The Air Force expels the Fourth Brigade from Chongqing Dazhongba Airport
Today, a group of pilots were sitting on the lawn as usual, looking at the few scattered biplanes parked on the runway. A pilot wearing a leather jacket and a fur hat complained to a man in his thirties next to him:
"Captain, we haven't had daily training for a week. If this continues, I might not even be able to fly the plane."
The captain snorted softly: "You think I don't want to, but now we only have these few planes left, and the spare parts are almost exhausted. If you let them fly openly, you won't be able to use those spare parts for half a month."
We have to use them all up. If something happens, how will we get to heaven?"
"But we can't sit like this." A pilot next to him couldn't help but said: "If we sit down like this, even if the Japanese plane comes, we will only be living targets after we get into the sky, so what's the point?
What’s the use?”
"It's just... Lao Yu is right, we can't continue like this."
"Captain, please talk to the boss and ask them to find a way to get a batch of spare parts and fuel back. The training cannot stop."
The pilots nearby spoke one after another.
The captain didn't say anything. Today, all China's sea ports have been occupied by the Japanese army. Foreign military aid cannot come in at all. Not to mention spare parts, there is not much aviation kerosene left.
The air force is no better than the infantry. In order to maintain their condition, pilots must maintain flight training for a certain period of time. If they do not train for a long time, the pilot's physical function and flight consciousness will decline rapidly. Once a war breaks out, it will be fatal for the pilot.
So why is it said that a qualified pilot is made of gold? This is the reason.
Just when the pilots were full of complaints, a major ran over sweating profusely.
"Captain Chu...Captain Chu...Commander Zhou has come to our airport and wants to see you by name."
"Commander Zhou wants to see me?"
When Chu Yuan heard this, he quickly stood up and hurriedly followed the major towards the tower.
When he arrived at the tower, he saw a middle-aged man with a somewhat stout body looking at him intently. This man was the then Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Second Class General Zhou Zhirou.
Chu Yuan said loudly: "Report... Chu Yuan, captain of the Fourth Expulsion Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army Air Force, was ordered to arrive and ask for instructions from the Commander-in-Chief!"
Zhou Zhirou looked him over and said kindly: "Captain Chu, how is the situation of the Fourth Brigade recently?"
Chu Yuan smiled bitterly: "Commander, it's not like you don't know our situation. We are short of aircraft, parts, and fuel. We are short of everything except people. The brothers of the Fourth Brigade have not conducted daily training for more than a week. What follows is
There are a lot of complaints, and although the staff tried their best to appease them, the people below are still in a state of turmoil."
Zhou Zhirou sighed softly: "The country is weak. What can I, the commander of the Air Force, do? The fact that the Air Force still has this little wealth is the result of the hard work of all my colleagues."
Chu Yuan stopped talking. How could he not know Zhou Zhirou's difficulties?
Nowadays, foreign aid channels have been cut off. Before the war, the Chinese Air Force still had more than 300 aircraft that could be used for combat. Now I am afraid that there are less than 20 aircraft, and they are still some old-fashioned bi-wing fighters. Even if they barely take off, they can only serve as Japanese aircraft.
Human target.
But even so, they still carefully maintain those old planes every day, because they know that these planes are the last barrier to China's sky.
Looking at the silent Chu Yuan, Zhou Zhirou felt very uncomfortable and patted his shoulder, "Okay, don't think too much. Now there is an opportunity for you to equip a new fighter plane. It depends on your ability."
Can’t catch it.”
"Equipped with new fighters? What kind of fighters? How many are there?"
As soon as he heard this, Chu Yuan, who was still a little sad at first, became excited as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood, and his eyes also shone with excitement.
"That's right." Zhou Zhirou coughed lightly, "You should know about the Japanese army's raid on Zhongtiao Mountain a few days ago, right?"
"I heard." Chu Yuan nodded.
"There is a Liantai militia in the Shanxi World War II zone. I don't know what tricks the leader of the Liantai militia used. He was able to obtain many advanced new aircraft including bombers and combat aircraft, and also formed a military force with dozens of people.
A flying group of aircraft.
Just yesterday, this flying group launched a fierce air battle with the Japanese Third Flying Group at Zhongtiao Mountain. It used 24 aircraft to fight against more than 70 Japanese aircraft, and shot down 52 Japanese aircraft at the cost of losing seven fighter aircraft.
Airplane, achieved a major victory!"
"What...is there such a thing?"
Chu Yuan was shocked. There were more than 20 people versus more than 70 people. This was already a huge disparity, but the other party could actually win almost 7:1. What kind of people are these?
"No!" Chu Yuan quickly came back to his senses and looked at Zhou Zhirou fiercely, "Sir, is there something wrong with this victory and the plane they flew?"
"Is that true?" Zhou Zhirou glanced at Chu Yuan appreciatively, "According to the intelligence sent by our agents lurking in Liantai County, the fighter planes equipped by the Liantai Flying Brigade are the latest practical fighters that the Americans just successfully test-flighted this month. Whether it is
Both firepower and maneuverability are the first-class fighters in the world today.
Their ability to achieve this victory is closely related to this fighter aircraft. But the Liantai Flying Group also has a fatal weakness, that is, they have too few pilots. So yesterday he made a request to us through Commander He Yingqin, hoping that
We can allocate a group of experienced pilots to them.
After careful consideration, I decided to agree to his request, so I immediately thought of your Fourth Brigade."
"What... transfer our pilots to the Liantai Flying Group? Are you kidding?"
Chu Yuan became angry when he heard this. This is just like if you want to transfer the backbone of a central enterprise to a small local private enterprise in the future, people will definitely get angry.
"Listen to me first."
Zhou Zhirou signaled Chu Yuan to calm down, "I was not happy at first. Our pilots are all carefully selected with great pains. How can we transfer them to a militia group? This is too cheap.
But then I came up with another idea, which is to exchange pilots for aircraft. How many pilots the other party wants, then how many fighter planes will be used in exchange, what do you think?"
"this……"
Hearing this, Chu Yuan, who was still angry at first, was like a duck with its neck stuck, and became silent for a moment. An idea immediately came to his mind, exchanging a plane for a pilot. This deal seemed to be quite worthwhile.