Chapter 15: The Challenge of the New Elite (part 2 of 2)
Airplanes! Airplanes!
Two rapid buzzing sounds sounded one after another from the sky above the Qinglong Air Base in Yanjing, and two fighter planes crossed the sky one after another.
The two fighters are one is the Morana DP3 fighter of the Northeast Army Air Force painted with the blue sky and white sun flag, and the other is the F11C fighter from the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire.
I saw that the two fighters were chasing and fighting each other, making various tactical combat maneuvers in the air, and the fight was inseparable.
The entire Qinglong Air Base gathered tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the base, all of whom were watching the wonderful fighting in the air attentively.
Normally, during the training of the Yanjing Air Force, the officers and men of the base also come to watch when they have nothing to do, but there has never been such a huge scale of thousands of empty alleys as today.
It turned out that since the pilots of the Northeast Army Air Force and the teachers and students of the Northeast Aviation School were taken to Datang, Zhang Meng personally met with Chen Haihua and other aviation school instructors, teachers and students, as well as Zhao Wenyi and Gao Zhihang and other elite personnel of the Northeast Army Air Force.
Zhang Meng attaches great importance to these people, especially the elite pilots in the Northeast Army Air Force, including Zhao Wenyi and Gao Zhihang. Zhang Meng knows the great value of these pilots, most of them are excellent pilots who graduated from the Paris Aeronautical Academy in France, and they are also pilots who have participated in the Soviet air war and have rich combat experience.
Zhang Meng immediately issued an order to transfer Zhao Wenyi, Gao Zhihang, Wan Xianzhang and other pilots of the Northeast Army to the Datang Royal Air Force, and Chen Haihua and other instructors and cadets of the aviation school to the Datang Imperial Air Force Academy to teach and continue their studies.
However, newcomers are always troubled by the elderly, which is undoubtedly unavoidable from ancient times to the present.
In particular, Zhao Wenyi, Gao Zhihang, and Wan Xianzhang, who had graduated from the Paris Aviation Academy in France and experienced real air battles, were bold and courageous, and their tempers were naturally not small, and they naturally could not easily succumb to the difficulties of the 'veteran' pilots of the Tang Army.
As a result, the two sides suddenly became more energetic in the field of plane piloting and air combat skills, and the 'old people' headed by Xue Zhigang, the wing commander of the Yanjing Air Force, openly competed with the 'new people' led by Zhao Wenyi, Gao Zhihang, and Wan Xianzhang.
In the central terminal, Zhang Meng looked up at the sky through the glass window, carefully observing the two fighter planes competing in the air.
From Zhang Meng's personal point of view, although the performance of the Morana DP3 fighter is much stronger than that of the F11C fighter, purely in terms of jishu, the Jishu and experience of the pilots of the Northeast Army Air Force are far higher than those of the pilots of the Yanjing Air Force. After all, the air force pilots of the Northeast Army either graduated from the Paris Aviation Academy in France after 5 years of training, or graduated from the Mukden Aviation Academy, and had combat experience against the Soviet Air Force. On the other hand, the Yanjing Air Force has only been established for two or three years, and has no real experience in air combat, so when the two sides are compared, the pilots of the Yanjing Air Force suddenly show various deficiencies.
"Your Highness, the Yanjing Air Force has been shot down 19 times, and the Northeast Army has only been shot down 6 times!"
Air Force Commander Liu Xiang stood next to Zhang Meng and shook his head and sighed, reminding Zhang Meng of the score between the two sides from time to time.
Zhang Meng knew Liu Xiang's intentions, so he smiled and said, "If you have itchy hands, go down and try it!" These Northeast Army have some skills, but they are too arrogant, and they have to kill them! ”
Liu Xiang waited for Zhang Meng's words, so he hurriedly went down to prepare.
Not long after, Liu Xiang piloted a P6E fighter into the air, which immediately attracted the shouts of all the base personnel.
Liu Xiang, commander of the Datang Royal Air Force, personally drove the plane, and the atmosphere suddenly became warm.
Zhang Meng knew Liu Xiang's ability, because he was trained by Zhang Meng himself.
Although the constitution stipulates that the emperor is the supreme commander of the army, navy and air force, the Tang army, navy and air force have always called Zhang Meng the commander of the navy, land and air force.
