August 11, 1934, Sasebo Naval Base, Kyushu, Japan. High-quality update

A "Tiangong" airship with an elegant streamlined appearance and a length of about 200 meters slowly landed in the take-off and landing area of ​​the Sasebo Naval Naval Air Station. Compared with the 10 Japanese self-produced airships that are only a few dozen meters long, this one weighs nearly 200 tons, is almost equivalent to a battleship, a height of 10 floors, and four Chinese-made airships with 1,200 horsepower each, which are simply a behemoth! However, the construction of this behemoth is far less difficult than its size.

As early as 1784, the French Robert brothers built a hydrogen airship of 15.6 meters long and a maximum diameter of 9.6 meters. In the past 100 years, airships and hot air balloons were the main tools of human aviation. After World War I, airships ushered in a development. Many military or civilian airships, including Germany, Britain, the United States, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan, and of course, the miraculously rising China, built many military or civilian airships. The four countries that built the most airships in the 1920s and 1930s were Germany, France, and China.

China and the United States. From 1920 to the present, Germany has built a total of 188 airships, France has built 100 airships, China has built 98 airships, and the United States has built 86 airships. Japan has encountered a great revolution, so it has lagged slightly behind in its airship manufacturing. In the past 14 years, only 12 airships have been built, and now there are still 10 of them still available. All of them are concentrated at the Sasebo base by the Japanese Navy. The Chinese-made Tiangong airship has been purchased by the Japanese military for US$1.8 million and has become the flagship of the planned Japanese Navy air fleet.

However, the Japanese Navy's air fleet has not been officially established yet. The crew of the Tiangong is also conducting training, and by the way, they run errands between Sasebo and Manila to attract a few guests. Of course, those who can sit on the Tiangong are also big figures in Japan.

After the airship approached the ground, two ropes were immediately thrown down. After the ground crew picked up the rope, they dragged the airship hard and pulled it to the ground. The whole process looked a bit like tug of war. It didn't seem very safe. But in the end, it finally landed safely. The commander of the Japanese Navy Air Fleet, Tsukahara Nishiso, quickly met: "Commander, the journey is still smooth, right?"

The first one to walk down from the airship was the commander of the Japanese Joint Fleet Izuru Yamamoto. Now the main force of the Joint Fleet uses the Hilo Bay on Hawaii Island as a temporary anchorage and is still fighting on the front line of the Hawaiian Islands. The commander, as the commander, took the time to come back for the airship he just bought from China. Yamamoto knew that with Japan's national strength, there was no calculation to fight a regular naval battle with the United States. The only way was to win by surprise. The relatively low-priced airship with a relatively short construction cycle was equipped with a suicide plane to sneak attack the United States' San Diego Naval Base. It was the hope of Yamamoto Izuru Yamamoto and the entire Japanese Navy.

"It's quite smooth. Taking a flight is indeed more comfortable than taking a flight, but the speed is slower." Yamamoto Iroku nodded with satisfaction and asked again: "By the way, is there any problem with the boat carrying the flight?"

Boat-carrying aircraft had already been designed before the introduction of the Tengu airship. High-quality updates were different from the Americans' ideas. Yamamoto's idea of ​​boat-carrying aircraft did not need to be recycled by the airship, and there was no need to consider landing, because these aircraft were all prepared to conduct suicide attacks without returning! Therefore, Japanese boat-carrying aircraft can have faster speeds and longer ranges. There is no need to use biplane aircraft that can fly at low speeds and easily recovered as in the United States (with ropes hooking the aircraft. It looks like playing acrobatics no matter how you look at it), and there is no need to install a landing gear (this can save more weight to carry bombs and fuel).

"The boat-borne aircraft has been developed by the Nakajima Aircraft Factory." Anzuka Niso San leaned into Yamamoto's ear and whispered: "The prototype was made. It was designed with the German Folk D.21 for the prototype. The landing gear was removed, the fuselage was strengthened, and a 960-horsepower star engine imported from China was installed. It can fly to a maximum speed of 400 kilometers per hour while carrying a 500-kilogram armor-piercing bomb. The speed during diving can exceed 520 kilometers."

