Chapter 384: Horton H1 Flying to the East

Seeing the decisive role played by the Air Force in the fight against Japan, the Nanjing government decided to request the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium to transfer the most advanced Horton H1 flying wing bomber technology to China for production at the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing China Co., Ltd. in Chongqing.

Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing China Co., Ltd. has become the most advanced arsenal in Asia. It is possible to produce not only the Veyron jet fighter, the M30 and M40 transport bombers, but also the Holden H1 flying wing bomber. Thanks to the mature pulsating assembly line and experts like Antonov and Wang Zhu, the production of the Horton H1 flying wing bomber in China was also very smooth, and by the beginning of 1937, it was able to produce 30 aircraft per month.

At the same time as the production of the Horton H1 flying wing bomber, the Nanjing government also secretly formed China's first strategic bomber force, and now the northeast is still in the hands of the Japanese, and only by continuing to bomb Japan's nest Tokyo can Japan not bear huge losses and give in, this is what Xiao Weiguo told Jiang to someone.

Because Xiao Weiguo knew that if the Japanese Empire was to fall, it would have to carry out strategic bombing of Japan like the US military did in history. In order to hit Japan to a greater extent, the US planes dropped a large amount of solidified ******, causing the Japanese on the ground to catch fire and turn into ashes, tens of thousands of Japanese jumped into ponds and rivers, and as a result, they were all boiled to death by boiling water, and many Japanese fled into air-raid shelters, and as a result, they suffocated to death. The Japanese desperately fired anti-aircraft guns into the air, but the B-29 was out of reach.

The results of that air raid with B-29 strategic bombers far exceeded the sum of all previous bombings, and more than 20 Tokyo Arsenals, which the US military had been trying to destroy for the past three years, were completely burned down, the prosperous areas in eastern Tokyo were completely destroyed, 260,000 houses were burned to the ground, and a total of 130,000 Japanese were burned to death. 100,000 people were injured. In this air raid, Tokyo was hit almost as hard as the atomic bomb that later hit Hiroshima. The day after the air raid, Japan's "Military Day," more than 300 B-29 bombers razed Nagoya, Japan's third-largest city, to the ground. Since then, Osaka, Kobe, and Yokohama have been bombed.

Compared with the later famous B-29 bomber, the Holden H1 flying wing bomber is superior in performance! In addition to being slightly inferior in range and bomb load, both in terms of flight speed, altitude and rate of climb. The Holden H1 flying wing bomber left the B-29 bomber in the dust. In particular, the Holden H1 flying wing bomber could carry out strategic bombing missions alone without fighter escort, because no fighter could pose a threat to the Holden H1 flying wing bomber, and the Japanese fighters could not intercept it. This is because it is a stealth bomber, and it flies at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and the speed is also very fast, even if the Japanese have a small number of Weilong jet fighters, they simply cannot take off to intercept them.

The training syllabus for the Horton H1 flying wing bomber has long been completed. The bomber formation took off from several airfields in Zhejiang, with a total of 48 Horton H1 flying wing bombers, each of which carried up to 4 tons of incendiary bombs. After nearly 3 hours of flight, they finally reached the core of the Japanese Empire, and then these bombers flew quickly over Tokyo, and the Horton H1 flying wing bomber quickly climbed to an altitude of 12,000 after dropping countless bombs, and quickly broke away.

"It's an incendiary bomb. Not a bomb. The fire cannot be burned in an instant...... "The Japanese military department, the senior generals of the military department are in a meeting. At this time, they suddenly changed their faces and shouted, "Fire! Fire! It's burning! ”

Seishiro Itagaki also turned his head and saw that in the light, hundreds of small fire spots suddenly appeared, as if the stars in the sky were projected onto the earth at once. Then these small ignition points quickly expand. The air raid sirens in Tokyo sounded loudly, and at the same time the sirens of fire trucks sounded, and these small fires had already turned into raging fires.

The firelight has lit up the entire southeast corner of Tokyo. The fire first started from the eaves of the buildings in Tokyo, and the tongues of fire were pointed upwards against the wooden roofs. The roof also quickly burst into flames, in the midst of the fire. The rafters broke first, falling with flames and smoke. Then the beams of the roof broke into several pieces and fell into the house. So the pillars, the wall panels, and all that were burned.

Countless sparks and even some small sticks of wood that were still burning were lifted up by the violently rising hot air, and then sprinkled on the roofs of the surrounding houses that had not yet caught fire, and the fires of countless blocks were connected almost instantly.

On the streets, Japanese firefighters and police could neither control the flames that were scurrying around, nor could they stop the frightened crowds of people running in all directions. People scattered and ran for their lives, scurrying like rats, thunderous explosions overhead, snakes scurrying through the streets, and screams of terror everywhere in the firelight. The flames gradually turned orange to white, and the smoke rose into the air, and the ground was reflected orange by the firelight. The flames devoured everything that could be burned, the metal melted, the tiles turned into black powder in the fire, and many of the people hiding in the bomb shelters were roasted alive.

People went crazy and jumped into it desperately when they saw water, and the pools in parks and hospitals were densely packed with people who wanted to flee for their lives, but the heat turned these pools into cauldrons, and people died in hundreds, if not thousands. At dawn, the gale stopped, and Osaka fell into a deathly silence. Through the dewy morning light, it was discovered that the Odaira area in the center of Osaka had disappeared, and only a few telephone poles and iron shelves stood alone. There was still smoke coming from some of the poles. The fleeing crowd returned, walking apathically across the small bridge over the Sumida River, the river turning black, and countless charred corpses floating on the surface of the river, unable to distinguish between men and women.

The continuous bombing was carried out every day, and China's strategic bomber units were desperately trying to drop bombs on the Japanese mainland, and in just one month, thousands of tons of bombs fell on Japan's major cities. Most of these bombs were incendiary bombs, and for a murderous country like Japan, there was no need to be merciful to them, and there was a saying that was not good, and kindness to the enemy was cruelty to oneself.

The Holden H1 flying wing bomber became famous! At this time, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex is still designing and manufacturing a larger Holden H2 flying wing bomber, which uses a high-thrust and fuel-efficient wind and thunder turbofan engine, but the number has reached 8, with a total thrust of 25 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 100 tons, a maximum bomb load of 15 tons, a maximum range of 11,000 kilometers, and a maximum level flight speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour. (To be continued.) )