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The arrival of the First Aviation Brigade of the Eighth Route Army caused a sensation in Wuhan.

At this time, the Wuhan base camp had already received a telegram from Hu Zongnan, which made Chiang Kai-shek, who was extremely entangled in the battle situation, feel a little relieved. In addition to the excitement, Chiang Kai-shek actually asked his wife to personally greet him at the airport on his behalf.

The planes landed at Hankou Airport in turn.

After getting off the plane, considering that all the ammunition on board had been used up, and there was no ammunition at Hankou Airport, it would not be able to replenish it for a while, and if the enemy plane attacked the air team, it would not have the slightest power to fight back, Feng Dafei immediately asked the ground staff at the airport to refuel the plane.

During the war, they were all efficient, and the ground staff at Hankou Airport quickly filled up the tank. Feng Dafei instructed the soldiers to push the plane off the tarmac and all the way to the perimeter of the airport. In the surprised eyes of the airport guards, the Eighth Route Army covered the plane with a mottled camouflage cloth that was randomly carried, and dressed the plane in the same way as the scenery of the surrounding groves.

When he arrived at the airport gate, Feng Dafei found a car parked at the exit of the airport. In front of the first car, Ni Hua, the wife of the division commander, stood there with a graceful and luxurious lady smiling. Needless to say, it should be Mrs. Jiang Song Meiling, who went to Taiyuan to comfort the troops.

Feng Dafei was born in the old Red Army and graduated from the first phase of Whampoa, and when he saw Chiang Kai-shek's wife, he couldn't tell what it was like to feel in his heart. stepped forward and gave a military salute: "Madame Jiang, Comrade Ni Hua: Feng Dafei, captain of the Aviation Brigade of the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, report, please instruct!" ”

Song Meiling smiled with a smile on her face, nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Welcome, my Air Force warrior." I'm proud of you, I'm proud of you! ”

Ni Hua was also full of smiles, and then Song Meiling's words said: "Captain Feng, comrades: hard work, welcome!" ”

After the greetings, Song Meiling took the soldiers of the aviation brigade to get into the car and went to the air force guest house in Wuhan with the guard car. There, she had to pick up the wind and wash the dust for the heroes of the Eighth Route Army Air Force.

After arriving at the guest house, Feng Dafei didn't care about greeting Song Meiling anymore, and urged him to arrange a place to live and let the radio antenna be turned on. As soon as he settled down, Feng Dafei was busy contacting the central government, reporting the achievements and the reasons why he had to transfer to Hankou Airport, asking for instructions and asking for permission to contact the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office. Then he sent a report to Liu Yimin, reporting on the combat situation and the situation of meeting Ni Hua. He then sent a telegram to Cheng Qian, commander of the First Theater of Operations, asking about the bombing of Luoyang Airport and whether the construction of the concealed airfield had begun.

After sending the telegram, Song Meiling's adjutant came to urge her to eat at the restaurant.

When Feng Dafei and his comrades-in-arms walked into the restaurant, there was thunderous applause in the restaurant. When the applause stopped, Song Meiling's adjutant guided Feng Dafei and his comrades-in-arms to sit down and wait for Song Meiling to speak.

Since the beginning of the Battle of Wuhan, Song Meiling has also worked day and night, and has also gone to the front line many times to comfort the troops, and has been wounded. But no matter how hard it is, it can't stop the pace of the Wuhan attack of the Yue army. Now that the Battle of Wuhan has reached the late stage, Chiang Kai-shek has also made up his mind to evacuate Wuhan. At this time, the Eighth Route Army Air Force was born, and the Yue Army cried for his father and mother as soon as he made a move, and let Hu Zongnan take the opportunity to counterattack and defeat the elite third division of the Yue Army, can Song Meiling not be overjoyed?

Sure enough, Song Meiling began to give a speech with joy: "My Air Force warriors: Following the great victory of our army's air raid on Taipei's Songshan Airport, the air force of our 18th Group Army once again passed on the good news, attacking the military airfields in Kaifeng, Shangqiu, Anyang, and Shanxi within one day, destroying more than 120 planes, and reversing the situation of our Shanxi and Henan battlefields in one fell swoop. This morning, the 18th Group Army Aviation was ordered to reinforce the Xinluo battlefield, destroy the artillery positions of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, and then bomb the infantry positions of the Japanese Army, and cooperate with the 17th Group Army to carry out a counterattack, crushing the elite 3rd Division of the Chinese Army in one fell swoop, forcing the enemy to retreat to the front line of Luoshan County to hold on, and made a great contribution. Facts have proved that as long as we support the leadership of the leader and persist in the unity of the whole nation in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, we will certainly be able to defeat the murderous devils and usher in the dawn of the War of Resistance. ”

Soong Meiling has made great contributions to the construction of the Chinese Air Force, and has always regarded herself as the mother of the Air Force, and when it comes to the Air Force, she is accustomed to saying "my Air Force." Today, when she was excited, she said "my Air Force Warriors" and "My Air Force Heroes" several times. But the Eighth Route Army Air Force was built by Liu Yimin, so what does Song Meiling care? In addition, many of these pilots, navigators, shooters, and bombardiers of the Eighth Route Army were selected from the old Red Army, and they had no good impression of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling, and they did not feel the slightest excitement when they saw Soong Meiling. Therefore, what Song Meiling said was really good, but none of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army Air Force applauded.

