New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

Sang Luobing was sitting on a high chair by the stage, sipping the cocktail in his glass while swaying his body to the beat of the music.

"Why didn't your brother come with you? Aren't you two always inseparable?" Sang Luobing asked an American soldier as he put the wine glass on the stage.

"He can't come tonight, he has a mission." The American soldier replied.

Sang Luobing looked around the entire hall, and she noticed that in the entire hall, there was not a single staff member of the combat department who came here for leisure.

"It seems that the Yankees are really going to do something unusual." Sang Luobing thought as he picked up his glass calmly, took another sip, put the glass on the stage, and stood up gracefully Come on, extend an arm to that American soldier.

"Tom, won't you ask me to dance?"

……

The war room of the No.14 Air Force was brightly lit, and a huge map was placed in the middle of the war room, surrounded by staff officers.Some of them are carefully moving the small red and blue flags that symbolize the strength of the two sides, while others are busy calculating on the side.A large-scale war game is underway.

"General, the results for the first week are out." A staff officer walked up to Chennault who was sitting on the side, and handed him one by one.

Chennault looked down and handed the paper to Ron who was sitting next to him.

"Look, the loss of the transport plane in the first week was not small." Chennault glanced at Ron, "The loss increased by 40.00%."

Ron took a closer look at the statistics of the simulated battle results.In the first week, the exchange of fighter jets had a clear advantage over China and the US military, but the loss of transport aircraft was indeed serious.But after seeing the loss figures of Japanese fighter jets, Ron felt that he had a score in his heart.

"Our losses in the first week were indeed huge, but seeing that Japan's own losses are also huge, I guess they won't be able to survive the second week. At most three weeks, they will completely lose air supremacy. General, let Let’s wait for the results of the second and third weeks.”

A few hours later, the staff officer handed Chennault another piece of paper.Chennault looked at it and handed the paper to Ron.

"The results of this week's deduction are not consistent with your expectations-in fact, the tasks you expected to complete in the third week have been completed in the second week. The loss of the transport plane has also dropped a lot, um, Ri's own The air power is exhausted, and the flight path has been threatened by force."

"So, shall we continue with the third week of the game?" Ron asked.

"Of course, why not. But that's all for today. We're all tired, aren't we? Go back to sleep."

Following General Chennault's order, the staff immediately got busy again, taking notes and taking notes, and receiving maps.After a while of fuss, everyone drew back the thick curtains and opened the door to the war room.At this time, a faint purple had already appeared in the distant sky.

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"Tom, are you hanging out here alone again? Where's your gay friend? Are you having a conflict?"

"Who said that? Huck's been working all night and now he's sleeping. He's completely feline now, sleeping during the day..."

"I heard that you suffered a lot on the hump route?"

"Who do you listen to nonsense?"

"Don't lie to me, I know that you Flying Tigers have always liked to add water to the battle reports. But you know, this kind of activity will cause fluctuations in black market prices. If I were you, if there was something really going on, I would definitely stockpile a batch first Cigarettes in hand."

……

"Ron, after several deductions, I think our plan has stood up to scrutiny. But to turn this plan into a combat order, we have to discuss it with Stilwell."

Stilwell was the Chief of Staff of the China Theater and the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Army in the China-Myanmar-India Theater. He directly controlled the distribution of U.S. aid to China.An air campaign of this scale would inevitably involve the distribution of various combat materials. Without Stilwell's support, the campaign concept could not be implemented.

"Let's meet with General Stilwell in a while. He happens to be in Kunming now, but he doesn't always pay much attention to the role of air combat... You have to try your best to convince him to support this plan." Chennault paused, "This It's up to you to explain the plan to him. After all, you are one of the best air combat tactics experts in the United States."

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"Office Huang, the Americans seem to be preparing for a big move. The No.14 Air Force's staff team is extremely busy. In addition, some American soldiers have obviously started hoarding cigarettes. I worry that their actions may interfere with the distribution of American aid supplies. We should probably stock up a little bit ahead of time."

"Luo Bing, you are really my female Zhuge."

A fat, big-eared military officer sitting on the sofa smiled and put out the cigarette on his hand in the ashtray, then pulled Sang Luobing into his arms, and put one hand through the seam of her clothes Probe in.

"Huang Chu, you are so bad... This is in the office... Oh..."

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Kunming, where Stilwell stayed.

General Stilwell, who had just turned 60, put down the plan Ron handed him, and at the same time took off the glasses on his high nose bridge.

