Haikou Dayingshan Airport, the commander of the Kawu Naval Air Force, Sueo Ohashi, stood on the tower and looked up at the northern sky for a long time, an hour and a half later than the scheduled return time, people with a little common sense knew that the bomber could not come back, but he still stood firmly, refused to relax for a moment, and waited for another two hours, until the sun was about to set, the chief staff officer Yoshioka Tadaichi Shaozo had to say out: "Your Excellency, Iki Squadron may not come back!" ”

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"Your Excellency......" Yoshioka Tadaichi bowed his head speechlessly, and under the sunset, the Navy Rising Sun Flag fluttering in the wind on the tower was even more blood-red.

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"Please be aware of the fact that they are slandering the Air Force like this...... It's so deceitful! "Chongqing Huangshan Villa, relying on the fact that he is the nephew of the chairman, Mao Bangchu came to sue when he returned to Chongqing. Chang Kaishen is thinner than last year, his skin is sallow, and the age spots on it are clearly visible, but the wind and discipline buckle are still undisturbed, his eyes are blinking, and he ignores Mao Bangchu's love.

He knew what the situation was in the Air Force long before the start of the war in 37. All the money for the birthday celebration was deposited in the bank by his wife, and whether this move was right or wrong is another matter. But the hundreds of planes that he thought could be lifted into the air for combat were tested by American adviser Chennault, and the number was immediately reduced to 91, and if it wasn't for his wife's intercession, he would have killed Mao Bangchu at that time. Although the Air Force has heroes who have sacrificed their lives, to this day, its impression on Chang Kaishen is still a mess and terrible.

Chang Kaishen didn't speak, and Mao Bangchu, who was shouting in a low voice, didn't dare to speak more until Chang Kaishen coughed, "What about them, what about you, do you want me to send someone to gag their mouths?" ”

"Principal ......" Mao Bangchu's face was full of sweat, and he complained that he hoped that Chang Kaishen would lose his temper, and then ordered the naval aviation team to get out of Kunming, but at the moment, Chang Kaishen had such an attitude and demanded that it was obviously impossible.

"See for yourself." When Mao Bangchu was still trying to figure out how to get the navy out, Chang Kaishen threw a dossier with the name of 3.2 Xichou County Air Battle. He opened it with some uneasiness, and the first thing he bore the brunt of was a stack of photos of the wreckage of Japanese planes, and he carefully read the text on the front page: 'At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of March 2, a fierce battle broke out between the destroyers of the naval air force and the Japanese bombers in the northeast of Xichou County, and all the 15 to 18 Japanese planes were shot down, and the wreckage was secretly collected by the Yunnan army......

"How can this ......" Mao Bangchu's face cried, unable to believe what was in the report. March 2 was the day before yesterday, he happened to be in Kunming at that time, and he had seen the number on the tail of the Navy plane, which was A-12, which means that they only had 12 planes. How is it possible that twelve destroyers shot down fifteen-eighteen Japanese bombers?

"This was sent by Yu Nong." Chang Kaishen sneered at the corner of his mouth, the navy and Long Yun have been making small moves, and recently hooked up with Fu Zuoyi, which can't hide from his eyes. However, according to observations, they did not have much to do with the Communist Party, which relieved him. "The photo was taken about ten plane wrecks, and that can't be wrong, right?" Chang Kaishen said again. "The navy is very arrogant, so arrogant that it regards the government as nothing, but people can shoot down more than a dozen Japanese bombers, what about you?"

"Headmaster," I wanted to sue, but now it seems that I can't do it. Mao Bangchu's hot sweat turned into a cold sweat, and he stammered: "Principal, the navy and navy planes are all the latest type, and their planes cost 60,000 ...... It's more than 60,000 dollars a plane, it's big and sturdy, and we're all small planes, and the engines are scrapped in 50 hours, which can't be compared. Even the small planes are no longer there, and the planes promised by the Soviet Union last year have not been sent until now, and we ......"

The complaint turned into a complaint, and Mao Bangchu wanted to cry at the mention of Soviet planes, not to mention that the planes were not good, the number was small, and the air force was no longer fighting against Japan, even if it took off, it would be harassed, and the troops at hand were overstretched.

