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At three o'clock in the morning, Andong Airport is heavily guarded. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 When the light of the incandescent lamp sprinkled on the four largest military planes ever built by mankind in the center of the airport, every soldier was deeply attracted by them, and the pride of the motherland's strength was born.

This is the H-12, the world's first strategic bomber equipped with actual combat equipment, and the Air Force named it after the nickname "Kunpeng" of the first bomber.

As early as October 1940, when Yang Qiu sent troops to India at Churchill's request, he had already gone to the northwest to inspect the H-12 project, which was quickly finalized. At that time, it used 4 2500-horsepower turbo engines developed by Airbus itself, using a series of new technologies such as pressurized engine room, central fire control, high-altitude de-icing, and remote-controlled machine guns, with a maximum take-off weight of 65 tons, a maximum ceiling of 13,000 meters, a maximum transfer range of 11,000 kilometers, a combat radius of 4,200 kilometers with 5 tons of bombs, and a full load of 11 tons is 3,800 kilometers. Even now, these figures are still dazzling, but Airbus, which has always been committed to the world's strongest aviation manufacturer, was not satisfied, and after the presidential inspection, it decided to challenge itself and redesign the airframe and wings, only to find that their engines were falling behind.

The impetus of war to science and technology is unimaginable, and even Yang Qiu, a latecomer, cannot grasp this aspect. With the improvement of the national scientific research system and industry, the days when the data machine could not even be made for several years have gone forever. Today's China has been able to give full play to the effect of its drawings, and if it were not for the breakthrough of the two major technologies of microelectronics and integrated circuits, it would be possible to plant Scud missiles all over Moscow.

So only a year after Airbus came up with a 2,500-horsepower turbo engine, Meteor and Hanyang also quietly advanced their respective research turbo to the 3,000-horsepower level. If it weren't for the material and precision machining that dragged on and led to poor life and the inability to increase the combustion temperature, the two would have actually had the ability to produce the famous T56 series, because the core machine of the T56 series is the J47. You must know that Yang Qiu spared no effort in supporting domestic aviation enterprises, and the technical drawings given to promote competition were also different. The top three engines, Meteor, Airbus and Hanyang, were J47 from the United States, Atta from France and Nien from the United Kingdom.

All three turbo engines were the best after World War II, and the technology did not deviate from World War II standards. However, after combining the current domestic materials and processing capacity, there have been great changes, and the turbojet life developed by Airbus with Atta as the core engine is only 40 hours, the thrust is far from the standard, and the turboforce is only 2500 horsepower. The vortex produced by Meteor and Hanyang is also far from the prototype, and the lifespan can barely reach 50 hours. However, after the latter two developed the turbo with the J47 and Nien's core engines, they both launched the "Stellar 40" and "Kunlun 8" turbo engines with a 250-hour life and 3,300 horsepower output respectively (although the core engine is the same, the turbo has a longer life due to deceleration and temperature).

In the face of backwardness, Ba Yuzao and Zhou Houkun concluded and found that the gap between Airbus and the two is not in the design. It's in terms of money, energy and investment. Meteor is the largest aviation enterprise in China, focusing on the military industry, saving the first pot of gold during the European War, and the design of military aircraft and engines accounts for half of the country, not only sophisticated technology and abundant funds. Hanyang focuses on engines, because its main product is water-cooled, so it also completely occupies the domestic water-cooled aero engine market, and has maintained a good relationship with Northern Raytheon Company for a long time. One engine, one aircraft. The funds are very energetic, so they can invest a lot of money in materials and other technologies. Airbus, on the other hand, has to take care of aircraft due to its poor family background, so even if it was the first to design the double Mustang series. It also began to lag behind two companies.

Competitive pressure led the two to make a far-reaching decision to sell all of their Hunan Engine Company to Hanyang for 500 million yuan after the Spring Festival last year. In this way, Hanyang has become more comprehensive with air cooling technology. It can compete with the strongest Meteor, while Airbus, although it loses its engine, can put all its energy on the plane. Even ten years later, it squeezed out the meteor in the civil aircraft market and occupied half of the world's civil aircraft.

