The two major air battles on 30 August and 7 September debilitated the Japanese air forces in Rabaul, and it is estimated that the skies over Kuah Island will be calm for a long time thereafter. Ron also lost a lot of planes, but fortunately, the pilots were well protected. But the successive major battles also made the pilots generally tired. In addition, the conditions on Kuah Island are very poor, especially the poor sanitary conditions. Despite the efforts of Dr. Wagner, a military doctor, several pilots fell ill. Dr. Wagner believes that an important reason for the increase in pilot illnesses is exhaustion, and he recommends that pilots relax and relax when possible and reduce the number of combat missions they take.

Ron took the doctor's advice. Anyway, there won't be too many air battles lately - the Japanese are not iron-clad. If it weren't for the fact that he would have considered sending the fighter pilot back to Pearl Harbor to recuperate. Because Kuah Island is really not a good place. It's hot and humid here, and something starts to mold after two days of being here. In the hospital, for example, mushrooms grew on the legs of some new wooden desks that were sent a month and a half ago. During the day, the wind is blowing from the sea, and although it is not cool, at least there is no strange smell except for a little saltiness. But at night, the wind that blows from the jungle on the island is completely different, and it always carries with it a disgusting stench of dead branches and leaves in the rain and heat**. How many pathogenic bacteria must be in such air?

But for $a$ this $ read $ novel (.( yb)(d)(u).) For safety reasons, Ron could only send a few sick people away, and as for the other pilots, they still had to stay here. Just in case I get nervous. You know, during World War II, Japan was a country with a national nerve. Many common sense assumptions cannot be applied to Japanese people. Van der Griff, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, had talked to Ron about this. After the first attack of the Ichiki detachment on the Kuah airfield was repulsed, the Japanese left many wounded on the battlefield when they retreated. The Marine Corps, citing humanitarian considerations, sent medical personnel to try to help them. But these militaristic patients with advanced neuropathy actually pulled their guns and died with them after tricking the medical staff into approaching. Vander Graft had no choice but to order: if you see Japanese wounded soldiers in the future, you will follow the humanitarian principle and use Springfield to give them a good time.

Although it is not possible to return to Hawaii, at least the air crew has been greatly reduced. The pilots are also getting better. Taking advantage of this leisure, Ron decided to also summarize the problems exposed during this period of battle.

During this period of fighting, the US military had a clear upper hand. However, as the pressure brought by the Japanese has been reduced, many problems that had been covered up by the pressure of the Japanese have gradually been exposed. First of all, the Cactus Air Force on Kuah Island is a team from all over the world. There are navy, there are army forces, there are marines, there are bomber units, there are fighter units. This provides excellent innate conditions for forming gangs. Don't think that only Chinese are engaged in small groups and engage in the "if they are not the same way, they are enemies." Foreigners do the same. And it's not right at all for the Chinese. As the pressure brought by the Japanese army decreased, the contradiction between the naval and army aviation first appeared. Truth be told, there are small groups in the ranks, and it's not a big deal. It's not necessarily a bad thing to have conflicts between small groups. If handled well, the competition between them will promote each other. But the problem is that now they are not all in healthy competition, they have developed from flying skills to fighting skills. Yesterday, the two stupid hats of the army and the navy fought over a trivial matter, and the comrades-in-arms who rushed to the scene after hearing the news also joined in with the attitude of not asking right from wrong and only looking at the military uniform. Fortunately, Ron arrived in time to prevent the situation from escalating further. Enraged, Ron locked up all seven or eight of the stupid hats involved in the brawl in one go. Thinking about this, Ron felt that he couldn't do it without launching a rectification campaign. If this continues, the next time they go to war, they will not have to do the same thing as the Japanese navy and army: without cooperation, they will only have to dismantle Taiwan. Historically, the performance of the Japanese Navy and Army on Kuah Island is such a model: the Japanese Navy lost Kuah Island first and was ridiculed by the Army. In order to make the army suffer a loss, they went to fool the army's soil buns and said that there are not many American soldiers on the island, at most a thousand people, and your army is so powerful, go and snatch it back? As a result, the poor Japanese army was really fooled, and sent a stunned man named Ichiki with about 1,000 men to Kuah Island to launch a board-borne charge against the fortified positions of the 10,000-strong 1st Marine Division (a suicidal combat method of rushing forward while shouting the emperor's board-loaded (long live)), and finally achieved the brilliant result of killing 35 American soldiers and wounding 75 American soldiers at the cost of basically destroying the entire army (even the military flag was burned).

