"At present, our army has 442 front-line combat pilots, 138 reserve pilots, 186 combat aircraft of various types, a total of 1,500 mechanics and ground crews, in addition to a ground guard regiment, a baggage transport regiment and a transport aircraft squadron, and the total number of officers and men in the division is 8,600. In addition, according to the requirements of the General Staff Department, the front-line pilots of our division have no less than 150 hours of flight time, and the reserve pilots have no less than 100 hours," Yang Xianyi continued.

Wang Zhenyu nodded: "There are still fewer reserve pilots, in addition, you can also set up a test flight group to understand the performance of the aircraft, and you can also establish a training squadron to ensure the actual accumulation of training of reserve pilots." ”

Yang Xianyi hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, we will establish this test flight group and training aircraft squadron as soon as possible." As for the reserve pilots, our original plan was that each division should reserve pilots in accordance with the requirement that the reserve should not be less than the first line, but our first batch of pilots only graduated from the aviation school last year, and at this rate, next month, the second batch of graduates will be in place, and the reserve pilots of the first division will reach 600. ”

Wang Zhenyu glanced at Yang Xianyi and said, "Then you, the commander of the Air Force, will take me to see the plane." ”

"Yes, no problem, the geographical location of Xiangyang is relatively remote, and the 20 kilometers around the base have been forcibly set as a no-man's land, and at the same time, we have moved many military factories to this place to cover this base, so the security and confidentiality work has been very smooth. The only bad thing is that the rainy season is too long, which affects our flight training...... "Yang Xianyi, a returned overseas Chinese, chattered while walking, probably this is the habit of Americans, Chinese hates that kind of chattering people, except for Wang Zhenyu, who himself is a chattering master in his own life.

The chief of staff of the 1st Air Division was the German Goering, and at this time this young man was still very slender, Wang Zhenyu shook hands with this handsome German young man with a little excitement, and then got into the car and drove into the big airport of the 1st Air Division.

One after another, planes of different types stopped on the side of the runway like soldiers waiting for review, waiting for Wang Zhenyu to watch.

Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but feel a little excited when he sat in the convertible, once he really started a war with Japan, submarines, tanks, and this plane would be the biggest guarantee for his victory in the war, and there could be no problem with this.

So Wang Zhenyu was not in a hurry to leave, although he didn't understand the Air Force, but he asked the planes to fly up to show himself......

On 1 July, Wang Yaqiao, who was in charge of intelligence against Japan, received information from at least four or more channels that although Japan did not have any news of a war against China, the Japanese troops of at least five domestic divisions, including the Sendai Second Division, had been mobilized, and with the addition of their troops stationed in Korea and Northeast China, the 14 standing divisions and regiments had at least generally been mobilized, and all kinds of new equipment and conventional weapons and ammunition had also been distributed to these mobilized combat units......

"It seems that the Japanese are really preparing to send troops to Shandong, and Zhang Zuolin's conspiracy is afraid to succeed." Wang Zhenyu dropped such a sentence at the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission and was silent, this is the old rule, Wang Zhenyu will generally let the people below speak freely instead of showing his views first. He knew very well that once he set the tone, he would not see the truth.

"Zhang Zongchang also sent people to contact us, asking for salaries and weapons, saying that he was preparing to defect." Zhou Wei saw that everyone was thinking and knew that the matter was too high, so he took the initiative to throw out a question.

When Yang Du heard this, he chose to speak: "Dashuai, there is a situation, the controversy about Confucianism has intensified recently, and one faction is to criticize Confucianism in an all-round way represented by new students, saying that Confucianism is the source of disaster for the Chinese nation and must be overthrown in an all-round way. ”

The eyes of the generals present suddenly turned to Yang Du, how could this old boy come up with a topic that had nothing to do with this meeting.

Wang Zhenyu's eyes suddenly lit up and said: "Mr. Huizi, this Confucianism is just a standard, emphasizing sainthood, is it against human nature here?" Sort of. However, the preservation of heavenly principles and the destruction of human desires is just the slogan of Cheng Zhu Lixue, which is also just a branch of Confucianism. This kind of persecution of women and human personality of the tribe in history is also a good service for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this kind of garbage science can be swept into the garbage heap, but Wang Yangming's psychology is worthy of our attention, in this way, Mr. Huizi, you come forward, please ask Wang Laofu to come forward and integrate Confucianism and psychology Wang Xuetong. In fact, I think that the kind of ministers of the Ming Dynasty who dared to take matters seriously and dared to contradict the imperial power was the foundation of the first generation, so what is the basis of the first generation? I see, it is the Taoist system that is independent of the imperial power. If the top level of a government steals Taoism like Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, and tosses out any great ideas when there is nothing to do, it is the practice of integrating imperial power and Taoism, so that the Chinese people will lose the qualification to think independently, and those who dare to think independently will be regarded as heresy, and the basis of ** will not exist. If the skin does not have hair, will it be attached? Mr. Huizi, this one will pick up the Taoist system in the name of Chinese culture and go out independently......"

