As soon as Zhao entered the door, Li Yunlong chuckled and said: "Old Zhao, what a good thing, what a great thing! Yingjiang is finally willing to give us aircraft support!"
Zhao Gang's eyes lit up when he heard this. He was surprised, happy and a little skeptical, and asked: "Really? Yingjiang really agrees?"
Although Zhao Gang has been involved in this matter from beginning to end, he has never been very confident. The reason is that he has considered one issue... Xiaodongbei said that he would use Yingjiang's lagging aircraft to support the Eighth Route Army. This is correct.
,The problem is that the Eighth Route Army has no pilots.
If the Eighth Route Army has no pilots and has to rely on Yingjiang pilots, what is the difference between Yingjiang flying his own plane into the sky and fighting?
Although the stubborn army has the problem of "preserving strength", there are many people in the army who have experienced foreign ink, and there have been aircraft and pilot reserves in the past. Once the aircraft is obtained, it will not take long to fly into the sky and fight, which can save a lot
thing.
In this comparison, the Eighth Route Army had no advantage at all.
But thinking about it, Zhao Gang would certainly not criticize Wang Xuexin and ruin his good deeds, and his efforts in this direction were just a temporary try.
Who would have thought that this plane could actually fall on the Eighth Route Army?
This made Zhao Gang a little strange, what on earth was Yingjiang thinking?
What Zhao Gang didn't know was that Doolittle had also thought about this problem... No one in this world is a fool. As the world's most industrialized country, of course he would take such a simple truth into consideration.
However, Yingjiang was shocked by Wang Xuexin's previous ability in air combat. On the other hand, it was also because Yingjiang didn't know much about China and thought that the Eighth Route Army also had a talent reserve of pilots like the stubborn army.
On the other hand, Doolittle felt that since the Japanese aircraft models in China were all backward, then the Japanese pilots should not be the best pilots.
This idea is correct. Almost all the excellent Japanese pilots have been sent to the Pacific to attack Yingjiang. As for China... the Eighth Route Army has no air force and the recalcitrant air force does not dare to fight. So do the Japanese still need to keep excellent pilots here?
Since this is the case, the pilots sent by Yingjiang to China do not need to be very good. It is difficult for these pilots to play a role in the Pacific battlefield. Why not send them to the Chinese battlefield to contain the Japanese?
So the plan fell into place.
"Really, of course it's true!" Li Yunlong patted his chest and said, "That guy Sun Erwei called and said that we can start according to the plan. But when you say it... Yingjiang won't
Are you kidding us?"
"That's not true!" Zhao Gang replied: "What good does it do them to tease us? Apart from breaking their trust with us as an ally, what else can they gain?"
"Yes, yes!" Li Yunlong happily touched his head: "That's true, but having said that, even if Yingjiang's promise is not fulfilled, we can just build an airport and make some preparations. It won't take much effort.
Go big, it’s worth it!”
As Li Yunlong spoke, he unconsciously took Zhao Gang to the bedroom. Whenever there were important matters to discuss, the two of them would avoid the headquarters, a place where people talk too much... This is not because they cannot trust the commanders and soldiers in the headquarters, but because they can
Keep it secret as much as possible.
But as soon as he entered the bedroom, Zhao Gang stopped and stared straight at the wine bowl on the Kang table.
Li Yunlong had long forgotten about this matter. At this time, he followed Zhao Gang's eyes and said to himself: "Oh no, no, now the real thing is exposed!"
Wang Xuexin has already confirmed the Yingjiang reinforcement aircraft, and he is even discussing the reinforcement aircraft model with Sun Erwei.
"The model they have planned is Hawker 81, what do you think?" Sun Erwei asked.
Wang Xuexin nodded and expressed no objection.
Hawker 81 is the foreign trade version of the Eagle P40 fighter jet.
Not to mention the foreign trade version of Hawker 81, they don't like the prototype of P40. In their eyes, this fighter is a fighter that "is not outstanding in any aspect". The pilots who fly this aircraft will be dismissed.
Think of it as "bad luck".
This was also the aircraft that Yingjiang sold to the stubborn army and equipped with the "Flying Tigers". The unit price was as high as 45,000 US dollars... Yingjiang made a lot of money.
But what choice does Wang Xuexin have?
This plan itself is based on "backward fighters". If you want Yingjiang to give up advanced fighters... that is thinking too much.
Seeing Wang Xuexin's calm expression, Sun Erwei asked doubtfully: "Do you know Hawke 81?"
The Eighth Route Army didn't even have anything that could fly, but Wang Xuexin seemed to be very familiar with this fighter plane, which made Sun Erwei a little strange.
Wang Xuexin said "Oh" and replied: "I just heard that you also used it to equip stubborn troops, that's all!"
Sun Erwei nodded and said: "Wang, the stubborn army has to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy such an aircraft. In addition, they hire pilots at high prices, but our reinforcements to the Eighth Route Army are free!"
"Thank you very much!" Wang Xuexin replied.
Although Wang Xuexin said this, he didn't think so in his heart.
If there is no benefit to the eagle sauce, is it possible to make the eagle sauce “free” for the commercial country?
So in the final analysis, it is just cooperation for common interests. For example, Yingjiang's loans, equipment and supplies to reinforce China are actually sending out equipment and people to deal with the common enemy. So, who is more important, people or equipment?
Is this Yingjiang helping Huaxia fight the war or is China helping Yingjiang fight the war?
Is there any "gang" situation between countries?
Sun Erwei's words seemed to be a favor to China.
But Wang Xuexin also understands that Sun Erwei just likes to show off his sense of superiority from time to time, but when he really wants to do something, he goes to the Eighth Route Army... Sun Erwei seems to have been assimilated by the Eighth Route Army, but the sense of superiority brought by Yingjiang
But it's hard to get rid of.
Wang Xuexin didn't take it seriously either. He asked: "How many reinforcements do you plan to reinforce?"
"Not sure yet!" Sun Erwei replied with the telegram: "They are still discussing this issue."
Then Sun Erwei raised his head and looked at Wang Xuexin and said: "But from what they mean, it seems that they want to see your performance! You know, there are still many people in China who are skeptical of the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness!"
Wang Xuexin smiled, this is the nature of a businessman.
The so-called "look at your performance" means that we are worried that the aircraft that reinforce the Eighth Route Army will not be able to play their role. For example, if one batch of reinforcements is destroyed, another batch of reinforcements will be destroyed, and another batch of reinforcements will be destroyed again... Then there is no need for reinforcements.
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Wang Xuexin sighed secretly. At this time, China was still in an agricultural society and had basically no industry. It was no wonder that he was looked down upon by others because he was weak.
"No problem!" Wang Xuexin said, "But I also have a request!"
"What request?"
Wang Xuexin replied: "The aircraft that reinforce our army must be completely controlled by our army, otherwise, we would rather not have these aircraft!"