Chapter 505: Faster, Higher, Stronger

"That's flying!" While the heat from the engine through the bulkhead to the cockpit was a little unpleasant, a slightly cramped cockpit didn't seem to be suitable for a big man like him, and if possible, even if the seat was lowered by an inch, a little lower would mean a narrower view. Compared to an airship, the downward view of the plane is really very poor. At the first time, Xu Jin judged that this plane was probably a sharp weapon against the airship for a long time, attacking from the horizontal direction or from above, and the airship had no counterattack ability at all. And the airship's relatively slow speed makes dodging pointless. Those airships in Dongping will probably focus more on ground attack. Although fixed-wing aircraft are fast, they have poor ability to stay in the air, and they also have higher logistical requirements. Although Xu Jin now likes the feeling of flying at a high speed, he understands very well that airfields must be arranged on the front line to take off and land planes, but airships only need the simplest facilities. The difference between the two alone is enough for the commanders on the front line to make decisions, and I am afraid that it is difficult to use airplanes except to deal with airships. But does the enemy have airships? Xu Jin couldn't help but think about it for a while, and his hand subconsciously turned the control stick, and the plane turned around very chicly, and began to make a figure-8 maneuver in the air. Xu Jin immediately realized that if it weren't for the long-term use to deal with Chunnan, it would be that Northern Liao was about to master the technique of airships.

"Hehe, look back, Lao Tzu knocked you all down." Xu Jin muttered to himself again. After flying the figure-eight maneuver, he did a few hovers at different altitudes as he pleased, trying to make rapid ascent and dive. Then he landed relentlessly, and this time the plane was only loaded with less than half of the fuel. Although Xu Jin looked at the pointer on the fuel gauge and was not close to the red area, he still landed. After all, there is an opportunity for a test flight, but there is no need to rush to this point.

"Old Xu, how do you feel?" As soon as Xu Jin landed, the test pilots and those technicians rushed up, and the technicians hurriedly opened the engine cover to observe the operation of the engine. The test pilots surrounded Xu Jin to understand the feeling of flying. In terms of technology, none of them have much experience, and airships and airplanes are two completely different things. Xu Jin didn't dare to rise and fall too much just now, but only slightly increased the amplitude on the basis of his previous experience.

Another plane also made a test flight, and Xu Jin and other test pilots learned about it. It turned out that the two planes, which looked the same on the outside, were very different on the inside. The red plane that Xu Jin flew just now emphasizes speed, while the blue plane pays great attention to fuel economy, and does not install ballistas and other very heavy things, and the flight control system has also been simplified to the greatest extent, and a larger fuel tank is installed with these free loads. The blue plane was refueled at one time, and the flight distance and stay in the air were about three times that of the red guy. Naturally, this is the difference between the most basic reconnaissance and calibration liaison aircraft and fighter planes.

When he got the report later, Ye Tao thought with a wicked smile that if it was released to the public at a certain air show in the future, these two aircraft would have very post-modern advantages: how many percent of the components of the two functions. Although Yip's workshop has not been able to develop many such products now, it has become the instinctive idea of many technicians to reduce the number of parts as much as possible and increase the common parts as much as possible. Isn't that an achievement? Only when a certain amount of process level and manufacturing scale are exceeded at the same time will the ease of production efficiency and post-maintenance become something that has to be considered from the beginning of the design. Now, whether it is Chunnan, Xiling or Beiliao, no matter what they are trying to imitate in Dongping, they are all complacent about the continuous enrichment of functions and designs, but Ye's Workshop has gradually tasted back to basics. This makes Ye Tao especially fulfilling, think about it, how many years has it been for him to play with showy gadgets at the beginning to bring the manufacturing of the whole country to a very modern style? Of course, Ye Tao also knows that this is still for the sake of war, and only in war, the requirements for practicality and the consideration of simple maintenance will prevail over all fancy things. If it weren't for the fact that Dongping's repeated wars over the years have made the military have clearer and clearer requirements for what kind of equipment they want, the progress in this area would not have been so incredibly fast.

