In the night sky, the strong high-altitude air currents caused the fighter planes to bump extremely violently.
This group of black-painted Ju-86 Stuka dive bombers kept bumping like a boat swaying in the waves, but the pilots in the cockpit were still trying to control the aircraft.
"Black Crow Squad...Black Crow Squad...how are you doing?"
"Report to the tower, our situation is very good, there are no problems, the fleet has now entered the target airspace, the altitude is 4,000... Requesting bombing!"
"Bomb drop allowed!"
"Got it...start dropping bombs!"
Accompanied by the pilot's voice, the group of Stukas that had merged with the night suddenly turned their heads downward, and the sirens mounted on the wings immediately let out a shrill scream.
Dozens of Stukas with double-bay Eurofoil-shaped wings and huge fixed landing gear under the belly dived towards the ground at an angle of nearly 90 degrees. When the aircraft was more than 800 meters above the ground,
The Stuka dive bombers all raised their heads, and the bombs under their bellies detached themselves from their hooks and fell rapidly toward the ground.
Soon, these bombs fell on the ground one after another, making a dull impact, but none of them exploded. It turned out that all the Stukas threw were training bombs.
On a hillside several hundred meters away from the bombing site, Huang Huaimin and Doolittle held up their binoculars and quietly looked at the bombing site ahead.
Doolittle put down the telescope and turned to look at Huang Huaimin, "Huang... I want to congratulate you. These young men are very good. They are now qualified dive bomber pilots."
Huang Huaimin was not too happy. Instead, he frowned and said, "Their training time is still too short. It would be great if we could give them another half year."
Doolittle shrugged his shoulders: "Huang... your idea is good, but our enemies will not give us this time, according to the intelligence sent by the Intelligence Department.
Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan has increased the production of fighter jets, and pilot training has been shortened from two years to ten months. Next, the Japanese government is even considering shortening the time to half a year, which is similar to General Gao.
The idea is exactly the same.”
Huang Huaimin shook his head: "We did this because we had no choice. We had hundreds of planes at the beginning, but we didn't even have half of them as pilots, so we had to rely on poaching from the Central Air Force.
Later, we also opened our own aviation school, but the high official only gave me half a year and asked to train the first batch of pilots. Are you there? At that time, my hair was so worried that my hair turned white. I finally graduated.
One group of pilots, the task of training the second group of pilots came again, and it is still the case today."
Doolittle agreed: "General Gao's approach was right. The Japanese had already dropped bombs on your heads. It would be foolish to continue to follow the dogma rigidly."
It has been more than five months since Doolittle and his party came to China. Gao Hongming has worked hard to keep these people, and he has never been stingy in terms of life or rewards.
And these Americans are paid to do things. Since the boss is so generous, what else is there to say?
Thanks to the efforts of Doolittle and others, the level of the pilots of the Liantai Flying Corps has been greatly improved, especially in high-altitude bombing projects such as long-distance raids, navigation and mapping, and flying large bombers. The pilots are even more visible to the naked eye. The speed is growing rapidly.
Not only that, in the past five months, the flight school has provided more than 380 pilots to the flying corps. Although these pilots are still very immature, Gao Hongming believes that as long as they are given a period of learning, they will soon become can grow up.
For this reason, Gao Hongming is even considering whether to equip the bombing brigade with new large bombers.
"Come, have a cigarette." Doolittle took out a cigarette and gave one to Huang Huaimin.
The two of them sat on the slope and smoked cigarettes. Suddenly Doolittle asked: "Huang... I saw our Ambassador Gao Si a few days ago. He told me something. Our government is negotiating with Gao Si." The general has discussed dispatching a group of troops to the Pacific, do you know about this?"
Huang Huaimin was silent for a moment and then nodded: "Sir Gao specially summoned some officers to discuss this issue the day before yesterday. Of course I know about it."
"So what do you personally think? Do you support or oppose it?"
"I don't know either?" Huang Huaimin's eyes flashed with confusion.
He was actually very confused about this issue. The officers present at the meeting had a very heated argument. One group, led by First Battalion Commander Wu Chengfeng, believed that their main force was either resting or fighting with the Japanese. We cannot mobilize that many troops to support the Pacific battlefield.
What's more, the Pacific battlefield is the business of the Americans. Why should they take chestnuts from the fire for the Americans?
The other group, headed by Second Battalion Commander Xiao Zhankui, believed that if you want to get benefits, you have to work hard.
Since the Americans have promised to set aside a large piece of land from Okinawa for them to manage after the war, and have also given them a quota to garrison troops in Japan, what's the big deal if they send troops to help the Americans fight.
The two groups had a heated argument over this issue, and even banged the table.
Looking at the group of people arguing fiercely, Huang Huaimin shook his head secretly. In fact, Gao Hongming already had the answer in his heart.
If Gao Hongming didn't want to send troops, he would have clearly rejected the Americans a long time ago. Why would there be a need to hold a meeting to discuss it? Since he brought this matter up for discussion, it proves that he has already made up his mind. It is ridiculous that many people even do this. He couldn't even see clearly, and he was still arguing with others until his face turned red and his neck became thick.
Facts proved that Huang Huaimin's idea was right, and in the end it was Gao Hongming who slapped the table.
He first asked everyone a question, "Why was China clearly the victor at the end of World War I? Why did the Western countries ignore China's interests and forcefully divide Germany's interests in Shandong to Japan at the Paris Peace Conference? .
Although the Chinese representative Gu Weijun had a fierce debate with the Japanese representative Makino at the meeting, and elaborated on the fact that Shandong is completely Chinese territory from the aspects of geography, national defense, culture and economy, and expressed the attitude that Shandong would not be allowed to suffer any losses. , which made Makino speechless.
But it was useless, the arm could not twist the thigh, and in the end the Western powers still assigned Germany's interests in Shandong to Japan. Can you tell me the reason?"
Upon hearing this, the officers all blamed the problem on the country's weakness and the Japanese's insatiable greed.
Some people even said angrily that China sent 200,000 men to support the Allies, but the Western powers turned a blind eye to this, which was really shameless.
Hearing this, Gao Hongming sneered and made a statement that stunned everyone.