Immediately, several ground crew members ran over. As soon as Zhou Zhihan stood up from the cabin, Zhou Zhirou and others were already standing by the ladder and waiting.

"Zhi Han!" Zhou Zhirou walked up to support Zhou Zhihan who was walking down the ladder, and then grabbed Zhou Zhihan's hands, "You are finally back."

"Commander-in-Chief!"

Zhou Zhihan's hand was held by Zhou Zhirou and could not salute the military.

"It's stronger again, and more calm." Zhou Zhirou patted Zhou Zhihan's shoulder, "You don't need to be polite. Knowing that you are coming back recently, I sent someone to report your parents' good news a few days ago. Your whole family was overjoyed when you heard that you were coming back. After the space headquarters welcomed you, you would go home and stay for a few days."

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief!" Zhou Zhihan said gratefully, "I don't want to go back for the time being. Wait until my fiancée arrives, and then take her back to see her parents!"

"I heard from the Embassy in the UK that Karen is a good girl. She has come to China all the way. We must treat her well in the future. If she wants to work, the headquarters hospital lacks a deputy director." Zhou Zhirou said as she walked out of the airport with Zhou Zhihan, "Zhirou, this time you have made great contributions in the UK and have shown national prestige, so that we have confidence in speaking and negotiating in front of the British. The principal said that we would highly reward you.

Also, due to the special reasons for coming back this time, in order not to arouse suspicion from the UK, we believe you will not be allowed to hold important positions for the time being.

After a month or two, you will be appointed as the commander of a certain Air Force unit. At that time, we can tell the UK that you were injured in parachuting due to a mechanical accident and drifting on the sea, rescued by a passing cargo ship, and returned to China.

Even if the British have doubts, there is nothing to say. After all, you were well-known when you were in the UK and made many great contributions."

Zhou Zhihan nodded, and he suddenly remembered something big.

"By the way, Commander-in-Chief! I wonder if the 24 fighter jets that the British helped us have arrived?"

"Oh! It's a long story." Zhou Zhirou stopped, "The first batch of 12 fighter jets assisted by the UK after a lot of twists and turns at sea. When they arrived in our hands, there were only 7 intact. The other five were seriously damaged and could not be repaired, and they could only become spare parts in the future.

Because we didn't know when you would return to China, we assembled a test flight, but it crashed due to serious improper operation. One of our excellent pilots also died on the spot. So the remaining six fighters were sealed and hidden in secret places. Now that you are back, our six planes can also be used.

The second batch of 12 fighter jets that the UK assisted us was docked at other countries' wharfs due to strong winds on the sea. In addition, various reasons have not arrived yet."

After hearing Zhou Zhirou finish his words, Zhou Zhihan felt so painful. If these 24 hurricanes and firecrackers were intact and 24 top pilots were selected to train him for several months, what kind of combat power would it be? It would definitely make the Japanese cry and call him mother!

"There is no way to go Zhihan!" Zhou Zhirou could see Zhou Zhihan's heartache expression, and sighed a long time ago, with a helpless expression, "We have no power at sea. All ports entering and leaving the outside world were blocked by the Japanese army, so we can only leave the fate, and only a few aircraft will be left."

Zhou Zhihan could hear Zhou Zhirou's inner regret. At the end of 1940, the most difficult time for China's War of Resistance, and the navy was almost just a decoration. During the Battle of Songhu and Jiangyin, the navy was wiped out. Finally, the Soviet Flying Volunteer Army, which had finally arrived at the aid of China, was also withdrawn due to the aggressiveness of Germany on the Western Front. The Chinese Air Force once again fell into a fight alone.

Although with the help of the Soviet Volunteer Army to aid China, a group of cadets were trained for the Chinese Air Force, after the Soviet Volunteer Army withdrew and under the pressure of the Japanese Air Force, most of the Chinese pilots had lost.

Zhou Zhihan walked out and looked around. There was not even a fighter plane in the entire airport. He asked: "Commander! Have all the fighters in the airport gone out to carry out their mission?"

"They all took off and went to the battle room. Let's go to the war room and wait for good news to come!" Zhou Zhirou waved her hand and said, "Zhihan, we only learned about your return in the early morning. Otherwise, this battle against Japan will definitely wait for you to come back to lead the team!"

Zhou Zhijudo: "A battle against Japan?"

Zhou Zhirou's face was solemn: "Well! Today, the 4th Battalion, which was formerly stationed at Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, was organized together with the 3rd and 5th Battalions to take off against the new Japanese fighter jets..."

...

Time goes back to the day before Zhou Zhihan arrived at Chengdu Taiping Temple Airport.

