readx; Seeing that he agreed with his opinion, Cai Yu smiled proudly at Gao Fei, and his two mustaches turned upward: "Gao Fei, how is it?" Ginger is still old and spicy, right? ”

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Liu Xirui thought of another question: "If you want to sink an aircraft carrier, a 100-kilogram bomb is useless, at least more than 500 kilograms, and 800 kilograms is the best, but there seems to be no such bomb in the warehouse at the airport, and you need to buy a batch from the United States first." ”

Huang Yuan hurriedly took the initiative to ask: "You don't need to go to the distant United States to buy it, our arsenal has the ability to make such a big bomb!" ”

Goofy hurriedly asked, "How long will it take?" ”

Huang Yuan replied: "Within ten days, we can definitely build four 800-kilogram bombs!" ”

Gao Fei said uneasily: "Time is acceptable, but the quality must be reliable!" Our pilots are risking their lives, and there must be no mistakes in their weapons! ”

In order to reassure Gao Fei, Cai Yuyan comforted: "Our research institute will dispatch two bomb experts to assist in production and testing to ensure smooth production!" ”

Gao Fei was very satisfied with Huang Yuan and Cai Yu's courageous attitude, and praised: "Very good! With your attitude, I am relieved! After going back, immediately organize personnel to produce and strive to produce qualified bombshells as soon as possible! ”

After discussing the specific details, Liu Xirui, Cai Yuyan and Huang Yuan said goodbye and left, leaving only Cai Yuyan and Gao Fei in the conference room.

Cai Yu looked at Gao Fei and asked, "Gao Fei, can you tell me where you plan to get money to buy a plane now?" ”

Gao Fei replied, "I want to buy it with a fake banknote?" Then he looked at Cai Yu and asked, "What do you think?" ”

The matter of printing counterfeit banknotes has always been highly confidential in Fujian, and except for the staff members directly involved in it, only Gao Fei, Cai Yuyan and Rothschild knew about it, so Gao Fei did not mention it in the meeting just now.

Cai Yu shook his head and said, "It's too risky!" With such a huge amount of money, it is easy to expose flaws, and once it is discovered by Lao Mei, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable! ”

Gao Fei explained: "Of course I won't buy it directly with counterfeit banknotes, in that case, wouldn't it be tantamount to openly expressing my relationship with counterfeit banknotes!" ”

Cai Yuyan took his words and said, "You are going to exchange the yuan for US dollars through JPMorgan Bank, and then buy it with US dollars, right?" ”

Seeing Gao Fei nodding in acknowledgement, Cai Yu said, "It's still inappropriate!" With the strength of Morgan Bank, it is difficult to digest so many yuan in a short period of time, and it is easy to expose the target, in case it is targeted by the intelligence agency, Leonardo and Yuzhi Ichiro will be in danger! ”

Goofy smiled and said, "Where will they be in any danger?" The bank is in the public concession, so I don't dare to mess around, and besides, we also have people secretly protecting it! ”

Cai Yu said regretfully: "We have spent a lot of effort to establish this bank, and we have also made a lot of money, if it is really to be discovered by the army, it is really a pity!" ”

Gao Fei said: "I won't take this step until it is a moment!" Now, if we can't break the blockade of the Navy as soon as possible, our situation will be even more difficult, and the bank's affairs will be insignificant in comparison! ”

Cai Yu let out a long sigh and said, "That's the only way!" ”

After deciding on the plan to attack the aircraft carriers of the Chinese army, the Fujian side quickly took action: the arsenal organized a large number of technicians to produce bombshells day and night under the guidance of two experts; The four bombers transferred from Longyan Airport to Fuzhou Airport in the middle of the night, and then entered a completely enclosed hangar to hide; In the following air battles, the two fighter squadrons in Fuzhou began to gradually expand their combat radius and gradually broke away from the protection range of ground anti-aircraft artillery fire, in order to confuse the enemy.

