There is still more than an hour before dawn, the sky is still dark, but the inside and outside of the airport are brightly lit with torches.
The Type 96 land bombers and Type 95 carrier-based fighter jets that have been hidden in the hangar have been pulled out. The Douglas III transport aircraft that was just acquired not long ago has also been parked on the runway. Moreover, the two
The engines of a large plane and a small plane have been started, and the propellers rotate at high speed, making a huge roar.
Song Guoning, commander of the flight company, and the four pilots of the flight company had already changed into flight suits and formed a neat queue on one side of the runway.
Also lining up together were officers and soldiers from the mechanical maintenance platoon.
Yesterday evening, the headquarters suddenly issued an order for the flight company to prepare the aircraft and immediately go to the logistics department to get fuel. Song Guoning and Zhang Wei, the platoon leader of the mechanical maintenance platoon, were a little confused at the beginning. What's the situation? They usually refuse a drop of fuel during training.
Here, why are you so generous all of a sudden this time?
But not long after, both of them heard that big action was going to be taken!
Hearing that there was an action, Zhang Wei didn't know anything. Anyway, their mechanical maintenance platoon was only responsible for aircraft inspection and maintenance, and had no chance to participate in the action. However, the flight company commander Song Guoning was extremely happy.
Ever since the day he became the flight company commander, Song Guoning has been looking forward to this day all the time.
Today, Song Guoning finally looked forward to this day. Their flying company was finally going to join the war!
Therefore, when Zhang Wei looked at Song Guoning, in addition to envy, there was also a trace of jealousy.
"Guoning, I heard that your boy is going to fly a Type 95 carrier-based fighter jet to escort transport aircraft and bombers? This time, you are so majestic." Zhang Wei said with envy, "Congratulations, you are about to become our military division.
The fourth pilot to fly a Type 95 carrier-based fighter jet into the battle."
"What, is it second?" Song Guoning said, "Except for the commander, not even Captain Leng and the regimental commander have ever participated in an air combat."
Zhang Wei said: "You are said to be fat, but you are really out of breath? I just let your kid fly the plane to escort the aircraft, as if there is a real chance to encounter Japanese fighter jets and have an air battle."
"I don't know the same as you." Song Guoning said cheerfully, "You are just jealous."
Zhang Wei snorted and said nothing more, because Song Guoning was right and he was just jealous.
While the two were talking, a group of Langya members wearing jungle camouflage had already run into the airport, followed closely by a three-wheeled motorcycle.
The three-wheeled motorcycles arrived first and came to a halt in front of Song Guoning with a creak.
Xu Rui jumped down from the sidecar. Song Guoning, Zhang Wei and the pilots and maintenance soldiers lined up behind them all stood up and stood at attention: "Salute!"
A moment later, Leng Tiefeng boarded the plane with fifty members of the Wolf Fang team.
Although the Type 96 land bomber is larger than the Douglas III transport aircraft, the structure of the bomber is completely different from that of the transport aircraft, and it can only barely seat twenty team members.
Then, Song Guoning boarded the Type 95 carrier-based fighter, and the two crews of the flight company also boarded the Type 96 land bomber and the Douglas III transport aircraft respectively. Zhang Wei took the mechanical maintenance platoon personnel to act as
The ground crew removed the wheel resistance of the three aircraft, then guided the three aircraft to taxi onto the runway and directed them to take off.
In less than five minutes, two large planes roared into the sky loaded with fifty Wolf Fangs.
Immediately afterwards, Song Guoning also took off in the only Type 95 carrier-based fighter jet, roaring after the Type 96 bombers and Douglas bombers that had taken off first, and assumed the escort mission.
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Tiantangzhai, headquarters of the 32nd Army.
Because he suffered a disastrous defeat in the Feixi Incident, which not only resulted in the annihilation of the four main divisions of the Thirty-Second Army, but also forced Chairman Chiang to humiliatingly pay a huge sum of money, Wan Xiangyun was dismissed after the incident subsided.
He was transferred back to the Chief's Department of the Third War Zone as a casual senior counselor.
Although Wan Xiangyun was unhappy, he didn't say much. Firstly, he did bear the unshirkable responsibility for the Feixi Incident. Secondly, even if he was dismissed, Wan Xiangyun was not worried. At worst, he would spend more money next time.
After a year and a half, the impact of the incident faded away, and he was able to make a comeback soon.
Therefore, Wan Xiangyun happily went to take up the post in the Third War Zone Commander's Department.
After Wan Xiangyun was dismissed, the National Army Headquarters did not send a new candidate for the commander-in-chief. Instead, Li Mutang was appointed as the acting commander-in-chief on the spot. Li Mutang tolerated it for a long time and finally got the result he wanted most, even though it was just
The acting commander-in-chief is not the real commander-in-chief, but it is still a rare opportunity for Li Motang.
However, after actually becoming the commander-in-chief, Li Motang discovered that this position was not so easy to seat.
First of all, the three army commanders under him had strong resistance to him. Not to mention Liu Mingquan and Wang Xiyuan, even Xia Hanzhong, a classmate of Huangpu Phase I, also had a deep resentment towards him.
