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After the fierce air battle over Parker, the Hellfire fighters equipped with powerful engines once again showed their strong combat effectiveness, and the pilots of the Imperial Chinese Air Force who flew them completely defeated the Air Force of the Republic of South Africa flying the Heinkel fighters. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the Battle of Parker, the Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire maintained the myth of invincibility on the altar, but it is no longer mysterious, and the rapid development of technology in Europe and the United States after the war has led to the cutting-edge models represented by the German Heinkel fighter has posed a direct challenge to it.

In the days that followed, the Republic of South Africa Air Force organized several counterattacks, but failed to regain air supremacy. Colonel Rucker blamed it on the poor fighting quality of the pilots of the Air Force of the Republic of South Africa, and they were simply unable to confront the "old fritters" of the Chinese Empire and even the United ** Air Force with an average flight time of thousands of hours.

In the air battle on 7 February, Rucker selected more than 20 of the best pilots of the South African Air Force to form an assault formation and launched an attack on the United Nations Air Force bomber formation that was attacking Worcester. Two squadrons of the 6th Squadron of the 33rd Air Wing of the Imperial Chinese Air Force were responsible for escort missions and engaged in fierce battles with the assault formation led by Rucker.

During the battle, with his superb air combat skills and with the cooperation of his team members, Rucker successfully shot down a Hellfire fighter, becoming the first Hellfire fighter shot down by the enemy in the history of imperial Chinese aviation, causing an uproar in aviation circles all over the world.

France after the economy was controlled by the Chinese Empire. Faced with the rapid recovery of the German economy, France felt threatened and therefore became extremely dependent on the Chinese Empire. And France allowed the Chinese Empire to establish military bases on French territory. All this brought the relationship between the Chinese Empire and France closer. Because of this, the French side was also able to share some military intelligence on the part of the Chinese Empire. Of course, France was most concerned about the development of Germany's military strength, and in order to win over France, the Chinese Empire naturally shared information on Germany's Heinkel fighter project with France.

When the French Air Force learned that the fighters equipped by the Air Force of the Republic of South Africa were actually developed and produced by Germany, they were very nervous and immediately contacted the Imperial Chinese Air Force, hoping to import the Hellfire fighters of the Chinese Empire as a counterweight to the threat of the Luftwaffe.

At this time, the Chinese Empire no longer intends to continue to keep the Hellfire fighter secret, to the member states of the Federation within the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere. As well as countries with close ties to the Chinese Empire, they have been notified by the Chinese Empire that it has relaxed export restrictions on Hellfire fighters. The Chinese Empire is ready to make a profit by exporting modified combat power to the world before the Hellfire fighter retires from the stage of history. Similarly, although the Thunderbolt fighter was defeated by the Henkel fighter on the battlefield in South Africa, its international market is still very large, and the Thunderbolt fighter after the price reduction is more in line with the large-scale equipment of Turkey, Austria, the Soviet Union, Chile, Norway and other countries with weak air forces. It is still a good option to maintain regional air superiority.

Naturally, the French Air Force did not look down on the Thunderbolt fighters, they needed a more powerful Hellfire fighter. The Chinese Empire was also in a hurry to export Hellfire fighters Type A and B. In exchange for funds to develop and produce more powerful J-10 fighters to maintain air supremacy. So, when the French Air Force proposed a plan to purchase 400 Hellfire fighters from the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire soon agreed.

However, before the two sides could reach an agreement, France heard that the South African Air Force had shot down a Hellfire fighter, and the French Air Force immediately had some scruples when purchasing the Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire. For this reason, the French parliament immediately inquired about the Chinese Empire and expressed its concern about this matter.

The Imperial Air Force Council of the Chinese Empire immediately made a public statement. It is clarified that the Hellfire fighter is a well-deserved king of air combat, and the air supremacy over South Africa is still under the Hellfire fighter, and the South African Air Force only shot down a Hellfire fighter by shit, but the United Nations Air Force shot down 78 Henkel fighters, proving that the hegemony of the Hellfire is not affected.