After Song Meiling finished speaking, no one spoke, because in July, the organs of the Aviation Committee had already moved to Guiyang, and Zhou Zhirou and Mao Bangchu were actually in charge of the operational command of the Wuhan Battle Air Force, but they were very busy and did not have time to attend the reception.

Out of courtesy, at the invitation of Song Meiling, Feng Dafei also stood up and delivered a speech, to the effect that everyone is responsible for resisting and saving the country, and that unity and resistance are China's consistent propositions, and the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade was ordered by Chairman Zhu De to cooperate with the First Theater and the Fifth Theater of Operations, and should bravely kill the enemy and complete the task. Resolutely thwart the conspiracy of the Yue army.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade boarded the plane early in the morning and set off, and by now they were already hungry, and as soon as the speeches of the two sides ended, they immediately started eating.

This guest house was mainly responsible for the life of the Soviet Red Army Air Force Volunteer Corps, and there was also the life of a French volunteer squadron, which cooked Western food. The French volunteer squadron went to the rear of China to adapt to the aircraft, and during the battle of Songhu, the fighters were lost, and most of the pilots were killed, leaving only a few pilots and ground crews. Most of the people who dined in the restaurant were the Soviet Red Army Air Force volunteers and [***] Air Force officers.

During the war years, there was a shortage of materials, and although it was Western food, there were no Western dishes such as steak, let alone any big dishes. That is, canned food, bread and soup. That's it, the fighters also ate with relish.

Ni Hua didn't expect to meet his comrades-in-arms here, and from the moment he saw Feng Dafei and them at the airport, he had a smile on his face all the time. At this time, they were even more busy taking vegetables and serving soup to the soldiers. By the time she was done, the warriors had basically eaten.

Many of these soldiers don't know Ni Hua, but those who know Ni Hua know that she is the wife of Commander Liu Yimin and the Red Bodhisattva in the Red Army. The soldiers who didn't know him felt that this beautiful woman had a kind attitude and was very kind, and that kindness was a kind of cordiality that only existed among comrades-in-arms, and there was no falsehood. The warrior he knew was very surprised to see the legendary Doctor Ni here, and he was naturally smiling.

After eating, Feng Dafei directly found Song Meiling and proposed to her that the problem of ammunition supply and command and coordination must be solved as soon as possible. The problem of command and coordination was easily solved, and Soong Meiling immediately instructed an adjutant to serve as a liaison officer, asking him to immediately report to Mao Bangchu to solve the problem of command and coordination. It was difficult to supply ammunition, Hankou did not have airplanes or weapons, and aerial bombs were imported from Europe, America, and the Soviet Union. In the end, the two men agreed to convert the arsenal that had been relocated to Yucheng into aerial bombs as soon as possible, and remove the machine-mounted machine guns and machine guns and replace them with those imported from the Soviet Union. However, if this goes back and forth, the Eighth Route Army Air Force will not be able to take to the air for a period of time.

Feng Dafei and Song Meiling didn't expect that when they were about to leave the restaurant, Zhou Zhirou came and solved the problem of ammunition supply and command and coordination of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade at once.

According to Zhou Zhirou, after the settlement of the Liangguang Incident, not only was the Guangdong Air Force returned to the central authorities, but Chen Jitang's aviation ammunition reserves also belonged to the central authorities. Because the Central Air Force did not have any planes, this batch of ammunition was kept in stock, and it was transported from Guangdong to Nanjing, and then from Nanjing to Wuhan. Just as he was considering whether it was necessary to transport it to Yucheng, the Eighth Route Army Air Force came. It just so happens that there is no need to waste capacity, and it can be directly allocated to the Eighth Route Army Air Force.

As soon as they heard that they could solve the ammunition supply, Song Meiling and Feng Dafei couldn't wait to go to the warehouse to have a look. The group left the restaurant and took a car to the combat readiness warehouse to inspect the site.

When I went to the warehouse and opened the ammunition box, I saw that it was indeed made aviation ammunition, from aerial bombs to artillery shells and machine gun bullets. And the batch is very large, which is enough for the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade for a while.

