This may have been expected by the chief of staff.
Because Yingjiang is Yingjiang after all, on the one hand, its pilots will not be as desperate as the Eighth Route Army. On the other hand, this is China after all, and the Yingjiang pilots have no personal pain, so they are unlikely to devote themselves to the battle.
So the chief of staff frowned and said: "Then pilots are a problem! We are extremely short of talents in this area, and so far we have only managed to find 32 candidates who are considered suitable. This is because we mobilized all personnel
Develop all the strengths you can!"
Several people in the conference room were silent.
From the moment we knew that Yingjiang would reinforce the Eighth Route Army aircraft, everyone knew this in their hearts. The pilots were the big problem.
Wang Xuexin also had a headache about this.
China is not Yingjiang. In a large industrial country like Yingjiang, many people fly airplanes to spray pesticides. There are many people who can fly airplanes among the people. If they are recruited during wartime and given a little training, it won't take long to be able to fly.
Become a pilot and fly a fighter jet.
Hans directly added flying courses to compulsory education... to be precise, he offered courses on sailing gliders, but there are many similarities between piloting gliders and piloting fighter jets. In the process of learning, a large number of courses can be drawn
Talents further learn fighter piloting, which is one of the reasons why there are a large number of ace pilots in Hans.
As for the Japs, they were purely preparing for the war early... One of the characteristics of the Japs is that they can endure, and then secretly train people, and then suddenly attack the other side when they are not prepared.
As for China, it was still an agricultural country at this time. Many people did not know about such things that could fly in the sky until the Japanese invaded, let alone learning, talent reserves and the like.
But Wang Xuexin had a plan in mind.
He knew one thing. The first aircraft owned by the Eighth Route Army in history was the "Jianguo"... to be precise, it should be the "820".
"Jianguo Hao" was the name given by the Japanese.
When the Wang puppet government established the puppet regime, the Japanese gave the Wang puppet three Tachikawa twin-engine monoplane transport planes as so-called "government planes", and one of them was named "Jianguo".
The Eighth Route Army renamed the plane "820" because it flew to Yan'an during the August 20 uprising.
Wang Xuexin and the Chief of Staff analyzed it like this: "Chief of Staff, looking at the whole of China, there may only be these few sources of talents with flying skills. The first is the stubborn army."
The chief of staff nodded in agreement.
The recalcitrant army had a huge force. Before the War of Resistance, they purchased various types of fighter planes from abroad and trained them for a long time. They had many pilots. However, at this time, they did not dare to take off for combat because the recalcitrant army's fighter planes were not advanced enough.
The chief of staff said: "However, the stubborn army takes these pilots very seriously, and most of them are now learning to fly with the Flying Tigers. It is not easy to instigate them."
In fact, there are many reasons that the Chief of Staff did not mention.
For example, these pilots who can fly airplanes are either rich or noble... In this era, being able to fly airplanes is no small matter, and the various expenses will immediately scare ordinary people away.
Therefore, most of the pilots in the hands of the stubborn army and even in the entire Chinese land are children of wealthy families of the landlord class and above.
It is basically impossible for these rich kids to be incited to rebel.
The reason is very simple. The Eighth Route Army is an army that fights against local tyrants to allocate their land to poor people.
The stubborn army is a representative of the landlord class, an army of warlords and so-called nobles... Although the soldiers do not belong to the landlord class, they are hired by the landlord class with food and salary to become its armed force.
Recalcitrant soldiers, as poor people, have a high possibility of being incited to rebel.
But the pilots... they are the landlord class themselves and have a fundamental conflict of interest with the Eighth Route Army. If they join the Eighth Route Army, why are they fighting? Is it to overthrow their landlord parents and distribute their fields to the people?
This is one of the reasons why the chief of staff mobilized all manpower, but in the end only found 32 suitable candidates.
Then, before Wang Xuexin could continue, the chief of staff added: "The Jinsui Army also has such talents, and there are quite a lot of them. I heard that there are more than 80 pilots and many ground staff, but the situation is the same as that of the stubborn army.
It’s hard to instigate him to rebel!”
The reason does not need to be explained. Because these pilots are neither rich nor noble, they would rather surrender to the stubborn army than join the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, the only result of instigating rebellion against them is likely to be the sacrifice of intelligence personnel in vain.
Wang Xuexin also thought of this. He said: "But there are a group of people who are exceptions!"
"Who?" the chief of staff asked curiously.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang also cast doubtful glances at Wang Xuexin.
Wang Xuexin replied: "Puppet Army!"
The chief of staff was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly and said: "That's right, how could we forget about the puppet army!"
Li Yunlong asked in confusion: "Is there any difference between the puppet pilots? Are they more likely to instigate rebellion? The military pay given to them by the Japanese is not low!"
This is a comparison that Li Yunlong did not do ideological work, so he simply regarded the work of instigating rebellion as a comparison of military pay and treatment.
Zhao Gang is an expert in this field. He immediately pointed his finger and said: "Old Li, you don't understand this! This is not a question of how much the military pay is, but that many people in the puppet army are unwilling to be traitors and lackeys! In addition, they
Without the stubborn army and the ideological burden on the pilots of the Jinsui Army, it would be much easier to instigate them to rebel!"
Li Yunlong said "Oh" as if he didn't understand, and then fell silent.
Li Yunlong was not interested in this aspect. Anyway, he just wanted to know whether he could get a pilot in the end.
But what Zhao Gang said was right, which is why Wang Xuexin targeted puppet pilots.
The pilots of the stubborn army and the Jinsui Army had a fundamental conflict of interest with the Eighth Route Army because of their different classes. The pilots of the puppet army did not have this problem... Although they were once the stubborn army and the landlord class, they had already changed the moment they became the puppet army.
It has drawn a clear line between the stubborn army and the landlord class, and has even become enemies.
To be precise, it should be an enemy of China.
If some of these people are forced and still have the idea of fighting for China, then they will be more inclined to surrender to the Eighth Route Army rather than the stubborn army.
There are many reasons. Some are fully aware of the corruption and incompetence of the stubborn army, some are unable to turn back, etc.
If the Eighth Route Army intelligence personnel get in touch with them again at this time, everything may fall into place naturally.
Thinking of this, the chief of staff said: "That's it. Let's find a way to win a group of pilots from the puppet army!"