The chains of the crane rattled loudly, and with the sound of water, a biplane fighter that had sunk under the water was fished up.

What was salvaged was a fighter fighter that was shot down in the Qiantang River in a skirmish that took place in the morning.

In the air battle at that time, the fighter was injured in the air battle, and the pilot was shot and then forced to land on the Qiantang River, and the seriously injured pilot was finally drowned in the river, and the plane sank to the bottom. Soon after the end of the air battle, the local government immediately organized manpower, sent divers and salvage boats, and quickly salvaged the fighters that sank into the river.

After the plane is salvaged, the ship's crew begins to clear the fuselage from the mud, and then the plane will be sent to shore, where the engines will be dismantled and handed over to specialized technicians to assess the damage and repair value. The plane wasn't badly damaged, and when combined with parts from the same model recovered from the past, it was easy to piece together a gladiator fighter that could fly again in combat.

Similar recovery efforts have been going on since the first air battle in Shanghai in June. The wreckage of each downed enemy aircraft, the Red Army side recycled and reused as much as possible. Although the Nanjing Nationalist Government was destroyed, the Shanghai Concession was taken by blitz, and the banks of various countries were copied, so that the CCP made a large windfall, the thinking of "being rich and living poor" has never given up. The wreckage of each downed enemy fighter was recycled and reused by the Red Army as much as possible.

Unlike later jet fighters, biplanes have low wing load and good gliding performance, and many of the planes that were hit and fell to the ground were not badly damaged, and many could be recovered and repaired. As big as the gauges on the wreckage of an airplane. Landing gear, engines, machine guns, as small as a nut, are all very valuable materials.

In the air battle, there were quite a few enemy planes, basically all British planes, who were injured in the air battle and then made a successful forced landing on the ground, and then the pilot was captured along with the plane. Compared to the Japanese, who liked to "fight to the death" in air battles, the pilots of the British Empire were much more desperate for their lives. And at the time of the Battle of Pudong. The "humanitarian" approach of the Red Army to the landing of Japanese troops. He has earned himself a great reputation in the international arena. Among the captured planes, there were two Bulldog fighters, and the plane and the pilot were damaged together in the air battle, and then the injured pilot refused to parachute for fear of death. Then he drove the wounded plane to a forced landing on the airfield controlled by the Red Army. Sent the plane to the door with himself.

Afterwards. The airport defenders, while laughing at the planes delivered to the door, also treated the injured pilots in a humane manner.

Among the trophies of the Red Army today, there are two Type 92 fighters that can fly into the sky. And from the British, two near-intact Hawker II and four Bulldogs were also captured, which were all fighters that could be re-launched in the blue sky with a little repair. And using the available spare parts on the wreckage of various fighters recovered on the battlefield, pieced together and assembled, more than a dozen fighters that can fly have been put together in the past few months.

The gladiator fighter was the biggest enemy that the Red Army encountered after October. Relying on the power advantage of 830 horsepower, the maximum speed of the fighter can reach more than 400 kilometers per hour, coupled with the unique light wing load of the biplane, the advantages of flexible maneuverability, it has become the largest enemy aircraft of the Red Army in service, and its comprehensive performance and the Red Army's FW90 and He51 in service are slightly inferior, but it is not as big as other aircraft.

Since the air battle in early October, the Red Army has shot down many fighters, but most of the planes it lost in the air battle were the results of the fighters. Naturally, it is extremely important to obtain a good gladiator fighter for testing.

In the past dozens of days, the Red Army shot down a total of more than 40 gladiator fighters, and also captured two fighters who were forced to land for various reasons, and after repairing and testing several times, they were depressed to find that the life of the engines of the aircraft had been exhausted, and it could not play its full performance in the remaining tests - in order to quickly send the newly built gladiator fighters to the Chinese battlefield, the British continued to use the exaggerated way of crossing half the world and flying tens of thousands of kilometers to transport fighters. Therefore, the gladiator fighters sent to Zhoushan Island consumed most of their engine life in the transition.

Judging by the survival time of British fighters on the battlefield in China, this attrition has little effect, because most of the aircraft are shot down before they reach the end of their flight life.

The engine of this gladiator fighter that was fished out of the water was sent by ship to Shaoxing at noon the next day, Lin Han's "new body", a steamship named "Hangzhou".

The passenger ship is moored in the river and serves two functions. The first is the "human mine" as the air defense commander of the Red Army, and the second function is the aircraft parts repair center.

