After going abroad for a year and returning to Chongqing, Zhou Hexuan found that he had changed a lot. In particular, in the areas of Shangqing Temple, Niujiaotuo, and Liziba, government buildings and garden houses have been built, and the restaurant where Zhou Zhirou set up a reception banquet today is newly opened.

When Zhou Hexuan and the others came to the restaurant, there were already four people sitting in the private room, namely Zhou Zhirou, his adjutant, secretary, and ace pilot Dong Mingde.

The music of the four heavenly kings of the Chinese Air Force was Dong Mingde's subordinate before.

When the Japanese attacked Nanjing, there were only two planes left in the Chinese Air Force.

Le Yiqin took the lead in the air, single-handedly facing a Japanese flying squadron, and then Dong Mingde also flew up. The two tacitly cooperated in the air, and actually shot down two enemy planes and damaged one. However, due to being outnumbered, Le Yiqin died while parachuting, while Dong Mingde successfully broke through with a plane whose oil lubricator was damaged.

The next day, Dong Mingde replaced the oil lubricator and flew into the blue sky with a determination to die. At this time, the Chinese Air Force in the entire battlefield, only Dong Mingde was left alone and one plane, and he found a Japanese army marching between Xuancheng and Guangde, and immediately dived down to fight.

In this way, Dong Mingde drove the plane alone, blocking a whole Japanese motorized force for most of the day, causing great damage to the enemy and providing a respite for the Chinese defenders.

In the Wuhan air battle that Zhou Hexuan saw last year, Dong Mingde pursued the devil air force relentlessly, and killed two enemy planes in one pick and two. His own plane also ran out of gasoline and was wounded and forced to land in a rice field, but fortunately both the man and the plane were fine.

When Liang Tiancheng saw the two, he immediately saluted: "Director, captain!" ”

(PS: To correct, the captain of the fourth team is Dong Mingde, and Liang Tiancheng is just an ordinary player.) In addition, at this time, there were only 15 fighters left in Chongqing, and there were no military planes that could fly on the Jiulongpo side. ）

"In private, don't be formal," Zhou Zhirou smiled at Liang Tiancheng, and then shook hands with Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yong, "The two gentlemen returned to China with a plane, brother, I am very grateful." If the Japanese machine still dares to come to Chongqing, they will definitely have no return! ”

"I believe in the heroes of the Air Force." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Zhou Hexuan really believes it, because the Chinese Air Force performed very well in the Anti-Japanese War. Take the four heavenly kings of the air force as an example, both sides have their own four heavenly kings, which of the four heavenly kings on the Chinese side is not full of success, and what about the four heavenly kings of Japan?

Let's start with Japan's "king of destroyers" Miwa Kuan, who led 8 fighters to cover 14 bombers against 7 Chinese fighters. Not long after the fight, he was hit in the tail, and Miwa Kuan was forced to parachute into a wheat field, where he was beaten to death by a local farmer with a hoe.

Next, the Chinese king Gao Zhihang played against the Japanese king Yamashita Shichiro, the two sides fought fiercely for several rounds, and Yamashita Shichiro's landline was hit, and he was caught after a forced landing. Unrepentant, this guy actually colluded with other prisoners of war to collect military intelligence and escaped, and was shot after being caught again.

The third king of Japan is called Shioda Ryohei, nicknamed "Oriental Red Samurai". When this person was covering the bombing of Japanese planes, he was directly killed by the Chinese Air Force in the sky, and he did not even have the opportunity to parachute.

The last Japanese king was named Nango Shigesho, who was posthumously crowned the "god of war" by Emperor Hirohito as the "god of war" of the air force. He threatened to avenge the king of the other three days, and less than a month after shouting this, he died directly in the air battle of Nanchang and was killed by the Chinese and Soviet pilots.

The Four Heavenly Kings of the Air Force, which was hyped up by the Japanese invaders, were all sent to see Amaterasu one after another in less than half a year after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.

