In May of the third year of Ankang, a small town next to a corner in the lower reaches of the Magdalena River was under the military management of the Xintianfu Huangzhuang troops.

A small number of armed immigrants from the Ming Dynasty were hired to repair the wharf and build a cement and concrete "square".

People from all other ethnic groups were sent to the Panama Canal Repairs.

Because of the military tasks and classified testing projects, the Ming army did not explain to the workers what they were doing.

So the Ming immigrants who worked here called this place "Square".

It was also inconvenient for the troops to casually talk about the construction of the airport, so they simply followed the workers and called it the square.

So the name of the town became Square Town.

As for the original name, the people who originally lived here seem to call this place Barrancabermeja.

This name is too tongue-twisting for the Ming people.

Under normal circumstances, the final Ming name of this kind of place, if there is no popular code name, or an official special name, will basically take one or two of the syllables and transliterate them into Chinese characters.

If a code name is formed that everyone is used to, then the original name will simply not be used at all.

At the same time, the name of the river, the Magdalena, is also tongue-twisting.

Recently, cement and concrete materials have been being transported to this side, so everyone simply calls this river the cement river.

In the following month, a large number of inland river vessels began to sail down the cement river to Square Town.

Build a "square" and a "big shed" here.

In June, planes began to arrive and land in the square.

These aircraft include existing aircraft transferred from other airports, as well as assembled products for trial production at the new Tianfu Daming Aviation Factory.

The workers finally knew what the squares were up to, but it seemed a little late to change the name to Airport Town.

Moreover, the officers and soldiers also specially reminded them not to go out and talk nonsense, so they continued to call Square Town.

On May 20, the third year of Ankang, the latest plane transferred from the local factory in Daming also arrived in Square Town.

What Daming is currently producing, or even once producing, all kinds of small aircraft are basically gathered.

After recovering Zhu Jingyuan's memory and designing a relatively reasonable aircraft, Daming's aviation industry is developing rapidly.

The rate of update of the design version of the latest flying machines is calculated on a monthly basis.

Two years ago, Zhu Jingyuan saw the latest fighter jet, which used a single-row nine-cylinder star-shaped 400-horsepower engine.

Now the engine of 1,000 horsepower is being replaced in batches.

At the same time, the development of a double-row 18-cylinder star engine has officially begun

It is expected that the power will start directly at 1,500 horsepower, and it is even expected to exceed 2,000 horsepower.

There are also twin-row in-line twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled engines that are also being tested.

The fighter model used by the army and navy today is still the same form that Zhu Jingyuan originally presided over the design.

A Type 5 fighter similar to the FW-190D and Sea Fury.

But the functional design has been updated three times, and the engine has been replaced three times at the same time.

After the power was increased to more than 1,000 horsepower, this body, which was already suitable for high-speed flight, soared to a maximum flight speed of 600 kilometers per hour.

With the significant increase in speed and the simultaneous reduction in fuel consumption, the maximum range has also exceeded 800 kilometers, and the combat radius has reached 300 kilometers at the same time.

However, in this operation, the enemy's air combat capability was almost none, so the fighter was not the main force.

The main combat aircraft deployed in Square Town are small single-engine attack aircraft using the same engine.

At the same time, a variety of large and medium-sized aircraft gathered at the coastal airport in Ciudad Cartagena.

Twin-engine fighters were responsible for covering bombers.

However, at this time, the enemy not only did not have fighters, but also had a weak ability to release air, so only a very small proportion was arranged.

The twin-engine medium bomber, which has already begun mass production, is the absolute main force of this bombing mission.

There is also a large four-engine bomber that has just completed the experiment, which was also sent to participate in the first combat verification.

Zhu Jingyuan was preparing to try strategic bombing, but the relevant military command and engineering personnel seemed to want to concentrate on trying all the planes.

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In the end, a total of three hundred and four aircraft were prepared on board the two airfields.

Eight large four-shot bombers, each of which could carry four tons of bombs.

Eighty twin-engine medium bombers, each capable of carrying two tons of bombs.

One hundred and sixty attack aircraft, each capable of carrying 500 kg of bombs.

Twenty twin-engine fighters, also carrying one-ton bombs.

Forty single-engine fighters with 200 kilograms of bombs on their boards hit the road.

