It takes two years to repair the plane, and according to the current mess, it is a question whether these old brothers can live for another two years, and everyone is dumbfounded.

Chen Zikun said with a whim: "Why don't you find more people to repair the plane, and find some Kuomintang Air Force technicians who have been retained before, it will definitely greatly shorten the time." ”

Yan Su said: "These people can come in handy, but in this way, it is difficult to hide people's eyes and ears, and the world knows everything, how can we go?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "Then let's do a fake show." ”

Yan Su said: "What is a fake show? The others pricked up their ears with interest.

Chan smiled and said nothing.

A week later, they knew the meaning of Chen Zikun's words, he found more than a dozen honest and simple rural boys from Jiangbei, and uniformly distributed green and blue 65-style air force uniforms, large-headed cotton shoes, artificial leather armed belts, flock-planted hats, red five-star and red-collar badges, chairman of the chairman's medal, all kinds of badges, even firearms, brand-new 56-style semi-automatic, with three-edged bayonets.

The abandoned terminal is still unlisted, but sentries and barricades are set up at the gate, and the guard is changed on time.

More than a dozen big-headed soldiers train, rest, and perform daily tasks in strict accordance with the internal affairs regulations of the People's Liberation Army, and they get up every morning to run, do exercises, and study politics, and are meticulous, exactly like the regular troops.

Chen Zikun also brought a Jiefang truck, pulled a few desks, a Chinese typewriter, a few iron cabinets, some maps, sand tables, models, and of course, the chairman seemed to be indispensable, and arranged an abandoned terminal like an active air base.

Where did these personnel, materials and weapons come from, everyone didn't ask, and Chen Zikun didn't say.

When the terminal is quite large, it began to recruit people justifiably, those former Kuomintang Air Force ground staff, now are the first object, living a panicked day every day, suddenly the army came to hire, naturally busy agreeing, hurriedly rushed to the terminal with a toothbrush to report, for fear that people would regret it.

Within five days, 12 technicians were recruited, including oil, avionics, machinery, and communications, and everyone did not notice anything unusual, and honestly maintained the aircraft in accordance with the instructions of their superiors, and did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

The dilapidated DC-3 was wiped off with a new look, and there were people busy around 24 hours a day, and if there was a shortage of parts, they would be dismantled from other scrapped aircraft, and if they didn't have it, they would process it themselves, and the instructions of the superior leaders were not to seek perfection, just to be able to go to the sky as soon as possible.

A group of "chiefs" patrolled the hot hangar, and Chen Zikun said: "According to this progress, it will be repaired in two months." ”

Everyone is gearing up and confident.

……

The provincial capitals became more and more chaotic, the Cultural Revolution entered the stage of seizing power, the "factions in power" in various units were overthrown, the rebels vied for power and profit, armed fighting became commonplace, heavy casualties were numerous, the public procuratorate and law were in a state of virtual failure, transportation was basically paralyzed, and local party organizations and governments were paralyzed or semi-paralyzed.

In mid-March, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) began the work of three branches and two armies, with millions of servicemen rushing to various posts throughout the country to guard and protect banks, radio stations, newspaper offices, railway bureaus, and other units; the leftist groups went down to the grassroots level of the mass organizations, the peasant groups went down to the communes and production teams, and the labor groups went down to the industrial and mining enterprises; the troops also carried out military management over some important organs, enterprises, and institutions, stationed them in colleges and universities, and carried out military training for students, thus greatly stabilizing the situation.

The stabilization of the situation is not good news for Chan and others, and they must step up.

In early April, Chen Zikun summoned his son Chen Bei to the provincial capital.

At first, Chen Bei didn't know what to do, thinking that his mother was sick, and he came to the provincial capital, and a military jeep took him to an aviation base in the suburbs, with tall and straight poplar trees planted on both sides of the road, and there were sentry boxes and sentries at the door, and the road poles blocking the road were painted with red and white paint, and the sentries meticulously checked the documents, saluted the jeep, and let him go.

Continue to drive forward, is the main entrance of the base, a huge shadow wall wall painted with Chairman Mao's side bust, written "serve the people" Mao body handwriting, flagpole, five-star red flag hunting fluttering, a team of soldiers running on the playground, shouting: "one, two, three, four!" ”

In the distance, under the greenhouse, a silver-white transport plane is being repaired, and on the scaffolding, workers use brushes to paint red stars and numbers on the tail fins.

Chen Bei was deeply infected by this scene, he hadn't flown for seventeen years, and now that the military has been recruited, is it time to reactivate himself?

He was very excited and apprehensive, came to the door of the chief's office, tidied up his clothes, and shouted with full anger: "Report." ”

"Come in." It was the voice of the father.

Chen Bei walked into the office and saw his father working at his desk, signing several documents, and said to a middle-aged officer beside him: "We must also actively respond to the work of the three branches and two armies, and send working groups to several nearby villages to support the peasants. ”

The middle-aged officer took the papers, saluted and went out.

Chen Zikun said: "Xiaobei is here, sit down." He got up and went to pour water in person, he dyed his hair, his military uniform was straight, he looked like he was only fifty years old, and the filing cabinets, safes, maps, and chairmen in the house were all presentable, which surprised Chen Bei, and it seemed that his father was reused again.