"Where did the deduction of this plan take place?" he asked.

"General, the war game of the plan is carried out in the war room of the No. 14 Air Force." Ron replied.

"The No.14 air team did the deduction." Stilwell smiled. After getting this answer, in his mind, the persuasiveness of this document was immediately greatly reduced.Because in Stilwell's eyes, the No.14 Air Force is an army composed of a bunch of mercenaries.When they were still called the Flying Tigers, the Nationalist Government would pay them a $100 bonus for every Japanese plane they shot down. (At that time, $100 was almost equivalent to 3 ounces, or 85 grams of gold.) In order to get more bonuses, the Flying Tigers often intentionally or unintentionally reported some very exaggerated statistics.As a result, they claimed that the number of Japanese aircraft shot down was even greater than the sum of the various aircraft owned by the Japanese in this area.According to Stilwell, the authenticity of the No. 14 Air Force's battle report must be multiplied by a coefficient, and this coefficient is basically no higher than one-half.

What's even more hateful is that the mercenary boss still likes to brag about these obviously unreliable battle reports in a serious manner, and even proposes the so-called "give me a thousand fighter planes, and I can destroy the entire small Japan" strategic vision.Now that the No. 14 Air Force had come up with such a thing, Stilwell knew without even thinking about it. It must be that Chennault wanted to cheat more supplies from him.

"Well, according to his request, in the last month, the supply of other materials must be reduced by about 20.00%, so as to free up the capacity to provide them with the fuel and ammunition they need for combat. Well, did Chennault think I was a peacemaker? Peanut-like idiot?" Stilwell thought silently.

Although he thought he had seen through Chennault's tricks, Stilwell did not intend to refute them face to face. After all, he still had to work with Chennault, and it would not be good to make the relationship too tense.

"I will let my staff study this document carefully. This is a very complicated operational concept, and it will take some time to study it. Therefore, I cannot give you an answer immediately." Stilwell thought for a while, and said.

"Then, how long will it take for your Excellency to give us an answer?" Chennault asked.

Originally, Chennault didn't intend to speak up, but Stilwell's suspicion of the Fourteenth Air Force was still heard by him, which made Chennault feel very uncomfortable.

"About a week?" Stilwell replied patiently.

"Why did it take so long? In No.14 Air Force, the relevant deduction was completed in less than 48 hours." Ron also asked.

This question made Stilwell very embarrassed.In fact, Stilwell originally planned to bring this plan back to India and let the staff of the Tenth Air Force deduce it once.But now that Chennault is here, uttering such a reason in front of him may only lead to differences and conflicts.

So he paused first, looked at Chennault and Ron, and said, "Who first proposed this idea?"

"It's Colonel Ron."

"Oh, Colonel Ron, you know, I am a layman in air combat. If you have time, can you stay and explain this plan to me and my staff in detail?" Stilwell quickly found a Excuse.

"Good general," Ron replied.

Chennault stared at Stilwell, he knew that this was just Stilwell's excuse.He knew that, in essence, Stilwell and he were the same kind of people--unlucky people who thought highly of themselves but were thrown into such a secondary battlefield.Like him, Stilwell hoped to seize the opportunity of war to make a difference.But because of capacity constraints, and of course, because of strategic priorities, the manpower and material resources that can be allocated to this battlefield are very limited.Chennault was short of supplies, and Stilwell simply didn't even have soldiers.Moreover, Chennault can only command air battles, and Stilwell can only command ground battles, but the materials given to them cannot meet their needs at the same time.Opportunities for any one of them almost meant the loss of the material base necessary for the other to make his mark.Therefore, Stilwell instinctively opposed any plan for large-scale air operations.

Chennault didn't want to fall out directly with Stilwell, but the plan was very important to him.Ron had told him yesterday that this operation was actually a rehearsal, a dress rehearsal for the air battle in Europe.Once successful, this tactic will become a classic and remain in the annals of history forever.As the first general to practice this method of warfare, Chennault will also leave a heavy mark in history.

So Chennault intends to make a concession to that damned stubborn old man—as long as that guy supports him this time, he is willing to reduce the initiative of the Fourteenth Air Force by one-third in the next three months, four months at most. Attack, save the transportation force to repay this stubborn old man, and I am willing to express my support for him to reopen the China-Myanmar Highway.

So Chennault said: "General, I think we should have a good talk, you, me and Colonel Ron. This plan is very important to our country and our personal historical status."