Chapter 41: Aerial Reconnaissance of the British
Because Li Junhao's army achieved an unprecedented military victory, it dealt a heavy blow to the military power of the British colonists, which made the British colonial army authorities extremely annoyed, and then laid a large number of intelligence officers in the two cities controlled by Li Junhao, but these intelligence officers have not played a role, and they were almost cleaned by Li Junhao's intelligence department, and the remaining personnel can only continue to lie dormant to avoid being discovered by them.
At this time, the cities of Kandulu and Magadini fell into the hands of the indigenous rebels, and a large number of people were captured, and the news soon reached the governor's palace of Songgaia, the capital of the Rovuma district, and the British governor of Rovuma was called James. is a Scotsman in his fifties. I thought that I had offended people in the local area and was assigned here to be a small mayor, but later I found that it was not bad here, so I climbed to this position step by step. During his tenure, he made a lot of oil and water for himself. So when he heard that the rebels appeared in his territory, he was so frightened that he didn't faint immediately.
Because he was not a soldier, he suddenly lost his attention, and the master had a group of staff members to give him ideas, and he didn't take it seriously when he first lost Candulu, thinking that the other party was lucky, but after Magadini was lost, James suddenly panicked, and later learned that the other party had a large number of Kirtland M1 semi-automatic rifles similar to those from the United States and a large number of heavy weapons. Suddenly he was at a loss.
After reading these two news, James did not hesitate at all, and hurriedly summoned all his military and political minds to discuss how to deal with this matter. James said: "Today I have not very good news for you, the cities of Kandulu and Magadini in our province have been captured by the rebels, and the troops there have been lost. ”
Then one of them said, "Governor, we are now hurrying to block this news of failure. At the same time, Major General Bertrand in the city was ordered to immediately gather the reorganized army and recapture the city of Kandulu and Magadini. ”
After hearing this, James nodded and said, "Okay, after the meeting, I will arrange for Major General Bertrand to do it." ”
"In addition, the Governor, we will not send out ground troops again recently, and first send the air force to carry out intelligence gathering work in the rebel activity area, and immediately let the air force bomb the suspicious targets on a large scale. This will minimize our casualty count and kill the enemy as much as possible. Another said:
"Okay, I'll let the Air Force bomb it, everyone disperse." James says:
After everyone left, Governor James left Air Force Major General Priss behind and said, "The first few times we sent the army to encircle and suppress this rebel army. But unfortunately we failed, and I decided to let you sing the lead role. Now tell me about what you have in your hands. ”
After hearing this, Major General Priss said: "Report to the Governor, I don't have many planes in my hands now, and most of them are old planes from World War I. It's all old guys who have changed clothes in China. ”
"Tell me how many planes you have now, and what models they are?" James says:
"I should now have 105 planes of various types, including 25 cockfighting fighters, 10 Camel F! fighters, 30 Battle-1 light bombers, 15 French-made Falmont HF20 reconnaissance planes, and the rest are water torpedo planes or transport planes." Major General Priss replied:
When Governor James heard this, he said: "You first send out a few reconnaissance planes to find out where the rebels are entrenched, and then send planes to bomb the city of Jacandulu for loyalty, 12 hours a day, and I will keep them in fear during the day." ”
At this time, Major General Pulis said cautiously: "Governor, the guys in my hands are all leftover from the last war, the flight speed is slow, the altitude is not very high, and the bomb load is even lower." ”
When Governor James heard this, he said: "Dear Major General Priss, gentleman, these planes of yours are not for you to fight the Germans or Italians, but for African chimpanzees. Those, they're just a bun of dirt buns, what's there to be afraid of, really. Do they have planes to intercept you? So it's good for you to strike boldly. ”
"Yes, my subordinates will do it. Resolutely let these chimpanzees know what modern warfare is. Major General Pulis thought about it and then said.
In this way, the British Air Force, who had been ******** and idle, received a combat order, but after listening to the task of fighting against the natives of ********, the pride of these days suddenly opened the pot. Although it is said to be beating the natives, to be precise, it should be about bullying the natives. Do these chimpanzees really think that carrying a rifle is a modern army? I'll teach you what modern warfare is later.
Soon the British pilots, who considered themselves the pride of the sky, began to check their cars with the ground crew, and took off at any time to slaughter the chimpanzees.
After inspecting their cars, the pilots quickly sat into the cockpit of their planes. Five Ffalman HF20 reconnaissance aircraft then flew southeast towards the city of Kandulu. During the flight, the five pilots made a hand gesture to each other, meaning that the road was safe.
As a biplane reconnaissance aircraft developed by France during World War I, the Falment HF20 reconnaissance aircraft flew at an altitude of 4,500 meters and carried two people, one pilot, one scout and machine gunner. Captain 9 of the aircraft. 84 meters, wingspan 16. 30 meters, machine height 3. 2 meters. Maximum flight speed 110 km / h,. The aircraft has a combat radius of 275 kilometers and a range of 5 hours. The aircraft weighs 625 kg and has a maximum take-off weight of 930 kg. The plane carried a 7. 92 mm machine gun.
In World War I, although the performance of this reconnaissance aircraft was not very stable, it was extremely durable, and was favored by the Allies. This fighter was used from the beginning of World War I until the end of World War I, and was copied by several other Allied countries in World War I. But he was already at the end of World War II. There are no combat requirements in all aspects, but it is still no problem to bully the Africans.
As the flight of this reconnaissance plane, Hamorley and his deputy Lai Borret, today is undoubtedly the happiest day, today can finally fly in the sky with his own plane, and relive the eventful years of the predecessors of the past. It's better to spy on these natives, but it's better than staying at home.
As they flew the plane over Kandulu, the non-people below collectively pointed at the plane. Maybe these Africans are seeing the plane for the first time, Li Junhao was greatly disgraced after seeing these planes, as a standard military enthusiast in later generations, but he really didn't have a serious understanding of this aircraft, but according to the body type, Li Kaihua still can't judge the purpose of this aircraft.
At this time, Shen Yan, who was on the side, said: "These British guys really look down on us." I actually took out the Falman HF20 reconnaissance plane during the First World War and showed it off in front of us, and I will knock you down from the sky and hang you on a tree for three hours in the sun. ”
As soon as Li Junhao heard it, it was nothing, the problem was that the Shen family didn't know what to stimulate, so they actually raised their ring fingers at the sky tree and despised each other.