Chapter 422: Rails for Planes
Recently, there has been a lot of bad news for the crossers, first because the Tu-160 has become a big toy without oil and no bullets, then Marconiti has obtained a patent for radio technology in the United States nearly nine years ago, and finally because of the carpet bombing carried out by the Tu-160 on the eastern shore of Lake Belga, people have re-evaluated the combat potential of the aircraft.
According to the latest intelligence, Tsarist Russia has lost at least 5,000 troops in the area on the east bank of Lake Belga, because the Russian army assembly area is located at the railway junction in the area, the raid of "White Swan No. 1" paralyzed nearby transportation, and the losses of Tsarist Russia are still being refreshed, and a large number of soldiers have lost their lives because of hunger or wounded without treatment.
Maozi's secret guards did not seem to be much more clever than the Manchurians, and their tragedy on the eastern shore of Lake Berga soon became well-known news in Europe. Combined with the survivors' accounts of the raid, the powers quickly realized that the perpetrators of this tragedy were planes!
According to the survivors, the assembly area and the railway station covered an area of at least ten acres, but the attack launched by the Great Song people instantly leveled the buildings in this area, oh no, it must have been a hell full of large pits of depth!
Many people have realized that the role of the aircraft is not only to correct the landing point of the shells revealed by the Great Song people, but also that once the planes in the hands of the Great Song people are concentrated to attack a target, they can also cause enough damage.
"Look at how the Opium Cow's Times describes the dance of death staged by our white swans on Lake Belga, 'The Great Song people's air raids against Tsarist Russia on the eastern shore of Lake Belga led to the detonation of Russian ammunition depots, the fire consumed the lives of no less than 5,000 Russian soldiers, and the casualties of the Russian army are said to be rising due to lack of treatment.' , tsk, how do I sound like these white skins think that if we hadn't blown up Maozi's ammunition depot, Maozi wouldn't have suffered such serious losses? Hao Dajian said.
"It is difficult for the natives of this era to imagine the upper limit of the carrying capacity of aircraft with the kind of engines we can build now, and even if the opium cows know that we have larger aircraft, it is estimated that they will have a hard time imagining the power of our large aerial bombs." Lu Xiangyang said.
"That's the result of a 45-ton large aerial bomb hitting and falling, and even if you tell the opium cows now that we have an aircraft that can transport 45-ton bombs to a war zone two or three thousand kilometers away, they will still be bragging about us." Da Chen Yongqing said.
"Don't be too optimistic, Hans is already flexing his chips in order to gain the know-how to build the aircraft. Not everyone takes the brain-dead report of the Times seriously, at least not the Mao Zi who was blown up by us and Hans, who was in a hurry to build an airplane, did not believe it. Wang He said.
"It is said that someone from Eagle Sauce has already made a power plane, and the elder Morgan is also exploring the possibility of cooperating with us in engine manufacturing, and I think even if we don't give Hans the corresponding technology, they will soon carry out research in this area." Zhao Yi said.
"It can't be the Wright brothers who came up with a powered plane, right?" Da Chen Yongqing asked.
"It's not the Wright brothers, it's an unknown figure in the history of the original plane. In fact, after the photos of our locally produced aircraft were exposed, the manufacture of powered aircraft was not a problem. Hao Dajian said.
"I'm rubbing, will this lead the powers to directly cross the era of giant ships and cannons, if this is the case, we will be tragic! Airplanes are more difficult to defend against than battleships! Tian Buzi said.
"You're thinking too much, at most it's just going to put the air forces of the great powers directly into the middle of World War I, and I don't think they can even get past the stage of shooting with pistols in the air. To achieve a certain scale and reliable accuracy, there are many, many tech tree nodes that need to be lit up by the whiteskins of air raids. Hao Dajian said.
"So you're inclined to sell Hans aircraft manufacturing technology at this stage?" Zhao Yi asked.
"Sell it, why don't you sell it? They didn't take it for nothing, but they exchanged it for railroad tracks! Hao Dajian said.
The railroad that Koman was working on to run through the Liaodong Peninsula had been stuck in the rail procurement process due to the recent changes in John Niu's policy toward the Song Dynasty. The supplier that Coman had negotiated had planned to send the ready-made railroad tracks stored in India to the Liaodong Peninsula, but now due to the unfriendly wind of the Great Song Dynasty caused by the British parliamentarians, the steel company suddenly reversed itself, saying that the quality of the rails was defective, and it had to wait for the reproduction to be shipped to the Liaodong Peninsula.
Hans estimated that the colonial authorities of the Great Song Dynasty in Liaodong seemed to have something difficult to say, either the sea route from the Great Song Dynasty to the Liaodong Peninsula was too dangerous for merchant shipping routes, or the Great Song did not support their construction of railways on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Great Song people had no way to obtain railroad tracks from China for the time being.
Hans also felt in his heart that he had taken advantage of the railroad tracks in exchange for the aircraft manufacturing technology sold to the British by the Great Song Dynasty, but who made you anxious to build a railway in Liaodong? If you want to complete the construction of the railroad as soon as possible, you will have to exchange your airplane manufacturing technology for the much-needed rails. Look at the list of countries that are at odds with you, Tsarist Russia, France, Holland, and now there is another Great Britain to get your neck, if you don't exchange with us, do you want to beg the Yankees? Hmph, I guess when you take the initiative to speak, the Yankees will ask for a higher price than us!
When Hans was secretly proud of his shrewdness, he didn't know that the Travelers had long intended to sell Hans some "black technology" in order to disgust the opium cows, and now Hans himself proposed to exchange the rails for the aircraft manufacturing technology, which was really in the hands of the Travelers.
As for whether the external diffusion of aviation technology will pose a threat to the airspace of the people, after Hao Dajian popularized the knowledge of air combat earlier, the rough embryos put their hearts in their stomachs.
First of all, those who have the ability to build an airfield around the area controlled by the crowd are only Manchu adults except for Maozi. Manchurian's Air Force? Hehe, let's not mention whether the Manchurian adults can get together the pilots, just the Manchurian man's virtue of using any weapon is the scum of war, even if they are lucky enough to get together an air force, it will only be the life of being shot down to the ground!
As for Maozi, have you heard that Maozi had any handy planes during World War I? No! Tsarist Russia was an empire that did not experience revolution and relied on reforms that left a large number of feudal remnants to enter capitalism, and its industrial base was of a relatively low grade among the belligerents in World War I.
Well, even if he took 10,000 steps back, Mao Zi really tried his best to explode enough planes, and evaded the reconnaissance of the Crossing Crowd to build an airfield within the range of their planes, and he was so lucky that he completed the transition of a large number of planes under the nose of the Crossing Crowd, but without the machine gun fire coordinator, these planes were still scum even against the Crossing Native Air Force.
In Hao Dajian's words, once the enemy's planes were to cross the Native Air Force, they could only greet their opponents with pistols or bricks, just like the pilots in the early stages of World War I, while the Native Air Force could torture them with machine guns mounted on the nose.