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Chapter 73: Outer battle results

On August 5, Mu Haoyang went to the Volunteer Naval Command to report that he became a staff officer under Zhou Yusheng. As the second major turning point in his military career, he will never forget this day. Although he left the front-line troops and left his comrades who were together day and night made him a little sad, Mu Haoyang knew very well that Zhou Yusheng did not harm him, but led him onto a bright and bright road.

If it were a year ago, Mu Haoyang would definitely not think so.

In peacetime, it is difficult for a soldier like him to obtain a single or a half position in a large command organization. Even if he has a sharp head, he will find it difficult to make a name for himself. The General Staff and other four headquarters, as well as major military regions, and major fleet commands have tens of thousands of staff officers, and only ten percent of the low-level officers can be promoted to majors. In the grassroots troops with difficult conditions, the promotion rate of low-level officers is 25%. Among the special forces that often perform special tasks, the promotion rate of low-level officers is as high as forty%.

Back then, Mu Haoyang signed up for the amphibious special forces to gain a better future.

This choice is not wrong, because among the second lieutenants of the original army, except for him, only one person was promoted to captain, and seven were promoted to lieutenant, and he was already a major.

Although during the war, the promotion speed of staff officers is still not as fast as that of grassroots officers, to be a staff officer is a shortcut.

The major is a hurdle, and less than ten percent of the hurdle can be overcome.

In grassroots troops, even special forces, few people can be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel without a position, and the possibility of being promoted to colonel and a large colonel is even more slim. Staying in the rear command center can not only contact senior generals, but also obtain corresponding positions.

As long as you do well, even without a background, the opportunity for promotion of staff members is much higher than that of grassroots officers.

This is especially true during wartime.

If you meet a pragmatic commander, as long as you make achievements, you will definitely be reused.

Although Mu Haoyang didn't know Huang Zhibo very well, he knew that Zhou Yusheng was very pragmatic, and Xu Fantao, who also came from the submarine force, would definitely not be much worse. The performance of the Volunteer Army on the battlefield gave him reason to believe that Huang Zhibo was a very pragmatic commander.

Following such a commander, you will definitely have a bright future.

The premise is that achievements must be made.

On this day, two major events happened on the battlefield.

First of all, Wen Tinggui's trip to Moscow finally produced the first result on the battlefield outside.

In the second meeting with the Russian President, Wen Tinggui promised to give 150% trade compensation, that is, for every billion yuan of arms sold to North Korea, China purchased 1.5 billion yuan of ordinary goods from Russia. On this basis, the Russian President agreed to sell non-offensive weapons and equipment to North Korea.

A breakthrough in negotiations does not mean that a final agreement has been reached.

There are still differences between the two sides in terms of the scope of trade compensation and the quality of weapons and equipment.

China may not suffer any losses by providing trade compensation, because after the outbreak of the war, China's foreign trade has been affected and resource imports appear particularly prominent.

Although Western countries led by the United States have not yet raised trade sanctions, they can still import minerals from Australia, Brazil and other countries, oil from the Middle East and North Africa, and agricultural and forestry products such as rubber from Southeast Asia, as the scale of the war expands, even if a trade war between countries does not break out, Western countries will restrict their resource exports to China through the market behavior of enterprises.

Opening up new channels for importing resources has become the top priority of the government.

Wen Tinggui agreed to provide trade compensation, which was to buy more resource products from Russia, such as oil, natural gas and iron ore.

It’s just that in terms of compensation, Russia has its own plans.

Selling resources alone does not mean much to Russia in trouble. If you don’t sell resources to China, you can also sell them to Western European countries such as Germany.

What Russia wants to sell is industrial products!

The question is, does Russia have industrial products that China needs?

The answer is yes, but most of them are concentrated in the military field, such as fighter engines, solid-fuel rocket engines used for missiles and rockets, special steel for manufacturing submarine pressure-resistant shells, and xiǎo typing technology for military nuclear reactors. As for the civilian field, it is indeed unreasonable.

Trade compensation obviously cannot be concentrated in the field of arms.

If Russia wants to revive, it must revitalize its manufacturing industry and sell products marked "Made in Russia" to all over the world to open up markets in other countries.

China has 1.4 billion people, making it the most populous market in the world.

It won’t be long before it will surpass the United States and become the market with the strongest consumption power.

However, in the past 30 years, the Chinese market has gradually been occupied by Western companies. From Procter & Gamble in daily chemicals, Philip of xiǎo home appliances, Nokia and Apple in people's hands, Volkswagen on the streets, to Boyin and Airbus flying in the sky, and Western Méns running underground, Western companies occupy most of the Chinese market and have no place for Russian products. In the eyes of the Chinese, Russia is either equivalent to Su-27 fighter jets and "Modern" class destroyers, or oil, natural gas and mineral resources.

On the issue of trade compensation, Russia insists on focusing on industrial products, while China wants to obtain mineral resources even more.

