Chapter 637: The Giants Reunite

The difficulty of changing from a propeller aircraft to a jet aircraft is not small, the main thing is the material. Jet aircraft are able to obtain sufficient thrust by spraying hot gases backwards, so the material requirements for the engines become high and can withstand high temperatures and pressures.

As a latecomer industrial country, China's accumulation in materials science is still very shallow, but Qiao Yu has been preparing in this area for a long time, especially formulating a huge nuclear weapons program. In particular, the construction of nuclear power plants has been promoted, and in the process of research, a large number of new technologies and new materials have been produced.

In addition, one of the biggest constraints to the delay in the launch of German jets is the lack of tungsten and chromium, two high-temperature resistant metals, which is not difficult for China at all, which has a large number of non-ferrous metal mines, and is not affected by the war, which can ensure the normal needs of the aircraft.

With these achievements as the basis, integrated with each other, China has made a breakthrough in jet engines, and also made jet fighters, of course, this kind of fighter is still very imperfect, such as the engine service life is only 50 hours, in terms of maneuverability is not comparable to piston aircraft, these require a lot of follow-up work, in order to really let jet aircraft replace piston aircraft.

However, any weapon can only be put on the battlefield and tempered by actual combat to find out the problem, so Qiao Yu decided to send 36 jet planes to fight in Europe, in order to test the combat effectiveness of this aircraft, but also to show other countries China's strength.

After the Normandy landings, the two jets finally met in the skies of Western Europe. German pilot Heinz Bell was flying a plane in search of his prey, and in the past three days, he had shot down a total of five Allied fighters in a Me262 fighter plane without any damage himself, which was among the top German pilots.

Bell has a strong sense of confidence in his precious landline. His greatest wish is to become a jet ace pilot as soon as possible. He skilfully flew the plane through the air. Not far away, it seems that Allied bombers appeared. His adrenaline rush immediately accelerated, and his plane swooped down on the Allied plane at an unusually fast speed.

Just as Bell chose his prey, he became someone else's prey, and an Emperor fighter plane targeted him. The owner of this plane is Wang Heng. He is the son of Wang Yue, China's earliest ace pilot, and by virtue of his background, he was exposed to airplanes very early, and flew in the sky when he was a teenager. Over the years, he has developed very good flying skills.

After the outbreak of World War II, he was also conscripted into the army and became a pilot, participated in a large number of battles in Nanyang and other places, shot down hundreds of Japanese planes, and became the trump card of the Chinese Air Force. After the jet aircraft was developed, Wang Heng became the first batch of pilots to come into contact with this new aircraft.

Although jet planes have such and such problems, what attracts Wang Heng the most is that his speed can be close to 900 kilometers per hour, which is 150 kilometers faster than the limit speed of piston aircraft. It was completely like a lightning bolt in the air, and Wang Heng was fascinated by this feeling of rapidity.

This time he also went to the battlefield in Normandy. Just a day earlier, he had received the news that a group of strange-looking fast fighters had appeared in Germany, shooting down a large number of Allied planes in succession, and soon the Allies guessed that Germany had developed jet fighters.

Wang Heng, who heard the news, looked very excited, as the so-called chess opponent will meet a good talent, and a jet can only reflect its own value by competing with a jet, Wang Heng has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

Just when Bell appeared in the field of vision with the plane, Wang Heng pounced on him without hesitation. Bell instinctively felt a hint of danger at this time, and he suddenly noticed that a plane was rapidly approaching him.

This plane looked very similar to his plane in appearance, Bell's pupils constricted in an instant, and the Allied jets also appeared, and he did not hesitate to fly the plane to meet it.

Soon Bell saw the other party's plane clearly, with strange animals painted on the wings, and as soon as he saw this logo, Bell knew that the other party must be a Chinese fighter. Many Westerners are not clear about the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in China in the past 20 years, and they have the impression that China is still a backward and decadent country, and how in a blink of an eye this country has caught up with Germany in technology, which is somewhat unacceptable.

Of course, Bell didn't have much time to think about it, and the victory or defeat between pilots was often a matter of thought, and the two planes approached quickly, and he was about to fire at each other, when suddenly the opponent's plane quickly pulled upwards and successfully avoided his fire range.

Bell immediately knew that he had met an experienced veteran, and he hurriedly dodged, but it was already a little late, Wang Heng drove the plane and quickly turned his head and fired a string of shells at Bell, and suddenly the Me262 fighter fell to the ground with a string of black smoke.