"Dad, is there an important task to call me here?" Chen Bei was a little impatient.

"Listen to me slowly." Chen handed over the teacup, a white enamel jar with five red stars and the words "Special Air Service Regiment directly under the Central Committee" printed on it.

Chen Bei was sitting precariously, his heart pounding.

"What you see, are all made by your father and me, presumably you are no stranger here, in fact, it is just an abandoned terminal, the air force and the local government do not care, I and a group of old subordinates, find a way to rejuvenate here, those soldiers, I recruited from Jiangbei from the countryside, the weapons were deceived from the Jiangbei Military Division with forged official documents, some of the cars were stolen, some were scammed, as for this number, it was completely fabricated out of thin air......"

Chen Bei's eyes widened: "This, this, this is a capital crime of killing the head!" ”

Chen Zikun said: "I know, but when it is true, it is also false, who can say that these people, these things are not real?" Under authoritarian rule, people's thinking is fixed, and they are sure of a piece of paper and a phone call. ”

"But why are you doing that?" Chen Bei is still incomprehensible.

"To leave." Chen Zikun said, "I don't know how long the chaos will last, for the sake of my family, for the sake of my brother, I have to do this, have you seen that plane, I lack a co-pilot, can you still fly?" ”

"Yes." Chen Bei replied without hesitation, his heart began to pound again, he never thought of leaving, not unwillingly, but he didn't dare to think that his father had made such an amazing choice, and he could only fully support it.

"Okay, this matter must be kept secret, and Chunhua can't be let know until the last moment." Chen Zikun said that his daughter-in-law is a party member, has a good background and high consciousness, and if she knows about it, she will definitely expose it.

"I understand." Chen Bei nodded solemnly, he knew too much about his wife's temperament.

"Let's study the route." Chan took out the aeronautical chart.

……

On the road outside the terminal, smoke and dust were billowing and a convoy of military vehicles was moving, and the leaders of the military region accompanied the head of the General Staff Department to inspect the work of the three branches and two armies.

The terminal in the shade of green trees attracted the attention of the chief, pointed out the window and said, "What kind of unit is this?" ”

The chief of staff of the military region who accompanied him said: "This used to be an air force aviation school, and then it was assigned to a locality, and I heard that it was abandoned and not used. ”

"It's not like it's abandoned, let's go and take a look." The chief said with interest.

So the convoy turned around and stopped in front of the sentry, and the sentry stepped forward and saluted: "Overcome all difficulties, not afraid of sacrifice, please show your ID." ”

The accompanying officer presented his military ID.

The sentry said, "I'm sorry, I don't have a special pass, so I'm not allowed to enter." ”

The officer was furious: "Don't you know the license plate of the military region, Chief of Staff Zhang is in the car!" ”

The sentry was unmoved: "I don't know any Chief of Staff Zhang, and I can't go in without a special communication card." ”

The officer laughed angrily: "Which unit are you from?" With such a big style, even Chief of Staff Zhang of the Military Region was not allowed to enter. ”

The sentry said proudly: "We are a unit directly under the central government, and we are not under the jurisdiction of the military region. ”

The officer said, "I order you, let you go immediately!" ”

The sentry took off his rifle as a warning: "No one is allowed to enter without a special pass." ”

The central leader in the car smiled when he saw this: "It's a bit of a fine willow battalion, now there is revolution in various places, and some troops are also in chaos, it is a good thing to be able to maintain such strict discipline." ”

Accompanied Chief of Staff Zhang and said: "It's still the old chief's high level, what's that, I'll take a look." "I was extremely puzzled in my heart, when did such a unit pop up, I didn't know that the blue pants of the sentry turned out to be a soldier of the Air Force, and I must train the people of the Air Force Division when I go back.

Chief of Staff Zhang is the chief of the military region, and he is very pretentious in his fifties, but he has no arrogance, so he stepped forward and said with a pleasant face: "Little comrade, I am Zhang Zexin, chief of staff of the military region, and I accompanied the head of the central committee to inspect the work. ”

The little soldier was a little unbearable in the face of the entire convoy alone, and Chief of Staff Zhang was so kind, he no longer insisted, and said: "Then you wait, I'll report to the chief." ”

Running back, he first reported to the officer on duty, and the officer on duty hurriedly came to Chen Zikun's office, knocked on the door and entered, and reported: "Someone from the military region has come to inspect. ”

Chen Bei was taken aback, his father's set of Xibei goods is more than enough to deceive the local people, isn't it a death to deceive the head of the military region, this is the end of the ball.

Chen Zikun was extremely calm: "It's still coming, Xiaobei, you avoid it first, and I'll deal with it." ”

The sentry was ordered to run back to his post and raised the barricade pole to let him go, and a group of people in the military region were very puzzled, the commander of this unit was not small, and he knew that the head of the military region was coming, but he didn't come out to greet him, and he was brave enough!

The convoy drove into the terminal and stopped in front of the office, and the head of the central government got out of the car, looked around, and nodded: "Well, the environmental sanitation is good." ”

"Welcome, welcome." Chan laughed heartily and walked out of the house.