The two major air battles on August 30th and September 7th damaged the Japanese air force in Rabaul. It is estimated that the sky over Guadalcanal will be calm for quite some time thereafter. Ron also lost a lot of aircraft. Fortunately,

The pilots are still well protected. However, the successive wars have also made the pilots generally very tired. In addition, the conditions on Guadalcanal are very poor, especially the poor sanitary conditions. Although the military doctor Dr. Wagner worked hard, several pilots were still infected.

Illness. Dr. Wagner believes that one of the important reasons for the increase in pilot illness is excessive fatigue. He recommends that pilots be allowed to relax when possible and reduce the number of combat missions they go on.

Ron took the doctor's advice. Anyway, there won't be too many air battles recently - Ri himself is not a tough guy. If it weren't for just in case, he even considered sending the fighter pilot back to Pearl Harbor to recuperate.

Because Guadalcanal is indeed not a good place. It is humid and hot here, and anything will start to mold after being left here for only two days. Take the hospital as an example. Some new wooden desks were delivered to it a month and a half ago.

Mushrooms actually grew on the table legs. It was fine during the day, as the wind blew from the sea. Although it was not cool, at least there was no strange smell except for a slight salty smell. But at night,

The wind blowing from the jungle on the island is completely different. That kind of wind always carries a disgusting stench caused by dead branches and leaves exposed to the rain and high temperature. How much of this kind of air must be present?

Pathogenic bacteria.

But for safety reasons, Ron could only send a few sick patients away. As for the other pilots, they still had to stay here, just in case Japan himself got crazy. You know, Japan during World War II was a country that was crazy.

Country. Many common sense inferences cannot be applied to Japan itself. Vandegrift, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, once talked about this with Ron. When the Yimu Detachment made its first attack on Guadalcanal Airport

After the attack was repelled, the Japanese left many wounded on the battlefield when they retreated. Out of humanitarian considerations, the Marine Corps sent medical staff to try to rescue them. However, these patients with advanced militaristic neurosis actually deceived the medical care.

When the personnel approached, they fired handguns and died together with them. Vandergrift had no choice but to give an order: Whenever he saw wounded Japanese soldiers in the future, he would follow humanitarian principles and give them a happy life at Springfield.

Although he couldn't return to Hawaii, at least the air service tasks were greatly reduced. The condition of the pilots was gradually improving. Taking advantage of this leisure time, Ron decided to summarize the problems exposed during this period of combat.

During this period of fighting, the U.S. military had a clear upper hand. However, as the pressure from Japan eased, many problems that were originally covered up by the pressure from Japan gradually came to light. First of all, Guadalcanal's

The Cactus Air Force is a team from all over the world. There are navy, army, marines, bomber units, and fighter units. This provides excellent innate conditions for forming cliques. Don’t think that

In small groups, only the Chinese are engaged in the practice of "if they are not comrades, they are enemies". Foreigners also engage in this practice. And it is not any worse than the Chinese. As the pressure brought by the Japanese army decreases, first of all, HNA and

Conflicts arose in the Army Airlines. To be honest, there are small groups in the team, which is not a big deal. Conflicts between various small groups are not necessarily a bad thing. If handled well, the competition between them will promote each other.

.But the problem is that they are no longer competing in a healthy way. They have developed from flying skills to fighting skills. Yesterday, two idiots from the Army Airlines and Hainan Airlines fought over a trivial matter. The comrades who came after hearing the news

They also joined in with the attitude of not asking about right and wrong, only looking at the military uniforms. Fortunately, Ron arrived in time to avoid the situation from further escalating. The angry Ron locked up all the seven or eight idiots who participated in the fight in one breath.

Thinking of this, Ron felt that it would be impossible not to launch a rectification movement. If this continues, next time they go to war, they will have to do the same as Japan's navy and army: no cooperation, only disruption. Historically, Japan

The performance of the Japanese navy and army on Guadalcanal is such a model: the Japanese navy lost Guadalcanal first and was laughed at by the army. In order to make the army suffer, they went to fool the army bumpkins and said that there were not many American soldiers on the island, at most a thousand

Why are you going to snatch this man back if your army is so powerful? As a result, the poor Japanese army was really fooled and sent a fool named Ichiki to go up to Guadalcanal with about a thousand people.

