Chapter 36: Return to Chongqing
"Immediately send a telegram to Chongqing, contact the joint command, and start the Shadow Project." Zhuo Fei rushed back to Ruili, and received a telegram from Chongqing, and after seeing the telegram sent by Angela, Zhuo Fei responded without too much hesitation. "Angela, there is not much time left for us, the Japanese army has become even more crazy after taking Wuhan, and the joint command hopes to mobilize the Wehrmacht to participate in the war now. But you know, the Wehrmacht still has too many shortcomings, so I'm going to give them a front stop, and here, I can only leave it to you. ”
Angela originally thought that Zhuo Fei was going to rush to the battlefield with the mountain troops trained by Bowman, but what Angela didn't expect was that Zhuo Fei was actually ready to leave Ruili with Zhuo Yan and go to the front line. "Boss, I know you're very skilled, but it's a battlefield of thousands of people, do you really think the two of you can do it? Please don't let us worry about you, okay? If you go to the front, you must at least take Bowman with them. ”
Zhuo Fei knew that Angela was worried about his safety, but Zhuo Fei couldn't tell Angela that he had a magical system, and the weapons exchanged from the system were only available to himself and Zhuo Yan. "Angela, you can't think so, although I only brought a stone alone, but the underground party and the military command have many guerrillas in the enemy-occupied area, Bowman's appearance is not good, bringing them will only make me exposed faster."
"Don't worry, I went to the enemy-occupied area this time just to investigate, not to take stones to fight the Japanese army to the death. We've known each other for so long, don't you know who I am, and I never do anything I'm not sure about. Zhuo Fei finally persuaded Angela, and called Bowman to secretly advise him for a while, and then quietly took Zhuo Yan, who had returned from the mountain troops, and an intelligence analysis team to leave Ruili and drive to Kunming.
Back in Kunming, Zhuo Fei did not rush to Chongqing immediately, but went to the administrative office to meet Long Yun, who was sitting in Kunming. "Chairman Long, I have brought back a large number of tanks and armored vehicles from Germany this time, and soon, my teammates from the United States will send a batch of planes over. At present, our umbrella company has trained more than 100 pilots, and with the various fighters we have obtained, there will probably be more than 60 fighters in the next three to four months. ”
"Ruili is too far away, I hope that Kunming can find a suitable place to build a temporary base for the flight team, regardless of whether these fighters can finally take to the air to fight, I hope that the provincial government can support this flight base, and help the flight team organize a group of students to enter the base for flight training." Zhuo Fei handed over to Long Yun a draft of the formation of the flying team that he had drawn up, and hoped to get Long Yun's support in his words.
"There is no problem with this, the chairman of the implementation committee is already paying attention to this aspect of affairs, during the air battle in Wuhan, our own pilots and fighters suffered heavy losses. Wuhan was lost, and the aviation school has been withdrawn to Chongqing, since your umbrella also has this idea, I think it is better to move the aviation school directly to Kunming and merge it directly with your flight team. I will provide the venue here to provide manpower, and you will protect the fighters and instructors, and we will set up a flight base and school in Kunming. ”
Long Yun's direct statement won Zhuo Fei's favor, and after discussing the affairs of the flight base with Long Yun, Zhuo Fei rushed to the airport outside the city non-stop, and took a transport plane to Chongqing overnight. "Director Zhou, why are you here?" The transport plane landed at Chongqing Airport, and Zhuo Fei, who walked down the gangway, unexpectedly saw Zhou Enlai waiting outside the runway, and Zhou Enlai, who is now the director of the Permanent Office of the Communist Party of China in Chongqing, walked over to Zhuo Fei, and before the person arrived, his hand had already stretched out.
"I'm here, naturally, to greet you." Stretching out his hand to shake Zhou Enlai together, Zhuo Fei didn't expect Zhou Enlai to say that he was a great hero. "The equipment you brought back, Ruili has already sent a detailed list to Chongqing, and the command has already made a fuss, we didn't expect your umbrella to be so big this time, this is hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles." After listening to Zhou Enlai's words, Zhuo Fei's new talent was grounded, and he dared to love for those tanks.
"Director Zhou, you are wrong, it's not a few hundred, this time it will be a thousand or hundred." Zhuo Fei walked beside Zhou Enlai and replied lightly. "We have a group of Jewish engineers from the Czechoslovak Arsenal in our umbrella company, and they have been able to convert the tracked tractors that our umbrella company ordered from the United States into light armored vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns, and I have also brought back 1,000 American-made tracked tractors this time, and it only takes four months for these tractors to be converted into light armored vehicles."