After reading the ammunition, Song Meiling said hatefully with her Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent: "I said that I am a wolf, not only providing Chen Jitang with infantry equipment and military advisers, but also giving so much aviation ammunition, obviously to support Chen Jitang to engage in separatism and rebellion." It just so happens that we use their ammunition to blow them up, which is also considered to be the best use of everything. It's called the Present Newspaper! ”

Zhou Zhirou echoed continuously, full of "What Mrs. said is very true, what Mrs. said is extremely true", Feng Dafei who listened to it had goosebumps all over his body, and felt that [***] was probably this tone up and down, what a big official, seeing Chiang Kai-shek, both of them were busy patting their ass.

After Song Meiling finished her anger, she turned around and said to Feng Dafei: "Captain Feng, the chairman told me that you are his student and that you are from the first phase of Huangpu." The students of the first phase of Whampoa fought with the chairman of the National Committee in the Eastern Expedition and sacrificed many people, but those who survived were all outstanding men who fought on the battlefield of resistance against the Japanese. The chairman of the committee said that among the previous students of Huangpu, he spent the longest time with the first batch of students and devoted the most effort to it. The students of the first phase of Whampoa are also the ones he relies on and trusts the most. After a while, you will follow me to meet the chairman of the committee, and he will commend the achievements of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade and talk to you about the friendship between teachers and students. ”

Feng Dafei had no way to lead the first aviation team to Wuhan, and the most worrying thing about Wuhan was how to deal with Chiang Kai-shek. Because now it is a united war of resistance, and you can't tear your face with Chiang Kai-shek. What are you afraid of, Song Meiling really took Feng Dafei's Whampoa background to talk about things.

What Feng Dafei was thinking in his heart, others didn't know, but he said: "Thank you, Chairman Jiang, for summoning me, and I also want to talk to him about the fighters, fuel, ammunition, and funding of our Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade." ”

Song Meiling was stunned for a moment, her beautiful eyes were threatening, and she gently swept Feng Dafei's face, seeing that Feng Dafei's face was not angry or happy, it was still the kind of posture that was neither humble nor arrogant, she sighed in her heart, said "Let's go", and took the lead in walking towards the car.

Sitting in the car, Song Meiling closed her eyes and thought silently in her heart, how can this [***] person have a posture of not entering oil and salt, Liu Yimin is like this, this Feng Dafei is also like this, it seems that some of Darling's ideas are difficult to realize.

After meeting Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Dafei still saluted Chiang Kai-shek in a proper manner, and reported that Feng Dafei, captain of the aviation brigade of the 18th Group Army, reported to the chairman of the committee and asked for instructions.

As soon as Chiang Kai-shek heard that Feng Dafei did not call the principal and the chairman, his heart was half cold, and he couldn't wait to order the guards to arrest Feng Dafei at that time, and endured it, feeling that now was the time to employ people, and he could not be as knowledgeable as this red bandit who did not know how to respect teachers.

His heart was cold, his tone was light, he briefly asked about Feng Dafei's experience, said a few words of encouragement to resist and kill the enemy, and waved his hand to let Feng Dafei leave.

Is Feng Dafei an ordinary person? He naturally knew the reason why Chiang Kai-shek hastily ended the summons, but he didn't care, and after saluting, he returned to the guest house.

After arriving at the guest house, the chairman's telegram had already arrived, telling Feng Dafei to get in touch with the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan in time, lead the team, remember the four words of flexibility and mobility, and try to avoid a hard encounter with the army. At the same time, the chairman told Feng Dafei that the task of the First Aviation Brigade was to support the operations of the First and Fifth Theaters, and that the base should be in Luoyang, and that it should be transferred to Luoyang as soon as the Luoyang Airport is repaired. If necessary, it can first withdraw to the Shaanxi airfield, and resolutely cannot evacuate to other places with Chiang Kai-shek.

After reading the telegram, Feng Dafei pondered for a long time, and felt that it would be better to return to the Shaanxi airport immediately after completing the combat mission tomorrow, so as not to have a long night and many dreams and accidents.

Cheng Qian also sent a telegram, saying that he had started to repair Luoyang Airport and start building a hidden airport at the same time, but it would take time.

The only one who didn't reply to the telegram was Liu Yimin, Feng Dafei didn't know what he was busy with, but he couldn't wait now, so he had to contact him after returning to Shaanxi.

The development of things is often not subject to human will. It was said that the army had suffered continuous losses, and he had already become angry and ashamed. On the second day after the Eighth Route Army Air Brigade arrived in Wuhan, the air force of the Central China Dispatch Army mobilized a large number of fighters to cover the bombers to bomb Wuhan. An air battle on a larger scale than the historical "August 21 Air Battle" was launched in the skies over Wuhan.

(To be continued)