After receiving a positive response from the Chinese Empire, the French Air Force was relieved and soon signed a contract with the Royal Chinese Airlines for 400 Hellfire (B) fighters. The German side immediately protested to the Chinese Empire, accusing the Chinese Empire of helping France to increase its air power and changing the balance of air power between Germany and France. In response, the Chinese Empire demanded that Germany stop supporting the Republic of South Africa and stop exporting advanced weapons such as Hinkel fighter jets and Messersmit bombers, as well as tank No. 1 to the Republic of South Africa. Naturally, Germany would not give up the Republic of South Africa easily, so the protest against the Chinese Empire did not end.

The Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Imperial France is an upgraded Hellfire Type B, because the Chinese Empire firmly believes that war will break out between France and Germany sooner or later, and maintaining the balance of military power between Germany and France is the key to preventing the outbreak of a major war again, so the military support for France has increased a lot.

Other countries have not had so much luck, though. The Hellfire fighters exported by the Chinese Empire to the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Mexico and other countries are all Type A, especially Turkey, Afghanistan, Chile and other countries can only buy second-hand Hellfire fighters from the Chinese Empire, that is, the Chinese Imperial Air Force has eliminated them.

In addition to exporting fighter jets, H2N1 bombers have also been released, because Britain, the United States, and Germany all have the ability to develop and produce large bombers, and the advantages of H2N1 bombers have also been greatly weakened.

The excellent performance of the United ** on the battlefield in South Africa made the armies of various countries very fond of the armored three musketeers of the Chinese Empire. At this time, in addition to the W16 wheeled infantry tank, the armored three musketeers of the Chinese Empire had a great advantage, and the M16 tank tank and Z16 anti-tank tanks had been successfully copied by many countries, and the advantages were no longer very obvious. However, the cost of copycats in various countries is high, and the Chinese Empire decided to lower the price and return the armored three musketeers to the era of civilian prices in order to grab the international market.

France was also the first country to purchase the Armored Three Musketeers of the Chinese Empire, and France purchased 200 M16 tanks, 300 W16 wheeled infantry vehicles and 100 Z16 anti-tank tanks from the Chinese Empire to equip the French Army. In order to balance the threat of the German Army's newest tank, the ABC III.

The Chinese Empire naturally relied on the export of so many advanced weapons and equipment. The Hellfire and Thunderbolt fighters in active service of the Imperial Air Force were retired one after another, and the Air Commission was in view of the challenges of the Luftwaffe. A plan for the replacement of the Air Force's equipment was submitted to Congress. After the J-10 fighter was finalized, small-scale mass production, considering the cost problem, only 200 were produced, because the J-10 was painted in black, so it was named "Black Hawk", which was used as an air supremacy fighter for the next five to eight years of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, and the follow-up J-10 fighter research and development and upgrade plan was incorporated into the project plan of the newly established J-11 fighter. The carrier-based fighters of the naval aviation are still foldable Hellfire fighters, only the engines are upgraded, and they are no longer equipped with the J-10 carrier-based type. Of course. This is also considering that the Navy has ten aircraft carrier battle groups, the oldest Huangshan aircraft carrier will be equipped with 120 aircraft, the Emeishan-class aircraft carrier will be equipped with 135, and the Wudangshan-class aircraft carrier will be equipped with 200 aircraft, all of which will add up to 1,600 aircraft, if all of them are equipped with Jian-10 fighters. At least 1 billion dragon coins are needed, although the Chinese Empire has money. However, this huge amount of money still made the congressmen very painful, so considering that the Chinese empire would not be threatened in the short term, the Congress directly cut the requirement for the navy to be equipped with J-10 fighters. It is required to wait until the cost of the Jian-10 is greatly reduced before considering equipping the navy with a carrier-based type.

