Gao Jianwu's invitation did not receive a positive response from Major General Smith, but Gao Jianwu didn't care, and after eating and wiping the little devil he met by chance, he continued to take Smith south.

He didn't do anything deliberately, but now this kind of inadvertently displayed strong strength has convinced Major General Smith.

Back at the Allied Southeast Asia Theater Command, Major General Smith gave a detailed briefing to General Steven, and soon General Steven gave a direct briefing to his superiors and the president.

The content of the report is very simple, the main thing is to tell the above that now the conditions for using Wanwan Island as a base to attack the mainland of Xiaori are fully met!

Soon, the Allied top brass made a decision to use Moss North as a central base and began to prepare for a wave of memorable strikes against the small day mainland.

Before that, the Allies will have a clean sweep of the Kori Air Base from Wanwan Island to Kyushu!

This task will be given to Major General Smith and a new major general named Li May, who brought the Allied 21st Bomber Force, Major General Smith is responsible for air cover and combat, and the bombing mission is given to Major General Li May!

"Gao, this is General Li Mei." As a landlord, Gao Jianwu soon met General Li Mei.

Major General Smith brought General Li May to visit the door, and they also coordinated the use of the base.

"General Li Mei, this is Gao Jianwu, the commander-in-chief of the Southeast Task Force."

"Welcome General Li Mei to Moss North, I hope that General Li Mei can have a good time here." Gao Jianwu greeted him with a smile and greeted General Li Mei according to the custom in the army.

General Li Mei, who had silver-gray hair, returned the salute solemnly, "Commander Gao, fortunately!" ”

After speaking, without saying a word, Gao Jianwu invited the two of them to the office and sat down.

"General Li Mei is ordering tea or coffee?" Gao Jianwu asked, as for Major General Smith, he was already very clear and did not need to ask.

"Tea, thank you!" General Li Mei spoke.

When he first saw General Li Mei, Gao Jianwu felt that this was a very different person from Major General Smith.

After a while, Gao Jianwu's orderly brought tea and coffee.

"John, here's your coffee; General Li Mei, this is our specialty tea oolong tea on Wanwan Island, see if it fits the taste? ”

General Li Mei picked up the teacup and took a sip gently, and a fragrance emanated from it, refreshing people's hearts.

"Good tea! I love it. After General Li Mei finished speaking, he put down the teacup.

"It's good to like it, two generals, I don't know what I can do for the two generals to come together today?" Gao Jianwu was not polite and went straight to the topic.

Dealing with these serious soldiers in the beautiful country, he has become accustomed to going straight to the point.

"Gao, we are here today mainly to solve a few things." Major General Smith is accustomed to Gao Jianwu, and he is not polite.

"First of all, I hope that from the port to the airport, there will be a special transport team responsible for the transshipment of fuel and ammunition, this bombing has lasted a long time, the scale is large, the amount of fuel and ammunition transshipment involved is relatively large, and the safety and quantity of the transshipment personnel are high."

"Understand, John, I will personally supervise this matter, organize a transportation team with clear members, go back and give me the specific data of the weight and volume that needs to be transported every day, and I will organize enough capacity to solve this problem."

Gao Jianwu replied without hesitation.

"The second thing, high, we use a large number of fighters this time, the peak of bombers may reach 400, airport and camp support, I hope to be able to solve it in advance, our crew may be as high as more than 2,000 people, plus ground support, I hope to be able to get a camp of about 6,000 people."

"No problem, now we are in the vicinity of several airports in the north and can directly provide camps for 5,000 people! According to Allied standards, it has been built, and the apartment camp for 4 people has a private bathroom. Gao Jianwu replied simply. He communicated these things with Major General Smith in advance, and there was basically no mistake.

However, there is General Li Mei here today, especially his bomber crew is large in number and demanding, so Major General Smith asked Gao Jianwu to confirm with General Li Mei in person.

"The third thing is that our bomber fleet is large, but there are not enough fighters to escort the escort now, and we hope to get the assistance of the Southeast Task Force Air Force to participate in the combat escort during the mission." Maj. Smith continued.

"No problem." Gao Jianwu said happily, "But the Allied side has to bear the battle damage and the consumption of materials and ammunition. ”

"Of course, General Li Mei, if you see anything else you need, you can ask Gao now."

"Commander Gao, I would like to know, if our bombers return and have no time to fly back to Moshuangbei, do you have a spare place for us to land?" General Li Mei asked.

Although General Li Mei was asking, he had already learned something before he came. He wanted to know Gao Jianwu's opinion on this matter and what Gao Jianwu's position was within the Eighth Road.