The generals all looked at each other, not knowing why Yang Du's words could lead to such a big passage from Wang Zhenyu.

Wang Zhenyu ignored these people, and what he said next was shocking.

"Two hundred and seventy years ago, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took advantage of the opportunity of the thieves to successfully enter the Central Plains, forcibly set back the Chinese civilization for hundreds of years, and nearly 100 million Han people were slaughtered by the Manchus. The prosperous Kangqian era was nothing more than a group of spineless literati whitewashed the peace, and Cixi's chaotic government can be called a unique in history, and it became the sermon of Chinese rulers to prefer foreign thieves to domestic slaves. Finally, our soldiers drove out the Tatars and recovered China, and little Japan started to dream of the Manchu Qing Dynasty entering the Central Plains again. Do our children and grandchildren still wear open crotch pants and a mouth full of bird songs, and see the Japanese nodding and bowing non-stop? Will we still let our children and grandchildren laugh at our garbage incompetence in the same way that we ridiculed the decadence and incompetence of the late Ming Dynasty? ”

The blood in the hearts of the generals was ignited at once: "Can't, absolutely can't!" ”

Wang Zhenyu nodded and continued: "All along, there is a problem that has been bothering me. That is, how do I tell my officers and soldiers under my command what you are fighting for? Some people say that they are fighting for me, Wang Zhenyu, so what if I am assassinated or die of natural causes? Some people say that they are fighting for money, so what if they can't pay money? Now I tell you, go and tell your brothers below that you are fighting for the **, for the nation, for yourself and your descendants. What is Taoism? I have come to tell you, it is the truth. A lie can be disguised as truth with bayonet support, but it is a lie after all. You can call yourself a servant and squeeze the group you call your master, but you can't stop the master's awakening, because he is indeed the master. The reason why truth is truth is not how nice he says, but because he conforms to human nature and the trend. Anyone who feels that it can be anti-human and move against the tide will eventually be abandoned by history and will be drowned by the tide. Since the Japanese want to fight, then we will fight for him, and I believe that our youth army will win the final victory, and I believe that our Chinese nation will once again stand tall in the east of the world and will win! ”

"Victory, victory, victory!" Wan Yaohuang, Yang Wangui and other senior generals stood up excitedly and shouted that they would win, and there had not been such an exciting atmosphere in the conference room for a long time.

Chen Bui truthfully recorded this scene in his diary: On July 7, the eighth year of the Republic of China, the commission made up its mind to fight against Japan......

But deciding to fight is one thing, how to fight is another.

The meeting soon went back to the way it was old, with ideas being proposed, complaining when complaining, discussions being discussed, and slapping the table hard......

The situation on the Japanese side is not much better, and it is calculated carefully with the fingers wrenched, and it is not counted as a bloodless military operation such as receiving Qingdao and sending troops to Siberia. The Japanese had not fought for 14 years since the Russo-Japanese War, and when Prime Minister Hara Kei's order to send troops to maintain local order in Shandong was delivered, the military headquarters was also in a state of turmoil.

According to Tanaka Yoshiichi's idea, this battle is undoubtedly won, so it is natural to give himself such an opportunity to make war merits. The candidate he recommended was Kazunari Ugaki, the guy who had been around the prime minister's position for decades but never became prime minister. However, at this time, Akiyama Yoshiko, who was known as the father of the Japanese cavalry and broke the Cossack cavalry with a machine gun in the Russo-Japanese War, jumped out to fight for this position.

Speaking of this, Akiyama is indeed a wonder in the Japanese military circles. This generous and bold man joined the army as a student, and after his success, he returned to his hometown to become a teacher, and was one of the iconic figures of the Meiji Restoration. participated in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War as part of the Japanese Army; In the First Sino-Japanese War, the troops led by the Qing army were killed head-on by the Qing army in the First Battle of Tuchengzi, which became the excuse for the Japanese army to launch the Lushun Massacre. I hate bathing so much that I said I only took a bath twice during the Russo-Japanese War. The military uniform was never washed or changed, and lice grew there, and if you approached him, you could smell a foul smell. His subordinates and colleagues advised him to take a bath, but he refused on the grounds that "I don't know what will happen on the battlefield, and I can't handle it when I take a bath" and "Is it because the soldiers have come all the way to the battlefield to take a bath?" He contracted typhoid fever while studying in France. Not going to the doctor led to total hair baldness. When I attended the Second Peace Conference. He dozed off with thunderous snoring when others spoke. Participating together with Totsuki Shinroku reminded him to pay attention to the image. He replied, "I understand everything about the speech."

What's more, when Akiyama went to study in France, Army General Yama Prefecture asked him to give gifts to senior French officers. As a result, Akiyama Yoshiko got drunk and stole the gift in the subway.

is such a superb person, and now he jumps out to fight for the commander, the reason is to see if he can get a marshal, Tanaka Yoshiichi is angry and funny about this, but this old general's record back then was too prominent, and he actually resisted 110,000 Russian troops with 8,000 Japanese troops for three days, no matter how you look at it, it is not something that normal people can do