"Long live, long live the Air Force, long live China!"

When Feng Yuxiang was passing through the city in a car, he suddenly heard earth-shattering cheers from the streets. He asked the driver to stop and said to the adjutant, "Go down and inquire if there is another good news!" ”

The adjutant quickly came back with a newspaper and said happily: "The "Central Daily" has just issued an issue, and one of the corpses of the Japanese military leader and plane shot down in Chengdu three days ago has been confirmed to be Kikuji Okuda, the Japanese Okuda! ”

"Really, show me the paper." Feng Yuxiang was overjoyed when he heard this.

Kikuji Okuda was hailed by the Japanese media as the "King of Bombing", a major advocate of Japan's strategic bombing, and one of the backbones of the Japanese Navy's bombing force today. This guy was transferred to the commander of the 13th Air Force of the Japanese Navy at the end of last year, and planned dozens of bombings of Chongqing, Chengdu, Yibin, Wushan, Zigong, and other cities.

Three days ago, Kikuji Okuda personally led a team to bomb Chengdu. Deng Congkai, deputy captain of the 29th Squadron of the Chinese Air Force, took off with an injury and shot down Kikuji Okuda's plane in one fell swoop, and Captain Deng himself was martyred. In this air battle, the Chinese Air Force won a great victory, with 2 Chinese planes shot down and 4 Japanese planes shot down.

"Well fought, played with the momentum of the Chinese Air Force!" Feng Yuxiang slapped his thigh after reading the newspaper, and he couldn't wait to draw cartoons and poems on the spot to express his feelings.

Okuda Kikuji really deserves this guy, this person is the "Emperor's Attendant Military Attaché", and as a celebrity in the naval system, he has been away from the front-line battlefield for a long time, and advocates strategic bombing every day. When he became the commander of the 13th Air Force, he was clearly gilded from the rear to the front, and he could be transferred back to the headquarters for promotion in a year or two.

This bombing was very strange, Okuda Kikuji actually led the team himself, and he led the 1st United Sentai - this team is parallel to Okuda Kikuji, and he has no right to command it at all.

In such a strange situation, we have to start with the bombing of the Wuhan airport by Kurishenko. On that occasion, it not only destroyed more than 160 Japanese planes, but also seriously injured the commander of the Japanese First Air Wing, Tsukahara 243 (Major General), and the commander of the Kaya Air Force, Obayashi (Osa), and directly killed Ishikawa (Osa), deputy commander of the Kisarazu Air Force.

In the whole of Wuhan, the senior officer at the level of the commander of the Japanese Air Force was actually the only one left, Kikuji Okuda.

Since the Guangyangba airfield in Chongqing is not conducive to air defense, Kurishenko's bombing team is stationed at the Chengdu airfield. After many attritions on both sides, there were not many Chinese fighters left, and Okuda Kikuji felt that there was no danger, so he clamored to avenge his colleagues in the air team, and personally led the team to bomb Chengdu Airport.

Now it's cool, whether it's the army air force or the naval air force, the Japanese air force in Wuhan can no longer find a commander - there are two more lying in the hospital.

The Japanese military department was appointing new commanders to Wuhan, and six (including deputy commanders) were appointed in one go. Until these guys take office, the entire big city of Sichuan can be temporarily shut down for a while.

Feng Yuxiang read and read the newspaper again, and in a blink of an eye he arrived at the back gate of the Zhou Mansion. He was warmly invited in by the porter, but it was Zhang Leyi who was in charge of the reception: "General Feng, please take a seat, Mingcheng has gone to Yunxiu Tower to meet President Jiang, and it is estimated that it will take some time to come back." ”

"But there's something important to see the president?" Feng Yuxiang asked.

Zhang Leyi said: "About the promotion of chicken raising. ”

"Chickens?" Feng Yuxiang was confused.

Zhang Leyi explained with a smile: "That's the case, the Agricultural College of Central University and Jinling University has worked with Southwest Associated University to develop a scientific method of raising chickens. This method has low cost, quick effect, and high meat yield and order rate, which is worth promoting throughout the country. ”

"That's a good thing, I'm going to check it out!" Feng Yuxiang was immediately interested. Ever since he had no military power in his hands, he has been concentrating on giving speeches, doing propaganda, investigating corrupt officials, and supervising production.

Especially in agricultural production, Feng Yuxiang drew a lot of cartoons, such as "Sowing Pictures", "Sketching Pictures", and "Rice Planting Pictures...... He even felt that agricultural production was more important than industrial production, and that many people were starving, and that food shortages were a fatal problem.

Feng Yuxiang immediately said goodbye to Zhang Leyi and crossed the river by boat to Chang Kaishen's residence on the south bank.

Yunxiu Tower.

Since Germany's blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, Zhou Hexuan has become a frequent visitor here. On weekends of each week, he went to Central University and Chongqing University to give history lectures, and on Mondays he went to Yunxiu Tower to analyze the international situation for Lao Chiang, and talked for at least an hour each time.