The largest business combination deal since the founding of the People's Republic of China also contributed to the H-12 refresh. After selling the engine industry, Airbus decisively chose to output the more stable "Stellar 40" turbo engine. Due to the greater horsepower, Ba Yuzao and Zhou Houkun, who are already the world's top aviation design masters, personally redesigned the fuselage, enlarged the fuselage and changed the swept wing back to a straight wing, and adopted a larger blade with higher efficiency to make the overall lift greater.

In order to obtain a larger bomb load, the two also led a technical team to focus on weight reduction. They already know that the standard aluminum alloy thickness of the American B29 bomber is 1.57 mm, not to mention China, not to mention Britain and Germany. At present, the domestic technical level can only process up to 2.2 mm, and if B29 is produced with this thickness, the aircraft will gain weight by 2 tons! So the two took a different approach, focusing on the internal structure and new materials. In order to save every gram of weight, they broke through the convention and used the expensive Scroon (aluminum-lithium alloy) brought back from Germany by Jin Bihui for the first time on the bomber to make the tail fin, and also used a lot of balsa wood! Aircraft during World War II used a lot of aviation plywood, and aviation plywood was actually heavier than aluminum, so when Zhang Xiaozhun telegraphed that Britain was making a bomber out of balsa wood, Ba Yuzao immediately contacted the Navy to request the purchase of balsa wood, and then Yang Qiu also asked Lei Meng, who was developing in South America, to buy and introduce seeds to meet domestic demand.

After more than 300 days and nights of hard work, all these efforts finally turned into the bomber in front of the Air Force that the Air Force loved and hated. Love it because it represents the highest achievement of China's aviation technology at present, although the ceiling and speed have not changed much, but the maximum flight range has increased to 13,700 kilometers, the maximum take-off weight has soared from 65 tons to 76 tons, and the maximum bomb load has broken through to 16 tons! With a bomb load of 10 tons, its combat radius can reach 5700 km! Give the Air Force the ability to take off from domestic airfields to bomb Moscow! I hate it because its unit price is as high as 1.5 million yuan, and the logistics are complex, the engine life and survival rate are not the most ideal (the survival of the turbo engine is not as good as the air-cooled star), and the most criticized thing is that the volume and tonnage determine that with the domestic manufacturing capacity, it can only produce up to 43 aircraft per month. (Compared to the United States, the B29 averages 150 aircraft per month)

In the era when quantity was needed, it was very difficult for the military to purchase the H-12, but in the end, Yang Qiu made the decision and began mass production in January this year, with a total of 29 companies involved in manufacturing. This decision was made because, first, China is not the only country in the world that has developed strategic bombers. The progress of the American B29 has been accelerated under the unfavorable pressure of Europe, and intelligence predicts that it will make its first flight by May this year at the latest, and it will be ready for service by the end of 43. And the B36 program, with a take-off weight of up to 150 tons, has not been abandoned like in parallel worlds, but continues to advance steadily, and Yang Qiu does not want to lag behind the United States with the drawings. Second, starting from the H-12, China's aero engine has embarked on a new path, when the United States GE and Pratt & Whitney are obsessed with pistons and are committed to the development of the 3500-horsepower "Hornet" engine, China has quietly entered the turbine era. Yang Qiu was very clear. Taking advantage of the wrong direction of British and American research and development to widen the gap is a shortcut to seize the commanding heights.

However, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the H-12 production capacity, Yang Qiu and the Air Force did not let it go, and a H-7/41 bomber with the H-7 as the prototype has been finalized.

No matter how much headache the high-level has, Gao Zhihang loved this big guy to death, because Xu Huansheng was transferred to the Western Front to prepare for the all-out bombing of the Soviet Union, he became the commander-in-chief of the bombing of Japan. Because this "clearance" operation was very crucial, he decided to lead the team himself.