"It's pretty good." Yamamoto Iroku nodded with satisfaction. "The problem now is to purchase and renovate the airship."

Although it is not difficult to produce airships, Japan does not have a factory that can produce super-large airships like the Tiangong, nor does it have experience in this regard. It would be too late to start from scratch. The military information in the Pacific is now urgent, so the best solution is to buy it directly from China. Even if it is priced at 1.8 million US dollars, it will only cost 18 million US dollars. For Japan, which has seized the Nanyang Islands, it is not difficult to pay out this money. However, China-US relations are approaching quietly. Although it will not form an alliance immediately, China is likely to change its original position of secretly supporting Japan, so that Japan's airship procurement plan may be ruined.

Anzuka Nishisan has been in Japan for a while, and of course he knows the subtle changes in Sino-US-Japan relations. Thinking of Sino-US-Japan relations, Anzuka suddenly seemed to think of something, took out a telegram from his pocket and handed it to Yamamoto: "Commander, this is a telegram sent by Akasaka Ligumiya. Chairman Takeda asks you to go to Tokyo immediately to attend the enlarged Politburo meeting."

After winning the Second Naval Battle of Hawaii, the Japanese Central Committee elected Izuru Yamamoto as an alternate member of the Politburo. At the same time, Yamamoto's military rank was also promoted to the level of "first-level army commander", equivalent to a historical naval general.

However, Yamamoto disagreed with the enlarged Politburo meeting and other things. He took the telegram and took a look, then waved his hand and said, "Where is I have time to attend such a meeting? Hawaii is still fighting! The US Pacific Fleet may counterattack at any time!"

Now the Americans are still defending Oahu, which has long been operated by the Americans to become the most densely populated area of ​​coastal defense in the world, and there are tens of thousands of defenders. At least one armored division is also equipped! It is said that more than 200 hunter tank destroyers imported from Germany (Germany is now an ally of the United States' joint combat against Japan). The Japanese's hope of forcing the attack and seizing Oahu is basically non-existent, so they can only adopt the method of siege. High-quality updates, but the United States

The National Pacific Fleet will not watch the Americans starve to death on Oahu, and will definitely do everything possible to rescue the island. Although the US Navy's aircraft carrier is not worth mentioning now. There is only one large aircraft carrier and several small and medium-sized aircraft carriers converted from merchant ships, their main battleship formation is extremely powerful. With up to 30 battleships/battlecruisers, it is definitely not without the strength of a fight. Therefore, Yamamoto had no intention of attending the Politburo enlarged meeting of the Japanese G.

"Commander, this enlarged Politburo meeting is very important!" Anzuka II43 seemed to have heard some news.

Yamamoto turned his head and looked at him: "What's wrong? Did you hear anything from Anzuka?"

Anzuka 243 nodded: "The overall situation in India has been determined. Kashmir, Afghanistan and Madras are all liberated by the Indian Red Army. Now only the area around Kolkata and east of the Jamna River has not been taken down by India. However, it is only a matter of time before India is liberated. This is a great country with a population of 350 million and millions of square kilometers. If it can be fully organized and mobilized, at least 20 million troops can be drawn! In this way, the pressure on us and the Soviet Union will be greatly reduced, and it may even reverse the unfavorable situation of the world revolution!

There is also news that Comrade Yamakawa, member of the Politburo and People's Committee member of the diplomatic affairs, has arrived in India secretly on a submarine to discuss the possibility of joint combat against China with the Indian GCD leader..."

"United to fight against China? Anzuka, where did you hear the news? You're not wrong? Now that the United States is hard for us to deal with, and with China, how can we deal with it? It's really a mess!"

