Chapter 510: Attacked
"Airplanes?"
Hull couldn't help but be startled, and the whole person quickly rushed to the porthole with an action that did not match his age, only to see that more than a dozen monoplanes suddenly appeared in the upper right corner of the plane, and even with the naked eye, he could see that these planes were flying quickly towards the plane he was on.
Looking at the plane rapidly approaching him, Hull turned his head and asked, "Major Condon, can you be sure it's a Japanese plane?" ”
"Of course!" Condon shouted: "This is a Japanese fighter, I will never admit it wrong!" ”
Suddenly, Gray on the side suddenly shouted, "It's not good, lie down!" ”
After speaking, before Hull could reflect, he saw Condon pounce on him, and Hull, who didn't have time to reflect, was thrown to the ground. Hull, who had just been knocked to the ground, heard the sound of a bullet piercing the casing, which sounded like someone was hammering a tin bucket. Bullets hit the cabin so much that sawdust flew from the planks used for decoration. It was like a hurricane in the luxuriously decorated cabin, and all kinds of broken objects and papers flew all over the sky, and then he heard a plane whistling past the window, and Hull, who had just raised his head, could clearly see the red circles painted on the wings of the plane.
"Damn the Japanese, what do they want to do?"
Hull struggled to climb to the porthole, just in time to see the Japanese plane that had just swept him with a shuttle of bullets was hit by an escort fighter plane and exploded in the air, it was so close to the passenger plane that Hull seemed to feel the blazing flames rushing towards him.
At this point, Gray and Conr and the entourage also climbed up from the floor.
"Is anyone hurt...... Has anyone been hurt? Condon shouted loudly.
After a while, a voice rang out: "Report sir, we're all fine, no one is hurt!" ”
"Thank goodness!" Condon breathed a long sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it was the Japanese planes that strafed us, these Asian dwarfs are still armed with machine guns, if it is replaced by a German Bf-109, it will be a 20mm cannon, if that is the case, I'm afraid we will have to go to God." ”
Hearing Condon say this, Hull couldn't help but laugh: "So when we land safely, we have to find a church to pray?" ”
Perhaps because of the unique open-mindedness of Americans, several people who have just picked up a life can still joke with each other.
"Look!" Gray, who was lying next to another porthole, suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing and saw that the four unknown fighters escorting the escort were rushing into the Japanese plane's group, rushing left and right, and the attack was particularly ferocious, and in less than two minutes, three Japanese planes fell to the ground with black smoke.
"Oh my God, this plane is really maneuverable." Condon gasped, he was originally from the Air Force, he could see at a glance how maneuverable an aircraft was, these Japanese fighters were simply defenseless in front of four unknown fighters, he saw with his own eyes that a fighter painted with the badge of the blue sky and white sun was bitten by a fighter plane, only to see that this fighter made a light rolling action and easily rolled behind this type of fighter, and then six machine guns fired a burst of strafing, The wings of this fighter plane were immediately cut off in half, and then a raging fire ignited, and the whole plane fell straight down like a heavy stone.
Under the desperate escort of these four fighters, more than a dozen Japanese planes were no longer able to pose a threat to the DC3 passenger plane that Hull and the others were riding, and more than ten minutes later, only five of the Japanese planes with heavy losses fled in a hurry to the north, and the escort fighters did not pay attention to them, but flew back to the sides of the passenger plane to firmly protect the passenger plane in the middle.
Due to the attack and the damage to the passenger plane to a certain extent, Hull, after contacting Chongqing, decided to fly the passenger plane to the nearest Changsha airport and land there, waiting for Chongqing's arrangement.
"Niang Xipi, why is this happening? How could the Japanese suddenly launch an attack on the plane in which Secretary of State Hull was traveling? Chairman Chiang's roar rang out again in his office.
"Headmaster, according to the information from Su Jin and the Third Army, Mr. Hull was attacked by the Japanese in a premeditated manner, and the Japanese originally wanted to shoot down the plane that Mr. Hull was flying in one fell swoop, but what they didn't expect was that the fighters escorting Mr. Hull were so strong that only five of the more than ten planes flew back in the end, and finally had to flee in a hurry. From this point of view, the students thought that Mr. Hull's whereabouts had been exposed. ”
As the director of the Military Command Bureau, Dai Li is worthy of being an intelligence genius, and he analyzed the cause and effect of the matter in just half a day.
Chairman Jiang's breathing became very short, he didn't expect that he had tried his best to keep it secret, but the news was still known by the Japanese, only to see him gritted his teeth and said: "Yunong, what link do you think went wrong, was our telegram deciphered?" ”
"No!" Dai Lian shook his head and said affirmatively: "Headmaster, since we all changed to the Enigma cipher machine, the Japanese have never been able to get a single telegram from us, which is enough to prove that the Secrecy ability of the Enigma cipher machine is beyond doubt, so I think the possibility of the telegram being deciphered is almost zero." ”
The chairman's face became more and more difficult to look at: "Then you mean that it is an insider leak?" ”
Dai Li nodded: "Judging from the current analysis, this is indeed the case. ”
"Is it possible that the Third Army leaked secrets?" Chairman Jiang still asked a little unwillingly, to be honest, he didn't want to have a problem on his side, but he was afraid of whatever he wanted.
Dai Li took a deep breath and replied: "Principal, after the incident, the vocational department called to ask Commander Su as soon as possible, but Commander Su's answer was that in addition to him and Zhang Wenbai, even the pilot who escorted him didn't know the news of Mr. Hull's arrival, and the possibility of Commander Su and Chairman Zhang leaking secrets is too low, so the problem is very willing to be on our side." ”
Hearing this, Chairman Chiang was shocked and angry, although he had long known that the Japanese must have laid a large number of spies in Chongqing, but he really did not expect that such a confidential matter would also be leaked, which made him angry and frightened. Angry at the rampant behavior of the Japanese, horrified by the pervasiveness of Japanese spies, and even more worried about their own safety. (To be continued.) )