Chapter 116: Air Ranger (1)

In the 26 years since the beginning of the Republic of China, the number of troops in China has reached more than 400,000, excluding the Kwantung Army.

At the beginning of 1937, a speech on the general mobilization of the national spirit was held under the auspices of the political axe at the Bigu Public Hall, and the so-called general mobilization movement of the national spirit began. In March, a series of activities were held, such as the Spiritual Mobilization Week, the National Spirit Revitalization Week, and the Zhaoguo Spirit Awareness Week, during which a series of activities were held, such as shrine visits, reading of edicts, paying homage to the dead, condolences to their families, sending off soldiers on the expedition, and national defense donations. The purpose of these activities was to mentally mobilize the people to prepare for war.

Stimulated by the domestic environment, the Chinese army has gradually intensified its actions against Huaxia. Since the beginning of February, planes of the North China garrison have frequently conducted aerial reconnaissance in Beiping, Tianjin, Hebei, and other places. Sometimes, the extremely boring machine even dropped bombs on innocent people, causing strong protests from the people, which made Song Zheyuan in Beiping feel more pressured.

Feeling the lack of air power, Song Zheyuan thought of asking for help from the central political axe when it was fruitless, after all, Su Tong was Zhang Zizhong's sworn little brother, and they had a bit of a love affair with their 29th Army.

After receiving Song Zheyuan's telegram asking for help, Su Tong, who was far away in Chita, remembered his predicament when he first arrived in Duolun and the kindness of his eldest brother who was far away in Tianjin at this time. After receiving Su Tong's order, Gao Zhihang felt that his side had not set up a radar station in Hebei and that the planes were dispatched from time to time, so he specially organized a mobile safari group composed of dozens of fighters to patrol the skies over Hebei from time to time, specifically hunting and killing lone reconnaissance planes and fighters, and achieved very good results. After more than a month of continuous expulsion and hunting of military planes, the people of Beiping and Hebei gradually became familiar with this chubby plane that often flew over their heads, and the students of Yenching University also affectionately called these proud sons who soared into the blue sky 'air rangers', and later this name quickly spread in Hebei, Shandong and other places.

"Kitty calls Eagle's Nest, Kitty Hawk calls Eagle's Nest."

"Kitty Hawk, please speak, Kitty Hawk, please speak."

"Kitty Hawk asks to leave the country to hunt, Kitty Hawk asks to leave the country to hunt."

After a moment of silence, there was a rustling sound in the headset: "Request permission, you can leave the country." ”

In the overcast sky, a lonely P-47 flew by, and it flew straight in the direction of Beiping. Its mission is to hunt down enemy planes in the air, and they are affectionately known as the 'Air Rangers'.

Xiao Feipeng, who was born in Dingyuan, Anhui Province in the third year of the Republic of China, was originally a student at Tsinghua University, and more than a year ago, he felt that he could no longer put a quiet desk in the whole country, so he resolutely joined the 37th Group Army from Rong. Xiao Feipeng soon joined the air force known as the proud son of heaven, and after more than a year of intense training, he was assigned to the 1st Air Division, the most elite old unit in the air force.

It's a pity that such an elite unit is only used to watch the family, and they can't follow Commander Su to Siberia to fight Lao Maozi, which is also the most regrettable thing for the brothers of the First Air Division. I heard that the brothers of the Second Air Division and the Third Air Division fought well in Siberia, and some time ago, the Second Air Division also killed a division commander of Lao Maozi, and the brothers of the Second Air Division are really happy.

Last week, when he was assigned to the hunting group by the division commander, I don't know how many brothers looked at him with envy, but this week I don't know if it was because he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out or because he didn't burn incense, every time he came out, he returned empty-handed, which made him very annoyed, and today it was his turn to patrol alone, so when he came out in the morning, he specially looked at the yellow calendar.

The planes soon arrived over Beiping, and when they arrived here, they were out of the coverage range of the Chahar ground radar, which was also a process of adaptation for the pilots who were accustomed to relying on radar command, and they had to learn to rely on their own eyes to search for and discover enemy planes without ground command.

The P-47 hovered at a low altitude over Beiping for a while, and the two huge auxiliary fuel tanks under the wings and the bright blue sky and white red flags on the fuselage made the people on the ground see very clearly, causing bursts of cheers from the people of Beiping, who knew very well that it was the existence of these air guardians that had curbed the arrogance of the devil plane for more than a month.

Xiao Feipeng, who didn't find anything after hovering for a while, planned to try his luck in Baoding, Xiao Feipeng shook his wings and the plane began to climb, and suddenly he noticed a small black dot near the sun.

Xiao Feipeng, who was chuckling in his heart, hurriedly greeted him, and after a while, he found that it was a Ki-4 Nakajima-type biplane reconnaissance plane of the army. The speed of the Nakajima reconnaissance plane was very slow, and it was caught up by Xiao Feipeng at once.

Full of joy, he was about to put the enemy plane in the crosshair and kill it, when four planes with ointment flags painted on the wings suddenly rushed out of the clouds on the side, and the tongue of fire under the wings of the enemy plane led by him flashed, and Xiao Feipeng, who was caught off guard, could only pull the longitudinal rod with all his strength to roll over.

The plane narrowly escaped the bullets fired at the cockpit, and the bullets hit the fuselage, and they were so close to the cockpit that Xiao Feipeng heard the sound of bullets hitting the plane.

Xiao Feipeng, who was in a cold sweat, hurriedly pulled the plane aside, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be four Ki-12 Nakajima fighters. This is a monoplane specially developed for the army that was put into service by the army only last year, and the newly developed retractable landing gear has added to the flexible surname of this aircraft.

After Xiao Feipeng saw that he had been surrounded by four enemy planes, he knew that he had fallen into a trap carefully planned by him. They took advantage of the opportunity of their own meritorious service to lure themselves into the bait with that reconnaissance plane, damn it, why didn't they think that there would be such a swaggering low-altitude reconnaissance plane now? Careless, careless.

Xiao Feipeng, who secretly scolded himself for being stupid, did not slow down in his hand, and the plane flew up and down, rushing left and right, trying to find an opportunity to jump out of the battle circle, but the four enemy planes stuck to him like kraft candy.

"Mountain Eagle called the Eagle's Nest, I was surrounded by planes over Beiping City, the situation was urgent, I asked for reinforcements, I asked for reinforcements."

Under the training of our commander Su, the 37th Group Army flew from the sky and crawled on the ground, and those soldiers called for reinforcements, which were quite skilled. Didn't you see what Chief Su said? Those who practice martial arts have a saying that if you want to beat someone, you must first learn to be beaten. It's the same with our soldiers, there are a lot of them, we have to run if we can't fight, if you can't run, you have to call for reinforcements in the first time, and give Lao Tzu a hero, Lao Tzu doesn't want to write in the death notice sent to your wife: Because your son is too stupid and doesn't know how to call for reinforcements, he was beaten to death.

Therefore, Xiao Feipeng, who had just graduated, opened his mouth and began to shout for help without thinking.

Today's first update.

Ladies and gentlemen, smash all your tickets, except for the 9,000 and 12,000 Cui Geng tickets!