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Before Mikoyan left, he left his most trusted confidant 'Sergei' in Xu's army, which is currently the headquarters of the Burmese First Army.

The purpose was to maintain contact with Xu's army and strengthen the relationship between the Red Army and Xu's army, and secondly to learn Xu's army's tactics and weapons application, and further understand the matching between various equipment.

Theoretically speaking, the Soviet Union was able to withstand millions of elite German troops, and its tactical application must have been extremely strong, and there was no need for it to learn from Xu's army.

Unfortunately, Xu's army's equipment was too advanced, and the existing tactics could not be combined with it at all.

For example, trench tactics are still used in many battles, using trenches to avoid bullets and artillery shells.

However, what about Xu's army? They rarely dug trenches, and even the division headquarters did not have a matching engineering regiment, at most there was an engineering battalion.

The role of these engineers is not to dig trenches or anything like that. Their main task is to build temporary command posts, maintain bridges and roads, etc. to facilitate the passage of mechanized troops.

Why not dig trenches?

Because Xu’s army’s artillery has an absolute range advantage.

Take the Type 150 18mm cannon commonly used by the Japanese as an example, its maximum range is kilometers.

Among the artillery pieces of the same caliber in Xu's army, the Type 66 152mm cannon of the artillery brigade has the shortest range, with a base-bleed shell of 22 kilometers.

Even so, the range is 4 kilometers longer than that of the Japanese.

Not to mention the Type 83 152mm self-propelled howitzer, with a maximum range of 30 kilometers.

Don't underestimate the difference in range. Even a difference of 1 kilometer can result in a crushing defeat.

Therefore, the Japanese had no way of purchasing artillery positions within Xu's army's firepower network, but if they purchased artillery positions outside the firepower network, their artillery shells would not be able to reach them.

As for individual firepower, let alone, all personnel are equipped with automatic rifles, each squad has a light machine gun, a vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun, a rocket launcher, and an 82mm mortar, which can be matched according to wartime needs.

It can be said that the firepower of an infantry squad of Xu’s army is equivalent to that of a Japanese squadron.

Therefore, trenches had no meaning in Xu's army, so they were almost never dug!

Another example is the new infantry-tank-artillery coordinated operations under the guidance of the guard team members, as well as the squad-level coordinated operations in support of Central China, all of which shone brightly.

Sergey has been in contemplation all the time!

At this moment, Xu Le looked at the palm that Sergei stretched out and asked in confusion: "Mr. Sergei, what do you mean by this?"

Sergei replied with a hint of excitement: "Marshal Xu, the equipment purchased from your army took a full 40 days to reach the Red Army front. Marshal Zhukov of our army immediately equipped it all. Guess what, we managed to repel an attack organized by the German army with 5 troops, and our casualties were less than half of the previous ones!"

Xu Le smiled slightly: "Congratulations, I wish you success in defending your hometown!"

Sergei stood up and bowed deeply to Xu Le.

Wei Li hurried forward and helped him up.

"Mr. Sergey, what are you doing?"

"On behalf of Marshal Zhukov and Mr. Mikoyan, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you. Your equipment is really great. I am ordered by them to formally place an order with you on behalf of the Soviet Red Army. Based on your army's organizational structure, we want equipment for five armies!"

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Xu Le and Wei Li were both shocked. It was indeed a big country, with five armies at the first word!

It took Xu's army more than two years to develop from a division of several thousand people to only four armies now. You can imagine how much effort it took.

Xu Le did not hesitate and readily agreed: "No problem, our army has drafted a Lend-Lease Act, and I will give you a copy later. Please take it back to the Soviet Union and hand it over to your Mr. Stalin."

Sergei was stunned, and many images flashed through his mind in an instant, but this was not his responsibility, the people above him would be responsible for it.

He did not put down his outstretched hands, but continued: "Marshal Xu, we also hope to purchase fighter jets for five aviation brigades from your army!"

This time it was Xu Le's turn to be in trouble. He could sell the J-5 fighter jet, but he only had the Q-5 attack aircraft and the H-5 and H-6 bombers. There was no alternative.

"Mr. Sergey, I'm afraid this won't work! Last time I told Mr. Mikoyan that we can only sell the J-5 and Z-5 aircraft. I'm really sorry!"

Sergei already knew this would happen. He just tried it out with hope. What if it worked?

An idea suddenly occurred to him: "Marshal Xu, you just mentioned the Lend-Lease Act. Can our country use your bombers on a lease basis?"

Lend-lease actually means lending it to you, and you have to return it to me after the war is over.

All the technology and equipment still belong to Xu's army!

This time Xu Le nodded and said, "That's fine, but the quantity is limited! And I will only provide it to you, the Soviet Union, not to any other country!"

Sergei stood up again and bowed slightly to Xu Le.

He was sure that as long as he had the equipment of these five armies and the fighter jets of the aviation brigade, Stalingrad could definitely be defended!

As long as they can hold on through this stage, the Soviet Union will have a chance to catch its breath and then launch a counterattack!

As for naval equipment, Sergei did not mention the demand. This may be because the Soviet Union’s north is the Arctic Ocean, where ships are difficult to sail, and its battlefields are all on land.

"Marshal Xu, the money and steel for the last batch of equipment are already on the way, and it will take at most five days to reach your country's Acropolis. This time we still hope to receive the equipment first, just like last time, and then pay the money later!"

Xu Le waved his hand and said, "No problem. The Soviet Red Army is our staunch ally. The 20% discount I promised you will be valid forever, and everything else will be implemented according to the law! Regarding this aspect, our military advisor will discuss it with you in detail!"

In his previous life, there were only a few countries that Xu Le had a favorable impression of, and the Soviet Union was at the top of the list.

In this life, no matter from which perspective, the Soviet Union must be trusted.

The next day, a team of dozens of people led by Sergei, Wei Li, and Zhu Xiaoping conducted a detailed statistics of the aid equipment.

On the third day, Sergei and Wei Li set out together and headed for Moscow with the Lend-Lease Act specifically for Xu's army.

According to statistics, including 6 helicopters, the Type 63 armored vehicles were replaced by trucks, and all self-propelled artillery and rocket launchers were replaced with Type 60 122mm cannons and Type 54 howitzers.

An armored division costs $4600 million plus tons of iron;

A mechanized infantry division costs $4000 million plus tons of iron;

A motorized infantry division costs $3000 million plus tons of iron;

The price of one artillery brigade was $960 million plus 1680 tons of iron.

Without taking into account the large amount of additional ammunition purchased, the price of one army was US$6780 million, 67.8 tons of gold, and tons of iron.

According to Xu Le's memory, it cost the United States about 4000 million US dollars to form an infantry division during this period. If calculated based on 4 divisions plus 1 brigade, it would cost nearly 7 tons of iron.

In fact, the price difference between the two is almost the same!

However, even a powerful country like the United States is not as well-equipped as Xu's army.

Especially in terms of the performance of tanks and trucks, it surpassed at least one level!

If you really count it, Xu Jiajun’s product has a much higher cost-effectiveness!

This has been carefully calculated by Xu Le and others, and they don't have to worry about the Lend-Lease Act not being accepted by other countries!

For example, Sergei did not hesitate at all after calculating the total price of this aid. After a 5% discount, 271.2 corps of soldiers were equivalent to rubles, tons of gold, and tons of iron.

Purchasing from the system only costs 680 million military merit points for one army, mainly because the tanks have shrunk in size and the armored vehicles are gone!