"That's it!" Speaking of the Soviet Union, Chang Kaishen also had a headache, and Li Kongrong had warned before: The Soviet Union is unreliable, and the aid given by the Soviet Union must be turned into weapons as soon as possible. However, every time the government urged for arms, the Soviet side deduced that the Far East was fighting the Japanese, and Sun Ke was also blindly optimistic, believing that the Soviet Union was temporarily nervous. It dragged on, dragged on, and today there is a truce in the northeast, and weapons are not sent. Today, the situation has become clear that the Soviet Union will curry favor with Japan at the expense of China.

The reality is like this, and thinking of the fact that Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov swore that the Soviet Union would send troops to fight against Japan, Chang Kaishen wanted to roar loudly, which was already a common way for him to vent his inner depression, but he didn't want to yell in front of Mao Bangchu's eyes. Taking a deep breath, Chang Kaishen, who suppressed his anger, asked in an unusually indifferent tone: "The navy's planes are good, can we buy some?" ”

"Ahh Mao Bangchu was still searching his stomach and thinking about the suffering of the Air Force, but he didn't expect that Chang Kaishen's topic had turned to buying a plane. "Headmaster, their planes are too expensive, they cost $65,000 each......"

"Don't buy it if it's too expensive?!" Chang Kaishen slammed the table, "We don't know the losses of the navy for the time being, but they can shoot down more than a dozen Japanese planes, when can you do it?" ”

"We, we ......" Mao Bangchu didn't dare to argue, he could only follow Chang Kaishen's meaning and said: "Principal, the plane is not produced by Curtis, it is another American aircraft company, and we are not familiar with it." The best, the best is ......."

"What's the best?" Chang Kaishen asked with some disgust.

"It's best to let Dean Yongzhi be in charge of this matter, didn't he invite the navy." Mao Bangchu's reminder made Chang Kaishen stunned. The navy was indeed invited by Kong Xiangxi, and there were still bad signs -- the navy and the Kong family were actually getting closer and closer, and the government sent people to New York to negotiate with the navy but there was no agreement, and as soon as Kong Lingkan talked about the completion of the talks, not only did the negotiations be completed, but the navy also agreed to give the Ministry of Finance a loan, and what kind of osmanthus oil field in central Sichuan was developed, what did they want to do?

With a wave of his hand, Mao Bangchu disappeared from his eyes, and Chang Kaishen began to think about the relationship between the Kong family and the navy. His original intention was to let Ziwen come back and use his connections in the United States to win aid for the government, Yongzhi was not familiar with the United States, his relationship was in Germany and Italy, but now the navy intervened, Yongzhi began to use the relationship of the navy to carry out large-scale activities in the United States, last month he said that there was hope for the loan in Yunnan, and only five days after this month, the loan was confirmed by Washington. On the one hand, there is an unruly navy, and on the other hand, the deep-rooted Confucian family, are they preventing Ziwen's comeback?

"Let the rain farmer come." After meditating for a long time, Chang Kaishen greeted the attendant room, and he wanted to see what news Dai Li had.

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"Colonel Chen, Colonel Chen, do you really think that the Air Force is a 'coward'? What evidence do you have for this? A few days after the plaque was delivered, the news spread all over the city, and the reporters who heard the news blocked the entrance of the naval airport, but Chen Wenlin did not meet the reporters, and the reporters surrounded them for several days without seeing the result and had to disperse.

"Colonel Chen, it is difficult to come from your own country, and there are not a few people who have died in the Air Force, and there are not a few people who have collided with the enemy and died together, do you want to prove that the Navy is more important than the Air Force by slandering the Air Force so much?" Another reporter, in the words of Li Kongrong, is receiving fiat currency.

"Colonel Chen, the Navy has never been at war with Japanese aircraft, and the Air Force has been fighting with the Japanese for three years, why do you want to speak wildly and slander the Air Force?" An even more angry reporter came, he squeezed out of the crowd and glared at Chen Wenlin angrily, with the intention that he would fight without answering.

Chen Wenlin came to the provincial government to negotiate transportation matters, and naval supplies, especially oil, need to be transported by land from Lashio, and the command's guidance is that the Yunnan-Vietnam railway will be closed after July, and the Yunnan-Burma highway may also be closed for three months, so the air force must take precautions. I don't know who leaked the news, as soon as his jeep arrived at Wuhua Mountain, the reporter was blocked.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are on official business here, and it is inconvenient for us to answer questions." Lieutenant Zheng Liandeng, who was traveling with him, looked at the reporters around him and said this, and as soon as he said this, the reporters were in an uproar, and some people shouted: "You dared to slander the Air Force a few days ago, why don't you dare to speak now?" I don't even dare to speak, I think this is a coward! ”

"Yes, yes. I didn't even dare to speak," a large number ......of reporters echoed, and the encirclement tightened.

