Just coming out of the wolf's den is like a tiger's mouth.
This is the mood of Doolittle and his party now,
He had just escaped from being chased and intercepted by the Japanese, and now he was being pursued by Japanese fighter planes. If it weren't for the language barrier, I'm afraid Doolittle would have sang "Life Is Hard".
"Eagle's Nest...Eagle's Nest...This is Sparrow No. 1 and Sparrow No. 2. We were on a mission to transport American pilots. We were intercepted by two Japanese planes eighty kilometers southwest of Liantai County. Please support us!"
"The Eagle's Nest understands that the 5th patrol team is patrolling nearby. I will have them rush to your place immediately. They are expected to arrive in 10 minutes."
"Ten minutes? You can collect the corpses in ten minutes!" Bian Daling cursed loudly while slamming her right foot on the rudder and pulling the control stick to the right as hard as she could.
Soldiers generally have bad tempers, even women, especially at this critical moment of life and death, no one has time to slowly reason with you.
Although the three Doolittles cannot understand Chinese, their tone of voice when swearing is universal regardless of language.
Sitting in the back, they felt that the plane was going up and down like a roller coaster. The whole plane was flying up and down among the steep mountains, watching the peaks moving left and right. Except those sitting at the back holding the MG15 machine gun and firing desperately.
Except for Paul, Doolittle and Henry were all shaken dizzy.
Bian Daling was like this, and so was Bian Xiaoling on the other side. In addition, there was a wounded person lying on his plane, not to mention the feeling.
Huang Huaimin stood on the high control tower and looked down at the runway in front of him.
This is a field airport more than 60 kilometers west of Liantai County. The location of this airport does not appear on any map and it is a secret field airport.
Since yesterday, his two squadrons of reconnaissance aircraft have all been dispatched, and half of the aircraft have been sent to perform missions.
Use a reconnaissance plane to carry out a secret rescue plan in Zhejiang, more than a thousand kilometers away. Although this mission seems a bit unreliable, the results so far are still very significant.
According to the report, of the six groups of aircraft sent out, three groups have already received American pilots and crew members who want to be rescued, and are now flying back.
"Report sir, emergency situation!" A captain hurried over, "I just received a report that when the Sparrow 12 came back, it was intercepted by two Japanese fighter planes 80 kilometers northwest of Liantai County. The situation is very dangerous.
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"Asshole!"
Huang Huaimin became angry when he heard it.
"What is the purpose of the radar station? How come the little devil's plane flew so close without issuing an early warning?"
"Sir, the brothers at the radar station are also in trouble. Now the little devils have learned their lesson. When they approach us, they will deliberately lower their altitude. Our radar's ability to detect low-altitude targets is extremely limited." Seeing Huang Huaimin getting angry, the captain
I have to say something fair to those radar soldiers.
Huang Huaimin also knew that what the captain said was true. Otherwise, the people who know you best in the world are often your enemies.
After such a long period of competition, although the Japanese army suffered many losses due to the overall lagging performance of their own fighter aircraft, as they attached great importance to the Flying Corps, a lot of the past information of the Flying Corps was also obtained by the Japanese military intelligence agency.
The Japanese army has roughly estimated the detection range and operating frequency of the Liantai militia radar, and even learned that the radar's low-altitude detection capability is very weak.
Therefore, during this period, Japanese planes often flew at low altitudes, using mountain peaks as cover to sneak in and carry out sneak attacks, which made Huang Huaimin furious.
"Have support been sent?"
"The fifth patrol team has been sent over. It is expected to arrive in ten minutes."
"Ten minutes, are you going to collect the body?"
Huang Huaimin's words are almost identical to those of Bian Daling.
He circled around and then ordered: "Immediately send out a squadron, divided into six teams to conduct all-round patrols in the southwest. I estimate that a rescue team will have to return later, and the matter of the Sparrow Team must not be allowed to happen again.
Repeat."
"yes!"
"Also... let the fire trucks and ambulances stand by the runway. I hope they don't run into any trouble." Huang Huaimin signaled to the tower dispatcher, then turned around and quickly walked down the stairs down the tower.
"Sir, Daling is an excellent pilot, and Xiaoling is also a smart girl. They will be fine." The lieutenant held a cigarette in his mouth and handed it to Huang Huaimin with the cigarette case in his hand.
He took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and took out a lighter from his pocket.
"I originally thought that with the arrival of ten regiments of the Eighth Route Army, we would be able to gain an advantage on the battlefield, but we never thought that the Japanese would reinforce the army with tens of thousands more troops, and that old Japanese soldier Neji Okamura would personally come to Taiyuan to take command.
Commander Gao has not left the war room for three days in a row, we can’t cause any more trouble to the commander here!”
The lieutenant nodded solemnly. The reason why the Liantai Militia has been able to suppress the Japanese army for more than a year is largely due to the power of the Air Force. If there is a problem with the flying corps, the Liantai Militia will be even more difficult.
Thinking of this, the lieutenant couldn't help but complain: "You're so inconsiderate. Everyone looks at us like we're Tang Monk's meat, but no one thinks of how much pressure we're under!"
"Okay, stop complaining."
Huang Huaimin took a deep drag on his cigarette, "Immediately put the aircraft of the Second Squadron into storage for maintenance as soon as possible. We need to free up the taxiway and apron to prepare Daling and others for an emergency landing."
The lieutenant quickly took the order and left.
Looking at the lieutenant's trotting figure, Huang Huaimin exhaled the smoke that was held in his lungs.
Speaking of which, he still admired Gao Hongming very much.
When he was serving in the Chinese Air Force, the newly built dirt runways were usually filled with dust as soon as they took off. The aircraft behind them were in chaos and had to wait until the dust in front cleared before they could continue to take off.
If it rains, the ground will be muddy and the track will be flooded. However, if the roadbed sinks, the track will become a murder trap and completely useless.
The Liantai Militia Group was different. The engineers and soldiers did not know where they got a pile of 10 feet (3 meters), 15 inches (38 centimeters) wide, and pressed them into strips of prefabricated channel steel with holes. Each steel plate had prefabricated channels on both sides.
remaining bolt holes.
After the engineers used heavy-duty forklifts and road rollers to level the ground, they connected the channel steels in rows, added rivets and bolts, laid them on the soil roadbed, and then hammered them hard with a hammer.
Soon a steel runway composed of thousands of prefabricated steel plates appeared in front of the pilots.
This kind of steel-plated runway is almost the same as a cement runway, and its smoothness and sturdiness far exceed that of ordinary field airports.
"They're back!"
At this time, the lookout man on the tower waved his telescope and shouted loudly.
"Oops...the engine of a White Crane has stalled!"
"Hurry...go to the runway and let the fire trucks and ambulances start." Huang Huaimin threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and ran quickly towards the Willys Jeep parked next to the tower.