After lunch, the generals were arranged to rest in the Li Mansion, and it was strictly forbidden to leave the gate of the Li Mansion, and there was a friendship reception with the generals of the expeditionary force in the evening.

The generals of the expeditionary force are basically rising stars, and they have little contact with these big men in front of them, so they just take this opportunity to get to know each other and exchange tactical experiences.

Of course, this is not the main thing, Jiang Haoran believes that it is difficult to hide the agents of the island army from such a large military meeting.

Zhuang Fuguo said that there was no guarantee on the way here, so Jiang Haoran hoped to reveal a message enough to make them nervous to the island army through this meeting.

After all, the two national armies, together with the expeditionary forces and navies of Southeast Asia, are the size of more than one million troops, and they are also the posture of joint operations of the navy, land and air force, which is enough for the little devil to be frightened.

After noon, Luo Zhuoying, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and Huang Jie, chief of staff, led Liu Dakun, commander-in-chief of the Far 1st Group Army, Zhang Zhen, commander-in-chief of the Far 3rd Group Army, Chen Mianwu, commander-in-chief of the Far Fourth Group Army, and Dai Anlan, commander-in-chief of the Far 2nd Group Army (since the occupation of Singapore, the Far Second Group Army had already broken away from Burma, and Dai Anlan was promoted to commander-in-chief of the group army) and other staff officers and generals arrived at Li's house.

Also arriving were Lieutenant General Du Tianci, commander-in-chief of the Southwest Airlines Group, and Lieutenant General Chennault, deputy commander.

At present, the air force of the national army has been divided into two major aviation group armies, namely the Southwest Air Group Army and the Northeast Air Group Army, with Zhou Zhirou still as the commander-in-chief and Ye Zhaofeng as the deputy commander-in-chief.

Of course, Zhou Zhirou is just an empty shelf, and it is Ye Zhaofeng who is actually in power.

Ye Zhaofeng is also the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Air Group Army.

As for the Southwest Airlines Group Army, strictly speaking, Chennault, who can recruit and fight well, is more qualified to take on this position, but after all, he is a Mi countryman, and Jiang Haoran will never control the dominance in the hands of people who are not at ease, so Du Tianci became the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Airlines Group Army.

At present, China's air force is advancing by leaps and bounds, with nearly 10,000 fighters and bombers of various types in the army and aviation, and even fewer transport planes, not counting the navy's carrier-based aircraft.

According to historical records, the total number of aircraft invested by the island army in the entire World War II was less than 40,000, of course, by Jiang Haoran's butterfly, this number is also expanding indefinitely, and the battle losses have increased tenfold or even dozens of times.

On the whole, however, the aviation strength of the Chinese armed forces is only stronger than that of the island army in front of them, and the Chinese air force is much stronger than the island army in terms of quantity, quality, and airport hardware facilities.

The only flaw may be that in terms of flight technology, the Chinese Air Force started relatively late, and the actual combat experience of the pilots is not as good as that of the soldiers of the island army who have experienced a war of aggression for five or six years, but the superiority in the quality and quantity of the aircraft can completely cover up these disadvantages.

The rise of the Chinese Air Force is not entirely the result of British and Minian assistance, Jiang Haoran now has three major aircraft production bases in his hands, and the annual aircraft production is also booming in the number of thousands.

After some greetings, after the generals took their seats, Jiang Haoran immediately asked about the construction of airports on the Malay Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula by Liu Dakun, Dai Anlan.

At a time when the navy is not enough to fully control sea power, the ground aviation bases on the Malay Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula are particularly important, and they can take on the heavy task of naval blockade and attack, and can even carry out all-round air firepower coverage on Hainan Island.

Once the Guangzhou-Vietnam international communication line is unimpeded again, the transportation bottleneck of the Yunnan-Burma highway and railway is expected to be solved, and the materials for international aid to China and the Soviet Union can enter China unimpeded, and then go directly to the Soviet Union through the northwest transportation line that will soon be unblocked.

Liu Dakun and Dai Anlan said one after another that more than 20 new field airfields have been added along the route from Singapore, Pattani, and Songkhla to Siam, Vientiane, and Viet Lan, and more than 30 airfields have been renovated and renovated for jet fighters to take off and land.

Jiang Haoran was overjoyed, with these airports, there would be a twenty percent chance of winning the next battle, and if Chen Shaokuan also completed the task he had assigned, then the odds would reach fifty percent.

At half past two in the afternoon, Navy Commander-in-Chief Chen Shaokuan, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yang Honglie, Chief of Staff Gui Yongqing, Political Commissar Xiao Guang, and Third Fleet Commander Xie Chen walked into the headquarters.

They set out from Chittagong, the farthest journey, so they came later than the others, but finally did not exceed Jiang Haoran's order for the meeting at three o'clock.

When they arrived, the small conference room was immediately overcrowded, and the room was full of laughter, after all, they were all Jiang Haoran's descendants, and the presumptuous and casual distinction was not comparable to the generals of the two Guangzhou.

It's not that Jiang Haoran treats them differently, but that they can value themselves more, and this sense of superiority is something that the generals of the two Guangxi can't learn and can't be jealous of.

After some commotion, Jiang Haoran stopped the generals and said to Chen Shaokuan and Yang Honglie: "How about the two of you, have you completed the tasks I explained to you?" ”

Chen Shaokuan got up and said loudly: "All is complete, according to your instructions, all twelve battleships have been transformed into light aircraft carriers, and now the Chinese Pacific Fleet has twenty aircraft carriers, organized into three aircraft carrier battle groups." ”

As soon as these words came out, the people in the room were all stunned, from eight aircraft carriers to twenty aircraft carriers overnight, this span is too big, even these people in the room have witnessed Jiang Haoran's rebellion countless times, but this is too against the sky.

Actually, this is really nothing, the key is that Jiang Haoran has been planning for today from the beginning of the construction of the navy.

A military fan from later generations naturally knew that the battleship's position in future naval warfare was no longer guaranteed.

Before World War II, battleships had always been the main warships of the navies of various countries, leading the blue coquettish, and aircraft carriers were only used as auxiliaries.

However, in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the island army successfully attacked by surprise, and taught a vivid lesson to the world's navy in actual combat.

During the battle, the eight battleships of the Mi Navy were caught off guard by the bombardment of the bomber groups swarming by the island army, and all of them were destroyed and sunk, and none of them were spared, and the majesty of the dignified sea supremacy was swept away.

This move refreshed the Navy's previous view that aircraft carriers were auxiliary to battleships, and under the role of aircraft, independent aircraft carrier formations also possessed devastating attack power, and aircraft carrier formations were also higher than traditional battleship formations in terms of speed, and their maneuverability was incomparably excellent, and their strike range and efficiency were far higher than those of battleship formations.

In past landing battles, battleships could only support attacks on the beachhead, while the range of attacks of aircraft carriers was determined by the range of aircraft, which greatly increased the range of attacks.