Chapter 154

The young age of Fang Rui in the new group did not seem to have caused much repercussions in the army. As a matter of fact, when the army was raised in Wuhu, the national defense forces did not pay much attention to seniority, but only to look at ability. This is especially true of the commanders of the front-line troops. Although Commander Fang was young, his deeds quickly spread in the regiment. At the time of the Central Asian Rebellion, he was not angry at the casualties of his comrades-in-arms, and witnessed the atrocities of Lao Maozi, and shot more than 100 prisoners in one go.

Si Svenwen's appearance can't be seen as a murderous guy without blinking. It turned out that the battalion led by Fang Rui knew the vigor of this one during the recruit training, and he made a group of recruits who had been trained by the reserve want to die. Now that Fang Rui is the head of the regiment and has given Zhang Zhizhong a guarantee, it will be even more ruthless.

At two o'clock in the morning, when they were asleep, the rapid and sharp whistle lifted the officers and men out of bed. After the assembly, Fang Rui looked at his hand and scolded with a dissatisfied face: "A group of pigs are better than you, and it took a full thirty-five minutes to assemble." Do you know what an emergency gathering is? You have succeeded in angering me, so I will punish you. With the battalion as a unit, now begin a fifteen-kilometer rapid march. Let's talk about it first, the battalion where the last one came back, the whole battalion can't eat breakfast. ”

The 135th Division is a division of the first type, and Fang Rui's regiment has four infantry battalions, one machine gun company, and some directly subordinate units, with a total of more than 2,600 officers and men. An armed march of twenty kilometers is really not a fun thing, as the acting head of the regiment, Fang Rui could have traveled by car, but he still chose to follow the brigade on foot.

The su zhì of this group of soldiers is quite good, which may be the reason for the improvement of life. Not many were left behind during the march. Fang Rui noticed that each battalion had some officers behind him, and the stragglers who were responsible for organizing their respective units to slowly keep up with the team, and he was very satisfied with Su Rong, who was guiding the life around him, and said: "The grassroots officers are good. ”

"Every officer and soldier who enters the Wehrmacht. The first lesson is that we are one. Each unit is a whole, and a comrade-in-arms is the one who can safely hand over his back to him. In our reserve regiment, there have always been two sets of teams, and the officers are at least non-commissioned officers. The battalion commander and above are all veteran non-commissioned officers who have retired from the army, and there is no big problem with the general military quality. However, our group of officers have been in the reserve for a long time, and their familiarity with the new equipment is based on the textbooks, and they have no actual combat experience. It would be nice if the 135th Division could be supplemented with a group of active-duty veterans and non-commissioned officers. Then the formation of combat power will be faster. ”

"This lesson is taught by life coaches, right?" Fang Rui asked with a smile, but Su Rong raised his head proudly and said, "Of course." Our contingent is a special unit created by President Fang Da in the army that year, and every officer must go through strict selection and receive strict military training and psychological education. Don't look at life coaching, there are not many people, there is no such special team. The combat effectiveness of the troops has decreased by at least one percent. ”

Fang Rui laughed and said, "This is modest. I once heard a senior say that the combat effectiveness of a unit without life guidance will drop by at least 30%. In fact, this was said by Fang Jianxiong, without this gang responsible for brainwashing soldiers and instilling life guidance that the interests of the country and the nation are supreme all day long, the combat effectiveness of the army is really worse.

When Fang Rui was in Central Adam, the atmosphere in the Capitol was somewhat solemn. The Speaker's hammer struck the mountain, and the two factions of parliamentarians who moved because of the dispute and anger. But there was no intention of stopping.

The dispute was over the KMT's MP Gao Zongwu's criticism of the country's current mobilization policy, which had affected the country's normal economic order. Xiong Xiling of the United Progressive Party echoed. Calling for a shift in the country's industrial policy, some industries related to people's livelihood have been treated unfairly.

There are many Republican congressmen, and there are big groups behind them, so naturally they will not buy it. So they started to quarrel, and if they didn't enjoy the noise, they started to do it, so the Congress became a pot of porridge.

To put it bluntly, this matter is caused by the uneven distribution of interests, and behind the Kuomintang and the United Progressive Party, there are no capitalists who have a relationship with the military industry. Eighty percent of the country's successive large-scale military expenditures have gone into the pockets of the capitalists behind the Republican Party. The Kuomintang and the United Progressive Party, which had not received any benefits, of course refused to agree, and of course they wanted to make trouble.