Since then, there has been no cooperation between the navy and the army, and there is only the dismantling of Taiwan. In the battle for Kuah Island, the Japanese army and navy went their own way, and there was no coordination at all. The general offensive of the army on the island does not take into account the coordination of actions with the navy at all; And the sorties of the naval fleet never coincided with the offensive of the army. Even after the end of the war, some conscientious historical inventors of the former Japanese Army also invented the theory of the navy's revolutionary demise (this theory held that the Pacific War was a conspiracy of the navy against the army, and the navy was dissatisfied with the army's rule over Japan, but it was unable to overthrow it, so it adopted the method of waging war against the United States, with the help of the US military, and overthrowing the army's rule at the cost of the country) to complain about the navy. (At the beginning, I didn't know who made up a nonsense about the super unity of the Japanese, and I deceived the bottle for several years.) When I was in high school, I used to write things like "If we could be as united as the Japanese," but it's ironic when I think about it now. Not far off, Ron could not allow such discord to happen in his ranks.

Secondly, due to some of the previous series of victories, a lot of guys are starting to their tails. From being frightened awake in the past because of dreaming of the Zero War, now when the Japanese Air Force is mentioned, it triumphantly declares: "The medal-giver is here." "Completely ignoring the fact that in the recent battles, the U.S. military was able to gain the upper hand because the Japanese bases were too far away and the U.S. military had a well-developed early warning system consisting of many observation posts. And such conditions are not always available. Because of these victories, pride will surely become a negative example for future generations of junior high school students to use when writing essays such as "humility and pride."

Finally, individual heroism is getting worse and worse! In the last air battle, there was a phenomenon of disregarding the safety of comrades-in-arms, but busy brushing data. This behavior seriously undermines the trust between comrades-in-arms. If left unchecked, the fairly united team will soon fall apart.

Based on the above reasons, Ron decided to launch a rectification campaign aimed at punishing the former and saving people from the past, curing the disease and saving people, referred to as "Kuah Island Rectification".

This so-called rectification cannot be compared with the famous Yan'an rectification of this dynasty in terms of its vigorous degree and depth of touching the soul. Nor can it be carried out in such a way that everyone writes a summary of their thoughts, reads them one by one at the congress, and then unleashes relentless criticism and self-criticism until it really triggers a revolution from the depths of the soul. (If he did, Ron would have been ousted) and the job would have to be done in a different way.

Ron has been rectified many times in his previous life, from the theme class meeting when he was studying to individual talks, and then to the team spirit training in the company after work. It's not easy for him to remember all of his previous life now. However, he still remembers the tricks that had the greatest impact on him and impressed him the most. And this "remembering" itself speaks for itself.

One trick is to give lectures, directly explain the truth clearly, and fortunately, when I am an engineer, I often give lectures. Nonsense two sentences "Brothers are of the same heart, their profits are gold", a branch and a bundle of branches, "modesty makes people progress, pride makes people backward", "light is unscrupulous, rude is off" and other things are still okay.

One is the game, what kind of two-person three-legged race (of course, when you are grouped, you must divide the guys from HNA and HNA together), fall down from the table with your eyes closed and let everyone continue, and even pull the Marines over to play a rugby game with them. In this way, the relationship between the different groups has eased.

Finally, there is the individual conversation. This was the killer feature of Ron's homeroom teacher in his previous life. Designed to deal with the toughest guys. The key is to have enough prestige, and you have to make him feel like you're doing good for him in the conversation.

