October 31, 1940, north of Taiyuan City, Wangjiaao

Thanks to the rich finance and perfect industrial base of Jin Province, the school of this regiment-level unit was well built, and the thick green bricks were actually filled with cement. Although the watchtowers are not reinforced concrete, they are also framed with concrete iron bars, which are already very strong, and even small-caliber artillery cannot easily destroy them.

As for the campus, it is even more eye-opening, not to mention electric lights, running water, telephones, a new refrigerator from Bald Eagle in the barracks canteen, low-noise air conditioning in the officers' quarters, and British film facilities in the screening room.

After the Japanese occupied here, the school was turned into a place for senior officers to recuperate, with beautiful women from the mainland and Goryeo, red wine imported from country F, beef imported from Bald Eagle and caviar imported from the alliance, and fresh fruits airlifted from southern China.

It's hard to think that this is something that a poor country like Japan can do, but in fact, they really did it, using the already scarce military spending to provide for the consumption of senior officers, even during the time of Yoshio Shinozuka, it was also operating normally, which shows that the level of corruption in the Devil's Army is beyond people's imagination.

It was not until Yamamoto Kazuki became deputy commander of the First Army that he resolutely closed down this area, and set up an aviation training school for Yamamoto's unit here, throwing off the shackles of the army aviation training mechanism and training pilots himself.

Compared with the rigidity and inefficiency of the Japanese army's pilot training, the Yamamoto Army Aviation Training School, which used the Eighth Route Army's training program, appeared to be so different.

First of all, the will is firm, due to the limitation of the expatriate population in Jin Province, the Yamamoto army does not have the conditions to recruit a large number of junior high school students from the school, most of the students here are recruited from the army, except for a small number of overseas schools, the vast majority of them are recruited from the army, although the cultural quality of these people is generally not high, but the loyalty and will are far more than those manipulative trainees trained in the local area.

Secondly, the threshold is not high, the devil aviation belongs to the top of the army, so the requirements for physical fitness have always been very high, so the population base in Japan that meets the pilot recruitment standards is not very large, and even if the physical fitness meets the requirements, it does not mean that you can successfully become a pilot, but these are not a problem here in the Yamamoto army, as long as your eyesight is up to standard, and the others are not too bad, you can participate in the selection and training of pilots.

Again, regardless of nationality, adhering to Yamamoto Kazuki's idea of building a real Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, the scope of enrollment here is not limited to the Japanese, as long as it is a student from an empire or an ally country, with a clear background and someone to guarantee it, you can become a flight cadet, especially for the traitors of Jin Province, Yamamoto Kazuki attaches great importance to it, and even uses the defective Northeast Army pilots to open Chinese courses to train them.

Finally, the duration of study is extremely short, and in Japan, it still takes 7-9 months to train control trainees after shortening the training cycle, which obviously cannot meet the needs of the war, so Yamamoto Kazuki simply copied the training program of the Eighth Route Army and shortened the training period to two months, so that 40% of the trainees will be quickly eliminated within half a month after enrollment, but the remaining 60% can become pilots who can fly alone after two months.

Before Yamamoto Kazuki expanded the school and relocated it to Wangjiaao, they had already trained the first batch of pilots, more than 500 people, taking advantage of the absolute superiority in the number of aircraft, Yamamoto Kazuki quickly regained absolute control of the airspace in the vicinity of Jin Province, and forced the fledgling Eighth Route Army Air Force into the base area.

Encouraged by Yamamoto Kazuki, he recruited 1,700 students at once for the second time, and after a brutal elimination, there are still 961 students in this school in Wangjiaao, who have completed all the theoretical teaching, and in another week, they should be assigned to several airports in Jin Province for on-board training.

As for whether the plane is enough? Yamamoto Kazuki is not worried, the plane used to be quite high-end in Yamamoto Kazuki's eyes, but after getting a few self-made planes from the former Northeast Army from the Kwantung Army, he changed this opinion, what kind of thing, isn't it just a wood shell and an engine, uh, there are a few wheels and some metal components, but in the final analysis, the highest technical threshold is just an engine.

In recent years, the empire is updating the air force fighters, a large number of aircraft retirement, there are also a large number of engines and other spare parts are disposed of at low prices, because the empire does not have a secondary market to digest these, a large number of three or four hundred horsepower engines are not cared for, through the relationship of Kuroshima Morita, Yamamoto Kazuki from the Navy got a lot of Nakajima Shou 1 type 2 air-cooled engines, at present, is in the Taiyuan factory trial production of aircraft, or not long, can get the finished product.

Coupled with the retired aircraft that Yoshio Shinozuka got from the Kwantung Army, the second batch of these pilots can also be digested, and at that time, the North China Dispatch Army will have absolute air supremacy in the entire North China region, and there will be no need to worry about the rise of the Eighth Route Army Air Force.

As for the future, Yamamoto Kazuki did not think about stopping here, he planned to establish his own reserve pilot system, using the size of the First Army to reserve at least 5,000 pilots with basic skills to deal with more major events that are likely to break out in the near future.

Originally, the clamor in Japan for going south and going north was just a voice, and those people of insight in the cabinet were still trying to avoid such a situation, but with the opening of the war curtain in Europe, the strength of the allies also greatly stimulated the radicals in Japan, and the navy and army are now desperately preparing for war as if they were crazy.

What was originally a sneaky war preparation work has now been carried out semi-openly, and the navy and army have invariably shouted the slogan "Asia is Asia for Asians" and advocated further expansion of the war.

However, Yamamoto Kazuki is soberly aware that before the end of the war in China, Japan does not have the ability to launch a major war again, and even the current war has no possibility of a quick victory.