The person Huang Ke remembered was none other than Chennault, the captain of the "Flying Tigers", a flight team that aided China in World War II.

At present, the Chinese Air Force has a variety of problems in which pilots cannot keep up with the follow-up, and if a contingent of pilots with rich combat experience can join it, although the fundamental situation cannot be improved, it is still possible to alleviate this shortage of pilots.

Of course, he did not raise the issue at the meeting. For one, he didn't know where Chennault was now. In addition, this matter still needs to be contacted by the US side, and if it is said in front of everyone, it is obviously a bit out of place.

Because he remembered that Chennault was an instructor at the Jianqiao Aviation School at the beginning, and after the fall of Jianqiao, the main body of the aviation school was relocated to Nanjing and Wuhan.

After the meeting, Huang Ke found General Zhou Zhirou, who was in charge of flight training at the aviation school.

Zhou Zhirou is now in charge of the management of the aviation school, and he thought that Huang Ke was asking him about the training and training of pilots, so he sorted out the information in his hand.

The people in the conference room were almost gone, leaving only Huang Ke, Xu Shaozhou and Zhou Zhirou. Huang Ke took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and distributed them to everyone, and then he lit a smile and said, "With so many young pilots here just now, I haven't been embarrassed to smoke." This addiction to cigarettes has long come up. ”

Xu Shaozhou and Zhou Zhirou both smiled with Ying He, they were both Huang Ke's old subordinates, and they knew that he was extremely addicted to smoking. In the past, Huang Ke smoked imported cigars, but since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, he quit this habit and began to smoke domestic cigarettes.

The three of them lit cigarettes and began to swallow the clouds.

Huang Ke flicked the cigarette ash in his hand and said: "You must be clear about the situation introduced by Minister Shao Zhou just now, you can introduce the specific situation of pilot training." ”

Zhou Zhirou paused his throat, straightened his body a little more and said: "Yes, similar to what Minister Xu introduced, we do have a big gap in the follow-up personnel of pilots. Generally speaking, the training cannot catch up with the needs of the troops. ”

As he spoke, Zhou Zhirou spread out the book he had prepared in advance, turned a few pages and began to say: "We now have four aviation schools in Wuhan, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Xi'an, as well as some branch schools in Xinyang, Kunming and other places. ”

"The four aviation schools, in fact, were affected by the war, and the aviation schools in Nanjing and Guangzhou were basically unable to train pilots, and the aviation schools in Nanjing were mainly combat training and mechanics, and the situation in Guangzhou would not be much better. In this way, it is the aviation school training students in Wuhan and Xi'an. Although since the Anti-Japanese War, the enthusiasm of young people to join the army is relatively high, but the strict requirements for the physical and cultural level of pilots will still lead to a shortage of some students, and the pilot training cycle is long, the two academies can only send less than 1,000 pilots every year, but our gap is much larger. ”

After Zhou Zhirou finished speaking, she spread her hands and felt very embarrassed about this matter.

Minister Xu Shaozhou added: "At a time when there was no non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Japan, some of the assistance provided by the Soviet Union to us could make up for the lack of our pilots to a certain extent. But after the withdrawal of the Soviet pilots, our gap became apparent. ”

Huang Ke listened with a solemn expression, and after listening to Zhou Zhirou's situation report, he stroked his hair back and said, "The main responsibility for this situation is also mine." The Japanese launched the war too quickly and urgently, resulting in many of our industries not having a good reserve of talents, and it was not too obvious in the early stage of the war, and this kind of problem appeared a few years after the war. ”

Huang Ke's few words of self-blame made Xu Shaozhou and Zhou Zhirou feel a little ashamed, Xu Shaozhou said: "The chief does not have to blame himself, the war is unpredictable. It is already commendable to be able to build an air force of this size in a short period of time from scratch. ”

"Yes, yes, if the chief had not taken the foresight to launch the aircraft production line at the Mawei Factory and establish the Jianqiao Aviation School, I am afraid that we would have no air force now." Zhou Zhirou also followed suit.

Huang Ke waved his hand and said, "Needless to say, pat yourself on the back." I would like to talk about my own solutions to these problems. Our top priority is to solve the problem of insufficient pilots and strive to plug this gap. ”

After speaking, Huang Ke changed his words and asked: "I remember that there was an American instructor named Chennault at Jianqiao Aviation School in the past, and now Zhirou knows where he is?" ”

Hearing this question, Zhou Zhirou showed a smile on her face: "Chennault is here, and now he is still an instructor at Wuhan Aviation School, and we will have some contact and correspondence between us in private. ”

"Well, what is his own attitude towards China's War of Resistance? Do you know this? Huang Ke asked.

"Yes!" Zhou Zhirou said: "The reason why Chennault has not left China so far is because he supports the War of Resistance from the bottom of his heart, and he says that he hates little Japan. In the past, when the United States and Japan were not at war, he flew planes to fight Japan in the air. ”

"Okay, now the Lend-Lease Act is in effect. The formation of an 'anti-fascist coalition' is also being conceived among our countries. Since they are all allies, they also need to provide the obligations of allies. I'll talk to this Chennault and see if I can recruit some pilots from the United States. Huang Ke said.