In its security report to Congress, the Air Force Committee said that the Chinese Empire needs to maintain the military capability of global strategic reach, and the H2N1 and H2N2 bombers are no longer sufficient for this task, and that among the six medium- and long-range bombers of the H-3 (H3N1, H3N2), H-4N1, H5N1, and H-6N1 (H6N1, H6N2) four types developed in the past eight years, the H-5 medium-range bomber and the H-6 long-range bomber can be competent. The Y8 strategic transport aircraft (adapted from H6N2) is suitable for long-distance delivery of imperial Chinese airborne troops and transportation of heavy weapons and materials. Congress is required to approve the mass production of 200 H-5 medium-range bombers and 300 H-6 long-range bombers to maintain the global strategic deterrence and strike capability of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, as well as 500 Y-8 long-range transport aircraft to ensure the global strategic force projection capability of the Chinese Empire.

Because the Chinese imperial side had high hopes for bomber units and transport planes, the world war and the Sino-American war showed that the great role of long-range bombers and transport planes for the war was self-evident, and even the politicians in the Capitol knew this, so although they strongly advocated cutting military spending, they did not make it difficult for the Air Force Committee on the issue of bombers and transport planes, but deliberated and approved it at one time, which was the fastest time that the Air Force and even the military had ever applied for military spending.

Because of this incident, Air Force Minister Liu Xiang once laughed and scolded: "This group of thick black politicians also has their cute times!" ”

The approved H-5 medium-range bomber and H-6 long-range bomber were developed and developed by Xi'an Aviation Industry Group and Songhu Aircraft Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. respectively, and took eight years to complete, as the most advanced medium and long-range strategic bombers developed by the Chinese Empire during the treaty era.

The H-5 is a medium-range bomber, which was immediately transformed into a bomber developed by Xi'an Industrial Group after the failure of the continuous bidding for the J-6 and J-7 fighters. Due to the impact of the five-nation pact and the fact that the H2N1 bomber was not outdated at that time, the two models of the H-3 could not be produced by the military. However, Xi'an Industry did not give up, and on the basis of the H-3 series, it finally won the approval of the Imperial Air Force on the H-5 bomber.

The H5N1 bomber can be said to be a revolution in the history of the world's aviation bomber, the world's first monoplane bomber, replacing the past biplane bomber structure, and thanks to the progress of the material industry technology of the Chinese Empire and the innovation of the aerodynamic layout design brought about by the wind tunnel test, the monoplane can also bear the huge weight of the bomber.

The H5N1 bomber was originally produced and developed as a civil transport aircraft, because at that time, Xi'an Industry lost a number of fighter bidding projects in a row, and scientific research funds were tight, so the development of civil air transport aircraft to survive for the time being. Although it stalled and broke its wing during the second test flight, it had good overall flight performance. With a wing length of 23 meters, it was used as a large single-wing transport aircraft, and was very popular among private merchants in the Chinese Empire. Shanghai Airlines has placed an order for 10 transport planes of this type to satisfy the curiosity of the people. In the initial prototype, only a 578 hp Ford cylinder water-cooled engine was installed. Due to the low speed due to insufficient engine power, a suitable Adel TB600 engine was finally installed on the No. 5 prototype. Increasing engine output to 999 hp multiplied the aircraft's speed, payload and range, laying the foundation for its development as a military bomber.

The Chinese Imperial Air Force attaches great importance to bombers, Guangzhou Airlines and Beiyuan Airlines have been committed to research and development, but they are still a two-wing structure, although it can greatly increase the load, but the two-wing structure is resisted by naval aviation, because the two-wing structure can not be folded up on the aircraft carrier, even if it is difficult to transport at sea. Under the influence of this situation. The General Administration of the Air Force was very interested in the project of Xi'an Industry's monoplane large aircraft, so it issued a request to it to develop a monoplane bomber and gave it certain financial support.

In this way, as if reborn, Xi'an industry immediately invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to step up the development of monoplane bomber projects.

The H-3 bomber family was born in this context. However, since the aviation industry companies of the Chinese Empire had grown to more than 300, they all experienced the rapid expansion of the world war. and those that survived the post-war restructuring and merger, in which more than 30 aviation manufacturing companies joined the competition, making the monoplane bomber program extremely competitive. As a result, the H-3 was modified and upgraded several times. still failed to meet the requirements of the military, and other peers were even more desperate to grab the cake to eat.