Ma Jue and others came to Chongqing to visit, and were invited by Zhou Hexuan to live in his home for several days.

Song Meiling personally made coffee for everyone, Chang Kaishen ignored Ma Jue and the others, but asked: "When does Ming Cheng think Britain and France will be able to send troops to Germany?" ”

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "The soldiers have been coming out, and the two sides have declared war, but the real firefight is probably too early." As we said last time, Britain and France wanted to bring trouble to the east and let Germany go to war with the Soviet Union, so they could sit on the side and watch the tiger fight. ”

"I'm afraid it won't be easy for Germany and the Soviet Union to fight, right?" Chang Kaishen said.

Zhou Hexuan analyzed: "There will be a war between the Soviet Union and Germany, that's for sure. But Germany's next targets are likely to be Norway and Denmark. ”

"Why?" Chang Kaishen asked.

Zhou Hexuan pointed to the world map: "President, please look here." Sweden has always had a close relationship with Germany, which lacks iron ore and Sweden has abundant iron ore reserves. If Germany swallows Denmark and Norway, the iron ore transportation route from Sweden to Germany will be opened, and it will be very convenient and safe to use both water and land routes. Moreover, after the destruction of Denmark and Norway, Germany would be equivalent to completely controlling Northern Europe, that is, without the worries from Northern Europe, and could build a safer naval base. ”

Chang Kaishen looked at the map and thought for a while, nodded and said: "What about the Soviet Union, what is the next plan of the Soviet Union?" ”

Zhou Hexuan pointed to the map and said, "Finland." ”

Chang Kaishen was puzzled: "Why Finland? ”

Zhou Hexuan elaborates: "First of all, let's look at the history of Finland, which was formerly part of Sweden. Russia, in order to seize access to the sea, fought several major battles with the Kingdom of Sweden. This outlet sea is St. Petersburg, now called Leningrad, the second largest city in the Soviet Union. In order to have a buffer with Sweden, Russia forcibly divided the eastern part of Sweden, and the state of Finland was born. The president understands it now, right? ”

Chang Kaishen nodded and said: "Finland has a close relationship with Sweden, and Sweden has a close relationship with Germany. Once Germany took Denmark and Norway, the western part of the Soviet Union was semi-surrounded by Germany. ”

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "That's true, not only will it be semi-surrounded by Germany, but the Soviet navy will also be blocked and unable to get out." Leningrad, in particular, was extremely important for the USSR and was the second largest city in the USSR. Without control of Finland, Leningrad could easily be taken by Germany in the event of a war between the Soviet Union and Germany. Stalin saw this for a long time, so he negotiated with Finland every year to settle the territorial dispute between the Soviet Union and Finland. However, Finland could not solve the problem by diplomatic means, and the Soviet Union was left with only an armed invasion. ”

Chang Kaishen sighed: "It seems that Finland is also going to be destroyed, and it will be the same fate as Poland." ”

"Perhaps." Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but smile.

Finland is a small military country, with an army of 127,000 men, 300,000 reservists, 100,000 reserve militia, and 100,000 service corps when war broke out. This was almost the result of the nationwide participation in the war (population of more than 4 million), even the women were organized, and the tactical thinking was still stuck in the First World War. In terms of equipment, it is even more backward, with only 100 reconnaissance planes combined, and only enough ammunition for two months and artillery shells for three weeks.

The Soviet Union dispatched 540,000 troops at the beginning of the war, but it was a bit difficult to fight, and in the later period it had to increase its troops again.

Everyone felt that Finland was about to die soon, or even be directly annexed by the Soviet Union.

But the battle was fought for several months, and the Soviet Union finally won a crushing victory, claiming that nearly 50,000 were killed and nearly 160,000 wounded. The total number of Soviet casualties was more than 200,000, and this is still a reduced figure, according to Sokrov's later recollection, the number of Soviet casualties was close to 200,000, and the total casualties were more than 700,000.

Khrushchev even said in his memoirs: "We lost a million people. ”

Although Finland lost, they lost brilliantly, and this is already the limit of what they can do.

In fact, the Soviet Union really had no intention of annexing Finland, and only wanted key territories for the defense of Leningrad during the pre-war negotiations. Moreover, the USSR was willing to compensate twice as much land, which was almost equivalent to a land exchange.

But Finland doesn't do it, once those territories are taken away by the Soviet Union, it is equivalent to losing the national defense barrier, and the Soviet army will come and go if they want to in the future. So they fought and lost both, and in the end Finland was forced to cede the land.

It was this crushing victory that strengthened Hitler's determination to invade the Soviet Union, and His Excellency the Führer found the Soviet Union to be a paper tiger.

Shen Lu, Ma Jue, and a group of school teachers and students all listened attentively to Zhou Hexuan's analysis of the international situation at this time. They undoubtedly admired that as a scholar, they could actually guide the country in front of China's leaders and find Zhou Hexuan all over the country.