The sun is blazing.

Under the blue sky, the newly built wide runway of Shanghai Longhua Airport is full of large military planes.

The plane was very large, the size of two Boeing 247D airliners, and it was pitch black, reflecting a metallic luster in the sun, and it was extremely domineering. Machine gun turrets are installed under the nose and above the middle of the back, and M2 heavy machine guns of 12.7 mm caliber are installed on both sides of the tail of the aircraft.

The nose and tail are painted with a blue eagle logo, which is an aircraft of the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire, a medium-range heavy bomber to be exact. It has four aero engines on its wings and can carry a 3-ton aerial bomb and fly 2800 kilometers at a cruising speed of 500 kilometers per hour.

This is the latest TH-3 A Thunder Dragon medium-range heavy bomber installed by the Datang Imperial Air Force, which was originally developed in accordance with Zhang Meng's special instructions to develop a long-range heavy strategic bomber, but because the strength of jishu is not enough, it is necessary to carry more than 5 tons of bombs, but also to have an ultra-long range of 15,000 kilometers, and the designers and engineers of Datang Airlines racked their brains and could not complete it.

Although Zhang Meng repeatedly gave them epoch-making guidance, such as two if the thrust of one engine is not enough, four if two is not enough, and increase the cabin capacity and increase the fuel load if the range is not enough. In the face of war, in order to win the war, Zhang Meng did not care about the problem of funding, and only asked everyone to play to the limit and design and manufacture the most powerful bomber.

However, the designers and engineers of Datang Airlines were still too conservative, and the development of long-range heavy strategic bombers was very slow. Because Zhang Meng urgently needed to take the initiative in the war against Japan. Jihua had long been conceived in Zhang Meng's mind to bomb the Japanese mainland, so he urged it very tightly, resulting in the trial production of several large strategic bomber programs developed by Datang Airlines without strict design and inspection. As a result, the project that was originally developed together with the Raptor and Hellfire turned out to be tested for mass production and service, but the long-range bomber project repeatedly had problems.

Zhang Meng knew that he was pursuing speed too much, but he couldn't reach it if he wanted speed, so he had to lower the standard and asked Datang Airlines to develop a medium-range heavy bomber first.

For medium-range bombers with a range of up to three or four thousand kilometers. Datang Airlines' designers will easily come up with a plan. On the basis of the Great Bustard transport aircraft, they quickly came up with a prototype by adding a weapon system and an armor protection system. And it has been rigorously tested by the super wind tunnel.

This is the Thunder medium-range heavy bomber. The first bomber independently developed and produced by the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire, due to a lot of detours and delays in the past, only two squadrons of 36 Thunder bombers were installed and serviced at this time.

On the tower of Longhua Airport, through the glass window. Several officials of the state government quietly looked at the group of Tang Army bombers preparing to take off on the runway. The face is expressionless.

"Such a behemoth is really a miracle, I didn't expect that a small island country in the Tang Dynasty could be manufactured, but I can't even produce a small plane by myself, it's really infuriating."

"This Zhang Meng does have some means, and he really underestimated him before."

"Didn't you say that this Zhang Meng is not the Zhang Meng of our Huangpu? I don't know where it is sacred, but it is said that the origin is very mysterious. ”

"Isn't it a communist?"

One of them, a middle-aged man wearing a tunic and a special badge on his right chest, suddenly had an association.

A man dressed as a soldier beside him suddenly snorted coldly and said, "Don't think about everything to the Communist Party. Co-author: As long as it is a talent, it is the Communist Party? Isn't that our party-state...... Hum...... Outrageous. ”

"I'm sorry Sir Hu, it's a humble job!" The man hurriedly wiped his sweat and did not dare to say anything.

The soldier named Chief Hu suddenly asked: "The bomber group of the Tang Army looks like they are all fully loaded with ammunition. I don't know what they want to do? ”

An adjutant replied: "I heard that they plan to attack Taiwan, and the commission has specially approved the loan of Longhua Airport to the Tang Army." ”

Commander Hu snorted coldly and said, "There is only a group of bombers, but there are no fighter escorts, the Tang Army is very arrogant, aren't you afraid that someone will send a message to Little Japan in advance?" ”

Another officer said suddenly: "I heard that this bomber of the Tang Army can fly more than 10,000 meters in the airspace, obviously the little devil's fighter plane can't fly that high, so the Tang Army has nothing to fear." ”

Everyone suddenly realized, and they all showed envy, and Chief Hu's eyes lit up, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Look at them taking off!"

With a loud shout, everyone looked in the direction of the airport runway, only to see that the Tang Army's Thunder Dragon bomber group had completed all preparations, lined up along the reserve runway under the guidance of the tower, and began to take off at the same time at 11 o'clock and 8 o'clock.

The four propeller engines spun at high speed and roared, and the Thunder bomber, which was fully loaded with a load of ten tons, began to taxi and take off.

"Such a big plane can fly, it seems to weigh at least ten tons!"

"I can't imagine that foreign aviation jishu is changing with each passing day, and we can't even shoot the horse!"

Watching the Thunder Dragon bombers fly into the sky, everyone was envious and jealous, wishing that this air force was theirs.

"Isn't the chairman guarding against them? If they return to the mainland to fight for hegemony, I am afraid that the whole of China will be theirs, and we will have no power to fight back. ”

Concerns were raised.

"That's a politician's business, we don't have to worry about it! At present, we are in fornication with the Japanese, but the Tang Army continues to attack the Japanese, and on this basis alone, even if people come to the mainland to fight for hegemony, we are not qualified to make irresponsible remarks. ”

Chief Hu snorted coldly, brushed his sleeves and left, and everyone suddenly stared at each other, shook their heads helplessly, and left with them.

After the 36 Thunder Dragon bombers of the Tang Army took off, they flew straight to the southeast, which seemed to be in the direction of Taiwan.

In a private house near Longhua Airport, a telegram sounded, and an encrypted message was quickly sent to the Japanese military headquarters.

"The bomber group of the Tang Army is preparing an air attack on Taiwan, and the specific location is unknown."

After receiving this telegram, Kato immediately ordered the Japanese Army Air Force in Taiwan to prepare for battle, and hundreds of Japanese fighters were ready to take to the air to intercept the Tang Army's bomber group.

However, did the Tang Army really go to bomb Taiwan? Don't they know that there are a large number of pro-Japanese capitulationists and traitors in the national government?

Obviously, Tang Jun knew, at least Zhang Meng couldn't have known this.

After flying some distance to the southeast, the Tang Army's Thunder Dragon bomber group immediately changed course and flew directly to the northeast, and their real target was not Taiwan, but Tokyo, the capital of Japan.

Zhang Mengyuan Jihua used three years to develop a heavy bomber with a range of 15,000 kilometers, but it backfired and failed to achieve his goal, he was preparing to bomb Tokyo during the Tang-Japanese War from the beginning, but he could not take off directly from the Tang Empire, and could only find a way to use the Chinese mainland airfield close to Japan.

Shanghai is about 1,800 kilometers away from Tokyo, and the Tang Army's Thunder Dragon bombers have a range of about 4,000 kilometers, which is enough to complete the purpose of bombing Tokyo. (To be continued......)