"Yesterday, our Chinese Air Force dispatched a hundred fighter planes and bombers to attack the Japanese invaders' airports in Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Guangde. Through the heroic fighting of the air force officers and soldiers, they destroyed nearly 200 Japanese aircraft and severely damaged the Japanese invaders' air power."
"The fifth king of the Air Force once again achieved great results, shooting down 5.5 Japanese aircraft in the '25th Air Battle'."
"The Air Force has given birth to a new king - Lu Jichun. In this air battle, 2 Japanese aircraft were shot down, and a total of 7.5 Japanese aircraft were shot down."
On February 6, major newspapers in Wuhan and other big cities were frantically reporting on yesterday’s victory in the air raid.
However, this number is so exaggerated that many people cannot believe it.
"Did you really destroy two hundred Japanese planes?"
So Chen Qingshan was very confused after seeing the newspaper reports.
Li Hang happened to be here, so he naturally asked this person for confirmation.
"There are definitely not two hundred. The Japanese army has not even that many aircraft in East China, but almost a hundred. The higher-ups probably want to boost morale, so they doubled the number." Li Hang explained with a smile.
"I just said this number is too scary. Did you lose a lot?" Chen Qingshan asked curiously.
"Naturally not big."
"Isn't it true that the Japanese army suffered extremely heavy losses this time?"
"It is true that the losses were heavy. The Japanese army was not very prepared, so we took advantage of a loophole. It will not be easy to achieve such results in the future."
"Then you shot down 5.5 enemy planes again this time, so your superiors didn't consider giving you a promotion? Now you are a captain, but you are still only a deputy squadron leader. This is a bit unfair."
"It depends on what my superiors think. I don't care." Li Hang shook his head and didn't take it to heart.
In fact, the above is also very tangled.
Li Hang became captain and deputy squadron commander in the last air battle. Logically speaking, he should remove the word "vice" because he has made meritorious service this time.
But the squadron leader of the 23rd Squadron is Lu Jichun.
The captain of the 22nd Squadron is Liu Zhihan.
The captain of the 21st Squadron is Dong Mingde.
It can be said that there is no place for Li Hang in the 4th Brigade.
In this way, if Li Hang wanted to be promoted to squadron leader, he would have to go to another brigade.
At this time, the Third Group was under the jurisdiction of the 7th, 8th, and 25th Squadrons. The first two squadrons had been equipped with I-15-2 fighter jets, and the last squadron was equipped with Hawker III fighter jets.
The Fifth Group was the most powerful group at this time. It was composed of the original Guangdong Air Force and the Central Air Force. At this time, it had jurisdiction over the 17th, 24th, 28th, and 29th Squadrons.
Among them, the 17th, 28th, and 29th Squadrons are equipped with the British Fighter MKⅠ fighter, which is a biplane fighter with a fully enclosed bubble canopy, and the engine power of 840 horsepower is much higher than that of all major types of fighter jets in the same period. The weapons are four 7.62mm machine guns.
Compared with the Japanese Mitsubishi Type 96 carrier-based fighter, except for its slightly inferior speed, its high-altitude performance and turning radius and other maneuverability are superior to the former.
The 24th Squadron is still equipped with the remaining Hawker IIIs, but it is also beginning to replace Soviet fighters.
The 10 squadrons of these three groups are currently the main force of the Chinese Air Force's pursuit aircraft.
Even if Li Hang is transferred to other brigades, the Fourth Brigade will not do it. This is the number one ace of the Fourth Brigade, so how to deal with it is a matter for the higher-ups to worry about, and Li Hang does not have to worry about it.
"Are you so open-minded?" Chen Qingshan was a little surprised.
If it were anyone else, wouldn’t they be striving for the top position?
Even if he is not the squadron leader, are there still people who look down upon him?
"These are all false names. Uncle Chen, you are the vice president of the local chamber of commerce. Are you familiar with the local furniture factories or small workshops?" Li Hang asked about business.
He came to Chen Qingshan not for Chen Lu, but for business.
If you want to build a wooden airplane, you must have a furniture factory, even a small workshop.
At this time, there were a large number of factories in Wuhan, and Li Hang didn't know much about these. As a local snake, the Chen family must know better than him.
"A factory that makes furniture? What do you want to do?" Chen Qingshan was a little curious.
"Make some model airplanes to paralyze the little devils." Li Hang explained with a smile, without saying much.
Even if word spreads, I'm afraid the little devils won't take it seriously.
Wooden airplanes were the earliest material used in airplanes twenty years ago. They are no longer used today. All-metal fighters are now popular.
"Wooden airplane? Is this okay?" Chen Qingshan didn't understand the war.
"False and real."
“How big of a furniture factory do you want?”
"It doesn't have to be too big. It only needs a few skilled carpenters. It's best to have a small workshop, but you may have to move the small workshop near the airport."
"I'll ask about this. It shouldn't be a big problem. But you have to think about the price."
"That's for sure, then I'll trouble Uncle Chen!"
He was not in a hurry about this matter, after all, Lao Zhou had no time limit.
Perhaps because he felt that wooden airplanes were unreliable, since Li Hang was willing to try, he decided to let him try. It would be best if he could succeed. If it fails, there will be no loss to the Air Force.
It costs tens of thousands of dollars for the Air Force to buy a fighter jet abroad.
And Li Hang could destroy several enemy planes every time, which also reduced his own losses in disguise. In this way, allocating 50,000 French currency to Li Hang does not seem to be a big deal.
On the third day after the "25th Air Battle", which was the 7th, the 23rd Squadron was transferred to Nanchang.
At this time, there was still no talk about how to arrange Li Hang's position. He didn't mention it, so the superiors just delayed it.
Logically speaking, the 23rd Squadron should not be transferred to Nanchang at this time, but the situation facing Nanchang is very serious.
Three of the current four squadrons of the Fifth Group are undergoing combat readiness training in Guangzhou after being equipped with Fighter MK1 fighter jets, and have not yet regained their combat effectiveness; the remaining squadron is being refitted with Soviet fighter jets in Lanzhou and will not be available for a while. Can't come back.
In this case, Nanchang's defense is somewhat weak.
Although the 21st and 22nd Squadrons and the China Aid Air Force were present, the unexpected situation encountered in the previous air raid on Hangzhou proved that the Japanese army was accelerating the deployment of new aircraft.
The distance between Nanchang and Hangzhou is also close, and there is no guarantee whether the Japanese army will retaliate heavily, so Nanchang's defense must be strengthened.
Therefore, before the four squadrons of the Fifth Battalion can form combat effectiveness, they can only rely on the Fourth Battalion to support them. There is no other way.
As for arranging things for Li Hang, we can only postpone it for now, and we are not in a hurry for a day or two.
Li Hang didn't care about this. According to the plan, he had to go to Nanchang to station in the second grade of junior high school, but other things happened and delayed it.
And he also wanted to take this opportunity to visit Nanchang.
After all, I had promised Hu Xuechang before, and the other party's family was in Jiangxi, and it was near Nanchang. I happened to go and have a look, and also gave him the late suicide note.
He still wanted to deliver these suicide notes in person, otherwise who knows if the money would be intercepted by someone.
But he has to hurry up, otherwise with the depreciation speed of legal currency, who knows what he will be able to buy in a few months.
