1894, 11:59 p.m. on February 5.

At this time, the members of the entire Xuange Battalion team.

It doesn't matter whether they are in the Northeast, Seoul, and grasslands that are still full of air, or they are in Jingshi City, Demon Capital, Jinmen, and Wuchang, which have gradually warmed up and are not so cold.

Or in the warm Yangcheng, Nanyang and other places, or even Uncle Sam's house.

At this moment, one is counted as one, and the thoughts have become a little complicated.

The reason is very simple, because today is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the flower planter, and in one minute, it will be the first day of the New Year of Jiawu.

The thought of all of the above made everyone's minds flutter.

In this situation, until the passage of time and the complete arrival of the First Year of the First Sino-Japanese New Year, these battle-hardened guys have packed up their moods and began to welcome this rare New Year in various ways.

In Jinmen, the yellow fat man has been in the sky, and he shouted 'look at UFOs' in his mouth.

The next second later, while Ah Li looked up at the mouth, he immediately lowered his mouth with an astonishing speed and slammed a bite on the white-haired girl's face.

Then, after shouting 'Happy New Year~', he was going to run away to face Ah Li's pursuit.

What I didn't expect was that after being pulled by Ah Li, she also said a sentence of 'Happy New Year' in her mouth; This time he was not beaten, and the fat man was still a little unaccustomed.

In Surabaya City, the team is getting up.

After picking up the wine glass in his hand, the current identity of the deputy chief of staff was greeted by the representatives of Chinese compatriots who came to watch the Spring Festival Gala and spend the New Year together tonight.

He shouted loudly: "Compatriots, on the occasion of the arrival of the New Year, on behalf of all my colleagues in the Xuange Camp, I would like to ......"

After a blessing, the Chinese compatriots, including Li Renyong and other wealthy family heads, drank the wine in their hands under the applause.

The next second later, even louder cheers rang out.

It was Lao Yang, who was dressed in a costume, who had already come to the stage amid the sound of gongs and drums, ready to sing a piece of 'Dingjun Mountain' for everyone.

Just two kilometers away from the venue of the party, the war elephant was grabbing a white man, picking up a casserole-sized fist and beating it continuously.

While doing it, he was still scolding: "I'm still here to make trouble during the New Year, I'll kill you, the turtle grandson~"

Even if the war elephant had regained most of his strength, but after seven or eight consecutive punches, the white man was still bleeding from his mouth and nose, and he could no longer live.

On an island quite far away from the war elephants, in the mouths of many soldiers of the First Army of the Xuange Battalion, they shouted in unison:

"Come one, instructors come one" in the request.

After Feng Rui and the watchdogs, Chen Tang, Xiong Da, Lao Hei, Lao Ma and others hesitated a little, they sang an old song for them loudly:

"The smoke is billowing and singing heroes, and the green mountains on all sides are listening......

Why is the battle flag picturesque and the blood of heroes staining her red......"

Although the soldiers at the scene did not experience the great battle for the founding of the country in later generations, the fiery national feelings that were oppressed and humiliated and wanted to rise again can be shared.

Let them listen to it in their ears and feel a lot.

In such a song, the eyes of the men who were students, small workers, farmers, and hawkers more than half a year ago gradually changed.

It is further away from continuing here, thousands of miles away in Liaodong.

Yu Hanfeng, who was sitting by the bonfire at this moment, also sang a battle song loudly in front of his brothers from the Second Cavalry Regiment

At the same time, in the Deyue Tower in the magic capital.

Countless fireworks rushed from the top of the building and from the surrounding open space, and the brilliant firelight illuminated the sky of the magic capital.

Under the beautiful fireworks, all the members of the current team in the Demon Capital area, plus an international friend like Old Henry.

Under the white fog rising from the old camera, a group photo was taken.

And in this black-and-white photograph that has been published and forwarded many times for many years to come.

Little White Face and Shadow Rider hooked their shoulders and backs, and their hands compared to the earliest scissor hands of all time; The old snake had an unlit cigarette in the corner of his mouth, and he pretended to be cool with a straight face.

The eyes and hairs are full of harmless smiling faces of humans and animals, like a passer-by playing soy sauce.

Xiaomei pouted, looking unhappy; Because when she played mahjong before, this girl had bad luck and almost lost one night.

Old Henry, an international friend, looked at the camera seriously, and was the most serious one in the photo.

As for Hu Biao and Guifei in the C position, they didn't even look at the camera under the ten fingers.

Looking at each other, it was obviously not an affectionate glance, but even after a hundred years, the masses felt that their faces were full of dog food.