Since October, when the Red Army's foreign trade lines were cut off by Britain and Japan, the source of supply of aircraft spare parts has been a major problem. Although the existing stocks are enough to last for several months, no one knows how long this war will last. In such a situation, Lin Han had to reluctantly expend a lot of faith power to repair the aero engines that had exhausted their design life.

Under normal circumstances, the engines on the captured British and Japanese fighters, Lin Han would not have spent precious faith power to repair them, because their performance was not comparable to the engines of the FW90 and He51. Those damaged engines are handed over to the maintenance team to deal with. The exception is the 830 hp Bristol engine on the Gladiator, which is superior to the 750 hp BMW air-cooled engine on the FW90, despite its relative weight. As an old imperialist country, throughout World War II, the British Empire's design and manufacturing process of both liquid-cooled and air-cooled engines was the best in the world. The FW90's ability to gain the upper hand over fighters in air combat was purely a conceptual victory rather than a dynamic advantage.

In the past air battles, the Red Army captured a total of two combat fighters, a total of two can fly after repair, one Soviet Union has to leave, and then can pass through the territory of other warlords in the country, and finally sent to Mongolia, handed over to the Soviet Union's domestic technicians for evaluation.

Compared to the gladiator fighters designed with the backward ideas of World War I, the FW90 and He51 stacked most of the advantages of World War II: retractable landing gear. Enclosed cockpit, bulletproof seats, plus a monoplane with a higher wing load. All of these factors lead to the latter achieving better performance when it is not as powerful as its opponents.

In Lin Han's new body, the maintenance depot on the belly of the Hangzhou, there are now more than a dozen engines sent from all over the world that have exhausted their lifespan, but what Lin Han has to do is to use his ability to melt the refined nickel, molybdenum, tungsten and other mineral powders on the side into those worn engine cylinders, pistons and other related spare parts, so that they can be restored to the "brand new state" when they first left the factory.

If not as a last resort. Lin Han was very reluctant to use this method to prolong the life of the engine. Because repairing an engine consumes more faith than you can imagine. In Lin Han's words, this is a very low-cost way to use the power of faith. In the past month, Lin Han has repaired nearly 200 aero engines that have run out of life, but he has consumed eighty percent of the power of faith accumulated in the past. And if these beliefs are used in shipbuilding, they are enough to complete the "keel integration" of a Shane-class battleship. This is a problem that can be solved with human productivity. Now it is blocked by external forces. I had to spend a huge amount of faith power to replace it. It's really a last resort.

When Lin Han was repairing the engine in the repair garage, the centaur engine that was sent over was also disassembled outside under the guidance of a German technician. Then it was cleaned with gasoline before it was sent in. Under pressure from Britain and France in October, Germany withdrew all its pilots and some of its aviation technicians from China, but there were still quite a few technicians who remained to work in logistics. During the month, the British, who were tasked with eavesdropping on their opponents' radio communications, never heard German on the radio again.

In November, it was dark very early, the sun had set at six o'clock, and after completing all the engine repair work, Lin Han weakly wiped his forehead, and today he finished repairing twelve aero engines in one go, almost using up the few faith powers in Thaksin. The power of faith is the foundation of his existence, and the less he accumulates in his body, the weaker he will become.

In order to gain more power of faith, in the past month, the Saphiroth Sect and the Xuanwu Sect have engaged in religious activities such as dancing the great god, which has supplemented him with a lot of faith power. However, there are too many places where the power of faith is needed, not only to maintain the engine, act as a human radar, and monitor the actions of British aircraft on Zhoushan Island at all times, but also require a huge amount of faith power to consume. Since the battle of Shanghai in June, and since the airport on Zhoushan Island was built in August, Lin Han has not slept for a day. Although he can never need sleep as long as he is in his body, this tense situation of serving as a human radar for a long time still makes him psychologically exhausted.

After walking out of the Hangzhou, Lin Han came to the nearby barracks, where the Hangzhou was anchored, which was also the Red Army's local air combat command center. There were anti-aircraft artillery positions around, there were barracks, and high-ranking officers of the newly formed air force units lived nearby. In addition, a large number of Soviet and German technicians can be seen here.

Today is November 25th, and the local barracks are about to show the third part of the newly imported German film, "The Legend of Arthurian King".

