Chapter 169: On the eve of World War I
Chen Xuan returned to Penglai Island (Java) again, naturally there were many places to investigate, all the way down, whether it is industry, commerce, agriculture has made great progress, the road between the cities of Nanyang has also increased the number of cars.
There are two oil-producing areas controlled by the Baath Party, one is Daqing in China, and the other is the oil field on Sanqing Island (Sumatra), which was discovered a long time ago, and this piece of land was also purchased from Dutch colonial officials at that time, but it has not been developed, and now it can finally be developed openly.
Chen Xuan of the Daqing Oilfield in China has spent a lot of effort, because the oil layer is too deep, Zhenhua's engineers tossed for several months and did not take it down, and later had to turn to the American oil company to guide the exploitation, fortunately, the reserves of the Daqing Oilfield are huge, otherwise it will be a big loss.
Although he has the experience of drilling oil in Daqing, Chen Xuan still does not dare to be careless, and spends money to invite engineers from the United States to help with drilling, but I don't know when it can be put into use.
"Haha, Yiyang, you haven't come to see us for a long time?"
This day was to inspect Feng Ru's aircraft factory, and Feng Ru had already come to greet him.
"Third Brother Ding, so radiant, could it be that the sister-in-law of the Feng family has imported Ding again?"
"Don't talk nonsense, give you good things?"
"What's good?"
"Get in the car, you'll find out later."
Feng Ru mysteriously dragged Chen Xuan into his car, and the group left the aircraft factory and ran to the beach.
"You... It worked? ”
Chen Xuan looked at Feng Ru in disbelief.
"Hehe, that's of course, you and I don't work here just to eat, I succeeded half a month ago, I knew you were going to come, and I was afraid of the leak of the telegram, so I didn't report it to you."
Before you know it, you have run to a hidden bay, this bay is not small, but there are many isolated islands outside, and it is difficult to find the inside of the world.
On the slightly undulating sea, a strange large ship was parked, and on the deck were two runways and a tarmac on which there were three or four planes.
"What the hell is this?"
Song Jiaoren, who was accompanying him, couldn't help but ask.
"This is the idea of the instructor, to take off and land the aircraft on the ship, so that the combat radius of the aircraft can be raised."
It was Sun Hongye who answered.
"Isn't it dangerous to take off and land planes on a ship? Is the technology mature today? ”
"How can it be so easy," Chen Xuan took over, "The design of the aircraft is in charge of the third brother Ding, the problem should not be too big, but today's ships are all steamships, and there must be a huge chimney on the deck, with our technology, we can't reach the idea of designing a runway on the ship, this strange ship is transformed from a 6,000-ton merchant ship, and it needs traction to move, let alone carry out ocean voyages, third brother Ding, watch your performance!" ”
Chen Xuan's later words were said to Feng Ru.
Feng Ru laughed, led everyone to a platform on a cliff by the sea, snatched the flag in the herald's hand and waved it.
A towing boat in front of the strange ship moved, and the strange ship began to move slowly, and several pilots began to rush towards their fighters, and after being inspected by the ground crew, the fighters also moved.
The fighter plane continued to accelerate on the deck, rushed out of the splint in the exclamation of everyone, and seemed to fall down, Chen Xuan couldn't help but exclaim, and then the plane stabilized the fuselage and began to climb up.
The planes behind also taxied one after another, accelerated and climbed, and finally all lifted off in the cheers of the crowd, and began to form in the air, hovering high and low for a few times before preparing to land.
At this time, Chen Xuan's heart hung again, with his common sense, he knew that landing on the splint was much more difficult and dangerous than taking off, and even Feng Ru, who had always had a relaxed face, seemed to be a little nervous.
A plane began to break away from the formation, rushed to the strange ship swaying with the waves, and landed steadily on the splint in a burst of inhalation sound, but it seemed that it couldn't stop the car, and it was still rushing forward, and everyone exclaimed, at this speed, everyone knew that they couldn't hold on, Chen Xuan also grabbed the guardrail of the platform tightly, and his knuckles were white because of excessive force.
Suddenly, the plane paused abruptly on the boat, as if it was dragged by something, and finally stopped after rushing forward for a few meters, Feng Ru shouted happily, and everyone was confused, how the plane stopped really couldn't figure it out.
And Chen Xuan only reacted at this time, there must be something like a tripwire on the deck, and the front wheel of the plane bounced up immediately after it, tripping the rear wheel of the plane, which made the plane stop.
"Yiyang, you can harm me a lot, you didn't tell me this method when you conceived it, and I lost five planes and two excellent pilots, so I thought of this method!"
Feng Ru saw Chen Xuan's calm appearance, and guessed that he could see it, and couldn't help but complain.