"Of course, we still have two areas where we can provide alternate landings for Allied bombers." Gao Jianwu took out a map and pointed to two different regions on it.

"On this peninsula, we have taken control of this place, and here we have built a large field airfield that can support the landing of at least hundreds of warplanes. It is about 1,500 kilometers from Oujing, and it is undoubtedly the best backup airfield for bomber groups.

If needed, we can also expand a new field airfield in this area. ”

"In addition, we have also built a large field airfield here, which is about 1,600 kilometers away from Oujing, and we have deployed a fleet of about 40 fighter jets to ensure the safety of these two airspace, which is our solid base."

Hearing Gao Jianwu say this, General Li Mei's eyes lit up, what he actually wanted was to have a safe landing area on this peninsula and coastal zone, Gao Jianwu immediately said to his heart.

It's convenient to talk to smart people.

"When can we do a field trip?" General Li Mei then asked.

"General Li Mei is welcome to inspect at any time." Gao Jianwu responded, apparently confident in these places.

Gao Jianwu's blunt was beyond the surprise of General Li Mei, he didn't expect that the two big problems he had been worried about, one of which would be solved by Gao Jianwu so quickly.

Although he has not yet seen the field airfield mentioned by Gao Jianwu on the spot, needless to say, he dared to promise to inspect it at any time, that is, he had been prepared for a long time.

Although General Li Mei did not have much concept of the situation on the other side of the mainland, he still had a certain understanding of Gao Jianwu and the Eighth Route through Major General Smith.

Judging from what he saw on Wanwan Island, Gao Jianwu was at least not a person who talked nonsense.

"Commander-in-Chief Gao, may I ask what is the most effective way to use if we launch a bombing campaign against Thrush?" General Li Mei couldn't help but ask the second question of concern.

"Low-altitude bombardment, of course!" Gao Jianwu blurted out, as if he had already known the answer.

"Why?" General Li Mei frowned, and Gao Jianwu replied too quickly, but it seemed that he had not thought about it.

Gao Jianwu was stunned, isn't this your own hard work? What's wrong with the answer?

However, Gao Jianwu thought about it, the bombing of Beijing had not yet begun, and General Li Mei himself might not be able to find an answer.

"Only low-altitude bombing at night can ensure the accuracy of bombing, and if incendiary bombs are used in night bombing, the damage effect of bombing will be maximized!

Because many of the houses of the little bookkeepers are wooden buildings, obviously, the destructive power of the conventionally used high-explosive bombs on wooden buildings is far less than the destructive power of masonry buildings. However, incendiary bombs can have a lethal effect on these wooden structures. Gao Jianwu gave a direct answer.

This answer caused General Li May to fall into a brief contemplation, "Incendiary bombardment at night? General Li Mei pondered this Gao Jianwu's idea carefully for a while.

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Major General Smith next to him gasped, this Gao Jianwu is really a ruthless person who doesn't talk much.

Night bombing, or a large-scale destruction of incendiary bombs, really like Gao Jianwu said that the small book building is still mainly wooden, then this bombardment, the general larger cities are almost gone, even if it is a big city like Thrush, I am afraid it will not be able to withstand a few bombings will be overburned!

The more General Li Mei thought about it, the more he felt that what Gao Jianwu said made sense, and he had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

As the leader of a bomber unit, what he wants to do is to maximize the effect of bombing, and other considerations are secondary.

Gao Jianwu's words suddenly solved the problem he had been bothered with recently.

In daytime bombing, it is inevitable that the high-altitude mode can only be adopted, otherwise the dense anti-aircraft artillery fire of the little devils will be too lethal to the huge bombers.

The biggest problem with high-altitude bombing is the loss of bombing accuracy, and bombers have been organized to attack Gulping Beijing before this, but the result is that General Li Mei is clear, the local weather in the small book does not support high-altitude precision bombing, only 10% of the bombs hit the target, and the effect of the bombing is not ideal.

If it is a low-altitude bombing at night, and a weapon such as incendiary bombs is used to kill people, then there is no need to doubt the accuracy of the bombing, but it is not wrong to throw it wherever you can see the light!

"Commander Gao, you've solved another big problem for us." General Li Mei, who was not smiling, said to Gao Jianwu with some excitement.

"No wonder General Smith admires you so much, Commander Gao is indeed a war wizard, and he can think of places that no one can think of."

"General Li Mei is polite, I have been in the small book for a while, so I still have some understanding of some of their situations." Gao Jianwu said politely.

