Chapter 850: The Age of Airplanes

Airplanes appeared. On a sunny day, twenty-four Austro-Hungarian combat planes appeared over the battlefield, and then, with a disparity of 2:11, they defeated the poor Russian airship that was still wantonly on the heads of the Austrians twenty minutes earlier.

In the face of this epoch-making weapon, the airship units of the poor Russian army were overwhelmed, and they fled into the desert and fled behind the fire cover net of the Russian air defense positions. Only 9 of the 20 airships remained!

This battle shocked the whole world!

The news was reported in the media of all countries, regardless of east, west, north and south, and the photo of a plane streaking across the sky became the brightest star in the world.

Immediately after the end of the air battle at the Carpathian Pass, the aviation units of Austria-Hungary and Italy also began to appear in large numbers on the Ottoman battlefield. It only took three days for the Ottoman airship troops, which had been fighting, to dare to rashly rise into the air again. The Austro-Hungarian Air Force controlled air supremacy over the entire battlefield.

In the space of three days, the uselessness of airships changed the world. The advent of the 'age of airplanes' will change the trajectory of the entire world war, which is recognized by all. The speed difference between the two is too great, and the airship troops can take on the defensive position, if it is one-on-one, they are simply the target of the aircraft slaughter.

Although there are still some newspaper voices for the airship Zhang Xuan, thinking that the thin aircraft is certainly suitable for air combat, but in the air bombing is far from being the opponent of the airship, but few people think so. No matter how big the bomb load is, if you can't fly anywhere and you will be shot down, it will be useless!

On the territory of Little Poland, somewhere airship base. Suddenly, I received an urgent notice, before ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Clear a 500x500 space in the airship landing field. The usefulness is unknown, only the command.

And the next morning, it was early in the morning. The people of the entire airship base were surprised to see one big man after another coming, what was going on?

Many of these bigwigs are high-ranking commanders in the Russian army of the poor party. There were also those who were the leaders of the Polish Poor Party, such as Luxemburg, Walski, and Lensky.

By 9:40, all the big men were around the landing field, each holding a high-powered telescope.

About ten minutes later, one of the people in the group suddenly shouted, and everyone looked in the direction he was looking, and the next moment everyone raised their binoculars.

The people at the airship base realized it later, and many commanders also forgot about the boredom of these days, and raised their binoculars to look at the northeast sky.

It's a bunch of little black dots. Small black dots like geese. But no one really thinks it's a flock of geese. The airship officers knew the telescope in their hands inside out, and they knew how huge the small black dot that appeared at such a distance in the telescope would be when it came to view.

"Oh, it's a swarm of planes, it's planes!"

All the airship officers were excited. No wonder these big men came to the base early, no wonder the base received such a strange order yesterday, it turned out that a group of planes were going to land at the base.

No one would be stupid enough to think that it was a group of enemy planes, it must be their own planes!

"Chinese really have airplanes......" a poor Russian army general about forty years old put down the binoculars in his hand and muttered to himself.

After the Carpathian air battle on that day. The poor generals of the army had no hope of capturing the mountain pass. As a result, a telegram came from Moscow saying that the Chinese also had planes, and they were more advanced than those of Austria-Hungary. One of the first batch of flying groups to support has already set off from Yan Country and is waiting for notification from the front line.

And then. The Chinese plane really came today.

The planes are getting closer and closer, and at least seventy or eighty planes are hovering in the air.

Two fighter squadrons were constantly hovering in the air. One at an altitude of about 1000 near the ground. The other rises to an altitude of 3,000 meters.

The first to land was a squadron of medium bombers, sixteen of which roared down to the landing site at a time. Airplanes of this era did not require much of a strict runway. The landing and landing fields of the airship troops fully met the requirements.

Compared to airships, even the smallest airships. The medium H3D dive bombers were also far smaller than their predecessors, but no one in the room would take them lightly. Compared with the fighter planes that appeared in the Austro-Hungarian air battles, the Navy's last generation of main combat carrier-based bombers, the twin brother of the H3 carrier-based dive bomber, the final improved land-based H3D dive bomber, was much larger.

