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On the evening of 16 July, Luo Yunchong's group of bombers passed through Oahu Airport and a large airfield west of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It was one of the airfields controlled by Imperial naval aviation at the time and one of the few large airfields in Central America with 2500 runways. After Luo Yunchong personally came forward to consult with Han Shaofeng, Han Shaofeng contacted the commander of the HNA and handed over the right to use and jurisdiction of the airport to Gu Xunlei's army expeditionary force during the day on the 16th. Subsequently, Gu Xunlei arranged for the service personnel of Army Airlines to go to the airport to make preparations for greeting.

Leading these bombers was the Army Colonel Pilot Wu Linfang, a meritorious pilot with a strange name, who heard that his father had a fortune teller in order to give him this name, and spent a lot of money to get such a "good" name. The name itself does not have much influence on Wu Lin Bran. He joined the army in 23, two years after the outbreak of the war, and before joining the army, Wu Linqian was one of the first civilian transport aircraft pilots in the empire.

At that time, there were only a few routes within the empire for the transportation of important mail and two for the transportation of passengers, and the number of civilian pilots employed did not exceed 500. After the outbreak of the war, these pilots basically joined the army, and most of the pilots at that time were not assigned to tactical units because of their age, and most of them continued to fly similar types of transport aircraft, only after the Navy established a strategic strike force and the Army Air Force established a strategic bomber unit. Only then did some of the pilots become bomber pilots. Wu Linchan was one of the first civilian transport aircraft pilots to join the army's strategic bomber unit.

Because he was not able to join the Navy's Strategic Strike Force, Wu Linchan was not able to participate in the war against Japan, and from 23 to 25 years, he was mainly on the battlefield on the mainland. After flying 50 combat missions in the strategic bombing of Britain and completing the minimum combat record, he returned to the Reich and joined the bomber training unit, becoming an instructor in the unit, mainly teaching new pilots how to fly heavy bombers. By 27 years, that is, after Luo Yunchong had been confirmed as the commander of the Army Aviation. The focus of the Army Aviation shifted to the strategic bomber force, which required a large number of bomber pilots. At that time, the size of the teaching brigade had expanded a lot, and many pilots of the HNA Strategic Strike Force had been transferred to the Army Aviation Force, and Wu Linyan was reorganized into the combat unit at this time, but his initial task was still to be responsible for the training of newly incorporated pilots in the combat unit. Then. The strategic strike forces of the army aviation also do not have many specific combat missions.

By the end of '27, Wu Linfang participated in an important screening. That is, the selection of top pilots of the Army Airlines. At that time, no one knew what the purpose of selecting this group of pilots was, and Wu Linfang had already had 7,500 hours of flight records at this time> of combat missions, dropping more than 5,000 tons of bombs, which was +||Record, one of the highest pilots with the highest bomb dropping record, and in the past few years in the army aviation combat opportunities have decreased, Wu Linchan has been teaching the work of the brigade, so he has never left the bomber unit. Therefore. Wu Linchan was successfully selected.

After entering the top-notch flight unit, Wu Linchan learned that the main task of this unit was to fly the new bombers that were about to be equipped with the army's strategic bomber unit, summarize the performance of the new planes through their flights, and pass on the experience to other pilots, so that the new bombers could form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. In addition to this main task, the top pilot unit at that time was also one of the only units that could carry out difficult bombing missions in the army aviation, and the original purpose of the establishment of the top pilot unit was to form a force that could be used to carry out special operations as soon as possible. The cause of all this was actually the "Pangu Plan", which was jointly supported by the imperial navy and army.

The ultimate goal of the "Pangu Project" was to create an atomic bomb, but the atomic bomb was only a powerful bomb. And any bomb needs a carrier, there is no suitable one. Bombs will only threaten their own people, and will not be able to hit the enemy. At that time, the "Shengong Project", which was in charge of the "Pangu Project" (the name of the project came from the Shengong used to shoot the sun, and the main purpose of the project was to find a suitable means of delivering and delivering atomic bombs), proposed three methods of delivering atomic bombs.

The three methods were to use bombers to deliver atomic bombs, to use rocket technology obtained from Germany to create a rocket that could deliver atomic bombs, and to use super-range giant artillery to drop atomic bombs. Relatively speaking, the last option was the least feasible, and at that time there was no way to solve the huge overload of artillery firing, and there was no research base in related areas. The second method is also not very feasible, after all, the foundation for the development of rockets in the empire is relatively weak, and if it uses German technology, it will have to be controlled by others, and the most important thing is that it will have to invest a lot of research and development funds and a lot of time. The most feasible thing is to use the Empire's strengths, which is to create a bomber capable of delivering atomic bombs, to complete the task of dropping atomic bombs.

At that time, the development of the "Peng" bomber, which replaced the "Wolf Dove", was already very fast, and it would definitely be in service by the end of 27. The maximum bomb load of this new bomber exceeded 10 tons, and when carrying 3 ammunition, the maximum range reached 9,000 kilometers, and its maximum flight altitude exceeded 10,000 (which was almost higher than most fighters at that time), and because the bomber used a lot of advanced technology, its development time was close to five years, which was quite long during the war. It was also the most powerful strategic bomber in the world at that time, and its performance generally surpassed that of the B.S. Army Aviation that began testing at the end of 25. Yes, the progress of the Pangu Project was quite slow at that time, and the miniaturization of the atomic bomb, which was the most important project, was not going well. In 27 years, the prototype of the atomic bomb was actually completed, and there was even a basis for the creation of the first experimental atomic bomb, but this experimental version of the atomic bomb weighed 50 tons, which was quite cumbersome to transport on the ground, and no bomber could carry such a heavy bomb. In other words, if the miniaturization of the atomic bomb cannot meet the target, then

A new bomber had to be developed specifically for the atomic bomb.

