Chapter 12 The North Wind
The anti-revolutionary work came to an end. Although the counter-revolutionaries were still being executed one after another, the propaganda intensity was not as strong as before. Everyone gradually felt relieved. This wave of movement was basically over.
The Korean War is still ongoing. The so-called joint ** led by the Volunteer Army and the American imperialist fight in North Korea. People across the country are supporting it. Jiangbei Machinery Factory works overtime to produce weapons and ammunition in front of it, mainly Japanese 6:5 bullets, German 79 stepper bullets, and 763-caliber bullets. However, I heard that this kind of bullet was used on Soviet-style rotating dial submachine guns. The thing was 71 rounds of drums, and it was like a blowing wind. The US imperialist was frightened when he heard the sound.
Fighting heroes often come down in front of us to give reports, schools, factories, enterprises and institutions hold meetings and listen to speeches, heroes and models talk about how cowardly and ugly the US emperors are, how our army fights bravely and defeats the enemy. They say that American soldiers are all young masters, and it is cold in winter in North Korea. These greedy and fearless guys hide in duck down sleeping bags and tie their shoelaces to the trigger to fire. The machine guns aimlessly hit the whole night.
There was a burst of laughter in the audience, but some people couldn't laugh, and Liu Xiaoyong was one of them.
Deputy Commander Liu was a graduate of the Jiangdong Army Officer School in 1937. He was a serious and professional school student. He participated in the Battle of Songhu and had a deep understanding of the war. He fought in the war in a logistics manner. Ordinary American soldiers had duck down sleeping bags, and machine guns were fired all night and were not afraid of wasting bullets. What does this mean? The material strength of the United States was amazing.
Our senior generals may not have seen duck down sleeping bags, let alone ordinary cadres and soldiers, wearing hollow thin cotton jackets and single shoes, they went to the battlefield of ice and snow. They ate snow when they were thirsty and ate fried noodles when they were hungry. The hardship and tragic wars were far beyond the War of Liberation.
The senior management is quite clear about the situation on the Korean battlefield. There is no need to look at the internal reference. Just looking at the wounded soldiers who have been removed, you can know that most of them are non-combat reductions, most of them are frostbite, and many of them have broken their arms and legs. They are all bombarded by planes before seeing the enemy.
Chen Zikun knew very well that without air supremacy, infantry was just the flesh on the chopping board. How much sacrifice would the volunteer army have to make to compete with the US military. Internal news said that **'s son An Ying died in an air strike, and the Volunteer Army Command had no safety, and front-line soldiers could imagine it.
To reduce casualties, the Air Force must exert its combat effectiveness and seize air supremacy.
New China has not yet been able to produce fighter jets. After World War II, propeller fighters have lagged behind and replaced by jet aircraft. The Soviet MiG-15 has very superior performance and is capable of confronting the US military, but the price is too expensive and cannot afford equipment.
Chen Zikun launched an aircraft donation campaign in Jiangdong, organizing folk charity sales and charity performances. Whoever donates more money will be named after whoever they name the plane.
The provincial party committee responded positively and held a fundraising meeting for provincial government staff and their families. It was held in the provincial party committee auditorium. Senior leaders of the party, government and military teams attended the meeting. Zheng Zeru and Pan Xin first appeared on stage, donating a month's salary, a blanket and a fur coat, which received applause.
Senior Party cadres were honest and could not afford much money, but their exemplary role should not be underestimated. The uprising personnel and retained personnel represented by Chen Zikun donated money and materials, which was naturally the most donated by Chen Zikun, with a huge sum of RMB 5,000, a Wanguo brand pilot watch, three leather jackets, and ten pieces of material.
Chen Shou, Gai Longquan, Yan Su, Wang Sanliu and others also donated a lot of money. This is a great opportunity to show loyalty to the organization. No one will fall behind, but they dare not donate too much. It is not a good thing that they are too rich.
There were more and more money on the stage, but the total amount was far from enough for a plane. Just as the fundraising meeting was about to end, Xia Xiaoqing appeared at the entrance of the venue.
She carried a suitcase, which was very difficult. The suitcase was very strong, with copper-covered leather in all corners. Her shoulders were crooked. Two eye-catching orderly soldiers ran up to help and helped Xia Xiaoqing lift the suitcase to the stage.
