With Sun Erwei's promise, Wang Xuexin was half relieved.
But it was only half of it. It was only Sun Erwei who made the promise. Whether Yingjiang would agree or not was another matter.
But Wang Xuexin's worry seemed a bit unnecessary, because as soon as Yingjiang heard Sun Erwei's explanation, he immediately agreed to transfer a batch of gyroscopes to the Eighth Route Army.
The admiral's explanation for this was: "This is for our own benefit, and it is also a thank you to the Chinese Battalion Commander! Without the advice of the Chinese Battalion Commander, I believe that the Battle of the Coral Sea would not have gone so smoothly!"
After that, the admiral said to Doolittle, who was in charge of Chinese affairs: "Of course, it is one thing that we are willing. These gyroscopes require cost. Ten thousand gyroscopes is not a small amount. We hope..."
After thinking for a while, the admiral said to Doolittle: "Send the details of the Battle of the Coral Sea to the Chinese battalion commander. We hope he can give some suggestions!"
The admiral did not specify what the recommendations were.
The reason why he did this was actually to test the Chinese battalion commander.
If the Chinese battalion commander does not tell the Chinese battalion commander the specific direction but the Chinese battalion commander knows what the navy is worried or hesitant about, it proves that the Chinese battalion commander is genuine and the advice he gives has a little more credibility.
As a result, the specific combat process of the Coral Sea Battle was quickly sent to Yuncheng... This was no longer a secret. After all, the battle was over, and the Japanese already knew what they should know. Only outsiders such as Huaxia and Mao Xiong did not know the specific situation.
Sun Erwei immediately rushed to Wang Xuexin's office with the documents after receiving the fighting process.
"King!" Sun Erwei piled a stack of documents in front of Wang Xuexin, who was signing the supply confirmation form, and said, "Look at this!"
"What is this?" Wang Xuexin stopped writing, picked up the document and flipped through it, then looked up at Sun Erwei in confusion: "Battle of the Coral Sea? Why do you give me this?"
Sun Erwei raised the list in his hand and handed it over, saying: "This is the estimated cost of transporting the gyroscope... We only said that we can provide it to your army first, but we did not say it would be free!"
Wang Xuexin looked at the list. On average, a gyroscope costs about more than 1,200 US dollars. More than 10,000 gyroscopes cost at least more than 10 million US dollars. It is so damn expensive.
But this seems to be reasonable.
First of all, this is something that China cannot produce and only eagle sauce can produce, so the eagle sauce will cost as much as you want.
Secondly, this requires the use of transport aircraft to transport them through the hump route. If 20,000 are transported, 10,000 may not be delivered to the Eighth Route Army in the end, not counting the losses of the transport aircraft and pilots.
This is also one of the reasons why it is unrealistic to improve the accuracy of rockets... Who would use a gyroscope worth more than a thousand dollars to improve the accuracy of rockets that cost only a few dozen dollars or even less? Wouldn't it be nice to just build dozens of rockets?
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Seeing Wang Xuexin's embarrassed look, Sun Erwei patted the stack of documents and said: "But if you can read these materials and give some valuable suggestions... you don't need to worry about this list. Second choice
One, which one do you choose?"
In fact, there is no need to ask at all, no one is stupid enough to choose a list.
only……
Wang Xuexin said: "Of course I know how to choose, but I may not be able to come up with something valuable!"
"Why don't you give it a try?" Sun Erwei said, "It won't waste much of your time anyway, what do you think?"
Wang Xuexin thought it was right, so he picked up the document and read it.
What is written in the document is the combat process from the perspective of Yingjiang, detailing what time the battle occurred, or what information was received to send fighter planes to search for the Japanese aircraft carrier, etc.
Wang Xuexin was dazzled even after looking at it for a while.
This is not Wang Xuexin’s fault. This battle was fought in a chaotic manner. Neither the enemy nor we were fully prepared, and intelligence kept making mistakes. For example, the Japanese Air Force found an oil tanker and a destroyer and thought it was Yingjiang’s aircraft carrier, so they sent Dajing fighter jets. , bomber bombing, the same situation also happened to Yingjiang.
After looking at it for a long time, Wang Xuexin threw the document aside.
Sun Erwei asked: "Is there anything you don't understand?"
This was expected by Sun Erwei, because he felt that Wang Xuexin was a Chinese battalion commander, and he was in the army. He might not have even seen a warship, so of course he would not understand a lot about the combat process.
Sun Erwei had already made some preparations. He came with data on the ships and fighter jets participating in the war.
But Wang Xuexin doesn't care about this.
Wang Xuexin looked at the equipment data that Sun Erwei took out from the folder, shook his head and said, "I think if I just make suggestions on equipment, you may be disappointed."
"No, of course not!" Sun Erwei replied: "Have you forgotten? Many of the equipment you gave have worked! I think this is why they want your advice, even at the cost of 10,000 gyroscopes. !”
Wang Xuexin smiled and asked, "Do you really think so?"
Sun Erwei looked at Wang Xuexin doubtfully: "What else could it be?"
Wang Xuexin picked up the document filled with the battle process, flipped through it, and said: "Sun Erwei, I wonder if you have noticed that almost no naval equipment was used in this battle, I mean naval guns..."
Sun Erwei was stunned, took the document from Wang Xuexin, flipped through it, and then nodded: "You are right, naval guns are indeed not used! Because... because the fleet is not in direct contact!"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin said: "The fleet has no direct contact!"
Sun Erwei shrugged: "What does this mean?"
Wang Xuexin shook his head. Sun Erwei was just an intelligence officer. He was neither a navy nor a tactical expert, so he was not sensitive to this aspect.
The Battle of the Coral Sea is world-famous not only because it was the turning point in the Pacific battlefield from Japanese attack to stalemate, but also because it was the first battle between carriers and carriers in history.
Prior to this, all naval battle modes were that enemy and friendly fleets met at a visual distance, and then bombarded each other with naval guns. Aircraft only played a supporting role in this naval battle mode.
At this stage, no one understands or knows the role of aircraft carriers in naval battles, let alone what the pattern of future naval battles will be. Even if there is, it is just a vague guess, but no one can be sure.
Therefore, the aircraft carrier was an object of ridicule during this period. It was considered a target for enemy warships. The navies of various countries were still developing in the direction of big guns and giant ships, and generally used aircraft carriers as auxiliaries, that is, the front cannons and giant ships were facing Boom, fighter planes and bombers from the rear aircraft carrier took off to assist in the battle...
However, after the Battle of the Coral Sea, many people were surprised to find that actual combat and imagination are two different things, and this situation will probably not occur in actual combat.