sent off the US and British military delegations, had not had time to catch his breath when he returned to the military region headquarters. He also received a telegram from the central authorities, hoping that he would be able to go to Yan'an in the near future and personally make a detailed report to the central authorities on the matter of negotiating with the US and British military delegations.

After receiving the telegram from the central government, Yang Zhen did not make any delays, and took two days to arrange the work in detail. Together with the political commissar of the Advance Army, who also needed to return to Yan'an to report, he took the two officers who were specially left by the Americans to form a military observation group in Yan'an, and Yuan Zhiruo, and rushed to Yan'an on a plane.

With the victory of this battle, there is no need to take advantage of Outer Mongolia on the route to Yan'an this time. After the plane landed on the Keshiketeng Banner to replenish fuel, it flew directly over Chahar and Jinsui bases to Yan'an, and the distance was much shorter. If it weren't for the insistence of the Northeast Bureau and all the leaders of the military region, Yang Zhen would not even bring escort fighters on this trip.

After arriving in Yan'an, Yang Zhen was directly taken to the chairman's residence, and the chairman discussed the negotiation process with the United States and Britain, the disputes between the two sides, and the strategic cooperation between several parties in the event of a war between Japan and the United States and Britain. He made a detailed report on all the results of the negotiations with the Soviet Union and the final decision of the Anti-Japanese Union to give way to Cheng Dù, and the chairman, the boss, and the vice chairman who had returned from Chongqing.

Regarding Yang Zhen's report, the chairman listened very carefully, and raised some questions from time to time. After Yang Zhen's detailed explanation and answer, the chairman, the boss, and the vice chairman glanced at each other before nodding with satisfaction. None of them expected that the negotiations with the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union would achieve such great results.

Originally, after receiving the report that the military delegation of the United States and Britain had suddenly arrived in Northeast China, the chairman and several of them thought that it would be great to be able to win some equipment assistance. After all, since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the complete severance of military relations with the Germans, the United States has always been the focus of foreign aid, but it has never been able to achieve satisfactory results.

The central government originally thought that it would be able to obtain a certain number of heavy weapons, and it was already a good result. But he didn't expect that Yang Zhen would take advantage of the changes in the international situation and the strategic needs of the US-British confrontation alliance to dig back such a large piece of lunch from the Americans.

After the report, the chairman excitedly pointed to Yang Zhen and said to the boss and vice chairman beside him: "This little guy can be the foreign minister in the future, and he will definitely not suffer with him." All of us didn't expect, really didn't, that you would achieve such great results. ”

Regarding the chairman's compliment, Yang Zhen just shook his head slightly and said, "Chairman, I just did what I should do." If the United States and Britain themselves had not felt the tremendous pressure brought by the Japanese troops who had already entered Southeast Asia, they would not have given us a single bullet even if they were killed. ”

"I just took advantage of the fact that the Americans have different strategic priorities in the future, as well as the current international situation as a whole and the rapidly inflated ambitions of the Japanese, and took advantage of the situation to do what I could and win a little benefit for us. There really is nothing to boast about, President. ”