Wang Xuexin said that it is more difficult to establish an early warning system for recalcitrant troops. This is not an exaggeration at all.
The reason is the virtue of the stubborn army. They are much more professional in dealing with the Eighth Route Army intelligence personnel than in dealing with the Japanese... This can be said to be the ability that the stubborn army agents have cultivated for a long time against the Eighth Route Army. They will even detain the officers at every turn.
If charged with "collaborating with the enemy", officers who have different opinions, such as those who oppose the civil war and oppose foreign affairs, will be persecuted.
It is also very easy to persecute. One method is to send them to the most dangerous and difficult battlefield, and the other method is to recall Chongqing to put them under house arrest or to isolate them.
If the stubborn army thinks that it is second in this aspect of power, no one will dare to think that it is first.
On the contrary, it is the Japanese spies who infiltrate the stubborn army, which is impossible to prevent... The Japanese will use bribery, holding a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, and after a lot of coercion and inducement, many stubborn army officers will soon become the spies of the Japanese.
Even the vice president of the stubborn army was dealt with, and a theory of "saving the country through curves" was formulated.
Under this general situation, it is very difficult and also very dangerous for the Eighth Route Army intelligence personnel to establish an early warning mechanism in the direction of the recalcitrant army, that is, on the south bank of the Yellow River.
It's dangerous because aircraft warnings require telegrams to be sent out immediately.
This forces intelligence personnel to send a report immediately. If it is too late, the significance of early warning will be lost.
But the intelligence personnel must send a report immediately... This can be said to be impossible in enemy-occupied areas, unless they risk their identities being exposed.
Major Doug couldn't help but frowned while listening to Wang Xuexin's analysis.
He had heard about the conflicts between the stubborn army and the Eighth Route Army before, but he thought that since they were the army of a country after all, and they were working together to deal with a powerful enemy, it shouldn't be anything bad. He didn't expect it to be so bad.
After thinking about it, Major Doug said: "Then, can we use Yingjiang's influence..."
Wang Xuexin smiled and shook his head: "It's easy for them to find excuses. We can't base our own safety on the stubborn troops!"
It was because Major Doug didn't understand that he thought that Yingjiang's influence could make the stubborn army submit in this regard... The stubborn army was not easy to mess with. Unless it was a last resort, in the later stages of the Anti-Japanese War, Yingjiang repeatedly destroyed the stubborn army.
If the army launches a counterattack, can the recalcitrant army still find various excuses to insist on standing still?
The recalcitrant army can even disobey you when it comes to a strategic counterattack. How many times can the recalcitrant army not play tricks on you for such a trivial matter as an early warning?
If the recalcitrant army comes and makes a false warning, then the Eighth Route Army will suffer a lot.
Major Doug thought it was right, so he nodded and stopped talking.
Li Yueying looked at the map and analyzed: "If this is the case, the enemy is likely to carry out air strikes on our airport from the stubborn airspace again and again. This time, the battalion commander guessed that they would take action. Next time..."
Needless to say what follows, this time it was good luck, there were only a few casualties and the plane was fine. I'm afraid this won't be the case next time.
What's more serious is that at this time, the Eighth Route Army only had 10 aircraft. If 100 aircraft really came and were attacked by the Japanese, a lot of them would be blown up no matter what.
But what else can be done?
Should we just hide the plane in a damp tunnel?
This again involves the issue of "offense is greater than defense".
Japanese bombers can attack at any time and can suddenly appear over the airport at any time, so they do not need much energy and time to prepare.
The Eighth Route Army was the defender and could only keep the planes in the tunnel without warning, which obviously didn't work.
After thinking about it, Li Yueying asked Wang Xuexin: "Can we build one or more airports?"
Wang Xuexin shook his head: "We don't have that much time!"
The Eighth Route Army built an airport unlike Yingjiang, which could build a well-equipped airport within a few days with all kinds of excavators, bulldozers, etc. The Eighth Route Army relied entirely on manpower, and it also had to dig tunnels, which took at least a few days.
weeks of time.
Just when several people were frowning, Principal Tang hurried over and greeted Wang Xuexin from a distance of more than ten meters: "Commander of the Fifth Battalion, the commander wants you to answer the phone!"
As soon as Wang Xuexin heard this, he knew that Li Yunlong had become angry after hearing about this, and he would inevitably get scolded if he continued to listen to the phone.
Sure enough, when Wang Xuexin and Major Doug rushed to the headquarters to answer the phone, they heard Li Yunlong scolding on the other end:
"I said, Xiao Dongbei, what are you doing? The Japanese planes flew over our heads and dropped bombs. Why don't our planes take off and hit them?"
"Are the foreign devils afraid to go up? If they don't dare to go up, let Wu Guozhi and the others do it!"
"I don't believe it. There are planes and pilots. How can we just follow the devils and blow up? Isn't this a coward?"
"If that's the case, why do we need these flights? They were all blown up before they even took off!"
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Wang Xuexin tried to interrupt several times but failed. Li Yueying felt a little embarrassed when she heard the voice on the phone. She didn't know whether it was better to translate the words or not.
But even if Major Doug didn't understand, he could still make a pretty good guess based on Li Yunlong's angry tone coming from the microphone.
After finally waiting for Li Yunlong to scold him enough, Wang Xuexin replied: "Captain, you don't understand this matter, I know what to do..."
Li Yunlong wanted to say something else, but the microphone was snatched away by Zhao Gang.
Zhao Gang replied: "You are right, Comrade Wang Xuexin! Don't listen to your regimental leader. If you need anything, just ask us and we will fully support you. But one thing is that the regimental leader is right. It is not an option to continue like this. You have to think carefully.
How to deal with this situation!"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin stood up and responded.
After hanging up the phone, Li Yunlong became dissatisfied with Zhao Gang for grabbing the line: "Old Li, why are you so anxious?"
"I still want to talk about you!" Zhao Gang replied: "Why are you in a hurry? Our aviation team has only been established for a few days. We haven't even taken a few breaths, and we have people flying into the sky to fight the Japanese. Do you think this is
Are you going to fight with infantry? After a few days of training, you can just grab a rifle and charge towards the enemy's position?"
"I know all this!" Li Yunlong shrank into the corner with his hands in his sleeves glumly.
Zhao Gang felt a little strange when he heard this: "You know? You know that indiscriminate roar just now?"
"I'm not..." Li Yunlong said "Oh" and replied: "Old Zhao, you don't understand! I was obviously scolding Xiao Dongbei, but in fact I was just saying it for the foreign devils! What did they say about an instructor or a teacher?
, why don’t you show us your skills?”
Zhao Gang finally understood, and secretly thought to himself that this guy was just trying to criticize others?
It does make sense, Yingjiang pilots should also behave, otherwise how can they set an example for our pilots?