Zheng Liandeng wanted to open the door for Chen Wenlin, but the reporter gathered around the car, and the door couldn't be opened at all. The jeep had no roof, and the reporters' fingers and pens were all pointed at Chen Wenlin, who was smoking without speaking, and saliva foamed at his white navy uniform. After smoking the last puff of cigarette, Chen Wenlin looked around at the reporters with different expressions and their mouths full of water, and sneered: "Who doesn't dare to speak?" ”

As soon as Chen Wenlin spoke, the reporters were happy, they just wanted to make a big news, as long as Chen Wenlin opened his mouth, no matter what he said, this purpose was achieved. "Colonel Chen, ...... you say?"

"One by one!" Seeing that the reporter began to gossip again, Chen Wenlin immediately snorted.

"I'm coming!" The reporter who received the fiat currency just now rushed to say, he was wearing a Mao suit, and he looked quite small. "May I ask Colonel Chen, why do you want to slander the Air Force after three years of bloody battles between the Air Force and Japanese planes, and the number of martyrs sacrificed is too numerous to mention? Is this necessarily related to the fact that the Navy did not receive military spending, the Naval Aviation Department was abolished, the naval pilots were absorbed by the Air Force, and you had no authority or not? ”

"Hehe, hehe......" The Naval Aviation Department was swallowed up by the Air Force, and all the pilots he had carefully trained were also admitted to the Central Aviation School, and the reporter dug these up, apparently trying to see his ridicule of the Air Force as a kind of revenge. Looking at the reporter with a modest face and a smug heart, Chen Wenlin said: "There is nothing unusual about a donkey dying in the mill. Didn't we buy it just to grind? Now the problem is, the money is spent, but the wheat is not milled, I say it is because of the cowardice of the donkey, do you have to say no, say how hard the donkey usually lives, how heroic the sacrifice is, does this make sense? ”

Chen Wenlin's analogy was very simple, but the reporter's mouth was not covered, and as soon as he finished speaking, someone rushed to say: "Colonel Chen, Japan can build its own aircraft, but we can only assemble it; Japan has a few thousand planes, but we have only a few hundred. According to what you mean, does that mean that the Navy is even more cowardly? Nor did they grind the wheat well. ”

"Do you know airplanes?" Chen Wenlin turned his head to look at this person, "Or do you know air combat?" Or do you still understand the navy and naval warfare? I don't understand and like to talk nonsense, this is you journalists? ”

Chen Wenlin simply stood up, although he was not tall, but he could easily look down on the reporters around him while standing in the jeep, "The situation in the navy is that any Japanese destroyer can sink the entire fleet within a few hours, and there is no power to fight back at all, so it can only retreat into the Yangtze River, where Japanese destroyers cannot enter, in order to create a gunboat against gunboat situation." Unfortunately, the warships were all sunk by Japanese naval aircraft. Is this the Navy's fault? Didn't anyone say just now that the Naval Aviation Department was abolished and the pilots were absorbed by the Air Force, but now it's good, and the Navy will be blamed for the Navy's nest as soon as it turns around. Why don't you ask what the Air Force was doing when the Navy was bombed?! ”

Attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son, Chen Wenlin suddenly made the reporter speechless. He then added: "Air combat is different from naval warfare, and no Japanese aircraft can completely annihilate all the planes of the Air Force. At the beginning of the war, the performance of the Hawker III of the Air Force was far above the performance of the Japanese fighters, and the performance of the Hawker III was not much worse than that of the Japanese fighters in terms of performance, and it can basically be said that this was an evenly matched battle.

Japan can build airplanes, and there are a lot of Japanese planes, but when they bombed Chongqing last year, how many planes came? But a few dozen, or more, is more than a hundred, and does this have anything to do with the thousands of aircraft in Japan? What about us? How many planes do we have? How many planes have been lifted into the air to meet the battle? It's all in the sky, and you can count them if you are a little bold and stick your head out. Why don't you think about it, do we really only have a few dozen planes to meet the enemy? ”

The problem gradually came to the point, and even the reporter in the tunic was in a hurry to record, Chen Wenlin paused before saying: "The number of planes is a problem, and the most critical problem is that because of the limited range, the Japanese are all bombers, what does this mean?" This means that the fighters of the Air Force cannot beat the bombers that Japan does not have an escort? It's like a car can't outrun a truck, a wild horse can't outrun a mule, and I say that the Air Force is cowardly, is this wrong?