Four crew members gathered around him. "According to the intelligence, Kenji Dohihara of the Japanese Special High School and Shigetaro Shimada, the new commander of the Combined Fleet, have both returned to Tokyo last night. Japanese Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso, Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi, Interior Minister Shigeo Otata, Finance Minister Shotaro Ishiwatari, War Minister Sugiyama Moto, Army Generals Shunroku Hatata, Okamura Ninji, Terauchi Toshiichi and Umezu Mijiro will also attend, and representatives of the imperial family, King Minoru Higashikurenomiya and King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, may also attend. As far as we know, the meeting place will be one of the Yasukuni Shrines or Sensoji Temples that we bombed. The General Staff demanded. In order to ensure greater casualties, the bombing time was set at one hour after the reconnaissance signal was issued. ”

"This is a reconnaissance photo, you see, in the last bombing, we destroyed the main buildings such as the main hall, the Seal Book, and the Divine Gate. But note that the Yushu Museum is still well preserved, and there is a forest next to the museum. The concealment is good, and there is a hidden underground passage in the museum, so the Ministry of Intelligence thinks that the shrine is the most likely to be visited! Since the anti-aircraft artillery along the coast of Tokyo and Japan was still in effect, we had to take off in half an hour, first cross the Korean Peninsula, then cross the Kii Peninsula from high altitude, and then turn back to the sea off Kashima Beach northeast of Tokyo to wait for the signal. As soon as the signal is received, it immediately flies north, disguised as an illusion to detect Utsunomiya, and finally turns back to Tokyo. Remember! The cloudburst bomb is powerful and the air pressure fuse is also very sensitive, so the bomb must be dropped at a height of 2,000 meters. After approaching Tokyo, it is necessary to descend to 3 km, then penetrate at a low altitude of 500 km/h, and finally drop to 2,000 meters to drop bombs. ”

"The technical department has told me that the cloudburst bomb can ensure the destruction of all buildings and people within a radius of 200 meters, but such a bomb has a long detonation time, and there must be enough interval between the two drops, otherwise the high temperature will destroy the open parachute and cause the fuse to fail. So I'm going to use the two-plane penetration tactic, with an interval of 10 minutes between the two planes, and the high-explosive bombs in the back must wait for the cloud burst bombs to fully explode before dropping, otherwise the explosive wind will blow away something in the air, and the gains will outweigh the losses! Yan Daqiu, you and I will go to the Yasukuni Shrine in a group, and after I drop a cloud burst bomb, you will drop a high-explosive bomb to destroy the underground structure. Liu Mingchuan, you and Qian Jun are in a group, go to Sensoji Temple in case there are fish that slip through the net. ”

"This is the call code. Also, this time we are disguised as a large reconnaissance aircraft, and the fighters accompanying the escort will hide at high altitudes, so be careful of anti-aircraft artillery and zero combat! If you get hit, open the booster valve as soon as possible to buy time for the destruction of the confidential equipment in the machine! Do you understand? ”。

Just as Gao Zhihang led the team to fly northeast through the Kii Peninsula, Koiso Kuniaki's car slowly drove out of the Prime Minister's Office. Five minutes after the car drove out, a bleak picture emerged from the window. The streets are still neat, but the buildings around them are gone, and only piles of rubble remain. The ruins can be seen in a jumble of shacks, all made of felt, canvas and straw.

The whole of Tokyo, the 600-square-kilometer urban area, is an empty and desolate scene, with no buildings, no roadside hawkers, no commuting workers, only hungry people waiting to pay. Most of the citizens were evacuated to the countryside, so they were lifeless even during the day. More than a dozen women who went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables blocked the road, and the driver honked his horn, and the scene of bending down and bowing in a hurry to get out of the way in the past was gone, only indifferent eyes and numb expressions.