When the Red Army took Shanghai, the first part of "The Legend of Arthur" had just been broadcast in China, and the war was fought from early June to late November, and Li Huamei's "The Legend of Arthur" had also reached the third part. Regarding the various thunderous plot settings in "The Legend of King Arthur" that Lin Han came up with a brainstorm, the top brass of the Red Army did not directly ban the more than 100 novels written by Katyusha, but allowed the film to continue to be broadcast in China. In their opinion, this is just a British mythological drama, and Li Huamei also participates, through this movie, it can also increase the "fans" of Li Huamei, who is in urgent need of the power of faith.

Of course, due to the consideration of China's national conditions, "The Legend of Arthur" screened in China showed an abridged version of some explicit scenes of revealing milk and meat.

After Lin Han finished repairing the engine, he accompanied Wang Yue to watch "The Legend of King Arthur" in the barracks. Soon after the Red Army liberated Shanghai, the ten female students led by Wang Yue also quietly returned from Hong Kong. However, considering the reason for the influence, Lin Han's relationship with them is secret. They are now all arranged to live in a private house less than 200 miles away from Hangzhou, and Wang Yue and these girls are now serving as propaganda and art troupes in the Red Army. Every night in the dead of night. Lin Han relied on his virtual teleportation, quietly teleported into the rooms of these girls, climbed into their beds, and then these girls consciously stuffed the prepared pillow towels in their mouths, and then after a few hours, Lin Han left silently again.

The place where the movie was shown used to be a local threshing floor. Thousands of Red Army officers gathered in a circle, quietly watching color films that were still novelty of this era. When Li Huamei's image appeared on the curtain, there was a burst of cheers around her.

Looking at the gorgeous fighting actions of Lancelot played by Li Huamei on the screen, Wang Yue, who was sitting next to Lin Han, said to Lin Han enviously: "Li Huamei's sister's kung fu is really good. Really capable. I envy her. ”

When she said this, she peeked at Lin Han with very strange eyes.

Today's Li Huamei is in the middle of the Red Army, and even in the whole of China. He is also a celebrity of great fame. The reason for her fame. It's not just that she became famous because she made movies. It's not just because she can save people with a scalpel or kill people with a sniper rifle, but because she's now an ace pilot with sixteen crash records.

Since the Red Army's foreign trade routes were cut off in October, in order to gather more power of faith for Lin Han's use. At Li Huamei's strong request, Lin Han got her a latest HE51F fighter, which she piloted into the blue sky to fight with the British Air Force.

As a heroic soul, Lin Han learns everything faster than ordinary people. In order to speed up the development of the He51 and FW90 fighters, he and Hannah have both personally tested and flown the two fighters. Although Lin Han's flight hours are less than 200 hours, as a heroic incarnation, his "understanding" of flying machines is no less than that of those elite veterans who have had thousands of hours.

After "merging" with Lin Han, Li Huamei also shared Lin Han's flying experience, and her own physical perception is far beyond that of ordinary people, even if she is just a deteriorated version of the Heroic Spirit, she is by no means comparable to others, and she will soon grow into a terrifying existence in the sky that will not be inferior to a super ace.

After November, as the number of fighter fighters on Zhoushan Island increased, there were more air battles in Zhejiang and Shanghai. Faced with the cut off of foreign supplies and the pressure of the imminent full-scale Japanese invasion of China, the Red Army became correspondingly cautious in the use of active fighter units.

Britain just wants to suck China's blood, while Japan wants China's life. The leadership of the Red Army was not willing to waste the precious air force and the British air force in the war unless it was a last resort.

Beginning in November, they began to form 16 to 24 planes to patrol the skies over Hangzhou Bay on a small scale, hoping to lure Red Army planes from the two places to appear in air battles at sea.

Having learned the lessons of previous fiascos, the British reflected that the tactical use of the Air Force was no longer as reckless as before.

A bloody battlefield is the best way for an army to learn a lesson and mature quickly.

After the early defeat, the British realized the backwardness of the three-plane V-shaped formation in the air battle, and now they also use the two-plane formation like their opponents - historically they did not realize this until after the end of the French campaign. Realizing that they had suffered a great loss in the away air battle, the British fighters were now trying in every possible way to lure the Red Army planes to the sea in the air battle. British air defense destroyers, cruising on the sea, often sailed to the battlefield of air combat at sea, acting as mobile air defense batteries to provide cover. The British also learned the various tactics used by the Red Army Air Force in air combat in the past. Compared to the Japanese Army Air Force, which has a lot of brains, the RAF is obviously a more cunning opponent.

