Shadow Spy

Chapter 341 Adding fighter planes and changing tactics

Having done everything he could, Li Junhao took his mind back and began to focus on the work of the headquarters.At present, other aspects of work are going smoothly, so he has focused his energy on the construction of the Army Aviation Detachment.

At present, all the pilots trained in the two batches have been qualified and the four instructors have transferred to Hong Kong Island a few days ago and taken flights back to China. However, the current aircraft are not enough.

Li Junhao has already reported to China that he wants six more P-38s and six F4Fs to expand both squadrons to the standard size of 12 aircraft.

With his current status, it is not a big problem to have 12 more aircraft, especially now that the British air war is over, the British side is much less demanding for aircraft, and there is sufficient domestic production capacity to supply; but transportation is still troublesome, and the arrival of new aircraft It will take another 20 days, so everyone can only take turns boarding the plane for training.

After this period of familiarity, Li Junhao discovered that the current flight tactics of various countries are still in their infancy. Although they have formed the basic theory of air combat and have begun to adopt the main wingman mode in combat, they are relatively backward three-aircraft formations.Although this method achieves the purpose of covering the flanks in actual combat, the actual combat efficiency is not good because the space between the main wingmen is occupied by each other.

Although Li Junhao was not a flying professional in his previous life, he knew that in later generations, the basic mode of fighter aircraft from various countries in actual combat was a two-plane formation, with one leader and one officer, and they could switch at any time according to the actual situation during the battle. In order to achieve the purpose of making full use of space, covering each other, and flexible air combat.

Therefore, he personally got on the plane and took the pilots to practice the two-plane formation, which consumed a lot of fuel every day!

One of the more interesting phenomena is that when the Army Aviation Detachment was first established, the Japanese Naval Air Force stationed at Hongqiao Airport and the Army Air Force at Jiangwan Airport would also send aircraft to take off every time they took off to train, to keep alert or in other words, to take off. Monitoring, but after a while there was no movement.

Li Junhao estimated that the Japanese found that it was meaningless and consumed too much fuel, so they couldn't hold on.

However, the virtues of Little Japan will not change. Since the two new models of fighter planes were stationed in Shanghai, they have continued to send agents and traitors to try to approach Jiaozhou Park. The officers and soldiers of the 327th Regiment responsible for guarding the military camp will arrive every few days. Caught a few; in addition, the police station discovered "unknown persons" who tried to sneak into the concession from time to time during interrogations at various roads. It is believed that a large number of them came for the plane.

Coupled with the observation and following of Japanese military aircraft during the training flights of the two fighters, I believe they already have a lot of understanding of the basic performance of these two aircraft.

Regarding this, Li Junhao was not worried at all, because later in the Pacific War, it was not these two aircraft that were responsible for dealing with the Japanese Zero War, but the F4U Pirates.Previously, because of his intervention, NOVA Industrial Investment Company acquired the stocks of many aircraft manufacturing companies, including the American Vought Company, the designer and manufacturer of F4U. He specifically listed some mature designs of F4U as investments. Part of it has been provided to the company, which has greatly accelerated its research and development progress. It is expected that the second-generation flying prototype will be ready at the beginning of next year, which will be finalized one year earlier than in history. Let's see how it plays the Zero!

In addition, for the P-38 and F4F, Li Junhao has actually made corresponding upgrade designs. There are now 12 improved fighters of the two types of fighters in his portable space. The performance improvement is not much, but they are all It has been specially improved for the Japanese Zero War.

After the 12 new domestically supplemented aircraft arrive, he will arrange for his pilots to gradually get started with the modified fighters. When an air battle does occur, the Japanese will be surprised.But now, to deal with the Japanese 96 naval attack and 97 land battle in Shanghai, the original P-38 and F4F are enough to crush them.

In fact, in the early days of the war, due to the long-term isolationism in the United States, the production capacity of military industrial enterprises was greatly suppressed. Many advanced fighter aircraft had already been designed and finalized. However, orders were not obtained and production could not keep up. This led to Pearl Harbor being During the sneak attack, the main fighters defending the base were F2A Buffaloes and Catalina seaplanes. The number of F4Fs was insufficient, and most of them were destroyed in the first wave of air strikes, so they suffered a big loss in the air battle.

As the number of times he goes to heaven increases, Li Junhao now feels more and more eager to fight. This is not necessarily a dogfight, but he feels that such a peaceful life is too long, especially since he also knows that a war will break out in the future. The time has been counting down, and I feel more and more anxious.

He is not a psychologist, but he also knows that this kind of anxious mood should be relaxed rather than blocked, so he decided to find something exciting or challenging to do, so the first thing he would do is to go to the Philippines. , going head-to-head with his hated MacArthur would be a nice stress-relieving experience.
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In order to facilitate travel, Li Junhao made a fortune and transferred the modified version of the Hawaiian B-24 currently stationed at the Honolulu base. Captain Dick's crew was still in charge of driving. They were old acquaintances, so communication was easy.

On December 12, the Shawei arrived in Shanghai. Li Junhao arranged for the crew to rest and prepared to leave for Manila two days later. Unexpectedly, he received a telegram from Ambassador Johnson on the 17th, saying that Chairman Chiang of the Kuomintang government wanted to Meet him and ask him to go to Chongqing.

Originally he didn't want to go, but after asking Ayers for his opinion via telegram, he was encouraged to go and meet him to practice his diplomatic skills. Just remember not to make promises or directly curse. Don’t talk too much about things you are sure about, ask for instructions when you are not sure about them, change the subject if you don’t want to answer, and say goodbye when you can’t bear it anymore... The language of diplomacy is politeness and lying, whether you say it is serious or not depends on it. own needs.

Well, Li Junhao admitted that this is indeed the basic quality needed by politicians, but he didn’t know if he could master this skill!But one thing Ayers was right about was that there was nothing wrong with meeting this figure whose name was left in history. It should be considered as "paying homage". After all, this kind of figure could not be seen by everyone and at any time.

Although the other party was eager to see him, Li Junhao was not in a hurry. He still let the crew members rest as planned, and also prepared a new batch of goods for trading with Dai Li. Although this guy was smuggling for profit, he got it himself. There are many benefits, but in general, most of its profits are used for military control, which is better than other officials, businessmen, politicians and military leaders!
(End of this chapter)