Is Lin Jun looking for Zhou Zhirou to do it? Because he wants to "go back to his hometown to visit relatives" -- anyway, he basically has nothing to do in Nanjing now, so he simply comes to Nanshan and becomes the shopkeeper for a few days. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhou Zhirou didn't dare to make her own decision, and immediately reported the situation to Lao Jiang. The head still maintained a certain degree of sobriety, and did not let the great victory in the air during this period of time overwhelm the head: now the battle on the ground has entered a state of stalemate, and the air force has also become an empty shell after the high-intensity sortie in the early stage, and before the establishment of an effective ground logistics supply line, the Soviet planes can only protect the troops in the Songhu area from the threat of Japanese planes.

Since that Andrei wants to go to the hometown of his old comrade-in-arms, let him go, anyway, it's only three days.

Early in the morning of September 16, Lin Jun took his wife and entourage, accompanied by Mao Bangchu, deputy commander-in-chief of the former enemy command of the Air Force, and several other officers, and took two SB-2 bombers and flew directly to Cao'e Airport in Zhejiang under the escort of eight Yi 16.

The group was warmly welcomed by the Ninth Brigade of the Air Force at Cao'e Airport, but Lin Jun did not stop too much here, and drove to Shengxian County, the destination of the trip, after lunch.

Mao Bangchu, who accompanied Lin Jun, was the nephew of Mrs. Jiang Yuanpei and a native of Fenghua, so he was still relatively familiar with this area, and he had gone to the Soviet Union to learn flying, and he could speak a few words of half-native Russian. But this guy is first-class, but he doesn't fight very much and loves money too much - Lin Jun doesn't have a good impression of this "corrupt official" at all.

After traveling south along the highway for almost two hours, Lin Jun returned to his hometown, which could only appear in a dream.

Neither people nor people, the backward small county town in front of him could not find a trace of the taste of the hometown in the image, only the pagoda in the distance was still there, and the narrow street made Lin Jun feel strange. Climbing the hill where the pagoda is located, looking at the "unfamiliar" town at his feet, Lin Jun didn't speak for a long time.

After only one day in his hometown, Lin Jun returned to Cao'e, and the plane landed at Daxiao Factory that afternoon.

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In the two days when Lin Jun "visited relatives", the base camp of the Japanese army was in chaos by the astonishing losses on the front line! The Japanese knew that the losses of their navy and air force were due to the intervention of the Soviet Union, but at present, the war on the front line was in a stalemate, and they were unable to retaliate militarily against the Soviet Union.

At present, the Japanese army has left only one small aircraft carrier in the East China Sea, the "Fengxiang," and only 15 combat planes, and does not dare to approach China's coastal waters at all, and the "Kaga" is on its way back, and it will take some time for the new air wing to form an effective combat force. The large aircraft carrier "Akagi", which carries 60 aircraft, has just been refitted and is undergoing sea trials; The newest "Canglong" is still in the final stages of equipment installation - once upon a time, the Imperial Navy, which could flaunt its might off the coast of China, became so impoverished.

The only good news for the Japanese was that the Soviet planes might be out of ammunition, and for several days they were just harassing the ground forces of the army in a small fight, and then they threw a few bombs at the landing site, and the damage caused was still within the range that the Japanese could bear.

The Japanese base camp could only strictly order the "Akagi" to get a good grasp of the training, and it had to complete its armament within a month, and wait for the "Kaga" to be equipped with a new flying wing to attack together, in order to form an effective strike force along the Chinese coast.

Here the Japanese are stepping up their preparations for war, and the same is true on the Soviet side: on September 16, Marshal Voroshilov ordered the organization of the delivery of bombers "along a special route", which was the northern front. From Irkutsk via Ulaanbaatar, Dharamza Dagade, to Lanzhou. 31 SBs were delivered to Irkutsk along the Trans-Siberian Line railway, where the local 125 aircraft factory was responsible for assembly. All of these aircraft will be handed over to the Chinese Air Force, and the 64th Aviation Brigade will be responsible for the delivery mission.

