"Haiyan No. 1 calls bird's nest! Haiyan No. 1 calls bird's nest!"

"Bird's nest received! Bird's nest received! Report reconnaissance. ”

"It was found that a large number of Japanese troops were moving from Shenyang to Liaoyang along the Anda Line, and there were a large number of vehicles, cattle and logistics personnel accompanying them, and it seemed that they were carrying a large amount of supplies. ”

"Well, pay attention to taking pictures and videos, get first-hand information, this is our first reconnaissance operation, and it must be successfully completed. ”

"I know, I've taken more than 200 photos, and I'm taking them. ”

"Very well, pay attention to your flight altitude, don't get too close to the ground, safety first, and don't let the Japanese be aware, and return to the ship as soon as the camera is over. ”

"Understood. ”

After ending the call with the ground commander, Zheng Zongming returned his attention to the ground, today was the first reconnaissance operation of the aircraft group, and Zheng Zongming's mission was to reconnoiter the situation within a 40-kilometer radius of Liaoyang. At this time, he had already circled Liaoyang, which took about one and a half hours, and was now slightly westward north of Liaoyang, and found a large number of Japanese troops moving along the railway in the direction of Liaoyang.

It turned out that immediately after the military meeting, the military team inspected the fixed-wing aircraft research and development team. Wang Xinping, who confirmed that the reports of the aircraft group were all true, and was responsible for reporting to the military team, said that in the old time and space, the first time fixed-wing aircraft participated in the war was the Italian-Turkish War that took place in 1911-1912, and it was only six years from now, and the aircraft manufactured by the aircraft group could basically reach the level of 1915-1920 in terms of overall performance, so it was completely possible to participate in the war.

After consultations, the military team finally agreed to the aircraft team's application to allow the aircraft team to participate in the battle, and also decided to pull out four more cars for the aircraft team to refit.

In fact, the aircraft team made this application for its own benefit. The aircraft team has been established for more than a year, and the technology of modifying the aircraft with automobile engines has been basically mastered, and the structure, details and flight technology of fixed-wing aircraft have a certain accumulation, but the use of automobile engines is only a transition, and eventually the engine produced in this era is still used, and now the aircraft team is cooperating with Gao Liu Automobile Company, but they hope to go it alone and set up an aircraft manufacturing company.

Although the traverser knows that the future prospects of fixed-wing aircraft, but even in the era of the initial stage of fixed-wing aircraft, it is not the personal capital of the traverser can afford, Gao Liu Automobile Company is the largest family in the traverser, but it also has to cooperate with the government to establish, but now the East China government is waiting for a new waste, there are too many places to invest, so the fixed-wing aircraft to get the support of the government, it must have special performance, and the best performance is naturally nothing more than on the battlefield. Only by proving the value of fixed-wing aircraft on the battlefield, even if only in the initial stages, can the government invest in it.

Moreover, the members of the aircraft team also decided through an agreement that if an aircraft manufacturing company is established in the future, it will adopt the model of Gao Liu Automobile Company, and all the members of the aircraft team will act as a consortium to cooperate with the government. Therefore, the members of the aircraft team also hope to perform well in this war, not only for the overall interests of the East China government, but also for their own personal interests.

On 23 May, the aircraft group set up a flight detachment to participate in the war, led by Wang Xinping, and set off for the battlefield with two planes, six pilots, six trainee pilots, and 55 logistics personnel.

On May 26, the flight detachment arrived in Liaozhong, and Qiu Yahui, commander of the 2nd Army stationed in Liaozhong, received an order from the Military Commission on May 23, so he immediately organized personnel to build an airport. More than 20 tents were also erected on the side of the runway for the use of the flight detachment.

On 27 May, the Northeast Theater Air Force was formally established at the regimental level, but it was directly commanded by the Theater Command, with Wang Xinping as the captain and ground commander, and Zheng Zongming as the deputy captain and flight leader.

Early the next morning, the two planes set out together to conduct aerial reconnaissance of Shenyang and Liaoyang, and Zheng Zongming was responsible for the reconnaissance mission of Liaoyang.

At this time, the flight altitude of the aircraft is about 1,200 meters, which is also the regulation of the aircraft group, when performing reconnaissance missions, the flight altitude must be more than 1,000 meters, which is not for fear of being shot down, because there is no weapon for shooting at the air in this era, mainly because the aircraft flies too low will be affected by ground turbulence. The pilots of the aircraft team are basically only trained for a few months, and the flight time is about 100 hours, which can only be regarded as rookies in the old time and space, and the experience of dealing with ground turbulence is limited, and the performance of the aircraft is indeed limited, so they simply use medium and high altitude flight to avoid ground turbulence. In addition, they did not want to attract the attention of the Japanese army, and the dry sound of the propeller aircraft was much smaller than that of the jet planes, and there was basically no movement at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters. Although the plane will be discovered by the enemy sooner or later, the later this time is better.