The 100,000-person Marine Division launched a fortified position with a mounted charge (a suicidal combat method of charging forward while shouting "Long live the Emperor!"), and finally ended up with the entire army basically destroyed (even the military flags were burned).

At a great cost, they achieved the brilliant result of killing 35 US troops and injuring 75 US troops.

Since then, there has been no cooperation between the navy and the army, only disruption. In the battle for Guadalcanal, the Japanese army and navy went their own way, and there was no coordination at all. The army's general offensive on the island did not consider cooperation with the navy at all.

Coordinated actions; and the naval fleet's attacks never cooperated with the army's attacks. Even after the war, some conscientious historical inventors of the original Japanese army invented the theory of naval subjugation and revolution (this theory held that

, The Pacific War was a conspiracy by the Navy against the Army. The Navy was dissatisfied with the Army's rule over Japan, but was unable to overthrow it, so it resorted to going to war with the United States, using the power of the U.S. military to overthrow the Army's rule at the cost of the country's subjugation)

Let’s complain about the Navy. (I don’t know who made up this lie about the Japanese people being super united, and it deceived Nai Bo for several years. I think back to when I was in high school, and I would write in my essay “If we can be as united as the Japanese people are”

"Things like ", it's really ridiculous to think about it now.) Yin Jian is not far away, Ron will never allow such disharmony to occur in his team.

Secondly, due to the series of previous victories, many guys have begun to raise their tails. In the past, they often woke up from dreaming about zero battles, but now when the Japanese aviation is mentioned, they proudly declare: "Here comes the medal."

"It completely ignores that in recent battles, the reason why the US military has the upper hand is because the Japanese military base is too far away and the US military has a complete warning system with many observation posts. Such conditions are not always available.

Yes. Because I became proud of these few victories, it will definitely become a negative example for future generations of middle school students to use when writing essays such as "Humility and Pride".

Finally, individual heroism is becoming more and more serious! In the last air battle, there was a phenomenon of ignoring the safety of comrades, but busy brushing data. This behavior seriously destroyed the trust between comrades. If it is allowed to

If it continues to develop, this relatively united team will soon fall apart.

Based on the above reasons, Ron decided to launch a rectification movement on Guadalcanal aimed at learning from past mistakes and avoiding future ones, treating illnesses and saving lives, referred to as the "Guadalcanal Rectification Movement".

Of course, this so-called rectification movement cannot be compared with the famous Yan'an rectification movement of Taizu of this dynasty in terms of its vigorous level and the depth of touching the soul. It is also impossible for everyone to write a summary of their thoughts, read them out one by one at the conference, and then

Then carry out merciless criticism and self-criticism until it truly triggers a revolution from the depths of the soul. (If you do this, Ron will definitely be kicked out.) So this job can only be changed.

In other ways.

Ron had been rectified many times in his previous life, from theme class meetings when he was studying, to individual heart-to-heart talks, to the team spirit training in the company after work. Now it is not easy for him to remember everything in his previous life. But it has affected him

I still remember the biggest and most impressive moves. And this "remembering" itself also shows the effect.

One way is to give lectures and explain the truth directly. Fortunately, I often gave lectures when I was an engineer. I just threw a few random sentences, "Brothers of the same mind can cut through metal." A branch and a bundle of branches, "Humility makes people progress."

"Pride makes people fall behind" and "It's easy to be cunning, but it's easy to be rude" and the like are still acceptable.

One category is games, such as two-person three-legged racing (of course when grouping, the guys from Hainan Airlines and Army Airlines must be grouped together to cooperate), falling off the stage with eyes closed and letting everyone continue, and even the Marines are also included.

Pull them over to play rugby with them. In this way, the relationship between the different groups has eased.

