Film and Television Beacon Fire: I Have an Equipment Column

Aviation school, on the roof of the main teaching building.

Kang Changhe, commander of the air defense company, was inspecting various personnel and equipment in the air defense position.

As the ground protection force of Jianqiao Airport, Kang Changhe's air defense company is a reinforced company. The company of about 300 people is equipped with six old-fashioned Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, four new Sulotong machine guns, and twenty light and heavy machine guns.

With this firepower configuration, even the commander of the Central Army would drool when he saw it.

But in Kang Changhe's view, this firepower configuration is not enough. As a man from the Northeast Army, he had seen how powerful the Japanese air power was in Manchuria.

Kang Changhe knew very well that with the firepower he had on hand, it was basically impossible to fully take care of the air defense of the entire Jianqiao Airport.

Just like now, facing the upcoming bombing by Japanese aircraft, he can only deploy two air defense positions.

One is where he is now, the roof of the teaching building. From here, he can take care of the entire teaching area and the hangar area.

The other piece is on the south side of the middle section of the runway. Its main task is to protect the runway from being bombed as much as possible.

In the remaining places, Kang Changhe was powerless.

'It would be nice if we could have some more anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and the like. '

Kang Changhe thought to himself, but then he shook his head, because he knew that this kind of thing could only be thought about.

"Company Commander, do you think those people really flew down more than a dozen planes?"

Suddenly, someone in the camp asked.

Kang Changhe was stunned when he heard this question, and then looked in the direction of the north gate of the aviation school.

"I can't say that."

Kang Changhe naturally knew what was reported from Shanghai about the records of Lu Feng and others, but to be honest, he actually didn't quite believe it.

He is engaged in air defense, so Kang Changhe considers himself to be one of the few professionals in the field of air defense in the government.

Because of this, he really couldn't understand how it was possible to shoot down dozens or twenty planes at once with just one machine gun.

So the Japanese are all fools, so they drove their planes into the muzzles of cannons?
But he couldn't directly question this kind of thing.

Because at this time, people really need some news that can cheer them up.

Whether true or false.

"If you ask me, this is just propaganda created by the higher-ups. Everyone understands it."

A young voice spoke. There was a chorus of agreement.

Kang Changhe looked at him. He was a newly enrolled pilot student. There were many such pilot students in this position.

As the first and currently only school of the Chinese Air Force, the aviation school has thousands of students.

But the total number of aircraft here is only about a hundred, and many of them are various teaching aircraft. Even if they are all put into combat, only a small number of pilots will be needed.

As for the remaining student pilots, Mao Bangchu did not leave them idle, and arranged them all to the air defense positions one by one.

The relationship between pilots and anti-aircraft firepower is similar to that between a spear and a shield. Every student pilot must also learn knowledge about air defense.

This time the Japanese bombing can teach these rookie students who have never experienced combat a lesson.

Kang Changhe could tell that although the student's words meant to slander the air defense force that came to support him, he probably didn't mean to disrespect them in his heart.

It was just that the war was about to begin and I wanted to find something to talk about to relax my nervousness.

Therefore, Kang Changhe did not stop his subordinates and students on the battlefield from discussing the authenticity of Lu Feng's performance, but just focused his attention on the airport runway not far away.

At this time, all the aircraft that could take off at the aviation school were pushed out.

There are Northrop 2EC bombers and Hawker III fighter jets that Lu Feng has seen several times, as well as Hawker II fighter jets, Heinkel He111A bombers, Chancellor O3U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, etc. Lu Feng had never seen it before. At first glance, it looks a bit like the World Expo.

'To deal with the Air Force, the best means is the Air Force. '

Kang Changhe firmly believed in this.

Jiding Road, in a forest not far from the gate barracks of the aviation school.

Lu Feng and his truck drove into an air defense position preset by an aviation school.

It can be seen that the national government has invested relatively heavily in aviation schools, and has set up a large number of pre-set air defense positions to ensure the safety here.

However, perhaps because the subsequent funds were deposited in the bank, the supporting personnel and equipment for these positions were nowhere to be seen, so they remained empty here.

Although the position was empty, Lu Feng could see that this place was still carefully maintained and it was quite clean. They could move in directly without cleaning up.

After transferring the materials from the truck to the position, Zhang Chu, who had been driving in the middle of the night with dark circles under his eyes, started debugging the radio station to facilitate contact with Mao Bangchu and the others at any time.

Zheng Shusen and the others were arranging various camouflages for their positions to prevent them from being noticed by Japanese aircraft at the first time.

After a sleepless night, Lu Feng could see that everyone's spirits were a little sluggish, but they couldn't rest at this time.

Looking at the planes taking off at Jianqiao Airport, Lu Feng secretly shook his head.

This time coming from Shanghai, he felt deeply how serious the problem of the upper-level command of the government was.

Orders are unclear, subordinates are not arranged, and logistics are not cared for.

That's me. If it were anyone else, I'm afraid he wouldn't have to deal with Mao Bangchu for a long time just because of a subordinate issue.

No wonder the Battle of Songhu became more chaotic as it went on.

"Battal Commander, news just came from the aviation school that the Japanese bomber formation has flown over Haining and is expected to arrive within twenty minutes."

Zhang Chu's words made Lu Feng put away his messy thoughts. He quickly put on his combat armor and entered a state of combat readiness.

In the sky of Haining.

A bombing formation composed of sixty Japanese aircraft headed west from the mouth of the Qiantang River and headed straight for Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou.

In the cabin of one of the Type 96 fighter jets, Major Eiji Shimizu, the commander of this operation, looked down at the ground.

"The Chinese should have discovered us."

Relying on years of infiltration by Japanese intelligence agencies, the Japanese military has almost complete knowledge of the various military arrangements of the government.

Therefore, Major Qingshui knew very well that there was a national air defense reconnaissance force in Haining.

With such a large flight formation appearing here, the news must have been passed on to Jianqiao Airport by the ground reconnaissance force.

Haining is still nearly 60 kilometers away from Jianqiao Airport.

Sixty kilometers is just a matter of minutes for the Type 96 fighter jet.

But the problem is that there are a large number of Type 89 carrier-based aircraft in their formation. As classic aircraft with a speed of only 150 kilometers when fully loaded, these 60 kilometers are enough for them to fly slowly.

Major Qingshui felt that he should not give the Chinese Air Force so much preparation time.

"Team Fujino and Team Sasaki, you go first and create as much chaos as possible to delay their time."

"Hi."

Soon, two formations consisting of three aircraft increased the throttle and broke away from the main force.

(End of this chapter)