The expansion of the new regiment and the Eighth Route Army was in full swing.

After Colonel Mao Yingchu agreed with the 4th Air Brigade of the National Air Force to cooperate with the Air Force of the Eighth Route Army to bomb the Japanese mainland.

The Eighth Route Army sent a transport plane to transport the pilots of the 4th Air Group, including Zheng Shaoqiang, to Heyuan Airport in the northwest of Shanxi Province.

The transport planes of the Eighth Route Army were larger than the C47 transport planes of the National Army, and only one transport plane was dispatched to transport the entire 4th Air Group.

And sent two Sabre fighters to escort it.

As the commander of the fighter squadron of the Nationalist Air Force, Mao Yingchu naturally could not personally carry out the bombing mission.

The.

Zheng Shaoqiang led the pilots of the 4th Air Brigade to carry out bombing missions with the Eighth Route Army.

Mao Yingchu trusted Zheng Shaoqiang very much, and never thought that Zheng Shaoqiang would lead the 4th Aviation Brigade to join the Eighth Road.

Heyuan Airport.

With the huge roar of the aircraft engines, 2 Sabre fighters, as well as 1 transport plane, landed at the airport.

The cabin door was pushed open, Zheng Shaoqiang took the lead and walked down, and the pilots of the national army behind him followed off the plane one after another.

Zheng Shaoqiang and the pilots of the National Army are all wearing the uniforms of the National Army.

Many of these pilots are the children of wealthy families, highly educated, and have patriotic ideals.

Except for those who were brainwashed by the national conquest and only loyal to the leader Chang Principal, most of them joined the army to serve the country and did not want to get involved in partisan disputes, but only wanted to be democratic, independent, and free.

Judging from the image, they are all handsome, with black hairstyles, and tall and upright postures.

They are the most elite fighter flying group in the national army.

"This is a long-range strategic bomber?"

Behind Zheng Shaoqiang, Captain Zhou Zikai, the leader of the 34th Squadron of the 4th Group, stared at the heavy long-range bombers on the runway.

Wow... Behind Zhou Zikai, the pilots of the national army suddenly made an uproar.

The eyes of this group of national army pilots were wide, and their eyes were about to fall.

It was the first time they had seen such a large plane, larger than the transport plane they were on.

The bigger the plane, the more fuel and ammunition it carries, the longer the range, and the more firepower!

A pilot is to an airplane what a cavalry is to a war horse, and a good pilot can only play a stronger combat effectiveness with a good airplane.

"Where did the Eighth Route Army get such a big bomber?"

The 21st squadron leader Gao Youxin is full of envy!

That jet fighter was outrageous enough, but I didn't expect there to be a more powerful bomber.

After this period of understanding, a group of pilots of the National Army, although they have not yet touched the Sabre fighter of the Eighth Route Army, have already understood its performance.

The maximum flight speed is 1,000 kilometers per hour, the maximum altitude is 11,000 meters, and the combat radius is more than 850 kilometers.

Perform combat missions at supersonic speeds in level flight.

The ejection seat is erected to greatly protect the safety of the pilot.

The Japanese Army's Type Zero and Nakajima fighters are gluttonous in front of this fighter.

"Where did you call the Eighth Route Army?"

Liu Zhihan, the leader of the 22nd squadron, pouted:

"As long as you can fight devils."

These three squadron leaders, all ace pilots of the National Army, shot down at least 3 Japanese planes.

By Zheng Shaoqiang's side, there is also the vice captain Liu Binlin.

At this moment, Li Shaorong, who had been waiting by the runway for a long time, wearing a flight combat uniform, and the reception staff of the new regiment walked over quickly.

The two sides met and saluted each other, and then introduced themselves.

There is no yin and yang weirdness and cynicism like in the TV series.

Because both sides knew that the other side was the ace unit of the Chinese Air Force, and it had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese air force.

And in this cooperation, everyone has a common goal - to bomb Tokyo.

At this moment, three long-range heavy bombers landed at the airport with a huge roar, attracting the sideways attention of the pilots of the national army.

Li Shaorong smiled slightly and introduced: "This is our flight crew, conducting flight training. ”

"Captain Li, what kind of bomber is this?"

"How come we've never met?"

Major Zheng Shaoqiang withdrew his gaze from the bomber and looked at Li Shaorong and asked.

The deputy captain, the three squadron leaders, and the pilots of the national army also looked at Li Shaorong curiously.

"Its name is the Flying Fortress."

"It was built by our Eighth Route Army's arsenal abroad."

"The range can reach 7,000 kilometers, it can reach a maximum height of 10,000 meters, and the bomb load is 10 tons."

As for dealing with the pilots of the National Army, the Eighth Route Army has long thought of a unified speech, and the existence of Boss Chen is the top secret of the Eighth Route Army, so it is naturally impossible to disclose it to the National Army.

