I didn’t stay long in Nanyang, so I took my bristles and tung oil with me and rushed to Singapore again. This time I wanted to learn how to fly an airplane.
Boar bristles and tung oil were delivered, and nearly one million U.S. dollars were recorded again. In addition to the last purchase of 3.2 million U.S. dollars of various military strategic materials, a lot of goods have been shipped domestically in recent times, and the total payment recovered is 550,000 U.S. dollars.
One hundred thousand dollars.
Although the remaining ones are sold more slowly, they can probably be sold for more than two million US dollars. Strategic military supplies are such huge profits.
I went to the bank first, paid back the loan, and redeemed more than 900 kilograms of gold. These days, gold is still more valuable as a store of value.
Injected one million US dollars into the Far East Commercial Bank to facilitate the subsequent acquisition of pharmaceutical factories in the United States and expand the strength and scale of the commercial bank itself.
I made another list of the supplies and equipment that needed to be purchased next, left two million dollars again, and got on the plane to Kuala Lumpur.
As the capital of Malaysia, Far East Commercial Bank has a branch here, and everything for Li Mu has been properly arranged. He lives in a novel small foreign-style building, is served by Filipino maids, and is picked up and dropped off by car.
Most of the time every day, he goes to the flying club and learns to fly a plane. He is really determined to learn this. Lan
In my free time, I walked around the neighborhood to learn about the local customs and customs. I also got in touch with the local Chinese circle and learned that he was the big boss behind the Far East Trading Company. He was so young and still Chinese.
Quite surprised.
Many people rushed to make friends with him, but Li Mu just responded indifferently, saying that he didn't care. However, there are many Chinese young people here who are knowledgeable about technology and educated. If there is an opportunity in the future, we can recruit some of them to return to China.
Compared with the aircraft of the future, the aircraft of this era are actually quite easy to learn, with simple structures and simple controls. As long as they are willing to spend money and are not afraid of consuming fuel, ordinary people can master them and conduct ordinary flights within two or three months.
Work.
With Li Mu's strong physical fitness, efficient learning ability, and not being short of money, he is not afraid of consuming fuel. He can train on a trainer aircraft for several hours a day.
In just half a month, it was already flying like a charm.
Just in time, the twelve Hawker 75 fighter jets he ordered arrived. He immediately assembled one and flew it for a few days under the guidance of his instructor. There was no problem at all.
Li Mu then stopped studying and decided to return to China.
The various materials worth two million US dollars that the Far East Commercial Bank was ordered to purchase are all ready.
This time, not all of them are strategic military supplies, but half of them are civilian supplies, various commodities that are in high demand abroad, and some new technological products.
After all, Muwu Commercial Bank's business will always continue, and domestic development also requires a large amount of legal currency. These civilian supplies can be sold at several times the price domestically, and a large amount of legal currency can be recovered.
In addition, in addition to twelve Hawker 75 fighters, Li Mu also ordered a lot of supporting aerial bombs.
The Hawker 75 fighter plane, in addition to two 7mm Browning fixed nose machine guns, carries aerial bombs.
He can carry one 250-kilogram aerial bomb; or five 50-kilogram aerial bombs; or ten 25-kilogram aerial bombs.
Li Mu ordered one hundred 250-kilogram-class aerial bombs, five hundred 50-kilogram-class aerial bombs, and one thousand 25-kilogram-class aerial bombs.
The price is naturally not cheap. A 250-kilogram aerial bomb costs US$500 per unit, which is equivalent to one pound of gold. A thousand bombs cost exactly US$50,000.
A 50-kilogram aerial bomb costs US$100 per unit, and five hundred bombs cost the same US$50,000. A 25-kilogram aerial bomb costs US$50 per unit, and one hundred bombs cost the same US$50,000.
A total of thirty tons of aerial bombs, with a total price of US$150,000.
After receiving everything, Li Mu felt a little excited and took a flight back to China the next day.
When we arrived in Wuhan, we unloaded two-thirds of the supplies and commodities and left them for sale here. We then took the motorboat back to Nanyang.
The military airport has been repaired and is located in a hidden valley. From the outside, it is difficult to find that there is a military airport here.
Li Mu started recruiting airport-related ground staff and technical personnel two months ago.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the dozens of civilian airports across the country were grounded, releasing many professional talents. Guofu currently has hundreds of fighter planes, and some warlords, like Yan Laoxi, also have more than 20 fighter planes.
There are many related technical personnel.
