Chapter 969: Power on, fighter jets take off
After returning to the airport base, the Sichuan Army was warmly welcomed by the people at the base.

After Lin Hao gave a brief speech of encouragement, he went to the wounded camp despite his fatigue to visit the wounded soldiers present.

"How is it? Does it still hurt?" Lin Hao asked a soldier who was stabbed in the back by Xiao Rizi's bayonet.

"It doesn't hurt, Commander. After my wounds heal, I will go back to the battlefield to kill the little guys. This time I killed two of them." The soldier said with a grin.

"Okay, take good care of your injuries. When you recover, I will find a wife for you!" Originally, Lin Hao was planning to hold a military-civilian blind date conference, but the conditions were not ripe at that time.

Lin Hao knew that the Sichuan Army lacked cohesion and had no outstanding achievements. Even if he held a blind date meeting, few people would come.

But it is different now. A bloody battle has let the people know that the Sichuan Army is the one who protects them, and more people will definitely come to participate.

"Really, Commander?" The soldier was so excited that he almost broke his string.

"Of course, I have never lied to you." Lin Hao said with a smile: "When your injuries are healed, I will find wives for you and give you houses."

The first phase of the building has been almost completed and is about to be topped out. After all, it is only six stories high and does not require any very advanced technology to build, especially with three shifts, the efficiency is very high.

After visiting the wounded soldiers, Lin Hao asked the doctors not to be stingy with penicillin and to ensure that every wounded soldier would recover as normal.

After leaving the wounded soldiers camp, Lin Hao sighed and looked towards the cemetery in the distance, where there were more than a hundred fallen soldiers.

"It's too much trouble. Find a makeup artist to put makeup on the fallen soldiers. There are also a batch of coffins in the warehouse. Pull them out and use them."

"Three days later, a memorial ceremony will be held and everyone must be present."

"Yes, Danzao!"

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Three days later, after expedited construction, the cemetery took shape. It will still need further repairs, but for now the fallen soldiers must be buried in peace.

“Wow~wow~wow~!”

The two rows of people who were originally standing next to the open space in the cemetery were whispering and clamoring, and many people felt that this was just a formality.

Suddenly their noise was drowned out by the sound of orderly marching footsteps.

A team of solemn and dignified Sichuan Army soldiers in military uniforms appeared before them, led by Lin Hao, who was wearing a lieutenant colonel's uniform and supporting the coffin.

"So handsome." Many people praised secretly.

The orderly footsteps attracted the attention of the people, and then a series of black and red coffins were carried out.

Each coffin was solemnly carried by eight Sichuan Army soldiers who were also wearing military uniforms.

When the long coffin-carrying procession arrived at the cemetery, the atmosphere became a little depressing. Everyone was silent and no one made any more noise.

"Let's go home!" With Lin Hao's shout, the suona band that had been prepared long ago began to sound, and the sad voice resonated with countless people.

Many people shed tears, and some soldiers cried silently because the coffins contained their comrades who had been with them day and night.

"Go to the ground!"

The graves for the coffins had already been dug. With an order, everyone gently placed them and began to fill them with soil.

"Fire a gun!" As soon as the tombstone was placed, Long Wenjian, who was responsible for firing the gun, shouted immediately.

"put!"

"boom!"

"put!"

"boom!"

"put!"

"boom!"

"Have you not seen, the Han army, at the young age, tied to the captives and asked for a long rope!" After the gunshots stopped, Lin Hao took the lead in singing this military song.

Haven’t you seen that Han Zhongjun, a young man, tied up the captives and asked for a long rope!
Have you not seen, Ban Dingyuan, the light cavalry in the remote area, urging the battle clouds,
The man should be in serious danger. How can he let the Confucian crown miss this life?
Moreover, the country is in danger, and the imperial edicts are being sent without stopping.
I discard my old pen and put on my wartime collar.
One call for more than one hundred thousand comrades, sang war hymns and joined the army.

