Both sides suffered heavy losses in this air battle, the Japanese side lost 36 fighters, and the flight group of the 202nd Army also had four pilots spilled blood in the sky.

It stands to reason that it can be regarded as a big victory no matter how it is said that such a disparity in casualties can be called, but Su Jin, as the supreme commander, is not happy at all. Four pilots didn't seem like much, but for the flying team, it was equivalent to a one-fifth reduction in strength, which was enough for Su Jin to make his heart tremble.

In the office, Su Jin looked at Chu Yuan who was standing in front of him with a gloomy face.

"Captain Chu, can you explain to me why the casualties in this battle are so large?"

Chu Yuan said twice in his mouth, "I ......"

"Bang!"

Su Jinmeng's row of tables shouted: "What am I, have you forgotten how I warned you before?" Now our strength is still too weak, although the performance of our fighters is much better than that of the Japanese army, but our number is too small, and the only pilots we have are our precious seeds, and we must not fight hard with the Japanese in this situation, but how do you do it? As soon as I saw the Japanese, my eyes were red, and I fought hard with them regardless of it, now you are happy, the Tiger Shark squadron has lost nearly half, and the number of our Tiger Shark squadron can be revoked directly, are you happy? ”

Outside Su Jin's office, more than a dozen flight instructors from Germany, Zhou Yusheng, and the pilots of the flight group who had just returned from completing their mission were standing outside the office, listening to the faint roar inside, and the expressions on their faces looked worried and sad.

Mi Ji, who had never seen Su Jin get angry, asked Zhou Yusheng quietly: "Zhou ...... Is your general's temper so swearing? And as his chief of staff, shouldn't you go in and persuade him at this moment, otherwise I'm afraid that Chu will be scolded to death by him! ”

Zhou Yusheng spread his hands: "Usually he rarely gets angry." So there weren't many cases like this today. And as a friend, I advise you not to go in at this time, otherwise you will regret it after you go in. Our Excellency the General, once he starts a fire, will not give you face just because you are German. ”

"I just can't figure it out." Miki shook his head puzzled: "Isn't it just the loss of four fighters, but Chu has eliminated thirty-six enemy planes, such a brilliant victory in our Third Reich is definitely rewarded, not punished by the commander." ”

Zhou Yusheng said with a straight face: "I understand your doubts, but the problem now is that due to Lieutenant Colonel Chu's recklessness, our flight group has lost four fighters and four pilots, which is already 20% of the strength of all our flight groups." According to such a battle loss rate, if there are so many more battles like this, the formation of the flying group can be canceled. And this loss could have been avoided. And once we lose the cover of air power, this will have a very big impact on our future combat plans, such as you...... You also don't want you and your companions to bomb enemy positions in Stuka without fighter cover, do you? ”

"Well, that's why until now I could only be a colonel. Maybe that's the difference between a colonel and a general. Mickey shrugged helplessly. However, I have to say that their performance today is very good, and they are not inferior to the pilots of our Third Reich. ”

"Whoa!"

At this moment, the door of the office opened, Su Jin walked out, his sharp eyes swept in front of everyone's eyes, and said coldly: "Don't stand outside and eavesdrop, come in." ”

Dozens of pilots who had not had time to take off their flight suits from completing the task entered Su Jin's office together, and the already small office was crowded for a while. looked at Su Jin, whose face was covered with frost. Many pilots are beating drums in their hearts, and this military seat is always pleasant on weekdays. But once the fire starts, it's very scary.

After watching everyone come in, Su Jin said in a deep voice: "In view of the serious mistakes made by Lieutenant Colonel Chu Yuan today, I have decided to give Lieutenant Colonel Chu Yuan the following punishments: Lieutenant Colonel Chu Yuan will be demoted, from the rank of lieutenant colonel to the rank of major, and the punishment of three days of confinement. ”

"Whoa......

As soon as Su Jin's words fell, all the pilots, including Chu Yuan, changed their faces greatly, especially the faces of the parties turned from red to white, and said in a trembling voice: "Junzao, I admit that you have demoted your rank, and there is nothing to say about confinement, but you can't write this review even if you kill me!" ”

"Can't write?" Su Jin's expression frowned: "I don't care about this, when will you be able to fly to the sky after you write and pass, otherwise you will stay on the runway for the rest of your life to watch others take off and land!" Okay, except for Chief of Staff Zhou, everyone else will go out for me! ”

Ignoring Chu Yuan's wailing, Su Jin simply drove him and everyone out before he let out a long breath and said to Zhou Yusheng: "The loss of this flight team reminds me that we don't have the capital to fight hard with the Japanese now, and it will take us flight students at least half a year to carry out the initial combat mission, and we must continue to be shrinking turtles during this time, otherwise we will be dumbfounded if we are reimbursed all of a sudden, so a situation like today must be stopped in time." ”