"What are she going to do?" Chen Zikun, who was sitting in the front row, asked Yao Yilei in a low voice.
"I don't know either." Yao Yilei said. She just donated some gold and silver jewelry, but the quantity was not very large.
Xia Xiaoqing opened the suitcase in front of everyone, and the spotlight shone on her, everyone's eyes were blurred.
The box contains various gold bricks, gold bars and gold ingots. Preliminary observations are at least a thousand taels of gold.
"I donated this gold to the country for my brother, and it is a total of 1,128 taels." Xia Xiaoqing said calmly.
The audience was silent. They thought the gold was from Chen Zikun's house, but they didn't expect that there was another expert.
"My younger brother, named Yan Qingyu, is a soldier of the party on the hidden front. He is directly responsible to Premier Zhou. On the eve of liberation, he died under the spy gun. The gold was accumulated when he was acting in a movie in his early years. He entrusted me to find a suitable opportunity to donate it to the country. I think this opportunity is here now."
Thunderous applause sounded, and it could not calm down for a long time.
The provincial government fundraising meeting ended successfully, and gold, securities, physical goods, etc. worth 200,000 yuan were raised, among which Xia Xiaoqing's donations accounted for a decisive proportion. The Finance Department and the Air Force came to Chen Mansion on Fenglin Road to solicit Xia Xiaoqing's opinions on how to name the plane.
Xia Xiaoqing said, my brother has left, he has always been low-key and does not want to name the plane after his own name. He loves his nephew Xiaobei the most, and I think it is more appropriate to name it after Xiaobei.
Comrades from the Air Force conducted an investigation and learned that Xia Xiaoqing and Chen Zikun's sons were battalion-level cadres of the Air Force and were famous heroes of the uprising. Now that they are carrying out missions in the Northeast battlefield, it is perfect for naming them with his name, and there is also a lot of work to do in propaganda work.
Therefore, this fighter jet that had not been purchased was named "North Wind", which was the code name of Chen Bei in the People's Air Force. The war was carried out in the far north, so it is very meaningful to use this name.
The equipment factory affiliated to the aviation school built an equal-scale aircraft model with iron sheet and wood, painted in silver white, with the fuselage as the symbol of the People's Air Force, and there are two large red characters: "Northern Wind".
The model was covered with red color, the masses beat drums and drums, and used a truck to parade. The people in the provincial capital were in full swing. This was the expulsion machine donated by our Jiangdong, and every commoner felt that there was a gleam on his face.
The people didn't know much about planes, and when they saw such a strange fighter plane, they started talking.
"This must be the American Mustang Destroyer, the most advanced in the world. I heard people say that there are eight machine guns under their wings, which can hang 500 kilograms of bombs."
"Tsk, let's get it down. This is a deportation machine made by the Soviet Union. It is more than ten times stronger than the Americans. It has a cannon under its wings, which can hang a thousand kilograms of bombs."
The aircraft model circled three times on the streets of the provincial capital and was pulled into the warehouse to save it. The donated funds were transferred to the central government to purchase the new Soviet jet fighter MiG-15.
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At an airport in Northeast China, silver war eagles were parked on the runway, and blonde and blue-eyed pilots walked by in groups of three or five. They were the Soviet Air Force who secretly participated in the war. They usually wore the uniforms of the Korean People's Army or Volunteer Army, without any military rank signs, ate bread, butter, canned beef, and lived in a separate dormitory.
After Chen Bei was transferred to the north, he still had no chance to fly the plane. Shortly after the newly established Air Force, there were three main sources of professional and technical personnel. The first was that the old Northeast Aviation School retained students taught by Japanese instructors. This group of people was Japanese-style; the second was the uprising, and the former Kuomintang Air Force retained. These people received American education, unconsciously retaining the Western bourgeoisie's style. The third was that the newly enlisted pilots who received Soviet-style training were young, had solid physical fitness and strong political qualities.
Chen Bei naturally belongs to the second gang and the least popular group. The people from the Northeast Old Aviation School are from old revolutionaries and have occupied the middle and high-level positions. The newcomers are students of Soviet instructors, they are wearing jet MiGs and wear Soviet-style flight jackets. They are like prides of heaven and are most loved by leaders.
