But after all, Su Xin saw that the report was related to airplanes and knew that it was of great importance, so she translated it and sent it to Yuncheng overnight.
Doolittle showed surprise while flipping through the plan, and occasionally looked up at Li Yunlong and Wang Xuexin.
Li Yunlong said "hehe" in his heart proudly, and said to himself: "These foreign devils still think that we know nothing about airplanes. Now Xiao Dongbei must be shocked!"
However, Li Yunlong felt a little strange: How can this small northeastern country know everything? It knows artillery and tanks, but now it actually knows how to form an aviation force?
Did you learn it all from the Japanese?
Li Yunlong could only think so.
After looking at it for a while, Doolittle nodded slightly, took the plan and said, "It seems that you have made a lot of preparations. Can I keep this plan?"
"Of course!" Wang Xuexin replied, feeling secretly happy at the same time, because it meant that Doolittle agreed with the plan and agreed to submit it to his superiors.
But Doolittle changed the topic and said: "However, I still don't have high hopes for this. You may not have considered that we are inextricably linked to the enemy on the Pacific battlefield, and we ourselves lack all kinds of capabilities."
Fighters and pilots, these are extremely valuable strategic materials for us, especially pilots, so..."
Doolittle held up the plan and said, "While I think it is feasible, it is not realistic."
Doolittle is right, nothing is more important to Eagle Sauce at this time than the pilot.
The reason is very simple. At the beginning of the war, Eagle Sauce was completely defeated by the threat of the Japanese "Zero" fighter planes and lost many experienced pilots.
Pilots cannot achieve results without several years of training. Even the pilots who carried out suicide bombings in the later period of the Japanese Army have been trained for more than a year...except for the pilots of Mao Xiong. It is said that the Mao Xiong pilots only trained for a few weeks.
Climb into the plane and head off to the battlefield. Those who can come back alive will slowly grow into aces.
This has led to an acute shortage of pilots during this period... Aircraft can be driven out of the factory, and the most they can do is work overtime or open a few more production lines, but it is difficult to get pilots out in a short time.
Then Doolittle added: "I think you may know the price of the pilots hired by the stubborn army!"
Although Wang Xuexin knew that this was what is often called the "Flying Tigers" in modern times.
But he wasn't supposed to know at this point, so he shook his head and replied, "No, we don't know."
Sun Erwei continued: "The price for the stubborn army to hire pilots is 600 US dollars per person, 650 US dollars for the squad leader, and 700 US dollars for the squadron leader. If you have military exploits, additional calculations will be made!"
US$600 may seem like nothing in modern times, but in this era...the salary of a second lieutenant is US$150, and the monthly salary of a white-collar worker is about US$300. US$600 is twice that of a white-collar worker.
Then Sun Erwei added: "And most of them are retired pilots. To us, they are older, have injuries and other reasons and are not serving in the army. What you need are active pilots..."
Even Sun Erwei shook his head as he said this: "This is almost impossible to achieve, Wang. This is not even a question of money, but a matter of Yingjiang's national interests!"
Wang Xuexin understood what Sun Erwei meant.
At this time, the Yingjiang government was at a stage of low confidence.
The reason for their lack of confidence is that they have no combat experience, do not know the enemy, and do not know how powerful they are.
If you don't know this, you will think of your enemy as strong and yourself as weak.
Therefore, I always hope that my combat effectiveness can be stronger and that I can have more equipment.
At this critical moment, how could Yingjiang use his scarce pilots to reinforce the Eighth Route Army?
but……
Wang Xuexin has also considered this issue.
"Then!" Wang Xuexin said: "Let us discuss the issue of interests."
Wang Xuexin pulled the map out of habit, but soon discovered that there was no world map here.
So I simply took a piece of paper, took the pen handed over by Sun Erwei, and sat at the desk with Doolittle and others while drawing and saying: "This is Eagle Sauce, this is China, separated by the Pacific Ocean."
Then Wang Xuexin raised his head and asked: "We are facing the same enemy, right?"
"Of course!" Sun Erwei nodded, and Doolittle nodded as well.
Wang Xuexin explained: "Because China has no aircraft, or 'almost' no aircraft, the Japanese Air Force can do whatever they want. They can even use very backward models, such as the 98 light explosion, for China, and use high-performance fighters to
Go to the Pacific to fight your army, right?"
The reason why Wang Xuexin said "almost" is because the stubborn army still has a "Flying Tigers" in their hands, but at this time the role they can play is very limited.
Wang Xuexin continued: "As for your country on the other side of the ocean, because the fighter planes facing the enemy are very advanced, this directly leads to you also having to send the most advanced fighter planes. As for those relatively backward models, I don't think you will send them
Send it to the sky, because it means letting the pilot die, and if you think pilots are a precious resource, you won't do that, right?"
Sun Erwei nodded again, he already roughly understood what Wang Xuexin wanted to say.
Wang Xuexin concluded: "Then, why don't you send these backward aircraft models to China? These backward aircraft models will not play any role for you, that is, they will not be of any help to the war. But they can be used in the war.
China plays a role, because here, the Japs are also using backward models. If the Japs’ aircraft are defeated in China, wouldn’t it be in Yingjiang’s interests?”
Sun Erwei was stunned for a moment, and then said: "What if the Japanese invest in advanced aircraft models in China? For example, the 'Zero' type!"
Wang Xuexin laughed: "Does this make any difference to you? These 'Zero' fighter jets were originally going to fly to the Pacific to deal with you. You just attracted them to the Chinese battlefield."
When Doolittle heard this, he looked at Wang Xuexin in surprise and said to Sun Erwei: "What he said is right, Wilson! It's unbelievable that an ordinary Eighth Route Army soldier could have such an idea!"
Sun Erwei laughed: "No, Lieutenant Colonel. What is in front of you is not an ordinary Eighth Route Army soldier. Have you ever heard of the Chinese Battalion Commander?"
"You mean..." Doolittle stood up suddenly, looked at Wang Xuexin excitedly, and asked Sun Erwei: "You mean, he is the Chinese battalion commander?"