But then again, heavy industry is a thing that invests in a large amount and has a long recovery benefit cycle, and the average private capital is willing to engage in this. For example, the initial investment of NORINCO's steel plant in Anshan was 5 million silver dollars, and then an additional 2 million was added, and it took more than three years to complete the construction and put into operation.

None of the two opposition parties together are engaged in the steel industry, and the Zhang family in Nantong is the most bullish family business in the opposition party, and it is still engaged in the textile industry. Although it can also get orders from the military, the fierce competition in this industry is not comparable to that of steel and military enterprises. An important criterion for rapid economic development is steel production, but the threshold for this industry is high. Unlike the textile industry, ordinary landlords can set up a factory with a few people. And the Zhang family is not engaged in cashmere tweed, this industry is mainly concentrated in the provinces of Zhili, Re, Cha, and Hei, because it is close to the grassland. At present, the biggest needs of the troops are tweed and down products.

Seeing that the big groups of Eurasia, Northern, Northeast Zhang, and Shanghai Sanlian have received a large number of military orders, it is strange that those who can only watch are not blushing. Therefore, a name was made for this, that is, Tong Guò made trouble in the Congress, and forced these military enterprises to split and go public under the banner of anti-monopoly. At the beginning, out of concern for national security, it was stipulated that all enterprises engaged in the military industry could not be listed.

The fact that the parliamentarians fought for the interests of the bosses behind them quickly reached the ears of President Fang Da. It was the Prime Minister himself who reported on such a matter. Gu Weijun is also under great pressure, after all, China is not facing war now, and such a large-scale military investment, whether it is the country or the capital, the pressure is very great. Especially in the past two years, the inflation rate has exceeded 10% in a row, which has made Gu Weijun quite questioned in Congress.

The opposition parties have attacked the Cabinet for its disregard for people's livelihood, which is basically the same in any country. Gu Weijun really felt the pressure. Or the problem of inflation. Although he did not question the correctness of President Fang's judgment on the international form, he still emphasized in the report: "President Roosevelt of the United States introduced the anti-monopoly law. In the long run. Monopolies are really bad for the country's economy. ”

After listening to Gu Weijun's report, Fang Jianxiong nodded in agreement: "Monopoly is not good, but it has to be timed." At least for the time being, it is not appropriate to carry out similar reforms, because of the impact on armaments. The world war is just around the corner, and the importance of these monopolies should be well understood. However, Congress can have some dialectical discussion on this issue. All in all, let's talk about it after the war. ”

Gu Weijun was more or less disappointed. In his bones, he still thinks that these monopolies are entangled with Fang Jianxiong's own interests. As everyone knows, no one was willing to do these monopolies at the beginning. At a time when the Eurasian Group was blank at home. The first investment in steel, military industry, petrochemical and other fields was also strongly implemented by Fang Jianxiong. There is a great deal of controversy among the top management of the group about the realization of domestic production in these fields. Some group leaders advocate that it is cheaper to buy oil than to refine it yourself, so why do you have to refine it yourself? This is just like what a certain head of the four major families of the Republic of China said in history. Penicillin is cheaper to import than to produce it yourself. What kind of pharmaceutical factory is still a reason.

Fang Jianxiong's means of dealing with this matter is to delay, the world war has already started, isn't it making trouble to engage in anti-monopoly at this time? Moreover, among the parliamentarians of these opposition parties, there are no capitalists standing behind them. To put it bluntly, it's for profit.

Also in the national interest, a fierce air battle was going on over the British Isles. Chinese aviation volunteers, organized into 50 squadrons, fly domestically produced Mustang A fighters. There is a fight with the Luftwaffe.

In early July, the British government used the country's gold reserves. 500 Mustang fighters were urgently purchased from China, and in order to earn this gold in the shortest possible time, the 200 fighters currently in service of the Air Force were taken out to replenish the number. The most direct result of this order is that the aircraft factories in Wuchang and Shenyang have expanded their production capacity again and again. President Fang Jianxiong directly ordered the two aircraft manufacturing enterprises to produce 8,000 new fighters a year by the end of 1941.

