If you don't consider the reliability of the Xìng, the Ki-84 "Hurricane" is really a good aircraft. It was equipped with Rìmoto's first 2,000-horsepower "Yu" engine, which was twice as powerful as the Ki-43 Hayabusa. This also makes the Ki-84 much faster than its predecessors. Its maximum speed can even reach 624 km/h. This speed is no faster than the 706 km/h of the American P-51 or the 690 km/h of the P-47. But compared to the 490 km/h of the Ki-43 and the 565 km/h of the Zero-52, it is a lot faster. In Ron's original plane, the Americans won and acquired some Ki-84 Hurricane fighters and tested them. After using the high-grade fuel of the Americans, the Ki-84 is said to have flown at a higher speed. American technicians believe that if American technology is used to optimize for high-grade fuel, the Ki-84 is expected to fly at a speed of 680 kilometers per hour.

Some rì fans in later generations have come up with the so-called nominal method of the maximum speed of the rì aircraft and other countries. These rì fans claim that the maximum speed of an airplane marked by the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, and all other countries in the world is the fastest speed that an airplane can fly at in an instant, and only rì is marked with the maximum speed of the so-called sustainable flight. Therefore, although the speed of some rìben fighters is much lower than that of American fighters, the actual speed is not slower than them, and may even be faster than them.

In fact, as long as you carefully check Rì's own records, you will know that this is pure nonsense. In fact, during the war, Rì himself captured the American P-51B fighter jet, and Rì himself added the Mustang with low-quality fuel and then used it to conduct a comparative test with the FW-190A2 obtained from the German allies, and Rì's own Ki-84. As a result, although the FW-190 and Ki-84 were both ahead of the P-51 due to faster acceleration, in the end, as the speed gradually increased, the P-51 quickly caught up, leaving the FW-190 and Ki-84 far behind. Even with the same low-quality fuel, the P-51 flies significantly faster than the Ki-84. According to the pilot in charge of the test, the P-51's flying qualities at high speeds made him even more desperate, and at high speeds, the P-51 was much better than any other Rì aircraft.

Of course, this aircraft still has unique advantages over the P-51 or P-47. First of all, the acceleration of this aircraft is quite fast, faster than the P-47 and P-51 in the hands of the Americans, in addition, its climb is also quite good, it only takes 6 minutes to climb from zero altitude to 5000 meters. Therefore, when facing the American P-51 and P-47, this aircraft is no longer as helpless as the Zero Fight or the Ki-43.

In addition, although compared to the Ki-43 and Zero Battle, the two champions and runners-up of World War II, the Hurricane fighter's hovering xìng energy is much worse, but it is still much stronger than the American goods, which basically do not consider the hovering xìng energy. In this way, at least at low and medium altitudes, the Ki-84 has the advantage of hovering, accelerating, and climbing against the P-47 and P-51. As far as Xìng energy is concerned, the Ki-84 "Hurricane" is already completely capable of fighting the Americans. Of course, if Rì himself dared to go up to the sky and compare with P-51 or P-47, it would be no different from sending him to death.

In addition to this, the Ki-84's firepower is also a huge improvement over its predecessor, the Ki-43. It was equipped with four 20-mm guns, and against a target like the P-51, it was already capable of killing with one hit. Even a thick-skinned guy like P-47 would not feel comfortable with such a guy.

The aircraft were deployed to Wuhan by Rì himself, and were often used in air battles with the 14th Air Force's P-25 fighters escorting B-25 medium bombers or on safaris. These air battles took place at medium and low altitudes, and in these airspace, the Ki-84 performed well.

The appearance of such aircraft caused concern for land aviation. Obviously, after the successful landings in Normandy, the end of Nazi Germany was not far off. After the Nazis were eliminated, Rì himself was the next target. How to deal with Rì's own fighter has naturally become a matter of serious study, and in the Army Aviation, Ron is recognized as the king of fighters. Therefore, Lu Hang sent this information to Ron, wanting to ask Ron's opinion.

However, Ron, who has experience in his previous life, knows that the Ki-84 that looks good is actually just beautiful. He can pose a much smaller threat to the Americans than the Army thinks. Because the reliability of the "reputation" engine it uses is too bad. In fact, during World War II, Rì himself produced more than 3,000 Ki-84s, which is not worth mentioning compared to the German BF-109 series or FW-190 series, and the American P-47 and P-51. But in the production of rì fighters, it is not very small. But you have to ask those American pilots who fought in the Pacific, do you often encounter Ki-84s? Most of those American pilots will ask you, what is the Ki-84? Because this kind of aircraft is dragged down by the "reputation" engine that can strike at any time, it is completely a hangar queen, and in all the Ki-84s, only a quarter can be guaranteed to fly.