The Japanese bomber's armor is not thick, and the firepower is not strong, and in order to maintain its formation, it can't dodge it, so it can only fly forward in a straight line, and the speed is still very slow, at least much slower than the fighter. I don't understand why the Air Force can't be defeated, not only can't it be defeated, but it will also be taken down by it. I really can't find any reason to explain this phenomenon other than cowardice. ”

The reporters finally got the big news, except for a few tunics, the other reporters all recorded Chen Wenlin's words firmly, for fear of missing a word, and began to add fuel and vinegar to the news outline. But at this time, a voice suddenly came, speaking in English. "Colonel Chen, I think it is very immoral to slander friendly troops behind your back."

The person who came was Colonel Chennault, an American adviser to the Air Force, who came over when he saw Chen Wenlin standing in the jeep, and after listening to the interpreter's explanation, he had to stand up and accuse him of this very impolite behavior.

Chen Wenlin understood English, but he replied in Chinese: "If they are really friendly forces, I am ashamed of such friendly forces!" ”

"The Japanese bombers were not easy to deal with, they were in very good formations, and attacking us from any direction had to face dozens of machine guns. I wonder what you would do with Soviet planes that were flying that kind of Soviet aircraft that had already begun to lag behind in performance? Chennault's English was also translated into Chinese, and the two gradually walked in and began to argue-for-tat.

"Don't fight bombers with advanced aircraft, as long as they can take off and fly at a speed not lower than the speed of a bomber. Pilots don't need to be skilled, they just need to learn to take off, and they don't need to be taught to land. Chen Wenlin waved his hand and said his own countermeasures. If I were the commander of the Air Force, I would fill each plane with explosives and then order them to rush into the bomber formation and finally detonate the explosives on it. The Japanese bombers had five pilots, and there were three at least, so would we not be able to change our small planes for large planes, or for three people per person? The question of the Air Force wants me to say that there is no good commander, and you can think about it, if Mr. Dai of the military command is the commander of the Air Force, what will happen? ”

"......" Dai Lisa Chennault was unfamiliar with, but Chen Wenlin's method was simple and rude, and he had to retort: "It's crazy!" No one will fight like this. No, this is not a war, this is a death sentence. ”

"If you don't fight like this, how can you fight?! The plane was shot down by the Japanese, the city was bombed and burned by the Japanese, so it is better to change the plane for the plane and peel off the skin of the Japanese before dying! Chen Wenlin said resolutely, "The military strength of China and Japan is far apart, and I don't think there is a loss at all if they can be exchanged one-to-one." The Army's exchange ratio is not yet one-to-one, but the soldiers do not still hold cluster grenades and burn. Bottle rush to Japanese tanks? In your opinion, this is death, in the eyes of the Chinese, this is the real battle. What the army brothers can do, naval aviation can also do, but our battlefield is at sea. But why can't the Air Force do it? Could it be that Air Force pilots are noble by nature, and they can spare their lives if they can calmly die with mud legs? ”

"Well said!" Some reporters applauded, and it seems that Chen Wenlin's statement is not unreasonable.

Chen Wenlin ignored them, and he continued: "My commander once said that in terms of cost performance, our worst is the air force. If the tens of millions of dollars spent on artillery instead of airplanes for the Air Force before the war, the Japanese would have died more than 100,000 people. The only correct thing for the Air Force at present is that Mrs. Chang did not use the money for the birthday celebration of a thousand planes to buy an airplane, but saved it. ”

"Wow!" Chen Wenlin broke the news again, the reporter in the tunic was panicked, and the other reporters were dancing with their eyebrows, and they were fascinated.

"The performance of aircraft during the war period improved rapidly, and the performance of the aircraft produced at the beginning of the year was not good at the end of the year, and it was right not to buy an aircraft with backward performance as soon as possible, because it was a waste to buy it. As for pilots, if you have money, will you worry about not having pilots? Pilots: This is all fed by the engine and gasoline. ”