Recruitment went very smoothly, and many people were quickly identified. Through selection, the airport's ground staff and technical staff were easily staffed.
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Very quickly, several fighter planes were assembled here.
After everything was prepared, Li Mu climbed into the cockpit, put on his pilot's helmet, closed the transparent glass hatch above his head, and started the plane slowly. Feeling the acceleration of propulsion and the sound of tires rubbing against the ground, his heart involuntarily tightened.
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The plane taxied on the runway for a while and took off in an instant. The powerful propulsion forced him to be firmly pressed on the seat. His heart was pounding. The speed was getting faster and faster, and the scenery flashed before his eyes.
, which gives people a strange kind of excitement.
A few days later, Li Mu was inexplicably excited to fly a fighter jet again, and he was flying a fighter jet in China. His palms were slightly sweaty. Flying a fighter jet, flying freely in the blue sky, is probably every boy's dream.
After flying smoothly for a few minutes, Li Mu became familiar with piloting the fighter jet again. Li Mu held the joystick in his hand and began to practice several regular flight postures and movements of the fighter jet.
Gently move the joystick, and the aircraft leaves the level flight state and begins to turn, drawing a beautiful arc in the sky.
In the following time, the Hawker 75 fighter jet circled in the air, dived, rolled, jumped, turned sideways, deflected, pitched, etc. After practicing for more than two hours, Li Mu got too addicted and began to return home.
The fighter jet landed at the airport. Li Mu got off the plane and handed it over to technicians for inspection and maintenance. He went to a nearby small foreign-style building that he built specifically for himself, and asked someone to find a detailed map from Nanyang to Xuzhou, and began to study it.
Xuzhou is a transportation hub connecting the Tianjin-Puzhou Railway and the Longhai Railway. It is also the hub of the four provinces of Shandong, Shandong, Henan and Anhui, and has important strategic value.
In January of this year, Xiao Benzi attempted to use Jinling and Jinan as bases to capture the Xuzhou area from the south and north, thereby opening up the North China and Central China occupied areas.
In order to contain Xiao Benzi's main force and delay the attack on Wuhan, Guofu assembled heavy troops in Xuzhou to block Xiao Benzi's attack.
The small book side is commanded by the Central China Expedition Army Commander Hata Shunroku and the North China Front Army Commander Terauchi Juichi. There are a total of 8 divisions and 3 brigades, and 2 detachments with about 240,000 people. They are divided into south and north to attack Xuzhou.
On the Guofu side, it was Commander Li, the commander of the fifth war zone, and the two sides started a fierce battle.
This battle will not come to an end until May.
It is now early March, and the fighting on the front line is fierce. It is not an option to stay in Nanyang. Li Mu plans to fly to the front line to have a look, and blow up a few of the Japanese he encounters.
While studying the map, he asked the Military Intelligence Department to report the situation on the Xuzhou front line in a timely manner.
Li Mu regained his energy that day, got up early the next day, completed his daily exercise, had breakfast, and found that the fighter jets over there were ready.
This time, not only was the 7mm Browning nose-mounted fixed machine gun located on the nose of the fighter jet mounted, but the five fifty-kilogram aerial bombs were also properly hung.
Li Mu climbed onto the plane, closed the hatch, took a deep breath, and the fighter jet began to glide. After a while, it flew into the blue sky, heading towards Xuzhou.
This aircraft has a top speed of 480 kilometers per hour, a maximum range of 1,300 kilometers, and a combat radius of about 500 to 600 kilometers.
The straight-line distance between Nanyang and Xuzhou is also about 500 kilometers. As long as you don't get too carried away, you will have about 20 minutes of free time after arriving.
When the time comes, you must return, otherwise the plane will run out of fuel halfway and it will be ridiculous.
Along the way, Li Mu maintained an altitude of 5,000 meters and a speed of 3,780 kilometers per hour. More than an hour later, he appeared near Xuzhou.
As a fighter pilot, the first difficulty a novice encounters is to know the road. This is different from the ground. You can ask where a city is if you don't know it.
In the air, especially in this era, there is no navigation or radar, and you have to rely on your own eyes to identify the direction and city.
Standing thousands of meters in the air, looking at the low-rise houses below, they are all the same. How can we accurately identify which city it is, especially now, when we are 500 kilometers apart and have never been here before, it is even more difficult to identify.
Fortunately, he made a lot of preparations yesterday and studied the map for a long time. The city is changing too fast, and there are not many landmark buildings these days, so it is not easy to identify, but the mountains, rivers, and lakes are how fighter pilots know the way.
