Chapter 125: Bombers
After entering the hangar, a number of new types of aircraft were immediately discovered, and the two peasants immediately set about building an arsenal (research and analysis, reverse thrust) and a siege equipment manufacturing plant (production of large weapons) in the hangar.
There are really a lot of good things here, there are about 20 kinds of planes, and Lieutenant Morles will not choose the good or the bad, just drag them all into the arsenal, and fill the vacancy for them after reproduction.
He didn't know, but Farrell Tucker, who was collecting information in Europe, immediately marked the characteristics of each model to Zhao Yun according to the intelligence, so that Zhao Yun was not blind!
The spindle-shaped body of the German "Faith Warrior" DVa adopts a wooden skeleton and laminate skin, so that the body resistance is small. The wings are slightly swept back, the flat tail is approximately rounded, one or two machine guns are mounted in the nose, and the power plant is an in-line water-cooled engine with a semicircular fairing in the front.
The Fokker Dr.1 was a single-seat triplane with an old-fashioned upper, middle and lower three-tiered wing, connected by two struts, with the spans of the three wings decreasing from top to bottom. A 110 hp piston engine is mounted in the nose for a maximum speed of 165 km/h. The on-board armament is two machine guns.
Although it may seem cumbersome to use a three-layer wing, it is actually maneuverable, with excellent turning and climbing performance, and it was this type of aircraft flown by Germany's ace pilot "Red Baron" Wangchisofen, who once set a record for the number of planes shot down by one person.
The Fokker D.VII was the last fighter introduced by Germany in World War I. The normal double-layer wing layout, the wing adopts a high-efficiency airfoil, the fuselage is a rectangular section, and the steel tube skeleton is covered with cloth. The onboard armament is surrounded by two machine guns mounted on the upper part of the nose. The appearance of the whole aircraft is simple, stable and maneuverable, especially the performance of sharp jump and sharp turn is good, and the pilot is more handy in control, but this kind of fighter appeared too late, and the war was over, and finally became the trophy of the victorious country.
These three planes have been mentioned in the intelligence obtained by the spies sent to Europe, but because the First World War ended long ago, Zhao Yun has not been able to see the real situation, and this time they are all ready.
There are a lot of good things from Germany in the warehouse, but don't forget that this place is in France, and France is the main country against Germany, and France has more good things of its own.
The French Spad, whose aircraft had just been put into service, changed the defeat of the "Scarlet April" in northern France in 19l7 and gradually restored the French initiative in the air until the end of World War I. The on-board armament was two machine guns, and it was one of the main fighters still used in France after World War I. This series of aircraft is not outdated for Zhao Yun now!
Zhao Yun looked at the introduction of the new aircraft that kept popping up in the production sequence of the siege equipment manufacturing plant, and there was only one word in his heart: "Rise up!" ā
If there are so many planes, it will be possible to claim hegemony in the Far East for a while, and it should not be a problem to deal with Outer Mongolia this time.
Zhao Yun is most afraid of the interference of the Soviet Russians in the issue of Outer Mongolia, as a later generation, everyone knows that Lao Maozi has a role in competing with the United States for global hegemony in the half century after the 40s, even after the disintegration, it is a big disaster! If you don't take advantage of his illness to kill him now, it is estimated that he will want his own life in the future.
Zhao Yun will not forget the great preparations for the war in the 60s, and there is an air defense building of that period around his hometown in later generations.
Although at the beginning of the First World War, there were only about 1,500 aircraft from various countries participating in the war, by the end of the war, the number of military aircraft of various countries fighting on the front line reached more than 8,000. In the past four years, there have been more than 100,000 planes used by the warring sides in combat, and Zhao Yun does not dare to say that Russia, one of the participating countries, now has no fighters in Siberia around Outer Mongolia.
Although there is no such thing in the sky of Outer Mongolia at present, with the expansion and development of the war, Russian fighters will definitely appear in the future.
The fighter that Zhao Yun is now equipped with in the camp is the German Fokker E fighter, which belongs to the mid-World War I aircraft, using a single wing that was rare in World War I, with good maneuverability, a 7.92 mm caliber machine gun is on top of an air-cooled cylinder rotating star-shaped (cylinders are arranged in a radiant form) piston engine, easy to aim and shoot, can fire 800 bullets per minute, and is also a famous fighter in World War I.
But according to intelligence, Britain has a fighter called the "Camel" F.1, which also made a splash in World War I. According to statistics, from July 1917 to the end of the war in 1918, the "Camel" fighter shot down a total of 1,294 enemy planes, setting the best result for a single plane. The nose is equipped with a metal fairing, which can not only play a protective role, but also help to reduce drag. The upper wing is straight, the lower wing is slightly reversed, and the tail area is smaller. Above the nose there were two machine guns in parallel with high firepower. The aircraft is maneuverable and flexible, and its close-range combat performance is particularly outstanding, and the famous German ace pilot Richthofen was shot down and killed by this kind of aircraft, but because its control system is too sensitive, the guide is not a veteran and cannot fly.
