According to Lu Panda's explanation, these were all saved bit by bit by the young marshals and marshals of the Anguo Army!

Zhang Xueliang learned to fly airplanes at the age of 20, and later took on the important task of establishing the Northeast Air Force. With his specific planning and efforts, the Northeast Air Force continued to grow and become the most powerful air force in China at that time.!

In 1920, after the Zhili-Anhui War, Zhang Zuolin received a batch of aircraft from the defeated Anhui clique because the Fengxi clique sent troops to support the Zhili clique. This batch of aircraft included 4 transport aircraft and 4 reconnaissance trainer aircraft, which were the earliest equipment of the Northeast Air Force.

In July 1920, Zhang Zuolin ordered the establishment of the Aviation Office of the Three Northeastern Provinces in the Office of the Patrol Envoy of the Three Northeastern Provinces and began preparations for the establishment of the Northeastern Air Force.

Subsequently, the Dongta Agricultural Experimental Field was allocated as an air force base, an airport was built, and an aviation fleet with more than ten aircraft was established.

But at this time, Zhang Zuolin did not pay special attention to the air force. It was not until the first Zhili-Fengtian War in 1922 that Wu Peifu sent several fighter jets to straf the ground, which directly frightened some of Zhang Jinghui's Third Route Army into defecting before the formation. Zhang Jinghui also panicked.

Hands and feet, ordered to retreat.

The Zhizhi army followed and pursued fiercely. Zhang Zuoxiang's army in the middle was worried about being outflanked by the Zhizhi army, so it retreated hastily. As a result, the Feng army lost two and a half divisions in just 6 days and was defeated!

In desperation, Zhang Zuolin had no choice but to withdraw from the pass, and then he started to "reorganize the army and strengthen the military", expand the arsenal and develop the air force.

In September 1923, Zhang Xueliang was appointed as the General Office of the Aviation Department of the Three Northeastern Provinces. As soon as he took office, he sent people abroad to inspect, and successively purchased "Weimei", "Hunter Laipage", "Aifolou" from the United Kingdom,

"Genk" aircraft, "Gaudron" and "Black" aircraft were purchased from France, with a total of more than 50 aircraft.

Then the aircraft were organized into three flying teams: "Flying Dragon", "Flying Tiger" and "Flying Eagle". Then Zhang Xueliang attracted students, pilots and technicians who graduated from Beijing Nanyuan Aviation School with generous salaries, and hired British and French pilots with high salaries.

He became an instructor to enrich the technical strength of the aviation team.

In the autumn of 1924, Zhang Xueliang ordered 17 more aircraft from France and shipped them to Dalian.

In the second Zhili-Fengtian War, the Fengtian Air Force exerted its advantages and dealt a heavy blow to the Zhili Army. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin paid more attention to the Air Force, increased funding, expanded its scale, and reorganized the Air Force.

In March 1925, Zhang Xueliang reorganized the Aviation Department of the three northeastern provinces into the Northeast Aviation Department and added two teams: "Feipeng" and "Flying Leopard".

After that, Feng Jun stationed in Beijing and took control of the central government. Zhang Xueliang accelerated the expansion of the air force and established a seaplane fleet. He successively purchased 9 reconnaissance aircraft and 8 seaplanes from Italy, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

, 9 bombers, 5 fighter jets, and 8 trainer aircraft!

Coupled with the seizure of a batch of aircraft belonging to the Zhili clique warlords at Zhengzhou Airport in 1926, the number of Fengcian air force aircraft increased greatly, and its strength was second to none in the country.

While Zhang Xueliang was actively expanding armaments, he always paid great attention to the cultivation of aviation talents.

In September 1922, the Aviation School of the Three Northeastern Provinces was established in Fengtian. The following year, Zhang Xueliang became the principal of the aviation school.

Two French instructors, one British instructor, and four Belarusian instructors were hired. The first batch of aviation school students, a total of 40 students, graduated in August 1924. The graduation ceremony was grand, and many senior generals attended.

Zhang Xueliang personally issued graduation certificates to the graduating students and took photos with the graduates.

In December 1923, the Northeast Aviation Department selected junior officers from the 2nd and 6th brigades of the Northeast Army to study at an aviation school in France.

These people returned to China after completing their studies in the spring of 1925. However, at this time, most of these people were past their thirties, and their flying skills and tactical levels were limited due to physical conditions.

In view of this lesson, in 1925, when Zhang Xueliang selected the second batch of personnel to study in France, he selected 28 young people around 20 years old from more than 1,000 trainees in the Northeast Air Force training class based on physical fitness and age.

Trained at the French aviation schools of Maulanne and Gauronte.

In the autumn of 1926, both groups of trainees transferred to the Iste Army Aviation School in southern France to learn driving and combat.

