Chapter 236, News from China
Nadya spent the day with Ron in London, even sleeping in Ron's hospital room at night. High-speed update // But Ron's feet are still in a plaster, so, well, nothing can happen.
The next morning, Ron and Nadya had breakfast together, and Scott had already completed all the formalities for being discharged from the hospital. And the vehicles were arranged.
"Ron, you're going back to the army?" Nadya looked at Ron and said, tears rolling in her big eyes.
"No way, war is like that. Now is the moment of truth. Ron explained.
In fact, Nadya is not unaware of this. In the USSR, it was also very common to serve with wounds.
"However, I don't go back to the front line right away, and someone is on the front line. I'm just going back to Portsmouth to recuperate and work as a consultant for other people. Ron said to Nadya, "You still have a few days off from work, and if you're interested, you can go there for two days to relax." ”
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Since there was no need to cross the sea, the land airline did not arrange a plane for Ron. The most comfortable way to travel within the UK is by train. The hospital took Ron and them directly to the station in an ambulance.
As Nadya pushed Ron onto the platform, Ron looked at the platform at Waterloo Station and suddenly felt like he had seen this place somewhere. Ron had never been to Waterloo Station, even in his life, and although he had been to England twice, he had never taken a train here. Where does this strange familiarity come from?
At this time, several young men ran over from a place not far from Ron. One of them ran as he turned around and shouted to the others, "Hurry up, the time is almost over." ”
The man shouted back as he ran, but he didn't see what was ahead, and as a result, he hit a pillar directly, fell back, and sat on the ground with his butt.
"Haha!" Ron suddenly remembered where this familiarity came from, and unconsciously said again: "This hapless Muggle." ”
"What is a Muggle?" Nadya, who was behind Ron, naturally heard this as well. Nadya, who was smiling with her lips pursed, asked this question.
"Ah, Muggles, it's ......" Ron didn't expect Nadya to ask such a question, he couldn't answer according to Harry Potter, "Muggle" means a fool with no magical talent. So he quickly came up with an excuse: "Muggle is a dialect in the Philippines, which means stupid hat." You know, I've been in the Philippines for a long time before. ”
"I remember, you told me about the big python and the monkey-eating eagle in the Philippines." Nadya replied with a smile.
To say that the current Waterloo station is really similar to the one in the "Harry Potter" movie, especially when a steam locomotive enters the station in the clouds, it is really like the train in "Harry Potter" that takes the students to the school of witchcraft and wizardry. Speaking of which, this kind of steam locomotive was ridden once by Ron once in his last life when he was in elementary school. The front of a mist-spewing car dragged a string of green cars, and the simple carriage was crowded with all kinds of people.
However, the trains in the UK are much more luxurious than the green cars that Ron had ridden in his previous life. Lu Airlines booked a box for Ron, which had sofas, beds, and washrooms, except for the lack of LCD TVs and Internet services, and the other places were much better than the high-speed trains that Ron had taken in his previous life.
However, there was no place for Nadya in this box, and Lu Airlines didn't know that Ron's girlfriend was here when he booked the train car. Although the box is not small, there is still a document in Scott's hand to show to Ron, so Nadya naturally can't stay in this box.
Scott also booked a bunk for Nadya, but it wasn't a luxury box. It's just a regular box. However, according to Nadya, the conditions are not bad. It's much better than the United States, and I don't know how much better it is than the Soviet one.
By Ron's standards in his last life, the speed of the British train is really slow like a snail crawling now, which is natural, and how fast can a steam locomotive run? It's only 30 to 40 kilometers per hour. What's worse is that there are a lot of wagons on the railway now. In peacetime, the rule on the railroad has always been that wagons give way to passenger cars. But this is a time of war, and everything has to give way to war. Portsmouth is also an important port in the United Kingdom, and many of the supplies that are shipped to Normandy Beach are shipped from Portsmouth. So the wagons running on the railroad to Portsmouth are basically military trains carrying military supplies, and they have the highest right of way, and all other trains have to give way to them. As a result, Ron's express ride was also made to look like a slow train, and he didn't go far before he needed to stop to make way for the military trains. It took more than ten hours to run from London to Pusmouth.
Knowing that Ron still had official business, Nadya accompanied Ron to lunch in his carriage and left. After Nadya left, Scott pulled out the paperwork.
This is a document transferred from China. Here the situation with the air raid of the B-29 troops on Rìben is mentioned in the first place.
After the completion of several airfields in China, the Americans began air raids on Rìben. In the beginning, the B-29 targeted some of Rìben's industries in Manchuria (northeastern China). Since 9.18, Rì himself occupied the Tohoku and began to build various industries in the Tohoku in order to plunder the resources of the Tohoku. And when Rìben and the United States went to war, the iron mines and coal mines in the Northeast became the key to supporting the war. So it has also become the primary target of the U.S. military's B-29.
