Devil's Army

Seeing that it was still early, Leng Feng took Director Zhou and others to Tieling County.

This first model county of the first anti-Japanese army was inferior to other large cities in China except for its population and economic output. Its vitality was better than other large cities in China at that time in all aspects.

Although Director Zhou liked Tieling County under the governance of the First Anti-Japanese Army very much, he came with a mission. While visiting Tieling County, he did not forget to persuade Leng Feng to merge the Air Force under the unified command of the Nanjing government and fight against Japan together.

Leng Feng knew that it would be difficult to convince Director Zhou in the short term, so he could only play the role of host and entertain Director Zhou and his friends.

Three days later, due to the tense war situation, Director Zhou and his colleagues returned to Kunming Aviation School.

Before leaving, the ten pilots who had been training for several days looked reluctant.

They really like this fast supersonic plane.

The United States and the British Empire did not provide that considerable amount of aid because they could not see the prospect of the Nanjing government winning the war against Japan.

The Nanjing leaders also gave up the unrealistic idea of ​​having the First Anti-Japanese Army Air Force under their command.

Leng Feng also gave up the idea of ​​merging with Kunming Aviation School to jointly fight against Japan. However, he still installed auxiliary fuel tanks for the two Huaxia II fighter squadrons and flew to Chongqing to prepare to attack the incoming Japanese Zero fighters.

The Japanese spies hidden in Chongqing played a role.

The Japanese army soon learned that two sharp fighter planes of the Devil Force had arrived in Chongqing and temporarily stopped the bombing of Chongqing.

The Zero fighters produced at an accelerated pace in Japan were successively shipped to central China and Northeast China, strengthening the air force of the Japanese Central China Front and the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Leng Feng had no choice but to transfer the two Hua Xia 2 fighter squadrons sent to Chongqing back to the tribe.

Leng Feng and Captain Xu of the First Anti-Japanese Army Air Force originally thought that the plan to jointly fight against Japan with the Kunming Aviation School would definitely fail, but they did not expect that things would take a turn for the better.

One day in late 1940, at around ten o'clock in the morning, nine Japanese bombers attacked the Yunnanyi Kunming Aviation School without any fighter escort.

Fortunately, the 14th batch of students had just completed their training and left the airport.

The bombing destroyed 21 training aircraft and 3 transport aircraft and injured two mechanics.

At around 1:00 p.m., Japanese bombers once again bombed and strafed the Yunnanyi Kunming Aviation School.

This time the trainees were training at the airport and suffered heavy casualties.

When Director Zhou visited the aviation school to express his condolences, the pilots who had visited the First Anti-Japanese Army Air Force with Director Zhou surrounded Director Zhou. One pilot cried to Director Zhou:

"Director, the Japanese air raid killed five of our pilots who visited the First Anti-Japanese Army Air Force last time. This means that our small fortune has been destroyed by the Japanese bombing."

Director Zhou didn't know what the pilot wanted to say, but he couldn't decide on his own whether to merge with the First Army Air Force to fight against Japan. He could only comfort the injured pilots and go back to discuss with the leader.

When the leader heard that the Kunming Aviation School had been bombed by the Japanese army and suffered heavy losses, he was furious.

He was worried that the remaining air force would be destroyed by bombing by the Japanese, and he also wanted to obtain the aid he desperately needed from the British and American empires.

He authorized Director Zhou to join forces with the Air Force of the First Anti-Japanese Army to fight against Japan under certain conditions.

Director Zhou asked about the conditions for joint resistance against Japan.

Leader’s instructions:

101. The Air Force must be named after the Republic of China Air Force. How about naming it the Republic of China Air Force st Squadron?

101. The combined st Aviation Group must nominally belong to the Nanjing government. However, the First Anti-Japanese Army can be responsible for training and formulating combat plans, and we will not interfere. We can ask them to cooperate when we have combat requirements.

3. It is not allowed to carry out red propaganda or infiltrate red party members in schools or among the pilot team.

101. After the establishment of Aviation Brigade , it should win one or two high-profile victories as soon as possible.

The Nanjing leaders were still obsessed with the large amounts of aid from the United States and British empires.

Afterwards, Director Zhou sent the draft telegram to Leng Feng.

What made Director Zhou happy was that Leng Feng accepted all of it after reading it, but added two more points:

101. The expenses of Aviation Group shall be borne by the Nanjing government. And they must be paid off monthly and cannot be repaid later.

101. In order to increase the strength of Aviation Brigade , the First Anti-Japanese Army Air Force acquired one of the four existing small aircraft manufacturing plants in Yunnan.

When the Nanjing leaders heard this, they knew that Commander Leng of the First Anti-Japanese Army was still upset about the delay in paying their military pay.

Moreover, none of Yunnan's four small aircraft manufacturing plants has been able to grow to scale.

If there is a company that possesses the technology of the First Anti-Japanese Army Air Force and is capable of producing this cross-generational supersonic aircraft, then their Aviation Squadron 101 can also develop rapidly.

So he quickly agreed.

Because the weak air force and navy have always been his two worries. Now that he has the opportunity to build a strong air force, he will not default on the payment and weaken his military strength.

After receiving a positive response from the Nanjing leader, Leng Jing immediately ordered the research department to install auxiliary fuel tanks on the Hua Xia II fighter and the H-1 bomber.