It took a few five minutes for a staff officer to arrive at the airfield in the direction of the Army Air Force, and when they jumped off their motorcycles, the first plane of the "Nighthawk" had already landed.

In order to ensure the safe landing of the aircraft, the airport cleared out two very long runways on the landing lawn, and arranged many iron oil drums on both sides of the runway, which contained a small amount of diesel fuel and cotton wool mixture, after ignition, the entire runway was unobstructed, and the pilots in the sky could clearly see the direction of the runway, and could drive the plane to land safely.

Once the plane has landed on the runway as prompted by the torch on the surface, just stop taxiing. Regardless of whether the engine has been stopped or not. Dozens of ground crews waiting at the end of the runway will immediately rush forward and use manpower to push the aircraft onto the tarmac to clear the runway and ensure the safety of subsequent aircraft

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If the plane landed was a fighter or a light bomber, it only took a few ground crews to push the plane to the side of the tarmac, but now it is a heavy bomber that lands, and there are no dozens of people who absolutely can't push it, and in some cases, even have to use trucks.

The "Nighthawk Squadron" is a heavy bomber squadron, which has eighteen heavy bombers and is divided into three bomber detachments, and the commander of the squadron is Squadron Leader Qin Bing. The rank of lieutenant colonel, one level higher than that of a fighter squadron leader, shows the weight of the heavy bomber unit in the president's mind.

Qin Bing, the word Binglie. Sichuan Guang'an people, graduated from Shunqing Fu Middle School, "Coffee Year went to Chengdu to join the army and the team to study military affairs, and joined the League in the old year. After graduating from the Army Merge Academy, he served in the Sichuan New Army, after the outbreak of the "Wushen Revolution". The Sichuan branch of the League immediately set about launching an uprising in the fourth place, and Qin Bing's task was to instigate the Sichuan New Army to respond to the uprising, but Zhao Erxun, the governor of Sichuan, took the lead and disarmed the new army. As a result, the Sichuan uprising instigated by the League failed. Qin Bing's identity as a revolutionary party was also exposed, and he had no choice but to follow Xiong Kewu, Huang Shuzhong, Xie Zhi, Rao Guoliang, Yu Ying and other revolutionary party comrades to die in the rivers and lakes. In the end, he fled to Wuhan through Shaanxi, and at that time, Zhao Bei had led the republican army to recover Wuhan, and it happened to be the Spring Festival, it was that time, Qin Bing met the commander-in-chief, but because the League insisted that the revolutionary cause should be led by the League at that time, Qin Bing finally failed to stay in the republican army, but followed Xie Zhi and others to Fujian. Defected to the Revolutionary Founding Army.

Qin Bing did not stay in the Fujian army for long, and soon he followed his superiors to Guangdong and participated in the recovery of Guangdong. However, because the Junxian faction seized power in Guangdong, the revolutionaries were excluded, and Qin Bing had to follow Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others to various places, seeking opportunities for the alliance. And finally to Guangxi. He also served as a military adviser for a period of time in the Caoming government of Guangxi after the liberation. Later, when the Great War broke out, Qin Bing followed the Guangxi Revolutionary Army to Hangzhou in the north, and confronted the Beiyang Army across the Taihu Lake.

After the United Front defeated the Beiyang Army, Song Jiaoren planned to install a group of League cadres in the backbone of the United Front, so Qin Bing was transferred to Li Liejun's troops and served as the regiment commander. But later Song Jiaoren was assassinated. This one. The "Sand Mixing Plan" came to an end, but Qin Bing did not leave Li Liejun's troops. And then was promoted to brigade commander, and later, some senior cadres in the League planned the "Guangdong Incident" and sent people to contact the members of the League everywhere, Qin Bing was also in the contact list, but before Qin Bing made up his mind whether to follow Chen Qimei, Li Liejun had learned the news, so he sent someone to put him under house arrest in the headquarters, as a result, throughout the "Guangdong Incident" process, Qin Bing stayed in Li Liejun's headquarters, until Chen Qimei and others died in Nanyang, he was kicked out of the headquarters by Li Liejun and was "gifted" out of the country, Eating in the Yan Xishan Shogunate, the cold bench sat for almost two years.

Until two years ago. The general play ordered the military and political chiefs in various places to recommend aviation talents, so Yan Xishan reported Qin Bing's name and vouched for him, so Qin Bing was transferred to the aviation department, and after strict review by the War Department and the Military Intelligence Bureau, he was able to pass the test. With tenacity and excellent grades, he stood out and was promoted by the president until this time. Qin Bing learned that the president had been concerned about him, a young officer he had met at the regimental dinner, but in fact, Yan Xishan's recommendation was nothing more than a smoke bomb, and it was the president himself who really decided to choose Qin Bing to join the Air Force.