The battlefield in Normandy was still brutal, but due to the limited strength of German troops and the fact that the main defensive forces were placed in the direction of Calais, it was too late to realize that the direction of the Allied attack was Normandy. The five landing fields of the Allied forces were all connected, and the entire landing field was only more than 30 kilometers long and more than 10 kilometers deep.

On the English Channel, countless ships carrying a steady stream of goods to the European continent, many of the soldiers in this team were British soldiers who had retreated from Dunkirk, and a small number of French, and it had been more than three years.

These soldiers have fulfilled their desire to return to the European continent, but it is no longer a matter of fact. At that time, Britain and France were still the main forces to resist Germany, but now the dominance of the war has fallen into the hands of the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, and Britain can barely squeeze into the giant meeting, but the weight has been greatly weakened, and France has been completely removed from the list of great powers.

In several meetings, the leader of Free France, Charles de Gaulle, tried to join in, and Churchill also promised to help him make demands to the allies, but for the other three countries, it was a bit of an eyesore for Britain to squeeze in, where would France be allowed to fill the number, so he directly sent De Gaulle two words: play!

Even in this counteroffensive on the European continent, the Allies did not give much thought to de Gaulle's Free France, De Gaulle only participated in the counteroffensive as a constant supplementary force, and the arrogant French general also had mixed feelings in his heart, and the descendants of Napoleon were appropriately reduced to this point, and they even looked at the faces of others.

Perhaps the seeds of France's maverick move were planted from this moment, and France could not be just a follower and an insignificant player. Having successfully set foot on the soil of Western Europe, it can be said that the fate of Nazi Germany has been decided, and Hitler has no way to recover.

At the same time, the Chinese and American allies have broken through Nagoya, hundreds of thousands of troops are approaching Tokyo, and the fall of Japan is just around the corner.

The people affected by the war can finally breathe a sigh of relief, they look forward to the arrival of peace, and hope that they will never experience such a terrible world war in their lives. This is just the idea of ordinary people, but politicians in the world know that although the war is coming to an end, the real competition has just begun.

The time had come for the victorious powers to share the fruits of victory, and Stalin, as the Soviet commander-in-chief who had contributed the most to the war, sent an invitation to Roosevelt, Churchill and Qiao Yu, hoping that the heads of state of the four countries would meet again in the Soviet Union to agree on a post-war order.

The heads of state of the three countries agreed, and the venue of the meeting was chosen in Yalta, the Crimean Peninsula, and Qiao Yu was going abroad again, this time on a larger scale than the Tehran meeting, Tehran was more about the strategy of the war, and this time it was mainly about the post-war order, and there were more trivial things.

Therefore, Qiao Yu brought more than twice as many entourages as the Tehran Conference, and Prime Minister Yan Xishan, Foreign Minister Gu Weijun, and Chief of General Staff of the three armed forces Jiang Baili all accompanied Qiao Yu on the trip, and they also had to meet with the high-level officials of the other three countries. In particular, this meeting also had to discuss the establishment of a new international organization, and it can be said that the affairs were very busy.

Qiao Yu left three days in advance, he did not rush to Yalta, but along the way to visit a large number of factories in the northwest, these factories are in accordance with the agreement between China and the Soviet Union, China sent a large number of manpower to help the Soviet Union produce the war materials they urgently need.

More than 1.5 million workers in these factories were hard at work, and they gave strong support to the Soviet Union, and it was because of the value of these workers that Stalin was willing to make concessions on the territory of the Far East, knowing when the polar bears had always been known for their greed, and when they flinched.

In order to show his gratitude to the Chinese workers, Stalin personally sent People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov to greet Qiao Yu, and also sent a large number of medals.

On behalf of Stalin, Molotov presented medals to the representatives of outstanding Chinese workers and delivered an enthusiastic speech. This action of the Soviet Union was not simply grateful, but released a smoke bomb, mainly for the United States and Britain to see, so that they mistakenly thought that China and the Soviet Union would reach some secret agreement.

The cooperation and intrigue of various countries have been in full swing, and Qiao Yu has also seen through all this, but he didn't say anything, and he was happy to let Meiying guess. After visiting the workers, Qiao Yu, accompanied by Molotov and other attachés, flew over the vast Soviet airspace to Yalta on the Black Sea coast.

At this time, Roosevelt and Churchill also took action one after another, and the heads of state of the four great powers met again to jointly decide the future of the world. The four great powers have their own calculations, and they are all holding their knives and forks, ready to divide their own spoils. (To be continued.) )