At the end of the five-day vacation, after a long journey, Lieutenant Bai Zhai returned to the secret base where he served. It is not true to say that it is a long journey, he first took the jeep of the base to Liuzhou, then transferred to a long-distance bus to Yulin, and then transferred to Yulin and then transferred to Guangzhou. The road from Liuzhou to Yulin is under construction, which means that the current road is still difficult to walk, and after passing Yulin, the cement road is repaired, so that it is not so bumpy, and he can finally sleep in the car for a while.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Bai Zhai made an appointment with a few friends, all of whom went south to Guangdong with him, most of them worked in government departments, some entered schools for further study, and some did business. Originally, Bai Zhai also wanted to find Le Fei and Dong Dashan and others in Huizhou, but unfortunately, he received a letter before coming that the two of them had suspended their further studies again and entered the newly formed Sixth Army as officers. Depend on! There was a shortage of people everywhere in the three provinces of the revolutionary government, and even their own units were secretly recruiting people and expanding their scale.

Just a few friends, it was done in two days, it is impossible to go home, one is too far, in Beijing! Second, Bai Zhai is still in a cold war with his family in Beijing. I couldn't help it, I stayed up until the fourth day, and finally returned to the base again. This inaccessible and relatively flat secret base in the northwest of Guangxi Province is an airfield for the Zhenguo Army Air Force, used to test the performance of new aircraft and train pilots.

stretched out his bones that were about to fall apart, went to cancel the vacation first, and then returned to the dormitory, where his roommate Shen Ling had returned. Bai Zhai threw the duffel bag onto Shen Ling, who was half-lying on the bed, picked up a glass of water on the table and drank it.

"I said, Lieutenant Bai, aren't you on vacation, why are you so angry?" Shen Ling asked with a smile, he is a native of Huizhou, has received more than a year of basic cultural education, continued to study after entering the army, and was later selected to sleep with Bai Zhai after being selected into the air force. Influenced by the provisional government's call to respect culture, Shen Ling was very polite to this fellow sleeper with a good level of education and a young master's background, although he was also a lieutenant.

"Old Shen, why did you come back so early?"

"I'm not worried about training, and I don't have anything to do when I go home. The rice in my hometown has been planted, and the yield has been bumper in recent years, and the family has become a lot richer. Later, I thought that I would have to gain weight if I continued to stay at home, and I would not be able to enter the cockpit again! Later, I went to visit my brother at Guangzhou Technology and Business University, and then I came back. ”

"If I had known, I would have come back sooner! However, the base took advantage of this time to go to the headquarters to accept new pilots, did they come? ”

"Not yet, or I wouldn't be so laid-back."

"Damn! When do you think our air force will be able to go to war? Every day is training, training, we are all proficient in Jianyi, do you want us to train new soldiers? The Jianyi in Bai Zhai's mouth is the first-generation fighter produced by the Huizhou Aircraft Factory, and the factory model is the F01 fighter, which was changed to "Jianyi" after entering service.

In addition to the fighter model, the Huizhou Aircraft Factory also developed and produced reconnaissance models, bomber models, and transport models, all of which were modeled after the most advanced models of World War I. The failure to adopt the advanced aircraft of the World War II era was due to the lack of manufacturing capacity, not only of the aircraft factory, but also of the entire industrial capacity to continue to improve before more advanced aircraft could be produced. At this stage, Huizhou heavy industry can only imitate, learn and deepen at the same time, even if there is a steel base to provide machines, it cannot reach the sky in one step.

By May 1903, the Zhenguo Army Air Force had a fighter squadron with five planes per squadron, for a total of four planes in nine squadrons. In addition there was a bomber brigade to DH. 4 bombers as the prototype of the H-1 type, a total of fifty units. A reconnaissance aircraft brigade with 50 reconnaissance planes also uses Jian-1 fighters. As for the transport aircraft brigade, it was also used in bomber modifications.

Compared with the increase in the number of aircraft, the shortcomings of the Air Force are obvious, that is, the lack of pilots, at present, there are only one hundred and thirty full-fledged pilots in the four flight groups, the number of which cannot meet the increase in aircraft, and the phenomenon of aircraft and others has appeared. In order to make up for this shortcoming, the Air Force once again selected eligible soldiers from the Army to join the Air Force and conduct training.