After the test flight of the two basic aircraft on the first day, all the test pilots carried out test flights one after another, and different people will have different feelings on the same project, and the test pilots gradually explored the extreme performance of the aircraft. Now the maximum ceiling of the aircraft is more than 300 feet higher than that of the take-off boat, of course, this is because the current airships are all hot gas airships, and when Yip's workshop can reduce the cost of inert gas preparation to a more reasonable level, this situation may change. Before that, the airplane will be the undoubted king of flight altitude in this time and space, as for speed, it goes without saying, even if the airship opens the rocket jet port to accelerate, it is by no means as exaggerated as in the movie, and the sportiness of the airship comes more from being able to fly comfortably and stably for a long time. But the aircraft is different, the speed of the combat model easily exceeds 600 miles per hour, and the reconnaissance type also has a score of more than 400 miles. However, the problem is that the ability of these two types of aircraft to stay in the air is slightly insufficient, and the range of a fully loaded fuel type is less than 1,000 miles, and the combat type is less than 1,700 miles. In fact, the only dissatisfaction with this data is probably Ye Tao, who is used to seeing the future generations who have traveled thousands of kilometers at every turn. At present, the take-off and gliding distance of these two types of aircraft is less than one mile, and with Dongping's engineering capability, the airfield can be directly built dozens of miles away from the combat site. Moreover, as an air supremacy weapon, in the face of an enemy with extremely weak air power, they are afraid that they can get one or two opportunities to attack in a national war, even if they are very lucky, the future of the aircraft is promising, but now, there is really no need to think too much.

And after the end of these tests, although the fully closed state of the Yip's Workshop Research Institute ended, these test pilots and some technicians did not appear in front of everyone again. The people who had been expecting something new to discover were a little disappointed, but they quickly realized that this time there must be something at the level of a secret weapon.

Although there were only two aircraft, the Yunzhou Fourth Air Force was formed. Once the aircraft's performance has been verified, the first batch will produce 22 aircraft, along with enough spare parts. The Fourth Air Force would also have four airships and a subordinate engineering team. They will now be stationed near Suiyuan for training, and when all the equipment is in place and the members of the team have all the experience of aircraft operations, the air force will move to Zhongjun Town and conduct training under close surveillance. Before facing the group of airships in Northern Liao, they had to hide all the time.

Transferring such a few people would not be a big problem for Dai Yun's attack operations. After a period of secret preparations, the garrison battalion struck. Although he knew that the garrison battalion was not good at tactical command, and that improvised tactical command training might only be counterproductive, during this short preparation period, Dai Yun mainly let those staff officers quickly integrate into each unit. And she also encouraged those talented middle-level officers who did not join the main combat battalion for one reason or another to play more roles as auxiliary officers. To be honest, there are a lot of people like that. Many people consider taking care of the elderly at home nearby, so they join the garrison battalion sequence with relatively light combat duties, while others may be slightly inferior in physical or other conditions, and some people may be from areas with relatively low population density, in order not to affect local stability and production, the number of conscription places in the main battle battalion is extremely limited. And these people may have their own experience in warfare. Tapping the potential from the inside, compared to going down as an airborne commander, it is easy for everyone to accept. After such adjustments, the mental outlook of the garrison battalion during the attack has been greatly improved from before.

And as soon as Dai Yun made a move, he didn't leave a chance for Xiling at all. In order to give full play to the characteristics of her own strong mobility, her first target was to point to the opponent's concentrated cavalry troops, one hundred and fifty airships attacked in all directions, dropping thousands of fire and oil bombs overnight, and completely submerging the opponent's cavalry camp in the sea of fire. It's been a long, long time since Dongping has played such a big game with an airship, and after the sudden attack on Xiling, the airship has been used as a tactical force on various battlefields. The fact that the Dongping army is strong enough is a prerequisite for this method of use, and the effect of airships for reconnaissance and auxiliary attacks is enough for reaping victory. However, I didn't expect that now Dongping has made this hand again, but the momentum is stronger and more mature than before. It only took three and a half hours for the airship to assemble and set off until it completed its attack and returned to the camp.

Subsequently, the troops of the six battalions took advantage of the chaos to bypass the frontal defense of Xiling and marched straight in the direction of Taizhou. The other six battalions of troops engaged in a powerful harassment operation on the front, firmly pinning down the enemy forces closest to the bypassing troops, leaving them unarmed. It was only after a full day and a half that the Xiling army organized a force of about 60,000 men from the front to pursue it. The gap left by the transfer of these troops was taken by Dai Yun less than a day later. From that gap, battalion after battalion quickly drilled in, seemingly completely ignoring the Xiling defenders in front of them, and recklessly assaulted in depth.