As the supreme commander of the three armies, Zhang Meng is naturally an all-rounder who can do everything from heaven to earth and sea, only in this way can he better understand the training of the three armies in all aspects, improve the combat effectiveness of the officers and men of the three armies, and even for Zhang Meng, he requires the absolute deterrence of the officers and men of the three armies.
At the beginning, Zhang Meng and Yang Yi, the thorn of the army, fought alone, which shocked all the army units in one fell swoop, so that they all rallied around Zhang Meng with a feeling of worship.
After the establishment of the Air Force, Zhang Meng also participated in special training, and the purpose was to play a leading role in the Air Force.
Zhang Meng, as a special soldier, naturally requires all-round, although he is now the crown prince and the commander of the three armed forces, but he still has a very strong fighting spirit, with superb personal combat quality, under the training of several Raptor Airlines aerobatic test pilots, in less than a month to become the most powerful air force pilot of the Tang Royal Air Force, although Zhang Meng has no experience in flying planes in actual combat in the air, but he is still quite familiar with the air combat theory of a generation of aircraft, especially the superb tactical actions of some generation aircraft, no one knows better than him.
It is precisely because of Zhang Meng's leading role that the Datang Royal Air Force can form combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and his personal jishu has won the admiration and admiration of all officers and soldiers of the Air Force.
It was impossible for Zhang Meng to personally lead the troops into the air during the war, but he still had to maintain absolute command over the air force. Jiang Zhong relied on the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy to encircle the Whampoa officer corps and control the army, and Zhang Meng was no exception to Jiang Zhongzheng's tricks, he was also the president of the Tang Imperial Military Academy, and the cadets of the army, navy and air force were all his students. However, Zhang Meng has a more powerful way than Jiang Zhongzheng, that is, he himself is an all-rounder, and many officers and soldiers of the army, navy and air force are attracted by his superb individual combat jishu, just like Li Mao of the Blue Fox Special Forces worshiped Zhang Meng as a teacher, and many officers and soldiers also wanted to worship Zhang Meng as a teacher.
Whether they are pursuing personal skills or getting promoted, Zhang Meng also needs to form an interest group with them to control the army, after all, one person's liliang is not enough to control the entire Tang army, and the interests of one person are also not as stable and long-term as the rule of one interest group.
Zhang Meng then accepted a lot of disciples, and there were all branches of the army, navy, and air force. On the one hand, Zhang Meng taught them his personal jishu to increase their influence in the army. On the other hand, they regard them as their cronies and descendants, making them their tentacles to control the entire army and even the entire empire.
Liu Xiang is one of Zhang Meng's disciples.
As the commander of the Datang Royal Air Force, in addition to Zhang Meng, Liu Xiang is the supreme commander of the Air Force. According to Zhang Meng's rules, as a commander, he must know everything about his military branch. Especially when the three armies of the Tang Empire were just established, the leading role and elite deterrence were very important.
Liu Xiang was the most powerful of the Air Force disciples trained by Zhang Meng himself, so he was able to serve as the commander of the Air Force.
Just now, Colonel Xue Zhigang, the wing commander of the Yanjing Air Force, had already lost to Gao Zhihang of the Northeast Army, and many other elites of the Yanjing Air Force also lost more and won less in the competition with the pilots of the Northeast Army. Although Zhang Meng was very happy with the combat quality of these pilots of the Northeast Army, he was also worried that these people would not be controlled in the future, and they would dare to challenge the old man to break the rules of the game on the first day he joined the Datang Royal Air Force, which was not allowed.
Zhang Meng has seen the air combat stunts of the pilots of the Northeast Army Air Force, although they look very powerful in this era, in fact, they are all old jishu of air combat during World War I, except for Zhao Wenyi, Gao Zhihang and Wan Xianzhang and others' jishu is a little fresher, other people's jishu and the pilots of the Yanjing Air Force are not much different, they are all half a catty to eight taels.
Zhang Meng knows Liu Xiang's ability very well, as the best disciple of his descendant, Liu Xiang must have been confident after observing the opponent's flying skills and tactical movements just now, otherwise he would not dare to make a move easily, after all, he is the commander of the Tang Air Force, and if he loses face, he will lose a lot of money.
Sure enough, Liu Xiang did not disappoint, and in less than half an hour after taking off, he had already shot down twelve sorties of the opponent in a row, and he immediately pulled the score back.
"Our Air Force Commander is a master! I'll meet him! ”
Gao Zhihang on the ground watched the opponent's master appear, and the loneliness of the master for a long time suddenly made his blood boil.