Chapter Ninety-Three: The Air Force

"I received a letter from my comrades-in-arms yesterday, and I have been waiting for this letter for a long time, they are in the limelight on the battlefield, and they will definitely show off in front of me." The letter was written by Le Fei to He Guangsha, and since he learned to write, the correspondence between Le Fei and He Guangsha has become frequent. The high intensity of the war gives Le Fei the capital to show off, and showing off the experience of war in front of good friends is undoubtedly a special way to deepen friendship.

"I don't think it matters, you see, we will send troops to Fujian immediately after the war, and now we will be able to recover the whole province of Fujian immediately. But these are only the two southern provinces, and there are still too many places in the country waiting for us to recover, will our army stop there? The army is still recruiting on a large scale, especially in the Fujian region, where it is said that it is poorer and wants more people to join the army. The existing size of the army is no longer able to confront the military force in the south, so why expand the size of the army? Obviously, the Prime Minister has a big heart, and as he said on the radio, such a leader is worth following! "Bai Zhai's brain is very alive and analyzed very thoroughly.

"I don't think you're suitable for a front-line combat unit, and you should be a staff officer. By the way, according to the instructor and Le Fei, armored vehicles played an important role in assaulting enemy positions, and I think the significance of armored vehicles is not only this, it takes into account speed, protection, and firepower, and it is simply a heavy cavalry in modern warfare! A major in armored forces had just opened in the academy, and I wanted to turn around, and the instructor agreed. He Guangsha said.

"My ambition is not in the command room, let me tell you, I want to change colleges, not majors." Bai Zhai's words are amazing!

"Transfer colleges? Naval Academy? Don't tell me you want to be a naval officer. ”

"No, you haven't heard of it, in fact, I heard it by accident while chatting with the instructor, and it hasn't been made public yet. It's SITC Air Force Academy, airplane! Air force! Fly to the sky! ”

In fact, before the establishment of SITC Air Force Academy, Huizhou Aircraft Factory had successfully manufactured the first aircraft that could be used in actual combat. In November 1901, the F01 fighter modeled after the German Fokker D.VII fighter during the First World War came out in Huizhou, which was the best fighter that could be imitated according to the requirements of Luliang leading the world for one or two generations. Lu Liang also wants to go directly to the Mustang and Stuka, but at this stage, the military factories simply do not have the technical ability to produce those weapons that are decades ahead of the world, and even the F01 fighter has been developed for more than eight months. Modern industry is not produced with drawings and machinery, but also requires a large number of designers, engineers, mature skilled workers, qualified steel, wood, and so on.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Fokker D.VII fighter was the most formidable fighter of the First World War, and it was already the end of the First World War when it came out in the previous life, and it was born at an inopportune time. I believe that it will exert terrible combat effectiveness in this time and space, you know, until 1903, the Wright brothers will conduct the first flight test, before the First World War, F01 is the absolute king! The sky will be controlled by the Zhenguo Army Air Force!

This aircraft was named the Falcon, and future fighters will be named after the Raptor Bird. The falcon is slow to spawn at first, and is largely constrained by materials and technicians. However, the Air Force is in no hurry to purchase such fighters now, because there is an even more exciting flying machine that is being delivered to the younger Air Force.

On May 1, 1902, the 1st Bombardment Wing of the Zhenguo Army Air Force received ten airships from the Huizhou Airship Factory. This era is precisely the era of airships, the world is feverish about airships, and in Germany in 1900, the "Zeppelin" airship has been introduced. And airplanes? How many people know about this kind of thing?

The hull of the "Dapeng" class airship is borrowed from the "Hindenburg" airship produced in the thirties of the twentieth century, but it is filled with helium. Helium was scarce, expensive, and complicated to make, so Lü Liang had to squeeze out a portion of its capacity from the steel base to dedicate it to the production of helium. The "Dapeng" class airship is divided into transport type and bombing type, which has been optimized to carry 200 people and carry light weapons and equipment at one time; The bombing version can carry 10 tons of bombs at a time. In the plans of the Air Force, this prehistoric monster-class airship was mainly used for bombing, and was not intended to produce a transport airship.