Of course, this is not the case in official terms.

In their parlance, it's called: the romance of the great age......

In short, on this night of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, it was also the most relaxing moment for all the members of the Xuange Battalion team in the entire Jiawu year.

Then, as the days passed, and the war drew nearer, they could feel the smell of tension in the air even when they breathed.

*******

When: February 27.

Location: Nanyang region, on a remote uninhabited island.

Novice rookie Lao Ping, under the gaze of at least thousands of people around, swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously, and finally spit out a few words in his mouth:

"Attention everyone, the test flight begins~"

Under such a sentence, a pro-soldier beside him waved the red flag in his hand vigorously.

Suddenly, on a dirt runway dozens of meters away, a man who was only a clock repairman before arriving here turned the wooden propeller vigorously.

Suddenly, the propellers of an airplane on the runway began to rotate continuously.

Wearing leather jackets, fur hats, and windproof goggles, a total of two pilots, after giving a thumbs up to this side, slowly drove the plane forward.

And such a speed, faster and faster.

In such a process, I knew that I had to behave calmly among my subordinates.

But Lao Ping still couldn't help but bite his lip under the huge tension in his heart, clenched his fists, and didn't even notice that his nails had pierced his palms.

No way! The situation shown by the current team is not optimistic.

If you want to talk about the combined fleet of devils, they don't take it very seriously, even if they don't use the air force, they are confident that they can cooperate with the Beiyang fleet to win against them.

The key is the intervention fleet of the Yin and French countries, which is a stronger enemy.

According to intelligence, a powerful fleet will reach Surabaya City in a few months at most; At that time, if there is no help from the Air Force, frankly speaking, the team really has no confidence to win against them.

Therefore, today's test flight must be successful.

In this way, the aircraft can be officially finalized, assembled, produced, and trained on a large scale, and if it is a little later, then it is really too late.

And the plane in front of him is taxiing, and all kinds of data are already like knives, deep in Lao Ping's brain:

With a length of 12.47 meters, a height of 4.66 meters, a wingspan of 16.42 meters, and a wing area of 42.18 square meters, it is a big guy.

The main structure is made entirely of wood.

It is made of basha wood, which is the lightest and strongest from Brazil.

What's even more amazing is that there are too many skilled carpenters in the flower planter; The number of nails used on the whole aircraft is very small, and most of them are mortise and tenon structures, which are stronger than nail fixation.

The overall empty weight is 6327 kg, and the maximum take-off weight is 8848 kg.

In other words, after removing the pilot, this bomber can still carry about 2.3 tons of weapons and ammunition, as well as various aerial bombs.

This bomb load is still much stronger than the largest bomber during World War I.

The only pity is that at the maximum take-off weight, the maximum flight speed of this thing is only 235 km, and the maximum range is 1050 km.

However, in order to achieve the above data, they also did their best to do their best.

The above two 1025 hp piston engines are the limit of the maximum processing capacity of the machines and workers under their hands after continuous optimization and re-optimization.

Often three units are processed, and only one can be qualified.

Fortunately, with the continuous familiarization and growth of workers, there is still room for large-scale improvement in such a processing pass rate.

Of course, the above data is currently only on paper and in the brains of Lao Ping, whether it can really reach these beautiful indicators, but also to see the actual test flight situation today.

After taxiing for a distance of almost 400 meters, the plane was operated by a rookie pilot.

The chubby-looking plane rises from the ground with a slight bump.

Suddenly, on the ground, there was loud applause, and it was only after seeing Lao Ping still staring at the sky that everyone thought that this was the beginning.

There isn't much uncertainty yet, and it's not the time to be happy.

It hovered in the air for a total of 1 hour and 3 minutes, flew a maximum of more than 3,000 meters, and increased its maximum speed to 230 kilometers per hour.

And after a number of test flight requirements, the landing flag was finally waved on the ground.

In the end, when the plane landed completely successfully, Lao Ping waved his arm violently and roared loudly: "It's successful, we finally succeed~"

Under his shout, a tsunami-like cheer rang out from the mountains on the ground.

The hats and hats that they wore because of sun protection were thrown high by them; The huge pressure in my heart before was all released at this moment.

In such cheers, Lao Ping collapsed towards the ground.

At this time, the breath he was holding in his heart was slightly relieved, and under the huge pressure and work intensity for a long time, his body and spirit, which had reached the limit, finally couldn't bear it.

With the great tiredness that struck him like the fall of a mountain, he just wanted to get a good night's sleep now.

