"What is this place?"
At an altitude of two thousand meters, Li Hang flew quickly on the Type 96 carrier-based fighter jet he snatched from the Japs.
At this time, he was not driving too fast, but was flying at a constant speed of 350 kilometers.
While flying, he had to keep an eye on the situation below.
He was flying along the Yangtze River, but the conditions along the Yangtze River in this time and space were somewhat different from those in the 21st century. He needed to find reference objects to correct his direction.
Fortunately, he just saw Poyang Lake.
After Poyang Lake, fly about two hundred kilometers northwest to Wuhan.
In fact, his current position is the closest to Nanchang, but Wuhan in Nanchang means more to him.
Since he didn't fly high and his speed wasn't very fast, he also alerted people on the ground.
"boom!"
Suddenly, a cannonball exploded dozens of meters away from him.
"What's going on? Who's firing?"
Li Hang, who was thinking about arriving in Wuhan in less than half an hour, was suddenly frightened by this sudden change.
He quickly stretched out his head to take a look, and saw the flickering fire in a fortress by the river. He quickly flew the plane to climb quickly.
"I'm one of you, could you please stop being so impulsive?"
While Li Hang shouted, he did not forget to lift the plane.
Although his voice could not reach the ground, it did not prevent him from complaining.
He was a little bored after flying alone for about an hour just now. He wanted to find someone to talk to, but there was no one to talk to him.
This is not driving, you can also listen to music and so on.
The anti-aircraft artillery unit below was obviously not good enough, and the artillery shells could not catch up with Li Hang at all.
He was not interested in wasting time with himself here, so he directly raised the plane to three thousand meters and accelerated away from here.
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"Sir, the Japanese plane has escaped and our artillery can't hit it."
At the Tianjia Town Fortress, an artilleryman looked at the Japanese plane flying away, feeling a little angry.
"It should be a Japanese reconnaissance plane. Why did it go to the northwest? Don't you want to go to Wuhan?" The captain officer was a little surprised when he saw the Japanese plane flying away.
"Sir, do you just don't care?"
"How could you ignore it? I'm going to report it and ask the people above to tell Wuhan and try to ensure that the kid's plane can come back."
Although the captain said it was easy, he knew that the Japanese plane was not easy to deal with. Fortunately, there was only one plane just now, otherwise I might not be able to get a good deal with these anti-aircraft guns.
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Wuhan, as the outbreak place of the Revolution of 1911, had a different status in the Republic of China.
Coupled with the Ping-Han Railway and Yangtze River shipping, as well as the ports along the river that were forced to open during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, this place was very prosperous, but there were also concessions.
Including Britain, Russia, Germany, France and Japan, the Anglo-Russian and Derby concessions were all recovered before the Anti-Japanese War.
The Japanese Concession was taken back by the Nationalist Government after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. At this time, only the French Concession remained.
Even so, Hankou, where the concession is located, is the most prosperous of the three towns in Wuhan.
Even though most of the concession has been taken back, there are still many foreigners living here and it is also an important financial center in Wuhan.
Moreover, the airport in Wuhan is located in Hankou, so it is called Hankou Airport.
Although the National Government had moved its capital to Chongqing at this time, a considerable number of institutions were still in Wuhan, and even many factories moved from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were also located here.
No way, because of the Three Gorges, Wuhan cannot connect directly to Chongqing.
Therefore, Wuhan is actually the military, political and economic center of China at this time.
Perhaps it was because Wuhan was far away from the battlefields of Jiangnan and North China. Although there were many students and patriots promoting the Anti-Japanese War on the streets, for the people in the original concession area in Hankou, it seemed that the war had nothing to do with them.
In fact, this is the same as fighting in the Four Lines Warehouse.
In the Sihang Warehouse on the other side of the concession, the eight hundred warriors who had been abandoned by Sun Paopao were fighting desperately, but the concession area on the other side of the river was singing and dancing. The people inside were drinking, eating, and enjoying all kinds of things, just like the river. The war on the other side has nothing to do with them.
This situation also existed in the Hankou concession area at this time.
Lu Jichun wore a leather jacket and rode a bicycle quickly through the streets of Hankou.
At this time in China, cars were very rare, and a bicycle was undoubtedly a luxury. But for Lu Jichun, who is a pilot, bicycles are their standard equipment, and they are still relatively expensive Sangun brand.
Seeing that the people on the streets of Hankou didn't have any nervous expressions, Lu Jichun felt helpless.
Don't these people know that the National War has already begun, and even the capital Nanjing has fallen? Can these people not be able to raise a sense of urgency?
With a helpless mood, he quickly arrived at Hankou Airport.
Here he was even more angry because the soldiers on duty also behaved in a disorganized manner, apparently unaware of the seriousness of the situation.
Entering the airport, there are many aircraft parked on the airport. At a glance, they are basically Soviet fighter planes, including I-15 fighters, I-16 fighters, and SB-2 bombers.
These aircraft were all aircraft of the Soviet Air Force aiding China.
In addition to these aircraft, there are also a small number of Hawker 2 and Hawker 3 fighters painted with the Chinese flag logo and a small number of reconnaissance aircraft.
The reason for this is that the Chinese army was severely weakened at this time.
Only the last one of the four great kings of the Air Force, Gao Zhihang, Liu Cuigang, Le Yiqin and Li Guidan, was left, and the other three were all killed in the battle.
At the beginning of the all-out war of resistance, the Air Force had a total of three to four hundred fighter planes of various types, but by the end of the Songhu Battle, only thirty or forty were left, basically running out of ammunition and food.
Fortunately, the Soviet Union provided assistance at this time.
Not only did it dispatch a volunteer air force, it also sold various advanced fighter aircraft to the Nationalist Government.
At this time, Air Force pilots went to Lanzhou and other places to receive Soviet fighter planes.
Although the I-15 and I-16 fighter jets are not necessarily comparable to Japan's Type 96 carrier-based fighter jets, the American P-36 fighter jets, and the German BF109 fighter jets, they are currently the most advanced fighter jets in the Soviet Union.
The Yak 3, MiG 3, and Lago 3 haven't come out yet.
In fact, it is also my fault that some people in the Nationalist Government are unwilling to buy more fighter planes or develop the aviation industry while saving their money in the bank.
In fact, at this time, airplanes are a new thing in the world. There is a gap, but it is not big. With a little effort, we can still keep up with everyone.
But in the end, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, I had money, but found that I couldn't buy an airplane.
Western countries not only refuse to raise prices, but are also not very willing to sell them.
Regardless of the purpose of Big Brother's assistance at this time, at least it will make the Chinese Air Force and Army much easier to fight in the next one or two years.
Not long after Lu Jichun arrived at the airport, he heard the airport's air defense siren going off.
"What's going on? Is the Japanese plane coming?" As a Chinese pilot at Hankou Airport, Lu Jichun quickly ran to the control tower to inquire about the situation.