Who knows if Russia has ever bought this plane! If there is, then the Fokker fighter that Zhao Yun is now equipped with will become a target.
However, at present, Russia is in a state of civil strife, and it is difficult for Zhao Yun's spies to play a role even if they enter, so the main forces are developed in the relatively stable three countries of Europe, Britain, France and Germany, and for Russia, the tentacles extending from Europe only reach Russia's neighbor Finland, so the intelligence in Russia is still in a state of fog.
However, some aircraft accessories appeared in the list of arsenals, which attracted Zhao Yun.
Among them are the engines of the aircraft, "engines!" Zhao Yun couldn't help but think, isn't the aircraft factory in Fujian that can handle it except for the engine? Hope this will work for them.
At the top of the list is the engine of the Spad series fighter "Espano" with the highest number of all points, and the French Spard XIII. has a power of 200 horsepower.
But the next moment, Zhao Yun was startled by something in the arsenal, "Machine gun? "Why did this thing come out now?
For this thing, Zhao Yun still saw the cannon on the fighter plane piloted by the Chinese pilot during the Korean War when he visited the military museum.
This good thing, Zhao Yun saw that the source still appeared in French aircraft, the French Spad XII.CaI. type can fire 37mm shells from the propeller shaft core.
"Good boy! From now on, there will be small artillery in the sky to support the cavalry! ā
In addition to some fighters, two bombers were found in the hangar, both of which were German "Gotha" GV heavy bombers. However, its bomb load is not comparable, and Zhao Yun is now equipped with the prototype of the Handley-Pedy 0/400 transport aircraft, which has a bomb load of 162% of the former. They are all designed for air strikes on important military targets and transportation hubs behind enemy lines, and Zhao Yun now has higher requirements for transportation than bombing, so there is not much demand for them. In order to find the missing Russian royal family, when the spy went to check the close relatives of the Russian royal family, he found that the "Gotha" named bomber was a principality of the German Empire, known as the "export professional" of the European royal family. Regarding the situation of the European royal family, you have me and I have you, Zhao Yun couldn't cry or laugh.
What Zhao Yun wants most now is a transport plane with a larger and longer range, which can save the plane from taking off from Jiangsu and stopping in Shanxi.
The intelligence given by the spies also showed that Britain had a superior four-engine bomber, the Handley Pedy V/1500, with a crew of 5-7 people, which could carry 6 and a half tons of ammunition and had a range of 12 hours. In the horizontal bombardment anti-ship real yĆ n, a German battleship acting as a target ship was sunk with 2,000 pounds of bombs.
Russia also has four water-cooled piston engines called the Ilya Muromets heavy bomber.
It's a pity that none of them are in this warehouse. So Zhao Yun instructed the spies to do their best to get the British heavy bomber V/1500. Now that the number of spies in Europe has exceeded the 4,000 mark, some identification documents can be easily issued, so Zhao Yun can already order them to quickly go to some locations to carry out missions.
Zhao Yun was about to order Lieutenant Morles, a spy, to destroy the arsenal and siege equipment manufacturing after he had taken care of this place, and the soldiers on the periphery reported that an underground hangar had been found near the hangar.
What without a key?
A sucker! Directly exploded with explosives, and there were no formalities when it was handed over anyway, so Zhao Yun had no scruples.
I struggled to open it and saw a huge plane with four engines lying in the hangar.
It doesn't take much effort, pull it directly into the arsenal of the hangar, decompose, and the sequence of the siege equipment manufacturing institute shows that Zibelin. Stark RIV.
"Or is it German?" Zhao Yun couldn't imagine that he would be able to pick up a treasure in the end.
The four-engine heavy bomber, which had a bomb load of 2,000 kilograms, four times the bomb load of the "Gotha GV", was also developed at the end of the war, but participated in actual combat and bombed Britain and France.
"Hahaha!" Zhao Yun couldn't close his mouth with a smile, with this, the Russian Far East lifeline tragedy.
"Stoppage! Lockout! The shipyard has stopped work for me! Everybody go and ship cement! Zhao Yun suddenly remembered a big event.
took back the footage of looking at Europe, hurriedly got into the car, and went straight to the county office, "Deputy County Magistrate Xu!" What about people? Zhao Yun rushed into the county government in a hurry.
"Oh! Prefectural Chief! What's so urgent! "Deputy County Magistrate Xu is still sleeping! While getting dressed, he walked out, and now the deputy county magistrate has also figured out some of Zhao Yun's situation, and knows that Zhao Yun generally runs to the county government office if he has nothing to do, and every time he comes, there is a big thing.
"Quickly organize manpower, except for the farm, the rest of the people are not allowed to transfer 10,000 people to me, men, women and children." Zhao Yun patted the table and said.
"County magistrate, why do you want so many people?" Deputy County Magistrate Xu didn't ask clearly, how dare he transfer people! There are a lot of spies around! If you think that you and Zhao Yun wear the same pants, then it is estimated that they will be replaced tomorrow.