However, before he went to sleep, he still remembered to the guards beside him who looked flustered, and said, "I'm fine, I just want to sleep well."

Don't panic and don't make a fuss.

That's right! Immediately report the good news to the headquarters, and ask them what is the name of this type of aircraft~"

After that, before the guards could ask anything more, the thing was already snoring from its mouth as soon as its eyes were closed.

In the cheers around him, Lao Ping had already fallen asleep in seconds.

After a full 25 hours, Lao Ping, who still felt a little dizzy in his head, finally woke up.

In the time that he had fallen asleep, if it hadn't been for the thunderous snoring sound, his guards would have thought he was hanging.

And after Lao Ping woke up, the dizzy state was quickly resolved.

Because when he saw a telegram, he immediately jumped to his feet and scolded the street: "What! No less than 20 planes must be produced within a month, Hu Biao, you just kill me if you hit the street~"

In this way, the aircraft belonging to the Xuange Battalion was finally born in a difficult environment, and was named the 'H-1 bomber' by Hu Biao, codenamed 'Big-headed Fly'.

Lao Ping, a rookie, has also changed his main job from designing and researching aircraft to producing fighter jets with all his might.

However, unlike in the past, he would take time out of his busy schedule every day to conduct two hours of training on aerospace for some of his engineers.

No matter how much they can learn, it's a high-intensity teaching like cramming.

The main thing is that he understands one thing: he doesn't have much time to use for class.

And these people will be the seeds of the future planting of the flower family's aerospace industry; After no longer lagging behind the West, it will be difficult to catch up......

When: March 13.

Location: North America, Uncle Sam's house.

Erfat and Yuanhai were lying on the beach in Miami, sipping cocktails while being massaged by two beautiful Yanmars in bikinis.

That little day was indescribably beautiful.

Truly! To say that in this mission, the two people who have the happiest life in the entire Xuange camp are definitely these two goods.

How so? It's like these two beautiful big Yanmars, after a whole day with them, if they want to, they have to ask them for a few dollars.

Of course, this is not the posture of the two of them, how crazy the Yanmars are.

It's just that they promised to give them a pair of the latest socks that they might not be able to buy when they have money now.

If you buy this thing on the black market, it will cost a month's salary of an Uncle Sam's steelworker.

It's just that just because of a pair of socks, people have to find a few dollars, even with the cheekiness of the two of them, this kind of thing is a little impossible to do.

What's that! Just be enthusiastic.

As for the bikinis on the two Yanmares, since they caused a sensation by the photo of the concubine, they have now become popular at Uncle Sam's house.

Even if I don't know how many old-fashioned old men have been scolding the street in the newspaper, they are still the kind that can't resist all kinds of girls and wear clothes dangling on the beach.

It's a pity that the two of them didn't have to enjoy the enthusiasm of the Yanmar.

Another tall Yanmar secretary, after twisting all the way, said delicately: "BOSS, the people of the Dupont family have also arrived, and the meeting is about to start~"

After hearing such a sentence, Er Fat and Yuan Hai couldn't help but glance at each other, and they could see the reluctance in each other's eyes.

Because in the next meeting, after reaching an agreement with these top families of Uncle Sam's family, they will return to Daqing to prepare for that war.

Otherwise, if it drags on, it will be too late to rush back.

Ten minutes later, the two of them appeared in a conference room in a nearby luxury manor, there were not many people inside, but each of them was important at Uncle Sam's house.

It's some big people who are more effective than the big commanders.

For example: the head of the DuPont family, the old Morgan they are familiar with, and the steel magnate Carnegie.

In short, one counts as one, and it is unusually not simple; Basically, the so-called nine families of Uncle Sam's family have all arrived here.

Facing these people, Yuanhai opened the box in his hand and transported the penicillin that had been transported from Surabaya not long ago, and a number of special drugs for the old man in some way.

A few large oil field titles have not yet been discovered, but have already been bought by them.

Some aspects of oil production, oil refining, and steelmaking are definitely quite advanced technical information for the current era.

After hurriedly introducing these things, I looked at the shining eyes of these people; Yuanhai said slowly: "Want a code?" Yes, but you have to promise us some conditions.

First, we need to invest in technology in these industries.

Second, if there is a war between us and the island nations, Yin Fa, etc., in the future, you must exert the necessary influence; Even if Uncle Sam's family is not allowed to directly participate in the war, some decisions must be made in our favor.

Considering the huge market in the Far East, I think you have enough motivation......"

(End of chapter)