In addition to airplanes, there are napalm bombs that have just been successfully developed in accordance with Zhu Jingyuan's requirements.

The ratio of bombers to fighters is four to one, and depending on the enemy's air combat and air defense capabilities, the fighter ratio can be lower.

However, fighter jets can also be used for bombing missions, and in addition to the first mission, in order to prevent various possible scenarios, the proportion of fighters has not been further reduced.

According to Li Yuquan, if there is always enough ammunition and fuel supply, these planes will be enough to completely wipe the city of Boliwa off the map.

On the 23rd day of the fifth month of the third year of Ankang, all preparations for battle were ready.

Based on observations of cloud cover, a rare sunny day is expected in the Medellín region tomorrow.

Therefore, after reporting to Zhu Jingyuan, the operational command officially launched the strategic bombing mission.

Combat planes of the two battlefields, which were twice as far apart, took off one after another at the same time.

After forming a group, they flew to the area where the city of Boliva (Medellín) was located.

The airfield for small aircraft is more than 200 kilometers from the battlefield.

The fast-flying small fighter jets were also loaded with bombs, and the slower small attack planes were in the same boat.

It took almost forty minutes for the two groups to enter the combat area.

However, instead of going directly to the city of Boliwa, he first rushed to the terraces on the north side of the city.

The city of Boliwa is located in the middle of a canyon with two flat terraces on the north and south sides of the canyon.

The population of the two mesas is not large, but there are several towns in key locations.

Boliwa built a military camp and a large number of artillery towers to protect the canyon where the city of Boliwa was located.

In this mountain, it was difficult for the infantry to break through the defenses of these places when it was difficult to transport heavy weapons.

Attacking the city of Boliwa along the valley will be suppressed by the turrets on the terrace.

The momentum of the army attack against the bandits was suppressed by these highland turrets.

The anti-bandit troops were originally prepared to mobilize planes to deal with it, but Zhu Jingyuan's plan directly expanded the scale of the operation.

Now one hundred and sixty attack aircraft, forty fighters, and two hundred aircraft are mixed and divided into two parts.

Relatively nimble fighters led the way in front, and attack aircraft followed in formation.

They attacked in groups along the high ground on both sides of the canyon from west to east.

The key town guarding the slopes on the mesas on either side of the canyon where the city of Boliwa is located, the guards are at the highest level of security.

The guards on duty inside the turret immediately widened their eyes in horror when they saw the plane appear.

Among the veterans who retreated to Boliwa City from other regions, many of them had seen the Ming plane.

They have a visceral fear of such flying machines.

Because he couldn't do anything about them, he could only be passively beaten on the ground, holding his head and running away.

Fortunately, however, in the past, the number of these flying machines was not large, and the maximum number of them was a dozen or even a few at a time.

The planes do not directly kill many people, mainly to suppress artillery positions.

If the infantry fired their guns en masse, or fired from their backs with small-caliber artillery, they could also force the planes not to approach.

But this time, the guards did not count at once, how many planes appeared in the sky!

The guards sounded the alarm in a panic and sent someone to report to the officers.

Including the officers in the turret, as well as the officers in the barracks below.

Not long after the soldiers in charge of going to the barracks ran out of the turret, they heard a piercing whistling sound in their ears.

Then there was a deafening explosion.

A fierce shock wave surged in, and the soldier fell directly to the ground.

And these few sounds were just the beginning, and the sound of explosions continued to sound far and near.

The soldier lay on his stomach on the ground and did not dare to move, and waited for an unknown amount of time before the sound of the explosion finally subsided.

The soldier cautiously rolled over, panting for breath, and glanced back at the turret where he had been.

The walls of the turret were half collapsed, and three of the companions and officers inside had escaped from it, slumped as far away as themselves, gasping for breath.

There were a few others not far away who seemed to be people, but they were lying on the ground motionless, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

A leg leaked out from under the collapsed wall, as if it had smashed a person.

As for the people in the turret, I don't know how many are left.

The soldier looked back in a trembling state and saw that the entire barracks had become a mess.

Almost all of the buildings were bombed and now more than half of them have collapsed.

Everywhere there were soldiers and officers running around, and people sitting or lying down who did not know whether they were alive or dead.

When bombed by planes, you have to run outside the building, which is the survival experience of Yinzhou white ghost rogues.

