What Lin Xianxi cares about is whether Li Kongrong can maintain the dominance of the Fujian system in the reconstruction of the navy, and he has no opinion on who will be the captain first and who will be the captain later. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Li Kongrong thought that he had many conditions, but who expected that he would only say that he would not forget his roots. He also sighed and said with a little emotion: "No matter what I do, I am a Fujianese in the eyes of outsiders, and this will not change even if I die." There are indeed bad things in the navy, but there are also many people in the navy who dare to fight and sacrifice, and it is better to use their own people than to invite outsiders to come. ”

Lin Zhun told Lin Xianxin about Qiu Zhongming and others of the Fuxing Society, but Lin Xianxin was worried that Li Kongrong would treat them as cronies and reject the Fujian family. At this time, seeing his emotion, he nodded slightly, and put down his feet on the chair. He took out the information of the naval pilot that Li Kongrong asked for from his suitcase, and said, "It's all here." Not two but three phases, a total of 21 people graduated, and there are still 17 people alive today. The navy can't afford to play with airplanes, they can fly to the air force, before the city of Nanjing was broken, He Qiren also flew out of Nanjing with the Standing Chairman. ”

Lin Xianxin said about the situation of naval pilots, these people said that they were naval pilots, but in fact, they were all trained and graduated from the Xiamen Aviation Department, and in Xiamen, his second brother Lin Guogeng was in charge for 14 years, which means that these 21 people were all trained by his younger brother.

Chen Changcheng, Ke Gan, Jie Chengdong, Peng Xi, Xu Chengtong, Li Lifeng, Lin Yinzi, Su Youlian, Tang Renwu, Liang Shouzhang, Xu Baoguang, Chen Qihua, Fu Enyi, Zhuang Yongchang, Huang Bingwen, Chen Yawei, Fu Xinghua, He Qiren, Li Xueshen, Xu Shengquan. Among the 21 people, some have died in the line of duty a long time ago, such as Chen Changcheng, Li Lifeng, Chen Qihua, etc., some no longer fly and have turned to civilian positions, and the rest have all belonged to the Air Force, and some like He Qiren have become majors.

"Will the Navy come back if they need it?" Li Kongrong asked the questions he was concerned about.

"As long as there is a plane, I will come back." Lin Xianxin said. "These people are all Fujianese, although they are already from the Air Force, but they want to come back, except for a few, they will still come back. But you'd better go through the nominal dignitaries of the Naval Aviation Department, the director, Colonel Chen Wenlin, is their former instructor, and as long as he speaks, most of them will come back. ”

"Chen Wenlin?" Li Kongrong muttered the name. He also came up with the name when he was forming naval aviation. As for the Naval Aviation Division, that's no exception, and having the Naval Aviation Division is considered to be a staff. "Colonel Chen is in Wuhan now?"

"It was in Xiamen before." Lin Xianxin said, he immediately introduced why it was 'before', "Just the day before yesterday, the Japanese army landed in Xiamen. Originally, Xiang was now in charge of Xiamen, and the Japanese army might not have come so quickly, and even if it did, it would not have fallen so quickly. Ay! Don't talk about this, let's talk about things on your side, when will pilots start training? When will Tatsuda Maru be docked for modification? ”

When naval aviation will be called for training and when Tatsuda Maru will be docked is closely related to funding. Fortunately, in the confinement room, Li Kongrong pondered and meditated, but recalled some information about the Spanish shipwreck, but he was not very sure. Now seeing that Lin Xianxi wanted to ask, he could only say truthfully: "Now it depends on the funds, when there is money, the aviation department can summon pilots, but the training will not be put in China, but in the United States." In China, we only need flight instructors, and we don't need many people. ”

"Put it in the United States?" Lin Xianxin was a little puzzled. "It is not easy for Chinese Americans to enter, and the price is high."

"The Great Lakes in the United States are very wide, and it would be nice to buy one or two cruise ships there and simply convert them into aircraft carrier training ships, and I am already optimistic that it will not cost much. It is not easy for Chinese people to enter the United States, and the price of aircraft in the United States is also expensive, but airplanes are industrial products, and the price of airplanes is extremely cheap in the United States, since China has purchased airplanes, it is natural to ask aircraft companies to help apply for visas, this is not immigration, this is the Admiralty cadets, it is not difficult for the Admiralty to come forward to negotiate, pilots may be troublesome, but they can be recruited among overseas Chinese. ”

"What about domestic? There is always a selection in the country. Everyone in the ministry means that the Naval Aviation Department would better expand it, not to mention how many training planes there are, but four or five are always needed. The ministry doesn't have this money now, so it can only count on you. Lin Xianxin said. I didn't expect him to come to ask for money. "There are planes flying, no matter how many students there are, everyone can always see some hope."