"It's a medium dive bomber that can carry two 300-pound bombs, or a 500-pound bomb and two 50-pound bombs."

"The Chinese's research on aircraft is absolutely thorough and long-term. I doubt that the planes of Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy and other countries are technology stolen from China. The Chinese not only divide aircraft into three categories: fighters, bombers and transport aircraft, but also divide bombers into dive bombers, which are the two types we see in front of us, and horizontal bombers. ”

"As the name suggests, the dive bomber is a bomber that can tilt straight to the ground at a large angle, and the bomb delivery accuracy is very high, the H3D dive bomber in front of us can sweep straight down at an angle of -40 °, drop the bomb at a close distance of less than 300 meters, and then quickly pull up and rise. This places extremely high demands on aircraft structures and material tensile forces. It is an aerial surgical operation with high precision and high efficiency. It is an important part of the main combat force of the Chinese Air Force! ”

"And the horizontal bomber is to fly flat at a certain altitude, and then keep bombing in the cabin. This bomber has a large bomb load, but it is not very accurate. According to the Chinese Defense Forces, the horizontal bomber is much larger than the dive bomber. Belongs to the category of heavy bombers. ”

An officer in the crowd, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, spoke to the medium-sized H3D dive bombers that landed one after another. The people around them didn't look surprised, because they all knew that this lieutenant colonel officer belonged to the Cheka.

But everyone's inner self-confidence rose vigorously with the introduction of the lieutenant colonel officer. This is much more effective than saying that 'Chinese planes are much more powerful than Austro-Hungarian planes'.

Fighters, bombers, transport planes, horizontal bombers, dive bombers, for a new type of weapon that has just appeared in people's field of vision for only a week, such a distinction is very high!

A squadron of medium H3D dive bombers all after landing. A squadron of transport planes also began to land one after another. The transport squadron had only 12 sorties, the same as the previous generation of transport aircraft of the Chinese military. The maximum range of this class of aircraft is 600 km. Twin-engine engine with a capacity of 3 tons. It can carry up to 12 people at a time, as well as some corresponding substances.

All of them are technicians from the flying group, and this kind of aircraft has never been produced on a large scale in China, and half of the 12 planes have just been off the production line for less than two months, and they look very brand new, which is very confusing to the outside world. At the same time, this also confirms the correctness of the Chinese Air Force's assumptions. They took precautions to produce these transport planes in advance, and they really came in handy.

The 12 transport planes landed one after another, and the tractor that had been prepared in the airship base pulled the planes and quickly moved to the parking area on the side. And then there were 8 B2B twin-engine long-range heavy bombers.

Chinese dive bombers are prefixed with H, while long-range heavy bombers are prefixed with B. Lao Liu Emperor admits here. He did ring the old American B17, B29 and B52. The external explanation is that the heavy long-range bomber was produced at the Baotou base, and the first letter of the pinyin of the package is not 'b'. As for why it is pronounced in English, is it a mistake by His Majesty the Emperor?

Of course, the B2B twin-engine long-range heavy bomber is not the main fighter in China's current service, but in addition to China, the B2B twin-engine long-range heavy bomber is definitely the world's largest bomb-loaded, longest-range, and most powerful special-purpose horizontal bomber.

When the B2B twin-engine long-range heavy bomber landed on the runway. All the bigwigs who were watching from the sidelines were really surprised to find that the horizontal heavy bomber was much larger than the dive bomber. It was bigger than they imagined, and it was not at all the orange to orange as they thought it was, but the gap between the hen and the goose. In front of B2B twin-engine long-range heavy bombers. Human beings are small, and the power of the industrial age is unlimited.

As the supreme commander of the B2B twin-engine long-range heavy bomber squadron and the deputy captain of the flight group, Li Nan's plane was the last to land. As he walked down the ladder down the plane. There is already an officer from the base waiting for him on the ground.

"Lieutenant Colonel, it's been a hard journey."

The Russian military officer stood up and saluted, and Li Nan immediately stood up and saluted. He could see the excitement in the gaze of the Russian officer opposite.

