After the "Cheers" big glass of beer was raised, leaving all the invading Japanese fighters behind, the young men of the flying team were gathered together by Zhao Zhi, and all the beers brought by the US military when transporting weapons were taken out, and the dozen or so cooks at the airport were also busy sweating, and all kinds of delicacies were put on the table like flowing water, and everyone had an excited look on their faces.

More than 60 fighters and more than 30 bombers from Shijiazhuang and Hanzhong were all beaten down by the thunder pilots like mad dogs, and after the war, although the thunder welder troops won the victory in this air battle, they were also considered to have suffered heavy casualties, 21 P40 were shot down, and 17 hurricanes were also shot down, but fortunately, most of the fighters shot down by the thunder were not volleyed, and those pilots successfully parachuted out before the crash and explosion of the fighters, and they really counted it down. The Thunder lost only 11 pilots.

When the first batch of allied fighters took off from Britain to the Philippines, Zhao Zhi received a telegram from Germany, and the Germans captured a lot of fighters from Britain and France. As the liaison between Zhao Zhi and Hitler, Goering promised Zhao Zhi that as long as Thunder needed it, the German army would continue to provide Thunder with British and French fighters, so as long as the loss of pilots was not large, the actual impact on Zhao Zhi was not great if 38 fighters were shot down this time.

After a full meal, tonight's highlight is here, it's time to pay bonuses, Thunder is a mercenary company, Zhao Zhi usually pays the recruited mercenaries only their salaries, and after each battle, Zhao Zhi will give bonuses to everyone according to their performance and performance, which has become a practice for Thunder. Zhao Zhi usually doesn't drink much, one is because he was born in the high-risk profession of mercenary, and he has to stay sober all the time, and the second is because Zhao Zhi is not good at drinking by nature, but Zhao Zhi can't stand the enthusiasm of the guys in the flight team, and he was also poured several glasses of beer in a row, so that he was a little staggered when he stood up.

"Come, let's have another drink, salute those brothers who died in battle" Zhao Zhigao raised his wine glass, looked around left and right, and the noise on the left and right slowly quieted down. Indeed, the Thunder won the air battle, but they also lost 11 of their companions, Mason stood up first, then Mike and Hansen, the captains, and the wine glasses in their hands were raised high like Zhao Zhi. With an example, the other pilots also stood up straight with solemn faces, they are mercenaries, but they are also soldiers, and they also have brotherhood.

"To our dead brother" Zhao Zhi's wrist flipped, the beer in the wine glass poured down and dragged an arc on the ground, and the amber liquor fell to the ground and foamed, and then instantly invaded the soil layer and disappeared. The pilots present also poured half a glass of wine on the ground like Zhao Zhi, and finally everyone raised their glasses together and drank the remaining half a glass of wine.

"Bring things up" Zhao Zhi put down the empty wine glass in his hand, turned his head and said hello, Luo Ying, who had been waiting for a long time, came over with a team of mercenaries carrying two wooden boxes. "Wow, gold" Zhao Zhi took out the short knife on his waist and pried open the lid of the wooden box, and what appeared in everyone's sight was two boxes full of gold bars, the yellow and clear gold bars made these guys who drank staggered instantly regain their spirits, no one could see that these guys couldn't stand up straight when they drank a second ago, it seems that the charm of gold is really unmatched.

Formulating the task reward plan is still a matter decided by Zhao Zhi when he was in Myanmar, before that, Zhao Zhi gave Yu Dazhi and they didn't have a charter, but fortunately, Dazhi didn't care about money. However, after Zhao Zhi returned from Europe, he began to form a Jewish legion, although those Jews worked for Zhao Zhi for nothing without pay, but Zhao Zhi also brought more than 1,000 reserve mercenaries from China to train in Burma. Since he is a mercenary, everything should be done in accordance with the rules of the mercenary, and it is a matter of course to work hard to get money, so it is imperative to complete the task and issue bonuses.

"Today, all the fighter pilots who took to the air to participate in the war each have a gold bar, and the downed fighter plane of the other side is plus one, and those brothers who died in the war have five gold bars each, and the injured two gold bars" Zhao Zhi is not stupid and generous, most of the gold in his hands comes from Myanmar, and the weight of these gold bars is not the kind of goods in China. The Thunder Investment Bank, which had relocated from Myanmar to Kunming, recycled all the gold looted from Myanmar and specially made gold bars in the amount of one tael for Zhao Zhi to use to reward mercenaries.

There are 300 gold bars in the two boxes, which is enough for Zhao Zhi to give everyone a reward this time, one per person is a fixed number, as for the part that shot down the opponent's fighter, it is up to the pilots to discuss it themselves, they are all brothers who eat in a pot, and no one will take the achievements of others. The ground air defense force and the airport alert force, Zhao Zhi also has a reward, but Zhao Zhi gave them not gold bars, the ocean and the relative amount of fiat currency for them to choose, if they don't want either, then they can also choose to receive a passbook with the logo of the Thunder Investment Bank, which records the amount of bonuses they should get.