This Flying Fortress Bomber is an advanced and improved version of the Flying Fortress.

Longer range, higher maximum flight altitude, more bomb load, lower failure rate.

Chen Feng's quality is as solid as a rock!

And Boss Chen is also thoughtfully equipped with mechanical trainers, crew training instructors, and a large number of spare parts for the aircraft.

"The Flying Fortress, as it is, is like a fortress!"

Zheng Shaoqiang's tone was amazed.

Li Shaorong smiled slightly: "Please come to our canteen to eat first." ”

"Please!"

Zheng Shaoqiang shook his hand.

After that, Li Shaorong invited Zheng Shaoqiang and other pilots of the National Army to the canteen of the air force dormitory of the new regiment.

The facilities of the control tower, oil depot, ammunition depot and canteen are very good.

Even the vicinity of the airport is heavily guarded, and it is strictly forbidden for idle people to approach.

Zheng Shaoqiang: When they saw such a good meal for the first time, they all feasted on it, and some pilots of the national army who had studied abroad said that even foreign air force units did not have such good food.

After lunch.

Li Shaorong took the deputy captain, three squadron leaders, and nine detachment leaders, and under the guidance of a guard, to the conference room of the new regiment flight group.

In the conference room, Li Shaorong, the leader of the new regiment of the flight group, and Wang Hexin, the instructor, were already waiting here.

"Let me first introduce this combat mission."

After Li Shaorong and the others sat down, Li Shaorong said.

These pilots and officers of the Nationalist Army in front of him are all aces of the Nationalist Air Force who have led the team to fight with the Japanese air force, and there will be no problem of leaking secrets.

Therefore, under the orders of his superiors, Li Shaorong naturally wanted to give out all the combat tasks.

On the wooden board behind Li Shaorong hung a map of all Japan, and he pointed to the map and said: "The targets of our 50 bombers this time are Tokyo and Yokosuka military ports in Japan. ”

The pilots have excellent eyesight and can see the map clearly without having to climb up.

Just with this sentence, the eyes of the pilots and officers of the national army suddenly lit up.

Bomb Tokyo!

They dreamed of bombing Tokyo, but they didn't expect that this dream was about to come true!

"Captain Li, will you bomb in one batch or two batches?"

Zheng Shaoqiang asked with burning eyes.

The so-called one batch and two batches are divided into two bombings or one bombing.

If it was two bombings, it would be a second bombing after the bombing of Tokyo, after the planes flew home to replenish ammunition and fuel.

"A batch of bombing."

李少荣 says:

"It was divided into two flight formations, one with 38 bombers carrying incendiary bombs to bomb Tokyo, and the other with 12 bombers carrying goblet bombs, with the goal of bombing the Japanese aircraft carrier Shozuru parked at Yokosuka Military Port for maintenance."

"Is it the aircraft carrier Xianghe that was damaged by the US Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea?"

Liu Binlin, deputy captain of the 4th Brigade of the National Army, asked tentatively with burning eyes.

The Japanese aircraft carrier Xianghe, but the main first-class fleet aircraft carrier of the Japanese army, was protected by carrier-based aircraft and destroyers and other Japanese naval forces on weekdays, and even the US Navy failed to sink it.

"That's right, that's it!"

Li Shaorong nodded:

"This is a photo taken by our intelligence officers at Yokosuka Military Port of the Shozuru aircraft carrier maintenance."

Then, Li Shaorong handed the intelligence materials and photos provided by Boss Chen and copied by the printing house to Li Shaorong and Liu Binlin.

"Goblet aerial bomb, what kind of bomb?"

"Can blow up and sink the Japanese aircraft carrier Shozuru?"

Zhou Zikai, the leader of the 23rd Squadron of the National Army, asked:

"Moreover, the Japanese army's Yokosuka military port must have powerful anti-aircraft firepower, and the bombers are afraid that it will not be able to complete this combat mission, and they will have to move the fighters to dive before they have the slightest chance, but the range of the fighters is not that far."

In the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese aircraft carrier Xianghe was hit by three aerial bombs of the Mi army, but failed to sink it.

And such a large bomber, I am afraid that not long after it just began to dive, it was shot down by the Japanese aviation guns on the ground.

In Zhou Zikai's view, this is a combat mission that is enough to make the blood of Chinese soldiers boil.

The feasibility of a combat operation to bomb Tokyo is very high, but the probability of blowing up the aircraft carrier Shozuru is very low, or even almost zero.

And letting a heavy bomber dive to bomb the devil aircraft carrier is tantamount to sending him to death.

Because even if the bomb is dropped at an altitude of several thousand meters, from the bombardier's point of view, the devil aircraft carrier on the sea is not much different from the size of the ant, and if you want to drop a bomb at an altitude of several thousand meters and hit the devil's aircraft carrier, you have to be extremely lucky!

Zheng Shaoqiang and several other officers of the National Air Force also looked pensive.