Another thing that needs to be strengthened is the airfield, which needs airfields as carriers, but at present the Air Force only has three secret airfields, which simply cannot meet the training of the Air Force and the test flight tasks of new aircraft. It is a pity that the upper echelons of the Air Force have been rejected after they have tried to win over Lu Liang, and there is no need for large-scale expansion at this stage, and there will be no combat missions of the Air Force for a period of time, as long as they continue to train pilots and increase the number of pilots. Air Force Commander Lu Kong of course unconditionally obeyed the order, but he suffered from the pilots under him.

"Lieutenant Bai Zhai, Lieutenant Shen Ling! According to the base order, you need to gather in the conference room on the third floor of the base command building within half an hour, and the base commander will make a mission release explanation! As he spoke, the communicator came to report, and the two immediately packed up and walked towards the command building. Along the way, I saw the base transport buses driving in one after another, the two looked at each other, the recruits came, and it seemed that they were really training recruits!

Because the Air Force needed a large number of aircraft, which was consumed in wartime, it had to be produced from factories. The situation of the navy is somewhat different, their two Nanhai-class cruisers are produced from steel bases, only destroyers are produced from shipyards, but half of the people in the Huizhou shipyard, which is responsible for the production of military warships, belong to genetic people, which ensures the manufacturing progress and quality of advanced warships. Battleships are different from airplanes, they are not new, there are countless powerful warships in the outside world, and the Zhenguo Navy must have warships that are ahead of the times in order to gain an advantage in naval warfare.

Even now, after more than three years of development, the Huizhou shipyard, including the entire industrial system, still cannot completely use ordinary people to produce those advanced warships. On the slipway of the Huizhou shipyard, the third cruiser is being outfitted, and the fourth is being built. Three destroyers, five offshore patrol boats, five torpedo boats are also under construction. The Huizhou shipyard continues to expand its scale, and even though the natural conditions are not excellent, all the warships are still built here, just for safety, secrecy and proximity to the industrial center and steel base.

However, with such a huge manufacturing scale, more than one-third of it is still genetic, which is unavoidable. If you want to surpass quickly, you can only use genetic people to fill the gap of high-level skilled workers, plus Shantou Shipyard and Zhanjiang Shipyard, which have trained more than 50,000 shipbuilders, this number is still too small for the ambitious Lu Liang.

In addition to shipbuilders, the training of sailors has also achieved remarkable results, and the system of one post and two people on board the ship has increased the number of qualified sailors. But a cruiser needs more than 1,000 sailors, and the first battleship that has not yet been launched and is under construction at the steel base also needs a huge number of sailors.

The seemingly much stronger Zhenguo Army, like the Air Force, was suppressed in the coastal area by Lu Liang's orders, and the farthest training was only in the South China Sea. However, Lu Hai knew that the chief's ban would be lifted in more than a year, and then it would be the time for the navy to break out!

There was also a group of men in the navy, who, unlike the sailors and officers on the battleships, were high-spirited, and although they did not look like people and ghosts after each training, they were still envied and hated by all sailors. They are the Navy's submarine brigade.

The submarine brigade has 40 submarines, and as long as they pay attention in advance when they go to sea for training, they will not arouse the suspicion of the outside world, so their training appears to be somewhat unscrupulous. Valuable torpedoes and abandoned target ships were treated like toys by them, much to the indignation of all the sailors. Compared with the training intensity of the submarine group, the training intensity of the battleship sailors was significantly lower, and due to the need for secrecy, all cruisers and destroyers had to pass through the busy waterways at night to be unnoticed, and they had to tremble when they began training, for fear of being detected by unknown ships and causing leaks.

The middle and lower-level officers and men of the Air Force and Navy did not know the strategy of their superiors and shouted for their grievances, but the upper echelons of the genetic people knew that the leaders did this in order to completely annihilate the enemy at the first time. Even at this stage, all the work was done to prepare for that battle, and the expansion of the army also had such considerations, and Lü Liang even hoped to start the formation of the Seventh Army in early 1904. The Tsushima Strait and Vladivostok, this will be the best chance to break the chaos in the Far East and rise smoothly!