Chapter 12: The North Wind

The anti-rebellion work has come to an end, although there are still executions one after another, but the propaganda is not as strong as before, and everyone is slowly relieved, and this wave of movement is basically over.

The Korean War was still going on, and the volunteers and the so-called United Nations forces led by US imperialism were fighting bloody battles in Korea, and the people of the whole country were fully supportive, and the Jiangbei Machinery Factory worked overtime to produce weapons and ammunition to supply the front, mainly Japanese-style 6.5 bullets and German-style 79-step machine bullets, as well as 763-caliber bullets for barge guns, but I heard that this kind of bullet was used in Soviet-style turntable submachine guns, and the 71 rounds of drums were like a splash of wind in the fight, and the US imperialists were terrified when they heard the sound.

The heroes and models talked about how the US imperialism was cowardly and full of ugliness, and how our army fought bravely and defeated the enemy, and they said that the American soldiers were all young master soldiers, and that it was cold in the winter in North Korea, so these greedy and fearful of death guys hid in eiderdown sleeping bags and tied their shoelaces to the trigger and opened fire, and the aimless dozen machine guns were one night.

The audience burst into laughter, but some people couldn't laugh, and Liu Xiaoyong was one of them.

Deputy Division Commander Liu was a graduate of the Jiangdong Army Military Academy in 1937, with a serious academic background, participated in the Songhu Campaign, and had a very deep understanding of war.

None of the senior generals of our army have ever seen eiderdown sleeping bags, let alone ordinary cadres and soldiers, who wore hollow thin cotton jackets and single shoes on the icy and snowy battlefield, ate snow when thirsty, and ate fried noodles when hungry, and the hardships and trags of the war far exceeded the war of liberation.

The top level is quite clear about the situation on the Korean battlefield, and there is no need to look at the internal references, just by looking at the wounded soldiers who have been withdrawn, we can see that most of them are non-combat attrition, most of them are frostbitten, and there are also many who have broken their arms and legs, and they have been bombed and overturned by planes before they have seen the enemy.

Chen Zikun knows very well that without air supremacy, the infantry is the meat on the board, and how much sacrifice the volunteers have to pay to compete with the US army, internal sources say that Chairman Mao's son Anying died in the air raid, and the volunteer army headquarters is not safe at all, and the front-line soldiers can be imagined.

In order to reduce casualties, it is necessary to let the Air Force exert its combat effectiveness and seize air supremacy!

New China has not yet been able to produce fighter planes, after World War II, propeller fighters have fallen behind, replaced by jet aircraft, the Soviet Union's MiG-15 is very superior in performance, can confront the US military, but the price is too expensive and the equipment cannot be afforded.

Chen Zikun launched an action to donate airplanes in Jiangdong, organizing charity sales and charity performances, and whoever donated more money named the aircraft after whomever it was.

The provincial party committee responded positively and held a fund-raising meeting for the staff of the provincial organs and their families, which was held in the auditorium of the provincial party committee, and the senior leaders of the party, government, and military groups were all present.

The party's senior cadres have a clean sleeve and can't take out too much money, but their exemplary role cannot be underestimated, and the rebels and retained personnel represented by Chen Zikun have donated money and materials one after another, and naturally Chen Zikun donated the most, a huge sum of 5,000 yuan, a Wanguo brand pilot's watch, three leather jackets, and 10 horses of wool.

Chen Shou, Gai Longquan, Yan Su, Wang Sanliu and others also donated a lot of money, this is a great opportunity to show loyalty to the organization, no one will lag behind, but they don't dare to donate too much, it is not a good thing to appear that they are too rich.

There was more and more money on the stage, but the total amount was far from enough for a plane, and just as the fundraising meeting was about to end, Xia Xiaoqing appeared at the door of the venue.

She carried a suitcase, very struggling, the suitcase was very strong, the corners were covered with copper skin, her shoulders were crooked, and two eye-catching orderlies ran up to help and helped Xia Xiaoqing carry the suitcase to the stage.

"What is she going to do?" Chen Zikun, who was sitting in the front row, asked Yao Yilei in a low voice.