The industrial base of Xintianfu in Southern Yinzhou was not good, and the industrial base of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies was even worse.

Rebels like Boliwa and Martin Sun also did not have the ability to build large factories on their own.

They have no way to communicate with the outside world, and there are no coal mines in the area.

The weapons in their hands were basically obtained from the Spanish and Portuguese colonial armies.

They also didn't stay in rule here for long and didn't have enough experience to build a large number of stone houses.

Most of the houses they live in are brick and til, which can easily collapse when bombed.

The probability of dying if you are crushed in a house is much greater than the probability of lying down in an open field.

Because fixed-wing aircraft are not helicopters, it is very difficult to kill people on the ground.

If there are only a few planes, it is difficult to cause substantial casualties if you go directly to the people running outside to kill them.

So when the soldiers in the barracks heard the explosion, they all ran into the courtyard.

As a result, at this moment, several strange whistling sounds sounded.

The soldiers who were spread out on the ground subconsciously looked up and found that several planes had dropped several relatively large bombs.

The soldier immediately threw himself to the ground again, ready for a new wave of shockwaves.

As a result, the blast wave of the explosion was not violent, but it burst out with an extraordinarily raging flame.

Before the soldier could understand what was happening, his body was already on fire.

"Ah......h

The soldier let out a heart-rending scream and instinctively rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the fire on his body.

As a result, this conventional fire extinguishing method was completely useless, and the fire on the body continued to burn unaffected.

What burned seemed to be some kind of grease that stuck directly to one's body.

The soldier endured severe pain and jumped up trying to find water to extinguish the fire.

In a hazy sight of severe pain and fiery, the soldiers found that the entire barracks had been turned into a sea of fire.

Everywhere there were people covered in fire screaming and struggling in frenzy.

All the flames showed no signs of being extinguished.

It was actually the latest incendiary bomb brought by a new plane from the Ming Dynasty.

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Inside the city of Boliwa.

Over the past month, the atmosphere in Boliwa City has been quite relaxed.

Because the troops of the Ming stopped the offensive.

In addition, at Miranda's suggestion, Boliva cleverly used an ultimatum to propose the terms of negotiation.

Boliwa felt that the reason why Daming stopped attacking might be that the higher-ups were considering the conditions they had proposed.

In hindsight, he decided that the condition was too simplistic.

Let yourself live, and this war will be over.

No normal decision-maker should refuse such a condition.

At one point, Boliwa regretted it.

But as time passed, Boliwa and his men slowly became a little restless again.

Da Ming thought about it for too long.

For most of the month, there was no news at all.

Boliva returned to a clean and decent attire and sat down in his place, discussing with Miranda and his men.

"Could it be the Ming Dynasty...... Or is there something wrong with the core area of Xintianfu?

"Or did Martin Sun make a big mess?"

Miranda said with a rather serious expression:

"If there is a problem within the Ming Dynasty or even in the New Tianfu, then they should be more active in promoting peace talks with us.

"So...... There is another possibility, the Ming is brewing a larger-scale attack......

"For example, more artillery was mobilized, and even a special railway was built......

Or ...... More planes? ”

Somewhat incredulous, Boliwa said:

"You mean, Da Ming may have rejected our conditions?

"Our conditions are low enough, why should they refuse?"

Miranda shook her head:

"I can't think of a reason, but I can't think of a more credible possibility......"

While Boliwa and his subordinates were discussing, a communications soldier ran quickly into the conference room:

"Your Majesty, the barracks on both sides of the canyon entrance have been attacked, and they are flying machines."

Boliwa chuckled in his heart and stood up directly:

"Is it the attack of the Great Ming? It can only be the attack of the Ming Dynasty, but why? Why! ”

Boliva's expression was extremely incredulous, and he turned his face to look at his companions and subordinates around him.

Miranda didn't answer Boliva's question, because she couldn't figure it out at all, so she looked at the Messenger:

"What about the details? How many planes did Daming come? What is the situation on the ground? What about the losses? ”

The Messenger shook his head:

"There are no details, both places only reported the discovery of the Ming plane, which was attacked, and the communication was cut off.

"No matter how much I call after that, there is no response, both sides are the same, and the suspicion has been broken......"

Miranda and everyone else were in disbelief.

The front line has not been subjected to air raids before, but there has been basically no complete interruption of communications.