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In Mumbai, India, as the largest port in India and the most prosperous city in India at this time, it has naturally become the largest shipping center in India and even the entire Indian Ocean region.
Although we are in China, it is still the cold and chilly season of spring. But in tropical Mumbai, the sun is scorching the earth day after day.
In the port of Mumbai, there are endless warships and cargo ships anchored at this time.
Most of these warships are British, and some are American warships used to escort cargo ships.
The British fleet was overwhelmed by the Japanese combined fleet in Southeast Asia, and most of them have retreated to Bombay.
As for the British Army in Southeast Asia, they are also busy retreating to India and retreating to British colonies that can provide them with safety and shelter.
During this time, the port became busy again.
Because a large amount of supplies from the US military to aid China have gradually arrived at the port of Mumbai.
There are offices of the US military and the Chongqing government here, which are mainly responsible for receiving and counting supplies.
A considerable part of these supplies will be flown by plane over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and then transported to China.
At this time, in the office of the US military, Zhao Dong, as the liaison person of the Fourth Army in Mumbai, has already established a line with Colonel Smith, who is responsible for the transportation of materials here.
"General Xia is so famous that even us Americans often see news about him in domestic newspapers. And it's basically about how he defeated the Japanese army."
Smith was smoking a cigarette and fiddling with the silver lighter in his hand.
He is a man in his fifties. He was originally in the Philippines, otherwise he worked in logistics supply.
However, some time ago, more than 100,000 US troops were defeated in the Philippines, and those who were beaten by the Japanese army had no choice but to hide in Australia. He was also transferred to Mumbai to take charge of material assistance to China.
For this job, Smith is very happy.
Apart from the unacceptable sanitation conditions in Mumbai, the buffaloes roaming the streets, and the lawless monkeys, Smith didn¡¯t have much discomfort.
¡°After all, there is much more money and money here than when I was the Logistics Minister in the Philippines.
Zhao Dong said: "Really? Where are the things?"
Smith smiled, then turned on the silver lighter, pointed out the window and said: "The red ship in the third row behind has half of the aviation gasoline on it. You can take it away."
"Half?" Zhao Dong frowned and said, "Isn't it the entire tanker?"
Smith shrugged his shoulders and said: "There is no way, I can only give you half. There is also the other half, which is used for business. And this time, a group of fleets encountered a storm in the Cape of Good Hope area, which delayed their trip.
How about this, wait until the second batch arrives, and then you can take away half the cargo ship's aviation gasoline. "
Zhao Dong sighed helplessly, then placed the various procedures obtained from the National Army Logistics Department in front of Smith and said: "We will come again next week. I hope Mr. Smith can keep his promise by then .
Otherwise, we don¡¯t mind changing someone to continue this cooperation. "
Smith heard dissatisfaction and threats from Zhao Dong's tone.
He shrugged nonchalantly and said, "Of course, Mr. Zhao, I will keep my promise."
After saying that, he glanced at the procedures on the table.
Those are all complicated procedures of the logistics department. Before Zhao Dong came here, they had obtained these procedures in Chongqing by handling the main officials of the logistics department.
Because the material they want is aviation gasoline, a material that basically no one will rush for. Therefore, obtaining these procedures is much simpler than Zhao Dong expected.
Zhao Dong, led by Smith's men, boarded the huge oil tanker.
This tanker is filled with containers. Inside the container, there are barrels of aviation gasoline neatly stacked.
The fleet of trucks hired by Zhao Dong has already been waiting at the shore.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with these supplies, Zhao Dong began to have people move the gasoline barrels to the truck. Then let the truck drive to the nearby airport.
Their transport aircraft formation is already waiting there.
These aviation gasoline will be transported to the transport aircraft, and then transported to the Shanxi area via the transport aircraft.
"Compared to Xia Yang buying it from the Huangsha Baizhan System, the cost is much lower by managing key officials and getting the excess aviation gasoline into his own hands for use.
Dozens of trucks traveled back and forth seven or eight times before the dozens of transport planes were filled.
These transport planes will replenish fuel at a secret airport built deep in the Qinling Mountains, and then continue flying to Shanxi and Chahar areas.
The secret airport in Qin Ling was secretly built by Xia Yang when he first established the air force.
It is so inaccessible that no one will find it. It is mainly used for transit and fuel replenishment from Shanxi to India.
In the evening of that day, the first batch of aviation gasoline was delivered to several airports in Shanxi and Chahar regions. Then, after a short rest, these transport planes began their second transportation.
There was a large amount of aviation gasoline on that tanker. Xia Yang and his transport planes had to transport seven or eight times before they could finish transporting half of the tanker's aviation gasoline.
That aviation gasoline is enough for Xia Yang and his aircraft to last for less than half a year.
But Xia Yang is obviously not satisfied. He must obtain more aviation gasoline. Some supplies other than aviation gasoline are also within the scope of his acquisition.
The subsequent aviation gasoline was also transported to the airports in Shanxi and Chahar areas ten days later.
After obtaining these key materials, Xia Yang knew that it was time to launch their offensive against the Hebei region.
In fact, long before the capture of Shanxi, Xia Yang had already begun to ask people from the ANBU to draw up the Japanese defense map in the Hebei area.
And he roughly drew up a battle plan.
¡°However, this combat plan is just a rough idea, and there are not enough details. However, some preliminary preparations for this combat plan began at the end of the year.
These preparations mainly include the border areas between Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan. As well as the junction area between the Chahar area and the Beijing-Tianjin area, a large number of material storage warehouses have been built. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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