Chapter 762: Burning the City (3)
Inside the airport, several North Koreans were looking at a bomber that was landing with shocked eyes.
H-19, the most advanced bomber currently equipped by the Wehrmacht Army Air Corps, may be like an eagle and a chicken in its size and other performance compared with some bombers of later generations, but for the people of this era, this is an out-and-out behemoth and a shocking work.
Just some time ago, after the army aviation unit annihilated a cavalry division of Soviet Russia in World War I, Brazil and Argentina in South America also took the initiative to try to see if they could buy some of these bombers from China, and Britain and the United States and other countries also revealed this image.
However, in the end, it was a deal that did not succeed, Yan Shao did not prohibit this arms deal, but ββββββ Yan Shao opened a black-hearted high price.
No way, who said that among the bombers in service, the performance of the H-19 is the most advanced. If the bomber is sold, it will not be equivalent to letting other countries understand the performance of the H-19. You must know that whether it is Britain, the United States or France, etc., they may become potential enemies of China in the future, and Yan Shao is not willing to do such a thing as letting enemy countries know their strength in advance.
It's just that if you refuse, it's easy to cause a lot of trouble.
At present, China seems to be powerful, but in many places there is still a huge gap compared to the great powers, especially in many technical aspects. As has been said, the strength of today's great powers depends entirely on the accumulation of technology since the Industrial Revolution. These things are definitely not something that can be learned overnight, and China at the moment seems to be a partial student. In many places, it may be comparable to or even surpass the great powers, but in terms of overall and comprehensiveness. There is still a big gap with the great powers...
This is the time when China needs to communicate with the outside world, whether it is business or science and technology. It is naturally not advisable to take the initiative to interrupt such exchanges, after all, there are only a few places where the great powers need China in terms of technology, but there are many places where China needs the great powers, especially in many traditional industries.
Of course, keeping one's cutting-edge technology a secret is a matter of course for future generations. At least those developed countries in later generations. I have never shared my advanced technology with others, and even if you take money to the door and beg for it, people will never give it to you.
But in this day and age it is different. For countries in this era, basically as long as you are not a hostile country, then as long as you can take out the money to buy things, usually these countries will not hide it. It is very different from the afterlife.
At present, although China and the foreign powers have a lot of dirt. The great powers are extremely wary of China, but the two sides have not yet turned their faces on the bright side. On the surface, China was also a member of the Entente and had extremely close relations with Britain and France. At this time, China took the initiative to close the door to exchanges, which is naturally an extremely inappropriate move.
That's why Yan Shao came up with this idea, selling this bomber at a price that other countries couldn't acceptββββββ one million Chinese dollars, that is, almost 100,000 pounds.
You must know that a battleship in this era is only more than two hundred pounds, in other words. If the selling price given by Yan Shao is calculated, then more than 20 bombers are equivalent to a battleship. And what Yan Shao said is also very clear. This kind of bomber is not sold alone, at least the number of one brigade at a time, that is, forty-four, which is almost the equivalent of two battleships ...
For the money of two battleships, to buy more than forty bombers? At least in the eyes of the Great Powers, it is absolutely worthless, and unless they have water in their brains, it is impossible to agree to such a deal. Naturally, these deals ended in vain, and the powers focused on developing their own bombers.
But...
By the time they have developed a bomber comparable to the H-19, I am afraid that China has already developed a stronger and more advanced bomber.
Of course, it should be noted that the bombers equipped by the Wehrmacht itself are certainly not so expensive, at most only a tenth. After all, if it is really a hundred thousand pounds, but even the Wehrmacht itself cannot afford to equip it, let alone such a large number?
More than a hundred? That's more than 10 million pounds, almost the level of five or six battleships, and how much does the navy spend a year?
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At this time, the number of H-19s equipped by the Wehrmacht was not very large, and this part was transferred from the Urals and Beijing. Although they didn't catch up with the initial attack on Gao Wenshan, it finally arrived at the most critical moment...
However, although the scene of these bombers is not unusual for the Chinese people (of course, it caused a wave at the beginning), it is obviously a different story for these North Koreans...
At this moment, looking at an H-19 that was gradually landing, a young North Korean who looked to be in his early 20s couldn't help but ask the elder next to him. "What the hell is this, could it be that these Chinese have invited all the heavenly soldiers and generals over?"
"This ......... Maybe that's really the case. Saying this, the middle-aged man probably felt that it was too embarrassing to say this in front of the juniors, so he quickly added. I mean, anyway, China is also the superior state of the Celestial Empire, and it is impossible to lose to the Japanese like this, it seems that the Japanese will have a hard time this time..."Saying this, the middle-aged man even laughed twice, attracting the attention of the surrounding Wehrmacht.