The last trick is individual conversation. This was the trump card of Ron's class teacher in his previous life. It was specially used to deal with the most difficult guys. The key to it lies in two points: first, you must have enough prestige;

You need to make him feel that you are doing his best during the conversation.

Now Ron was talking to his wingman, Billy.

After an open field football game, Ron and Billy went to take a shower together. Then, Ron said to Billy: "Billy, let's go for a walk. I have something to talk to you about."

Billy looked at Ron and seemed to realize that what Ron wanted to talk to him might not be a good thing. He put away the smile on his face, lowered his head and said, "Okay, sir."

It was already dusk at this time, and the fiery red sunset turned half of the sky and the sea red. A group of late returning seabirds flew across the red sea and sky, leaving black silhouettes in people's field of vision. The sea breeze

Pushing against the waves, white foam spread onto the beach, and then quietly receded. Ron and Billy were walking casually on the beach.

"Billy, you have been flying as my wingman for a while. Compared with me, you are still a rookie. As a veteran, I have to look after you and teach you various skills so that you can fly in the war.

After it’s over, go back alive to see your mother. Now tell me, what did you learn from me?”

"Sir, I learned how to cross scissors, spiral climb, and always pay attention to the energy status of the enemy and myself, as well as how to manage my own energy. I also learned..." After saying this, Billy became happy.

Ron looked at him with a smile, and Ron could see his love for flying from his expression.

"What you said is good, but there is one more crucial point that you didn't notice. Every time I came back from a mission, I would congratulate the soldiers who achieved great results, but last time you shot down a bomber, after you came back, I

But I didn’t congratulate you, do you know why?”

"Don't know, sir," Billy replied.

"A Zero Fighter versus an F4F. If the pilots are of equal skill, who do you think has a higher winning rate?"

"Of course it's a zero battle. Apart from diving, there's nothing better about f4f than a zero battle."

"What about two versus two?" Ron continued to ask.

"It should be almost done, f4f can use the cross scissors to deal with him."

"F4f has almost no chance of winning against Zero War alone, but together they can defeat him. What is the fundamental reason?"

"It's cooperation! Sir, I understand." Billy smiled.

"Do you really understand? Then I ask you what is the basis for your cooperation?"

"Excellent technology." Billy lowered his head and thought for a moment, then added, "There is also good communication. For example, we have a radio station, which is more convenient than using the contact board alone."

"These are all, but there is something more important."

Billy thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Sir, I don't understand."

"Let's recall the football game just now. Our last score was when you passed the ball to Suker, and Suker scored a touchdown. At that time, you could still pass the ball to Foss, why didn't you pass it to him?"

"Sir, Foss's skills in flying airplanes are absolutely top-notch, but when it comes to running, I don't know." Billy smiled and shook his head. "But I bet that when running a hundred meters, Suk asked him to run 10 meters first.

I will definitely beat him."

"Why can you cooperate so well with Su Ke?" Ron paused, but he didn't let Billy say. He continued: "It's because you know him and trust him. If a guy, you

I don’t know anything about him and I don’t trust him, can you cooperate with him?”

"Sir, we can't."

"A good pilot must not only have good skills, but also win the trust of his teammates. Anyone who does not have the trust of the team will not get the support of the team. In that case, no matter how good his skills are, it will be difficult to survive in the war, let alone

Don't say it was a success. Now do you know why I didn't congratulate you after you shot down an enemy plane last time?"

Billy lowered his head, "Sir, I understand. I should give priority to rescuing my comrades, rather than just attacking enemy planes. If I rescue my comrades, then I will be trustworthy to them. They will be able to

Cooperate well with me. Although my approach at the time achieved results, it sacrificed the trust of my teammates. In the long run, the gains outweigh the losses."

Ron laughed and said, "Billy, it's good that you realize this." He walked up and patted Billy on the shoulder.

"Remember, Billy. In air combat, the power of the group is always greater than that of the individual. Only with an ace team can you have an ace pilot. Your technical foundation is very good. If you solve this problem, you will become an ace!

Ron raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "Well, it's almost time for dinner, let's go back."
Chapter completed!