The cunning commander of the fleet did not take action immediately, but ordered the troops to move the battlefield to the sea every day, planning to unknowingly lead the Fujian Air Force to the middle of the strait, and then dispatch all the fighters to encircle and annihilate it!

The commander of the army, who thought he had a plan, did not expect that he was falling into the trap of the other party step by step.

Eight days later, the arsenal completed the production of bombs, and after repeated experiments, the six 800-kilogram bombs that had passed the test were delivered to Fuzhou, and the bombers quickly hung up the bombs, filled the fuel tanks, and quietly waited for another air raid by the naval aviation!

The stars are still shining, the vast sea, in the east where the sea and the sky meet, the sea and the morning have embraced in the first rays of blue dawn, the sky suddenly becomes distant and deep, and a new day begins!

Seven bombers painted with blood-red plaster emblems, escorted by 15 fighters, galloped from the depths of the sea northeast of Fuzhou, and before approaching the coastline, they quickly lowered their altitude, roared down from the middle of the clouds at a height of 4,000 meters, and launched another round of air raids amid the piercing sound of air defense sirens.

The Fujian Air Force urgently dispatched 22 fighters to fiercely counterattack the Japanese army with the support of ground anti-aircraft fire, and a fierce air battle immediately began over Fuzhou. To the surprise of the Japanese army, the Fujian air force went against the norm and pursued the enemy in the relentless pursuit, and while rigidly entangled the opponent's fighters, it divided five fighters to pursue the bombers, and soon crossed the coastal islands and fought fiercely with the Japanese army over the strait.

At the same time, the bomber formation personally led by Air Force Captain Liu Xirui took off urgently from Fuzhou Airport, and two 800-kilogram bombs were hung under the bellies of the two planes in front, and only one was hung in the two planes behind, but more than a dozen 50-kilogram small bombs were also carried in the middle of the belly.

The only four bombers of the Fujian Air Force are Martin B10 bombers purchased from the United States a few years ago, using all-metal, open-arm medium monoplane, streamlined semi-monocoque fuselage, equipped with two White Whirlwind engines, equipped with Spitling-style fairing, retractable landing gear, and open three-seat cockpit, the middle wing and fuselage structure are integrated, except for the trailing edge of the wing and the longitudinal surface of each flight plane using cloth, the back and belly of the fuselage using corrugated metal cover, the rest are smooth tension metal covering, hand-controlled mechanical actuated landing gear, fixed tail wheel; It has a maximum speed of 380 kilometers per hour, a cruising speed of 340 kilometers, a range of 2,200 kilometers, a bomb load of 2,000 kilograms, and is equipped with a Norton-type bombing scope and four 7 mm caliber active machine guns. Although there is a big gap between the surname of the aircraft and the Type 96 bombers equipped by the naval air force, its bomb load is more than twice that of the other side, which just meets the requirements of the Fujian Air Force.

Since the intelligence department had already determined the specific location of the aircraft carrier formation through various channels in advance, Liu Xirui's bomber formation first flew several dozen kilometers northwest after taking off, then turned around and advanced at full speed in the northeast direction, flying in a herringbone formation at 8:45 a.m. to 150 nautical miles north of Taiwan Island and 200 nautical miles east of the southern coast of Zhejiang. Through the faint clouds in the sky, Captain Liu Xirui, who was at the forefront of the procession, first spotted the aircraft carrier formation -- two destroyers and one battleship escorting the aircraft carrier "Akagi" -- cruising leisurely on the calm sea, without realizing that he was already hovering on the verge of extinction

The "Akagi" aircraft carrier was originally one of the "Amagi" class battle cruisers in the Akamoto Navy, and the construction of the "Amagi" class began at the Kure Port Naval Shipyard in December 1920, but in 1921, under the influence of the "Washington Convention", the "Amagi" class under construction faced the fate of suspension and disintegration. After some consideration, the Navy decided to convert two Amagi-class battlecruisers into aircraft carriers. Since Ben had only experience in building the small aircraft carrier "Fengxiang" at that time, he took great pains to design this aircraft carrier, which was nearly three times larger than the "Fengxiang."

