Regarding Yang Zhen's attitude, Liming said with some embarrassment: "No. 1, according to regulations, all pilots who return on their own after being shot down in enemy-occupied areas must be reviewed by the Ministry of Social Affairs to prevent anyone from being captured and rebelling. , was sent back by the Japanese army to carry out sabotage."
"It's not that I'm rigid and dogmatic, nor that I always use big labels to suppress left-leaning doctrines. No. 1, this is a regulation. You know the intelligence methods of the Japanese army. No. 1, you are responsible for the troops by conducting necessary reviews on them. We are also responsible for them personally, and we are also responsible for other people. We cannot easily change our regulations and principles just because of their special circumstances."
In response to Liming's insistence, Yang Zhen shook his head and said: "My comrade, review is necessary. I am not denying this, but the specific situation must be treated concretely and cannot be generalized. The fighter jets dispatched by the Japanese army this time, except for a small number of old-fashioned 97 Except for the new fighter jets, all are new fighter jets, and there are even fighter jets purchased from Europe."
"You know the style of the Japanese. Will they allow a new type of fighter plane to fall into our hands for some reasons? This is not in line with their character. In this matter, you yourself are in the presence of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Under the circumstances, a simple investigation will suffice. As for the isolation review, I don’t think it is necessary. Don’t hurt the hearts of the comrades.”
Having said this, Yang Zhen hesitated for a moment and then said: "Ling Ming, you are the deputy chief of staff in charge of training of the aviation force. You know better than me about the training of pilots and the supplement of reserve pilots. The current needs of male intellectuals in various branches of the military are It’s getting bigger and bigger, and you know it based on the current situation in the area.”
"Except for a few large cities, the current low cultural level of the people and the small number of intellectuals cannot be solved in a short time. However, the base areas must ensure the cultivation of a large number of their own scientific and technical talents. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that each service branch has sufficient professional and technical personnel, and the overall cultural level of the people in the base area has formed a huge contradiction."
"Although the education level in the Northeast is relatively high, except for some female students who cannot be directly added to the front-line combat troops and serve as staff officers at all levels, even if there are graduates from the Puppet Manchukuo National High School in the base area, as long as they pass the political examination, they will basically be In addition to going to school, most of them have joined the army, but the gap between reality and needs is still huge."
"Do you think this is okay? We select a group of female national high school graduates to serve as reserve pilots and fly MiG-3 fighter jets that have just been transferred from Jiangbei. They will not participate in combat missions in enemy-occupied areas and will be used exclusively for air defense operations in various key areas. , freeing up male pilots to be used exclusively for sortie operations, and at the same time training a group of female anti-aircraft artillery units specifically for air defense operations in key military industrial bases and large cities."
"Although we have implemented a universal compulsory education system in the base area and have a huge demand for teachers, in addition to those female students who graduate within a year, in addition to continuing their studies and being assigned to work as teachers in various places, a considerable number of them They are all sitting idle at home, which is undoubtedly a waste given that our overall cultural level is still at a low level."
"Selecting a group of female pilots from among the female students who graduated from national high schools can not only make full use of their knowledge to better serve the troops and the Anti-Japanese War, but also greatly alleviate our current selection difficulties due to the overall cultural level restrictions. The pilot's relatively difficult dilemma."
Yang Zhen's idea made Liming, who was drinking water, squirt all the water on the ground. It was so embarrassing in front of No. 1 that Liming was naturally embarrassed, but after hesitating for a moment, Liming couldn't help but said: "One No. These female soldiers let them act, sing, and boost morale. This is the tradition of our army. It is normal to be nurses and take care of the sick and wounded. After all, women are attentive."
"But if they are allowed to fly planes and operate anti-aircraft artillery in combat, isn't that something? The whole world knows that fighting is our men's business. There is no formal army or irregular army in this country. There are no female soldiers, and there are no female pilots or female anti-aircraft gunners."
"Let's not talk about whether the physical fitness of these female soldiers can meet the needs of selecting pilots. If we use female soldiers as pilots, I am afraid it will have a certain impact on morale. If we even send female soldiers to the battlefield, this will not let others Isn’t it a joke that we have no one to use in the Anti-League?”
"Also, with our development, our aviation forces have more and more opportunities to fight on the outside. Once the planes of these female pilots are shot down over enemy-occupied areas, according to the strict rule of the Japanese army over Japanese-occupied areas, there is a possibility of being captured. The risk is quite high. Once these female pilots fall into the hands of the Japanese army, life will be worse than death for them."
"No. 1, you know that I am from the West Route Army, and I know that you are also from the 129th Division, which was adapted from the Fourth Front Army. You should also know very well about the West Route Army. As someone who is both from the Fourth Front Army, There are some things I can't say in front of others, I can only say them to you."
"Back then, the Red Fourth Front Army formed the only women's regiment composed entirely of female soldiers in the army, and participated in the Long March and the West Route Army. I don't know the outcome of the West Route Army, but you know it well, but the West Route Army After the failure, do you know the results of these female soldiers? Do you know how much suffering they suffered?"