They had been beaten by Austro-Hungarian planes before. The arrival of the Chinese flying unit has excited every Russian army. Because this war is of great significance to poor party Russia. Now he has a backer behind him and can create this kind of aerial giant. What else is there to be afraid of in poor party Russia? Although China is not their own homeland, even many Russians still hate China. But now all this can be put down, and dealing with Austria-Hungary first is the first.

"You're also hard. Excuse me, is there a place for all of us to rest? Did Moscow send an order to attack? ”

Li Nan worked as a military adviser in the poor Russian army in his early years and spoke fluent Russian. And their brigade had received orders before coming to the front to obey Moscow's command as much as possible, and to satisfy them as much as possible as long as the Russians were not excessive. Anyway, these planes are backward products, and if China wants to raise the Hound of Moscow, then it will do a good job. Anyway, twenty-four bows have been worshipped, not bad for this trembling!

"Lieutenant Colonel, all accommodations and meals are prepared foolproof. I understand your exhaustion, but ...... over there," the Russian officer pointed to the group of big men not far away, "let's go over there and talk." They desperately need to see you. "Ordinary pilots can go to rest, but Li Nan is the deputy captain of the flight team.

Li Nan nodded understandingly, and waved his hand to the pilots who were still waiting for him on the side, asking them to go about their own work. Battles can take place at any time on the front line, and pilots must always have energy and physical strength.

Then there was the landing of two squadrons of fighters, and the captain of the flight group, Wu Han, was the part-time squadron leader of the 1st Fighter Squadron.

36 Harrier B fighters have landed one after another, this kind of fighter that was eliminated by the Chinese Air Force in 1910, to today's world, is also completely invincible. The flight speed is approaching 200 kilometers per hour, the maximum climb is 3500 meters, the range is 500 kilometers, and the armament is two 7.92mm aviation machine guns. It can also hang two 20-pound aerial bombs.

Compared to the Austro-Hungarian plane, which was still below the 150 km line, the original version of the Harrier fighter could blow them up.

The battle was not long in coming. The same is the Carpathian Pass, where the two sides of the battle have changed from airships to airplanes vs planes. As a result, the Chinese aircraft completely defeated the Austro-Hungarian aircraft, following the huge disparity of 11:2 in the last Russian-Austrian air battle, this time the Chinese aircraft cleanly annihilated all 16 Austro-Hungarian fighters, and only two of their own aircraft suffered minor damage!

Once again shocked the world, and once again caused an uproar in the world. These two words seem to have become very common this month, and the events of the Russo-Austrian War and the Ottoman War have made these two words that they dare not appear so often recorded in history.

On the Ottoman battlefield. On the very day of the second air battle over the Carpathian Pass, a large number of fighter units flying from Persia attacked the Italian Air Force in Istanbul. Then the planes on both sides, in the Sea of Marmara, in the Gulf of Saros, in the Aegean Sea, in the Black Sea, in Albania, in Macedonia, in the Adriatic Sea, fought and entangled in all directions.

France, Italy, Austria-Hungary put in at least three hundred aircraft, and the Ottoman side also invested no less than two hundred.

The Europeans have absolute evidence that the planes came from China, from the so-called airship factory built by China in Persia, and they also have absolute evidence that a considerable number of the people who flew these planes were Chinese.

It's a brutal contest.

In just five days, at least 200 planes from France, Italy and Austria-Hungary fell, and the Ottomans were also shot down and 30 were severely damaged. This is not all the merit of the French, Italian and Austro-Hungarian flying forces, but the common achievement of their aircraft combined anti-aircraft fire network. However, in the battle of planes in the sky, the record of the planes of the three countries may only be about 10 strong.

Their planes are a notch behind their Chinese counterparts. The best French aircraft also only revolves at 160/170 km/h. Compared with the stable speed of the Harrier aircraft 190, it is infinitely close to the full speed of 200, which is a big difference. And the firepower of the Europeans is insufficient, their planes are all single machine guns, while the Chinese fighters are all double.

The situation on the battlefield was reversed again, and the Ottoman airship troops, which had previously cowered and did not dare to show their heads, began to make large-scale sorties, and hundreds of tons of bombs were dropped on the enemy's heads. Vent your anger in the explosions and fires again and again! (To be continued.) )