The Akagi was restarted in November 1923, launched in April 1925, and completed in March 1927. Its three decks are designed to be quite special: the top deck is the landing deck for aircraft; On the second deck, there is a bridge and two twin 203 mm guns, so it is called the "turret deck"; The third level is the aircraft take-off deck, which is meters long and can carry 60 fighters, including 16 fighters, 16 reconnaissance planes and 28 attack planes.

In 1938, the "Akagi" underwent a major refit, dismantling the original turret deck and take-off deck, extending the top deck into a flight deck, and increasing the number of carrier-based aircraft to 91: 16 Type 96 fighters, 51 Type 96 attack aircraft, 24 Type 96 dive bombers, and the number of elevators transporting aircraft was also increased from 2 to 3, and an additional island was added to the port side of the flight deck, and the displacement was increased to 41,300 tons.

After receiving the news that the returning bombers had brought back, the fleet commander had already sent a second batch of fighters to encircle and annihilate the Fujian Air Force; when Liu Xirui's bomber formation flew over the fleet, more than a dozen bombers and more than 20 fighters were neatly lined up on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier.

Seeing that the Yue army was completely defenseless, Liu Xirui couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he immediately ordered in a slightly hoarse voice: "Find the target, lower the altitude, and prepare to attack!" ”

The bomber formation quickly drilled out of the clouds and dived down to the fleet, 7,000 meters, 6,000 meters, 5,000 meters, as the altitude continued to decrease, the volume of the target expanded sharply in the pilot's field of vision, and the figure on the deck, which was originally as small as an ant, gradually became clear

When it was lowered to an altitude of 2,000 meters, a terrible air defense alarm suddenly sounded above the aircraft carrier, followed by the air defense alarm on the battleship and the destroyer, and the busy soldiers on the deck suddenly panicked and scurried around; Some of the pilots who were already sitting in the cockpit hurriedly pushed open the hatch and prepared to escape, and a few brave ones simply started the plane directly and took off to fight; Although a few anti-aircraft guns also began to fire into the air, all the sparse shells fell behind the bombers, and the fleet ushered in the first wave of attacks.

Liu Xirui piloted a bomber to sweep over the flight deck of the "Chicheng" from a height of 50 meters, and two 800-kilogram bombshells were dropped one after another, and dozens of soldiers of the Yue Army, who had not had time to escape, watched the huge bombs fall from the sky, their black and swarthy bodies constantly enlarged in their pupils, and their faces involuntarily showed expressions of despair, and they shouted hoarsely.

A thunderous explosion suddenly sounded, and the deck was suddenly shrouded in gunpowder smoke and firelight, and the dozens of soldiers who were originally standing here suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the three planes flew high with the soaring flames, turning into tens of millions of fragments in the air, scattering with the sparkling firelight. Immediately after that, the bombs and fuel tanks carried by the plane were detonated one after another, and the wide deck burned even more fiercely, and before the enemy could recover his senses, a second bomber rushed over and threw down the two bombshells in one go, and the "Akagi" aircraft carrier was immediately overwhelmed by fire and smoke, and only the towering chimney was still exposed. The planes parked on the deck were instantly drowned in a sea of fire, some were directly hit by bombs, while others were overturned by the air waves of the explosion and crashed into the sea; although a few enemy planes tried in vain to take off urgently, they collided with the wreckage of the planes because they were obscured by the smoke of gunpowder, and then they caught fire and exploded. In the extreme confusion, some of the soldiers on the deck climbed into the lifeboats to escape for their lives, while others jumped into the sea in a panic.

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns on the battleships and destroyers began to fire wildly, and a dense rain of shells and machine-gun bullets flew over the aircraft carrier in an attempt to prevent the bombers from attacking again.

