Therefore, although the stubborn army has various favorable conditions and a large amount of resources, and even has the support of Yingjiang, it can be said that it has soldiers, money, food, and equipment, it will still lose the war in the end. It is not impossible.
reason.
If an army can reach this point, it will be unreasonable to not lose.
In fact, it was not others who defeated them, but themselves. It was the stubborn army itself that forced away those people with backbone, ideals and abilities. This is evidenced by the large numbers of officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Eighth Route Army during the war.
The second suggestion made by Major Doug is not a problem at all for the Eighth Route Army troops.
In the stubborn army, this kind of thing could go unpunished because of the so-called "direct lineage", but in the Eighth Route Army, it would never be tolerated.
Not to mention deliberately sabotaging the aircraft, those pilots who are not qualified and do not study seriously will be kicked out of the pilot team.
Of course, because the number of pilots is very small, they are a valuable asset to the Eighth Route Army, so they will not be kicked out of the team easily.
In this regard, Zhao Gang has already thought about it.
He had considered this issue with Li Yunlong in previous meetings.
He looked at the data he recorded with his notebook and analyzed: "If we have enough pilots, we can use the last elimination system. But now we only have 113 pilots, and there are still some people who are not sure whether they are qualified.
We will have a hundred planes..."
Li Yunlong frowned and said: "This is a problem. One hundred planes require one hundred pilots. What if someone is injured or sick? So at least one hundred, twenty or thirty will be enough! Now they are all
There are only 113 of them, and they are just used to tighten the belt. If we eliminate some more, we won’t even be able to make 100!”
"But not eliminating is not an option!" Wang Xuexin said: "That means that whether they study or not, they can hang out in the aviation team without any pressure!"
Zhao Gang nodded and said: "So, we still have to eliminate them, but we cannot eliminate them easily. Before elimination, we should fully understand the psychological situation of each pilot, such as what difficulties they have, what psychological burden they have, etc., and then do
Good Ideology works to try to solve their difficulties so that they have no worries, so that every pilot can have the interest in learning and the opportunity to grow as much as possible, thereby minimizing the elimination rate as much as possible while ensuring the quality of the pilots!
"
Wang Xuexin and Li Yunlong were convinced by these words.
In short, political workers like Zhao Gang serve as class teachers, understanding each pilot thoroughly and paying attention, caring, and caring to the extreme... If this is the case, can the pilots still not learn in a down-to-earth manner?
And this seems to be what Zhao Gang and the others usually do, which is to ideologically guide the commanders and soldiers on the right path.
Therefore, on this point, the Eighth Route Army is completely different from the stubborn army.
The stubborn army is all kinds of oppression, exploitation and blame-shifting from top to bottom.
The Eighth Route Army trains them carefully. Even if the pilots have some emotional problems or ideological fluctuations, Zhao Gang is likely to immediately notice and do targeted ideological work.
Under this situation, is it possible that pilots secretly sabotage aircraft in order to avoid going to the battlefield?
It’s not that all pilots are born heroes who are not afraid of death. In fact, the composition of pilots is very complex. Most of them are from the Jinsui Army, and some even have the bad habit of smoking... This is true in Jinsui.
It's very common in the military, and there are relatively few pilots, because once you smoke it, you can't fly the plane, and you can't take a few puffs while flying!
But the problem is that the pilots of the Jinsui Army no longer live up to their reputation. Some of them will think, since there is no plane to fly into the sky anyway, and now they are fighting and they will die at any time, why not let go of the punishment?
It is true that people were poor during the war years, but the poorer they were and the more precarious they were during the war, the more people had this mentality of being drunk now and drunk the next.
For this type of pilot, there is nothing to say. If you don't quit, you will definitely not be able to join the pilot team. Even if you quit, you will "focus on it" in the days to come.
This aspect is the advantage of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army can transform all kinds of people with negative and negative thoughts into a qualified soldier.
Major Doug and Li Yueying didn't know this when they first arrived. At this time, Wang Xuexin and others were not in a hurry to convince them. They would naturally understand after experiencing it for themselves for a period of time.
While Wang Xuexin and others were busy setting up the aviation force, the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan exploded.
Yoshio Shinozuka hurried to Okamura Neiji with a telegram and reported nervously: "Your Excellency, General, according to reliable information, Taika has started a plan to reinforce the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes, and the first batch of ten fighters has been delivered to the Eighth Route Army.
!”
Okamura Neji suddenly raised his head, his eyelids twitched, and asked: "Where did you get the information? What model is it?"
"The information obtained by the stubborn army!" Yoshio Shinozuka replied: "It is a Hawker 81, which is the same model of fighter plane used by the stubborn army's "Flying Tigers"!"
Okamura Neji was stunned for a while, and then sat back on the chair with a heavy heart.
Just now he was still planning how to take back Yuncheng.
Okamura Neiji is even thinking about turning Yuncheng into a meat grinder, that is, not directly occupying Yuncheng, but using Yuncheng as a bait to attract the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so that they can follow one another like moths to a flame.
One group was sent to the Imperial Army.
The feasibility of this plan is very high.
Because there is a plain to the north of Yuncheng, it can be used as the main battlefield of the imperial army.
When fighting on the plains, the imperial army has an absolute advantage, even though the Eighth Route Army at this time has T34 tanks.
but……
This plan was stillborn before it was even finalized.
Because, once the Eighth Route Army has an air force and becomes large-scale, the focus will be on the Hawker 81 fighters reinforced by Eagle Sauce, then the situation will be completely different.
Okamura Neiji knew about this fighter plane because the Imperial Army had already come into contact with Hawk-chan on the battlefield.
Although this fighter is no match for the "Zero" fighter, it still doesn't have much of a problem against other Empire fighters, especially the Empire's backward models in China.
In this way, the Eighth Route Army could even bomb the empire's railways and roads, which would put the empire's supplies in trouble.
In this case, let alone turning Yuncheng into a meat grinder to strangle the Eighth Route Army, the imperial army is likely to be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army in Yuncheng, which is surrounded by enemies on three sides.
Thinking of this, Okamura Neiji ordered: "Cancel all combat plans, generate electricity for Tokyo, and request air force reinforcements!"