The next day, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Song Zhewu was woken up by his adjutant Liang Bi, and last night he discussed with Zhang Xueliang until late at night, Zhang Xueliang not only promised to fully support his actions on the Western Front, but also excitedly rushed back to Shenyang overnight with his guard battalion and Hu Yukun.

For the first time in these days, Song Zhewu had slept so peacefully since he set out from the source, and if he hadn't received a telegram from Mike reporting that he would lead his fleet to the Bahrain Left Banner Station today, he really wouldn't have wanted to get up.

Song Zhewu quickly got up and washed up, ate some breakfast briefly, and asked Liang Bi, 'Li Wentian has anything to do with him'. Liang Bi told him: "Deputy Chief of Staff Li came over early in the morning, and when he saw that the commander didn't get up, he asked me to tell the commander that he would arrange to receive supplies, inspect the warehouse, and prepare a camp for the follow-up troops today, so he wouldn't go to the airport with the commander." ”

Song Zhewu nodded and didn't speak, he was very satisfied with Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Li Wentian, and Wang Xu, these people are doing a good job in their positions, as long as he points out the direction of action, he doesn't need to worry about specific things at all, they will all do it in an orderly and proper manner.

When he walked out of the tent, Li Huan, the chief of the special operations department of the Air Force Corps, was already waiting outside with Gao Zhihang. In order to ensure the success of this expedition, the Air Force Corps specially set up this special service on a temporary basis, and its task was to be responsible for the guard of several airfields and the logistical support of the Mack's fleet. Song Zhewu was going to the airport to greet Mike today, and he, the chief of the special services, naturally wanted to accompany Song Zhewu.

Gao Zhihang is here to be responsible for liaising with the Northeast Army's air force in Hailar for the Fourth Route Army, and now that it is still far from the front line, he naturally has nothing to do; he heard that the planes of the Fourth Route Army are coming, and he, the future chief of staff of the Fourth Route Army Air Force, is naturally also coming, and he also wants to see how old the planes of the Fourth Route Army are. Although he didn't know much about the DH-10, he knew that it was an aircraft from the end of World War I 10 years ago, and could such an aircraft still be used in combat? With such questions, he had been chatting with Li Huan for a long time, but Li Huan didn't know much about airplanes, which made him very disappointed.

The military station occupies an extremely wide area, with a radius of more than ten miles, and the field airfield is located in the military station. Because the distance was not far, they did not ride horses, but walked through the heavily guarded reservoir area full of various supplies to the northernmost point of the military station.

Seeing that the sentinels on the periphery of the military station have been seen in the distance, and then go forward to get out of the military station, but there is no shadow of the airport, but there is a large empty grass near the northernmost end of the military station, in the center of the grass is about 100 meters away from the seat of Song Zhewu station, there is a faint section of 200 meters long, 20 meters wide The grass on the grass is a little sparse, but it is only relatively sparse, and there is not much difference from the nearby grassland, if you don't distinguish carefully, you can hardly feel the difference.

Song Zhewu's face couldn't help but be gloomy, and he called out to Li Huan, who was leading the way in front, with a calm face.

Seeing that Song Zhewu's face was gloomy and scared, Li Huan, who didn't know why, stood nervously in front of Song Zhewu and waited for Song Zhewu to ask.

Song Zhewu pointed to the grass more than 100 meters away and asked Li Huan: "It must be the airstrip there?" ”

Li Huan smiled and said, "Commander, good eyesight!" It's obvious from such a distance. In the morning, Chief of Staff Li came to inspect the work, and he was about to walk to the runway only to find that it was a runway. ”

Li Huan said with some pride: "Chief of Staff Li said that he would ask the commander to give us a reward." ”

Looking at the triumphant Li Huan, Song Zhewu was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, and said in his heart: "Isn't there something wrong with this Li Huan?" With such a runway, planes can't take off and land at all, and if the runways of the two field airfields in front of them are the same, I really don't know how Mike can fly here? and Li Wentian, when did he become a good man, he didn't criticize Li Huan in person, let him correct it immediately, and even had the heart to laugh at this Li Huan. Even this Wu Jin has a big problem, how can he let this two hundred and five Li Huan be in charge of such an important work? ”

Gao Zhihang also pointed to the grass strangely and said, "Director Li, is that section of grass really a runway?" ”

Li Huan nodded clearly and said, "That's right, that's the runway." ”

Seeing that Song Zhewu's face was even more gloomy, Li Huan asked carefully: "Commander, is there still less grass?" ”

Song Zhewu suppressed his anger and decided not to talk nonsense with this two-hundred-and-five director, and said coldly: "I'm not saying that there is less grass on this runway, I mean that there is more grass." With such a runway, the plane will skid and rush out of the runway when landing, and not only the plane cannot land safely, but the pilot's life will also be in danger. Besides, with a runway like yours, it's very questionable whether pilots can spot it in the air. ”

Li Huan completely understood what Song Zhewu meant, and hurriedly said: "Commander, you misunderstood, it is true that there is a runway, but what you see now is a camouflaged runway, and there is not a single straw stick underneath. When he was in Laiyuan, Commander Wu said, Commander, you said, 'Field airfields and logistics material warehouses should be well camouflaged and air defense, and the so-called camouflage is to make the target blend into the background color and background landscape as much as possible. It is also said that the color that blends into the background is called a protective color. For this, Commander Wu led us to ponder for a long time, and finally Mike suggested that we make camouflage nets, our camouflage nets are made by our textile mills, and Chief of Staff Xiao also knows this, and he also needs the command organs of each division, especially the artillery and baggage troops. ”

"Today it was Commander McLace who called us and asked us to do a good job of camouflage, and he wanted to personally check the camouflage effect in the air."