"People like Xiaobenzi, you have to really convince them to admit defeat, before that, they won't listen to you well, and now the little devils are still dreaming, I hope we can put a fire in their dreams, really destroy their illusions, and the war will end."

General Li Mei and Major General Smith listened to Gao Jianwu's words and nodded, for Gao Jianwu, they saw it again.

...

The radio waves transmitted Gao Jianwu's opinion to the headquarters, and soon transmitted it back to Gao Jianwu from the headquarters, and General Li Mei's inspection trip was quickly completed.

After the initial wave of great development, General Manager Chen of the Lianghuai Base Area and General Manager Luo of the Qilu Base Area carried out large-scale field airfield construction in several key areas of the base area in accordance with Gao Jianwu's suggestion.

At first, they didn't understand what Gao Jianwu was going to do, but Gao Jianwu impressed them too much, so the two bosses did it without asking anything!

After the completion of the airport, it was not just shelved, and the air force of the new Hubei-Henan-Anhui Military Region was stationed to provide large-scale air support for their local strategy.

With the mass production of Mustang fighters in the Jinyang Arsenal and the capture of some fighter reconnaissance planes left by some little devils in the battle, these two bases have also formed their own flight teams and lived a new life that they could not think of in the past.

...

At Sheyang Airport, with 4 Mustang fighters arriving first, a B-29 Super Flying Fortress bomber appeared in the field of vision of a group of special visitors.

"Mr. Chen, they're here!" Next to the tallest body in the crowd, a communications staff officer hurriedly came and said to this tall body.

"Order the air defense battalion to continue to be on alert, all fighters on the air side to continue to patrol the air, we must ensure the safety of the guests!" The tall body known as Mr. Chen said loudly.

The special guests who came today, according to the headquarters, must do their best to ensure safety.

"Yes!" The communications staff officer hurried away.

"Mr. Chen, who are we going to greet today? Why such a big battle! A division commander who stayed here asked curiously.

"Lao Huang, speaking of which, the person who came today is the person you need to thank well." Mr. Chen replied with a smile.

"It's him!" Master Huang was shocked, and immediately connected with someone in his mind. "Isn't he passing through that island? I don't have time to come to us, but I really want to thank him! ”

"Not only him, but there is another guest who is also a great person, and this time it is the one who personally accompanied the guests to investigate."

...

In his past and present lives, Gao Jianwu was picked up for the first time, and his mood was really indescribable.

"General Li Mei, the following are some leaders of our base area who are greeting us, there is nothing else to mean is to simply welcome us" Gao Jianwu turned his head and said to General Li Mei, coming by plane, Gao Jianwu more or less figured out the temper of this middle-aged uncle, he is a real professional soldier.

Not good at talking, but also very principled.

"It's okay, Gao, I just hope that when I investigate, I don't need a large group of people to follow, I can just see it myself." General Li Mei said.

"No problem, General Li Mei, let's go down."

"Warmly welcome Commander-in-Chief Gao and General Li Mei to Sheyang." Seeing Gao Jianwu and General Li Mei get off the plane, Mr. Chen came over and greeted him warmly.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, this is General Li Mei of the Allied Army," Gao Jianwu looked at this familiar figure and responded with a smile, "This is Mr. Chen, the commander of our Central China Base Area." ”

"Thank you, Commander Chen, next, I want to take a look at the specific situation of the airport first, it would be better if there was an engineer who built the airport, I can ask some specific information about the airport, but it doesn't matter if there is none, I will see it myself." General Li Mei didn't come to play, and after shaking hands with Mr. Chen, he wanted to carry out his work.

After Gao Jianwu translated General Li Mei's words to Mr. Chen, he said with a smile, "Mr. Chen, the style of the allies is like this, do the work first and then talk about the rest, I think the welcome ceremony here is also over, just leave some engineering and technical personnel and security when we go back, and other leading comrades will not be used as accompaniment, I will accompany General Li Mei to inspect the alternate landing airport, and I have to rush to the peninsula to see the next one, this matter is very important to the Allied side, so they must come to see it with their own eyes to rest assured." ”

"That's good, but come to my place, you have to eat a bite before leaving, Commander Gao, your support to our department some time ago, we are now comrades and brothers, the family does not speak the words of the two families, what are the requirements, tell me directly, don't say that there are conditions to do it, now there are no conditions to do it, but also to find ways to have the conditions to do it!"

Mr. Chen is also a cheerful person, and when he heard Gao Jianwu say this, he didn't say much, and expressed his position directly.