After graduation, he was trained by the 35th Regiment of the French Air Force and participated in combat training.

This new group of air force graduates returned to China in early 1927 and became the most qualified pilots in the country. During their schooling, their military ranks were promoted from warrant officers to lieutenants. After returning to China, they were promoted to majors or lieutenant colonels.

While Zhang Xueliang selected students to study in France, he also selected Sun Yan and four others from the second batch of Northeastern Aviation School students to study at Shimoshizu Aviation School in Japan.

After that, the Northeast Air Force successively sent some people to study abroad. These personnel who returned to China after completing their studies were entrusted with important tasks. They introduced advanced technologies and training methods from foreign air forces into the construction of the Northeast Air Force.

An aerial shooting practice field was established on the surface of the Hun River, an aerial bombing practice field and various supporting training facilities were built on the beach, which greatly improved the level of the Northeast Air Force.

Wang Yinran even broke the news that Tu Qianjun would not have believed even if he had been beaten to death in his previous life: In addition to the aircraft captured and purchased by the Northeast Air Force, some of them were even built by themselves!!

Damn it! What are you building?! Build an airplane?! Who the hell told me that the industrial base of the Republic of China is scumbag? Find someone with a scumbag industrial base and build me an airplane!!

The Northeast Air Force's own fighter is called the Liao F1. This aircraft absorbs some advantages of the German Fokker and French fighters. It is a bi-wing type and is equipped with two Lewis aircraft machine guns.

The light bomber they produce is called Liao FH1, which can carry four 50-kg aerial bombs.

The medium-sized bomber, called Liao H1, each has two pilots, two machine guns, and can carry four 100-kilogram aerial bombs. The aircraft has a relatively long range.

This is the aircraft with the highest technical content among the Northeast's homemade aircraft. It is expensive and difficult to manufacture, so there are only 10 of them.

Moreover, the Northeast Air Force has its own hangars, repair shops, and ground crews, and is equipped with various capabilities such as reconnaissance, bombing, strafing, and leaflet distribution. They have even been dispatched many times to cooperate with the army in combat.

In the Second Zhili-Fengtian War, the Northeast Air Force came to the fore. The Second Army of Li Jinglin and Zhang Zongchang and the First and Third Allied Armies of Zhang Xueliang and Jiang Dengxuan all deployed air forces to participate in the battle.

In this war, the Feng Clan directly killed the Zhili Clan's aircraft and then defeated the Zhili Clan, which had no air superiority, to a pulp.

In the battle against the Zhili Jin Yun'e tribe in 1927, the Fengjun Air Force dispatched more than 30 fighter planes. The Jin Army was defeated by the air force's bombing and ground shooting, and it collapsed all of a sudden.

What is little known is that all the aircraft used in this battle were produced by the Feng Dynasty itself!!

At this point, Wang Yinran also told a joke about airplanes. Most Chinese people had never seen an airplane. Once, a plane ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing on the beach.

The farmers gathered around with sticks and spears, thinking that the pilot was a "dragonfly spirit" and wanted to kill him. The pilot quickly said, "I am a human being."

The farmer asked, how could a human have two dragonfly eyes? The pilot quickly took off his goggles. The farmer asked again, why is there still a dragonfly head? The pilot quickly took off his flying cap.

The farmer said, what is this layer of skin on your body? The pilot had to take off his flight suit again. The farmers wanted to burn the flight suit, but the pilot begged them not to burn it, saying that if he burned it, he would freeze to death in the sky, and said that he was definitely not

Dragonfly spirit.

A few brave farmers came up and touched it and said, what a human being! The pilot then said that he was flying a plane. As soon as the farmers heard "flying chicken", they hurriedly picked up a large bucket of water and a bucket of millet and said they wanted

Feed this big chicken.

Looking at these planes, Tu Qianjun walked over excitedly and stroked them slowly with trembling hands.

This is an airplane!! A flying stand!! Once upon a time, we had our own airplanes! If we had them during the anti-Japanese war, why would we have no power to fight back against Japan’s arrogant air attacks?!

How many hot-blooded men did not have to lose their lives in the air raid without any resistance! How many ordinary people did not have to suffer the pain of being air raided?!

For a moment, Tu Qianjun burst into tears...

The soldiers nearby saw Tu Qianjun approaching the plane and wanted to stop him, but Lu Panda directly showed Zhang Zuoxiang's warrant and told the guard that he was the new staff officer of the Third Army and that he was here to take a look at the armaments.

This prevented the soldiers from stopping Tu Qianjun, who was still in a state of excitement.

But before he could get excited, Lu Panda and the others took him away from the airport again. They also mysteriously wanted to take Tu Qianjun to see An Guojun's "secret weapon."

Tu Qianjun was confused for a moment, what secret weapon?! Airplanes are already very powerful weapons these days, what else is stronger?! Can they still develop missiles?!

