The news soon spread to the Eighth Route Army headquarters.
As mentioned before, this is the disadvantage of the Japanese as invaders. Their every move is actually under the "monitoring" of the Chinese people and intelligence personnel, especially the fighter planes flying in the air, which will be exposed to millions of people.
In the sight of everyone, it is almost impossible to keep it secret.
The chief of staff frowned as soon as he saw the telegram. Then he took the telegram to the commander in three steps and said, "The Japanese have transferred 12 Zero fighter jets, one squadron!"
The commander who was looking at the map turned his head when he heard this and asked: "Is that the kind of fighter that suppresses all the other fighter jets from flying?"
The chief of staff nodded and said: "Yes, it seems that the Japanese are spending a lot of money in our direction!"
The chief nodded.
This was both within his expectation and beyond his expectation.
It was expected. The commander knew that if this development continued, the Japanese "Zero" fighter would appear sooner or later. This was even what Yingjiang hoped for, which was to let China share part of the pressure on the Pacific battlefield.
It was said that it was an accident. The commander did not expect that the Japanese would transfer the "Zero" fighter jets to the Chinese battlefield so quickly. He originally thought that the Japanese would try a few more times with the 96 ship battle.
"The war call is coming.
This was actually a misjudgment caused by the commander's unfamiliarity with air combat.
Air combat is different from infantry combat.
In infantry combat, it is emphasized that "good steel is used on the blade", and elite troops will not take action easily.
But in air combat, there is more emphasis on "killing a chicken with a bull's-eye", and putting more advanced equipment into the battlefield as much as possible.
Because only in this way can we form an overwhelming advantage over the enemy and achieve the greatest results with fewer victories, thus achieving the goal of preserving our own pilots and destroying the enemy's pilots to the greatest extent possible.
As time goes by, the enemy pilots will be exhausted and left to their own devices.
Therefore, countries always put their most advanced fighter planes into the battlefield as soon as possible during air battles, and basically do not "hide and wait" until the opportunity comes before launching a fatal blow.
"How to solve it now?" the chief of staff asked: "Our pilots are still in training, they have just entered actual flight, and are far from being able to participate in air combat!"
This is due to the fact that the Japanese fighter planes did not come to harass during this period, and also because the Eighth Route Army had 39 Hawker 81s in hand.
Once the number of aircraft increases, routine patrols can be carried out in batches, thus ensuring the safety of part of the airspace at Wanxian Airport.
On the other hand, Mao Xiong's rus2 radar in Xi'an has also been put in place and has successfully established contact with Wanxian Airport... It is easy for the Mao Xiong Advisory Group to do this, because they are an advisory group and are not subject to stubborn troops.
Restrictions, especially at this time, they were still the "financiers" of the stubborn army, and many of the equipment of the stubborn army were given by Mao Xiong.
Under this circumstance, the Eighth Route Army pilots entered into actual flights in batches.
The so-called "batch" means that they must first pass the assessment of Zhou Yuankai and Li Dongcheng.
Li Yueying was still puzzled by this. She asked Wang Xuexin: "Captain Wang, why did you let Zhou and Li set up subject assessments? Pilot Yingjiang has more experience, or you can let me do it!"
Wang Xuexin replied: "You may have more experience and say in Hawker 81, but you don't know the situation of Chinese pilots, let alone what difficulties Chinese pilots will encounter in flying Hawker 81, or what discomforts they have
place! But Zhou Yuankai and Li Dongcheng know these very well, so I think there is no problem, they know who can enter the actual flight and who cannot!"
When Li Yueying heard this, she felt it made sense, so she no longer objected.
This is just like people who can read may not necessarily know how to educate.
Some knowledge can be learned by oneself, but it is difficult to teach others. Reading and education are two different things.
Many highly educated parents do not know how to teach their children, which is actually normal.
Zhou Yuankai and Li Dongcheng have flown Hawker 81 and participated in actual combat. They know how they got here, and they also know what difficulties there are and what they need to pay attention to. As long as they can successfully fly Hawker in the end,
81...These experiences are more valuable to Chinese pilots.
Wang Xuexin said to the Chinese pilots: "Comrades, you can rest assured. If something really goes wrong, you can parachute when you have to. It's just a plane. I'm familiar with Yingjiang, and they told me, because I gave them
I suggest you help them defeat the Japs, so this plane will be repaired after one crash, and another plane will be repaired after another crash, so don’t be polite!"
The Chinese pilots immediately burst into cheers.
Major Doug still didn't believe what the translator said, so he secretly asked Wang Xuexin: "Wang, do they really promise you to knock one down and make up for one? This is crazy!"
Wang Xuexin laughed: "Do you really think Yingjiang will give me such a big face? Even General Doolittle can't make this promise, right?"
Major Doug was confused for a while and asked: "Then why do you say that? Aren't you worried that your pilots are making fun of these planes?"
"Is it possible?" Wang Xuexin asked back.
Major Doug thought for a while, then nodded and said: "It is indeed impossible!"
He is a pilot himself, so of course he knows this.
How can pilots make fun of airplanes when they are still sitting on the airplane? Isn’t making fun of airplanes just kidding with their own lives?
Skydiving if something goes wrong?
Easy to say!
In this era, the success rate of skydiving due to aircraft failure is not high.
But of course, except for Asan's pilots, their ground crew always have an extra screw after repairing the aircraft.
Li Yueying, who was translating for Major Doug, asked in confusion: "Battle Commander Wang, your purpose of doing this is to let the pilots relieve their psychological burden?"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin nodded: "We Chinese people pay attention to the golden mean. It is not good if the psychological burden is too heavy, and it is not good if the psychological burden is too light. The current situation is that the psychological burden of Chinese pilots is too heavy. They all
Tian was discussing how much the Hawker 81 is worth, saying that they are going to fly a fighter jet worth 45,000 US dollars. If it breaks or malfunctions, they can't afford to lose their lives. So..."
Li Yueying gave Wang Xuexin a clear look: "So you gave them a white lie and let them fly? It's a good method. We have discussed this issue before. Major Doug believes that when people are under excessive psychological pressure,
It’s easy to make mistakes, but I don’t know how to make them adapt!”
"However!" Major Doug added: "As pilots, they should adapt to various pressures as soon as possible! Because there will be more dangerous situations waiting for them in the future!"
Wang Xuexin nodded in agreement, but he hoped to give the Chinese pilots more time to adapt.