Unfortunately, there were too few Chinese aircraft, and the initial ratio of the number of Japanese aircraft was a terrible 1:8. Later, Chinese planes fought less and less, while Japanese planes fought more and more, which was a huge gap in the industrial power of the two countries.

Everyone sat down in turn, and Zhou Zhirou enthusiastically poured wine for Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yong, and was not very embarrassed when he talked about the situation of the air force: "President Jiang transferred me back to Chongqing this time to reorganize the air force. China now has more than 100 military planes at full capacity, many of which are still trainer planes, and they are distributed on various fronts and cannot be twisted into a rope. Brother Zhou, Brother Feng, how many planes did the two of you bring back this time? ”

Feng Yong said: "6 iron geese, 4 sub-mother planes, 2 Boeing biplanes, 3 Spad, these planes are relatively old, I am afraid it is difficult to carry out combat missions." What Mingcheng and I mean is to donate these planes to the aviation school for the daily training of cadets. In addition, we brought back 10 P-26s, 38 I-15, 10 YT-1, 22 SB bombers. ”

Soviet goods are really cheap, the unit price of the Yi-15 is only more than 30,000 US dollars, and the unit price of the YT-1 is less than 20,000 US dollars. However, YT-1 does not seem to be very easy to use, Zhou Hexuan didn't want to buy it, and the Soviets took the initiative to reduce the price from 20,000 US dollars to 10,000 3,000, and Zhou Hexuan reluctantly asked for 10 planes.

Zhou Hexuan actually wanted to buy more Yi-15, but the stock in the Far East was not enough, so he could only get 38 planes temporarily. In addition, although the name of the SB bomber is ugly, it is the main force of Chinese bombers on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and has participated in almost every bombing against Japan.

These planes, plus freight, cost a total of $1.65 million, and the profit from selling chicken soup for the first three months of successful study was barely enough.

Zhou Zhirou thought about it for a while, and was suddenly overjoyed, the plane that Zhou Hexuan brought back was enough to form two and a half combat squadrons, as well as a bombing team. You must know that although there is an aviation brigade in Chongqing at this time, there are only 15 fighters that can fly, and its strength has increased several times in an instant.

It is also sad to say, although Zhou Zhirou is the commander of the Chinese Air Force, and nominally responsible for the purchase of fighters. However, the supreme leader of the Air Force is Lao Jiang, and it was Song Meiling who actually bought the plane, and the two Lafayettes standing behind made Zhou Zhirou want to die headlong.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Kong Xiangxi purchased more than 60 planes from Britain and France, the price was more than double that of the Soviet Union, and he paid the money but did not ship it back. By April 1938, Soong Meiling and Kong Xiangxi had ordered a total of 363 planes from European and American countries, but only 85 had arrived smoothly, of which 13 had not been assembled.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the main fighters of the Chinese Air Force, except for those aided by the Soviet Union, were assembled by the aviation factories in Hangzhou and Shaoguan with imported parts, and 100 Eagle 3 fighters alone were assembled. If you really want to wait for Song Meiling and Kong Xiangxi to buy a plane and come back, then don't think about fighting an air battle at all, let's use grenades to smash the Japanese plane down.

Zhou Zhirou quickly asked about the situation of the pilots and technicians, and after learning that Feng Yong had brought back a large number of professionals, he seemed to have a fire in his heart. As long as he is given two months to complete the reorganization of the Air Force and the deployment of personnel, he can have a big fight with Little Japan.

The only concern is, what should Feng Yong do?

The plane and people were all brought back by Feng Yong, and a proper position must be arranged, and the official must not be too small, nor can he have no real power at all. But Feng Yong is Zhang Xueliang's brother, and if the official is too big, I am afraid that Lao Jiang will be unhappy.

Zhou Zhirou ate this meal in a complicated mood, both happy and worried, and immediately ran to meet Lao Jiang after the end.