Speaking of the father of China's aerospace, the first one should be China's first designer, pilot and manufacturer who made an airplane, Feng Ru, Feng Lao.

He was an outstanding figure who designed the first aircraft belonging to China and is known as the father of China's aerospace.

In the future, it is Qian Lao, who has a pure heart and returns to China after completing his studies to help the development of the motherland, and can also be called the father of China's aerospace.

It's just that Old Feng has long since passed away.

Qian Lao is still abroad, and I don't know when he will return to China after completing his studies.

At the moment, Kong Jie, or the Eighth Route Army, can count on it, that is, Doolittle, a special talent in the field of aviation who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Be the father of China's aerospace!"

I have to say that the cake drawn by Captain Kong is big and round.

As soon as these words came out, Doolittle, who had always been calm and moderate, trembled all over his body, as if a certain nerve had suddenly been dialed.

These American GIs have the spirit of chasing honor.

Otherwise, they would not have voluntarily chosen to participate in such a life-or-death mission as the bombing of Tokyo.

As Doolittle said, when he decided to lead the flying team to bomb Tokyo, none of them expected to come back alive.

But there is still no hesitation.

All for the sake of honor!

In the end, it succeeded in creating a miracle, and the world knew it in the first battle.

As a lieutenant colonel of the US Air Force, plus an entrepreneur who runs a civil aviation, Doolittle is not bad for money and status.

The only thing that can impress such people may be the only thing left that has been celebrated through the ages and has a vigorous career.

Kong Jie continued to draw cakes: "Brother Du led the flight team to successfully attack Tokyo is already a famous hero in the world, but I think this is far from enough.

If this great hero arrives in China, he successfully helps the Eighth Route Army, which is difficult to resist Japanese aggression, backward in equipment, scarce in ammunition and isolated on the battlefield behind enemy lines, and successfully develops its own aviation career.

Eventually, he became the father of China's aerospace industry.

This can be said to be another brilliant achievement, and Brother Du did not rest on his laurels because of the successful bombing of Tokyo, but made new breakthroughs and achievements.

This is enough to make Brother Du's name go to the next level. ”

Then the facts are presented:

This is also Brother Du's indirect reinforcement of the motherland.

The development of our Eighth Route Army, especially the elite troops, is good, but the only thing lacking is the air force that can compete with the Japanese army, and we don't even have a single plane.

If Brother Du can help us develop our own air force to deal with the Japanese army, we will definitely be able to contain more Japanese main forces in China, resulting in the Japanese army being unable to send more elites to the Pacific theater.

With this alone, Brother Du, you can even avoid the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers in your American army.

With this credit alone, I think it's no less than Brother Du leading a flight team to attack Tokyo! ”

In Kong Jie's words, Doolittle was silent, or he was indeed moved.

Big Heroes Who Bombed Tokyo!

Then he is the father of aviation who developed China's aviation industry!

It also indirectly responded to the US operation in the Pacific theater!

In the future, it can even build a bridge for cooperation between China and the United States!

Any of these achievements, any name, is enough to make ordinary people become heroes known all over the world.

In front of him, Kong Jie told Doolittle that he could do all this.

Of course, as a top student who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an expert in the field of aviation, it is naturally not something that Kong Jie can fool in a few words.

Originally, Doolittle may still be a little skeptical, but after entering the aviation research room in front of him, after getting these special research materials and design materials in his hands.

Doolittle was shocked to find that there were some research and design materials here, which even their American aviation research laboratories did not have, and that they had not overcome and broken through the problems.

While Dulittle was pleasantly surprised by this discovery, he became more and more curious about the organization of the Eighth Route Army.

He couldn't understand what kind of army it was, in the most difficult environment, but it had created the most elite troops, and in the most backward conditions, it was able to design such advanced design data, and as for the field of aviation, they didn't even have a single plane, not even a pilot who had successfully tested it.

However, their research, especially in various aspects of aviation, is quite in-depth.

Just as Kong Jie said without exaggeration: "Brother Du, to put it bluntly, our Eighth Route Army's research in the field of aviation, in a word, except for not being able to go to the sky, we have everything else." ”

And what Kong Jie said was quickly confirmed.