"Recruiting pilots from the United States?" Xu Shaozhou and Zhou Zhirou were a little surprised.

Huang Ke said with a smile: "Yes, the United States has a relatively large reserve of pilots, their air force was established relatively early, and many pilots have retired from the civilian sector. Another point is that, like Germany, they have relatively well-developed private flying clubs, which reserves a large number of flying talents for them. I don't think it's hard to recruit or hire a group of pilots from them. In addition, I would like to talk to President Roosevelt about the introduction of American fighter planes when I meet with President Roosevelt at the end of the year, and you will study some of the aircraft types that our military is short of, as well as the American ones, and come back to give me a list. ”

"In addition, the follow-up training of talents must keep up, and at present, it is difficult to set up flying clubs in China, and it is difficult for Tibetan talents to be among the people, but it is still possible to do it professionally. Your aviation school can expand the scale of enrollment, you can also expand the source of students, the requirements of the air force are high, you can coordinate with the Ministry of Education, so that graduated college students also enthusiastically join the army, or when they go to the middle school to select outstanding graduates. The solutions are all thought up by people, and we have to find ways to solve problems when there are problems. ”

"Yes, we will definitely actively improve our work in this area in the future." Xu Shao said.

Huang Ke said: "But there is one thing to pay attention to, in the training of pilots, we cannot pull out the seedlings to help them grow. The training level and graduation assessment requirements cannot be relaxed at all, and it is still necessary to adhere to the idea of strict entry and strict exit. After all, these people are going to go to the battlefield after they come out, and if they have low requirements, they are not only irresponsible for us, but also for the safety of their lives. ”

"Yes! We took note of the chief's words, and began to deploy and implement them after we returned. Zhou Zhirou also said.

"Well, okay. There's nothing else to do, contact Chennault and I'll let the secretary Chen Liewen connect with you alone. Let's go, let's go to dinner, how about a taste of the Air Force canteen? With that, Huang Ke stood up and led the others outside.

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When he returned from the inspection of the air force, the people from the secretary's desk reported to Huang Ke what Yu Feipeng had asked to report.

Fourteen Tsai said: "Chief, Yu Feipeng helped the Jiang faction change the allocation of materials this time, and he went too far. Would you like to find someone to investigate him? ”

Chen Liewen also said: "According to your deployment, the whereabouts of this batch of materials have been investigated. Sure enough, more than half of this batch of materials flowed into various departments of the central government in Wuhan. We can use this matter as an excuse to investigate Yu Feipeng. ”

Fourteen Tsai and Chen Liewen both said with some righteous indignation.

Huang Ke waved his hand and said: "Forget it, Yu Feipeng is a two-faced person, he doesn't want to offend this side, nor does he want to offend the other side, it's understandable to do so." Besides, in addition to the pensions of the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War, the materials they seized were also given to the various ministries and commissions of the central government in Wuhan. Ever since I engaged in wartime management, the civil servants at the grassroots level have been very dissatisfied with me, and it is not easy to get some welfare. ”

"Why don't you think about things more and use your brains?" Huang Ke's tone of voice gradually became louder, he was not angry about this matter, but angry that Chen Liewen and Fourteen Tsai, who were following him, were thinking about things so simply.

The two of them were reprimanded by Huang Ke, both of them were a little red-faced, and they were both embarrassed.

"You guys go out first, take Yu Feipeng's phone in, I want to have a good talk with him." After speaking, Huang Ke returned to the seat behind the desk and sat down.

Yu Feipeng's phone was connected, and when he was in a meeting, the people in the switchboard room told him that a call came from Nanjing, and when he announced the adjournment of the meeting, he immediately ran to the telephone.

On the phone, Huang Ke reprimanded him fiercely, counted several of his "crimes", and scared Yu Feipeng into a cold sweat, but fortunately, in the end, Huang Ke raised the board high and fell gently, so that he could review this matter to the Ministry of National Defense, and there would be no other punishment measures.

Yu Feipeng let out a sigh of relief, and the clap of his chest through the phone rang loudly, saying that he must learn a lesson and not embezzle military materials without permission.

"Okay, then wait and see what happens, and if something like this happens, whoever it is will be sent to a military court." After Huang Ke finished speaking, he hung up the phone, and Yu Feipeng let out a sigh of relief.

By the time the call ended, it was already evening. These days, they have been living in underground bunkers on the outskirts of Nanjing, and tonight he doesn't want to go, he wants to go back to his mansion on Fenglin Road for the night.

But there was no one in the mansion anymore, his wife and children had gone to the rear, and even the servant butler was not there, and after thinking about it, he decided not to go back.

Just as he was about to have dinner, the Department of Communications called and said that the Japanese army had attacked the Philippines and that the transport ships that China had aided from the United States might be affected.

Huang Ke was shocked when he heard this, and what he was most worried about was coming!