"Commander Feng, what method, what kind of reason is this, I obviously saw that the plane was about to break out of the splint, why did it suddenly stop again?"
Feng Ru was the commander of the Baath Party's Air Force, so Song Jiaoren called him the commander.
"Director Song, this matter is not worth mentioning, we installed a catapult equipment on the splint, after the plane landed, because of inertia can not stop immediately, so we made a strong rope with rubber, after the front wheel ran over, the mechanism was triggered, and the rubber rope bounced up and hung the rear wheel of the plane, so that the plane was stopped, but I didn't know before, we lost a lot."
Song Jiaoren is the director of the Department of Education.
First of all, we must confirm the reliability of the ejection equipment, and the time must be shortened to a very small error, so that the rear wheel can be hung smoothly, and the rope must go through an unknown number of tests to get a qualified rope, Commander Feng is really amazing."
"It's not that I don't tell you, it's that I don't know at all, I told you that it's just an idea, and the specific problem needs to be solved by a professional like you, it seems that your results are good, and now what is missing is the shipyard, have you communicated with them, how are you going to solve it?"
Chen Xuan waited for all the planes to land safely, and then said.
"The engineers of the Nanyang Shipyard have been accompanying us in the test, until the test is successful, they did not leave to design this kind of ship, according to their estimates, they are afraid that the steam ship is difficult to do, they want to buy a super-power diesel engine from the Germans, and buy their technology back to produce, in the future, this kind of ship, may be powered by diesel."
"This idea is very good, but now the world is afraid that there is no such a high-power diesel engine, so let's go, Germany is not very peaceful now, can introduce a large number of their technical talents, we set up a power company in the United States, and Yankees to cooperate in the development of high-power steam engines and diesel engines."
"By the way, speaking of which, Zu Tao, you send a telegram to the Baath Party branches in Germany and France, asking them to focus on the top engineers in these two countries, and if there are any willing to come to China for development, don't be afraid to bid, and vigorously introduce their talents, no matter what aspect you want."
Chen Xuan's later words were said to Chen Guofu.
"Yes! Commander in chief! ”
After watching the flight show, Chen Xuan met with the participating pilots and staff of various departments, gave some encouragement, and set up the Jiaolong Flying Brigade, and after the combat power was formed, Chen Xuan will personally award the flag, which is also the first time Chen Xuan awarded the flag to the army, and the Jiaolong Flying Brigade was excited.
"Third Brother Ding, how is your air force now, can you go to war?"
"You're finally willing to let our air force fight?" Feng Ru said excitedly: "We can naturally fight at any time, and now with the addition of China, we have more than 4,000 relatively mature pilots, and more than 300 top pilots, all of whom are the elite of the elite!" ”
"Good! Now the Air Force is a new branch of the armed forces, and the whole world is groping for advancement, so you must work out flight tactics as soon as possible and train more and more elite pilots. ”
"Commander-in-chief, is there a big war going to be fought this year?"
When it came to business, Feng Ru began to get serious, and even his title changed.
"If the war breaks out in Europe, the Japanese will not let us have a good time. The government is already mobilizing, it is estimated that it will send troops to Qingdao under the pretext of declaring war on the Germans, and then I am afraid that there will be a big war to fight, our navy is still very weak, and there is still a distance compared to the Japanese, so I want to use your air force as a killer weapon, I have ordered the construction of a secret airport in Donghai County (Lianyungang), after you arrange this side of the Nanyang, you will return to China with me, and go there to preside over the work, because Donghai County is not our sphere of influence, so it is not good to carry out it with great fanfare, so you need to arrange scheduling, When the time comes, give the Japanese warships a big surprise! ”
"Yes! Commander in chief! I'll go down and arrange it right away! ”
Chen Xuan, Song Jiaoren, Zhao Xuechu, Du Yuesheng and others watched the flight show and went to visit the Nanyang Aircraft Factory.
Today's Nanyang Aircraft Factory's strength is no less than that of Harbin's aircraft factory, and the models produced include reconnaissance planes, transport planes, fighters, bombers, and so on; with orders from Britain, France, and Germany, it is now in full horsepower production, and the Nanyang Aircraft Factory alone can produce more than 800 planes of all kinds in a month.
Of course, Chen Xuan would not be stupid enough to sell his most advanced technology aircraft to others, but even so, these aircraft belong to the first echelon of advanced aircraft in the world, otherwise those big-nosed Europeans would not have placed so many orders after watching the flight show and technical parameters.
Chen Xuan returned to his home in Crescent Town, and asked Zhang Youwei and Xu Ruohan to pack their luggage, this time when he returned to China, he was afraid that he would have to live in Shanghai permanently, so Chen Xuan was ready to take his family back to China.