In the end, the board of directors of Xi'an Industry decided to develop at any cost, invested a lot of money in research and development, and planned to break the boat. After unremitting efforts. They were finally recognized by the Air Force Commission, and the H-3 bomber, which had been upgraded several times, was finally awarded the H-5 model.

The H5N1 bomber was finalized at the end of Guanghua 25 years, the length of the aircraft is 16.4 meters, the wingspan is 25 meters, the height is 4 meters, the wingspan area is 98.6 square meters, after 133 tests in the wind tunnel, the overall shape is like a seagull with wings spread.

The aircraft has an empty weight of 8,690 kg, a load weight of 12,030 kg, and a maximum take-off weight of 14,500 kg, far exceeding the load capacity of the H2N1 bomber in service in the Imperial Air Force of China, a veritable bomber.

To be able to achieve such a large take-off weight and payload, the key lies in the power of the engine, 2 Ford IBM-900 twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled piston engines, providing 2x986 kilowatts of power, so that the maximum speed of the H5N1 bomber reaches 440 km / h, and it can climb to an altitude of 5185 meters in 20 minutes, the practical ceiling exceeds 8500 meters, and the maximum range is 2500 kilometers (fully loaded with fuel).

As the first large monoplane bomber, the H5N1 bomber has a wing load of 137 kg/m², which ordinary materials simply cannot bear, and only the high-strength magnesium-aluminum-chromium alloy material newly developed by the Chinese Empire can provide this high-strength load without increasing weight, which is one of the main reasons why the Chinese Empire was able to build the first monoplane bomber.

During the Sino-American War, the bombers of the Chinese Empire did not have a self-defense weapon system, and they could only be beaten when they encountered American fighters. Although some weapon systems were temporarily installed in the later period, the effect was not obvious.

Thus, in accordance with the requirements of the Air Force Committee of the Chinese Empire, the H5N1 bomber was equipped with a powerful weapon system. One 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine gun is located in the middle and rear of the roof, and four M2 heavy machine guns are located to the left and right of the machine gun, near the wings. A 20mm cannon (nose/front belly position) is mounted in the nose of the aircraft, providing powerful attack power.

As a bomber, the most important thing is naturally the payload of aerial bombs. The H5N1 bomber continued to use free-fall aerial bombs, with built-in bomb bays, which could carry 2,000 kg of bombs, and the wings could be hung with 2,500 kg of large aerial bombs, the destructive power of this aerial bomb was amazing, and one such aerial bomb was enough to inflict fatal heavy damage on the Song-class battleships.

The successful development of the H5N1 bomber immediately filled the gap brought by the H2N1 bomber after the retirement of the bomber unit of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, but at that time, the Chinese Emperor kept it secret, and it was supposed to be delayed until Guanghua 30 years before starting production and service, but the German BW-300 bomber that appeared on the battlefield in South Africa challenged the Chinese Empire, so the Air Force Committee would let the H5N1 bomber enter service in advance.

Originally, the modified bomber was to be used as a long-range bomber for the Chinese Empire, but the profit of one bomber was considerable. The other airlines of the Chinese empire were not willing to let Xi'an Industry monopolize profits, and during the development of the H5N1 bomber, they inquired in many ways. The development of larger and more advanced bombers began one after another.

Among them, as a leader, Songhu Heavy Industry is the first in the Chinese Empire after the World War, after the Chinese Empire has 35 aircraft, machinery, materials, chemical and other companies in the south after the strong combination of strong industrial group companies, strong economic and scientific research strength, they got news from the imperial side, knowing that the order for large bombers will be very considerable in the future war, so Songhu Heavy Industry at any cost, concentrated manpower, material and financial resources, without the consent of the Air Force Committee, under the guise of developing super civilian transport aircraft. Development of military bombers.

It is easy for Songhu Heavy Industry to get valuable news from the employees of Xi'an Heavy Industry, and even spared no expense to poach people from the bomber engineer team of Xi'an Heavy Industry, and Tang Kewei, one of the three chief designers of the H5N1 bomber, jumped to Songhu Heavy Industry, and with the strong support of the board of directors of Songhu Heavy Industry, he developed a long-range bomber that is twice as large as the H-5 bomber, which is the H-6 (H6N1).