However, when he was mysteriously pulled into a camp of the Anguo Army outside Fengtian City, Tu Qianjun was immediately attracted by the dozens of tall black boxes on the school grounds!

Because, those are tanks called Land Cruisers!! Looking at these tanks, Tu Qianjun’s eyes became wet...

He recalled an incident that the old man from the old company commander's family told him and other juniors after he was drunk. At that time, it was still the Anti-Japanese War. The old man's unit was ordered to block a Japanese reinforcement regiment and protect the retreating division headquarters.

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However, that reinforcement regiment was equipped with dozens of armored vehicles! The old man without any anti-tank equipment had no choice but to rush forward with his comrades, shouting and holding explosive packs, and die together!

The old man told Tu Qianjun in tears that he was the youngest back then, so his squad leader held him down and he jumped out holding the explosive pack!

He will never forget the scene when his old squad leader was hit by a machine gun until his intestines spurted out! At that time, the old man’s squad leader had already had his legs broken, and he crawled to the tank with blood spraying and fired the explosive pack.

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Of the troops of more than a thousand people, only a few hundred people were able to come down in the end...

If it had been that time, how many tanks would they have had to end up like this?!

Looking at Tu Qianjun's moist eyes, Lu Panda and the others said nothing. They just waited quietly for Tu Qianjun to calm down before slowly telling him the origin of these tanks.

In 1919, France sent a small number of Renault FT-17s to Vladivostok to participate in the multinational intervention force against Soviet Russia. Later, these tanks were transferred to Zhang Zuolin.

After receiving these tanks, Zhang Zuolin felt that this was an extremely powerful new weapon through actual combat with the tanks, so in 1922 Zhang Zuolin once again ordered 36 "Renault" ft-17 tanks from Britain, France and other countries! These tanks were released in 1924

It arrives in Dalian every year and is delivered to China.

In 1926, during the battle with the Zhili warlord Wu Peifu, Fengjun used these tanks for the first time. The results were quite good at the time, but due to lack of experience and lack of ideas for using tanks, the results were not fruitful.

However, these tanks are still regarded as treasures and secret weapons by the Anguo Army and are easily hidden from others. Zhang Zuolin, who is now in Beijing, also has a guard composed of such tanks around him! They will be sent to the battlefield when necessary!

After Tu Qianjun was excited, Lu Panda and the others continued to lead him to visit the camp. There were now fourteen tanks in the camp, almost all of them "Reno" ft-17.

There are more than ten vehicles that have followed Zhang Zuolin into the customs and are at his side at all times.

Since Lu Panda and Wang Yinran did not have high military ranks, no one came out to entertain them. But since they had Zhang Zuoxiang's warrant, the people in the tank battalion ignored them and just went about their own training.

After visiting for a while, Tu Qianjun also felt the indifference of the officers and soldiers of the tank camp. So he followed Lu Panda and others and left the tank camp.

On the way, Lu Panda also introduced to Tu Qianjun the strength of the Northeastern Navy stationed elsewhere. At this time, the Anguo Navy had more than 20 ships, with a total tonnage of more than 18,800 tons. The tonnage and ships were slightly less than those of the Fujian Navy.

But the "Haiqi", "Haichen" and "Zhaohe" they owned were among the few large ships in China at that time. They even had the aircraft carrier "Zhenhai"!

Therefore, the Anguo army and navy had strong combat effectiveness and directly controlled the northern seas of China, forming a north-south confrontation with the Fujian navy on the southeast coast.

The huge Northeast Navy and fleet are also equipped with complete supporting units and institutions. Its subordinate institutions mainly include:

The Marine Corps has 2 brigades of about 1,200 people and is stationed in Qingdao, Yantai, Changshan Island and various places along the Jilin-Heilongjiang River. The seaplane fleet was established in 1926 and has 4 aircraft. It is stationed in Qingdao and Huludao.

In places such as Changshan Island, there is also the "Zhenhai" ship that can carry aircraft to perform missions. This "Zhenhai" ship is also China's earliest aircraft carrier!

Such powerful firepower, such complete logistics, and even the equipment of the navy, army, and air force are not weak. How could they give it to the Japanese who only had an army of only 20,000 people without firing a single shot on September 18?!

But in fact, after Zhang Zuolin's death, Zhang Xueliang did order to give up completely on September 18, 1931 without firing a shot! Tu Qianjun couldn't help but smile bitterly, a large group of people always traveled to the Republic of China and said that the industrial foundation was extremely poor!

But they completely ignored the industrial glory created by this bearded marshal in the Northeast!

Ignoring the strength of this bearded commander who has an arsenal that can develop his own guns, more than a hundred fighter planes, more than 30 tanks, and more than 20 warships, the Japanese are afraid of him!
Chapter completed!