Although the B-29 has the most astonishing combat radius of this era, the whole of Manchuria, and even part of the Rì Ben, are within its strike range. But these targets are already at the limit of its strike range. Striking these targets, the B-29 can carry a much smaller number of bombs than normal. In addition, the cost of transporting materials through the Hump route is high, so the blow is very limited, and the effect is very average.
However, during the air raid on Manchuria, the Americans discovered several new fighters of the Rì himself.
In the beginning, Rì himself always used the Ki-44 Zhong Kui fighter to intercept the B-29. Zhong Kui climbs well, and as an interceptor, this is a big advantage. Moreover, compared to the Ki-43 Hayabusa fighter, which was the largest in the army and was only equipped with two 12.7mm machine guns, the firepower of the Ki-44 Zhong Kui's four 12.7mm machine guns was twice as strong. But this kind of firepower, used to hit the B-29, which is known as the "Super Flying Fortress", is really like using the Type 64 small smashing cannon in the hands of the TG public security to hit the rhinoceros even if the bullets are exhausted and cannot knock down a dog, and it will not be able to hit at all. It's no different from tickling. Conversely, the B-29's fully automatic 20mm cannon was often able to turn the Ki-44s into large fireballs. Faced with the B-29s, which formed the box formation, the fighters of the Rì himself were no match even without escort aircraft. So, at that time, when facing the B-29, it was really a complete coffee table.
However, it didn't take long for the appearance of two types of fighters to change the situation.
The first is a twin-engine, two-seat Ki-45 "Dragon Slayer" fighter. Speaking of this kind of aircraft, although some 213rì fans in later generations praised this thing as a "B-29 nemesis", but to be honest, the xìng of this thing is really a huge. As a twin-engine fighter, it has a maximum power of only 1,050 horsepower per engine, and the horsepower of the two combined, is not comparable to a twin Wasp on the P-47. This, combined with a huge frontal area, made the maximum speed of this fighter only 540 km/h. If the B-29 had dropped the bomb, this thing wouldn't even fly as fast as the B-29 bomber.
The climb rate of this thing is also a tragedy, the maximum climb rate is only 11.7 meters per second, even if the whole climb is calculated according to the maximum climb rate, it will take more than 7 minutes to climb to 5000 meters. In fact, as the altitude increases, the maximum rate of climb decreases very quickly. This thing can't climb 5,000 meters in nine minutes, and if you really want to climb to the usual combat altitude of the B-29, it won't take you half an hour, don't even think about it.
A "fighter" like this, which is inferior to the BF-110 in terms of flying ability, was not suitable for interception missions at all - by the time it slowly climbed into place, everyone had already dropped their bombs and gone home. However, at this point, the advantage of pre-jǐng gives it plenty of time to climb.
The first is that KMT's counterintelligence system is devastating. Although some Chinese fans always like to brag about the boss and blow him as the top spy king in China and even the world. It was even good to make up the story that the chairman knew about the surrender of the committee before the dead Roosevelt. But if Boss Dai can be regarded as the king of espionage, what should Li Kenong, who commanded a group of Jiang Bo (the protagonist of China's first TV series "Eighteen Years in the Ground Camp" in 81) infiltrate Boss Dai's military command to the point that "one of us is a KMT spy"?
During the Anti-Japanese War, in Chongqìng, Rì himself was almost under their noses, stealing a lot of secrets, and even plotting against KMT's number two. In Shanghai, the Central Military Command was dying of the blow of No. 76. In the later period of the Liberation War, KMT's spy system was infiltrated to the point that it could almost be directly renamed "TG Detachment". So some people in later generations joked and summed up one of the best coffee table combinations of World War II: the soldier of Noodles (Italy), the general of Perfume (France), the staff officer of Rìben, and the spy of KMT. KMT's espionage system was among the periods.
As a result, next to the airfield where the B-29 was stationed, there was a large number of Rìben spies active. Almost as soon as the B-29 flew together, the guys quickly sent the information back. In this regard, the KMT's espionage department was almost helpless, so the Yankees had to set up their own spy team to solve the problem.
Secondly, if the B-29 taking off from Sichuan wanted to bomb targets located in Manchuria, it would have to fly thousands of kilometers over the area controlled by Rì himself. Rì's own ground observation post was also able to send out pre-jǐng messages long in advance. This gives such a tattered Ki-45 "Dragon Slayer" also a chance to climb to the appropriate height.
In this way, the first problem of "slaying the dragon" -- climbing rotten -- was solved. And its advantages over other Rì fighters - the body is stronger, and the firepower is more fierce, so there is a chance to show it. The Ki-45 is equipped with a 37 mm cannon, and even the B-29 can't afford to hit this thing. As a result, during the bombing of Manchuria, Rì himself relied on this stupid thing to shoot down some B-29s.
As for the second type of fighter, it is really a good aircraft, and that is the Ki-84 "Hurricane" fighter.