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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 785 (3) Captain Li Zaolin

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    After completing three 45-day combat missions, you will have a 60-day opportunity to rest on the second line. In theory, this will greatly reduce the battle loss rate of front-line ace pilots during wartime, while also retaining a large number of backbones on the second line at any time.  On standby and training new pilots.  §êw§ë

    Of course, at this time, the aircraft production capacity of the China Aircraft Manufacturing Factory was far from insufficient. Although each squadron on the front line only had 3 squadrons of 12 aircraft, there were 4 squadrons of 16 pilots.  This rotating squad will ensure that the entire squadron performs its missions without reducing the number of aircraft on duty due to injuries and attrition.

    If it weren¡¯t for Wang Geng¡¯s disdain for se5 and dh4, the British had originally authorized the U.S. General Aircraft Company to manufacture these two aircraft because of insufficient production capacity. The Allied Forces could have imported more se5 and dh4 from the United States.

    But in Wang Geng¡¯s view, excellent pilots are much more valuable than airplanes. The shortcoming of SE5 is flight height, and the shortcoming of DH4 is combat ability. The combat performance of FR18 Excellent, which is exclusively developed by China, is similar to that of SE5, and its flight speed is the same.  , altitude, firepower and bomb load far exceed that of dh4, so Wang Gengmao is determined not to waste precious production capacity and raw material resources on se5 and dh4.

    In the Eastern Front Allied Air Force of the Allied Powers, the captain of the 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing is Army Colonel Li Zaolin. He is an outstanding student in the first batch of Nanyuan Aviation School and a close comrade of Major General Huang Jingbo, commander of the Allied Frontline Air Force.  Among the 41 graduates of the first batch of Yuan Aviation School, they are among the most young and powerful. Li Zaolin, who was born in 1892, is only 27 years old at the moment. Most of his older classmates at the same time are over thirty, and most of them joined the war when Wang Geng  The Aviation Department under the military took over Nanyuan Aviation School and returned to the aviation school as an instructor.

    Li Zaolin, on the other hand, was an elite talent poached directly from the fifth phase of the Army University by Wang Geng under the strong recommendation of Huang Jingbo, an old classmate of the frontline commander of the Air Force.  In 2019, the normal graduation of the fifth class had to wait until 1919. Is Wang Geng willing to wait that long?  The country is employing people. Young and outstanding pilots like Li Zaolin will of course command the air force in the future instead of becoming an army division commander or something It will not be too late to catch up on their studies in mainland China in the future.

    Li Zaolin was born in 1892, the 18th year of Guangxu's reign. His ancestors have been farming for generations.  The ancestor of Li Zaolin fled from his ancestral home in Raoyang County, Hebei Province, Zhili Province, to the suburbs of Beijing in 1791, the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign, and settled in Dongguantou Village, Fengtai Wanbaofang, Guang'anmen, Beijing.

    In 1900, the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu's reign, Li Zaolin's father became old and became ill due to overwork leaving behind Li Zaolin's mother, nine-year-old Li Zaolin and six-year-old brother, he passed away early.  Li Zaolin's mother was from the city and did not know how to farm. At that time, there was no custom in the north for women to work in the fields.  The three orphans and widowed mother had difficulty living in the countryside, so they had to go to the city to live with their uncle.  His uncle's family was not wealthy, but he still tried his best to help his widowed sister make ends meet and tried to find ways for Li Zaolin and his two brothers to go to school.

    Li Zaolin went to Guangyi Primary School in the city. It is said that this is the first private primary school in Beijing and was founded by the principal Lu Dafu.  After graduating from elementary school, Li Zaolin was admitted to the Manchu and Mongolian School of the Capital.  This is a school that cultivates frontier talents and serves ethnic minorities. It has two subjects: Manchu and Mongolian.  Li Zaolin was daydreaming at that time. Inner and Outer Mongolia was a vast territory. How beautiful it would be if he had the opportunity to ride a horse and gallop on the vast prairie!  So Li Zaolin chose Mongolian.

    After graduation, he should have continued his studies, but his family was financially strapped. Not only could he not be able to send Li Zaolin to school, he also needed Li Zaolin to earn money to support his family.  Li Zaolin was 16 years old that year.  ¡­ If you want to be an apprentice, you are too old, and you won¡¯t make much money as an apprentice at first; if you are looking for a formal job, you are too young.  Mother wanted Li Zaolin to work as a servanta footboy.  Li Zaolin felt very distressed about this.  For a time, I was at a loss as to where to go.

    It was at this moment that a glimmer of hope appeared.  Li Zaolin talked about his current predicament at the home of his classmate Bian Mingyuan. His father sympathized with Li Zaolin and gave him an idea.  He told Li Zaolin: Currently, the Baoding Army Crash Course is enrolling students. After two years of graduation, all expenses such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, books, etc. will be provided by the government, and some pocket money may be given, without any money from the family.  He suggested that Li Zaolin apply for this school. Joining the military is always the right path. What's the point of being a servant all his life?

    Li Zaolin was overjoyed after hearing this. This just fulfilled Li Zaolin¡¯s boyhood dream of becoming a soldier.  Moreover, two years is not a long time, and you can earn money to support your family after graduation, so I immediately decided to apply for the exam.  The father of this classmate, Li Zaolin, was a clerk in the Wanping County Yamen, specializing in sending, receiving and copying documents.  The school's admissions documents go to the Wanping County Yamen, so he is very familiar with all the regulations and entrance examination methods.

    In this way, in 1909, the first year of Xuantong, Li Zaolin was admitted to the infantry department of Baoding Army Crash School.  The study and training in the military academy are intense and rigorous, and lifeHard and disciplined.  Take eating as an example. The rice is not washed at all. The cook carries the sack and pours it directly into the pot.  There is often sand in the rice, so you don't dare to chew it carefully, and you are not allowed to chew it carefully, because the time limit for eating is very short. When the whistle blows, you have to put down your job immediately and run to the playground to gather. You don't dare to neglect it at all.  If you insist on chewing slowly, you will have no choice but to starve every day.

    In 1911, the third year of Xuantong's reign, Li Zaolin graduated from his studies and was assigned to the Third Town as a trainee platoon leader.  After three months of probation, he was officially appointed as platoon commander, and one year later he was promoted to company commander.  The third town is undoubtedly the elite among the six towns in Beiyang.  At that time, the commanding division commander of the third town was Cao Kun, and Wu Peifu was the commander of the standard commanding regiment at that time.  The leader of Li Zaolin's bidding group was Wang Chengbin, who later served as the governor of Zhili.

    So speaking of it, at the moment, Colonel Li Zaolin, commander of the 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing of the Eastern Front Allied Forces Air Force, was still the direct subordinate of the two generals Wu Peifu and Wang Chengbin who participated in the war in their early years.

    In 1913, the second year of the Republic of China, President Yuan Shikai established the Chinese Air Force, built an airport in Beijing Jingnanyuan, established China's first aviation school, and selected junior army officers to study flight driving.  After rigorous physical examination and examination, in the autumn of that year, Li Zaolin was admitted to the aviation school and became the first batch of pilots trained since the Republic of China.

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