The entire development time of the H6N1 bomber took less than 18 months. Tang Kewei was quite clear about all the data indicators of the H-5 bomber, so in order to win the order for the H-5 bomber. With the support of the board of directors of Songhu Heavy Industry, Tang Kewei greatly increased the size, weight, number of engines, armament and bomb load of the H-5, in order to defeat the opponent at one time.

Under the leadership of Tang Kewei. The first prototype was soon built by Songhu Heavy Industries, which was 23 meters long, 6 meters high, with a wingspan of 32 meters and a total weight of 26 tons. With a payload of 9 tons, relying on four 1,200-horsepower Adel BTMX-1100 twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled turbine engines to be able to take off, with a range of up to 6,000 kilometers, a cruising speed of 330 km / h, a maximum speed of 480 km / h, and a practical ceiling of up to 10,667 meters, becoming the world's first long-range bomber with an altitude of 10,000 meters.

On August 3, the 26th year of Guanghua, the prototype "transport plane" of Songhu Heavy Industry took off from Songhu Airport, crossed the Pacific Ocean, the American continent and the Atlantic Ocean, and landed directly on the runway of the Air Force airfield at the Cyprus base of the Chinese Empire. The reason why it landed there was a trick used by the head of the Songhu Heavy Industry Group, which directly informed the Chinese Imperial Air Force Committee that such a super aircraft existed.

Sure enough, the Chinese Imperial Aviation Committee soon learned of the incident, and a "civilian" plane that had crossed more than half the world and landed on the runway of the base in Cyprus because of a "malfunction".

The Air Force Commission immediately launched an investigation, only to learn that it was a newly developed super-large transport aircraft from Songhu Heavy Industry. After learning of this, the Chinese Imperial Air Force Committee was quite happy and immediately sent a commissioner to Songhu Heavy Industry to inspect and contact. Soon, the Air Force Commission handed over the authorization for the development of the H-6 long-range bomber to Songhu Heavy Industries.

In this way, Songhu Heavy Industry can finally justifiably develop the H-6 long-range bomber.

However, what they didn't expect was that their H-6 failed to snatch the order for the H-5, because the H-6 was too ultra-long-range, and the Imperial Chinese Air Force not only needed ultra-long-range bombers, but also medium and short-range bombers. After all, if you attack medium- and short-range targets, it is not economical to use the H-6 long-range bomber, but the H-5 bomber is economical. Therefore, the order for the H-5 bomber was not snatched away, but the Air Force Committee added an additional order for long-range bombers.

Although it did not open the Xi'an industry all at once, Songhu Heavy Industry got the order for the H-6 bomber, and it was worth paying tens of millions of dragon dollars in research and development funds, and the market for long-range bombers in the future will be completely monopolized by Songhu Heavy Industry, and the profits are considerable.

After the H-6 bomber was authorized for research and development, Tang Kewei immediately armed the original "civilian" airframe, and many requirements needed to be revised, because to meet the requirements of the Air Force Committee, militarization, practicality, and economy became the new standard.

The exterior differences were the reintroduction of the larger rudder and ailerons, the removal of the transparent nose with a square glass conservatory turret and the bomb aiming window under the nose, and the redesign of the transparent nose with a heat-resistant plexiglass and aluminum alloy frame, reducing the overall length of the aircraft by 28 centimeters. The machine gun turret was replaced by a simple 12.7 mm spherical all-direction machine gun mount to the right of the nose. A piece of flat glass on the upper and lower part of the transparent nose acts as a bomb targeting window, and a bubble viewing window is added to the top of the cockpit.

In accordance with the requirements of the Air Force Commission, the most powerful Adel XPR-1120-turbine engine for the military was used. The maximum take-off power reaches 1,300 hp, and it can still provide a maximum thrust of 900 hp at an altitude of 8,220 meters. In addition to this, many of the internal systems were changed, the crew positions were rearranged according to the requirements of the military, and the pneumatic brakes were changed to hydraulic. The most special thing is that the original inverted triangular landing gear was changed to a regular triangular landing gear layout, becoming the first aircraft in the world to use a regular triangular landing gear layout, of course, because the weight and volume of the H-6 were too large, and the center of gravity was shifted forward.