Qi joined the army, cleared the Hu dust, and vowed to wipe out the Japanese invaders at all costs.

As soon as the song ended, everyone's blood was boiling.

"I've decided, I'm going to join the Sichuan Army!" After watching this scene, someone in the crowd was so excited that he decided to join the army immediately.

"I'll go too!" his companion said firmly.

"Okay, let's go together!"

"And I want to go too!"

More than a dozen people have expressed their desire to join the Sichuan Army, and this is exactly the effect Lin Hao hoped for.

After the memorial ceremony, everyone was unable to stop for a long time. The training enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army was re-risen, and the enthusiasm of the people for construction was even more positive.

Everything in the base is moving in a good direction.

On the other side, inside the hydroelectric power plant.

The huge power plant is divided into left and right banks, each housing four generator sets.

Hydroelectric power generation is much simpler. Water flows through the culvert to push the impeller, and the power is transmitted through a special ship-grade steel shaft to directly drive the generator set to generate electricity.

"Ten, nine, eight... three, two, one, open the gate and generate electricity!"

At the command, the huge winch began to turn, and the steel cable began to shrink as it turned, with a series of creaking sounds coming from it.

The huge culvert gate was slowly lifted up, and streams of white water gushed out. After flying dozens of meters in the air, they fell into the river ahead, making a loud rumbling sound.

Each huge culvert corresponds to a generator set. The torrent pushes the impeller, which in turn drives the generator set to rotate rapidly. The lights in the power plant light up instantly, and everyone present couldn't help but cheer in unison.

"There's electricity. There's electricity."

"Great, there's electricity."

The cheers even spread to the distant new city, and all the people were cheering.

One after another, power generation culverts are put into operation, sending powerful electricity to various places in the airport through the transmission network.

In the barracks where light bulbs had already been installed, the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army were waiting anxiously.

When they saw the lights come on, everyone cheered in unison. From today on, their barracks had electricity.

In the regiment's meeting room, looking at the 60-watt light bulb being lit, Lin Hao said to Kang Huojian with a smile.

"Kang Huojian did a good job. Without the engineering company, the power station wouldn't have been built so quickly."

During this period, the engineering company had a very heavy task. In addition to building roads, they also had to build a hydroelectric power station. As a result, Kang Huojian had to live and eat at the construction site, and he lost a lot of weight.

"Commander, this is what I should do. I am also very happy to see that everyone is using electricity." Kang Huojian said modestly.

"Lao Kang, you are not a humble person. What's wrong? When did you become humble?" Snake Butt joked.

Hearing this, Kang Huojian blushed and said, "You~!"

"Look, look, Lao Kang is blushing. It's not spicy. Look at Lao Kang." Snake Butt still joked.

Lin Hao looked at the people joking and making noise, and couldn't help but chuckle:
"Okay, having a power station is just the first step. Next, we need to put the factory equipment to use. We have more important things to do next." "Now there are about 56 people in the whole regiment. I decided to take the initiative and attack Menggong. According to intelligence, a regiment of the th Division of Xiaorizi is stationed here."

"Once we take over Mong Kung, the whole of Myanmar will be split in two. As long as we stop the small people east of Myitkyina, we can free up our hands to take over the small people in the north, and then half of Myanmar will be in our hands."

After listening to Lin Hao's battle plan, many people took a breath. It was really crazy to attack an entire regiment of Xiao Rizi with only three thousand people.

First of all, we have to guard against sneak attacks from Xiao Ri. At least a thousand people should be left to watch the house. It is indeed difficult for two thousand people to fight against a whole squadron of Xiao Ri, and even with air support.

In fact, Lin Hao didn't want to launch an attack so soon, but time was running out. With Xiao Ri's attack, Lin Hao's living space would be further compressed.

The key is that losing the domestic population supply will seriously disrupt Lin Hao's layout, so he must take the initiative to open up transportation with the country and obtain population supplies.