Moreover, the aircraft team installed a 12-fold distance camera on the belly of the aircraft, and installed a display screen in the cabin, which did not need to be observed with the naked eye, and the pilot only used to look at the display screen in the cabin and adjust the angle of the camera, so flying higher would not affect the reconnaissance.

Zheng Zongming knew that it was a train, so he immediately operated the plane to fly parallel to the railway, and adjusted the position of the camera to take pictures of the train.

After the filming was over, Zheng Zongming operated the plane, made a turn in the air, and returned to Liaozhong Airport.

The plane landed steadily on the runway and was warmly welcomed by the ground crew, who congratulated the complete success of the first aerial reconnaissance operation, and after more than half an hour, the second plane also landed safely.

On the one hand, Wang Xinping arranged for the ground crew to inspect the two planes and prepare to conduct another reconnaissance in the afternoon, and then ordered two pilots on the flight mission to rush to the headquarters of the Second Army with a USB flash drive containing photographs and videos, and handed over the situation of today's reconnaissance to the staff officers of the headquarters, and assisted the staff officers in dividing the shooting situation.

Footage taken by planes scouting Shenyang showed that the Japanese troops in Shenyang were making a large-scale deployment, piling up a large amount of supplies in the railway station, and two more trains were loading supplies, and two more armies were leaving Shenyang and moving towards Liaoyang. About 20 kilometers north of Shenyang, there was also a Japanese army retreating from a position in the direction of the Shenyang city, apparently abandoning this position.

In addition, 30 kilometers to the northeast and northwest of Shenyang, the whereabouts of the Russian army also appeared, but the number of troops was not large, but it was definitely not a reconnaissance force, it should be the vanguard.

It turned out that the East China Government had reached an agreement with Russia on 26 May that the Russian army would attack Shenyang and the People's Army would attack Liaoyang, with the Shili River as the boundary; Russia agreed that after defeating the Japanese army, the two sides would negotiate and settle the issue of the ownership of the three eastern provinces on the basis of the treaty of "handing over the three eastern provinces"; and Russia also proposed to the East China government that the People's Army would first launch an attack on Liaoyang, and the Russian army would attack Shenyang later.

This is the result of Kurobatkin's strong request, he is a person who has experienced the battlefield of Japan and Russia, and knows how strong the Japanese army's combat effectiveness is, and this more than a year of war experience, the attacking side is obviously much more difficult than the defending side, so his confidence in the early Russian attack on Shenyang is seriously insufficient, so he hopes that the People's Army will attack Liaoyang first, so that the Japanese army will definitely transfer troops from Shenyang to reinforce, so that both the strength and the defense line will be greatly weakened, so that the Russian army will attack Shenyang again, so that the opportunity will be much greater.

On the one hand, the victory in the previous stage of the battle has greatly increased the confidence of the East China government, not to mention that the East China government still has a few trump card weapons, and this time, it will also put armored troops into the battlefield, so it is also full of confidence, so it is too lazy to fight with Russia, anyway, in the end, it will fight with Russia.

At the same time, the Japanese Manchurian Army Command also received orders from the country, asking them to abandon Shenyang, but the Russian army must occupy Shenyang, preferably causing a war between the People's Army and the Russian army for Shenyang.

After receiving the order from the country, Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro also breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, the two of them have been under tremendous pressure these days, after all, in the face of the People's Army and the Russian army, it is difficult for anyone to remain calm.

However, judging from the layout of the People's Army, their next offensive target is obviously Liaoyang, although the two have no good way to trigger the People's Army and the Russian army to fight for Shenyang, but it is still very easy to give Shenyang to Russia, and all the troops are withdrawn to Liaoyang, which is also conducive to the Japanese army to shrink its strength, and can also send additional troops to the direction of Dandong, in fact, the Dandong direction has always been the heart disease of the two, because after the People's Army captured Lushun, the next step must be to use troops in the direction of Dandong to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army, and only rely on a Yalu River Army, whether it can resist the attack of the People's Army, both of them are not low in their hearts, once Dandong is lost, then it will be difficult to protect the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Liaodong, but they are suffering from the fact that they can't spare troops to reinforce Dandong now. And now he can finally free up his hands and increase Dandong's military strength.