But after seeing that it was the North Koreans laughing, although it was not clear why the North Koreans were laughing so exaggerated and so stiff, they quickly turned their attention elsewhere.
The presence of these North Koreans is not surprising, and it is not difficult to build an airport of this size in North Korea, but the real difficulty is how to build it in enough time. That's where the help of the locals comes in, whether it's helping with the airport or choosing the right terrain. The Special Affairs Bureau also has some information on the terrain of northern Korea. But after all, it's literal, so where can these locals know about this place?!
In the process of building the airport, the IDF simply hired a large number of local North Koreans to help build the airport. There are also transports of supplies for troops fighting on the front lines, and so on. Therefore, it is not surprising that there are North Koreans here.
As for what if a Japanese spy sneaks in? There is really no need to worry about this, because the entire airport is closed, and these people can't get out at all, so they can't pass on the information.
And most importantly, what if the Japanese knew where the airport was? Is it possible to overcome the obstacles and strike at this airport?
At least the people in the airport absolutely did not believe that the Japanese had the ability to do this.
It's like what an officer at a certain airport said. "If those little devils really have such a great ability. Then they would have kicked us out of North Korea a long time ago. "So people at the airport aren't really worried...
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"How? The fuel is stored in the warehouse, right? β
Just when the North Koreans around the airport were still amazed by these 'big birds' falling from the sky, an officer wearing the uniform of the aviation unit suddenly walked over. He asked an officer next to the warehouse.
"It's all in!" Looking up, it was someone from the aviation unit, and the officer, who was looking down and not knowing what he was thinking, replied. "Now it's up to you guys to play..."
"Don't worry, no problem...", the officer of the aviation unit said with a smile. Don't you see how beautiful we were when we were in Europe? The units of the Red Elements and a cavalry division disappeared under our bombardment. It's just some little devils this time. There will definitely be no problem, but it's a bit bad on your side, and it's a bit embarrassing to be surrounded by little devils..."
Hearing him say this, the army officer instinctively wanted to refute, but in the end he could only smile bitterly. "Alas, this matter is really hard to explain..."
No way. Who called this time the matter really went wrong, more than 100,000 people were besieged. caused an uproar in the whole country, and even with them, they couldn't raise their heads. Moreover, although the officer in front of him is from the aviation unit, he is also from the army, and he is his own person, so it is naturally nothing to say these words.
Therefore, after smiling bitterly for a moment, the officer could only shake his head helplessly.
"If it was General Songpa or General Baili who commanded us this time, instead of General Feng, it would not have been possible for the matter to come to this point..."
In fact, this is also the current general possession of the Northeast and North Korean Defense Forces, and it is precisely because of this incident that the National Defense Forces are extremely dissatisfied with Feng Guozhang, and they miss Cai Ye and Jiang Baili in their hearts, and when they hear his words, the aviation officers on the side only laugh and do not speak.
Under the sunlight, the two military uniforms that were very close to each other, but there was a slight difference, shone brightly.
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The uniforms of the Wehrmacht are somewhat special, from the beginning of the 11th year to the present, almost never changed in the past 8 years, and it has always been the original black 11th uniform with silver edges.
Of course, this is nothing special, after all, it is completely common for a military uniform to be worn for more than ten or twenty years, not to mention that the Type 11 military uniform can be called the most beautiful military uniform in the world.
At the time of the First World War, the expeditionary force wearing the neat Type 11 military uniform was very different from the surrounding Western troops and colonial troopsββββββ and the military uniforms of other national troops in this period could be described as simple and embarrassing, and it was precisely because of this that the expeditionary force wearing the Type 11 military uniform could be described as standing out from the crowd among many troops.
At the end of the Battle of Verdun, Cai Ye and other generals who went to Paris to receive the medal also made people shine because of their strong military temperament and beautiful military uniforms.
Time magazine in the United States even made a cover with a photo of Cai Ye wearing a Type 11 military uniform, and the Type 11 military uniform is also known as the most beautiful military uniform in the world.
However, because of this, there is a problem, that is, the military uniform is too beautiful, whether it is the army, the navy or the aviation force, they like it very much.
This is actually also related to the events of the early years, 11 years. After the success of the Xinhai Revolution, Yan Shao designed the Type 11 military uniform in the style of later Nazi Germany. And specially changed to the Anhui Army, because the military uniform is beautiful enough. Therefore, it is very popular with the officers and soldiers in the army.