Moreover, Lin Hao also wants to build a primary industrial system, but the current territory is not enough for him to implement it.

"Commander, why don't we change places? The life of a regiment is still too difficult for us." Meng Fan said with a dry mouth.

"No, this is what I have thought about carefully. We still have a big advantage." Lin Hao shook his head and said confidently.

"First of all, Xiao Rizi doesn't know our true strength, which is a huge advantage for us." Lin Hao analyzed, scanning the crowd present.

"Secondly, we have heavy artillery that can attack cities. The fortifications of the ordinary days are nothing to us."

"Finally, there is another good news. We will have our own fighter jets soon."

Fighter planes are Lin Hao's greatest confidence. He originally thought that it would take at least one or two months to train a pilot.

As a result, two geniuses were found. After being taught by Roberts and others, they completely mastered the essentials of flying in just one week and are now able to fly independently.

Fortunately, Lin Hao was using a P51 Mustang fighter, and Roberts and others happened to fly this type of fighter in Daying.

Although it is an improved P51D model, its operation and driving are no different from the P51A.

Lin Hao didn't ask them to be very good at flying, nor did he ask them to be able to kill people in the sky immediately. He just asked them to take off and entangle Xiaori's fighter planes. In this way, Xiaori's air force could not provide support, and the chances of capturing Meng Gong would be very high.

"Fighter plane? Really?" Everyone present looked at Lin Hao with surprise, as if trying to confirm whether this was true.

"Of course, there are already two pilots who can take off the fighter jets!" Lin Hao nodded:

"Not only that, our fighter planes are the latest improved models of the US P51. When the time comes, the Japanese planes will be slaughtered."

With the performance of the P51D, it would be a crushing defeat for the Japanese Zero fighters, not to mention the slow-moving Mitsubishi G4M Type land attack aircraft, which has a speed of only over kilometers per hour.

Moreover, the avionics and operation of the P51D are not very complicated. As long as you prepare the driving manual carefully and drive it a few times, you should be able to do it.

At this time, the requirements for pilots were not that high. As long as they had a certain cultural foundation and underwent training, taking off would definitely not be a problem. As for their combat effectiveness, it depended on their personal performance.

"If that's the case, there's still hope of taking over Menggong City, but the casualties may be huge, and we're running low on ammunition, especially the bullets, which are consumed very quickly." Long Wenjian, who had been silent, nodded in agreement.

During this period of time, he has been busy with the selection and training of Old A. After reading the training plan given to him by Lin Hao, he was simply amazed. He felt that there was such a devilish training plan in the world, but it was very much to his liking.

There were thirty of them, all veterans of hundreds of battles, and they were armed to the teeth. To be frank, as long as they trained for a while longer, they would not be afraid even if they faced a small team.

Hearing that the bullets were being consumed too quickly, Lin Hao was not really worried. Having the ability to teleport and a space ring, Lin Hao was least afraid of the consumption of bullets.

But when he heard about the huge casualties, Lin Hao sighed. People do die in war, and if there are huge casualties it will have a huge impact on morale. He only has this little wealth in his hands, and if it's all gone in battle, then everything would be in vain.

It would be nice to have bulletproof vests, but the bulletproof vests of this period were not very effective. At best they could block low-speed bullets like those from pistols.

Not only are they powerless against rifle bullets, they are also extremely expensive. This is why bulletproof vests have been around for decades but have never been equipped by the military.

Instead of making impractical bulletproof vests, wouldn't it be better to build a few more infantry fighting vehicles or tanks?

Speaking of which, the military factories in the United States seem to have produced more than a dozen tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

With tanks as shields and offensive weapons, it seems that casualties can really be reduced.

So Lin Hao was teleported to the United States to replenish a batch of bullets and artillery shells, and then took away the produced tanks and armored vehicles, and then returned to the airport base again, handed over these equipment to Zhao He, and expanded the armored forces.

