At the beginning of the exam, Zhou Zhihan spent five minutes browsing through the questions in the entire test paper, and then began to answer the questions without any pause. He completed each question in one go, then rubbed his eyes and turned his neck a few times. Go to the next big question.
The test time for aerial shooting skills is one hour. Zhou Zhihan handed in the paper in 40 minutes and left with his pen.
The European and American students' self-confidence was once again frustrated, and they watched Zhou Zhihan hand in the test papers and leave.
This is such a blow to people’s self-confidence!
Standing at the door and watching Zhou Zhihan go away, Lieutenant Colonel Jack Linton quickly returned to the classroom. Major General Pat Plouffe had already taken the paper and was looking down at it.
The paper is neat and tidy, the handwriting is clean, and there is no flaw in the entire test paper. Every question is answered well even with punctuation marks, and there is no reason to find any faults to deduct points.
Major General Pat Plouffe and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Linton looked at each other.
This may be the legendary genius!
Not a bad question!
Another perfect score.
Throughout the exam, Major General Pat Plouffe and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Linton hardly took their eyes off Zhou Zhihan.
Absolutely true.
No cheating.
The grades are fine.
Moreover, he did not pause at all when answering the questions, and did not stop for a second to think. It was just that after reviewing the questions in the first five minutes, all the answers were already familiar in his heart, and he felt like a god was helping him when he was writing the questions.
At the end of the hour, some students had not finished the questions and were writing in a panic under the urging of the invigilator.
The second game begins.
Still the same as the previous exam, Zhou Zhihan got the test paper, spent five minutes reading the questions from beginning to end, then picked up his pen and started answering the questions.
This time, Major General Pat Plouffe sat directly next to Zhou Zhihan, holding his pipe and continuing to smoke.
Zhou Zhihan was even more ruthless this time. He didn't even look up. From the beginning to the end of the paper, his hands didn't stop. He handed in the paper 30 minutes later and walked out of the examination room.
Major General Pat Plouffe watched him do the test papers from beginning to end and couldn't fault him at all.
For today's test paper, even Major General Pat Plouffe estimated that it would be difficult for him to score more than 90 points. However, after Zhou Zhihan went out, he and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Linton corrected the textbook, and Zhou Zhihan still didn't have a single punctuation mark on the test paper. The symbols are also good.
Another perfect score!
genius!
The two looked at each other.
During lunch, students who were in the same examination room as Zhou Zhihan complained to the instructors one after another, not to be in the same examination room with him. Every time they saw his back leaving after 35 or 40 minutes, the examination room was filled with sadness.
This is so hurtful!
The students who were taking exams in the same classroom as Zhou Zhihan no longer even felt jealous, they were all full of envy.
Ordinary people will not be jealous of the president of a country. Those who are jealous of the president are those who think they have the strength to be the president, but do not sit on it.
All students know that they cannot reach the heights of Zhou Zhihan. They all know themselves, so there is no need to worry about jealousy, just envy.
Zhou Zhihan knew that these students were not really complaining about him, but a kind of recognition of him.
In the afternoon exam, no one went to the exam room to invigilate Zhou Zhihan alone. Zhou Zhihan did not hand in his papers early. He did not walk out of the exam room with all the students until the bell rang.
Two days later, all the results of each subject were announced. Zhou Zhihan won the first place in the school with all perfect scores, became a student of Major General Pat Plouffe, and directly entered the special flying class.
The time spent studying in the military academy passed quickly. By the end of 1936, Zhou Zhihan had mastered all the knowledge taught in the military academy, including bomber bombing techniques.
Bomber gunner’s shooting skills and reasonable timing,
The navigator’s precise judgment and correction of heading,
Various investigation methods of flying reconnaissance aircraft,
How to avoid ground artillery fire in the air with the smallest wing area,
Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Formation Flights of Bombers,
The battle plan between the host and the wingman,
Various combat formations of fighter jets,
They even learned how to place anti-aircraft artillery on the ground.
Zhou Zhihan spent two or three hours almost every day flying various fighter planes in the [Air Overlord] cheat book in the room assigned to him by Major General Pat Plouffe.
Major General Pat Plouffe taught him all the practical experience he accumulated in World War I. These experiences are definitely treasures of air combat and are not found in textbooks.
On June 20, 1937, Zhou Zhihan suddenly left Randolph Air Force Academy.
As the ace cadet in the Air Force Academy, Zhou Zhihan's sudden departure aroused many people's suspicions.
The statement given by Major General Pat Plouffe is that the Marine Corps invited Zhou Zhihan to participate in a military exercise for about half a month.
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In July 1937, around 10 p.m., a DC4 passenger plane flying from San Francisco, USA to Shanghai, China, via Honolulu, Wake Island, Midway Island, and Guam, landed at Jiangwan Airport in Shanghai. 20 minutes later, a passenger died. A young man wearing a student uniform walked out of the airport with a tired face.
It was Zhou Zhihan who returned from studying in the United States ahead of schedule.
Standing at the exit of Jiangwan Airport, Zhou Zhihan felt mixed emotions in his heart. The Shanghai now was completely different from the Shanghai before he traveled. At this moment, he felt the storm that was about to come to the city.
When the rickshaw drivers waiting outside Jiangwan Airport saw the passengers coming out of the airport, they swarmed in with their rickshaws. Everyone stared at the guests eagerly, with faces full of flattery and expectation.
Zhou Zhihan got into the car of a strong young coachman and whispered: "Go to North Sichuan Road."
The young coachman was overjoyed when he heard this. He bowed to the guest diligently, then hung the flat rope on the handlebar around his neck, held the handlebar tightly with both hands, and ran forward lightly.
I have been waiting since five o'clock in the evening, and finally I have an important guest. I will go home tonight and bring back 2 taels of sweet-scented osmanthus cake from the lame uncle on North Sichuan Road. The two little girls at home saw Xiao Ba across the road a few days ago. I liked to eat a few slices of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and I was so greedy that I cried for several days.
"To New Asia Hotel. A little faster."
Zhou Zhihan leaned his back against the rickshaw, then lit a cigarette and closed his eyes to rest. He now felt top-heavy. After more than ten days of long journey and flight, he felt that he was still sitting on a plane and had not landed.
"Okay!" The rickshaw driver quickened his pace and ran forward along Guobin Road. He turned right when he reached Guoding Road. Ten minutes later, he turned left when he reached Siping Road. His breathing began to become heavy. He grabbed the towel on his shoulder and wiped it. Sweat rolled down from the forehead.
Not far away, neon lights flashed in the leased areas of various countries, while Siping Road was quiet and full of blind lights and black lights.
From the Huangpu River in the distance, the dull whistle of the Japanese warships was heard, like a heavy mace, shaking the night curtain and disturbing the city's sleepy dreams.
The young coachman was very familiar with this area. He knew where there was a small hole on the road and could avoid it with his eyes closed.
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Note: Xiaobaxi is Shanghai dialect, which means child.
Xiaonan is also a Shanghainese dialect and mostly means little girl.
At this point, the turbulent years of West Point Military Academy come to an end.
Next, enter the Battle of Songhu.
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