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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 786 (2) Star-Gathered Air Force

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    Li Ruyan (1888-1944), also known as Yi Zhi, was a modern Chinese aviation activist, designer and aviator. ¥ì.si³ke.?˼?·&c³bs;¿Í¥ìA native of Dinghai County, Zhejiang Province.  In 1909 (the first year of Xuantong), Li Ruyan was deeply aware of the importance of China's development of aviation when she was studying at Nathan Button Industrial School in London. After graduation, she determined to engage in the aviation industry.  He has repeatedly called on the Qing government to attach importance to the development of aviation.

    In 1910, with the approval of the Qing Military Council, he entered the Bristol Flying School in the United Kingdom to learn flying.  After graduation, he passed the Royal Aeronautical Club examination and obtained a pilot's license.

    In 1911, the revolutionary army government sent him to Austria to purchase two "pigeon" monoplanes and returned to China, where he was appointed captain of the Shanghai Army Dudufu Air Force.  

    In 1912, he performed a flight demonstration and distributed leaflets at Jiangwan Racecourse in Shanghai. He achieved good flying results and was warmly praised.

    In 1913, the aircraft was transferred to the management of Beijing Nanyuan Army 3rd Division, and Li Ruyan served as the flight director of the division's attached battalion flight training class and the director of the repair shop.  In September of the same year, Beijing Nanyuan Aviation School was established, and he served as the chief instructor.  In March 1914, he completed the voyage from Beijing to Baoding, which was the first long-distance flight in China.  This year a seaplane was built on trial basis.  He and Fan Shizhong, the director of the aviation school repair shop, were both early aircraft designers in China.

    In Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, Li Ruyan left the aviation industry after the 1930s.  His main works include "Aeronautics in General" and "The Evolution of World Aviation".  Li Ruyan was quite skilled in flying skills and had a deep knowledge and understanding of machinery and flight theory. He once succeeded Yao Xijiu as the director of Nanyuan Aviation Training School (the name of Nanyuan Aviation School from 1919 to 1923).  

    When Wang Geng decided on the candidate for the first front-line commander of the Chinese Army Air Force, the candidate he was originally optimistic about was not Huang Jingbo, an outstanding student in the first batch who had already stayed at the school to teach, but the chief instructor of the first batch, who studied in the UK.  Li Ruyan learned to fly at Bristol Flying School in the United Kingdom. After graduation, she passed the Royal Aeronautical Club examination and obtained a pilot's license.

    Unfortunately, Li Ruyan had a tense relationship with Yao Xijiu, the director of education at Nanyuan Aviation School at that time. Li Ruyan, who was proud of his talent, originally thought that the post of director of aviation school was for him. However, in the end, the rising star Yao Xijiu took the position first. This guy was so angry that he couldn't swallow it.  , actually dropped out of Nanyuan Aviation School, retired and returned to his hometown in Dinghai to open a textile factory

    As a result, Wang Geng set up the airs of the participating army in Nanyuan. After assigning Nanyuan Airport, aviation school and airport to the aviation department of the participating army, he discovered that an excellent instructor who was originally optimistic about him had left. Li Ruyan was  He was 29 years old, while Yao Xijiu was 26 years old. At that time, Beiyang had not completely completed the stage of uniting the family in the hands of Wang Geng. Therefore, Yao Xijiu, who was born in the Anhui clan, was obviously better than Li Ruyan, who was born in Dinghai, Zhejiang, in Beiyang such as Duan Qirui, Xu Shuzheng and others.  In the eyes of the Anhui clan bosses, they are more important and trustworthy

    Yao Xijiu is not an ordinary person. Li Ruyan studied flying in England, and Yao Xijiu, who is 4 years younger than him, studied flying in France. Yao Xijiu (18921946) was born in Suqian, Jiangsu.  Around 1908 (the last year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty or the first year of Xuantong), he entered the "Army Primary School" run by the Qing government.  He was sent to France by the school to learn cavalry and aviation.  After returning to China, he served as an instructor at Nanyuan Aviation School in Beijing in 1916. In the second half of 1917, he began to serve as the education director of Nanyuan Aviation School under the Aviation Department of the participating armies.

    Looking back, when Li Ruyan heard that the participating armies had imported a large number of SE5, DH4, Handley Page and other latest Allied fighter aircraft from the United Kingdom with US aid and were going to fight, she couldn't help but feel  With that surging heart of flying, Jiang Fangzhen, a fellow from Zhejiang Province, returned to the Chinese Air Force. However, this guy was determined not to continue to serve as an instructor in the aviation school under the chief education officer Yao Xijiu. Instead, he joined wholeheartedly.  In order to join the Army Air Force, he would not hesitate to serve as the deputy of former student Huang Jingbo.

    Li Ruyan is an excellent flight instructor with excellent flying skills. He is courageous and decisive in combat, and goes forward without fear. This made the 1st Fighter-Bomber Wing under his command play a huge role in the former air battle. In the 7.29 air battle, Li Ruyan, the wing leader  The colonel led a team of fledgling Chinese pilots and stunned the formation of G?ring's ace 1st Fighter Wing. Of course, the 1st Allied Fighter-Bomber Wing, which had a numerical advantage, was at the forefront in terms of experience and technology.  At a disadvantage, and if the dh4 reconnaissance/bomber aircraft is used as a fighter for air combat, it will be at a performance disadvantage against the German Fokker series aircraft

    Therefore, the 1st Fighter Bomber Wing led by Li Ruyan used courage and the spirit of fighting to the end without fear of sacrifice to try to make up for the gap in skills and experience between Chinese and German pilots. The gap in the air combat performance of the two sides' aircraft should be said to be the 1st  The outstanding performance of the SE5 biplane fighter group and the fr18 Excellent fighter bomber group of the fighter bomber wing has narrowed the gap between the two sides. Even so, ifIn the 7.29 air battle, without the timely support of the 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing commanded by Li Zaolin, it is still doubtful who the final winner of this big air battle between China's first brother and the German ace will be.

    The 1st Allied Fighter-Bomber Wing was ordered by the Allied Forces Command in Samara to withdraw to Saratov after the July 29 air battle. Even if Colonel Li Ruyan refused to admit defeat and clamored for a fight, Wang Geng would not easily let the 1st fight.  The bomber wing returned to front-line operations. The wing officially had 124 fighter planes and 220 pilots. It only fought one night of outpost battles and one morning of main force duel, and lost more than 70 aircraft. How could this be done

    According to Wang Geng's rules for the coalition's frontline air force to rotate front-line pilots every 45 days, if the air combat damage and casualty rate is as high as that of Li Ruyan Wing, let alone insist on performing battlefield missions on the front line for 45 days, I'm afraid it will only take a week.  After the air battle, the main force and backbone of the wing were wiped out This was absolutely not possible No one dared to disobey the King of China's order. Li Ruyan and the rest of his 1st Fighter-Bomber Wing had no choice but to turn around and withdraw to the airport near Saratov.  , seize the time to summarize all aspects of experience, and wait for additional aircraft and backup pilots

    After the 1st Fighter-Bomber Wing transferred back to Saratov, it still had to wait for the replenishment of battle-damaged aircraft and reserve pilots. The reason was that the coalition logistics headquarters first needed to ensure the replenishment of the 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing, which performed front-line combat missions.  , ground air strikes and bombings will also cause inevitable battle losses, and some injured aircraft must be replaced as soon as possible instead of continuing to fight with minor repairs and repairs
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