Obviously.

They also have the same concerns as Zhou Zikai.

Li Shaorong smiled slightly: "Whether you can blow up the Xianghe aircraft carrier, the key lies in this goblet bomb." ”

"Captain Li, what's so peculiar about this aerial bomb?"

Zheng Shaoqiang asked with a curious look on his face.

"This is a photo and material about a goblet aerial bomb."

Li Shaorong handed another photo to Zheng Shaoqiang.

On the front of the photo is a picture of a huge goblet bomb, and the ground crew of the Eighth Route Army in the photo is loading bombers.

Judging from the proportions of the ground crew to this aerial bomb, this is a super-large aerial bomb.

Behind the photo is the performance data of the goblet bomb.

"Goblet super-heavy aerial bomb, also known as ground-penetrating bomb."

"Weighs 5.5 tons, contains 2.5 tons of explosives."

"Dropped from a height of 5,500 meters, it can penetrate a 5-meter-thick concrete layer, creating a crater with a diameter of 30 meters and a depth of 24 meters."

"Radio-guided, precision bombing."

“……”

Since there was only one photo, Zheng Shaoqiang announced the performance data of the aerial bomb while looking at the information.

The eyes of the pilots of the national army suddenly lit up.

At present, 500 kg of aerial bombs can be regarded as heavy aerial bombs, but I did not expect that the Eighth Route Army still has more than 5 tons of super-heavy aerial bombs.

The power of this aviation is extremely terrifying!

"Radio-guided, precision bombing..."

Zheng Shaoqiang asked expectantly:

"Captain Li, can I understand this sentence as where it can be bombed?"

"Almost!"

Li Shaorong nodded:

"This is a giant aerial bomb that can accurately bomb the target by controlling the gyroscope and changing the bombing trajectory with radio during the fall."

"Of the 12 goblet bombs carried by 12 heavy bombers, as long as one of them hits the aircraft carrier Devil Xianghe, it can be blown up and sunk!"

Although it is possible to use radio guidance, from a high altitude, the aircraft carrier of the target devil is small.

After all, it is not a real missile, it can be pointed and hit wherever it can be pointed to, and it can achieve real accurate hits, so there will definitely be some goblet bombs that cannot hit the target, even if all the goblet bombs fail to hit the devil aircraft carrier.

And.

This aerial bomb can only be dropped during the day, which is very demanding for the weather.

The better the weather, the better the pilot's visual performance.

This information is provided by Boss Chen, who is a professional team that will provide weather forecasts for Tokyo and Yokosuka Naval Port.

When Zhou Zikai, Gao Youxin and others heard this, they stared at the photo in Zheng Shaoqiang's hand, and suddenly couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

His gaze grew hotter.

Powerful, accurately guided, and high-altitude bombs, it is definitely a necessary artifact for home travel, killing people, defending the country and making the enemy cry for his father and mother.

If the national army had this weapon, would the devil's warship dare to sail into the Yangtze River?

"Even if the bomber drops to 5,500 meters, at this altitude, the devil's fighter can reach it, and what is the protection performance of the bomber?"

Vice Captain Liu Binlin asked worriedly.

"You don't have to worry about that."

"Our regimental commander has thought of it a long time ago."

Li Shaorong smiled slightly, pointed to the map and said:

"Our plan is to send 38 planes to bomb Tokyo first, and attract nearby devil fighters to come to support."

"Then 12 bombers flew to the Yokosuka military port with 12 goblet bombs."

"Even if there are three or two cats and dogs and devil fighters in the air to intercept them, the 14 12.7mm heavy machine guns on our bombers are enough to deal with it."

"After dropping aerial bombs, our bombers can quickly pull to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and there is no devil fighter at present, which can rise to an altitude of 10,000 meters to fight."

Zheng Shaoqiang and several pilot officers under his command glanced at each other.

The Eighth Route Army will draw up a detailed battle plan, taking into account all possible scenarios.

It is even very likely that a detailed emergency plan has been developed.

The look of worry on his face disappeared, and his eyes gradually lit up.

Although it was tempting to bomb the aircraft carrier Shozuru on the Japanese mainland and the Japanese Navy.

But they are all national elites, even ace pilots, and will not make unnecessary sacrifices.

Looking at the expressions on the faces of the friendly soldiers, Li Shaorong said in a tempting tone, and continued: "You are very lucky, you are about to participate in the first bombing of our Eighth Route Army on the Japanese mainland, in the next two years, our Eighth Route Army plans to drop more than 5 million tons of aviation incendiary bombs on the Japanese mainland, turning Japan into a scorched earth, this plan is called 'Yunlong Barbecue'!" ”

"5 million tons of aerial bombs?"

"Yunlong barbecue?"

The pilots of the national army, including Zheng Shaoqiang, couldn't help but swallow their saliva when they heard this, and their eyes were as hot as fireworks.

(End of chapter)