The threat from the Japanese direction disappeared for the time being, and Britain also focused its efforts on countering Germany. For Lü Liang, the best period of development had arrived, and he did not intend to continue to bury himself in farming, and the favorable international environment made Lü Liang realize that the time had come to overthrow the Manchu Qing. In addition to the external environment, internal reasons are also very important, Guangdong's large-scale infrastructure construction is nearing completion, in addition to a few railways, water conservancy, roads, urban construction and other basic construction. If you want to digest the production capacity of thousands of factories all over Guangdong, you must look for a market outside, after all, the pure investment mode of economic development is not healthy, and the market still depends on consumption.

At the beginning of June 1902, the whole province of Fujian was basically under the control of the provisional government, a large number of Manchu officials were emptied, Manchu privileges were abolished, and the revolutionary will of the Zhenguo Party entered Fujian and quickly set off a storm. Fujian is the earliest region to open the country, and Fuzhou is one of the earliest treaty ports, which is greatly influenced by the outside world and has a strong revolutionary consciousness. After the army took control of the important places in Fujian, a large number of administrative officials and big businessmen entered Fujian, and the administrative system was established, and the legal provisions were also spread throughout the province through newspapers and announcements.

What is even more exciting is that a large number of wealthy gentry and businessmen in Fujian fled with Xu Yingkui, creating an upper vacuum, which provided convenience for the entry of large businessmen in Guangdong and favorable conditions for the rapid stabilization of order. Factories were established, high-yielding rice seeds were spread throughout the province, and the railway construction plan was quickly completed, and Fujian entered the stage of major construction at a faster pace than Guangdong.

In more than two years, Guangdong's human resources have been fully utilized, and factories, farmland, the military, and service industries have absorbed a large amount of manpower. The continued expansion of the army ran into a manpower dilemma, and Fujian's population filled the gap. According to the army's plan, 50,000 new recruits will be recruited in the Fujian region to form the new Fourth Army.

It was close to the Jiangnan region, the core of the Manchu economy, and the panic caused by the Zhenguo Party was even greater for the southern governors than in Beijing, and the strength displayed by the Guangdong side made the southern governors realize that the Zhenguo Party was by no means something they could deal with alone. Especially Xu Yingkui, who temporarily avoided Zhejiang and waited for the imperial court to send down, and Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang. Xu Yingkui knew that he was at the end of his rope, and the imperial court would not let him go easily, and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who succeeded him, was about to arrive in Hangzhou, and what followed must be the imperial court's decision on his punishment. The family is gone, Xu Chongzhi is also locked up in a prison in Guangzhou, and in desperation, Xu Yingkui simply hanged himself.

Xu Yingkui was forced to die, Jiangxi Governor Li Xingrui had not yet arrived as acting governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Liu Kunyi, who was in Nanjing, was frightened half to death, for fear that his subordinates would be attacked by Guangdong -- Jiangxi was already half surrounded by Guangdong and Fujian, and who knew if those chaotic parties would go north to attack Jiangxi? Lying on the hospital bed, he immediately summoned the governor of the south to discuss the matter of dealing with the rebellious party.

In August 1902, the Nanjing Liangjiang Governor's Office held a secret meeting, which was attended by Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Sichuan, Li Xingrui, the acting governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Ding Zhenze, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Zhou Fu, the acting governor of Liangguang. Zhou Fu was originally the governor of Shandong, this person was one of the representatives of the Huai system, Li Hongzhang's right-hand man, and established Shandong University during his tenure in Shandong. After the fall of Guangdong, Deshou and Tao Mo disappeared, and Guangxi, which was close to Guangdong, was in danger, and the governor of Liangguang became a tricky position, which finally fell on Zhou Fu's head, but he stayed in Jinan and did not take office in the south.

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