On the one hand, they clung to traditional thinking, refused to follow the current battlefield situation, and repudiated the more suitable night attack plan and insisted on attacking during the day, which led to the occurrence of this tragedy.

On the other hand, Spatz also realized that the role of the fighter should not be limited to this, only as a supporting role to protect the bomber, but should play a greater role. It's just that he didn't care about this concept before, and it wasn't until Zhang Yang said it today that he remembered it.

As the so-called backwardness is to be beaten, outdated concepts will also kill people, but the current situation is not as strict as everyone imagined, at least Zhang Yang's statement at the moment is a bit advanced, but it is definitely not that no one has thought of it, but everyone just said it.

"This assumption may be useful."

Li Mei waited until Spates finished speaking, and then opened his mouth to take over the words: "Zhang Yang mentioned before that this new jet aircraft of the Germans ......, oh yes, ME262, its own maneuverability is relatively poor, and large-angle maneuvering and excessive dive will have the danger of disintegration and stalling, which is an advantage for our fighters, and we can specifically attack the other side for this point." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mei shrugged her shoulders and said: "What's more, this German plane is only in the preliminary stage, and more pilots have fallen to death when the plane has problems itself than we have shot down." ”

Li Mei, who has a paralyzed face, said such a sentence seriously, which immediately made everyone present smile, this me262 has a relatively high failure rate, which is a somewhat frightening problem. Dying because of the plane's own malfunction is more humiliating than being shot down by the enemy.

A dry humor. The atmosphere in the conference room was much more relaxed, and Zhang Yang's words made everyone present think about it and began to consider the feasibility of this statement. Let's not talk about the right one. This will affect the changes of the entire Air Force, and it is impossible to finalize them casually, but at least they must be deduced by the command headquarters and confirmed to be feasible after they are carried out in actual combat, and then they will be specially promoted.

Just like when Li Mei first formed the 305 Group, an order that the bombers were not allowed to dodge when diving, not only did not increase the chance of damage to the bombers. On the contrary, it greatly increased the bombing volume and hit rate, which is one of the reasons why Li Mei asked Spates to pay attention to it first.

Spatz's gaze became brighter and brighter: "To be able to make such an assumption, it seems that you have also studied the Air Force." If I hadn't read your profile and confirmed that you were an army soldier, I would have thought you were a pilot pretending to be an infantry man. ”

"In our Chinese there is an old saying, called "Skill is not pressing. One more craft, one more way out. I've always been a big believer with that. Zhang Yang cleverly threw out an excuse.

"I've heard of this sentence, but there is another sentence, it seems to be called eating too much and not chewing it, it seems to mean this, hahaha!" Spatz laughed.

"Uh......, I didn't expect you to know Chinese, General."

Zhang Yang was choked by Spatz's words, but he didn't expect that the native-born American general would also know this sentence and cleverly use it to tease himself.

Spatz waved his hand and said, "I know only a few words." Before I came to the UK, I was in a negotiation in the US. I once met the Kuomintang's Mrs. Song, so I chatted a few words. ”

"Mrs. Song?"

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Spatz's words surprised Zhang Yang, how many Mrs. Song can there be in the Kuomintang in this period now?

In the "Three Sisters of the Song Family", Song Qingling is Sun Yat-sen's spouse, and her sister Song Meiling is the chairman of the Kuomintang at that time and the fourth wife of Lao Jiang.

Spatz nodded and said: "Yes, she came to the United States to negotiate business with an arms dealer, you know, China is also at war with Japan, I heard that now the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have united to fight against Japan." The husband of Mrs. Song was the chairman of the Kuomintang. ”

After listening to Spatz's explanation, Zhang Yang found that the US lieutenant general had a better understanding of the situation in China, and in this way, Zhang Yang could be sure that Mrs. Song was Song Meiling. Historically, the Kuomintang and the Americans have also been relatively close, perhaps sensing the flamboyant doubts, Spatz smiled a little mysteriously.

"Surprised? Haha, tell you, I've had a few contacts with General Chennault, so I know a little bit about the situation in China. ”

Zhang Yang suddenly realized.

"It turned out that I knew Chennault, so it made sense."

Like Spatz, Chennault's full name is Claire. Plum. Chennault, a lieutenant general and pilot of the U.S. Army Air Corps, once served as the commander of the U.S. Volunteer Air Corps, which fought in China during World War II, that is, the famous "Flying Tigers", and was known as the Flying Tiger General.