"The news is not wrong. It was told by Yasuo Yasuo, secretary of the Nanyang Bureau who came from Batavia in the morning." Anzuka Mizuno frowned and said, "It is said that Vice Chairman Nosaka and the Chief of Staff of the Army's Teraenuchi are both inclined to unite India. They believe that China has not given up on its desire to destroy us, and China and Japan will have a war! Moreover, Japan, the Soviet Union and India have long had the same fate. If the Soviet Union perished and India fell, Japan would never be able to survive alone. Therefore, we should take advantage of the opportunity of India's liberation and join forces to siege China together, and at least restrain most of China's land power, so that the Soviet Union can concentrate its forces to deal with the danger of Germany."

Yamamoto Iroku was silent because he knew that Nosaka Sansam and Soichi Desunouchi's view was not justified. The main reason why China now condoned and even supported Japan in fighting against the United States was that they needed to concentrate their efforts to defeat the Soviet Union! When the Soviet Union was defeated, the Chinese would definitely turn around to deal with Japan! And according to reliable information, the Chinese not long ago launched a large-scale shipbuilding plan, preparing to increase the scale of their aircraft carrier formation to 15 to 20 ships within two years! The day this shipbuilding plan is probably the time for Japan to perish!

But where is Japan's power to fight against China and the United States at the same time? Moreover, many senior Japanese cadres sent their families to China. Will these people agree to fight against China? Are they not afraid that the Chinese will detain their families?

"Commander, the enlarged Politburo meeting has not been held yet. Maybe someone will propose a better solution." Anzuka Ersi San took out a cigar and reminded with a smile.

"A better way?" Yamamoto Iroku suddenly remembered that before becoming the commander of the air fleet, Anzuka Niso San served as the commander of the 10th Navy Air Force in Andavia, and had a good personal relationship with Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo. Is this what Yasuo Yasuo now said to him? Does this Nanyang Bureau secretary have any tricks to break the dilemma of Japan?

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"Chairman, this is the income we made in the Nanyang Islands in the first half of this year."

At this time, in Akasaka Ligumiya in Tokyo, Yasuo Yasuda was standing respectfully opposite Takeda Yuki's desk and handed a list in his briefcase to Takeda for review.

Yasuda has now become the God of Wealth in Japan. In the past few months, his mission in Nanyang has not only resettled immigrants and assembled the Nanyang Federation, but also made money for Japan. After years of plundering, coupled with the Soviet planned economic model that had a great blow to Japan's economy, Japan can't squeeze out much oil and water. However, the Nanyang Islands are still a place where oil is left. Yasuda has no idea of ​​big trouble, and has always been to make money and is ignorant.

Therefore, the capitalist system in Nanyang was preserved by him, belonging to Chinese citizens and Chinese companies' farms and industrial and commercial enterprises. He was also safe under his instructions, but the land ownership owned by the Chinese merchants was changed to state-owned, and then issued a 70-year land use certificate (of course, Chinese merchants accepted it happily. Because no one believed that the red country of Japan's GCD could exist for 70 years). Yasuda did this not because he was a Chinese spy, but to make money for the Japanese party and country better. Who made it possible to fight a world war now, and Japan was in a state of war with most capitalist powers, and the only foreign capital that could attract could only come from China. Therefore, it is necessary to give the Chinese merchants in Nanyang some sweetness.

After Chinese businessmen (including Hezu merchants) who avoided China began to return to Nanyang due to these protection policies of Yasuda, the newly established Nanyang federal government began to sell shares of large amounts of industries confiscated from European and American merchants, including mines, factories, plantations, shops, and important industries such as railways, ports, banks, and oil companies! Even casinos and brothels licenses are within the scope of sale.