"Mr. Chen said seriously, now there is nothing big about it, that is, our Huai River shipping, at present, the whole line we are basically in our hands, I hope to find more shipping and engineering experts in the country, to carry out a certain governance of the Huai River, on the one hand, to reduce flooding, on the other hand, as soon as possible to upgrade the shipping, our raw materials in Nanyang will be sent to Jinsui and Hubei, Henan and Anhui through this large channel in the future."

Gao Jianwu really didn't have time, so he hurried for a while to tell Mr. Chen what he was concerned about, and after speaking, he followed General Li Mei to start a field investigation along the airport.

On this newly built field airfield, there are naturally no modern things such as the concrete runway that Gao Jianwu is familiar with, and it is simply that the ground has been leveled and compacted with huge stones, so that it can bear the huge pressure of transport planes taking off and landing.

General Li Mei followed the runway all the way, and from time to time he used a hammer in his hand to test along the way.

The road surface is very clean, and at the same time compacted and sturdy, and it is clear that engineering experts were involved in the construction of this airfield, and very responsibly, and it is difficult for General Li May to imagine how this could have been done without the help of modern construction machinery at this airport.

As he finished checking a full runway, his otherwise serious face began to relax.

"Gao, you guys are amazing, this is one of the best field airfields I've ever seen, and I admire you for building such a high-quality field airfield." General Li Mei said with a thumbs up.

"Thank you for your recognition, General Li Mei. I think the biggest weakness here is that there is no cover, when the Allied bombers land on a large scale, they can't avoid the eyes and ears of the little book, so we need more escort fighters to guard the perimeter, otherwise the bombers we land here can easily become the target of the small book, you know we don't have any air defense facilities, very lack of anti-aircraft fire. ”

"Other than that, as long as we can solve it, we have no problem."

Gao Jianwu is also telling the truth, this place is too close to the East China occupation area of the little devils, and if there is no strong air force to escort it, it is indeed easy to be attacked by the little devils.

"They will not have such an opportunity, before the bombing of the Ryukyu to Kyushu line, we will carry out a powerful bombing of the main aviation base in the East China Xiaobenzi occupation area, and then I will apply for at least 3 squadrons of Mustang fighters to be stationed near this airfield to escort, this part of the work may be undertaken by the Flying Tigers, or it may be undertaken by General Smith's Allied Flying Team."

General Li Mei was not worried about this, and he checked along the second runway while observing the direction of the wind.

The runway is oriented to the southeast, just against the southeasterly wind, which is easy to pick up, and will take off more quickly, which shows that the designers have considered the details of take-off and landing in advance.

Every few steps, General Li Mei struck the hard ground again, and after a few hours of flickering, after a simple lunch, Gao Jianwu and General Li Mei finished their work and flew directly to the easternmost field airfield on the Qilu Peninsula.

There, General Li Mei also saw a high-quality field airfield, and at the end of the airport, he also saw the huge stone mill used to build the airport, which was more than 1 person high, and it was very difficult for General Li Mei to understand how these things were transported here without mechanized support, and then how they drove them to build the airport.

But now none of this matters, the important thing is that Gao Jianwu is really not lying, in the base area, they really have several large B-29 bomber field airfields that can take off and land.

General Li Mei not only personally piloted the plane to land in these places, but also carried out a meticulous inspection and acceptance of the runway section.

It proves that there are really no problems with the take-off and landing of super air fortresses in these places.

For a large bomber with extremely high take-off and landing requirements, the Qilu Peninsula and the field airfield in Sheyang are nothing, and when General Li Mei landed, there was not even a single obvious trace left on it, which shows that its road surface is indeed as hard as a stone.

In addition, the surrounding area is a solid base area controlled by the Eighth Route or the New Fourth Army, and the ground does not worry that the little devil troops can break through, and there is also a great guarantee in terms of security.

Coupled with the proximity to the sea and the convenience of supplies, there is nothing more ideal for General Li Mei than these two bases.

Seven days later, the Allied Air Force first carried out a devastating round of bombing of the Little Devil Air Base in the Demon Capital, directly destroying more than 20 fighters of various types left at the base, and then the Little Devil command building and military camp near the airport were flattened by heavy bombs.

At the same time, the little devil airfield in the Ryukyu-Kyushu area also began to suffer a catastrophe, the vast majority of fighters were wiped out at the airport, the last time the fighters who got out of control were at most a day or two longer, and the swarming Mustang fighter group blocked the sky densely, so that the little devil officers who wanted to desperately exchange the bombers could not find a chance to break into the forbidden area set up by the Mustang fighters.

In this one-sided bombardment, the little devil had little ability to resist.