In addition, the nose bomb delivery bay is equipped with the Hawkeye bomb plotter (refer to the Norton bomb sight) that has been successfully researched by the Chinese Imperial Beiyang Science and Technology Co., Ltd. This bomb finder is a gyro-stabilized sight. Developed by Beiyang Science and Technology in four years, the bomb tracer can quickly calculate the forward speed and yaw rate of the aircraft and make corrections for the bomb. Since it is still a mechanical operation, it has to be controlled by a person in the final stage of flying to the target, and there is still a certain amount of error. However, compared to the previous observation with the naked eye, the bomb is dropped by sensory experience. It can be described as a huge improvement, and the bombing accuracy has increased by more than 80%.

H-6 at the time of the first live-fire test. The Hawkeye bomb plotter was described by the Aviation Committee as being so accurate that it could "drop a bomb into a water tank", so precision bombing was also called "water tank bombing". Of course, this is an exaggeration. It is only proving that its bombing accuracy has been greatly improved.

The Hawkeye bomb plotter is regarded as a top secret by the imperial side, and it is stipulated that it can only be installed on the aircraft before takeoff, and must be covered with canvas, and must be dismantled immediately after landing, and these disassembly and assembly processes must be carried out under the supervision of armed guards. The crew of the bomber had to swear an oath to protect the sight's secrecy with their lives, destroying the Hawkeye sight before the plane was captured before it made a forced landing.

The H-6 has a standard crew of 22 and is armed with 12 12.7mm M2 heavy machine guns and a 20mm cannon. It was possible to provide all-round protection to the bomber, and enemy aircraft in any direction had to face crossfire strikes from at least two points of fire.

Similarly, the H-6 is huge in size and has space to install a radar system, and the radar system on it is much more powerful than the on-board radar of the Jian-10 fighter, which can search for aircraft targets within a radius of 150 kilometers, and can provide more than ten minutes of early warning time for the H-6.

The design plan of the bomb six was finally reported to Wang Chenhao, and when Wang Chenhao learned about this big guy, he subconsciously said, "Isn't this a fortress in the sky?" ”

As a result, the Air Force Committee named the H-6 bomber the Flying Fortress, to which Wang Chenhao only smiled bitterly.

With the H-5 medium-range bomber and the H-6 long-range bomber, the Chinese Imperial Air Force Committee successively eliminated more than a dozen plans in the selection of transport aircraft, and finally decided to convert it into a transport aircraft on the basis of the H-6 Aerial Fortress bomber, awarded the number Y8, which can transport 20 tons of materials, and the width of the belly can also transport various combat vehicles and military vehicles, but the most important thing is that it is used to project the airborne troops of the Chinese Empire, making the Chinese Imperial Airborne Forces truly a global projection force.

The National Assembly finally approved the proposal of the Air Force Committee, and the equipment of the Imperial Chinese Air Force entered the fourth period of major rearmament.

The biggest difference between this major refitting and the previous three major refitting is that the number of aircraft in the Air Force has been significantly reduced, and the previous tactics of the sea have been replaced by high-tech, high-performance new aircraft, and air fighting is no longer a group fighting tactic, but a fight for the advanced degree of equipment, the speed of the aircraft is getting faster and faster, and the flight time requirements for pilots are becoming more and more stringent, just like the era when a pilot was trained in a week during the First World War, it is impossible, taking the pilots needed by the Jian-10 fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force as an example. It takes at least one year of theoretical foundation and more than 500 hours of flight time to enter service. Of course, this is not a problem at all for the Chinese Empire, which is in a position of aviation supremacy, with many flight schools and abundant pilot resources.

However, for the Republic of South African Air Force on the battlefield in South Africa, they had less than 300 pilots, and they were basically amateur flying associations before, and their flying experience was only limited to small civilian aircraft with a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, which made it difficult for them to fly the fighters of the late World War I, let alone fly the German-made Heinkel fighters with speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour. Because I don't understand German, I don't have enough flying experience, I don't have combat experience, etc. In the battle against the United Nations Air Force, it is inevitable to be at a disadvantage.