In addition to the special aviation research room, there is also a considerable number of pilots in reserve.

In the ensuing exchanges, Doolittle and his entourage of US pilots found that in addition to their lack of practical flight experience, these Chinese pilots were not much worse than them in terms of theoretical mastery.

This surprised these Yankees, who have always been mainly based on practical training.

They couldn't imagine how these guys, who had never been to the sky or even touched an airplane, were cultivated.

Then, Kong Jie took Doolittle and his entourage to visit some airports specially prepared by the team, as well as the fuel reserves, as well as various flight backup facilities built at the airport.

Doolittle finally sighed with emotion: "Kong, what you said is right, you may only have one plane left now, as long as you have it, you can immediately take off the combat plane." ”

In this regard, Kong Jie is indeed full of confidence.

"Brother, the problem with the plane is actually a small problem, as long as you nod your head and promise to stay, I can promise you that I can get you a few planes back in less than half a month."

Having said that, coupled with some advanced design information of Kong Jie's aviation research laboratory, Doolittle really attracted Doolittle's heart.

So Doolittle told the rest of the American pilots about his intention to leave behind to help the Eighth Route Army develop its aviation career.

When Doolittle said that Kong Jie promised to get a few planes back in a short time, and in addition, he warmly welcomed the American pilots who were willing to stay and entrusted them with reuse.

These pilots, who pursued freedom and honor, and regarded the plane as a partner and their life, followed Doolittle and decided to stay in the team.

"After all, I don't know when I will be able to return to China, can a pilot without a plane still be considered a pilot?"

This sentence can be said to represent the voice of most US military pilots.

In addition, they were rescued by these Eighth Route Army, and they also wanted to return the favor, and they also wanted to help the current unit develop air force to deal with the Japanese army.

In particular, Doolittle said that they stayed here to help the Eighth Route Army fight against the Japanese army, and they could also contain the elite of the Japanese army in China and respond to the US military operations in the Pacific theater.

Therefore, these US pilots stayed in the team to help the Eighth Route Army units develop their aviation career, which became their natural and sacred mission.

These Yankees are willing to go out of their way to help.

This is exactly what Kong Jie wants to achieve.

Of course, Kong Jie also kept a special hand, and some of the design data and important parameter data given were only some models that could be designed by the Eighth Route Army in response to the current conditions.

As for some more advanced design materials and data, the Eighth Route Army does not need them at present, and naturally they will not give them to these Yankees casually.

After all, others don't know the situation, but Kong Jie knows it very well.

There are never eternal friends in this world, only eternal interests.

……

The former enemy headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

When Doolittle expressed his willingness to stay in the Eighth Route Army, stay in the team, and assist the Eighth Route Army in developing its own aviation field, the boss and the generals at all levels of the headquarters expressed a warm welcome.

After an enthusiastic discussion with Doolittle and a study of the future direction of the development of the Eighth Route Army in the field of aviation.

The boss finally said that he would build a special aviation research institute in the most stable core area of the Taihang base area, concentrate all the resources of the Eighth Route Army, and build an aviation force belonging to the Eighth Route Army.

"You kid has done a great job this time!"

After making temporary arrangements for Doolittle and his entourage, the boss praised Kong Jie and made it clear that he would give Kong Jie credit for this matter.

In the following discussion of this matter, Kong Jie also expressed his heart, and solemnly told the boss that Dulittle and these US military branch members should be used and prevented.

However, the means must be clever, at least to make these Yankees feel at home here, and make them think that the development of China's aviation industry is to contribute to their own motherland.

"Ahem, it's better to tell them about our revolutionary ideas and doctrines, in case the Yankees are like this!"

The boss agreed, and sighed: "You kid has a good abacus, this is a typical selling people, and letting others count the money for you, but I like it!" ”

After the matter was settled, Doolittle and his party stayed in the team for the time being.

First, the base of the first team is also relatively stable, and there is a specially built aviation research laboratory, and on this alone, the first team is even ahead of the headquarters.

In the past two years, everyone has long regarded the detachment as a military laboratory, an industrial laboratory, and a various scientific and technological laboratory of the Eighth Route Army.

To put it bluntly, the most prominent aspects of the Eighth Route Army in all fields basically fell on one team.

