The smoke over Spain also made the whole of Europe uneasy, stemming from the direct armed intervention of Germany and Italy in Spain, especially Germany, which was the first time that the German army directly used troops outside the country after World War I, which was equivalent to Hitler completely tearing up the Versailles Treaty, making Britain and France nervous.

However, what disturbed the whole of Europe was not the German and Italian armies sweeping through Spain, but the strategic air forces from the Tang Empire.

It was an air force composed of 24 strategic bombers shaped like giant white cranes, piloted by pilots of the Tang Imperial Army Air Corps, to provide direct air fire support to the German and Italian armies attacking on the ground.

These twenty-four giant white cranes are also the largest, fastest, largest load, farthest range, most lethal, and most beautiful aircraft in the whole Shijie so far, representing the top aviation jishu of the Tang Empire, and it is also the existence that the air forces of all Shijie countries look up to, and for a time completely covered up the limelight of the invasion of Spain by the German and Italian armies, and became the front page headlines of the media of all Shijie countries, and everyone's eyes were ready to attract.

These 24 strategic bombers in the shape of the Great White Crane are the latest strategic bombers successfully developed by the Tang Empire and installed for the use of the Datang Army Aviation, with the internal number TH-9C long-range strategic bomber, nicknamed the Great White Crane, and Western countries call it the White Swan, codenamed F8.

The reason why the Great White Crane strategic bombers of the Tang Army attracted the attention and shock of the whole of Europe so quickly was mainly because the Tang Empire had no available airfields in Spain, and all the airports in Spain could not take off and land the Great White Crane strategic bombers of the Tang Army. The invasion of Spain by the German and Italian armies also entered Spain through the ports provided by Portugal.

The Don Army decided to send strategic bombers to Spain to participate in the war, firstly, to put this latest weapon on the battlefield. After all, France is an ally of Japan, although France has not yet intervened in the Tang-Japanese War, but the Tang Empire has a plan to deal with it.

With the help of Germany and Italy, the Portuguese government agreed to lease an abandoned airfield in the southern Portuguese seaport city of Saibatur by the Tang Imperial Air Force and allowed the Tang Army to convert it into a military airfield. The surrounding area of ten miles was turned into land for the Tang Army's base, and the Tang Army was allowed to send no more than 500 troops to be stationed as armed Liliang, and pilots and ground crews were not restricted. In return. The Tang Empire had to pay a lease fee of US$1 million to the Portuguese government every year, and the Datang Bank provided low-interest loans totaling 100 million Tang dollars to the Portuguese government.

The Tang Empire didn't care about this money, and being able to get a military base in Portugal was equivalent to gaining a foothold in Europe. It's time to exert influence on Europe. This is very good for the Tang Empire.

Of course, Portugal was able to agree to provide a military base to the Tang Empire, on the one hand, because Portugal was very concerned about the Spanish Civil War and desperately hoped that the Spanish rebel army and the German-Italian coalition army could defeat the Spanish government army as soon as possible, overthrow the Spanish republican government, and restore the dominance of Catholicism over Spain. On the other hand, Portugal also saw the appeasement of Britain and France towards Germany and Italy, and Britain continued to pursue a policy of isolation. Germany, Italy and Tang were allied, and France was alone in Europe. Japan was pressed and beaten by the Tang Dynasty in Asia, and it was not helpful at all, and for the sake of its own safety, it would allow the German and Italian troops to transit through Portugal and allow the Tang Army to set up military bases in Portugal.

The Tang Army acquired Saibatur as an air base, and in just three months, built two airfield runways that were large enough for the TH-9 White Crane strategic bombers to take off and land.

When the 24 strategic bombers of the Tang Army took off from the Yanjing Air Base in the Tang Dynasty, crossed the Pacific Ocean, flew over Africa and landed directly at the Portuguese Saibatur Air Base, the entire European aviation community was shocked, this was the first time they had seen such a huge plane that could fly directly over a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers, and the shape of the plane that resembled the Great White Crane attracted the attention of countless people. It was simply the most beautiful plane on Shijie, but the Europeans directly called the big white crane in the mouth of the Tang Army a white swan, and the subsequent European media did not correct it, and as a result, the big white crane of the Tang Army became a white swan in the eyes of Europeans.

Of course, the combat distance of the Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bomber was actually only 6,000 kilometers, and the reason why it was able to fly directly from the Pacific Ocean to Africa to Portugal was because it did not carry aerial bombs but was fully loaded with fuel and in the form of transport aircraft. The aerial bombs and various aviation fuels required by the Tang Army, as well as the ground maintenance facilities and tools, were transported to Saibatur by sea.