The Chinese pilot, who had long put life and death on the line, drove the bomber and dived down without hesitation, turning a deaf ear to the explosion of the fuselage being hit by the continuous fire of the anti-aircraft machine gun

Although the two bombers in the rear succeeded in dropping bombs, they were surrounded by the anti-aircraft fire network of the Japanese army, and the plane at the back was hit by three shells in a row and fell straight into the sea in the billowing smoke, and the engine of the third fighter plane was hit by machine-gun bullets, dragging the billowing smoke over the deck.

Although he had dropped all the bombs, Liu Xirui did not intend to stop there, and after turning around, he drove the plane at a low altitude less than 50 meters above sea level, and rushed straight towards the aircraft carrier, followed by two other planes, one left and one right.

The bomber flying at high speed suddenly pulled up less than 100 meters away from the rear deck, and a dense number of bullets were sprayed from under the nose and belly of the plane, and they slashed at the soldiers who were hiding in all directions, while the plane at the back quickly dropped all the small bombs it was carrying, and a huge fire was ignited on the rear deck.

At this time, the anti-aircraft artillery of the Japanese army weaved a barrage in front of the bomber, Liu Xirui hurriedly rolled the fuselage to the side, and the plane behind rushed over with a beautiful roll. However, the bomber, whose engine was already badly damaged, was not so lucky, and in the process of flipping suddenly lost power and fell straight like a stone.

Liu Xirui was furious with the sacrifice of his comrades-in-arms, and immediately turned the nose of the plane and swooped down on the battleship with the most intensive artillery fire, and used the dense rain of bullets to frantically strafe the artillery in the running position, and after crossing the deck, he dived and flew at a low altitude again, getting rid of the pursuit of anti-aircraft fire.

In this way, the two pilots relied on their skillful flying skills to hover the battleship back and forth, until they had all the bullets and did not return home

Less than 10 minutes after the bombers left, the 38 fighters of the victorious fighter formation were in a hurry preparing to return to the aircraft carrier.

The exhausted fighters had to choose the deck of the battleship to land, and in the end, only the pilots of the three planes relied on excellent flying skills and a little luck to achieve their goals, and the rest of the pilots had to abandon the planes and parachute to escape.

In this air battle, the Fujian Air Force inflicted heavy damage on the "Chicheng" aircraft carrier at the cost of two bombers and 12 fighters, forcing it to return to its original aircraft for repairs for three months, and the dozens of fighters and bombers on board the aircraft were also completely lost, thus forcing it to stop its air raids on Fujian.

In terms of the establishment of the army, there is a very significant difference between the army and the Western powers such as Germany, the United States, and Britain at the same time: the air force without reading ability.

The Navy has its own naval aviation, and there are a small number of marines, which can undertake a considerable scale of reading battles, for example, the "incident" is a battle provoked by the Navy alone, but in the end, because of the rapid expansion of the scale of the war, the Marine Corps can no longer support it alone, so it is transferred to the Army to take over; The army also has its own aviation, which far exceeds the Chinese Air Force in size and combat effectiveness, so it can basically meet the air support of small and medium-sized campaigns

The reason for this peculiar phenomenon is, on the one hand, the reflection of the two ideas of "southward advance" and "northward advance" in the country, and on the other hand, the emperor's deliberate attempt to achieve balance in the military and facilitate his own control. This strange structure not only limits the strategic role of the Air Force, but also creates a ridiculous situation in which the Army and Navy are seriously opposed and despise each other.

After receiving the news that the Navy's aircraft carrier "Akagi" had been severely damaged by the Fujian Air Force, the senior officers of the War Department of the Ministry of War gloated and ridiculed the navy's incompetence and actively planned for the army aviation to launch an unprecedentedly fierce air attack against China in order to achieve the goal of humiliating the navy.

I returned in front of the Chinese Air Force, and in the end I actually had to rely on the army to take revenge, how can I raise my head in front of the army in the future!

(To be continued)