In order to attract Chinese capital to bid, Yasuda also sent advertisements to attract investment in several major newspapers in China, and even agreed to Chinese merchants to use Huayuan to purchase Nanyang industries. Finally, with his efforts, the two asset auctions held in May this year achieved great success, raising a total of more than 560 million Huayuan. Subsequently, the Nanyang Federal Commission under Yasuda ordered the implementation of financial reforms in Nanyang, and took out 500 million Huayuan as capital to establish the Nanyang Federal Bank to exercise the right to issue currency. It also pegs the Nanyang currency to the Huayuan currency and exchanges the currency issued by the Dutch East India and the Philippines at a low price. At the same time, it announced that the foreign exchange gold control was implemented in the Nanyang Federal Republic, relying on the forced collection of gold, silver and foreign currencies of the Japanese Red Army (excluding overseas Chinese). While plundering a large amount of private wealth, it also grasped the financial lifeline of the Nanyang Federal Republic.

"No, not bad, Yasuda, you did a good job." Takeda Yuki turned over the account book and encouraged a few words casually. Although Yasuda's actions in Nanyang were accruing a large amount of war funds for the Japanese party and the country, it also caused a lot of criticism in the Japanese party. It is said that he took the capitalist path in Nanyang and was the number one capitalist-roader in the Japanese party. If it weren't for the bad world revolutionary situation, the Japanese revolutionaries did not have much energy to study the issue of capitalism and society, and the secretary of Yasuda's Nanyang Bureau would have been done long ago. Takeda himself was not very satisfied with Yasuda's actions in Nanyang, but now it is already in the face of national crisis, and he has no intention of considering these. It is conceivable that the future of the Soviet Union after France's failure is enough. How many days can Japan's red flag be fought after the failure of the Soviet Union?

Seeing Takeda's eyebrows tightly flicked, Yasuda also pretended to sigh: "Chairman, you don't have to worry too much about the Soviet Union. Comrade Trotsky is a great revolutionary and military strategist. Under his leadership, the Soviet people can definitely defeat the German and Chinese invading troops. The failures encountered by China and Britain in India are a preview of the inevitable defeat of the Sino-German invasion of the Soviet Union."

"India..." Takeda's eyebrows slightly raised, and he was silent for a moment. He took out a telegram from the drawer of the desk and handed it to Yasuda. "This was sent by Comrade Shankawa. He had met with Comrade Lu Yi and Comrade Borotin. Comrade Lu Yi said that the Indian GCD and the Indian people were ready to pay 50 million to 100 million people for the victory of the world revolution! Yasuda, what do you think?"

"50 million to 100 million?" Yasuda smacked his lips: "Comrade Lu Yi is really awesome. I don't know if it was for Chang Ruiqing or for Trotsky?"

"Don't you believe him?" Takeda looked at Yasuda with a steady look.

Yasuda shook his head: "Chairman, the relationship between India and China, the United States and Germany is not to die. These three countries will not sacrifice millions of lives for India, and even Britain will not."

"But the Chinese are arming Central Asian Mslin."

"This is a strategy for two tigers to compete for food." Yasuda said: "No matter whether the Central Asian M Slin can conquer India in the end, the Chinese have achieved the goal of clearing at least half of Central Asia. So China will no longer make things difficult for India, unless... the Indians touch China's tiger's butt by themselves!"

"Does India GCD dare?" Takeda asked back.

Yasuo Yasuo pondered for a moment, and from his expression, he seemed to be unable to get to know the problem. Seeing this, Takeda sighed again and said, "Yamada, there is another thing. Our intelligence personnel in Pondicherry received reliable information. Mao ZD, the Chinese GCD chairman who is investigating the cause of the failure of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in India, arrived in Pondicherry this morning!"

Yasuda shook his head and said, "The negotiation between Mao and India will not have a result. The Chinese will not give up supporting Central Asian mslings to India, because only by clearing down East Central Asian mslings can they truly take that land for themselves."

Takeda Yuki glanced at Yasuda and shook his head slightly: "Do you know who is the representative of India's GCD?"

Yasuda was stunned when he heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he looked at Takeda steadily. Takeda nodded and said word by word: "The representative of Indian GCD is Borotin!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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