mesbooks Chapter 433 Princes: I’m playing in the mud in Northeast China?
Chapter 433 Princes: I’m playing in the mud in Northeast China?
"Are our obsolete munitions so popular?"
Zhang Chi held the teacup and looked at the arms sales list on the desk, with a surprised smile on his face.
He originally thought that the Yunnan clique would just buy some leftover stock to keep up appearances, but he didn't expect that they would become addicted to it. They took out their saved silver and placed an order for another batch of arms, even demanding to pick up the M5A1 in groups of ten.
These supplies were mixed in with the White Eagle's military aid and transported northward via the Stevenson Highway. Even the Military Control Commission could not stop them.
The saying “Those who are near water get the moon first” is not in vain.
But the truth will eventually come out.
The news that the Yunnan clique had purchased a large number of Zhangchi weapons was leaked, or rather, Li and Bai had been waiting for this news for a long time.
This pair of "Guangxi twins" originally made a big splash in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The Guangxi Iron Army was also a well-known powerful force. They defeated the Japanese in Taierzhuang and became the last face of the National Army.
But now, their lives are not easy either.
Originally, relying on the Lend-Lease Act of White Eagle, they could still get some leftover American weapons from Shancheng, but since Stevenson was forced to resign as Chief of Staff, the new Chief of Staff of the Republic of China War Zone, General Wedemeyer, became the mouthpiece of Shancheng.
They keep talking about "unified command" and "centralized distribution", but now the Guangxi clique has to line up to get even an M1 carbine.
At the same time, the White Eagle upper echelons mainly favored the one in Shancheng. Although they still flirted with the local warlords, there were fewer actual loans and arms aid.
Fortunately, God closed the door of White Eagle and opened a window for Li and Bai.
If you ask where you can buy the most authentic eagle weapons, apart from the United States, it must be the systematic Zhangchi.
As long as there are enough silver dollars, Zhang Chi dares to sell any vehicle on the White Eagle technology tree in the War Thunder system.
Compared with the Yunnan clique, which was slightly inferior in financial and military strength, the Guangxi clique had a better financial situation and had its own arsenal that could produce enough light weapons.
Moreover, the 7th Army, 48th Army and other troops of the Guangxi clique had tighter internal organization and were more resistant to the silver bullet offensive of the man in the mountain city.
This allowed Li and Bai to control far more than 100,000 direct troops. Coupled with a large number of local militias, the combat effectiveness of the "wolf soldiers" should not be underestimated.
However, they were also quite short of heavy weapons. After they could no longer rely on the Gauls, they could only buy them from Zhang Chi.
However, Zhang Chi would naturally not sell weapons that were too advanced.
He only sells weapons with lower weights within the system.
For example, the P-40E fighter jet. At present, the Air Force of the People's Army has fully replaced its equipment with F6F, F4U, and P47, and these old aircraft are used for training in aviation schools.
75mm M3 truck-mounted gun (Miss 75 + M3 half-track, picture)?
The self-propelled artillery regiments of the Anmin Army have all been equipped with 155mm M44s. This backward stuff on the technology tree costs 6300 Silver Lions per unit, and Zhang Chi is willing to sell it indefinitely.
Even this is a good thing that the Guangxi clique cannot buy normally. After all, it is a Gallic Miss 75 field gun.
As for the M5A1 light tanks, as long as you pay the money, a batch of them can be delivered by road in half a month.
As for the White Eagle standard 60mm and 81mm mortars, which have been fully domestically produced, they are being mass-produced like vegetables.
Even the ammunition boxes can be packaged and exported according to White Eagle standards, and the color is no different from that of Eagle aid goods.
As for highly effective anti-armor weapons like the 88mm recoilless rifle and the first-generation RPG, Zhang Chi refuses to sell them at all. After all, one must always be on guard against others.
In terms of pricing, Zhang Chi chooses to maximize profits.
He bid $3.8 for a P-40E fighter jet worth 16000 Silver Lions in the system, but this still had a huge price advantage compared to the White Eagle's average purchase price of $5.7.
If payment is made directly in gold, Zhang Chi is willing to give a 9% discount.
However, the hard currencies that Li and Bai could use were mainly silver dollars and foreign currency notes, as well as physical objects such as tungsten ore and tung oil.
As for the various accessories and ammunition exchanged within the system, the prices were doubled. Even so, Li and Bai had to send a phone call to thank him politely.
There is no way around it. The arms business is about "what others don't have, I have; what others have, I have better."
At this time, neither the John people nor the Gauls could reach Asia, and the United States would not sell them. Only Zhang Chi could sell heavy weapons such as airplanes, cannons, and tanks.
More importantly, this batch of equipment cannot be supplied forever.
What Zhang Chi sells is a "cutthroat knife" - it allows you to be reborn in a short period of time, but you will still have to rely on him for subsequent ammunition, accessories, technicians, and training.
This is the real "control".
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In addition to the warlords of the Republic of China, the other ones who had the intention to purchase arms were the princes and nobles of neighboring Sindhu.
Especially with the John people admitting defeat, Chittagong was officially "leased" to the Anmin Army, and the princes of the five nearby northern states all realized the strength of the Anmin Army and Zhang Chi.
These princes were passed down from generation to generation and were raised as pigs by the John people. They were like the princes in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, who had money but no power and no military force.
Although John officially recruited local people to form an army in these states, all the grassroots officers were from John. The princes spent real money on military expenditures but were unable to command the army that nominally belonged to them.
(During the partition in 47, the Johns used this trick to trick Baba Yang badly. Mountbatten ordered the troops to stay put. Baba Yang could not mobilize any regular troops and could only organize militia.)
Of these five states, Assam was directly governed by the Johns, while Manipur and Tripura were ruled by local hereditary princes and nominally had autonomy.
Kāchar and Sylhet did not have a nominal supreme prince, but the local area was divided into large and small fragments and ruled by local nobles.
With the successive arrival of Mutaguchi's Japanese soldiers, Chandra's Sindhu National Army, and the Anmin Army, chaos descended upon this land.
However, the ambitions of the local princes and nobles in these five states were also aroused.
The Tripura royal family reacted the most violently. They were wealthy and owned one of the most luxurious palaces in the world - the Ujjayanta Palace. However, their palace guard consisted of only a hundred or so men, armed only with Lee-Enfield rifles, and no other heavy weapons.
They were naturally not very happy with the rule of the Johns, but they were even more disgusted with the now powerful Nehru.
After all, the latter wanted to abolish the privileges of the local states and establish a centralized Sindhu Kingdom.
At that time, the extremely luxurious Ujjayanta Palace will be confiscated as state-owned assets, and their generations of rule will come to an end.
As a result, local nobles, led by the royal families of Tripura and Manipur, even openly clamored that they would rather continue to be loyal to King John than obey the orders of the Delhi bureaucrats.
Unfortunately, the John people are now in a difficult situation and it is difficult to guarantee their interests.
At this time, these princes and nobles suddenly discovered that the powerful Anmin Army next door seemed to be a thick elephant leg.
Since we are all dogs, it doesn’t matter if we change our owners as long as we can keep our wealth, right?