The Nanjing side sent a telegram asking the logistics headquarters to give an explanation, and according to the usual practice, they pushed out the Anti-Japanese War Pension Association, saying that it had been handed over to the families of the soldiers who died in the Anti-Japanese War.

In this way, it can not only block Nanjing's mouth, but also make everyone acceptable.

However, when the secretary handed the telegram to Yu Feipeng, he realized the seriousness of the matter from the above wording after reading the original telegram.

The message was harshly worded, not in an inquiring manner, but as if it were an investigation. The Ministry of Defense is the direct superior of the logistics headquarters, and such an attitude naturally makes people feel bad.

"Minister, if I don't read it, I will send the original documents of the Executive Yuan to Nanjing, and let them fight the law with the Kuomintang themselves." The secretary stepped forward and suggested.

"No!" Yu Feipeng said: "The logistics headquarters is subordinate to the leadership of the Ministry of National Defense, and it is not under the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of the Army, so they suggested that I do it, is this telling Nanjing that I am a puppet?" ”

"......" The secretary was blocked for a while, Yu Feipeng waved his hand and said, "You go out first, I'll think about it myself." ”

Just when Yu Feipeng was at a loss, an officer in the duty room knocked on the door again, saying that the superior of the Nanjing Ministry of Defense had sent another telegram.

Unlike the previous one, this one is obviously more important, because it was signed by the Office of the Minister of Defense. In other words, this message was sent directly by the Office of the Minister of Defense.

In terms of content, this telegram directly asks the logistics headquarters to explain the specific purpose of this batch of military materials, and asks the relevant departments to provide a corresponding list of whereabouts. A few wagons of supplies should be specific to each family.

Seeing this piece of information, Yu Feipeng's head was big.

In fact, a large part of the materials were distributed to his own people at all levels of government in Wuhan as welfare, and even a lot of canned beef was stored in the canteen of his logistics headquarters.

It's not that he has a small belly and a small family, and he covets this little thing, but since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the shortage of materials has been really serious, and the supply of organs and government departments at all levels has been greatly reduced. Huang Ke proposed that "the central government should take the lead in tightening the belt", so the departments at the central level have become departments that are "knifed".

Now that Nanjing wants to find out the specific whereabouts of this batch of materials, Yu Feipeng is really difficult to make up for a while. If you find out something at that time, and then deduct yourself with the crime of deducting the pensions of the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War, it will not be able to wash it even if you jump into the Yellow River.

Yu Feipeng scratched his scalp and felt a little regretful, he regretted that he shouldn't have been involved, people are the struggle between the Xiguan faction and the national party, which faction he doesn't count, blindly follow and mix? Doesn't this deserve to be in trouble?

Yu Feipeng was ready to explain to Huang Ke on the phone in person.

However, I picked up the red line in front of me and called it a few times, and the reply I got was that the chief was busy and had no time to arrange answering.

Yu Feipeng broke his mouth with the person who was facing the microphone and the secretary desk, and the other party still said apologetically, "Minister Yu, I'm really sorry." Now the chief still can't answer your call. The commander-in-chief has gone to the front line to inspect the front, and I don't know when I will come back without a scheduled time, so let's do it, I will report this matter as soon as the commander-in-chief returns. ”

"Okay, that's for you." Yu Feipeng hung up the phone in disappointment. He didn't know if Huang Ke really went to the front line to inspect, but he had a general plan in his heart, it seems that this matter is not so simple, this is the most

At least it shows that Huang Ke himself is already very dissatisfied with his actions.

Yu Feipeng leaned back and rubbed his temples vigorously, he really didn't want to get involved, but there was no way if he didn't get involved, now he just wanted Huang Ke to understand.

……

Huang Ke did go to inspect it, but instead of going to the previous army units, he went to inspect several air force airports in Nanjing to encourage and express his condolences to the air force officers and men.

The situation of the defense has changed these days, the airborne troops have occupied the important communication points between Shanghai and Nanjing, and the Japanese army attacking Nanjing has been exclusively defended. Huang Ke asked Cui Wu to organize a big counterattack at the right time to regain the lost ground.

Cui Wu did not disappoint Huang Ke. He and his General Staff drew up a counterattack plan for the east of Nanjing, and he gathered more than 300,000 troops from the 15 th Group Army Group, the First Group Army, and the troops participating in the Battle of Nanjing.

The curtain of the counteroffensive has been opened, and in addition to the regular army forces, the air force has also made great contributions in this defensive battle.

At this time, Huang Ke decided to inspect the air force units and commend those air athletes who bravely killed the enemy in battle.

The commendation meeting of the Air Force was held at the venue of the Daxiaochang Airport, and because the Air Force needed to be on combat readiness duty, there were not many pilots who participated, and except for a few pilots, the rest were some leaders of various units of the Air Force. Despite this, the small venue was packed.

