When the Qingdao Devil Army was enchanted to occupy the naval aviation base in the previous day, the more than 80 planes captured were already a very great gain, but the number of aircraft of the army aviation was more than double that of this, and if it were not for the fact that the navy had superiority in naval artillery and the quality of its pilots, the army would not have had the confidence to compete with the navy by relying on a large number of people. Perhaps it was precisely because of such a powerful aviation force that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese base camp did not send aircraft carriers over in one more move.

After obtaining this unprecedented number of seizures, the number of planes of the North China Air Corps suddenly exceeded 500, of which there were three or four hundred planes in the first division alone, including 36 reconnaissance planes (all of them were reconnaissance planes of the Type 97 Command; historically, the Japanese Navy did not begin to develop its own land reconnaissance planes until after the outbreak of the Pacific War, and had been borrowing the army's reconnaissance planes to use them, and this time and space was no exception. ), 216 fighters (including 108 Type 95 biplane fighters, 72 Nakajima Type 97 fighters, and 36 Type 96 carrier-based fighters. ), 120 bombers (36 Mitsubishi Type 97 light bombers, 24 Kawasaki Type 98 light bombers, 24 Type 97 heavy bombers, 36 Mitsubishi Type 96 land medium attack aircraft. ), 9 transport aircraft (8 can only be regarded as medium-sized Type 97 transport aircraft at most, 1 American-made DC-3 large transport aircraft. ）

In addition, the 15 th Army also obtained a large number of antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns, plus the military factories in the border areas produced their own, and now the 15 th Army has 36 120mm flat-altitude guns, 128 75mm anti-aircraft guns, 24 37mm anti-aircraft guns, 72 25mm anti-aircraft guns, 180 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and 228 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns (and in line with the principle of concentrated use of anti-aircraft firepower, antiaircraft guns were the first to be converted into vehicle-mounted artillery). Therefore, he has been following the main force of the 15th Army. And that's not counting the anti-aircraft weapons that were on top of the captured ships. What is particularly important is that the 15th Army now has the first practical artillery sighting radar on Shijie (which also shows that major breakthroughs have been made in projects such as television, ballistic computers, klystronic tubes, and magnetrons, which will not be explained in the following article.) The accuracy of the shelling has increased by no less than ten times, and Hu Weidong is now very glad that he spent a lot of money to bring Tesla to China, although this person was indeed seriously deified in later generations. But he absolutely deserves the title of "King of Electromagnetism", as long as it is a scientific research topic related to electromagnetism, it seems that nothing can stump him. And he also has considerable attainments in many other fields such as fluid mechanics, even if he can't rank in the top three of Shijie, at least he can squeeze into the top ten. In the past two years, it has been of great help to scientific research and production in the Central Plains border region. In addition, I don't know if it's because of the better mood, Tesla, who is over eighty years old, is actually getting younger and younger, and Hu Weidong now simply jokingly calls him an "old monster".

In addition, at the prompting of Hu Weidong, optical experts and mathematicians in the Central Plains Border Region (Note 1) finally developed a gyroscope sight that had a great impact in the history of World War II not long ago. With this treasure, anti-aircraft gunners and pilots do not have to bother calculating the amount of advance when shooting, and the accuracy naturally skyrockets

Therefore, Hu Weidong was pleasantly surprised to find that he now had a powerful air defense liliang in his hands that he had never dared to think of before. At present, there is only a regular airport in Yantai left in Shandong, and the Hainan Airlines planes in Dalian Lushun should also be able to reach Qingdao, but even if the three are combined, the total number of planes that can be accommodated may not be able to catch up with the North China Air Corps. Even if the devils send their aircraft carriers, the North China Air Corps, which has already produced a large number of ace pilots, is more than enough to cope with it with the support of anti-aircraft fire. After Hu Weidong received a telegram from his old partner Su Yu, he was further relieved that since the Japanese army's base camp focused on holding the small area of Qingdao and Weihai, it basically took the initiative to abandon Yantai, and the main force of the 15 th Army led by Su Yu occupied Yantai without much effort. This means that the devil has it in his hands (of course, if you don't want fighter escorts, the local bombers are also within reach, but if the devil really wants to do this, Hu Weidong will welcome it) There are only two regular land airports in Qingdao...,

But even so, if Hu Weidong wants to keep those warships in Qingdao Port, he still lacks a necessary condition, and those warships must be operated by someone, right? Otherwise, even if the anti-aircraft weapons on the warship can be operated by some landlubber gunners, even if the air force and air defense forces are powerful enough, the devil only needs to send a submarine in and release torpedoes far away, because a warship that no one starts can not evade it at all

Although the Japanese had forced the captives to shell the fleeing ships and achieved good results, the captives of the Devil Navy thought it was just infighting at that time! Now that the truth is revealed, it has become very unrealistic to ask them to help fight their own people who are about to attack. Besides, in the past, it was a strong attack and a weak attack, and the enemy didn't even dare to fight back, so even if those prisoners didn't do their best, it would be fine, but in the future, whether the Japanese army came from the sky, the sea, or the sea, if the ship was full of guys who couldn't be trusted, it would be no different from looking for death

Qingdao is one of the most important port cities in China, and there is one of the few ship repair yards in China (Note 2), and before the occupation by the devils, there was a naval school and a naval shipyard (small scale), which could leave a little usable personnel

Note 1: During the Republic of China, although science and technology were backward, there were many optical experts and mathematicians, and now almost all of them are concentrated in the Central Plains border area, optical experts have Wu Youxun, Wang Dayan, these two big bulls, Shijie level mathematicians are as many as four or five, and this device has relatively low requirements for industrial production capacity (Hu Weidong has introduced the Jishu process of German optical glass before, and at the same time, the mountainous areas of western Henan are rich in crystal, which is the most haode optical material. As long as there are qualified high-end talents, plus the right direction, luck and time, you can get it out

Note 2: It has been controlled by foreigners and has not returned to the Chinese until now, but Jishu has good ability, and it is one of the largest ship repair yards in China at that time, which can repair any ship sailing in China at that time (welcome your support, is my biggest motivation.) )