"yes, that's great." Zhou Enlai immediately stopped, stretched out his hand and shook Zhuo Fei together, and his words revealed a strong sense of joy. "Wuhan has been lost, and the war on the front line has fallen into a new round of stalemate, and the joint command has already been in a state of stalemate. The Japanese army relied on nothing more than aircraft, artillery and tanks, and if we had our own so-called armored forces, then I am afraid that the Japanese army would be overwhelmed. ”
On the way out of the airport, Zhou Enlai told Zhuo Fei a rough description of the situation on the front line in the near future, and according to Zhou Enlai's introduction, Zhuo Fei already had a general understanding of the situation facing the front line. Just like the last time Zhuo Fei left Chongqing, although it was already late at night, Chiang Kai-shek's official residence was still brightly lit, and the young staff officers were still busy. "Hello chairman, hello CEOs, I'm back." Walking into the crowded joint headquarters, Zhuo Fei first went to say hello to Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong.
"Your telegram, we've received it, wouldn't it be too early to start the Shadow Project now?" After receiving Chiang Kai-shek's signal, Dai Li, who was in charge of intelligence work with ***, asked Zhuo Fei questions first. "At present, the intelligence officers of the Chinese Communist Party and the military command have found out the specific locations of the 14 airfields of the Japanese army, but the span of these places is too large, and even a few Japanese airfields are under the strict protection of the Japanese army, and our intelligence officers have no way to get close to observe."
"It's okay, as long as you know the specific location of those Japanese airfields, I have my own plans and means, you just need to provide me with true and accurate information, and I will treat and arrange specific actions." In the face of Dai Li's worries and doubts, Zhuo Fei was very sure, but he did not specifically describe his action steps. "I have my own intelligence analysis team, you just need to provide me with information, and when it comes to specific operations, I will contact your local guerrillas and intelligence agents."
Obviously, he didn't expect Zhuo Fei to have such a backhand, Dai Li and Li Kenong just glanced at each other, but they didn't say anything more to the intelligence analysis team that Zhuo Fei said. Zhuo Fei brought them to Chongqing only to ask them to work out the order of the attack based on the information provided by the military commanders, and only he and Zhuo Yan were the only ones who actually entered the enemy-occupied area to carry out the attack.
"Are you really going to start the Shadow Project?" When Zhuo Fei got the relevant information and information from Dai Li and Li Kenong, Chiang Kai-shek, who knew the inside story of the Dark Night Project, seemed to be a little reluctant, and the implementation of this plan required infiltrating the enemy-occupied area to carry out activities.
"Chairman, there are some things that always need to be done, and even if I don't go, there are still people who want to go. I Zhuo Fei dare to take this task, I have my own reliance, you should not worry about my safety now, you should think about how the Japanese army will be afraid after I complete the operation. Instead of expressing the slightest concern, Zhuo Fei persuaded Chiang Kai-shek, who was secretly worried, and the ease of his words made Mao Zedong secretly surprised.
"The success or failure of the Shadow Project is key to the next strategic deployment of the joint command, and it is more related to the debut of the armored forces. Once the Japanese lose their air and armor superiority, I don't know what else they can rely on? As long as I can accomplish such a task, not to mention hitching a ride on myself, or hitching a ride on dozens of me, it is also cost-effective. ”
Zhuo Fei's words made the headquarters instantly quiet, and everyone watched Zhuo Fei silently, sneaking into the enemy-occupied area to attack the Japanese army's airfield and fuel base for a long time, which is not something that anyone can do. Everyone present knows that it is impossible for people who do this kind of thing to come back alive, otherwise someone would have done these things a long time ago, and where would they have waited until now. "What do you need? Or say whatever you want, as long as we can do it. Mao Zedong, who had not spoken, spoke at this time, in a slow and serious tone.
"What do I want?" Zhuo Fei was also stunned by Mao Zedong's question, he didn't expect this person to ask such a thing at this time, and after a little silence, Zhuo Fei smiled. "If, I mean, if I can, after we've done all the things we've set out, I want a little island in the Pacific Ocean. No wars, no killings, just beer and the beach, and the occasional fish out to sea, that's probably the life I want. ”
"I promised you, as long as you come back alive this time, you can choose the island you want." Chiang Kai-shek nodded heavily, there was still a slight moisture in his eyes, Mao Zedong and the others also nodded in unison, but Zhuo Fei saluted everyone and quietly left the South Bank Villa with Zhuo Yan.