After Major Doug read the information carefully, he nodded slightly.
It should be said that such an airport is more in line with the needs of the battlefield, to be precise, it meets the needs of the Chinese battlefield, especially the Eighth Route Army battlefield.
And the airport he imagined in his mind, such as various vehicles and facilities, was actually what a Yingjiang Airport should look like... Yingjiang Airport, especially a land airport, did not need to worry about enemy bombing at all, so he
Pay attention to advanced, complete and mechanized.
But this is China, and it has to consider being bombed by the enemy from the beginning.
On this basis, advancement, completeness, and mechanization will bring unnecessary losses.
Only then did Major Doug realize that he needed to use another way of thinking to face the current environment, instead of copying Yingjiang's routine.
After thinking about it, Major Doug said: "I would like to make a few suggestions. First, we should increase the alert time. For now, the alert time of about fifteen minutes has no advantage for us. It is difficult for our pilots to fly within ten minutes.
Be fully prepared in five minutes!”
Wang Xuexin agrees with this.
Wang Xuexin had discussed this with Li Yunlong before. It only takes fifteen minutes for the Japanese bombers to fly from Yuncheng to the airport. At this time, the air force may only have time to take off a limited number of planes, and there will be no time to stop the Japanese bombing.
Regular patrols by fighter planes may be a solution, but there will be time gaps.
On the other hand, if the Japanese bombers were accompanied by fighter jets, the patrol would probably be too busy dealing with the Japanese fighter jets to stop the bombers.
But Wang Xuexin has certainly considered this. Wang Xuexin said: "This needs to be prepared after actual combat. We have a plan to lurk intelligence personnel near the Jaap Airport. As soon as the enemy plane takes off, we will know it as soon as possible, and then pass it through
The telegram issues an early warning. Considering the transit time of intelligence personnel, it may be possible to add about ten minutes of early warning time for us!"
Major Doug didn't answer.
If there were twenty minutes of warning time, it would indeed be enough for the plane to take off and respond.
but……
Major Doug asked: "Is your early warning mechanism reliable?"
As he spoke, Major Doug looked in Li Yueying's direction.
"What do you mean?" Wang Xuexin asked.
Li Yueying stood up and explained: "Comrade, the reason why Major Doug expressed doubts about your early warning mechanism is because I worked at Nianjun Airport before. They also guaranteed that there would be a 20-minute early warning, but in fact it was only 5 to 15 minutes.
.I think we should pay attention to this, because this is an air battle, and even a minute difference may affect the entire battle situation, not to mention that sometimes there is only 5 minutes of preparation time, which is almost like parking our military aircraft and pilots at the airport.
Waiting for the enemy to bomb!"
This is caused by the chaos of the stubborn army's intelligence system, or it can be said that the stubborn army's air force has been in a state of collapse after being at a comprehensive disadvantage in the first few air battles... This is often said to be "defeated like a mountain."
There are many reasons for this. The main reason is that the performance of fighter aircraft is not as good as that of the enemy.
The secondary reason is that the bureaucratic style of the stubborn army is extremely serious, so serious that it is outrageous... To be precise, it is not bureaucracy, but warlordism.
That is to say, in order to control the army, Chongqing only reused its own students, so a group of so-called direct descendants who had no merit in combat, and some even had no knowledge or skills were forced to graduate from the aviation school. They were still second lieutenants or lieutenants right after graduation and took up their posts.
Commanding a group of majors and lieutenant colonels with military medals...
The subsequent operations can be imagined. The faults were all caused by subordinates who were not direct lineage, and the merits were attributed to the direct line officers' command.
This has made the internal air force of the recalcitrant army so chaotic that almost no one is willing to work for the recalcitrant army anymore.
This is actually one of the reasons why Li Yueying left the stubborn army and returned to Yingjiang.
After Li Yunlong heard this, he laughed "hehe": "Sister, you can rest assured that our Eighth Route Army is different from the stubborn army. You will know if you stay a little longer. Each of us
We have a deep hatred against the Japanese, and we are all risking our lives with the Japanese!"
Li Yueying also heard about this, but she still held a skeptical attitude because she often heard them say this when she was in the stubborn army.
Seeing that Li Yueying was still uneasy, Wang Xuexin added: "Regarding this issue, we can think about it from another angle. In the history of our army, there has never been a fighter plane that can rival the Japanese. As the saying goes, 'things are rare and valuable', so our army
There is no reason not to pay attention to these fighters, and our army is still counting on Yingjiang to reinforce more fighters... If three times two divided by two
It was blown up by the Japanese. Considering that fighter planes cannot play a role here, Yingjiang will naturally not use the follow-up reinforcement plan, and may even cancel the plan! From this aspect, our army cannot not pay attention to it.
! There are even many people who are willing to risk their lives to provide the airport with a few more minutes of warning time. Do you think that makes sense?"
Wang Xuexin said this from the perspective of interests.
Compared to what Li Yunlong said, Wang Xuexin believed that Yingjiang could better understand the benefits aspect.
Sure enough, when Li Yueying translated Wang Xuexin's words to Major Doug, the major nodded and said: "I hope so!"
So this issue is considered cleared.
"Another question!" Major Doug asked, "Are your pilots ready?"
Major Doug was worried about this problem because when his fleet was refueling and transferring at the "Flying Tigers", he heard Chennault complain to him: "Fuck you, don't believe these Chinese pilots, they even
Deliberately destroying your own plane so that you can't join the war!"
Chennault did not accuse the recalcitrant pilots unjustly. They did, and there were quite a few of them.
The reason is as mentioned before...
Those who hold high positions in the recalcitrant air force are often not "capable" people, but direct descendants.
As for the opportunity and honor of joining the "Flying Tigers", direct descendants often would not give it up to outsiders.
As a result, many young men used their power to sneak into the "Flying Tigers" to study and cooperate with the Yingjiang pilots.
But these young men didn't want to "take risks" by flying into the sky, so they used the old method... to damage the plane so that it couldn't fly, so it was natural that they didn't have to fly anymore.
When Li Yunlong heard this, he couldn't help but yelled: "Damn it! It's okay if you don't fight the Japanese, but you still keep holding them back. These idiots can't fly, so they can give us the plane! What a good plane, wouldn't it be destroyed?
In the hands of the Japanese, he was destroyed in the hands of his own people! He should be shot!"
Then he actually asked: "Have those who sabotaged the plane been shot?"
Major Doug didn't know the answer and didn't care, so he didn't answer.
But I want to know the answer. How can it be possible for the direct troops to be shot?
Not only will he not be shot, he will most likely be promoted.