Voroshilov did not make trouble for Lin Jun on the issue of logistical assistance, but the ground transportation line could not be established all at once - there was no ready-made road transportation line, and he could not do anything about breaking Voroshilov into two pieces. But as long as the air passage of the northern line is opened, the distance Lin Jun can get supplies will be greatly shortened, at least not as pitiful as it is now.

Lin Jun's order to hoard ammunition has turned his pilots into a bunch of idlers, who have nothing to do every day except to familiarize themselves with aeronautical charts, and sometimes even run to help mechanics overhaul the planes. In the two days that Lin Jun was away, Andlupf also ignored the pilots' "out-of-line" behavior: it's not good to be too idle, they can find some work if they like it, anyway, there will always be endless work to be done in the ground crew.

Sergeant Major Vasily will always surprise Lin Jun, he took his subordinates and designed a new bomb mount by himself, which can allow the Yi 16 to carry *** Air Force equipped with 250 pounds of American-made bombs, and the aircraft does not need to be modified too much, if you want to change back to Mount Soviet-made bombs, two armorers only need 1 hour of work to complete. The sergeant major didn't have the idea of fighting those bombers, and if he wanted their bomb racks and magazines to be matched with American-made bombs, it would be a big project, and it would not be a matter of hours to change back to Soviet-style weapons.

There are still quite a few US-made bombs in stock at the Nanjing Daxiao Factory, and there are also 200 American-made 250-pound aerial bombs in stock in the warehouse at Jurong Airport -- those Fiat CR-32 fighters of the 7th Squadron of the 3rd Air Force Group stationed at Jurong Airport do not need these bombs at all. After Lin Jun, who had returned to the colonel's factory, learned of the news, he asked Vasily to take a group of ground crews to Jurong to replace all the I-16 fighter bomb racks of the Third Squadron led by Kurchumov, which had been transferred to Jurong a few days ago, with the style of carrying American-made bombs.

On September 19, Lin Jun and Andlupf also went to Jurong to check on the situation in person.

The Fiat CR-32 fighter and Lin Jun are already old acquaintances, and when they were in Spain, several CR-32s of the Spanish rebels and the Italian Air Force became their own guns. At Jurong Airport, Lin Jun saw these "old friends", except that these CR-32s performed much better in China than their brothers in Spain. The Air Force CR-32s were assembled in Nanchang by Fiat technicians, and these CR-32s were equipped with two 7.7 mm Vickers machine guns in the nose area, each with 750 rounds of ammunition.

Lin Jun asked the officers of the Air Force how they felt about this batch of CR-32, and from their feelings, these CR-32 fighters performed well, but the fuel was more troublesome (the engine of the CR-32 fighter does not burn aviation gasoline, but uses a mixture of gasoline, benzene and alcohol, and the two additives of benzene and alcohol could not be produced by China at that time, so it could only rely on imports. ）。

It was the first time Lin Jun had heard that the fuel of this CR-32 fighter was a mixture, "I really don't know what Fiat's engineers think, what the war needs is simple and reliable logistics, and it is strange that the fuel is so troublesome!" ”

The pilots responded that their fighters performed better than the Japanese fighters in the air battles in the early stage of the Battle of Songhu, and its name of "Star of Spain" also gave the pilots some confidence.

Lin Jun replied to the words of the *** pilot: "That's because those rebel pilots didn't run into me and Andlupf, and the CR-32s we encountered became burning meteors." ”

Lin Jun and Andlupuf knew that the so-called "Foreign Legion Air Force" formed by the Italian Air Force was equipped with CR-32 fighters in the current war in Spain, and they still had some advantages in the competition with the Soviet-made fighters on the Republican side. But this is not because of the performance of the aircraft, the quality of the pilot also has a lot to do with it. Just like the fighter unit led by Lin Jun and Andlupf, it has always had an absolute advantage in the contest with the Spanish rebels and the Italian air force, but the Spanish pilots will not be able to win the battle.

It is estimated that the *** pilot likes his landline too much, so he said the title of "Star of Spain" in front of Lin Jun, and he didn't know much about the senior Soviet officer in front of him. The average pilot of the Air Force only knows that there is an air force from the Soviet Union that is fighting alongside them, but they do not know how many of them there are and who the commander is.