……

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Duan Peng and Ye Min's rescue of Doolittle and his party can only be regarded as a small episode of the Japanese army's sweep of the Eighth Route Army's base areas.

A large area of guerrilla areas in Shanxi and Shandong and the base areas of the Eighth Route Army.

After the Japanese army's May Day sweep officially kicked off, according to the sticky tactics proposed by Tanabe, the chief of staff of the devil.

The Japanese army used a small elite armored unit as the vanguard advance force, and constantly advanced and tested the area of the Eighth Route Army's base area, and reconnoitred the deployment of the Eighth Route Army's base area, so as to facilitate the follow-up main force to launch a large-scale attack.

Once encountering the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the process, the armored troops of the devils will quickly retreat, and then the artillery and air force firepower that will be reinforced at any time will launch a fierce attack on the troops and fortifications of the Eighth Route Army that appear.

Not only that, but the Japanese army changed its usual sweeping strategy, and did not push along the line of communication to carry out the sweep.

They will learn from the Eighth Route Army, seize the commanding heights along the way, and seize all kinds of passes and important mountain fortifications.

Construct a relatively dense and stable defensive line, and guard against the detour tactics of the Eighth Route Army troops in the mountains at any time.

Then gradually move forward with the main force in search of a solid sweeping result.

After the Japanese army carried out this innovative tactic and swept the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, it did achieve considerable results in the first few days of the year, with a large number of defensive positions on the outer line of the Eighth Route Army being lost and a large number of commanding heights being seized by the Japanese army.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army were also forced to retreat under the advance of the main force of the Japanese army, and the original space for activities was also constantly compressed.

The General Headquarters of the Japanese Army in North China was dispatched.

Tanabe, the chief of staff of the devil, listened to the battle report from the front and nodded with great ambition.

It seems that the sticky tactics he invented worked.

"General, as long as our army continues to maintain sticky tactics and continue to compress the base area of the Eighth Route Army, I think it will take less than a week, even if we can't wipe out the base area of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop, and wipe out the main force of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

It is also necessary to completely compress the Eighth Route Army in the western part of Taihang Mountain in the form of four horizontal and three vertical.

In this way, the battle plan of the Jizhong Military Region, which quickly returned to the reinforcements and encircled Jizhong, and destroyed the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop, could be smoothly launched. ”

Tanabe was confident about this.

Devil Commander Okamura also had a little more smile on his face, and then the topic of the two turned to the area of Licheng, Shexian, and Xiangyuan.

It's just that these two old devils have a bit of a headache.

"A few days ago, Licheng had been completely lost, and these damned Eighth Route Army had built quite solid fortifications around Licheng, and even the four cities of Xiangyuan, Lucheng, Liaoxian and Shexian around Licheng were also captured by the Eighth Route Army.

Our army has tried to launch several attacks, but all of them have failed, and for now we can only temporarily besiege these eight roads in the area of the five cities.

First, the focus was on the sweep of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi and Shandong. ”

"It's really the concrete fortifications built around the five cities of Licheng, which are too stable!" The old devil Tanabe said helplessly.

The devil tried almost all kinds of methods, wanting to completely remove these five nails and wipe out the main force of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop, so as to open up the transportation channel of Licheng.

But it can't be done after all.

The frantic little devil even used poison gas.

It's a pity that the Eighth Route Army has been prepared for a long time, and has prepared a large number of gas masks in advance, and even some hand-cranked fans that specialize in poison gas, which can quickly expel the poison gas of devils to the fortifications.

The devil's poison gas attack is not very effective.

In addition, Kong Jie is not used to the little devils, after the devils used poison gas to attack, Kong Jie directly asked some members of the commando detachment to put some poison gas bombs captured by a team from the devils to the headquarters of the devil's cities.

Attached is also a letter, full of threatening tones.

The approximate meaning is nothing more than saying:

If you continue to use it, we will not only expose your propaganda and let the international countries know about it, and sanction you, but we will also retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, and fight violence with violence, and then throw this gas bomb directly to your headquarters.

Don't blame us for being rude!

In this way, there was no progress in the poison gas attack, and the little devil honestly died down......

(End of chapter)