Best marked.
After flying around for a while, he vaguely recognized a lake. Li Mu used this as a coordinate to identify the direction and began to fly towards the battle area between the two sides.
After flying for a while, he spotted several smoke pillars in the distance. Li Mu lowered the flying altitude and found that it seemed to be a town, with fires burning in many places.
A dozen miles away from the town, there was a group of Japanese soldiers, about three to four hundred people, moving away.
Looking at the town below, Li Mu's heart was beating wildly, and he had a bad feeling. He lowered his speed and altitude again and sailed over the town.
The scene in front of him made Li Mu, who had always been less prone to emotional fluctuations, instantly feel a rush of blood rushing to his forehead, and he became extremely angry.
In the entire town, not a single living person was seen. There were ruins and broken walls, and corpses were floating everywhere. On a small street, many corpses were strewn about. The blood stained the ground red and turned into purple-black.
There were men and women, old people, women, and children. The men opened their mouths and their bodies were twisted. The women's clothes were in tatters, and many of them had been raped by those beasts and stabbed with bayonets. Their eyes widened.
They died with their eyes open, and some children were hung on trees... extremely miserable.
A few hundred meters away, Li Mu seemed to smell the smoke and blood on the ground. Taking advantage of the gloomy sky, it made his heart extremely heavy and his chest felt tight.
At this time, Xiao Benzi could no longer be considered a human being, but had become an inhuman beast, completely exposing his dark side.
Don't be lenient when killing wild beasts.
As soon as the joystick was pulled, the plane quickly climbed up, and soon reached an altitude of three thousand meters. It flew in the direction of the little devil.
More than a minute later, the Japs' troops were already in front of him. Li Mu dived and threw five 50-kilogram aerial bombs towards the Japs.
Over there, the little devils also heard the buzzing of planes. Since the war started, they had always had control of the air and thought it was their own plane.
When the plane passed hundreds of meters above their heads, they realized something was wrong. Five aerial bombs had already been dropped. The team of Japs suddenly fell into chaos and began to dodge and run around.
Unfortunately, it was discovered too late. A few seconds later, five aerial bombs totaling 250 kilograms exploded on the ground.
Like a thunder, the ground was shaken, and the team of little devils swept past like wheat, clearing a large area.
The Japanese seemed to be frightened. Some were running around and shouting, while others were sitting there blankly.
Others reacted quickly and organized everyone to avoid the plane.
Li Mu looked at the situation in front of him and felt that there were not enough deaths, not tragic enough. The plane circled in the air, turned its nose, set up two 7mm Browning machine guns, and dived towards the little Japanese again.
Two 7mm Browning machine guns also rang out instantly. The bullets were like two fire snakes spurting out, sweeping towards the little Japs on the ground.
The little Japs on the ground were disrupted again and fled for cover. Li Mu would not let them go like this. The plane circled in a circle, turned around, set up its machine gun, and dived and fired again.
After three or four attacks in a row, some of the little Japs realized that this was not going to work and began to organize their manpower to dodge and fight back.
Li Mu dived down again, and the two fire snakes fired at the group of people who had just gathered. While the other party was dodging, they also began to fire back with bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang gun.
Hearing the sound of bullets hitting the wings and belly of the plane, Li Mu calmed down a lot. Although it was not a large-caliber heavy machine gun, it would be difficult to bring down the plane with ordinary firearms and bullets, but it was not impossible.
Just when he thought of this, several more planes flew over in the distance. Li Mu immediately recognized them. They were from Xiaobenzi. Reinforcements came so quickly.
Several planes suddenly dispersed, as if they wanted to encircle them. Li Mu looked at the Japanese soldiers with more than half of their casualties on the ground, and finally felt a lot of the anger he had been holding back in his heart.
As soon as he pulled the control stick, the plane instantly climbed high into the sky and jumped out before the Japanese planes surrounded him.
As a novice, there is no need to act like a hero and fight with the Japanese. Even if the performance of the fighter plane is better than that of the Japanese, shooting down one or two Japanese aircraft will easily put you in a dangerous situation, and the gain will not be worth the loss.
He knows his importance and can play a more important role outside the battlefield, which cannot be compared with just a few Japanese planes.
With these thoughts in mind, the fighter plane has already rushed to an altitude of 10,000 meters and flew into the distance. The current top speed of the little devil's fighter plane is only more than 300 kilometers per hour, and its performance in all aspects is also much worse. It is impossible to catch up. It won't be long.