This is a relatively tall building in Guangzhou, with four floors and an area of more than 500 square meters per floor. It was already a very tall building in this era. After the 21st Army was annihilated, the original location
Su Rui, the headquarters of the 21st Army, thought it was too unlucky and ordered to find another place to serve as the new headquarters of the 7th Army. After much searching, he found this place. The original owner of this big house was a wealthy businessman.
, I heard that the newly appointed Commander Su wanted to buy his own house, so he was naturally very happy. Due to the war that has lasted for a year, Guangzhou is really sparsely populated and it is not easy to find a house. With this opportunity, he can be compared with Guangdong now.
As soon as he heard what the person said, he immediately moved out the next day. In this way, Suri's headquarters was settled.
Now, Su Rui is sitting in the office on the fourth floor discussing matters with Liang Zhi, who has just arrived from Maoming. After all, after the expansion of the 300th Army into the Seventh Army, things suddenly became more numerous, including various personnel within the army.
The arrangements and changes made Suri very busy.
The establishment has been expanded, but it does not mean that the number of troops will immediately increase like a snowball. There are so many recruitment tasks and training of officers and personnel at all levels that it can make people breathless. Take Suri, for example, since
After capturing Guangzhou, dealing with various aftermath matters and pacifying the city of Guangzhou had kept him so busy that he had not been home for a week. Even the three daughters Song Ziqing, Xu Yaoshan, Yang Peile and his son had not come from Maoming.
He was able to find time to greet him, but for this he was often complained by his three wives.
"So the Americans have promised to supply us with refined oil products next month!"
"Yes, President Roosevelt has agreed. Starting from September, they will supply us with more than 300,000 gallons of refined oil every month, and American cargo ships will be driven directly to Guangzhou for unloading."
"Okay!" Su Rui stood up happily, "With enough fuel, we can safely expand the armored regiment into an armored division, and we can also expand our air force again."
"But sir, we always feel that there is some hidden danger here." Liang Zhi was quite worried about this.
Su Rui said approvingly: "I can understand your worries, and they are reasonable, but we can't stop eating because of choking. China is an oil-poor country. This view has long been recognized, but we can't stop eating just because we are short of oil.
Develop armored forces and air forces. Currently, the world's main oil-producing areas are concentrated in the Middle East, where more than half of the world's land oil reserves are gathered. And that is also the traditional sphere of influence of the British. It is simply not something we can get involved with now, so the United States
People seem to be generous now and sit back and watch us expand our armored forces and air force. In fact, they are not well-intentioned. As long as we have a conflict with them in the future. As long as they close the valve of the oil pipeline, our air force and armored forces, no matter how powerful they are, will
You have to lie down and lie down honestly. If you ask why Roosevelt is so generous, it is because he is not afraid of conflicts between us and him at all, because our fate is in the palm of others' hands."
"Hiss...it's true!" In these days, not many people in China have realized the importance of oil, the black blood, to the national industry and military. Therefore, Liang Zhi's expression immediately changed after hearing this. He lost his voice and said: "
Then aren’t the seemingly powerful air force and armored forces we have worked so hard to build just a mirage in the air?”
"You can say that." Su Rui nodded: "In the future, oil will be the lifeblood of a country. Whoever controls oil will become the overlord of the world."
In later generations, the reason why the United States launched wars in the Persian Gulf again and again, even conducting unwarranted inspections of biological and chemical weapons, and even setting up no-fly zones to kill Saddam Hussein, was to destroy the disobedient Iraq.
The major oil-producing countries have control, because the oil in the Middle East is so important to the United States. Without oil, the seemingly powerful United States may collapse overnight.
Although Su Rui, who traveled from later generations, understands the importance of oil better than most people of this era. But he also knows very well that he does not have the strength to play such a world strategic game with the United States, Britain and other countries. Now
His strength is still too weak, and his biggest shortcoming is that he does not have a navy that can take advantage of it.
However, building a powerful navy cannot be achieved in a short period of time. The most valuable thing for the army, especially the navy, is not warships or ports, but the talents to operate warships and fight. The phrase "Ten Years of Army" was shouted by later generations.
The slogan "Century Navy" is not just shouting. A truly powerful navy requires the joint efforts of one or even several generations to build. Looking at countries such as the United States, Britain, and Japan, which country's navy has not experienced fifty years of experience?
It even took a century to build.
And Su Rui is not so arrogant as to think that if he has a golden finger, he can build a powerful navy overnight, destroy the sun and kill the beautiful women across the world. That is something that can only happen in third-rate novels. There is no powerful navy.
