readx; The Nationalist Air Force has achieved a lot of results in southern Jiangsu, greatly suppressing the reconnaissance activities of the Beiyang Army Air Force, although Wu Shizhong is not blamed by the army generals, but the Air Force of the Beiyang Army Air Force is not having a good time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the Beiyang Air Force was stationed in Jiangbei for nearly half a month, the Beiyang Army has lost more than 10 planes, most of which were shot down by the D5A fighters of the Nationalist Air Force, and only one was damaged during the take-off stage due to a malfunction. The Beiyang Army Air Force was shot down so many planes in a row, and it was okay for the first few days, and I thought it was a plane failure or was shot down by the ground anti-aircraft fire of the Nationalist Army, but when a pigeon plane saw the Nationalist Army D5A fighter in the air chasing a friendly pigeon plane in the air and successfully shot it down, the pilot of the pigeon plane was very unhappy, and then turned around and flew back, and the D5A fighter was unable to continue the pursuit because of the lack of aviation fuel, resulting in the pigeon plane of the Beiyang Army Air Force successfully escaped.

After this pigeon plane escaped, it brought extremely shocking news to the air force of the Beiyang Army, that is, the opposite Nationalist Air Force plane not only flew well in all aspects, but also had the ability to fight in the air, and according to the pilot's own words, the Nationalist plane was completely chasing after the pigeon plane and firing forward.

Such an air combat method made Liu Baoming, director of the Air Force Division of the Beiyang Army, extremely shocked! The Beiyang Air Force was established by him, and his own aircraft piloting ability is not outstanding, but he is a genuine technical talent, and when he studied in France with Qin Guoyong, Wu Shizhong and others, his results were no worse than Qin Guoyong and others. He also knew very well that the pigeon and gaudron planes that the Beiyang Air Force could purchase were already the top aircraft that Germany and France could manufacture today, but the aircraft in all aspects still lagged behind the aircraft designed and manufactured by the Fuzhou Aircraft Factory. If it is just a flight surname, Liu Baoming can understand, after all, even the current Beiyang Army Air Force has adopted the same model as the National Army after discovering that it cannot buy more advanced aircraft, that is, after importing engines, and then trying to design the aircraft himself, and Liu Baoming has personally designed an aircraft that is faster than the pigeon aircraft, has a longer range, and has a better safety surname, just waiting to be manufactured in small batches.

However, Liu Baoming is still confused about how to install machine guns on the plane, limited to the structural strength of the current aircraft, it is very difficult to install machine guns on both sides of the wing to shoot forward, even the B3 twin-engine bombers in active service in the national army are difficult to install machine guns on both sides of the wings, and it is okay to install machine guns, but it will seriously affect the strength structure of the wing of the aircraft, and even affect the bomb load. And the installation of machine guns on the wings of small single-shot aircraft, the national army has carried out a large number of tests before developing a concave and convex coordinated firing structure, but it has not been successful at all, the D4A fighter only installs a machine gun on the back seat, and then the rear seat pilot carries out manual control, can only shoot at both sides of the aircraft, and the angle of fire is greatly limited, can only fly to the side of the enemy plane and then fire at the enemy plane, and if you are not careful, you will hit the wing of your own plane, and if you don't hit the enemy, you will shoot yourself down, Similar accidents have happened twice, which is also the D5A fighter developed as soon as the Wu Shizhong couldn't even wait for the D5A mass production to meet the needs of the three wings, so he hurriedly retired the D4A fighter, some of which were changed back to the D4 reconnaissance aircraft, and some of which were directly dismantled and recycled.

Therefore, whether it is for Liu Baoming at present or for the aviation circles of other countries, it has become a consensus that machine guns should be installed on planes for strafing at the ground, and even Liu Baoming believes that if the planes of the two sides meet in the air, then it is completely possible to use machine guns to strafe and strike at enemy planes. The concept of air combat is not too illusory, as long as there is a need for actual combat, many people can put it forward.

However, the current concept of air combat Liu Baoming is still in the initial stage, and only a small number of aircraft have been modified and equipped with machine guns, and this part of the aircraft has no chance to compete with the D5A fighters of the National Army, and now the pilot in front has reported that the National Army has appeared a kind of aircraft that can shoot directly forward, which makes Liu Baoming puzzled.

It is impossible to add a machine gun to the structure of the wings, and if it is necessary, then in order to strengthen the structure of the aircraft, then the aircraft will become very large. However, Liu Baoming's concept of the aircraft is still stuck in a single-engine aircraft, and he does not think that the National Army has the ability to develop such a large aircraft. And according to the return of the pilots of the front, the National Army aircraft that shot down the pigeon in the air was not large, but a single-engine biplane.