Song Zhewu suddenly realized that at that time, because he was busy making his own freon, he just briefly talked to Wu Jin about the concept of disguise, and he was busy doing his own thing. I didn't expect Wu Jin to do so well, if he could barely find it at this distance, then the possibility of finding it from the air was extremely small.

Song Zhewu took a closer look at his surroundings. Within a few hundred meters of the vicinity, including both sides of the runway and the longitudinal east and west ends of the runway, there are more than a dozen small slopes of different sizes, uneven heights, different shapes, and covered with the same grass as the surrounding grass. There should be a small oil depot, a small ammunition depot, and a small repair room, surrounded by corresponding anti-aircraft positions. Song Zhewu's intuition told him that there was something strange hidden under the grassy slopes.

Gao Zhihang looked around carefully for a long time, and asked suspiciously: "Wouldn't your field airport have only one runway and no other facilities?" ”

Li Huan already knew that Gao Zhihang was very likely to become the chief of staff of their air force corps, so naturally he couldn't slack off, so he hurriedly smiled and said: "How can it be, there are oil depots, ammunition depots, maintenance stations, and twelve air defense positions and four guard positions here. ”

"All here?" Gao Zhihang asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's all here." As soon as Li Huan's voice fell, Ye Qing said to Song Zhewu: "Commander, a plane is coming." "Ye Qing has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his hearing is very sensitive.

Although everyone didn't hear the roar of the plane, they still followed the direction pointed by Ye Qing and searched carefully in the western sky, and soon under a white cloud in the western sky, four planes flew out.

After circling a few times, one of the planes lowered its nose to an altitude of more than 200 meters, and continued to hover over the station, as if looking for something. From the huge vulture head painted in red, blue and black on the nose of the plane, Song Zhewu knew that this was the landline of Mike, whose surname was flamboyant.

At some point, a staff officer with a telegram came out of under a large mound in front of him, ran to Li Huan and reported: "Commander Mai has called, he has arrived above the military station, and he has seen the flag signal issued by the military station, but he has not yet found the airport runway. Commander McCamouflage said that the camouflage was excellent, and ordered the camouflage to be removed immediately, and he was to land. ”

Li Huan looked at Song Zhewu, and Song Zhewu understood what Li Huan meant. He felt a little guilty for his attitude towards Li Huan just now, but after all, he was the supreme leader of the Fourth Route Army, and the dignity of the superior made Song Zhewu just nod slightly and said, "You are the commander of the airport, you decide for yourself." ”

Li Huan immediately ordered a signal soldier who followed him: "Send a signal, remove your disguise, and prepare for the landing of Commander Mai's fleet." ”

The signal soldier ran to the crowd and waved the red and blue hand flags in his hands quickly and rhythmically, and issued a flag command to the airport.

With the issuance of the flag order, the surface of more than a dozen slopes of different sizes hundreds of meters away was quickly rolled up, revealing the true face of the slope, the skeleton of those slopes are made of bamboo and wood supports, but the upper part is arched with bamboo bends, and below are some tents and materials covered with tarpaulin, and on more than a dozen air defense positions, each place has two Harchikas heavy machine guns placed on anti-aircraft stands.

Dozens of fighters quickly ran out of the tent, they ran to the front of the runway, quickly rolled up the camouflage net on the runway, and a straight runway immediately appeared.

After Mike's plane shook its wings from side to side, he suddenly pulled the nose of the plane and climbed into the air and turned with his group, Mike pressed the nose of the plane first, and slowly rushed to the runway, the moment he landed on the runway, the plane gently tossed, and then slid briskly to the east end of the runway.

"Good!" Gao Zhihang couldn't help but scream in a low voice.

After the plane came to a standstill, a truck quickly drove over, towing Mike's plane back under the camouflage net. Subsequently, three other planes also landed at the airport.

"Ziheng, go and take a look at our plane, as well as the flamboyant deputy commander of your air force corps." After saying that, he walked to the camouflage shed where the plane was parked.

Mike was directing the ground personnel to park and check the condition of the plane, and when he saw Song Zhewu and others coming, Mike said excitedly: "Commander, the effect of this camouflage is excellent, I can't find it in the air at all, this is simply amazing." ”

Song Zhewu smiled and said, "Mike, thank you for your hard work, how is our plane?" ”

Mike gave a thumbs up and said, "Commander, it's just amazing, we have trained all the way and found that our modified two aircraft have excellent ground attack results, and it is definitely a nightmare for infantry on the ground." ”

Song Zhewu was also very happy to hear Mike say this, he knew that Gao Zhihang also knew English, pointed to Gao Zhihang and said in English: "Come, let me introduce you two, this is our deputy commander of the Air Force Corps Mike. Harris, this is our future Chief of Staff of the Air Force Corps, Gao Zhihang, and he is also an excellent pilot, so you two will have a good relationship in the future. ”

After a few brief greetings between the two, Gao Zhihang said, "Commander, I want to see the plane." ”

"Good! Let Mike tell you about it, I'm a layman when it comes to airplanes. ”

Gao Zhihang looked carefully around Mike's landline, front, back, left, right, and even in the seat compartment. After Gao Zhihang read it, he asked Mike: "As far as I know, the DH-10 is a two-seat bomber, but now this plane not only has a machine gun, how can there be a radio station in the back seat, and this armor guard plate seems to be installed later......"

Seeing that Mike and Gao Zhihang kept talking, while climbing up and down on the plane to watch non-stop, the more they talked, the more excited they became, Song Zhewu was very happy, and said in his heart: "These two are treasures, with them, the air force of the Fourth Route Army will have a soul." ”

(To be continued)