"As a member of the West Route Army, I was very lucky. I followed the commander and political commissar of our 30th Army and the comrades who broke out, and safely evacuated to Xinjiang, together with those who were captured and killed or sacrificed in the Hexi Corridor. Compared with my comrades-in-arms, I am a lucky person."
"However, of the more than 20,000 soldiers of the West Route Army, only a few hundred went to Xinjiang. Apart from those who were dispersed, escaped capture by the Ma Jiajun and lived among the people, the rest either died in the Hexi Corridor or died because they ran out of ammunition and food. Captured, our captured comrades were brutally mistreated at the hands of the Ma Jiajun."
"After I arrived in the Northeast, I once heard an old comrade from the Thirty Army who escaped from the Majiajun prisoner-of-war camp and wandered in the Hexi Corridor for half a year before returning to Yan'an with the help of fellow villagers talked about the women in the West Route Army. Soldiers’ encounters, including the fate of all female soldiers after the women’s regiment was disbanded, No. 1, the female soldiers who came out from Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan and Shaanxi with us had a tragic ending.”
"They did not sacrifice themselves in the successive counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns in the Sichuan-Shaanxi base areas, nor did they sacrifice themselves in the most arduous three-crossing grassland in the Long March, but they sacrificed themselves in the vast yellow sand of the Hexi Corridor, especially those who were captured and among the people. The treatment of female soldiers is even more horrific."
"After being captured, some of them were raped to death, some were raped and then killed. Even those who were lucky enough to survive were assigned to Ma Jiajun as wives or even slaves. Some were even resold many times and suffered a lot. Abuse, after I heard this, my heart hurt like a knife."
"Those are our sisters who participated in the revolution together. We moved from Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan and Shaanxi to fight together. We climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed grasslands together and experienced the Long March. We men, these comrades-in-arms, failed to protect them. , causing them to suffer so much.”
"What we are facing now is a Japanese army that is more ferocious and cruel than the Ma Jiajun. If these female soldiers directly participate in the battle, once they fall into the hands of the Japanese army, their ending will be even more miserable. No. 1, I really hope The tragedy of those female soldiers in the West Route Army should not be repeated in the Anti-Japanese War."
"No. 1, I think that instead of selecting female soldiers, it is better to relax some cultural restrictions when selecting pilots. When we were selected from the remnants of the West Route Army into the Xinjiang Aviation Training Team, most of them had lower cultural standards. It’s quite low. Not to mention the principles of airplanes, not many people can even recognize their name.”
"Those of us put forth the energy to fight the enemy on the battlefield and learned bit by bit. Didn't we make it through the same way? Didn't we master the flying skills just as smoothly? Although many of our cadres have low educational levels. , this is not bad, but the hard work is not bad at all, plus the culture learned in the army, it is definitely much better than us back then."
"As long as they can show the energy to go to the battlefield, I think they will be able to meet the standard, because I have always believed that hard work can make up for failure. I suggest relaxing the selection criteria and selecting a group of companies and platoons from the infantry units that have been tested in actual combat. Senior cadres should be added to the aviation force. As for selecting female pilots, let’s forget about it.”
Liming's words silenced Yang Zhen. Although Liming misunderstood his meaning, Yang Zhen did not get angry. He was not unclear about the female soldiers of the West Route Army. Regarding the fate of the entire West Route Army, including all female soldiers, He is even clearer than the lucky man from the Western Route Army in front of him, but the central government has already determined this matter, and he cannot and cannot say it now.
The reason why Yang Zhen decided to select a group of female soldiers to supplement the pilot team and the anti-aircraft artillery for rear air defense missions was to make maximum use of the human resources available in the base area and free up male soldiers, especially male pilots, for front-line operations. ,
In Yang Zhen's plan, these female soldiers are not responsible for fighting for air supremacy on the battlefield, nor are they involved in front-line combat, but are specifically used for air defense in the rear of the base area. Even if they are shot down, they will not be captured. Of course, there will be certain sacrifices due to the danger, which is inevitable, but taking on rear air defense operations can free up the current precious male soldiers for front-line operations.
Moreover, the selection of female soldiers as pilots is not unprecedented in the history of World War II that Yang Zhen knows. After the US military participated in World War II, in order to free up male pilots to fight overseas as much as possible, it recruited a large number of female pilots to specialize in local operations. It is used for aircraft transfers, and even undertakes the task of driving transport aircraft to perform local transportation and test flying new flying tigers.
Although these female pilots did not fight on the front line during the war, they still played an important role in the war, allowing the US military to free as many male pilots as possible from the heavy domestic flight transitions and local transportation. Come out and join the frontline battle,
The British Royal Air Force, which was also under heavy air defense pressure, also recruited a group of female pilots after the outbreak of World War II to replace the male pilots who suffered heavy casualties in the war. They were specially used to perform aircraft transfer tasks, and they were recruiting
When it comes to female pilots, the British, who have always been conservative, are even ahead of other countries.