"I don't know." Yao Yilei said that she had donated some gold and silver jewelry just now, and the amount was not very large.

Xia Xiaoqing opened the suitcase in front of everyone, and the spotlight shone over, and everyone's eyes were spent.

In the box are all kinds of gold bricks and gold bars and gold ingots, preliminary visual inspection, at least a thousand taels of gold!

"This gold, I donated to the country on behalf of my brother, a total of one thousand one hundred and twenty-eight taels." Xia Xiaoqing said calmly.

There was silence in the audience, they thought that the gold belonged to Chen Zikun's family, but they didn't expect that there was another master.

"My younger brother, called Yan Qingyu, is a soldier of the party on the hidden front, directly responsible to Premier Zhou, on the eve of liberation, he died under the spy gun, these gold was saved when he acted in movies in his early years, entrusted me to find a suitable opportunity to donate to the country, I think, now this opportunity has come."

Thunderous applause rang out, and it could not be subsided for a long time.

The fund-raising meeting of the provincial organs was successfully concluded, and gold, securities, and physical goods worth 200,000 yuan were raised, of which Xia Xiaoqing's donation accounted for a decisive proportion, and the Department of Finance and the Air Force came to the Chen Mansion on Fenglin Road to solicit Xia Xiaoqing's opinion on how to name the plane.

Xia Xiaoqing said, my brother has left, he has always been low-key, he will not want to name the plane after himself, he loves his nephew Xiaobei the most, I think it is more appropriate to name it after Xiaobei.

The comrades of the Air Force have done an investigation and know that the sons of Xia Xiaoqing and Chen Zikun are cadres at the battalion level of the Air Force, famous heroes of the uprising, and that it is only fitting that they should be named after him when they are now carrying out tasks in the Northeast Battlefield, and that there is also a lot to be done in propaganda work.

As a result, this fighter that had not yet been purchased was named "Beifeng", which was Chen Bei's code name in the People's Air Force, and the war was fought in the far north, so it made sense to use this name.

The equipment factory attached to the aviation school built a model airplane of the same scale out of iron sheet and wood, painted silver-white, with the logo of the People's Air Force on the fuselage, and two big red characters: "North Wind."

The model was draped in red and hung with colors, the masses beat gongs and drums, and marched with a truck, and the masses in the provincial capital were boiling.

The common people did not know much about airplanes, and when they saw such a strange-looking fighter, they began to talk about it.

"This must be the American Mustang destroyer, the most advanced in the world, I heard that there are eight machine guns under the wings, which can hang 500 pounds of bombs."

"Cut, pull it down, this is a Soviet-made destroyer, more than ten times more powerful than the Yankees, with cannons under its wings, which can hang a thousand pounds of bombs."

The model aircraft circled the streets of the provincial town three times, pulled it to the storeroom and stored it, and the donated funds were remitted to the central government for the purchase of the new Soviet jet fighter MiG-15.

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At a certain airport in northeastern China, silver warhawks were parked on the runway, and blonde and blue-eyed pilots walked by in groups; they were Soviet air force members who secretly participated in the war; they usually wore the uniforms of the Korean People's Army or the Volunteer Army, did not carry any rank identification, ate bread, butter, and canned beef, and lived in separate dormitories.

Soon after the Air Force was newly established, there were three main sources of professional and technical personnel: First, the students taught by Japanese instructors from the old Northeast Aviation School, and this group of people was Japanese; The second is the former Kuomintang Air Force, which was retained by the uprising, and these people are all educated in the American style, and unconsciously retain the Western bourgeoisie, and the third is the newly recruited pilots who have received Soviet-style training, who are young, have solid physical fitness, and excellent political quality.

Chen Bei naturally belongs to the second group, and it is also the most unpopular group of people, the people of the old aviation school in the Northeast are old revolutionaries and have occupied middle and high-level positions, and the newcomers are students of Soviet instructors, driving jet MiGs, wearing Soviet-style flight jackets, and they are the pride of the sky, and they are the most favored by the leaders.