In other words, many RÌ fans also believe that if the successor model of the Zero War, the A7M Gale fighter, which also uses the "reputation" engine, can be put into mass production, it will definitely be able to greatly change the situation of the war. But in fact, considering the use at sea and the erosion of salt spray, the environment is worse than that of land-based. I really want to replace the A7M Zero with the A6M Gale, and when it comes to the naval battle, I really don't know how many planes on the aircraft carrier can fly.

However, since Lu Hang asked, Ron still had to give a countermeasure. However, this is not in a hurry, because there is also a record of the bombing of the mainland by the B-29 bombers of the Army Airlines.

By May, the B-29 had begun air raids on a number of cities south of Rìben. The method of these air raids was completely different from the air raids on Manchuria, and in these air raids, the US military rarely resorted to night raids.

The reason for the use of night raids is that in this series of air raids, the Americans used bat bombs, which Ron was involved in researching. The first bombing was on May 14, and the target of the attack was Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu. A fleet of 40 B-29s reached the target at around 2 a.m., and Rì himself was almost defenseless. Because before that, the native land had not really been hit by a decent air strike.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, bombers of the KMT Air Force once flew over Rìben. However, these bombers did not carry bombs, and in return for the indiscriminate bombing, burning, killing and plundering of China, these bombers merely dropped a large number of leaflets over the Rìben with hope and the conscience of the "Rìben people". And this kind of propaganda without the backing of force is actually powerless, in fact, it is just a gift paper to Rì himself.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, General Doolittle whimsically led a group of B-25 bombers from the aircraft carrier to carry out a real bombing of Tokyo. However, the number of bombs dropped in that bombing was still very limited, and the political significance was greater than the military significance. Since then, there have been no air raids on the mainland. Only this air raid was the first air raid of real military significance. Therefore, Rì himself was not very prepared.

The B-29 bomber group approached the target from an altitude of 7,000 meters, and after approaching the target, the B-29 bombers tightened the engine throttle and the engine entered an idle state. In this way, the originally roaring engine sound began to be quieter, and the group began to glide silently close to the target. When the swarm flew over the city, at an altitude of about 5,000 meters, the swarm dropped bat bombs at that altitude.

The parachutes carried by these bombs opened automatically at an altitude of 800 meters, and they slowly fell under the pull of the parachute. When they descended to an altitude of 400 meters, the small doors on the bombs were opened, and the bats were thrown out.

The bombs that had completed their mission continued to fall, each containing about 4 kilograms of TNT explosives. These explosives explode after the bomb hits the ground to destroy the bomb's structure and prevent the enemy from discovering the real means of attack. Of course, these explosions will also hurt some people, and they will also cause some chaos, but as long as those rì themselves do not notice the problem of the bats in the sky. After the bombs are blown off, they will still go home and sleep.

Just as the Americans expected, the bomb that exploded on the ground alarmed the residents and defense forces in the city. But before they could react, the bomber group was already gone. Throughout, Rì himself did not even fire a single high-shè shell.

Due to the modest power of the bomb that landed, the explosive power of a 4-kilogram TNT charge was only comparable to that of a 155-mm howitzer. So the damage caused is limited. Several houses were on fire, but they were quickly extinguished by the fire brigade that rushed to hear the news. No one noticed that there were many more bats flying over the city. It wasn't long before the city fell asleep again.

By about 4 a.m., the bats carrying the timed incendiary bombs began to descend in height, one by one burrowing into the eaves of the wooden buildings. An hour later, the first flames began to ignite under one roof, and in a matter of minutes, tens of thousands of ignition points appeared throughout the city. This is also the time when most people sleep most soundly, although there are a few early risers who find the fire, and in the face of so many fire points, they don't even have time to wake up the people in those houses. Just a few minutes later, the fire was out of control. Those who were awakened by the fire were in disarray, they had never seen such a fire that swept through the city. At first, some people tried to put out the fire with buckets and buckets, but after a few minutes, they realized that it was futile. Even with themselves are already in danger. Escaping into the streets did not guarantee their safety, as the temperature on the streets rose rapidly when the fire was raging. The panicked crowd began to flee in all directions, but only then did they realize that the street had been blocked by fire......

At 8 o'clock in the morning, a B-29 in charge of reconnaissance flew over Kumamoto again, and the pilot saw that the entire downtown area of the city, which had raised the fiercest and most brutal Sixth Division of the Imperial Army (the main perpetrator of the Nanjing Massacre), had been turned into a blank slate.

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