How on earth did such a small plane crash a machine gun into the wings? Liu Baoming was puzzled, as for the installation of a machine gun on the nose, Liu Baoming never thought that the front of the nose was a propeller, and the shooting coordinator was not technically difficult at all, it was just a principle idea, and people who had not seen the real thing could not even think of it if they were geniuses. The Germans also kept this ingeniously designed firing coordinator extremely secretive, and Fokker planes equipped with this device rarely penetrated deep into the heart of the Anglo-French army, thus gaining air supremacy for a long time. The British and French air forces had no way to solve this, and it was not until later that the British and French forces got the wreckage of a crashed Fokker plane, and through analysis, they discovered the huge role of the firing coordinator.

Although he couldn't figure out how the planes of the Nationalist Army could shoot machine guns forward, Liu Baoming still made a corresponding solution, on the one hand, he accelerated the modification of the existing planes, and he had to bring a machine gun with him when he went out to carry out reconnaissance missions. In addition to this, he is already ready to gather manpower to improve the aircraft he has previously set up, and the previous focus on large range is no longer important, what is important is how to strengthen the machine-gun firepower. At the same time, he is already preparing to send a tender to several foreign aircraft manufacturers for the purchase of a fighter that can be used in air combat and can shoot forward.

In the face of such a bizarre design requirement of the Beiyang Army, the aircraft factories in Europe were also worried and did not know how to solve it, so they could only try to strengthen the airframe architecture and then install aircraft on both wings.

You must know that only China has a large-scale air force confrontation in the world, and it can be said that China's experience in aircraft combat is not available in other countries, and only Italy conducted a small-scale reconnaissance operation in 1911 among European countries, and air battles have never happened except in the airspace over China.

Now the role of the aircraft has gradually attracted the attention of all countries, and all countries have carried out the development of military aircraft, but the previous main direction of development was still on reconnaissance capabilities, and now the Beiyang Air Force has put forward air combat capabilities, so it is normal for the Beiyang Army to put forward such a design and ask the air forces of other countries to pay attention to and learn from it.

Even in the case that the Beiyang Army did not come up with a large amount of funds, the air forces of various countries themselves had already pulled out research funds in advance, prepared to design similar aircraft, and then handed over to the Beiyang Army for use, they were preparing to use China as an aircraft test site, used to test the actual effect of the aircraft and the future development direction of the aircraft, the situation is very similar to the Spanish Civil War in history, when Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union were all used by the Spanish battlefield as a test ground for various new weapons. A large number of tanks and planes were sent to the Spanish battlefield to test their actual combat capabilities.

If it is said that the greatest impact of Chen Jingyun on the world is that in addition to the turmoil caused by the changes in the situation in China and thus the turmoil in the Far East, then it is the advance revolution brought to the world aviation community, and all countries attach importance to the actual combat effectiveness of aircraft in advance.

Although Liu Baoming had tried his best, Ren Jiu could not stop the decline of the Beiyang Air Force in the skies over southern Jiangsu, and after learning that the Nationalist Army had specialized air combat aircraft, the number of sorties of the Beiyang Air Force was greatly reduced, and in the limited reconnaissance operations, he also tried to avoid the patrol area of the Nationalist Air Force to avoid the planes being shot down. As a result, the intelligence that the Beiyang Air Force could detect was greatly reduced, and Feng Guozhang on the front line fell into a state of ignorance about the movement of the Nationalist Army on the opposite side.

"What the hell are they going to do? Such a large-scale transfer is definitely not a normal military move! Feng Guozhang was worried in the face of the war situation in southern Jiangsu.

Wang Ruxian, who was on the side, was also worried: "The news from Shanghai that the 3rd and 11th Divisions of the Third Army of the National Army have landed on the shore, and they must have made some big moves by transferring these two divisions from the south to southern Jiangsu!" ”

Whether it is Feng Guozhang or Wang Ruxian, they can all know through clues that the national army has made frequent military movements in the near future, and it seems that they are preparing for a big move, and this big move is likely to cross the river to the north, but due to the lack of sufficient detailed information, Feng Guozhang and others do not know how the national army is preparing to carry out the river crossing operation, let alone where the initiative direction of the national army is placed.

Will these two frontal breakthroughs in Yangzhou or Nanjing be the same as Feng Guozhang's own plan, bypassing Anhui?

Feng Guozhang didn't know all this, and in this case, the Beiyang Army's southward plan was also affected to a certain extent. After all, if we can't judge where the main force of the Nationalist Army is now, if all the main forces of the Beiyang Army are concentrated in the Anhui area, and the Nationalist Army takes advantage of the situation to enter and assemble the main force to cross the river from southern Jiangsu, then it is very likely to cause passivity. For this reason, Feng Guozhang suspended the plan of Tang Tianxi's 10th Division in Chuzhou to enter Anhui, and sent several telegrams to Yuan Shikai in succession, requesting that the 11th Division be sent south as soon as possible, and the second echelon of the 20th and 23rd Divisions should be prepared as soon as possible.

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