Koiso Kuniaki sighed softly, a year-long heavy bombardment. The confidence of the Japanese people in the war has been dealt a heavy blow, and the people's accusations against the government have become stronger and stronger, and the resentment has grown, and these women of humble status are a direct response to this sentiment. This is still in the past, and whoever dares to block the prime minister's car will bow even if he sees it from a distance.

The bleak streets made it impossible for Koiso Kuni Showa and Okitra Shotaro Ishito, who were sitting in the car, to be interested in talking, and they couldn't bear to see the scene outside, so the car came to the Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda in a dull way. The shrine, which is considered a symbol of Japan, is also in a dilapidated state, and there is even a crater several meters deep in the location of the main hall. The car drove until the tour hall in the northwest was intact and did not stop. After the two got out of the car, the driver immediately drove the car into the woods and hid it so that the Chinese reconnaissance plane would not discover the prime minister's traces.

As soon as Koiso walked into the Yushokan, Sugiyama Mototo and Shigeo Ōda came over, and when he saw the latter, he eagerly asked about the riots in Neshima Prefecture, "Dada-kun, how is the situation in the south now?" ”

"I only know that the cause is because of the rice grabbing, there are remnants of the rebels, and others." Shigeo Oda is the Minister of the Interior, and this kind of thing is unshirkable. But this one has clearly been in Tokyo for a long time. Faced with the Prime Minister's question, he actually shook his head: "We are all waiting for Kenji Dohihara of the special high class, and he will arrive soon." ”

"You!" Xiao Igu's eyes were black with anger, and the dignified Minister of the Interior couldn't even figure out where the riot had progressed. If he hadn't married the princess of the prince's family, I really wanted him to get out of the house immediately. So he waved his hand and asked him to stand to the side and asked Sugiyama about the rebels.

"It's Kokusha! According to the information of Tohihara, the people of China provided no less than 5,000 short guns. The firepower is very strong, so we must allocate funds to produce 100 short guns as soon as possible to deal with the rebels. "Sugiyama was more interested in submachine guns. The Minister of Treasure, Ishiwatari Shotaro, who was standing next to him, was angry that the army was still thinking about reaching out for money at this time, and sneered: "It's okay to allocate funds." But what are you going to make it out of? Do you want to dig up the steel bars in the foundation of the Prime Minister's Palace? ”。

"We can dismantle the ships of the Navy, there will be enough steel."

"Yaga! Why don't you dismantle your cannons? Shitaro Shimada, who was sitting in the corner, was furious.

"Okay, the national crisis is at the head, are you still the courtiers of the empire arguing like this?". Xiao Ji saw that it was going to cause another scolding war, so he hurriedly stopped the two of them, and sat on the side with a headache to discuss with everyone how to curb the rice grabbing and mobilize those troops to quell the rebellion. After a while, two representatives of the royal family, King Minoru of Higashikure Palace and King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, also walked in.

Just as the two of them arrived at the shrine, Gao Zhihang also issued an order to act, and four H-12 "Kunpeng" staggered back and forth from the east into Japanese airspace.

"Why hasn't Tu Feiyuan come back yet?" Okamura Ninji, who had not spoken, kept looking at his watch, and he paid more attention to the southern riots than anyone else, so he was very eager to know the specific situation, so he got up and bowed to Koiso and walked out of the shrine. When he arrived at the door, a gray military truck also carried Kenji Dohihara into Chiyoda.

"Tu Fei Yuan-kun, you're finally back, tell me why are you like this?" As soon as Dohihara got out of the car, Okamura Ninji ran over, but when he saw his appearance clearly, the words on his lips changed. Because Kenji Dohihara's appearance is really sad, it looks like he has lost a lot of weight, the flesh on his cheeks has fallen off, like two curtains hanging down, his face is full of wrinkles, his eyes are full of red bloodshots, and it can be seen that he has exhausted his energy to deal with Chinese infiltration.

"It doesn't matter, just drink a little water." Tu Feiyuan unscrewed the kettle and took a few gulps before gasping: "The situation is very bad. Okamura Ninji was very worried about his health, but he was anxious to know the situation in the south, so he helped him and asked.