This is how Colonel Rucker described it in his report to the German Ministry, in which he reported that the overall performance of the Hellfire fighters of the Chinese Empire was on par with the German Heinkel fighters, and that they had mutual advantages. The defeat of the Air Force of the Republic of South Africa these days is not because the equipment of the fighters is not advanced enough, but because there are no really qualified pilots.

Rucker said that if the problem is not resolved quickly, the South African Republican Army will soon be defeated by the United States.

The German General Staff Headquarters was very worried about this, because they did not want to directly send troops to confront the United **. That would have pushed Germany into opposition to the whole world, and it would have been fatal for Germany at this time. However, Germany did not want to give up the enormous benefits promised to them by the Republic of South Africa, and South Africa's abundant gold and diamond resources played a pivotal role in Germany's rapid economic recovery and regaining world hegemony.

It's a pity to abandon the spicy mouth. The German side was in a dilemma.

At this time, Hitler, the deputy chief of the General Staff, spoke to Hindenburg. It was proposed that the Luftwaffe send experienced pilots to the Republic of South Africa and that German pilots fly directly to engage the Hellfire fighters of the United **. Germany has experienced the world war, and after the war, Germany had tens of thousands of excellent pilots. It can be put into the South African battlefield.

Hindenburg discussed Hitler's proposal with several air officials and agreed that it was feasible.

After completing their training in flying Heinkel fighters at bases in Germany, German pilots were transferred to the German West African colonies and then to the Republic of South Africa. At the same time, the Luftwaffe was not willing to let their advanced aircraft be outclassed by the Hellfire fighters of the Chinese Empire, and Germany signed a loan agreement with the Republic of South Africa. Once again, 400 Heinkel fighters were supplied to the Republic of South Africa, and the first 100 Heinkel fighters were flown directly by German pilots from German West Africa to airfields under the control of the Republic of South Africa.

The German aircraft were marked by the South African Republic**, the pilots were dressed in South African army uniforms or civilian attire, and in radio communications they used English cards with Western European pronunciations, all in an attempt to conceal the fact that the Luftwaffe had entered the war.

Despite Hindenburg's strict secrecy, the German pilots were given orders to commit suicide in case of capture. In fact, since Germany joined the ranks of air warfare, the Chinese Empire's White Bone Essence electronic reconnaissance jamming ship quickly knew that Germany was secretly intervening by listening to the content of radio communications, but the Chinese Empire did not make it public, and the Chinese Imperial Air Force also wanted to touch the bottom of the Luftwaffe, which was a direct will from the Imperial Emperor Wang Chenhao, although the imperial ** high-level did not understand this, but since it was the emperor's order, they did not understand it and had to carry it out. Therefore, throughout the war in South Africa, the United ** side also chose to remain silent.

In this way, a large number of German pilots entered South Africa, forming an air corridor in a narrow 300-kilometer stretch from Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, to the German West African border, which was later called the Heinkel Corridor, because this airspace was occupied by a large number of Heinkel fighters. The combined Hellfire fighters engaged them in the airspace, and if the other side won, they took advantage of the victory to chase them and run around with the United Nations Air Force. If they lose, they immediately fly into German West African airspace. The United Nations Air Force Command has been issuing strict orders not to fly into German West African airspace to avoid providing a pretext for Germany's further support for South Africa. In this way, the Heinkel fighter in this area became the place where the UN Air Force gritted its teeth, and the term Heinkel Air Corridor appeared in front of the world.

The German Heinkel fighter and the Chinese Empire's Hellfire fighter had the advantage of each other, so that the two sides actually fought for the pilot's piloting skills and air combat experience. In this regard, the pilots of the Imperial Chinese Air Force and other United Nations Air Force pilots are naturally experienced, but most of the opponents are no longer rookie pilots in South Africa, but Luftwaffe pilots who have also experienced the baptism of war, and Germany has sent a considerable number of ace pilots during the war to join, and the air battle between the two sides has become extremely fierce.