Fang Ping didn't like the humid weather in the UK at all, he was used to staying in Beijing, and when he arrived at this place, he felt that every fart was full of water vapor. Britain, with only 700 fighters, faced with three battle groups of the powerful Luftwaffe across the Channel, had to put these Chinese warriors who had just set foot on British soil into battle.

The day after Fang Ping's arrival in the UK, he was sent to an airfield near Portsmouth, where two British aviation squadrons and two Chinese volunteer aviation squadrons were stationed, flying planes of Spitfire and Mustang A.

The Mustang A is actually a land version of the Navy's Swift-5, and compared with the Mustang B-B in service in China, the high-altitude combat ability is insufficient. However, this did not prevent Fang Ping from flying the plane to fight against the German BF109, and he had a certain understanding of the performance of this German fighter.

After an evening in Portsmouth, at nine o'clock in the morning the next day, it was a rare good day, and Fang Ping, who was drinking coffee under a sun umbrella, heard a shrill siren. Everyone jumped up as if they had a spring under their buttocks, and Fang Ping, the leader of the third squadron, ran to his car as fast as he could.

One by one, the war eagles quickly took off into the air, and when they were forming in the sky above the airport, Fang Ping heard the command from the radio, and then commanded the ten wild horses under his command to fly to the far end.

"Enemy aircraft were found, just below us, about thirty fighters, which looked like BF109s, and the number of bombers was comparable"

"Fang, I'll lead the team first, you don't care about the BF109, dive, and knock out the bomber first. This is going to the convoy of convoys in the strait, and BF109 is handed over to us. The voice of the British squadron leader Tini, who was setting off together, came from his ears, and Fang Ping smiled slightly: "Then good luck to you, Third Squadron, follow me, dive, and hit the bombers first." ”

The Mustang fighter squadron is at an altitude of 10,000 meters at the moment, and the German bomber group is about two thousand meters below, a distance of about two thousand meters, and the dive is only an instant. "Wingman, follow me." Fang Ping shouted and pushed the rod down fiercely.

The sudden appearance of the fighter group made the German aircraft group chaotic, the bombers approached one after another, and the fighters bravely stepped forward, and the British squadron, which was only one-third of the number of the Germans, bravely rushed up to fight. At this time, ten fighters of the Mustang fighter squadron that swooped down from a high altitude pounced on the German bombers with lightning speed.

Haller, a crew member of a British fleet who was sailing on the sea, recalled the battle afterwards: "I will never forget this day, July 10, 1940. When German planes were about to attack our fleet, some fighters with five-color flags suddenly appeared in the sky. They chased the German bombers, sometimes very low, so I could see it. In front of these five-color fighters, the German bombers caught fire one by one, and one by one they screamed and fell. Thank God, just when I thought this time was going to be over, these planes appeared. ”

This was Fang Ping's first time participating in actual combat, when he bit a bomber and simply shot it down, the wingman was bitten by a German fighter and had to accelerate and roll away. Fang Ping was soon targeted by two BF109s, and his choice was to shout over the radio: "Don't entangle, climb, compare speed, and then dive after throwing off the enemy plane." ”

The effect of this trick against the BF109 can only be said to be okay, but against the bulky bomber, the effect is excellent. Ten Mustang happened one after another, and the speed was not as good as the Bronco's BF109, so I could only helplessly watch the distance get bigger and bigger. When the German pilot Hans went back, he said to his superiors: "This is certainly not a British fighter, the climb speed is too fast, at least six or seven hundred." ”

The Mustang that climbed high dived again, this time Fang Ping was eyeing a BF-109, because the plane was chasing a Spitfire, and the British fighter squadron in the air was not in a very good situation now, at least three planes were shot down, and the others were also trembling bitterly. Fang Ping heard Rittini yelling over the radio: "Damn, don't you want to beat me down, Fake!" ”

Tini, who was struggling and constantly rolling, suddenly found that the enemy plane behind him was on fire, and began to fall down obliquely, turning his head to see that it was a Mustang, the number on it was 031, and there were two German twin-engine fighters ME110 chasing behind the butt of this plane. "Fang, thank you for your help, do you need my help now?" Tini also had the heart to joke that these pilots with their heads tied to their belts were really bitter.

"Leave me alone, I can easily get rid of them." Fang Ping replied calmly, as if he didn't see the dragging light flying on the side, and after swooping down sharply for a while, he pulled up violently. (To be continued......)