"Four or five planes?" Li Kongrong looked at him. After a while, he nodded and said, "Don't you have any money in the ministry?" Doesn't the Ministry of Military Affairs interfere? ”

"The interference of the Ministry of Military Affairs is the interference of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and we have long ignored this." Lin Xianxin said. "There is some money in the ministry, but the money in the ministry, cough cough ......, don't mention this first. We have always said that rebuilding the navy, rebuilding the navy, you have to show everyone something, four or five training planes don't cost much, only twenty or thirty thousand pounds, if you can't buy two first. ”

"Okay!" Li Kongrong nodded with difficulty, and then he said: "The domestic flight school doesn't need to be big, and the naval aviation still has to go on the ship." In addition, flight schools have long existed in the United States, one is the China Aviation School in the United States, in California; One is the American Overseas Chinese Aviation School, in Brandt. I have already asked Qiu Zhongming to contact the latter family, and several batches of its graduates have returned to China, like Huang Panyang and Chen Ruitian, all of whom are trump cards. If this money is given to China, it is better to give it to the United States, where it is cheaper than domestic gasoline and accessories. ”

"Then you will give another ten thousand pounds." Lin Xianxin said, grabbed the cigarette on the table and lit another one. "We've co-opted both flight schools."

"I don't have any money this year." Li Kongrong has long wanted to incorporate the two aviation schools in the United States, but he was worried that if the funds could not keep up, the pilots who came out would have to wait for the planes and might be dragged away by the Air Force, so he kept delaying this matter.

"If you don't have money, you can put up the shelves first, and the aviation department can send people to the United States first to negotiate with them first. You said that there are 150 planes in the aircraft carrier, and there must be two or three hundred pilots. If you don't start preparing now, when will you prepare? There is also shipbuilding, Chongqing has nothing, everyone can only build wooden boats, it is better to send people out to see the captured Longtian Maru, first take out the modification plan, and then there is a plan to change it quickly. ”

Lin Xianxin chattered about these things, and Li Kongrong's scalp exploded when he heard it. I don't want Lin Xianxi to continue: "I'll tell you clearly, it doesn't matter if your planning minister supports it or not, the whole navy supports it." If the minister insists on stopping it, then change Chen Jiliang to go up. But you can't always engage in the development of weapons, these are important, but you also have to show everyone some hope, everyone has hope to support, and the plan can be successful. The money in the ministry can be used, but the money from the ministry and the money on your side are two different things, and only when you take out the money and show it to everyone, everyone thinks that you can rebuild the navy with you......"

Lin Xianxi said this for a long time, and finally Li Kongrong thought of a sentence: The navy is a mother if she has milk! Now that the naval fleet is completely destroyed, the reconstruction of the navy is like a big pie, and whoever wants to destroy it is the enemy of the navy, even if it is Chen Shaokuan.

"Okay, I'll give thirty thousand pounds. 10,000 to buy two training aircraft, 10,000 to incorporate the American Aviation School, and 10,000 to the people in the shipyard to make a modification plan first. Li Kongrong stubbornly agreed, and after speaking, he felt that the matter of incorporating the American Aviation School could be put aside, so he changed his words and said: "The United States should take a step forward first, give 5,000 pounds first, and then give the chief 1,000 pounds for official expenses." ”

Unexpectedly, Li Kongrong sensibly honored himself with a thousand pounds, Lin Xianxi's smile flashed, and he said: "I have official expenses, and I don't have to pay you the thousand pounds." You'd better hurry up and give me the money to buy the training machine first, so that my old man has nothing to do here. ”

"Germany is about to ban us from ordering arms." Li Kongrong said, "The plane can only be ...... in France or Italy."

"I'll go to Italy and buy it." Lin Xianxin said, "Then go back to China directly with the plane." 10,000 pounds for a training plane, save a little more and maybe buy four. ”

Lin Xianxi asked for money now, Li Kongrong wrinkled his brows and thought for a while before saying, "Okay, I'll go to raise money in the next few days, and I can write a check in a week at most, and the chief can withdraw the money directly in Italy." After he said this, he whispered to himself in his heart: Everything depends on Chang Kaishen.

No. 15, Benguan Road, Wuchang, Headquarters of the Survey and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government.

Deputy Director Dai Li hung up the phone call to Chang Kaishen's residence in Luojiashan with some disappointment. The other end of the phone told him that the chairman was not in Wuhan now. Where would it be if it wasn't in Wuhan?

