If it weren't for Pete, it would have been a simple superior-subordinate relationship between Zhang Chi and these two American officers.

Just like what Zhang Chi said to them when they first met: "I know that you may be heroic in the air, but the problem is that you are on the ground now. We have a saying in China that the tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs, which means that in the environment that you are not good at, you should not act rashly in the end. More precisely, what you excel in is in heaven, and what we excel in is on earth. Therefore, for your own safety, you on earth are to obey our commands absolutely. We make sure you'll take to the skies, and then it's none of our business. Do you understand? ”

"Yes, sir!" Smith and Manrum replied in unison, and they were more interested in Zhang Chi's fluent English than in Zhang Chi's lecture.

After Zhang Chi and Clifton walked away, Pete flipped through the file and asked Smith in surprise: "Hey, you're from Virginia?" ”

"Yes!"

"Me too!" Pete patted Smith on the shoulder enthusiastically: "I haven't been back for almost a year, I hope everything is okay there!" ”

"Of course!" Smith replied, but then asked Pete suspiciously, "A year?" Don't you have a vacation? ”

Pete smiled bitterly and shook his head: "That's because I work well with Zhang, so ...... It's all the way from Burma to this! ”

"Oh my God, you fought in Burma?" Smith looked at Pete in surprise: "I have a good friend who also fought in Burma, he is a 'raider' unit, have you heard of it?" ”

"Of course!" Pete smiled: "But they didn't do well in Myanmar!" ”

"They say Myanmar is dangerous!"

"Pretty dangerous!"

……

So there were a lot of guys, fellows, and they were all veterans with battlefield experience, so the conversation didn't end. Soon Manrum joined in.

"I think it's a little weird!" Manrum then asked Pete, "Colonel Clifton...... Why does it seem that he is still obeying that Chinese officer named Zhang Chi?! ”

"Dude!" Pete shook his head and replied, "If you know what that Chinese officer did, then you wouldn't be surprised at all!" ”

"What did he do?" Smith laughed, "Did he kill a lot of Japanese?" I might be able to show off my achievements as well......"

"Smith shot down eleven Japanese planes!" Manrum added for Smith.

"Oh, man, that's not all he does!" Pete smiled and replied, "Let's put it that way...... You and your planes are here. It's all from this Chinese plan, understand? I mean...... The whole plan! ”

Hearing this, Smith and Manrum couldn't help but be stunned, they never thought that a Chinese colonel would have such a great influence on the US military.

Originally, Zhang Chi thought that the fighters planned by the US Navy to hide on Kuah Island should all be Wildcat fighters, but it was not until the third day that he learned that this was not the case.

That afternoon, as usual, in a burst of bluff bombing and strafing, fourteen planes were towed into the jungle.

There is something strange about these fourteen fighters...... Because its landing gear is the front three-point type, the landing gear of the rest of the fighters is the rear three-point type, that is, the front two landing gears and the back landing gear, but the new fighter is the front one and the back two.

looked at Zhang Chi's puzzled expression. Clifton introduced: "This is the P-400 fighter, that is, the export model of the P-39!" ”

"Oh!" When I heard the P39 model, I understood.

In modern times, Zhang Chi has also heard of this fighter, because it is an aircraft with a story...... It should be said that it is still a newly developed fighter aircraft developed by the United States (it only appeared on the battlefield in 1941), but it is a failed aircraft, because it was found to have "poor stability", "insufficient high-altitude power is not suitable for high-altitude combat", "difficult maintenance" and other shortcomings, so this model was once withdrawn from the battlefield by the United States as garbage, and was only used as a rear training aircraft.

But later, because of the poor handling performance and the high flight accident rate, even the flight students did not like this aircraft very much. So far, they have also composed a song: "P-39Q painted with striking white stripes for bomber gunner training missions (meaning suitable for target aircraft)." Thirty-nine. Thirty-nine, behind the engine, turning around and doing somersaults, digging out a big hole - hey, hey! Don't give me thirty-nine. ”

Originally, the fate of the P39 may have come to an end, but the United States and the Soviet Union had previously signed an agreement on the lend-lease of arms by the Allies...... So the United States took it for granted that this garbage was slightly modified and named P400 and leased to the Soviet Union.

Unexpectedly, the Soviet Union was like a treasure. Because this fighter is much more advanced than the Soviet fighters, such as the all-metal structure ((the main fighters of the Soviet Union at that time were either steel pipe cloth, or wooden skeleton covered plywood. No matter what MiG, Lager, Yak is the same, the entire main wing of the Yak-1 is wood. ), and then complete communication equipment, etc. (the USSR after the end of World War II. There are also a lot of fighters with flare guns)

After acquiring these P39s, the Soviet Union not only used them to achieve impressive results on the battlefield, the most exaggerated of which was that of the 58 downed enemy planes achieved by Captain Rechkalov, 44 were completed with P-39s.

And that's not all, a considerable part of the post-war replacement of Soviet fighters was borrowed from the advantages of the P39...... Later, when the U.S. military learned about this, their bowels were remorseful.

The same aircraft will have such a world-apart performance in two countries, and in the final analysis, it is actually that the United States has higher requirements for the safety of the aircraft, while the Soviet army did not consider the problem of escape at that time, and they should have driven the plane into the enemy, not to mention that their own aircraft were even less safe.

Now such aircraft are appearing on the island of Kuah.

So Zhang Chi asked Clifton: "What are they used to perform for their tasks?" ”

The reason why he asked this is because Zhang Chi knew that the Americans would not use this kind of "garbage" for air warfare, and that was something that only the Soviets would do.

"Uh......" Clifton flipped through the papers before replying, "They're here to fight with the ground forces!" ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but let out an "oh".

It seems that the US Navy still has a heart and has sent a flight unit to enhance the air strike capability of the garrison on Kuah Island.

However, it doesn't seem that they have the intention, because the reason why they did this is probably just to protect the safety of fighters and bombers, otherwise what would they have done earlier?!

(To be continued.) )