Zhao Zhi took out so much gold to reward the fighter troops, on the one hand, to cheer up the pilots, and on the other hand, to stabilize the morale of the military. If you want them to work for the thunder, Zhao Zhi has to come up with the necessary benefits, but some things are not measured by money, Zhao Zhi just wants to express his attitude, so that the recruited pilots can stay and continue to serve the thunder with peace of mind.

Thunder's celebration party, as the magistrate of Zhangwu County, Zhang Lan and Sun Jin, the representative of the Eighth Route Army, naturally also participated, thinking that it was just a very ordinary celebration party, Zhang Lan and Sun Jin did not expect that Zhao Zhi would take out so much gold as a mission bounty to send to the fighter pilots. When the box containing gold bars was first opened, Sun Jin was still a little unimpressed, he didn't think that the two boxes were full of gold bars, but seeing that the fighter pilots present had all got the gold bars, Sun Jin was a little dumbfounded.

There are more than 100 fighter pilots present who are eligible to get gold bars, plus the additional bounty for shooting down enemy planes, Zhao Zhi can't get it without 300 gold bars if he wants to settle the mission reward with gold. 300 gold bars, if this is placed on the Eighth Route Army, it can at least equip the equipment of a division, but here, Zhao Zhi is just using it as a reward for an air battle, and Zhao Zhi is indeed rich on this dog day.

Sun Jin secretly pondered Zhao Zhi's financial resources in his heart, and Zhang Lan also pouted and despised Zhao Zhi very much, and more and more people came to Zhangwu County to join the army, causing a panic in the food supply in the county for a while. Zhang Lan has sought a solution to this matter more than once, but Zhao Zhi said that he could not do anything about it, Zhang Lan still made an excuse for Zhao Zhi in his heart, after all, Zhao Zhi still has nearly 100,000 soldiers under him, and it costs a lot of money to eat and chew, who knows that Zhao Zhi will only be a task reward, so he will take out so many gold bars.

"This guy can really pretend" took a sip of beer, Zhang Lan muttered very dissatisfied, it turned out that this guy was pretending to be poor, and he was simply dealing with himself before. Zhang Lan's expression was still seen by Luo Lin, this smart blonde woman didn't think that Zhang Lan was secretly liking Zhao Zhi, she knew that Zhang Lan would show this kind of expression, which definitely had something to do with Zhao Zhi's mission reward, this woman from the Eighth Route Army was probably fighting Zhao Zhi's idea of money.

Taking the opportunity of drinking, Rowling whispered what she observed to Zhao Zhi, but Zhao Zhi didn't care, giving such a generous reward to the fighter unit was because these pilots deserved this bonus. He Zhao Zhi is not the savior of China, and it is not Zhao Zhi's responsibility to those people who voluntarily came to join the army, they should seek help from the government, neither Lei Ting nor Zhangwu County has the obligation to support those people.

They came to join the army voluntarily, and when the training instructors of Thunder selected the new soldiers, they had already explained to those who were unsuccessful, asking them to leave Zhangwu County as soon as possible and return to their hometowns or go to the Guotong area to find a way to live. Those people are unwilling to leave Zhangwu County by themselves, and it is not that Zhao Zhi tied them up and did not let them leave, what grievances does Zhang Lan have to complain about herself, this doesn't make sense anywhere, if Zhang Lan really came to complain about Zhao Zhi because of this matter, then her ability as a county magistrate is not very good.

"Don't pay attention to her, those reporters may be in a hurry, I'll let Luo Ying bring someone to accompany you" Zhao Zhi demonstratively raised his glass to Zhang Lan, who was staring at him, and Luo Lin looked at Zhang Lan's somewhat sullen face and finally couldn't help laughing. Zhangwu County has always been the focus of news in the major newspapers in the Guotong District, and such a big event as the airport air battle is naturally the news that those reporters gathered in Zhangwu County to pursue, and Zhao Zhi has no reason to give up this opportunity to build momentum for the thunder.

"Zhangwu County Air Battle, Thunder Fighter Force Victory"

"The Thunder fighter unit completely annihilated the Japanese fighters who came to attack Zhangwu County, shooting down 62 Japanese fighters and 34 bombers"

"The Thunder Defense defeated the enemy again, and after an hour of fierce fighting in the air, none of the invading Japanese fighters were spared"

On the second day of the air battle at Qinglongping, the news was published on the front page of the major newspapers in the Kuomintang region, and Zhao Zhi also specially ordered the ground troops to collect a lot of crashed Japanese fighter planes and provide them to reporters to take pictures. In order to boost the people's morale to resist the enemy and their confidence in attacking the Japanese army, the Nationalist Government also specially organized people to transport a batch of relevant photos to the enemy-occupied areas for distribution, so that Thunder once again stood on the cusp of the limelight.