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"You mean to let me dispatch a plane to rescue Doolittle and the others?"

"Yes!"

Huang Baitao looked at Gao Hongming and said sincerely: "This is not only my request, but also the request of Chief Gu!"

Seeing Huang Baitao's sincere expression, Gao Hongming slapped his head, feeling dizzy.

Just now, Huang Baitao told everyone one thing.

Since the Japanese combined fleet attacked Pearl Harbor, the entire United States was in an uproar, and at the same time it gave the American people immersed in isolationism a slap in the face.

President Roosevelt of the United States regarded it as a great shame, and shouted on the radio: "This day of shame and shame must be remembered!"

In order to improve the morale of the American people, Roosevelt approved the plan to bomb Tokyo proposed by Ernest Joseph King, then the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations.

The executor of this plan is Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle of the US Air Force.

The plan to bomb Tokyo was very successful. After completing the mission, Doolittle and his party of 80 people began to turn around and fly towards Zhejiang in China according to the plan. Afterwards, most of them except a few were captured by the Japanese, and the rest were captured by Chinese soldiers and civilians. saved.

But now the question is, how can the Japanese who have been stabbed chrysanthemums let these Americans go so easily?

Hirohito, who was frightened, personally ordered to dig three feet to find those Yankees. Under the order of the Japanese base camp, the Japanese army hastily launched the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Battle.

As soon as the battle began, Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army, commanded 5 divisions, 3 mixed brigades, and 1 main flying regiment, while Keiki Anan, commander of the 11th Army, commanded 2 divisions and 4 detachments. Hangzhou and Nanchang went east to west and attacked in the direction of Shangrao, Jiangxi. For a while, the entire third theater was in a hurry.

At this time, the Chongqing government received a telegram from the U.S. government, asking them to do their best to save Doolittle and the American pilots who parachuted.

After receiving the telegram sent by the US ambassador to China, Gao Si, the Chongqing side paid special attention to it, and immediately ordered Gu Zhutong, the commander of the third war zone, to find Doolittle and the others immediately and send them to Chongqing.

After Gu Zhutong received the telegram, he ran into a difficult situation. We must know that the strength of the third theater is relatively weak.

Now the Japanese launched the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battle again, and the nearly 20 troops overwhelmed him, and there was no extra troops to carry out large-scale search and rescue work.

The most terrible thing is that those American pilots are scattered in various places in Zhejiang. It is not ordinary difficult to gather them together and send them to Chongqing.

In order to rescue those American pilots, Gu Zhutong racked his brains, but it still had little effect.

The last staff officer came up with an idea, which was to send planes to rescue the scattered American pilots, gather them together and send them to Chongqing.

After hearing this, Gu Zhutong also felt that this plan was feasible, but there was a problem.

To implement this plan, aircraft are needed, and not just one or two.

They need fighter jets for escort, transport planes for transporting people, and so on.

What's more, the terrain where some American pilots are located is dangerous, and there is no airport at all. It is simply impossible for ordinary aircraft to take off and land in such a place.

After much deliberation, a group of staff finally decided on the Liantai Flying Militia in Shanxi.

No way, who let the Liantai militia have the largest, most complete and most elite air force in China at present? I didn’t see that the hundred relatively backward P-40s they sold to the Chongqing government were all regarded as fake by Lao Jiang. Baby, hold this batch of planes in your own hands, no one can transfer them without his order.

In order to show his importance, Gu Zhutong dispatched his chief of staff, Huang Baitao, to go out in person, and even recruited Yan Xishan as a lobbyist, which is how today's trip started.

After listening to Huang Baitao's explanation, the headquarters fell into silence for a while.

As guest soldiers, Master Liu, Political Commissar Ping and others naturally intervened, but Gao Hongming was very embarrassed.

It took him a long time to ask slowly: "Chief Huang, do you have any specific plans?"

"some!"

Seeing that there seemed to be something going on, Huang Baitao's eyes flashed with joy, and he hurriedly said, "Our plan is like this.

Since the third war zone was close to the coast, the Japanese aircraft had frequent aircraft activities and their air power was quite strong.

In order to suppress the air power of the Japanese army, we believe that at least one hundred fighters, fifty bombers, twenty transport planes and several reconnaissance planes must be dispatched to ensure the safety of this operation and be foolproof. "

"Ha ha……"

Hearing this, not only Gao Hongming was amused, but even Yan Xishan, who was a lobbyist this time, couldn't stand it any longer, and couldn't help but interject.

"Brother Huanran, I can understand that you use fighter planes, but what do you mean you have to use bombers? Could it be that you have to help you bomb Japanese positions while saving lives?
And is it too much to dispatch a hundred fighter planes at once? You must know that Nephew Gao Xian only has a few planes in total. If you take them all away at once, what will he do here?
Don't forget, there are still two divisions outside of Liantai County now. "

Yan Xishan is still like this, let alone a group of generals from the Eighth Route Army present.

Oh...we are still fighting desperately with the Japanese, and our own planes are not big enough. If you talk about it, you will take away half of the most precious air power. You are a toad and a frog ——An ugly flower.

However, they were not happy, but because of self-restraint, everyone held back, but everyone looked at Gao Hongming, after all, he was the real owner of these air powers.

Gao Hongming shook his head helplessly: "Chief of Staff Huang, I don't know how you came up with this plan, but I have to regret to tell you that your plan is too ambitious, and I can't help you with this. Please return Bar."

After speaking, he turned his head and was about to leave.

"Captain Gao!"

Huang Baitao became anxious when he saw it. He was not welcome in the third war zone because he came from a miscellaneous background. If he returned empty-handed this time, his life in the future would be even more difficult.

Impatient, he quickly stepped forward to stop him: "Commander Gao, you have something to say. If you think there is something wrong with this plan, we can discuss it again."

Gao Hongming stopped, looked at Huang Baitao and said seriously: "Chief Huang, I respect you for being a man, but please don't take me for a fool.

You are going to transfer nearly [-] of my planes easily, are you asking me to help?You're taking the bottom out of the pot and taking us out of the way! "

Huang Baitao was afraid that Gao Hongming would leave in anger, so he grabbed his arm tightly, "Commander Gao, how many planes can you tell us?"

Gao Hongming snorted softly: "I can give you a squadron of fighter planes and twelve transport planes at most. And I can't do this for nothing, you have to pay for it!"