Zhou Yusheng smiled: "That's why you locked Chu Yuan up for three days and punished him for writing 30,000 words?" ”

"Of course, that's how this guy knows it hurts." Su Jin snorted lightly: "These guys are used to being casual in the original Fourth Destroyer Air Brigade, they like to act on personal heroism, and they are all red-eyed when they see the Japanese planes, if they can follow the order today and implement the hit-and-run tactics, then the four pilots will not be sacrificed." ”

Seeing Su Jin's unresolved appearance, Zhou Yusheng knew that he was still feeling sorry for the four sacrificed pilots, and he smiled and said nothing when he understood Su Jin's temper.

Seeing that Su Jin was still worried about the affairs of the flight brigade, Zhou Yusheng said tentatively: "Military seat, why don't we send someone to the air force to dig up some people, presumably it shouldn't be a problem to get more than ten or twenty people." ”

Su Jin shook his head: "No, we have already made those people in the Air Force very unhappy by poaching Chu Yuan and them before, if we continue to poach people, I'm afraid that Director Zhou will really turn his face with us." ”

"Alas......" Zhou Yusheng sighed, when he thought of Zhou Zhirou, the director of the Aviation Committee, he had a headache, this is not a good-tempered lord, he really made him anxious and ran to the chairman to complain, and a complaint was enough for them to drink a pot.

The two sat opposite each other for a long time and couldn't think of any good way, and finally Su Jin gritted his teeth and said: "I really made Lao Tzu anxious, Lao Tzu let Mikey's gang get on, anyway, it costs money, what kind of plane is not to drive, what is the difference between driving a dive bomber and a fighter." ”

Just when Su Jin gritted his teeth, there was a knock on the door, and a staff officer walked in and reported: "Report to the military seat, Division Commander Huang has called, he has led the 347th Brigade to conquer Shitai County at 18:37, captured two Japanese material warehouses, and prepared to evacuate Shitai County after dawn and march towards Jingdezhen to make peace with the 348th Brigade." However, due to the desperate resistance of the defenders' Chongteng Wing, their troops also suffered a lot of casualties, and many of them were seriously wounded and urgently needed to be transferred to the rear for surgery.

"Hmm......"

Su Jin nodded, and then ordered the staff officer: "You immediately send a report to Huang Weiguo, ask him to quickly level out a field airfield within four hours, and then light a bonfire around the airport as a signal, and I will arrange a transport plane to transport the seriously wounded back." ”

"Yes!" The staff officer saluted and left.

Su Jin shook his head helplessly and said to Zhou Yusheng: "You see, planes are needed everywhere, and there are only a few of our pilots, I'm afraid we will have to ask those people from the German instructor corps to help later, this is another sum of money is gone." ”

Zhou Yusheng also smiled bitterly: "Forget it, who let us not have enough pilots, just wait until the first batch of our students graduate in the spring of next year." But that's fine, when the plane goes, you can help them transport new recruits over, twenty transport planes can transport 300 people in one trip, and a few trips should be able to replenish their lost soldiers. ”

A few days ago, when Su Jin cashed in the fighter planes, he cashed in 20 JU-52 transport planes nicknamed "Aunt Junker", but because there were no qualified transport plane pilots, these planes could only be idle in the hangar, and now they can only spend money to ask those German instructors to help......

The night slowly darkened, Liao Kai and the soldiers of the Ninth Company, who had fought for a day, were lying in a forest on the outskirts of Shitai, and the third platoon commander, who was already tired and weak, looked at the soldiers of the engineer battalion who were still busy leveling the field airport not far away, and spat and scolded: "He's * damn, Lao Tzu fought with the devil for a day, and finally crawled out of the pile of dead people, and at night he had to help the engineer battalion to do coolies. ”

Liao Kai couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Don't say strange things, aren't we all for those injured brothers to be able to return to Jiujiang as soon as possible, who are you scolding and scolding!" ”

"I ...... I'm not just saying something casually. Seeing Liao Kai scolding him, the third platoon leader scratched his head a little embarrassed.

Liao Kai glared at him: "Hmph...... It's still a platoon commander, and he doesn't have any consciousness at all. ”

While the two were talking, piles of bonfires had been lit around the temporary assault leveling ground, and the roaring light of the fire illuminated the two runways, and just when everyone was still busy, there was a roar in the sky, and after a while, a group of black shadows appeared in everyone's sight...... (To be continued.) )