Hankou.

The 48 Navy bombers commanded by Commander Yamaguchi Tatsume took off from Hankou to bomb Chongqing under the escort of 12 Zero Warfare.

Since these 12 Zero Fighters, the Japanese Air Force has become more powerful and has not taken the old I-15 and 16 seriously. They have had many fights with the Soviet aircraft and are already aware of it. The Japanese Air Force has made bold statements more than once that with these 12 Zero Fighters, they can completely fight against the entire Chinese fighter force.

Yi-15?

Yi-16?

Haha, don’t China still have more than a dozen old and staggering Hawk fighters? Take them out together...haha...

………

Over Chengdu.

At this time, Lieutenant Wang Guangfu, the second squadron leader of the 23rd Squadron, who had repaired the fighter jets in the rear, Lieutenant Lie Sei and Lieutenant Kang Zhongshi were ordered to fly the Yi-15, Yi-16, who still had no navigation equipment and radio to Suining Airport and gathered with the large aircraft cluster that was about to arrive there.

When they took off and climbed up together, a red cross cloth representing emergency landing was fired on the ground.

Seeing the message, the three of them landed again immediately.

The airport staff told them that the phone number in Suining, Chongqing was blocked and might have been damaged by traitors. They quickly sent a verbal order from the commander-in-chief of the Air Force: "All planes in Suining are on standby, and the leader should pay attention to radio command."

Lieutenant Wang Guangfu and others immediately took off again. In order to avoid the Yi-15 Trek without radio and navigation equipment, Wang Guangfu cautiously found the Fu River northward and then advanced northwest along the winding valley. The fighter troops that took off from Chengdu Taipingsi Airport met with the three brigades that had assembled in advance at Wenjiang Airport. They had formed a formation to land at Suining Airport, and then took off and assembled again after refueling.

According to the notice, 18 Japanese fighter jets took off from Wuchang and went west, and then received news that two groups of 38 fighter bombers took off from Hankou. After half an hour, they received information and found 8 Japanese fighter jets in Yuyang Pass, but these fighters flew very fast and high, and their models could not be identified.

So a large group of aircraft gathered in Suining went to intercept Japanese aircraft in batches.

When Wang Guangfu and his friends flew to Suining, all the fighters attacked against the Japanese planes.

After Wang Guangfu landed, he immediately reported to the airport ground commander Liu Hanzhi for verbal orders from Chongqing, but it was too late to recall the large aircraft group.

Finally, 56 Japanese fighter bombers entered the sky over Chongqing.

When the Chinese fighter group flew to the city, they saw thick smoke rolling over Chongqing from afar, and anti-aircraft guns fired meaningless black fireworks in the air. The pilots felt sorry for the fellow villagers again. Everyone had to put the throttle on and wanted to fight the enemy to the death.

When they arrived over Chongqing, the enemy planes had already flew away, leaving only the bombed area full of scars. The Japanese planes were not sure where to go. The white condensation tails they left in the air had already dissipated with the wind and had no trace to follow.

At this moment, Major Zheng Shaoyu, the leader of the team leader, received news from the ground that another group of Japanese aircraft were rushing to Chongqing and asked him to lead the aircraft back to Suining Airport to refuel.

At this moment, the 23rd Squadron, piloted the lieutenant team member Liu Yingyao, with the number 2309-15, suddenly discovered that ten kilometers ahead of him, a group of Japanese Type 97 bombers and a group of unknown strange aircraft flew towards Chongqing in an evacuation formation.

Major Zheng Shaoyu took out his telescope and, based on the previous description of the ground personnel and the judgment of the intelligence personnel at the Air Force Headquarters, believed that this was the new Japanese single-air dive bomber. So he immediately shouted excitedly: "Brothers, we can do a big fight, beat these Japanese kids raised by dogs and get them all down."

At this time, some planes have communication systems, while some do not have communication systems, so they can only obtain messages by gestures.

Upon hearing this, the team members were very excited, and they were ready to form a battle formation and rushed towards the enemy.

No one knew that these were 12 Zero fighters led by Captain Kondo, the Japanese enemy 12 air force. When they returned to Chongqing after the escorted Type 96 land attack bombing, they pretended to return with the bomber group. Then, based on the report of the Type 97 reconnaissance aircraft hovering high altitudes near Chongqing, they learned that the large group of Chinese Air Force aircraft was coming.

The cunning Kondo was overjoyed. He knew that the Chinese Air Force had been fooled. He laughed wildly and immediately led 12 Zero fighters to suddenly kill him.
Chapter completed!