Right now, Ron was talking to his wingman pilot, Billy.

After a football match in the open field, Ron and Billy go to take a shower together. Then, Ron said to Billy, "Billy, let's go out for a walk together, I have something to talk to you about." ”

Billy looked at Ron, and seemed to realize that what Ron was going to talk to him about might not be a good thing, he put away the smile on his face, lowered his head, and said, "Okay, sir." ”

At this time, it was dusk, and half of the sky and the sea were reflected red by the fiery sunset, and a flock of seabirds returning late flew between the red sea and the sky, leaving black silhouettes in people's field of vision. The sea breeze pushes the waves, splashes the white foam onto the beach, and then quietly recedes. Ron and Billy were just walking around the beach.

"Billy, you've been flying as my wingman for a while. You're still a rookie compared to me, and as an old bird, I'll have to watch over you and teach you all sorts of tricks so that you can go back to your mother alive after the war is over. Now you tell me, what did you learn from me? ”

"Sir, I've learned to cross scissors, spiral climbs, and keep an eye on my enemies and my own energy status, and how to manage my energy. I also learned ......" said this, and Billy was happy.

Ron looked at him with a smile, and in his expression Ron could see his love for flying.

"You're right, but there's one more crucial thing you didn't notice. In the past, every time I came back from a mission, I would congratulate the fighters who had achieved the results, but the last time you shot down a bomber, I didn't congratulate you when I came back, do you know why? ”

"I don't know, sir." Billy replied.

"A Zero and an F4F against each other, who do you think has a higher chance of winning when the pilots are of the same level?"

"Of course it's Zero, except for diving, F4F has nothing stronger than Zero."

"And what about two for two?" Ron continued to ask.

"It should be about the same, F4F can use the cross scissors against him."

"F4F is almost impossible to win against Zero alone, but they can beat him together. What is the root cause? ”

"It's a fit! Sir, I see. Billy smiled.

"Do you really understand? So I ask you what is the basis of cooperation? ”

"Superb technology," Billy thought for a moment, then added, "and good communication, for example, we have a radio station, which is more convenient than the Japanese use a contact board." ”

"These are all these, but there are more important ones."

Billy thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Sir, I don't understand. ”

"Let's think back to that rugby game, where the last time we scored was you passed the ball to Suker and Sukh scored a touchdown. You can still pass the ball to Fox at the time, why don't you wear it to him? ”

"Sir, Fox's skills in flying planes are absolutely top-notch, but when it comes to running, I don't know." Billy smiled and shook his head. "But I bet that if you run 100 meters, Suker will beat him if he lets him run 10 meters first."

"What is the reason why you can work so well with Suke?" Ron paused, but he didn't let Billy say, he continued, "It's because you know him and trust him. If a guy you don't know anything about him and don't believe in him, can you work with him? ”

"Sir, you can't."

"A good pilot must not only have good skills, but also be able to gain the trust of his teammates. Anyone who doesn't have the trust of the team can't get the support of the team. In that case, no matter how good his skills are, it will be difficult for him to survive in the war, let alone succeed. Now do you know why I didn't congratulate you after the last time you shot down an enemy plane? ”

Billy bowed his head, "Sir, I see. I should prioritize rescuing my comrades rather than attacking enemy planes. If I go and rescue my comrades, then I can be trusted to them. They will be able to cooperate well with me in the future. What I did at the time was a success, but it was at the expense of the trust of my teammates. In the long run, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Ron laughed, "Billy, it's good that you realize this. He stepped forward and patted Billy on the shoulder.

"Remember, Billy. In air combat, the strength of the group is always greater than that of the individual. Only with a team with an ace can there be a pilot with an ace. You have a good technical foundation, and if you solve this problem, you will become an ace! Ron lifted his wrist and looked at his watch, "Well, it's almost dinner time, let's go back." ”

"Sir, thank you for your guidance." Billy whispered.