It was Mao Bangchu who accompanied Lin Jun to Jurong, and he knew what was going to happen as soon as he heard his men say the name "Star of Spain" - he knew who General Andre was next to him. They had collected information about this young Soviet upstart, and they knew that he was a complete "red element", who had fought with the air forces of Italy, Germany, and the Spanish National Army (that is, Franco's rebels) in Spain, and even took part in white-knuckle battles as infantry! The information obtained from Kong Xiangxi on Andrei's visit to England also shows that he had clashed head-on with the Japanese, which shows that he was a not very good-tempered fellow - young and vigorous, and would show himself to the extreme as long as he hated it.

Now his subordinates mentioned one of the things he hated the most in front of this Andre, a bad one will have a big negative reaction, which is not what he and Lao Jiang want to see, fortunately, Andrei's tone is a little harsh, but it is not very unpleasant.

"General Andrei, our pilot is just talking casually, don't take it to heart."

"Hehe, of course not. We're just talking about airplanes and combat experience. Of course, Lin Jun would not take the young pilot's words as having any special meaning.

"You don't know, this General Andrei in front of you is a real ace in the air, and he has defeated a total of 12 opponent fighters. And this General Andlupuf shot down a total of 21 opponent planes. ”

Mao Bangchu said it at a very high level, and did not say whose plane they shot down and where they shot it down, which not only gave face to the two Soviet officers, but also gave his pilots a goal to catch up and overtake, and did not leave any handle.

Lin Jun translated Mao Bangchu's words to Andlupf, he just smiled, and Andlupf also understood the "greasy" in the words of the *** senior officer in front of him. Mao Bangchu's words made the pilots of the *** Seventh Squadron shine, they had heard that the chairman of the committee wanted to commend several outstanding pilots of the Soviet Union, and the two in front of them must be two of them.

It's really not worth getting angry for a gossip, not to mention that Lin Jun didn't take that sentence to heart at all. These pilots in front of them are the guardians of the Chinese sky, and what Mao Bangchu said made these pilots have a good impression of the two senior Soviet officers in front of them.

Lin Jun and Andlupuf deliberately took a moment to exchange their experience in air combat with the Chinese pilots in front of them, and also pointed out some shortcomings in the CR-32 they were equipped with, which is very important to these *** fighter pilots. Pilots are usually aware of their own flaws and strengths, but they will not know what their opponents know about their aircraft, and some of these flaws will only be exposed in air combat - because you don't know what good ways your opponents can deal with them.

Lin Jun also taught himself and Andlupf the "bracket" tactics of dealing with enemy bombers to the Chinese pilots, which surprised Mao Bangchu and the pilots, you must know that the tactics of the air forces of various countries are secret, and it is unique to give Lin Jun such a generous gift.

Knowing why they were strange, Lin Jun said: "The pilots stationed in Guangde have already seen me and Andrupf deal with the Japanese twin-engine bombers, so this is not a special secret, as long as you don't tell the Japanese." ”

Lin Jun's "humor" and generosity won the unanimous favor of the Chinese pilots, and also made Mao Bangchu put his hanging heart back in his stomach.

Yesterday, Sergeant Major Vasily and his comrades from the ground crew were busy modifying the aircraft as soon as they arrived in Jurong, and with the help of their counterparts in the Air Force, it took only one day to complete the modification of 12 Yi-16s.

"Captain, the next step is to test the reliability of the modification. This requires you to coordinate with the Chinese side to find a suitable test site. ”

"Vasily, we will have 200 American-made bombs, throw one less one, we can't waste it. Are you sure you'll be able to throw it away when the time comes? ”

"Don't worry, Captain, I still have this point, but I don't know how accurate the throwing is."

"Just throw it out, let's find a test site and try to throw two pieces, and give the rest to the Japanese."

Kurchumov personally handled the two throwing tests, and he was quite satisfied. Of course, due to the difference in aerodynamic shape, the compatibility of the American-made 250-pound blasting bomb and the sight on the Yi-16 is somewhat different, but since the Yi-16 is generally a dive bomb, this deviation is still acceptable.

"Kurchumov, starting tomorrow, 2 sorties every two hours, I want those Japanese not to be stable. If there is an urgent need for troops ahead, the number of sorties is up to you. ”

"Yes, Comrade Andrei."

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