With the president as a backer. Qin Bing has risen all the way, from warrant officer of the army aviation to the current lieutenant colonel of the air force. The president's intentions are very clear, he hopes that Qin Bing can also see this, that is, the president will never be prejudiced against his family because of small mistakes made in the past, as long as the mistakes are corrected, the president is not to blame for the past, this point, the president is not only for Qin Bing to see, but also for others to see, and the effect is very good. They have played an important role in the development of industry and commerce, and of course, they are the "culprits" of Chen Qimei's gang who are wanted. "The president has never forgiven, which can also be seen that the president is a man of a clear temperament. It is precisely because of this that Qin Bing now admires the president very much, in his opinion, the president's strategic vision is unparalleled, and the president's political skills are even more clever.

Although Qin Bing has been studying aviation technology in China and has not gone to Germany to study, due to the president's favor for him and his achievements are indeed very good, in the end, the General Staff decided to appoint Qin Bing as the squadron leader of the "Nighthawk Squadron".

Different from other bomber units, the "Nighthawk Force" is a heavy bomber unit, and at present it has two squadrons, namely the "Nighthawk" and the "Nighthawk 2," which have a total of 36 heavy bombers, all of which are the latest "vulture" bombers.

The "Vulture" bomber is a four-engine long-range heavy bomber developed by China, this bomber is equipped with four water-cooled in-line gasoline engines made by China, which is improved according to the latest German internal combustion engine, each engine can provide a rated power of 260 horsepower, and the four engines are sandwiched between the upper and lower wings, providing enough power for the bomber to ensure a speed of 150 kilometers per hour, and can climb to an altitude of 2,000 meters, due to the relatively generous fuel tank capacity," The "Vulture" heavy bomber has a staggering 600 kilometers of range in transition, which allows it to have a combat radius of more than 250 kilometers, and the empty weight of the "Vulture" heavy bomber is close to five tons. With a staggering 800 kilograms of ammunition to handle, flying the behemoth required four crew members, one pilot-captain, and two pilots were machine gunners. Responsible for maneuvering the four machine guns on the aircraft to provide the aircraft with sufficient firepower for self-defense.

The development of the Vulture bomber began two years ago, and the prototype fuselage of the aircraft was secretly completed by the Zhengzhou Aircraft Factory a year later, but it was constrained by the slow development of the engine. It was not until the end of last year that the first prototype was actually built and tested, and after that, under pressure from the president, the aviation agency issued an order for mass production, and required the factory to make every effort to ensure the production of this heavy bomber, and to produce at least two squadrons of "Vulture" bombers by the middle of the old year.

In order to ensure the completion of the task, the Wuhan Feiquan Manufacturing Factory had to set up another branch factory in Sichuan, and set up a wing manufacturing plant in the deep mountains and old forests of Sichuan, Guizhou, and other places to specialize in manufacturing wing parts, and even so, it only barely completed the task assigned by the Aviation Administration, and by the end of May this year, a total of 35 "vultures" plus prototypes had been manufactured, which happened to be two squadrons.

Qin Bing was ordered to lead the team to receive these heavy bombers into service, and after receiving the planes, the pilots flew all the planes to Gansu, where they completed the relevant flight training tasks. Judging from the information on the development of the aviation industry of various countries collected by the central center at present, the "vulture" heavy bomber is currently the world's largest bomb-loaded, longest-range, and most powerful special bomber, and in order to achieve the purpose of a surprise strategic strike, it is necessary to maintain the secrecy of the existence of this heavy bomber until after the start of the war.

It turned out that the secrecy of the center was very well done, even the Germans did not seem to be aware of the existence of "vultures", of course, the price of secrecy was that the number of such aircraft was too small, and the two squadrons of "vultures" did not completely satisfy the president, and as soon as the war began, the relevant secrecy principle was withdrawn in order to guarantee more "vultures" for the air force.

Now that the war was about to break out and the "vultures" could finally make their debut on the world war stage, Qin Bing and his pilots flew the plane from Yusu all the way to Shandong, refueled at several airports on the way, and arrived at Dengzhou Air Base on time.

When the "vultures" landed on the runway. The staff officers of the base who came to contact were really surprised, a few days ago they had been officially notified that there was a kind of heavy bomber that would be deployed at Dengzhou Airport, but because they had never seen this kind of heavy bomber before, so the staff officers had always taken it for granted that this heavy bomber was slightly larger than the kind of medium bomber with two engines, but now, they finally found out how wrong it was, in front of the "vulture" heavy bomber, The staff officers felt more and more their insignificance and the exuberance of the industrial age.

If nothing else, the four huge rubber wheels at the front of the plane alone were enough to make the staff officers stunned.