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"Super cold!" Major Jeff Hunter stood up, "I'll introduce you to me. This is my friend." Mr. Claire Lee Senolt, he had just returned from your China. He was very happy to hear me talking about you and insisted on coming to see you!"

Zhou Zhihan was excited and greeted a military salute to express all his mood at the moment.

Chennard is tall, about 40 years old, with deep eyes, his full forehead is full of wisdom, and the corners of his lips extend back, making his whole face look unanimous and arrogant. He holds a black pipe in his mouth, and his face says fatigue, which may be the reason for the long journey back from China.

Major Jeff Hunter said to Chennard: "This is what I told you, a student from China, Zhou Zhihan!"

Chennard reached out to meet him.

Zhou Zhihan held Chennard's hand in both hands. He was very excited and bent down to salute.

The three of them found a remote place and sat down. Zhou Zhihan called the young bartender to bring some beer.

Chennard knew that Zhou Zhihan was admired by Brigadier General Arthur Kim, so he did not exchange too much greetings and spoke bluntly.

After chatting about Zhou Zhihan's current situation in the United States for a while, Chennard asked.

"Zhihan, I have observed during this period of time in China that China and Japan will have a war sooner or later. Do you think that when the war begins, with the current strength of the Chinese Air Force, is attack or defense important?"

Zhou Zhihan was silent for a few seconds: "I personally think that defense is important."

Chennard's deep eyes suddenly lit up: "Tell me, why is defense important?"

"Our Air Force has not been established for a long time, there are not many excellent pilots, the quality of various fighter jets is uneven, the logistics supply of fighter parts is difficult, and the pilots have no experience. On the daily training is one aspect, and it is not only the pilot's skills that determine the victory or defeat on the battlefield, but the most important thing is the pilot's courage.

If China and Japan start war, the Japanese aircraft carriers are mobile airports and have inherent advantages, and their fighters will stay in the air for a long time.

We do not have a mobile airport. After taking off from other airports, after a long flight, we arrived over the battlefield where air support was needed. The time for air support was far less than that of Japanese aircraft. Once we had an air battle with Japanese aircraft and were entangled by enemy aircraft, it would not take long for our aircraft to have insufficient fuel, and it would be difficult to fly back to the base at that time.

What’s even more serious is that we have one aircraft less than one. The Japanese have an aircraft production line that can be replenished continuously.

Therefore, I think that once China and Japan start war, our air force should avoid its edge, not fight with the enemy head-on, try to preserve its strength, not fight head-on, use the good steel on the blade, and use the depth of our country to continuously harass the enemy, making them exhausted."

"It's true that Brigadier General Arthur Kim didn't read you wrong." Chennard picked up the glass and clinked the glass with Major Jeff Hunter, and Zhou Zhihan, then frowned and his eyes became deeper, "But the Air Force Generals of the National Government are not as far-sighted as you. They believe that offense is the best defense."

"Observation is the best defensive weapon, and this sentence is not without reason," Zhou Zhihan said: "But attack means fighting with the Japanese. The quality of our planes, the reserve force of the pilots, and the number of planes are far inferior to that of the Japanese. Fighting with the Japanese in the air is just their trap."

Chennard nodded, sighed without saying a word, stuffed cigarettes into his pipe.

Zhou Zhihan took a match, lit one, and lit a cigarette for Chennard.

Chennard leaned his back on the chair, pinched the pipe with one hand, rubbed his eyebrows with the other hand, closed his eyes, took a few puffs of cigarettes, and spit out long smoke: "I'm going back to China for vacation this time, and I actually want to come back and think about whether I should go back to China and continue to take on this hot potato.

The comparison between the air forces of you, China and Japan, the Japanese have an overwhelming advantage, but your air force generals want to focus on attack, which is undoubtedly a use of eggs to strike stones.

Perhaps in the early stages of the war, you can gain a little advantage, but as the war becomes tight and long-term, your air force's advantages will be quickly eroded. If you continue like that, a group of excellent air force pilots will be trained with great effort..."

Chennard said, shook his head, and gently pinched his frowning brows with his two fingers: "Your pilots are all brave and have a patriotic heart, which touched me very much.

But, really, Zhihan, I was afraid that my students would disappear one by one in the air."

His words were obvious. If the air force generals continued to fight according to the tactics of the air force generals, the pilots who had worked hard to train would soon be lost. In the end, the Japanese would be allowed to fly at will with planes in the air.

Zhou Zhihan's eyes were a little wet: "General, please believe that the Chinese people will achieve the final victory. Looking at the thousands of years of history of China, our ancient nation has never surrendered to the great powers.

I hope you can still return to China and hand over your most advanced flight technology to those pilots who are eager to learn and lead them to protect China's airspace. The Chinese people will always remember you!"

Major Jeff Hunter was confused and shook his head. Zhou Zhihan just called Claire Lee Senort as the general, which is the right thing to do. Li has long been retired and is now involved in the construction of the National Government Air Force as a private consultant. How can he mention the general?

"Young man, I decided to return to China with this last sentence for you, but we have to make a gentleman agreement. When you graduate from Randolph Air Force Academy and return to China, you must go and help me!"

Zhou Zhihan was very excited and quickly stood up and saluted again: "It is better to obey orders than respect! General!"

"General?"

Chennard smiled and said, "I am not a general. I was the highest rank captain when I was in the US military. I have been retired for a long time."

Zhou Zhihan knew that he was excited just now: "In the future, you will definitely become our Chinese general and the general in the hearts of our Chinese!"

Chennard held his pipe and smiled. He could see that the young man in front of him was very excited and admired him very much.

"Young man, I just heard Jeff say that you should have participated in the Marine Corps' selection of outstanding talents as an observer, but now Randolph Air Force Academy is recruiting you back, which is a pity.

I suggest that if you have the chance to go to the US Marine Corps and learn the advanced training philosophy of the Marine Corps.

In the past few months I have been to China, what I have seen is that the Chinese army is far behind the Japanese in terms of mental outlook, skills and training level. Your weapons are behind, your training level is behind, your army is behind, your combat effectiveness is behind, and your logistics supply is behind. The soldiers are only patriotism but their training time and quality are behind. Once the war between China and Japan begins, your army will be at an absolute disadvantage.

So Zhihan, if you have the opportunity to study in the Marine Corps, you must seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return to China to teach domestic instructors that good training can make more soldiers bleed less on the battlefield.”

Zhou Zhihan nodded repeatedly. He understood what Chennard meant. He now had to learn not only flight technology in the United States, but also the skills and tactics of the sea and army. In the future, he would return to China and bring more advanced military concepts back to China.

"By the way, Zhihan! Huang Xinrui and Huang Panyang told me the data you told them about the Type 96 carrier-based aircraft. This is so important to us.

They asked me to tell you that there is no time to come and gather with you. They study how to crack the various techniques and tactics of the Type 96 carrier-based aircraft all day long.
Chapter completed!