On 19 February, the 2nd Squadron of the 33rd Air Wing of the Imperial Air Force, which had the most combat experience, was responsible for intercepting 30 Messesmitt bombers flying from Pretoria.

The commander of the escort aircraft of the South African Air Force was the first German fighter squadron to enter the skies over Paris in the world war, and he shot down more than 1,000 Allied planes, ranking first in the European theater.

Zhang Xiangyang, the leader of the second squadron, had just led the team through Johannesburg when he saw small black dots flying from a distance. So Zhang Xiangyang immediately ordered the formation to climb to the high altitude and prepare to occupy the commanding heights. However, when they climbed to a vantage point of six thousand meters, they suddenly lost their goal again. Obviously, the enemy aircraft are some veterans with a lot of combat experience. Flying over the non-Princes, eight enemy planes suddenly swooped in from the right front, making a right turn, preparing to make a tactical move of rear attack.

Zhang Xiangyang led his wingman Li Jigao to quickly climb high and turn right to get rid of the tail pursuit of the enemy plane. However, when they turned right to 90 degrees with an ascending angle, enemy planes 1 and 2, which were at the bottom of their right, continued to turn right.

Zhang Xiangyang keenly judged that the faster enemy would rush over quickly, and immediately ordered the wingman to quickly dodge to the left.

The air combat was changing rapidly, and after a perfect coordination, Zhang Xiangyang's twin planes were in the upper right rear of the enemy plane. is the most advantageous position for an attack. Seeing that the opportunity was unfavorable, the enemy immediately dived and broke away, and Zhang and Li suddenly rolled over on their sides, and after one hit, they also dived down, biting the enemy plane.

Sophisticated enemy planes wanted to raise their noses and fly in the direction of the sun. This is a very clever way to get rid of it, and in the glare of the sun, the pursuing pilot will not be able to track the target, and if he does not grasp it well, he will be counterattacked by enemy aircraft.

Zhang Xiangyang, who had studied this situation, had already planned it, and he made a sharp leap on the one hand, and on the other hand, he drove the plane to the left side, avoiding the dazzling sunlight, and pressed forward step by step. When the enemy plane made another sharp dive maneuver, he took advantage of the Hellfire fighter's large muzzle velocity when diving, and quickly approached the enemy plane.

At a distance of 600 meters, he entered from the left rear, opened all his firepower, and in an instant the bullets rained down, and the enemy plane was immediately hit by bullets, and smoke and fire rose and fell.

Enemy No. 2 plane suddenly rose up and turned to get rid of it, and was cut into the inner circle by Zhang Xiangyang's fierce counter-jump, shooting it down at a distance of 400 meters.

The downed US No. 1 plane was Germany's ace in World War I, with more than 3,000 hours of flying experience, and was called by the German side as a "particularly brave and combative hero" of the "invincible hero in the air," and Lieutenant Colonel Hohensaud, the commander of the German First Air Wing, and a mythical ace pilot who was a logistics soldier before the war.

The death of Hohensart shocked the Luftwaffe, but it did not dare to publicize it, so it had to secretly declare that he was an unsung hero who died in a car accident and could not be recognized by the German side for the rest of his life.

Of course, there were many German air officers like Hornsart, who were all required not to be taken prisoner once the plane was shot down, and Hitler personally taught them a lesson and instilled in them the idea of swearing allegiance to the death.

During the entire South African War, the Germans supported 540 pilots, but in the end only 13 left South Africa alive, and the rest became unsung heroes, who were named after the local South Africans and became heroes of the South African people.

The United Nations Air Force also suffered a lot of losses, including Wu Chengfei, the ace pilot of the Chinese Empire, and the United Nations Air Force also lost more than 200 people, all of whom were elite pilots from all over the world, but they were all awarded medals by the League of Nations and praised by people all over the world.

The Heinkel Air Corridor lasted for a month and a half, and there was no real victory in the air battle between the two sides, basically the joint ** won a game today, and the South African Air Force won one game tomorrow, and the two sides were evenly matched on the whole. By the end of March, there were less than 130 Heinkel fighters over South Africa, while the number of Hellfire B fighters reached 422. (To be continued)