Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

As mercenaries, the Flying Tigers were obviously unwilling to fight such a tough battle with huge losses. They were better at concentrating superior forces and fighting air guerrilla warfare with the support of intelligence, which had low risks and high returns.

After all, others come here from afar to earn US dollars, not to become great international warriors who are noble enough to be ready to sacrifice their precious lives at any time.

Some may argue that this is an insult to the Flying Tigers.

I believe many people have heard of the Flying Tigers, but most people don’t know what happened to them in the end.

The Flying Tigers were established in August 41 and disbanded in July 8, less than a year after their establishment. The equipment, wages, bonuses, etc. together cost the National Army a huge sum of US$42 million.

After the disbandment, the US military gave the former "Flying Tigers" members the right to voluntarily choose to join or not join the newly established "23rd Group of the US Army Air Force Task Force" affiliated with the US regular army, but their salaries were changed to be paid according to US military standards.

As a result, with the exception of Captain Chen himself, no pilot of the Flying Tigers chose to stay, and only a few ground crew members stayed to transfer to active service in the US military.

Logically speaking, if the Flying Tigers were really powerful, the US military would have been able to defeat them in July 42.

As the war situation faced by the US military is still not so optimistic, it will definitely not let excellent fighter pilots with rich combat experience leave the army.

You have to know that the difference in combat effectiveness between pilots with actual combat experience and pilots without actual combat experience is huge.

The US military chose to allow the Flying Tigers, pilots with actual combat experience, to leave freely. This unusual move was probably because the US military did not look down on the combat effectiveness of the Flying Tigers.

As for Ma Liang's outrageous answer that he would be responsible for dealing with the Japanese heavy artillery, everyone sensibly treated it as Ma Liang's bragging and tacitly agreed not to mention it. If they did, it would be a disgrace to Sixth Brother.

We have to give Sixth Brother some face!

Faced with everyone's distrust, Ma Liang did not explain, but snapped his fingers and shouted outside the door:

"Let them in!"

A moment later, two foreigners, a lieutenant colonel in British military uniform and a big-nosed, blue-eyed man in American uniform but without a rank, walked in. They raised their hands to salute everyone and introduced themselves in broken Chinese:

"I'm Lieutenant Colonel Colin, the liaison officer for the Royal Air Force in charge of coordinating with the Lawu garrison!"

"I'm Major Cage, the Flying Tigers' liaison officer responsible for coordinating with the Lawu garrison!"

The two men landed in Lawu on a transport plane ten minutes before dark, taking advantage of the cover of darkness.

There is a military airport in Lawu City. The standards of military airports in that era were very low. As long as the ground was leveled, and ground crew and simple equipment were hired, planes could take off and land even on muddy ground.

"Wow~~~~"

Looking at the two men's standard white appearance and their self-introductions, all the senior military officers in the conference room stood up excitedly.

"Welcome, welcome to the Allies, welcome to the heroic Flying Tigers!"

"With you joining us, we can rest assured!"

"Now Lawu's air defense is secured!"

Everyone rushed forward to surround the two men, whose highest military rank was no more than lieutenant colonel, with some degree of flattery on their faces.

Lieutenant Colonel Colin and Cage, two white men who could speak Chinese, did not show any embarrassment at all for the excessive respect shown to senior officers of the National Army such as Li Longting, who had higher ranks than them. Instead, they looked as if it was a matter of course.

There is no way. White supremacy has been subtly instilled in their hearts for so many years, and it cannot be changed without experiencing some real events.

In addition, the arrival of the air force represented by the two men just relieved the air pressure on Lawu to a certain extent. After all, even if the Royal Air Force and Flying Tigers in Britain did not try their best and provide desperate support.

But as long as their fighter planes came over, the Japanese bombers would be somewhat cautious and would not drop bombs one by one so calmly, which was somewhat helpful.

But Ma Liang had no intention of pampering them. After all, Ma Liang forced them to come here not to be the boss, but to fight. He asked directly:

"Lieutenant Colonel Colin and Mr. Cage, now is not the time for small talk. The military situation is urgent. Please briefly introduce the forces that your respective teams can contribute to the air defense of Lawu, and also report on your duty arrangements for the air defense of Lawu!"

The scene was quiet for a while, and the Kuomintang officers looked at Ma Liang in disbelief.

This is the White Allied Forces?

How can you speak to them in the same tone as you would to your subordinates?

Don't you have to say nice things and put on a smiling face?

What if someone gets angry?

Commander Zhang, the most mature and steady among them, tried his best to signal to Ma Liang, and then opened his mouth to try to help Ma Liang turn the situation around.

"Two liaison officers, the military situation is indeed urgent right now. Our General Zheng said..."

As soon as the words fell, Lieutenant Colonel Colin and Major Cage heard that the man in the major general's uniform and sunglasses was General Zheng. They immediately trotted over to Ma Liang, stood at attention respectfully, saluted with a very standard gesture, and shouted:

"General!"

Everyone present saw this outrageous scene. Such a respectful salute was not certain that even if the captain came, a white officer would give such an extremely standard salute.

Ma Liang simply returned the greeting and said "hmm" impatiently.

Lieutenant Colonel Colin and Major Cage quickly took out the documents from their briefcases.

Colin was the first to report:

"General, the British Imperial Air Force suffered heavy casualties in the early stages of the Burma War. The Japanese Zero fighters were so powerful that only one squadron of old P40 fighters and one squadron of Buffalo fighters are still able to fight. These two squadrons are the only ones that can maintain their missions."

Hearing this answer, Ma Liang did not say anything. No one could see his expression under the cover of his sunglasses.

Only Lieutenant Colonel Colin, who was closest to him, felt a little uneasy and quickly added:

"But you can rest assured. As close allies on the same front, we guarantee that these two squadrons of fighters will fully cooperate with your army's air defense of Labu until the last aircraft! To resist the Japanese invaders, we in the British Empire will never stand behind our allies."

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As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the command center looked at the righteous Lieutenant Colonel Colin with question marks on their faces.

Damn, it’s been less than a week since he just abandoned his allies to cover his own losses and ran away?

How dare you say that?

But Lieutenant Colonel Colin didn't take the strange looks from the crowd seriously at all, and just looked at Ma Liang's reaction.

"Lieutenant Colonel Colin, this data is wrong, isn't it? I remember that at the beginning of the year, your American allies just added 67 squadrons of Buffalo fighters to you, and your own country added three Hurricane fighters. How come there are only two fighter squadrons left?"

Upon hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Colin, who had remained calm, changed his expression drastically.