Air combat has entered the jet era. In his early years, the experience of driving propeller fighters was not available at all, so Chen Bei's ability was useless and could only continue to be his theoretical instructor. Although he was a battalion-level cadre and a hero of uprising, he was not respected by the students because he had a bad temper, liked to scold students, had a bad style, and liked to drink and smoke. What was even more disgusting is that the capitalist habits remained unchanged, wearing American jackets, sunglasses, and dressed like American pilots.
Even the leader didn't like Chen Bei, but given that his identity was quite special, he was the son of Chen Zikun, the famous uprising general, and lame for the revolution, he usually turned a blind eye and did not make big mistakes and let him go.
Until one day, Chen Bei caused a huge disaster.
The Russian pilots have a tough style and are relatively casual in their lives. They cannot do without white wine, cigarettes and women. It is easy to say in their Russian local area. After the Patriotic War, widows were everywhere, and they could find a woman to vent their anger. However, it is difficult to find women in China. The New China banned prostitutes and the good people are very traditional. Besides, the Russians have always had a very bad reputation in the Northeast, and no one dared to pay attention to these Russian pilots.
The pilots' evil fire was not released, and they were holding it all day long, and something happened to them.
There was a Soviet Air Force captain pilot named Vasily, who was drunk and attempted to give them a female translator Nina, a girl who graduated from the Russian Department of Northeastern University.
Nina is a slut, her mother is Chinese, and her father is Bai Russian who makes red sausage in Harbin. She is slim, lively and cheerful, with a slightly red hair, and she is full of fashion. The young men at the Air Force Base like her.
It happened that Chen Bei encountered this incident, and he was also full of resentment. Seeing the injustice on the road, he pulled out his sword to help him, and rushed over to fight with Captain Vasily. The physical fitness of this old man was really not covered. Although Vasily was not tall, only 1.7 meters tall, he was extremely strong. He slapped his heart and protected his hair. He slept in the wild in the winter without catching a cold. He worms were on the brain, and alcohol was soaked in the heart, and his combat power increased sharply.
Chen Bei was tall and could not play his advantage when he fought with his body. In addition, one leg could not play its role. Wassily pressed and kept calling him in the face with heavy punches. The female translator was so scared that she covered her face and screamed, which stimulated Vassily's wildness. He punched twice more fiercely, and Chen Bei fainted.
Vasily got up stumbledly and staggered towards the female translator. Suddenly, she felt that her head was hit hard. She turned her head and saw Chen Bei looking at him coldly with an aluminum alloy prosthesis in his hand.
With a rumbling sound, Vasily fell to the ground.
Vasily was not dead, but was beaten to a concussion. He had a concussion, so he naturally couldn't stand to go to the female translator, so the charge was not established. The Soviet elder brother came from all the way to support our cause of resisting U.S. aggression, and this matter would be a big deal.
However, Vasily's absence caused another thing. The pilots were all one carrot and one pit. Vasily was unable to attend the mission the next day and temporarily replaced a Chinese pilot with inexperienced. As a result, we were intercepted by the US military. We suffered heavy losses. A loophole in the MiG corridor caused an air strike on the ground to be hit by air strikes and dozens of trucks of ammunition were blown up.
The senior officials were furious and wanted to deal with Chen Bei severely, but Vasily helped Chen Bei with love, so he was exempted from the death penalty. However, he could not escape the crime of living, so he forced his army to be resigned and returned to his hometown.
When Chen Bei left, Vasily and the female translator Nina came to see him off. The two had already officially started dating with the organization and were very close with each other.
"Chen Bei, I'm sorry, I'm the one who harmed you." Captain Vasily sincerely apologized to him and handed him over a Red Star Medal, which was the honor he received in the Patriotic War.
Chen Bei is also a person with a temperament. He received the medal and took off his American A2 flight jacket and gave it back to Vasily.
"Goodbye friend." The two hugged and said goodbye.
Chen Bei walked away, carrying his luggage and dragging his prosthetic limb on the open road outside the airport, walking heavily and staggeringly.
Nina stood there, staring at Chen Bei's back for a long time.
"Dear, what are you thinking?" Vasily asked, holding Nina in her arms.
Nina struggled slightly and said, "I think he looks like an old horse."
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