The quality of weapons and equipment seems more sensitive.

Because Russia worked at the United Nations to help the two sides resolve conflicts through negotiations, when selling arms, the Russian president only agreed to sell defensive weapons.

The question is, what is a "defense weapon"?

Take fighter jets as an example, the su-27sk is a typical "defense weapon", which only has air defense combat capabilities and has very limited ground strike capabilities. However, after being sold to North Korea, the volunteers will definitely improve it to make it have the ground strike capabilities like the su-30mk2 and become an "offensive weapon".

Affected by this, the Russian president has never agreed to sell submarines.

Unlike fighter jets, the quality of submarines has long been determined, and no country regards submarines as "defense weapons".

Wen Tinggui did not expect to buy a submarine, and the construction cycle of the submarine was too long. By the time the submarine was paid, the war was probably over.

In Huang Zhibotijio's arms procurement list, the mig-31 interceptor is the first.

In order to get this fighter as soon as possible, negotiation experts from the Foreign Ministry fully utilized their negotiation skills.

The first thing that was proposed was not the interceptor, but the production license of the su-27sk, that is, at a relatively low price, purchase production patents of 200 to 400 aircraft, manufactured by Shenyang Fei, and then sold to North Korea. Russian companies can earn considerable patent fees without directly participating.

For Russia, this is a deal that is cost-effective.

More importantly, Sukhoi's annual output will not exceed fifty aircraft. To pay 200 fighter jets in the short term, it is necessary to expand the production scale, start the sealed production line, and recruit more workers. After the war is over, restarted production lines and expanded workers will become a burden to the enterprise.

The best choice is to sell the patent to China and Chinese companies bear the burden of expansion.

However, in terms of the purpose of fighter jets, Russia has repeatedly emphasized that the su-27sk can only be used for air defense operations and cannot expand multi-purpose capabilities like J-11b.

That is to say, it is made strictly in accordance with Russian requirements.

Is it necessary to purchase the production patent of su-27sk only for air defense operations?

The size of the Chinese Air Force's Su-27sk and J-11 aircraft is about 600, which is enough to support more than one year. Moreover, the Chinese Air Force has a better choice than the Su-27sk, that is, the independently developed J-10 fighter jet. On the J-10a, the WS-13 engine with independent intellectual property rights is adopted, and the output is not limited by the Al-31f engine, and it no longer looks at the Russian face. Actual combat proves that the J-10a's air combat capability is no worse than that of the J-11 and Su-27sk. The lighter size makes its performance in close combat even more outstanding.

The purchase of the Su-27sk production patent is to look at its greater room for improvement. Using the mature technology of j-11b is enough to turn this air-controlling fighter into a multi-purpose fighter.

The production patent of su-27sk cannot be negotiated, and the negotiation experts from the foreign department put forward the intention of purchasing mig-31.

It’s not that Russia doesn’t want to sell arms, but that it really wants to sell, and the more it sells, the better.

Although the mig-31 is also a heavy fighter, as an air defense interceptor, it is not very likely to transform the mig-31 into a multi-purpose fighter.

The aerodynamic layout of the mig-31 makes it difficult to perform bombing missions at low altitudes.

The interceptor is obviously a "defensive weapon".

The negotiations turned around. After the negotiator proposed the procurement intention, the Russian authorities immediately expressed their welcome and offered to first sell a batch of second-hand mig-31s. After the People's Army uses it, they decided whether they need to purchase production patents and manufactured by China's aircraft manufacturers.

Because MiG has long closed the production line of MiG-31, if you want to obtain this fighter immediately, you can only purchase second-hand goods from the Russian army.

After Wen Tinggui's second meeting with the Russian President, the two sides signed an intention contract to purchase mig-31.

Although the trade compensation negotiations have not yet ended, in order to facilitate the sale, the Russian authorities took the initiative to train the pilots of the People's Army first so that they can be paid for use immediately after the formal contract is signed.

Those who went to Russia for training were definitely not just the pilots of the People's Army.

In the early 1990s, before the Chinese Air Force purchased the Su-27sk, MiG actively promoted the MiG-29 and MiG-31. At that time, the Chinese pilots who visited Russia spent half a year familiar with and understand these three types of fighter jets. Although they finally chose the Su-27sk, the high-speed xing energy of MiG-31 left a deep impression on the pilots, which led to Shenyang Aircraft's in-depth improvements to the J-8.

Among this group of pilots, more than a dozen others served in the Air Force, and they were all senior officers.

In order to master mig-31 as soon as possible, all of these pilots were temporarily incorporated into the People's Army and went to Russia for training as a North Korean soldier.

If everything goes well, within ten days, the first batch of mig-31s that were replaced with People's Army's painted will fly to the battlefield.

The message from Moscow gave Huang Zhibo a reassurance. But the second thing that happened this day made him unable to be happy.
Chapter completed!