Chapter 10: Big Trouble

"Oh my God, this is a bomber?" After a night's rest, the energetic Andrew dragged Edmund to the dock, just in time for the Ocean to be unloaded, and after the huge container was transported to the dock by the loader, the engineers from Boeing couldn't wait to open the container to do a detailed examination of the bomber parts inside. Edmund was stunned by the living creatures in the containers, unaware that the fleet was carrying Boeing's newest bomber, but it had been disassembled into parts.

"Edmund, you're wrong, it's not one bomber, it's four" Andrew put his arm around his friend's shoulder and smiled, "It's not all, the fleet has brought a total of four bombers and 6 fighters, this is just the first batch, and when the Black Lady returns to the United States, it will bring more planes and bombs" Andrew tricked Edmund into coming to Burma, and he didn't think about letting him return to the United States, so it didn't matter if he told him about these things, not to mention that Zhao Zhi had already agreed last night.

"Oh my God, you guys are really bold enough" suppressed his curiosity, Edmund reached out and touched the parts of the plane that were moved out of the container, and the doubts that had not yet dissipated did not dare to ask, because he had already found out from the corner of his eye that the people with submachine guns around him were staring at him intentionally or unintentionally, those men in black seemed to only follow the orders of Rowling's boyfriend, if he showed curiosity about the plane, Edmund guessed that those men in black would shoot him immediately.

After the large containers were transported from the deck to the dock by the loader, some long boxes began to be brought out of the hold one after another, and Edmund looked at them with a wide eye, and it was not necessary to guess that those boxes were full of ordnance. "Let's go, the contents of these containers can't leave my sight until I give them all to Rowling" Andrew saw that the parts of the aircraft in the containers were lifted onto the truck, and beckoned Edmond to get into a jeep. Escorting the parts of the plane was his main task this time, and although the cargo had arrived at Yangon Port, Andrew, who had always been strict in his work, could not tolerate any mistakes with these things.

In order to carry these aircraft parts, Zhao Zhi not only recruited almost all the large vehicles in Yangon, but also specially assigned 200 heavily armed mercenaries to serve as escorts, and these aircraft parts that had just been unloaded from the ship will cross the entire Yangon and be sent to a suburban factory that Zhao Zhi had already selected, and the Boeing engineers will coordinate with Zhao Zhi to recruit the pilots to assemble the aircraft, and the long-abandoned suburban factory will become a temporary aircraft assembly factory. In the future, all aircraft parts smuggled from the United States will be assembled here into airplanes, including planes obtained by mercenary teams from Britain and France.

"Go" Kessler, who was sitting in the lead car, waved his hand, and the driver released the clutch to drive the jeep out of the dock, and Kessler's machine gunner, who was nearly 2 meters tall, stood in the back of the jeep and held the heavy machine gun on the beam. Zhao Zhi's jeeps have been modified, they are not only equipped with steel cross beams like terrain vehicles, but also welded to the machine gun base turntable on the beam, as long as the co-pilot and the shooter in the rear seat cooperate well, the heavy machine gun mounted on the machine gun base turntable can rotate 360 degrees to shoot.

In order to ensure that this batch of aircraft parts arrived at the suburban factory smoothly, Zhao Zhi can be said to have hollowed out the whole transportation operation, not only 150 mercenaries escorted by the 30 trucks that came out of the dock, but also 12 jeeps with heavy machine guns patrolling back and forth in the front and rear of the convoy, if there is really the idea of the blind guy who wants to hit the team, they must first break through the 12 heavy machine guns to form a strong fire net, and then face the 150 mercenaries on the 30 trucks to concentrate fire.

Not only is the security in Yangon too good, but the fierce firepower of the convoy is too shocking, the convoy from the dock is always moving forward calmly, and Kessler on the head car of Zuo'ai seems to have a calm face, but in fact, the hand he put on his side is about to grab the handguard of the submachine gun out of the water. Kessler, who has seen a lot of big battles with Zhao Zhi, has never been so nervous, he is not worried that the convoy will be attacked by people with intentions, but that the parts of the aircraft mounted on the truck will be damaged, these hard-won things are too precious for the Thunder Company, as long as even a small component is damaged, the entire aircraft may not be assembled, Myanmar is too far away from the United States, and the supply of parts is the biggest difficulty that the Thunder Company cannot overcome at present.

"Open the gate" The observation post standing on the factory guard tower saw the convoy coming from a distance through the telescope, and hurriedly called the guard post guarding the gate to open the gate and prepare to let the convoy in. The aircraft assembly factory selected by Zhao Zhi is only a few miles away from the armored force training camp, and the widened road built in advance can ensure that the Tiger tanks can arrive here within 15 minutes, and once the aircraft assembly plant is attacked, the attackers will face a situation of flanking from the front and rear, and the powerful Tiger tanks are not something they can fight.