It is impossible to build a strong navy with the support of the national defense industry, and real naval construction is also a very serious matter, and there is no room for falsehood. This has been more than 70 years since the founding of the country in later generations. China's first ship
The difficulty can be seen from the fact that the aircraft carrier arrived so late.
Thinking of this, Su Rui couldn't help but sigh: "The most fundamental thing is to improve the country's industrial strength and comprehensive national strength!"
"Sir, what did you say?" Because Su Rui's voice was too low, Liang Zhi couldn't hear clearly and asked curiously.
"Oh, it's nothing?" Su Rui came back to his senses and smiled sheepishly, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, this kind of thing can't be solved in a short while. Judging from the news sent back by Wang Dong, the Yankees certainly
Arrogant, but they are also afraid that we will not be able to hold on. Once China is defeated, all of Asia will fall into the hands of the Japanese. Coupled with the Germans who are eyeing them, the consequences are not something they can afford. At that time, the Americans
Maybe we need to be prepared to fight on home soil."
Liang Zhi hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Then do we still need to expand the armored division and the First Air Division?"
"Of course, why not?" Su Rui smiled confidently: "Don't worry, the Americans haven't paid attention to this oil. Now Roosevelt is only thinking about how to let us contain the Japanese in Asia and let them use their strength.
It won’t be too inflated. And his main focus is on Europe, which is where he focuses his attention.”
Liang Zhi frowned, "Pay attention to Europe? Sir, do you think there will be a war in Europe?"
"Of course!" Su Rui nodded: "Hitler is not a person who is willing to be lonely. This can be seen from the fact that he brazenly sent troops to invade Czechoslovakia in March this year, and his appetite is far from being satisfied by just one Czechoslovakia.
Yes, he wants all of Europe and even the world!"
"Occupy the world!"
Liang Zhi was amused by Su Rui's words. What an arrogant person must be to say this.
"Yes." Su Rui did not laugh, his expression became serious, and he said slowly: "I am not kidding, Hitler is such a person, to be precise, he is a paranoid, and conquering the world is his dream. In the end,
The important thing is, not only does he think so, but he also does it. If you don’t believe it, just wait and see, Germany will definitely attack Poland in two months at the latest, I’m sure of it!”
Looking at Su Rui's serious expression, Liang Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Sir, I don't know where you get your confidence, but I believe in you. After all, after following you for so long, your vision is always right.
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Suri smiled, "Okay, stop flattering me, otherwise I should be proud. Let's talk about the candidates for the chief officers of each unit after the army is expanded."
Speaking of this, even with Liang Zhi's calmness, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes. What soldiers like most is the expansion of the army. Didn't you see that every time the army expands, the chief officers of each army will be so happy that they celebrate the New Year?
As if, after all, the size of the army has expanded, the military ranks of the chief officers and the strength of the troops under their command have also increased. Everyone likes to be promoted, and soldiers are no exception.
Seeing the joy in Liang Zhi's eyes, Su Rui also smiled. He could understand Liang Zhi's mood. Su Rui thought for a while and said: "Ziran, I think, this time we will expand the expansion, our nephew will hold the lantern - as usual. You
He is still the chief of staff of our group army, in charge of troop training and formulation of combat plans. The three army commanders are Li Yifeng, Lin Shiqian and Lao Bai. The division commanders of the following divisions are also promoted from the original regiment commanders. The other officers
Each of the original units has been promoted one level, and the new armored division commander is also served by Li Chenzhe. What do you think?"
Liang Zhi had no objection to Su Rui's arrangement, "Well, this is safer. Everyone will be happy with the step-by-step promotion, and no one will have any objections. But..." After saying this, Liang Zhi asked again: "What about the Air Force?
?How do you plan to expand?”
Suri sighed, "The Air Force is indeed a problem. At present, we do not have that many pilots who can support our rapid expansion. The pilots who have graduated from aviation schools are still very immature and cannot bear the burden of protecting our coastal airspace. This way
Well, let's first expand the Air Force by another division, which will be called the Second Air Division, and then transfer a group of veteran pilots from the original First Air Division. Then we will send the Second Air Division to surrounding provinces to increase their number in the name of helping the brother forces.
What do you think about participating in actual combat so that they can grow up quickly?"
"That's great!" Liang Zhi smiled, "Suddenly sending hundreds of planes to support the neighboring fraternal forces. This kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing will surely make the commanders of the surrounding theaters extremely happy!"
"Hahaha..." After the two said this, they couldn't help but look at each other and laugh... (To be continued)