Later, in order to ensure the interests of the Anhui military government in the Yangtze River, Yan Shao ordered 10 thousand-ton gunboats from the British, named the wind and rain-class gunboats. With a warship, there must be someone to drive the warship, although 10 thousand-ton gunboats, even if they are formed, can only be called a naval army, but even then they still need to be piloted.
At that time, the Anhui military government was still very rich. It can even be said that it is the richest military government in the country, far richer than Yuan Shikai's Beiyang government. Therefore, when the Beiyang government was still hesitating to consider whether to reorganize the navy (after all, the navy is not very useful for fighting for territory). However, the Anhui Navy was quickly formed with the support of Yan Shao.
The military uniform worn by the navy at that time was actually an improved version of the army's Type 11 uniform.
The color is still black, with some silver trimming, except for the logo on the collar and some other places. It's that simple...
When it first started. The scale of the water army is not large, so naturally there is no problem. But when the Nationalist government was formed, and the navy evolved into a navy, and the scale was more than ten times larger than the original, the problem arose...
It is easy to distinguish the same color of military uniform, and sometimes it is very easy for people who are not familiar with the Wehrmacht, or who are not very good at the eyes. It will confuse the army and the navy.
After being confused many times in a row, in order to solve this trouble. The Army began to propose that the Navy simply change to a new uniform, so that it would be easier to distinguish the differences between the two services.
It's just that when the army asked the navy to get its own uniform, the navy was a little dissatisfied that the army did not have this right, and if it wanted to change the color of the uniform, it should be the army to change it, and black was just right for the navy...
At that time, although the army was powerful, the navy was not bad, and Cai Yi, Feng Guozhang and others at the top were unwilling to get involved in this matter, so although this matter had been troubled for many years, there was no result.
Later, when the aviation unit appeared, because the aviation unit at that time was subordinate to the army and the air force, the military uniform was naturally the same as the army and the air force, but the logo on the neckline was a new logoββββββ Yan Shao always believed that the air force would definitely evolve into an independent branch of the army in the future, so he was too lazy to bother, and simply distinguished the air force from the army and navy at the very beginning...
Other people are also well aware of this, and even Lu Hang himself is very clear.
So soon there was a strange situation in the Wehrmacht, that is, the whole army, whether it is the army, the navy or the aviation unit, there is not much difference in military uniforms?
Although the Ministry of Defense has also made a lot of efforts, it is useless unless a set of military uniforms can be designed for all branches of the military at once that can satisfy all three parties. And if you just let one of them change their uniform, then those who nod and agree will definitely be spit to death by their own troops! This kind of thing is something that neither Sa Zhenbing, nor Feng Guozhang nor Cai Yi dare to agree to, after all, as the leaders of various arms, they also need to protect the interests of their own department while enjoying the convenience it brings...
If they fail to defend the interests of their own lineage, they will naturally be abandoned, no matter how admired they are.
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The airfield was rushed out in a short time, and fortunately, the planes of this era, even the bombers, did not have very high requirements for the site. Basically, as long as the whole site is smoothed, it doesn't matter what kind of gray pavement or the like, and because of this, the airport can be completed in just a few daysββββββ of course, this is also because of the large number of people involved, not only at least one regiment of troops has been converted to sappers, but even recruited many North Korean migrant workers...
However, in a few days, the only thing that can be done in a hurry is the site of the airport, such as the hangar for aircraft parking, etc., which can definitely not be repaired in a short time.
In fact, after a few days, they just got some rudimentary warehouses where ammunition and fuel could be stored. As for those hangars and stuff, there's really nothing to be done. In fact, the villa hangar, they haven't even made a house for living in it, and now the entire regiment, plus the hired Koreans, almost all live in tents.
Fortunately, at this time, although the climate has become colder, it has not yet reached the point of unbearable. And because the weather is getting colder, things like rain usually don't need to be worried about as long as they are not particularly unlucky, so people can live there.
And because the air in the north is relatively dry, even if these bombers are parked in the open, there are usually no major problems...
Although the people of the aviation unit are very eager to check their planes and improve the environment by the way, they also know very well how dangerous the current situation is, and there is simply not so much time for them to do so, so they do not even need to wait for the urging of the theater command, and the pilots in the airport, together with the officers and soldiers stationed at the airport, have already begun to prepare for the operation...
The bombers were filled with fuel that was running out, and their magazines were filled with napalm and ......... that had just been delivered Fuel oil... (To be continued......)