"Sir, our convoy has arrived" Yu Dazhi, who received the news, knocked on Zhao Zhi's door, as the owner of Thunder Defense, Zhao Zhi took Rowling and Yu Dazhi and they arrived here early in the morning, he had high hopes for the armored troops, he had just returned from the tank training camp, and he would be squeezed into the same chair with Rowling. For Rowling and Zhao Zhi's crookedness, as a subordinate of Yu Dazhi, they have long been surprised, after all, Zhao Zhi has been recognized by the Rockman family, and long before they left the Lockman family's manor, Zhao Zhi and Rowling had secretly held an engagement ceremony.

"Let's go, let's go see those big guys" Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand and pulled Rowling out of the room. The next plan needs the help of large bombers, and Zhao Zhi is a little impatient with these planes waiting for a long time, otherwise he would not be in a hurry to send the Black Lady to search the Bay of Bengal to find the Ocean fleet. Trucks were parked in the gravel-paved clearing, and 500 Jewish soldiers improvised from the armoured training camp were on standby, free laborers that Zhao Zhi had drawn to help unload the trucks.

"Zhao, we're meeting again" Andrew, who jumped out of the jeep, walked towards Zhao Zhi with his arms outstretched, while Edmund, who followed him, looked sideways at the Jewish soldiers wearing military uniforms with the thunder emblem. Edmund already knew Zhao Zhi's identity from Andrew, and he also knew that almost all of the mercenaries of Thunder Defense were foreigners, but such a large-scale Jewish mercenary appeared here, Edmund was still very curious, knowing that Jews, who are known for their cunning in the economic field, like to take their fate into their own hands.

After hugging Andrew, Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand to Edmund, who was full of questions, "Did you sleep well last night?" After the Ocean arrived in Hong Kong, Zhao Zhi, as the host, simply accompanied Andrew and them to have dinner, and Edmund did not have a deep chat, for Andrew's senior, Zhao Zhi was still very wary, and did not want to immediately extend his olive branch to this guy who was full of questions.

After a brief greeting, Zhao Zhi handed Andrew and Edmund to Rowling to greet him, and he took the recruited pilots to the truck. Hans and the others recruited in the United States are mostly guys with flying experience, and there are very few skilled ground crews and maintenance personnel, so Zhao Zhi must let these pilots participate in the assembly of the aircraft, and don't wait for the plane to break down when the ground crew is all over the world. The plane and the pilot are also the most scarce under Zhao Zhi at present, Zhao Zhi does not want to get the plane crash and death because of a small failure of the plane, and Zhao Zhi does not have the strength to withstand this kind of loss.

"The B-29 bomber is our latest four-engine turboprop bomber developed by Boeing, it has a bomb load of 9 tons and a range of 6,000 kilometers, and is known as the Super Flying Fortress," the engineer sent by Boeing said proudly while patting the aircraft engine that had just been unloaded from the truck, "The B-29 bomber has a total of ten mechanics, co-pilots, flight engineers, bombers, navigators, radiomen, side gunners (two people), upper gunners, and tail gunners."

"It is equipped with four Wright R-3350-23 supercharged star engines, each with 2,200 horsepower, a top speed of 357 miles per hour (574 km/h), and a combat range: 3,250 miles (5,230 km), which is the fastest and farthest flying bomber in the world today" Another engineer took over the topic, he is a pilot-turned-engineer, and naturally knows that pilots value the aircraft's staffing. And its speed and endurance.

The pilots recruited by Hans were about to scream, and it was the first time they had seen a bomber of this speed, and it was indeed much stronger than the B-17 bomber equipped by the American army. There were also 6 P-40 fighters sent to Yangon along with the Ocean, but this type of model has long been equipped by the US military, and the pilots recruited are no strangers to it, so everyone still gathered around the B-29 bomber and listened carefully to the engineer's explanation of the B-29 bomber's data and configuration.

The plane that was dismantled into parts and components arrived in Zhao Zhi's hands safely, but the problems that followed made Zhao Zhi stumped again, and the P-40 fighter with a simple manufacturing process was good to say, as long as there were tools and venues, the engineers who came with the ship could assemble it on the spot, but the B-29 bomber newly developed by the Boeing Company needed special tools and equipment to assemble, and Zhao Zhi's aircraft assembly factory did not have such equipment and tools at all, and the parts of these B-29 bombers could not be assembled in Yangon at all.