In the huge conference room, there were more than 100 excellent pilots. According to the list of commendations, Huang Ke personally stepped forward to award them medals.

At the end of the commendation ceremony, Huang Ke delivered a brief speech on the spot. He smiled and said: "You are all brave generals in air combat, and it is you who have used your strength to tell the enemy the price of invading our airspace!" It was also you who fired the first shot of the counteroffensive! You are the Flying Tigers who maintain peace and freedom! ”

Afterwards, the venue burst into thunderous applause.

Huang Ke proposed that the air force units participating in the defense of Nanjing be named the "Flying Tigers". Because this was a temporary intention on the spot, and the corresponding battle flag was not prepared in advance, Huang Ke asked people to take down a military flag, took out a brush and black lacquer and wrote the word "war eagle" on the surface.

After the writing was completed, he personally awarded the battle flag to the officers and men of the Air Force.

Because of the heavy tasks of the Air Force, Huang Ke did not waste too much time, and after the brief speeches and ceremonies, the pilots all returned to their posts, leaving only some of the main leaders of the Air Force units to continue to enter the small conference room and hold a brief briefing meeting.

This kind of debriefing meeting is not a meeting that does not have any substantive content in the general sense, and the main topic of this meeting is to discuss the current strategic deployment of the Air Force and the practical difficulties existing in the Air Force's operations. The deployment of the air force has been drawn up in advance, and the specific contents have been issued in a document, so Huang Ke will not go into too much detail.

"Okay, I won't talk about some clichés and empty words. Today, I think you are all concerned about the other purpose of my visit, so let's talk about your difficulties and problems. Now they are all complaining to me face to face, don't have any taboos, from eating, drinking, and Lazar to deploying weapons and equipment for combat, if I can solve it, I will solve it for you; If you can't solve it, you have to find a way to solve it. Huang Ke said his opening remarks with a smile.

This real opening remark made the atmosphere of the scene a lot more lively, but everyone didn't know whether it was out of scruples or what they wanted, and they were not very willing to be the first to speak, Huang Ke simply pointed to Fu Guoqiang, who was sitting in the back row, and said: "Captain Fu, start from your side, and follow one by one." ”

Fu Guoqiang saw his name, and simply stood up and said: "Okay, then I will talk about some difficulties in our actual operations, and also complain to the commander-in-chief." ”

Fu Guoqiang then talked about some problems of the backwardness of the Air Force's operational thinking. "Our air force is equipped with fighters, dive bombers and bombers with several functional aircraft. There is nothing to say about the performance of the aircraft, especially this batch of Lightning 3 models, after the improvement, the speed and firepower are good. However, I think our operational thinking is a bit backward, and in the early days we trained were single-plane combat, and now we have added a lot of V-shaped formations, but in actual combat, some battles are most ideal for two-plane formations. Therefore, I would like to ask that in the training of pilots, we will also increase the training content of the two-plane formation. ”

After Fu Guoqiang finished speaking, everyone nodded.

Huang Ke listened while recording carefully in his notebook. After listening to their speeches, he smiled and said: "Okay, the leaders of the aviation school in charge of pilot training, you can make a statistic or induction to see if there is any need to join the training of this two-plane formation." Of course, in normal times, you should also come to the flight brigade more often, and train pilots, and you must focus on actual combat. ”

The other officers spoke in turn, and they all spoke freely, and they did not shy away from mentioning various problems in combat, training, and life, and Huang Ke recorded them one by one.

Finally, when it was the turn of Air Force Minister Xu Shaozhou, he put away the pen and paper in his hand and said: "With the progress of the war, the number of Air Force pilots who have sacrificed has been increasing, and now there is a shortage of Air Force pilots. Just like an ace pilot like Fu Guoqiang, he has to take off several times a day, and fatigue flight is already an imminent problem. ”

Hearing this question, Huang Ke's expression became solemn, pilots are not comparable to airplanes, if there is a lack of aircraft ammunition, they can hurry up the production and even buy it from abroad; But a qualified Air Force pilot needs a long period of training accumulation, which is not something that money can solve.

"How big is the shortage of pilots in each unit?" Huang Ke asked after pondering for a moment.

Hearing this, the officers below all began to discuss this issue as an urgent problem for their existence, and now the main training of pilots is to be transferred to aviation schools in Wuhu and Nanjing to supplement them.

The shortest training cycle of aviation schools is one year at the shortest, and as the war against Japan continues to be all-out on the front line, fierce air battles occur almost every day, and pilots are wounded and sacrificed every day.

"It seems that this is a pressing issue." Huang Ke's brows were twisted into the word "Sichuan", and at this time he thought of a person.