"The attack on Shina was fierce, and the coastal cities of Niigata were shelled and the losses were very serious. Things were worse in the south than I expected, and many sailors who had been dismissed by the Navy joined the riot. ”

"These damn fishermen!" Okamura Ninji secretly cursed in his heart, and continued to listen to him: "Not only that, but the people of China have also strengthened their support for the rebels, and I have seen the airdrop of supplies and artillery shells happen in the few days I have been there, and I suspect that there may be insiders and their navy collusion. ”

"Is there nothing you can do about it?"

Kenji Dohihara thought for a moment and shook his head again: "Okamura-kun, I'm afraid it's difficult, unless we have enough food to appease. You know, the slogans put forward by the rebels are an end to the war, equal distribution of land and food, which is very tempting for those who are poor. And they use all the food they loot to buy people's hearts. There were many tired people who participated. ”

After listening to Okamura Ninji, his heart became more and more anxious. Repression was not a problem, there were enough troops in the south, but as a hierarchical country, such an insurrection was too unusual. This is not only China's support and promoter, but also the implication that Japan's national system is on the verge of collapse. This is no joke, and if something goes wrong with the managers, God knows if it won't get into a civil war. "Okamura-kun, forgive me for saying something that shouldn't be frustrating, the empire is getting more and more difficult! If we can still retain a little bit of vitality at this time. But it would be terrible if the whole country was in turmoil. ”

Okamura Ninji understood what he meant, what samurai spirit, what opened up the territory for the empire, and now it is all yesterday's yellow flower. It's time to seek a change and keep Hirota negotiated. So he patted Tu Feiyuan: "Don't worry, I will tell the prime minister in a minute, the war can no longer be fought." ”

The two of them walked inside as they spoke, and had just reached the door. The piercing air defense sirens suddenly sounded! "Woo." "What's going on? What's going on? As soon as the alarm sounded, the guards deployed around rushed out, and even Koiso Kuniaki and others ran to the door.

"Prime Minister, it's the China plane."

"There is only one (the back one is 3 minutes apart. So what is seen is one), it should be a reconnaissance aircraft. Hide, everyone. After Xiao Iso and the others came out, they found that there was only one plane. The guards were relieved that after all, there would be seven or eight reconnaissance planes flying over Tokyo a day. Therefore, after quickly placing the prime minister and generals in an underground bunker more than ten meters away, they looked at the sky and did not close the thick blast door.

Okamura Ninji and Tu Fei were still some distance away, so they didn't go to the shelter for fear of exposing everything, so they hid in the grass shed next to them. Seeing a plane rushing towards him quickly, Okamura still had the leisure to ask Kenji Dohihara: "Dohihara-kun, what kind of plane is it?" ”

"I don't know, it looks like a new plane." Chief Dohihara is very familiar with Chinese aircraft, but this one is too big! Tu Feiyuan was secretly speechless, and for some reason a very bad feeling suddenly appeared in his heart. "There's another one." At this moment, another plane appeared in the sky in the distance, heading in the direction of Sensoji Temple.

"Knock knock." The Japanese anti-aircraft guns opened fire, and the few anti-aircraft guns left made Gao Zhihang a little nervous. Fortunately, the low-altitude penetration has greatly reduced the time for detection, and just two minutes later, the Yasukuni Shrine appeared in the distance.

"Ready!" The hatch opens.

If you change to the H-7, at an altitude of 2,000 meters and a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, it is almost impossible to hit a certain venue of the shrine, but the H-12 is different. It has state-of-the-art central fire control, navigator and bomb sights, as well as computer-aided control, so bombardiers can quickly lock onto their targets. "Daisy One departed! Daisy One departs! "With a slight shock from the bomber, the 6,800-kilogram daisy cutter left the magazine.