After leaving the armored unit's camp, Lin Hao led his men to the airport runway, and Meng Fanle reported that the air force pilots were preparing to take off their fighter planes.

In the past few days, two pilots who met the flight requirements have examined the P51D from inside to outside, and even memorized all the parts of the aircraft according to the drawings. Although there are still some parts that they don't understand, they have already understood most of them.

Mainly, when they saw the P51D Mustang for the first time, they were very excited.

Especially when Roberts told them that this aircraft is the most advanced aircraft in the world. If they can fly this fighter, then the aircraft of the day will be just toys in front of them.

It was this sentence that completely stimulated their enthusiasm for training. Except for sleeping time, they spent the rest of the day studying like crazy, holding the instruction manuals and drawings.

Even Roberts was shocked by their enthusiasm for learning.

"They are all great. When they shoot down the Xiaori fighter plane, I will personally award them medals." After a moment of silence, Lin Hao said solemnly.

"Report to the commander, test pilot Wang Wei reports to you!" On the airport runway, Wang Wei, wearing a flight suit, stood in front of Lin Hao and said loudly.

Looking at Wang Wei in front of him, Lin Hao sized him up and then said:
"If an accident occurs, you must use the ejection seat to escape. Your life is more valuable than the plane. I have a lot of planes that are not flown by anyone. If you lose a plane, you can just come back and fly it again. But if you die, our fledgling air force will be gone."

For him, if the plane is gone, it’s gone. For him who can produce planes, planes are not a big deal. But if the pilots are gone, where can he find two more talented pilots? At that time, he will have no place to cry.

He only has a small number of people under his command, all of whom have special skills, and he treats each of them as a treasure.

Feeling the sincerity in Lin Hao's words, Wang Wei was somewhat moved, and immediately said loudly:
"Commander, please rest assured that I will complete the test flight mission successfully!"

"Well, be careful."

Wang Wei checked all the instruments in the cabin, and the data showed that everything was normal.

"Everything is ready." Wang Wei made a gesture to the ground staff outside.

After receiving the order, Wang Wei, with the help of the ground crew, pulled up the hatch and carefully started the engine. The plane slowly moved and slid slowly towards the runway.

"It can really fly!" Long Wenjian said with some surprise.

He didn't know much about airplanes, but he learned from the British pilots that this fighter plane was very unusual and more advanced than the ones they had flown before.

Now I still feel excited when I see the test pilot actually start the plane. It’s air force support, something I never even dared to think about before.

"Taking off is just the first step. You have to be able to fight first!" Lin Hao was not much better than him.

Lin Hao himself can fly a fighter jet, but the problem is that he is the head of the regiment and it is impossible for him to fly the plane in the sky.

If he insisted on flying the plane, he would be happy, but what about the base? He would be responsible for so many people in the base.

Wang Wei looked ahead calmly and took a deep breath. He knew that he would be considered a qualified pilot only if he could pull the fighter plane up into the air.

Pushing the throttle, the speed gradually increased. Wang Wei kept observing the instrument data. The speed of the plane was getting faster and faster, and it had reached a take-off speed of 200 kilometers per hour on the runway.

"We can take off!" Wang Wei muttered to himself, and slightly pulled up the nose of the plane. The silver wing instantly lifted up its nose slightly, and he pushed the throttle again, leaving the ground with a roar and flames.

Everyone watching at the airport was excited about the birth of this historic moment!
From today on, the Sichuan Army Corps will have its own fighter planes, and from now on no one will dare to say that they are a cannon fodder regiment.

From now on, they will be the main force and the ace force.

As Wang Wei took off, another pilot Li Hai also asked for a test flight. After a little thought, Lin Hao agreed to his request.

An eagle that cannot spread its wings and fly high is worse than a chicken. Even though taking off is dangerous, Lin Hao still decides to let him try.

After some bumps and stumbles, it finally took off successfully. Looking at the two fighter jets practicing tactical maneuvers in the sky, Lin Hao couldn't help but clench his fists.