Even so, it still gave a great shock to the European powers, especially France, which was suddenly extremely nervous, because it meant that the Tang Imperial Air Force could take off directly from the mainland to bomb France, plus the air base in Portugal was obtained, and the whole of France was within the combat radius of the bombers of the Tang Army, forming a huge deterrent to France.

However, the French did not care too much at first, but scoffed at it, saying that the big white crane of the Tang Army was nothing more than a worthless vase, and the French were not afraid, and the French Air Force could shoot it down directly.

However, as the twenty-four Great White Crane strategic bombers began to cooperate with the German and Italian armies, the huge power of war broke out, and all countries were immediately stunned.

Each Great White Crane weighs 35 tons empty, has a maximum take-off weight of 60 tons, and carries 12 tons of bombs that are feared by all the great powers, and can carry 12 1,000-kilogram aerial bombs, or 24 500-kilogram aerial bombs, or 50 200-kilogram aerial bombs. The type of aerial bomb can be ordinary aerial bomb, white phosphorus bomb, incendiary bomb, etc., and it can carry future nuclear bombs, which is the design in place in the next step of Zhang Meng's requirements from the beginning, saving the trouble of future modification.

The 24 Great White Crane strategic bombers made the Spaniards extremely frightened every time they went out to bomb, and the aerial bombs that were sprinkled all over the sky fell on the positions of the Spanish government troops like raindrops, and in an instant there was a sea of fire on the positions of more than 10 kilometers, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the aerial bombs of the Tang Army were full of power, and they were all newly developed high-explosive, high-destructive, and high-lethal aerial bombs, and often a reorganized regiment of the Spanish army on the position was completely wiped out in one such bombing, and the casualty rate was as high as 90 percent.

This is still the lethality of ordinary aerial bombs, the Tang army used Spain as a weapon, in addition to not daring to use poison gas bombs, white phosphorus bombs were used for the first time in Spanish urban warfare.

In the attack and defense of a small city 20 kilometers from Madrid, the German and Italian troops were stubbornly resisted by the Free Army formed by the Comintern, and the Soviets even sent 100 tanks to participate in the battle, with the Soviets as the pilots, and repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the German and Italian troops.

In the fierce battle, Germany and Italy originally sent a new bomber Jihua to bomb, but it was intercepted by Soviet planes and suffered heavy losses.

The Tang army immediately sent twenty-four big white cranes to carry white phosphorus to attack, and they were also intercepted by Soviet planes on the way, and the result was that the Soviets couldn't catch up with the Tang army's big white crane bombers at a speed of 400 kilometers per hour, and when the Tang army's big white cranes climbed to an altitude of 12,000 meters, the Soviet pilots were dumbfounded and could only look up obediently, but there was no way at all, because their planes could not fly such a high distance.

As a result, the speed and flight altitude of the Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bomber attracted the attention of European countries, and finally some news was revealed from the mouth of the Germans, the cruising speed of the Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bomber reached 450 kilometers per hour, and the fastest speed may exceed 650 kilometers per hour, because it was powered by six turboprop engines, and the horsepower of each turboprop engine was about 1,600, which was enough for a behemoth of nearly 60 tons to fly quickly and compete with fighters.

At the same time, it can climb to an altitude of nearly 12,000 meters, which is impossible for pilots in other countries, because of the high lack of oxygen, low air pressure, and the pilot's body is not adapted to the coma. But this is not a problem for the Tang pilots, because the Tang pilots are all wearing oxygen pressure masks to do this.

And when the Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bombers dropped the white phosphorus bombs one by one, the whole city fell into a sea of fire, the fragments of the white phosphorus bombs fell into the water and burned, and the steel was directly corroded and burned, not to mention people. It was a terrible bombardment that shocked the international community, killing 20,000 Comintern freedom fighters, burning cities, and leaving hundreds of thousands injured and homeless in various degrees.

The Don Army's Great White Crane strategic bomber became the Grim Reaper in the eyes of Europeans, a great disaster for the Comintern fighters fighting in Spain, and then the German and Italian armies and the Spanish rebels successfully occupied the small city and broke through the Zuihou barrier in Madrid.

The Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bomber became famous in one fell swoop on the Spanish battlefield, and at the same time, the Tang Empire was almost swallowed up by international public opinion, and was hated by the Comintern, which brought a lot of trouble to the Tang Empire in the future, and finally pointed to Zhang Meng, the leader of the Tang Empire, calling him a war madman and labeling him a fascist.

"What? Am I a fascist? ”

Zhang Meng, who was undergoing a regular physical examination, couldn't cry or laugh when he learned the news.

"You're not just a fascist, you're a fascist leader." Wang Ke'er sat in Zhang Meng's arms and giggled. (To be continued......)