"Not good! It's a bomb! As soon as the bomb came out of the cabin, Tu Feiyuan's face changed greatly. Because it's clear that this bomb is coming for the shrine and the meeting! The guards shouted, but just as they panicked, a huge umbrella flower suddenly appeared overhead. "This is a flyer?" Okamura Ninji ran towards the hideout, wondering how the bomb could bring a parachute? Seeing this, Dohihara also stood up and stared at the umbrella flower, as if considering whether to follow Okamura to the bunker or lie down.

"Bang." The explosion occurred 30 meters overhead, and a large cloud of white fog spread out. Dohihara and Okamura and the others were wondering what time the spark would tear their eyeballs apart. "Boom!" With an earth-shattering bang, the sky above the Yasukuni Shrine was like a pot of hot magma being dumped. At that moment, Tu Feiyuan felt as if the top of his head was being pressed by tens of thousands of tons. Then his body was lifted high by the blast of the air, and before he lost consciousness, he saw a black thing rushing towards him, and then his feet hurt and he didn't know anything.

No one survived within the radius of the daisy cutter, and the aerosol volatilized, repeatedly exploding and burning, like a black hole devouring the oxygen around it. The sol also seeped into the hidden place where the door was not closed, and in an instant, it swallowed Okamura Ninji and a dozen guards at the door. Even Koiso Kuniaki and the others in the depths suddenly felt that their mouth and nose were blocked by something, and they could no longer breathe any air. No matter how big your mouth is opened or how hard you suck, it's like being in a cosmic vacuum.

No oxygen!

The feeling that could not be described in words was terrible, and soon their faces turned purple and their eyes seemed to explode out of their sockets! Then he waved his hands and feet desperately, as if trying to gather the oxygen. After a few minutes, consciousness began to blur, and many began to tear their necks, as if they had to cut open their necks to expose the trachea directly to the air. After a few unconscious screams, everything returned to calm.

Ten minutes later, a second H-12 arrived, and a 10-ton "punishment" high-explosive bomb similar to the British Grand Slam bomb was released from the magazine. Although "Punishment" does not burn for a full ten minutes like the Daisy Cutter, its huge penetrating force and explosion make the whole of Tokyo shake for a moment, as if a slight movement of the earth's crust had just occurred. The mushroom cloud raised by the Daisy Cutter is stirred up after the Punishment explosion, and then a new mushroom cloud rises in the middle. Thousands of meters of explosive mushroom clouds were churning and curling, and even the low clouds in the sky seemed to be affected by the blast wind and quickly dispersed.

Almost at the same time, the Sensoji direction also exploded and rumbled.

No matter where you are in Tokyo, you can see the tumbling mushroom clouds and feel the earth shake!

The daisy cutter, as its name suggests, cuts through Japan, which is symbolized by the chrysanthemum. 27 members of the Japanese government's cabinet, the most senior officers of the military department, and thousands of monks, soldiers, and ordinary people, including Kuniaki Koiso, Minoru Higashikuremi, Hatohiko Asakamiya, Sugiyama Mototo, Umezu Mijiro, Okamura Ninji, and Shigetaro Shimada, all died! The entire Sensoji Temple and Yasukuni Shrine were completely wiped out, because of the distance, they were swept away by the air waves, and the soil and fertilizer that was lucky enough to not die were also cut off by a piece of shrapnel, and the flesh and blood blurred and became a vegetative person.

"Target disappears, confirm target disappears! The purge plan began, and the squadrons attacked as planned. After climbing back to 10,000 meters and seeing that the two targets were completely destroyed, Gao Zhihang immediately contacted China and launched a clearance plan. Thousands of H-7 planes were dispatched to the command posts of the Japanese army, navy, and air force, county government offices at all levels, military camps, refugee management offices, and so on, according to the coordinates provided by the intelligence, and as long as they were suspected of having the positions of Japanese administrators and officers, they were continuously bombed by decapitation in the following month. During the month, thousands of government officials and military officers were cleared by various types of cloudbursts and large bombs such as "rage" and "punishment...... (To be continued......)