"The chairman is not ......" He Zhiyuan, the director of the first division standing beside him, thought for a while, "The war in Xuzhou is in full swing, with the chairman's love for the armored corps, it shouldn't be in Xuzhou, right?" ”

"Well, it's possible, it's very likely!" Dai Li touched a handful of sweat, the weather in May, Wuchang was already very hot. "But the chairman of the committee can come back in harmony. In this way, you will go to Hong Kong immediately, and I will go to Xuzhou to meet the principal in person. ”

"In such a hurry?" He Zhiyuan didn't know what the woman who sent the telegram from Hong Kong said, but Dai Li immediately called the chairman of the committee when he received the telegram, which must have been urgent.

He Zhiyuan was still thinking about what the other party was about, but Dai Li changed his mind, and he said, "No! We must beware of fraud, this person has always been in Europe, and now she suddenly came to Hong Kong, there must be other reasons, I can't tell if she has been bought by the Japanese. ”

Dai Li scratched his head after speaking, but what was said in the telegram was too big, what if it was true? Did the other party come to Hong Kong in person because of the seriousness of the matter? After hesitating for a while, Dai Li said: "In this way, I will immediately send a telegram back to Hong Kong, if she agrees to come to Wuhan, you will send someone to pick her up, if she does not agree, you will ......." You don't want to go by yourself, let the people from the second place come forward......"

After several hesitations, Dai Li finally came up with a plan, and then he called Yang Jirong from the General Affairs Section: "Prepare a plane for me, I want to go to Xuzhou to meet the principal!" ”

Xuzhou was already a war zone, and Chang Kaishen also went to the beginning of the war. Yang Jirong of the General Affairs Section was worried: "Brother Yunong, this Xuzhou is already a war zone, and Japanese planes bomb it day and night......

"No, it's urgent, I'm going to see the headmaster right away. Hurry up and prepare. Go back and tell me the tail number, the color, and the pilot's name. Dai Li subconsciously ordered some details, at this time, the Bureau of Statistics had a lot of confrontations with Japanese spies, and assassinations continued, so he was worried that he was plotted by the Japanese.

It was already early May, a month late Xuzhou Battle had already been staged, and like history, Chang Kaishen frequently visited Xuzhou in the war, but unlike history, he did not inspect and supervise a day to leave, but accompanied by Li Zongren, with Lin Wei, Bai Chongxi and others to stay in Xuzhou for a few days, and went to Taierzhuang South Station to watch the battle.

"Stand, salute!" The chairman of the Standing Committee actually appeared in Taierzhuang, and more than a dozen commanders below Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division stationed here, were all in high spirits to welcome the leader's review. But after all, this is a battlefield, the Japanese artillery in the distance is constantly roaring, and there are Japanese planes whistling overhead from time to time, and no one can guarantee whether the Japanese planes will drop bombs over.

"Chairman, you're here... Inspection, the lowly and all the officers and men of the 31st Division are grateful, but Taierzhuang is already the front line, you don't ......" Chi Fengcheng, who was covered in mud and had a completely black face, really didn't know where to put his hand after the salute, and all he thought in his dizzy mind was that the chairman must not have an accident here.

"The front-line soldiers are not afraid of the Japanese planes and artillery, and I, the chairman of the committee, are not afraid of the Japanese planes and artillery." Chang Kaishen looked at this group of excited soldiers and smiled amiably. He didn't have the intention of putting on a show, but he was also deeply moved by the loyalty and heroism of the officers and soldiers on the front line.

"Your commander told me that you are a man of great courage and ability, and today it seems that you are right. Blocking the enemy Taierzhuang today is for our army's counteroffensive in the later stage, and your troops must fight to the last man and defend the defense line! Chang Kaishen's smile retracted, he came here to cheer up the defenders.

"Yes, rest assured, the chairman of the committee, our division will definitely fight to the end, live and die with the position, in order to repay the country and the kindness of the committee!" Chi Fengcheng was in high spirits and was not afraid of sacrifice at all, and the officer behind him also shouted loudly: "Please rest assured, Chairman of the Committee, our division will fight to the end, coexist and die with the position, in order to repay the country and the kindness of the committee!" ”

"Okay." Chang Kaishen looked at these people one by one, as if he wanted to write them all down. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased. The rejuvenation of our nation is not the result of others, but the heroic martyrs who rose up to resist the war today, and the fighting spirit of our army has also completely defeated the Japanese people! ”

Chang Kaishen shook hands with the officers of Chi Fengcheng one by one, and then left Taierzhuang and returned to Xuzhou under the urging of Li Zongren. At this time, it was getting late, the artillery sound on the front line gradually fell apart, and the Japanese planes in the sky were nowhere to be seen. When the sky was completely dark, the group returned to the Xuhai Road Bureau, the general headquarters of the Fifth War Zone. Here, Major General Hou Teng, staff officer of the 88th Army, and Colonel Mao Yingchu, captain of the 4th Air Force Brigade, were already waiting. (To be continued.) )