The development of a new bomber was established at the beginning of 27 years, and the Xi'an Aircraft Factory, which was responsible for the development of aviation supplies. At that time, Xifei borrowed a lot of design characteristics from the "Peng" bomber jointly developed by Hafei, Shenfei and Nanfei, and designed a "super" bomber with six piston engines, a maximum take-off weight of more than 90 tons, and an extra 18 tons of bombs through appropriate amplification. This bomber was tentatively named "Phoenix" at that time, and some also called it "Firebird". However, until the beginning of 28, the design work was not completed, and it was still being revised, and the matter of building a prototype was not put on the schedule at all.

It can be said that unless the Reich really has the courage to create a unique carrier aircraft for the atomic bomb, it can only increase the degree of miniaturization of the atomic bomb to meet the carrying capacity of the "Peng" bomber, and finally the "Peng" bomber will carry this special bomb. In the second half of 27 years, the person in charge of the "Pangu Project" also made this goal clear for the first time, that is, to make the atomic bomb smaller at all costs, and for this reason, he even did not hesitate to delay the test explosion time of the atomic bomb, so that researchers have more time to accumulate the technology of atomic bomb miniaturization. The ultimate goal was to control the weight of the atomic bomb to between 5 and 8 tons, and to reduce the size to the point that it could be carried by the "Peng" bomber without passing through. Of course, the time will definitely come to improve the bomber, and it will definitely be necessary to train pilots for this in advance.

Wu Linran, this batch of pilots who were selected. In fact, it is carrying out relevant training work. At that time, in addition to teaching other units the experience of flying new bombers, Wu Linqi and his family had to fly the planes themselves almost every day, and every few times, the bombers had to take off with a full load. And complete some difficult bomb throwing training. At that time, no one had any experience in dropping atomic bombs, and even scientific researchers did not know how powerful the atomic bomb was and how far away it could threaten aircraft, so they did not know how to drop it. Under such circumstances, the pilots of the test unit could only master as many bomb-throwing techniques as possible, as long as the power of the atomic bomb was determined. They can quickly find the most suitable way to drop bombs, and then complete the final stage of training in the least amount of time.

This unit was also the thing that Luo Yunchong was most concerned about after becoming the commander of the Army Airlines, at that time Luo Yunchong had actually participated in the "Pangu Plan" and the "Shengong Plan", and was clearly told that the Army Airlines should make preparations for carrying out special bombing operations as soon as possible. Perhaps, Luo Yunchong didn't know what an atomic bomb was at that time. But he also knew the meaning of the order, which had been sent directly from the secret service of the Prime Minister's Office.

No one could have imagined that the first combat operation in which the secret bomber unit of the site where it was supposed to carry out the atomic bomb drop mission was not to drop the atomic bomb. Instead, they dropped a special bomb specifically designed to deal with the dam. It is precisely because of this that many people think that Luo Yunchong did not know about the "Pangu Plan" at that time, otherwise he would not have allowed this extremely important unit to carry out combat missions prematurely, and also lost some pilots as a result. However, at that time, Luo Yunchong asked the troops to carry out combat missions, perhaps in the hope of improving the level of the troops through actual combat operations. Moreover, when Luo Yunchong didn't know what an atomic bomb was, how did he know how to throw it?

This bomber unit had only 12 "Peng" bombers in total, and there were only about 100 "Peng" bombers on the land at that time. And most of them were used for training missions, and they had never participated in combat operations. The 12 bombers all flew directly from Oahu with bombs, which also proved the excellent endurance and precise navigation ability of the "Peng" bombers.

In addition to the 12 bombers, there were 24 large transport planes that arrived at the same time to transport the ground crews of the unit, 8 transport aircraft to carry spare parts and maintenance equipment for the carrier-carrying bombers, and 12 transport aircraft >= with special bombs. After the ammunition arrived, it was actively sent to the ammunition depot closely guarded by the guard troops arranged by Gu Xunlei, and the personnel who arrived with them were also arranged in the barracks of the base. There are special troops responsible for the safety of these personnel and equipment, and Gu Xunlei has also specially arranged for several headquarters cooks to be responsible for the food of these people.

Arguably. Wu Linchan and the others were treated quite well at that time, the twelve captains like him all lived in a dormitory for two people, the co-pilot lived in a dormitory for four people, and the other crew members all lived in a dormitory for six people, each meal had a different meal, and they could also drink beer and some drinks with a very special taste. These are even better than they are at home.

Of course, what made Wu Linchan feel a little uncomfortable was that they couldn't go out at will at that time, and even leaving the camp where they lived had to be controlled, and the most unbearable thing for Wu Linchan was that they only had two flight missions a day, and each time the guard unit of the expeditionary force was responsible for sending them to the hangar, and there would be no stop on the way, and the trucks transporting them were covered with thick canvases, which made people outside unable to see the passengers inside, and at the same time, Wu Linchan and they couldn't see the situation outside. Many people thought that this was simply putting them under house arrest. In addition, Luo Yunchong did not appear on the 16th, which further strengthened their doubts.

Every day, rational flights are also westward, that is, all the troops are concentrated in the Pacific Ocean for training, and they are all regular training. Every time they train, they will be accompanied by at least one squadron of fighters nearby, nominally as escorts, but in Wu Linyan's eyes, this is actually monitoring them. This made Wu Linfang and them feel a little uncomfortable. In particular, the two training sessions held in the afternoon and night of the 16th made Wu Linyan very unhappy. After returning to the camp, he did not calm down, could it be that he sent them all the way to the Americas to put them under house arrest? Sea Soul Volume 23 Springboard for Advance Section 59 Secret Forces