Air combat has entered the jet age, and the experience of driving propeller fighters in the early years is completely useless, so Chen Bei's skills are useless, and he can only continue to be his theoretical instructor, although he is a battalion-level cadre and a hero of the uprising, but he is not respected by the students, because he is short-tempered, likes to scold the students, has a bad style, likes to drink and smoke, and what is even more disgusting is that the capitalist habits do not change, wearing American jackets, sunglasses, and dressing up like American pilots.

Even the leaders didn't like Chen Bei, but in view of his special status, he was the son of the famous uprising general Chen Zikun, and he was lame for the revolution, so he usually turned a blind eye and went with him without making a big mistake.

Until one day, Chen Bei broke into a catastrophe.

** The pilot's style is strong, and his life is relatively casual, and he can't do without liquor, cigarettes and women, and it is good to say in their Russian locality that after the Great Patriotic War, there are widows everywhere, and you can find a woman to vent your fire, but it is difficult to find a woman in China, New China banned prostitutes, and the people of good families are very traditional, and the reputation of ** Zi in the Northeast has always been very bad, and no one dares to deal with these Russian pilots.

The pilots' evil fire could not be released, and they held it all day long, and this suffocation caused an accident.

There was a Soviet Air Force captain pilot named Vasily, who got drunk and tried to rape the female translator assigned to them by the organization, Nina, a girl who graduated from the Russian department of Northeastern University.

Nina herself is Ermaozi, her mother is Chinese, her father is a white Russian who makes red sausages in Harbin, she is slender and lively, her hair is slightly red, full of foreign style, and the boys at the air base like her.

It just so happened that this matter was encountered by Chen Bei, and he was also holding back his stomach of resentment, Lu saw that he was uneven and pulled out a knife to help, and pounced on Captain Vasily to fight together, this **'s physical fitness is really not covered, although Vasily is not tall, only one meter seven, but he is extremely strong, a slap is wide to protect his heart hair, and he does not catch a cold when he sleeps in the field in winter.

Chen Bei is tall, but he can't play an advantage in close fighting, plus one leg can't play a role, he was pressed and beaten by Vasily, and he greeted him with a heavy fist in the face, the female translator was so frightened that she covered her face and screamed, which stimulated Vasily's wildness, he punched two more hard, and Chen Bei fainted with a crooked head.

Vasily got up crookedly, staggered towards the female translator, suddenly felt that his head had been slammed, and turned his head to see that Chen Bei was looking at him coldly with an aluminum alloy prosthetic leg in his hand.

With a bang, Vasily fell to the ground.

Vasily didn't die, but he was beaten into a concussion, he was concussed, and naturally he couldn't stand to rape the female translator, so the charge was not established, and the big brother of the Soviet Union came all the way to support our cause of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea.

However, Vasily's absence from work led to another incident, the pilots were all a turnip and a pit, Vasily could not go to work the next day to carry out the mission, and temporarily replaced a Chinese pilot with little experience, as a result of which he was intercepted by the US military, our side suffered heavy losses, and there was a hole in the MiG corridor, which led to an air raid on a transport convoy on the ground, and dozens of truckloads of ammunition were blown up.

The high-level was furious and was supposed to deal with Chen Bei severely, but Vasily helped Chen Bei intercede, which exempted him from the death penalty, but the living crime was inescapable, and he was forced to retire from the army and return to his hometown.

When Chen Bei was leaving, Vasily and the female translator Nina came to see him off, and the two had officially started to fall in love with the approval of the organization, holding hands and being very intimate.

"Chen Bei, I'm sorry, I hurt you." Captain Vasily sincerely apologized to him and handed over a medal of the Order of the Red Star, which he received in the Great Patriotic War.

Chen Bei is also a man of temperament, took the medal, took off the American A2 flight jacket on his body and gave it back to Vasily.

"Goodbye friend." The two hugged goodbye.

Chen Bei left, carrying his bags and dragging his prosthetic leg on the empty road outside the airport, his steps heavy and staggering.

Nina stood in place, staring at Chen Bei's back for a long time.

"What do you want, dear?" Vasily asked, taking Nina into his arms.

Nina struggled slightly, and said, "I feel like an old horse." ”