Realizing the difference in the tactics of the British, the Red Army Air Force also made corresponding tactical adjustments. THE TACTICS MOST USED BY THE RED ARMY TODAY ARE THE H-H-R TACTICS COMMONLY USED ON ZHOUSHAN ISLAND, THAT IS, HIGH-HIT-RUN. BEFORE THE AIR BATTLE, THE AIRCRAFT FIRST CLIMBS WITH ALL ITS STRENGTH, OCCUPIES THE ALTITUDE, AND THEN DIVES DOWN AT THE OPPONENT'S THROTTLE, BITES THE TARGET AND FIRES, AND THEN RUNS AWAY AFTER THE WAVE OF HITS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT HITS OR NOT. Give full play to the advantages of the existing fighters in terms of high speed and high dive acceleration performance, and play this tactic of one-hit detachment.

This tactic of one-hit detachment, although the tactics were obscene, were very effective, and greatly reduced the losses of the Red Army's aircraft. Unless the British planes were willing to rush into the mainland and engage the Red Army Air Force in an air battle, they could only watch their opponents run away after the fight. The only drawback of this tactic is the high demand for the pilot's shooting skills.

Since 10 November, when British planes began cruising over Hangzhou Bay, the Red Army has shot down 12 gladiator fighters with this H-H-R tactic, during which time they have successfully introduced British fighters into the airspace over the mainland for air battles.

Although the 8-32 air combat exchange ratio was still a big advantage on the Red Army's side, it also sounded the alarm bell on the Red Army's side. If it weren't for Hannah and Lin Han, the pair of traversers, who had cheated on them, Britain at this time would still be the most technologically advanced air force in the world. As they gradually correct their tactical deficiencies in air combat, and more and more advanced fighters enter service with the troops, future air combat will be even more difficult.

Li Huamei became famous on such a battlefield. Driving the latest He51F for the first time.

The HE51F fighter is currently the best fighter in the hands of the Red Army. Originally, considering the issue of supply and maintenance, Lin Han wanted the Red Army Air Force to equip the FW90 with all colors. After all, one of the biggest advantages of air-cooled fighters over liquid-cooled fighters is that they are relatively simple to maintain. But FW90 production was in short supply, and the nascent Red Army Air Force was growing too fast to pull the HE51 out of the top for the time being. Compared to the FW90, which sacrificed its diving performance, the He51 is much less difficult to drive, and the speed is slightly faster than the latter, but it is slightly less sturdy. As for firepower, the three 13mm guns in this battle are more powerful than the four 7.92 machine guns of the FW90.

Now the Luftwaffe has shifted the focus of development to a new generation of "thousand-horsepower" fighters. The narrow fuselage of the He51 could no longer accommodate the DB601 engine under development. So the F model is the last improved model of this aircraft. Before Britain and Japan completely blocked the overseas trade routes of the Red Army, a total of only two HE51Fs were sent to China for actual combat testing, the Germans did not want to send more planes, but the 700-horsepower Yumo engine used in this aircraft was a new product that had just been developed, and the whole of Germany could only turn out six units, they were all "handmade products", and the mass production line had not yet been established.

Since the air-cooled engine needs to use about 15% of the power for air-cooling, the power of the 700-horsepower liquid-cooled engine is almost the same as that of the 850-horsepower air-cooled engine, and the power is not inferior to the Bristol engine used in the gladiator fighter.

After piloting the last plane to the battlefield, in the first air battle, Li Huamei relied on her heroic and accurate shooting ability, using HHR tactics to shoot down a fighter fighter with a single dive shot.

At first, Li Huamei's aircraft operation and flight experience were still a little lacking, but after a few air battles, she quickly became a terrible hunter. After more than ten days of air battles, she has grown extremely fast, and the engine of the fighter fighter jet sent to Lin Han today is also her result and her sixteenth down.

Li Huamei went to the battlefield in person, not only to shoot down more enemy planes, but also to earn her popularity and gain more power of faith. When Li Huamei won victories in air battles again and again, the propaganda department on the side of the Red Army also went all out to create Li Huamei's image as a "heroine." And those masters of propaganda and hype from Germany also provide a lot of useful advice.

Compared with Lin Han, who has a bunch of problems on her body, Li Huamei has an excellent impression in the hearts of the leaders of the Red Army, she is dignified, rigorous and self-disciplined, has no bad hobbies, does not have any bad rumors, can kill people with a gun, can save people with a scalpel, and is a super trump card when flying a plane, she is simply the embodiment of the most perfect "revolutionary young woman". (To be continued......)