Chapter 242: Weak Air Force
In recent years, Chinese people have suffered such experiences, such as being enslaved by Orientals, or being deceived into going overseas.
In Outer Mongolia, they are actually lucky, and the most unfortunate ones may be enslaved by the Orientals, and there are many Chinese workers in the Northeast who may not know their names, busy in the mines until they die, and no one cares.
Now it is quite convergent, and when it comes to three or two years, there are a lot of mass graves found in later generations, and there are six miners' tombs in Liaoyuan alone, seven corpse bone points, and a refining furnace.
There are already countless people in Tohoku who have given their lives to dig minerals for the war machines of the East.
In Xi'an, from 31 to 45 years, in 14 years, the Orientals stole 15.49 million tons of coal from Xi'an Province, leaving behind six mass graves full of miners' bones.
Similar ones can be found in many occupied areas of the country.
In addition to these people, Chinese workers abroad are no better.
In World War I and World War II, there was no shortage of Chinese laborers, who needed to help dig trenches, help carry ammunition, and build military bases.
There are even times when it is necessary to carry guns to participate in brutal wars, and many people die on the battlefield in vain.
Only a very small number of them can survive, and those who can live a good life in the future are still few, and many are still exploited.
But the funny thing is that the movies of later generations have publicized the suffering of the brothers when they were enslaved, but they don't know that the Chinese workers at that time were the same, why favor one over the other?
Of course, that's all for later, and Zhao Ming distributed some canned food to these new brothers.
I took a lot of canned food from the military station, which was delicious and easy to store, and it didn't take up much space, so I dragged a few carts.
These cans alone were enough for their food and drink when they returned, and secondly, a lot of dried beef and mutton from the camp were brought in.
In the time between the meals of these brothers, two groups of miners came in the distance.
Although the condition of these brothers looked miserable, they seemed to be hungry and weak to walk.
Obviously, they were shot, but they didn't seem to grab much food, but fortunately, the number of people was not too small, and Zhao Ming hurriedly asked them to stop and rest, and at the same time distributed food.
After some inquiry, it was learned that they also did not encounter pursuers and attacks.
It was not until dusk that the more than 8,000 miners who had followed the southward journey together had all converged.
Except for the more than 200 people who died of starvation on the way, or the more than 200 people who died of exhaustion from the previous overwork, and the exhaustion of the long-distance attack, the 8,000 people did not encounter armed forces.
Only two groups of people encountered a small group of local troops from Outer Mongolia on the way, but due to their large numbers, the other party ignored them on the basis that more things were better than less.
In other words, along the way, no one encountered any pursuers.
However, a group of people said that they had spotted a plane flying overhead two days ago, but there was nothing unusual about it.
In this regard, Zhao Ming estimated that it was just a Russian reconnaissance plane patrolling the territory of Outer Mongolia.
"In this way, the people of Outer Mongolia have not yet become alert to us, which is a good thing for us!"
Zhao Ming nodded, and his mood was completely relieved.
"Whew! It's okay! It's okay! Once we encounter an airplane, such a large group of us gathers together, something will definitely happen. ”
Zhang Kai couldn't help but let out a long breath, he knew very well how terrible it was to face the air raid of the aircraft.
"Alas, by the way, Brother Zhang, you are not normal!" Zhao Minghu said.
This question made Zhang Kai raise his eyebrows, and he said suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”
"A lot of things are not normal, I haven't asked you before, how did you know so much about Russian equipment.
And you seem to know very well the lethality of air strikes, you shouldn't know about this kind of thing, right? ”
Zhao Ming frowned and asked, he knew very well that sometimes some of his concepts were from the perspective of the future generations.
Compared with the very comprehensive, in fact, normally speaking, even if he comes from later generations, he can't do everything about this batch of Russian equipment, and many of them can only know that the difference between machine guns and heavy machine guns, and what model names are completely unclear.
However, when he was counting the equipment before, Zhang Kai knew it very well just by looking at it.
And domestic aircraft are not common in these years.
Although since 1920, major powerful warlords have begun to purchase aircraft from abroad to form aviation formations.
But when it comes to air formations, in fact, the entire formation may consist of six or seven aircraft.
And airplanes are not something that everyone can play, they have to spend money, spend a lot of money.
The number of the National Air Force is now almost equal to zero, because it was only this year, in November 1928, that the formation of the Air Force School began.
Therefore, the country has really begun to play with aircraft, that is, the Northeast Air Force of Major Marshal Zhang.
You can say that the young marshal doesn't have much vision, but you can't say that Zhang Dashuai doesn't have vision.
Before his death, Zhang Dashuai was deeply aware of the importance of the Air Force during World War I.
In 21 years, the 10 aircraft captured in the Zhiwan War were used as the basic plate, and the Northeast Aviation Department was officially established.
Subsequently, in the hands of foreigners, they purchased planes on a large scale, not only airplanes, but also people and planes together with a lot of money to spend a lot of money.
In the following years, several large air bases were completed in Shenyang, Jinzhou and other places.
If I remember correctly, the Northeast Air Force has more than 200 planes of various types, more than 140 flight personnel, and about 200 crew maintenance personnel.
There are even supporting aircraft maintenance factories and manufacturers of various related equipment, and it is no exaggeration to say that this is already a mature air force, which can do its own one-stop service of training pilots, maintaining aircraft, and manufacturing aircraft.
If by the time of that incident, the number of the Northeast Air Force had already reached more than 300 aircraft.
It is like the first air force in China, and the national army has only 50 aircraft in 32 years, and the actual combat experience can be described as nothing.
On the other hand, the Northeast Air Force, as well as Russian and foreign pilot services, are absolutely professional.
So Zhao Ming is very strange, and Zhang Kai seems to be very afraid of airplanes.
Recalling that when he mentioned that the Russian reconnaissance plane was likely to patrol and reconnoitre, Zhang Kai was very nervous and behaved heavier than him.
This is obviously unreasonable, and other powerful warlords in these years can't treasure a few planes in their hands, and they are even less used in battle.
Nowadays, the Northeast Air Force rarely patrols in very southern places, and most of them patrol in the Northeast or deal with the Oriental Air Force.
Seeing Zhao Ming's gaze approaching step by step, Zhang Kai also knew that considering Zhao Ming's shrewdness, it was impossible to hide from the other party.
"Even if you don't ask, I'll talk about it later."
Zhang Kai rubbed his eyebrows and sighed helplessly, "It's not surprising that I know so much, because I studied at the Oriental Army Non-commissioned Officer School before. ”