The older generation of people who experienced the Anti-Japanese War may not be unfamiliar with the name "Flying Tigers", when because of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, after dragging the United States into the quagmire of World War II, China, as the main battlefield of resistance against Japan, also received some American assistance, and the Flying Tigers were established at this time.

The Flying Tigers are a reference to the U.S. Air Force, not the modern Hong Kong Flying Tigers, and its main symbol is the shark tooth pattern painted on the front of the aircraft, a classic pattern often seen during World War II. It's just that the locals have never seen sharks and mistakenly think the plane is a "flying tiger", and the Americans think the name is not bad, so they change it to the Flying Tigers.

At that time, the Japanese Air Force was still very powerful, and the "Zero", which was also a famous aircraft in World War II, became a nightmare in the memory of many people. Due to the poor conditions in China at that time, it was very difficult to train and form an excellent pilot team by itself, and the Flying Tigers at that time played a great role in the War of Resistance against Japan.

A section with a total length of more than 800 kilometers, flying over the Himalayas, starting from India, passing through Myanmar into Kunming and Chongqing, transporting a large number of strategic materials for China. Due to the large changes in the airflow along the way, the flight path is like a hump, the weather is harsh, coupled with the obstruction of Japanese aircraft, there are many cases of flying planes, and countless aircraft fragments are scattered on this route, and this route sprinkled with blood is called the "hump route", also known as the "death route".

Chennault, whom Spatz mentions, is now the commander of the Flying Tigers, operating in China, has been promoted to the rank of major general, and is also tasked with training Chinese pilots in order to replenish the current shortage of pilots.

Speaking of Chennault, Spatz was also silent for a moment, China, unlike the United States, suffered greater and heavier losses on the battlefield.

In the face of the suffering motherland, Zhang Yang also wanted to lend a helping hand, but the time given by the system was too tight, and Zhang Yang did not know if he had the opportunity to go to China. Fortunately, it was now 1943, and it was approaching the end of World War II, and Japan, like Germany, had begun to reduce its war spending, and the massive consumption of resources could no longer support the war for too long.

Zhang Yang was even thinking about whether to have a good relationship with Li Mei to see if it was possible to replicate the bombing of Tokyo in advance so as to end the war as soon as possible......

This somewhat terrifying thought made Zhang Yang shudder, and then thought that the bombing of Tokyo did not happen until Li Mei was transferred to the Pacific Theater, and Li Mei was powerless even if she had an idea, so Zhang Yang could only temporarily dispel this idea, silently blessed the motherland in his heart, and prepared to solve the situation in front of him first.

The atmosphere in the conference room was a little heavy, and when the joy of the two good news brought by Zhang Yang was freed, the shadow of war was like a lingering cloud, heavy overhead, groggy and lingering.

In the end, Li Mei broke the silence and began to ask Zhang Yang about the details of this operation, including the previous situation in that commando, Zhang Yang tried his best to deduce according to the memory fragments in his mind, and finally covered up the past.

The experience may sound legendary, but Spatz and Li Mei are becoming more and more interested in flamboyance, speak German, and have a certain strategic vision and awareness, which does not look like ordinary soldiers. However, Zhang Yang's file records Zhang Yang's situation in detail, a very ordinary Chinese-American, after the death of his parents two years ago, took the initiative to apply to join the international volunteer team and came to the United Kingdom, and stayed on the battlefield for two years.

In two years, since he was able to survive on the battlefield, he was a qualified veteran. However, what makes Spatz and Li May a little strange is that even if Zhang Yang's record is not outstanding, it seems that he should not still be a sergeant, if he knew that Bucky was also the future Winter Soldier, and he was a sergeant when he first joined the army, then Spatz called the officer who managed the file, and found out some insiders.

The real reason is simple: it is still a centuries-old problem of racial discrimination.

The parents of this body are also a pair of Chinese, and they received the help of a Chinese when Zhang Xun was restored, and the parents of "Zhang Yang" once saved the life of this Chinese and repaid the favor, and their kindness was rewarded today. With the help of that Chinese, "Zhang Yang"'s parents finally came to the United States to settle down, and later gave birth to "Zhang Yang".

At that time, there were many wars in the country, warlords were fighting, and the United States was quite stable compared to it, but fortunately, with the help of that Chinese friend, the life of the couple was not so difficult, but in the end, both of them suffered from illness and died of illness one after another, and "Zhang Yang" at that time was also an adult, and refused the help of the Chinese and decided to leave the United States.

When "Zhang Yang" first joined the army, Japan had not yet attacked Pearl Harbor, and he was a member of the international volunteer team formed by the United Nations, and was immediately assigned to the United Kingdom. (To be continued......)