This was somewhat unexpected by Li Motang, so Li Motang is now in a very uncomfortable situation.
Li Motang is nominally the commander-in-chief of the 32nd Group Army, but what he can really effectively command is a guard regiment of the group army headquarters, plus a few troops directly under the headquarters, in addition to the three main armies, including Xia
Including the 79th Army in Hanzhong, Li Motang could not command anyone.
Li Mutang was naturally unwilling to give in, but it was impossible to think about it in a short time.
The only thing Li Motang can do now is to expand the guard regiment into a security brigade, and also to clean up the administrative and public security situation in the Dabie Mountains border area. However, these things are complicated to do, and Li Motang is a soldier, so it is unusual to handle them.
It was strenuous, so the actual effect became worse than before.
To give a very simple example, when Wan Xiangyun was still in office, he set a tax rate standard for the Dabie Mountains border area. Now that Wan Xiangyun has been dismissed and Li Mutang has taken office, Li Mutang feels that the tax rate set by Wan Xiangyun is too high and wants to lower the tax rate.
, but he was also worried that the people Wan Xiangyun left behind would work in secret, so he could only replace them with his own people.
Li Motang's original intention was to replace the people he trusted and effectively reduce the burden on the people in the Dabie Mountains. However, the actual situation is that the burden on the people in the Dabie Mountains has not been reduced, but has become heavier. Why is this? Because Wan Xiangyun
The people in the country have already collected all the taxes for the next ten years. Now that they are replaced by the people in Li Motang, even if the tax rate is light, they still have to recalculate the taxes. This is equivalent to asking the people in the Dabie Mountains to pay taxes again. Can the burden not be increased?
Therefore, within a few months after Li Motang took office, the entire Dabie Mountains became filled with complaints.
Of course, Li Mutang is capable and thoughtful. If you give him time, he may not be able to manage well. Unfortunately, he has no chance. Regardless of whether he is innocent or deserves it, Li Mutang has been selected by Xu Rui anyway, and Leng Tiefeng
He has also led fifty elite Langya troops to fly over Tiantang Village.
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Douglas III transport aircraft over the Dabie Mountains.
Leng Tiefeng turned his head and looked out through the plane window. He saw that a red sun had jumped out of the eastern sky, casting thousands of rays of rays on the sea of clouds, making the morning glow burn like fire. It was truly spectacular. Close your eyes and relax.
The wolves woke up one after another, and looked out the plane window, pointing at the magnificent scenery.
Even Langya has never seen such a magnificent high-altitude landscape.
However, what made people feel a little embarrassed was that a crew member suddenly came from the front and said: "Gao Brigade, the Tiantang Village is ahead!"
"Got it." Leng Tiefeng nodded, then stood up from his seat and walked to the cabin door.
With a strong pull, the closed door opened, and the airflow in the cabin immediately leaked out through the door, sucking out the dust and some debris in the cabin. Some untied fabrics were also included in the airflow.
The thirty Wolf Fang members in the cabin immediately became nervous due to the whirring sound.
For most of the Langya people here, this is their first time skydiving, and it is impossible to say they are not nervous.
You must know that the high-altitude parachute technology in this era is still very immature, and the failure rate is quite high. A high failure rate means that the mortality rate is also high, that is, the Wolf Fang. Because of the extreme exercise, the physical strength is far higher than
It is better than ordinary people, so as long as the parachute bag is not opened, basically nothing will happen. At most, you will be injured. But if you were an ordinary person, even if the parachute bag is hung on a branch or something, it is enough to cause a fatal accident.
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However, even the strong man of the Langya Brigade is inevitably nervous at this moment.
Leng Tiefeng walked backwards from the cabin door to the cabin. As he walked, he patted the helmets of the Langya team members one by one. The team members whose helmets were photographed stood up one after another. Finally, he checked their parachute bags and straps. Leng Tiefeng patted the helmets one by one.
After taking pictures of the 30 team members, they returned to the cabin door again and used sign language to signal for parachuting!
Shi Xiaoqian stood at the front of the row and looked outside the cabin.
At this time, from a high altitude, you can already see the red sun rising in the eastern sky and the thousands of rays of rays of light falling down, but it is still pitch black on the ground. Looking down from the cabin door, you can see nothing but darkness below.
He couldn't see anything at all. Shi Xiaoqian could not help but feel guilty and afraid. This was a thousand meters high in the sky.
At this height, no matter how good your Qinggong is, if the parachute bag cannot be opened, you will definitely die!
Leng Tiefeng signaled Shi Xiaoqian again and ordered him to parachute. Shi Xiaoqian gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and jumped out of the cabin door with his parachute bag in his arms. Once in the air, Shi Xiaoqian was no longer afraid.
, they all jumped down anyway, now there is no point worrying about life or death.
After calming down, Shi Xiaoqian immediately felt the joy of skydiving.
Turning around in the air, Shi Xiaoqian turned his body to face upward. He immediately saw that his teammates on the same plane had jumped down from the hatch one after another like dumplings. Shi Xiaoqian even saw
Lu Han didn't jump down by himself, but was kicked down by Leng Tiefeng. Ha, this Shandong guy didn't have much courage at all.