latelenovela Chapter 879: Buying People with Money
Chapter 879: Buying People with Money
Li Shaoyi had thought about recruiting foreign pilots before, but seeing that our rear-line pilots were well trained, he put the matter on hold. Moreover, whether foreign pilots could be trusted was also a question that needed to be considered.
It was not until the war broke out that Li Shaoyi realized how wrong it was to shelve the plan. If he had continued to push forward, a group of foreign pilots would have arrived by now.
"It's not too late to do this now. Foreign pilots won't be like us. They fight for money. As far as I know, there are a group of pilots in Europe and the United States who are struggling financially. If we pay them enough, they will definitely come to fight this war."
Chief of Staff Cui has conducted thorough investigations into certain matters and has even sent personnel to visit various European and American countries.
"How much money should I give?"
When it comes to spending money, Li Shaoyi doesn't care much. After all, the counterfeit currency team can operate in all directions. But the problem is that in the current situation, these foreign pilots cannot be allowed to disclose their salaries. If the price gap with domestic pilots is too big, it will be troublesome.
"Every plane shot down gets four hundred dollars. Normally, we just need to ensure food and drink, so the basic salary doesn't need to be too high."
After hearing this figure, Li Shaoyi compared it with the salaries of pilots in his own country, and found that the difference was not much.
Of course, there is still a big gap between them and the pilots who have just taken off. If compared with some veterans, they may not even earn as much as ours.
"Then recruit according to this price. You haven't been in Tianjin these days, so you don't know how painful this is. I can't be happy even though we have achieved great results. Look at our pilots. This is a greater loss than in the past few months."
Li Shaoyi said somewhat depressedly that when fighting in the north, because the area of the Xiongnu grassland was relatively large, our planes were often hit. As long as they did not explode in mid-air, we could control the planes to fly back and land on our territory. Ninety-nine percent of them were rescued.
But the situation in Tianjin is different. Our occupied areas are intertwined with those of the Japanese. This place may be ours today, but it may become the Japanese's in a few hours. In the pilots' memory, this is our territory. If we parachute here, we will be finished.
"We made all the necessary preparations, except for the loss of pilots. We never expected that in such a short period of time, we would have lost nearly one-tenth of our pilots. This is truly a test for us."
The Chief of Staff looked at the report on the table and felt very sad. From the day the Air Force was established to now, it has been the apple of the eyes of the two superiors. Moreover, all the victories we have achieved were achieved with the cooperation of the Air Force. If we continue like this, our Air Force will probably be wiped out before the end of the War of Resistance.
"In addition to hiring foreign pilots, we also need to continue operating our aviation schools. The existing ones are not enough. We also need to send students abroad. We need to take a multi-pronged approach to increase our pilot numbers."
After experiencing the war in Tianjin, Li Shaoyi realized that no matter how many talents like pilots come, we will never have too many. Before, we just poached them, but the cake in our country is so big. No matter how hard you dig, the final amount cannot be too much, so we can only open up new sources of income.
"I'm planning on that. It's not something you can achieve overnight."
The chief of staff smiled bitterly and said that all the work in the rear was progressing by leaps and bounds. What the chief of staff had to do now was to keep an eye on it all the time and make sure that no collapse occurred in some aspects due to rapid development. If such a thing happened, our foundation would be unstable.
There is no way around it. It has only taken a short time for a small police chief in a police station to develop into hundreds of thousands or even millions of armed personnel. In the eyes of countries around the world, this is a miracle in itself. If there are no problems internally, it would be too incredible and no one would believe it.
Now the internal problems are gradually exposed. Fortunately, there is a system to back it up, and Li Shaoyi has also found a group of brothers who can get things done. Otherwise, the 72nd Army would have encountered various problems long ago.
"There are more pilots in Southeast Asia. Should we transfer some back from there? There shouldn't be any need for combat in Southeast Asia right now."
The chief of staff's eyes fell on the map of Southeast Asia, and he immediately thought of the situation there. We had sent more than 300 pilots there in total, and more than 100 appeared locally. Currently, there are more than 500 pilots in Southeast Asia, and the aviation school has also opened a branch there.
"If you hadn't mentioned this, I would have forgotten about it. Notice that one hundred pilots should be transferred back from there. Also, notify the local aviation school staff to organize these one hundred pilots as soon as possible. The local cultural level is relatively high, so selecting pilots will definitely be much easier than it is for us in the mainland."
Compared with the 21st century, flying an airplane in this era is much easier to learn. Many rich kids can do it. As long as they learn it a few times, they will basically be able to do it. The difficult part is how to fight in the air. It is probably not so easy to learn this thing.
"I'll notify them immediately. There's also a group of people who have been flying in the transport squadron for a long time who can also be transferred to fighter pilots. The transport squadron can use all new pilots."
Hearing the chief of staff's words, Li Shaoyi nodded. The two were discussing something here when a group of planes landed outside. These were the 25 combat aircraft that took off, but only 17 had returned so far, and eight planes were hit in the air.
As they spoke, the eight pilots were scattered across the battlefield. The lucky ones might be brought back by the search team, but if they were unlucky, they would just...
Over the next week, the Japanese army again increased its troops, bringing the total strength in the Tianjin war zone to 210,000.
The various units of the 72nd Army currently have a total of more than 40,000 people in the Tianjin area, fighting fiercely with more than 200,000 Japanese troops in various places.
Support also arrived from all over the country. The railway leading to Tianjin was either loaded with various supplies, or a group of young and strong laborers, and even soldiers who had just taken off their uniforms, who were going to defend Tianjin together with the 72nd Army...