Now there are quite a few Allied representatives who are eager to see and experience these long-range bombers in order to make a decision whether to buy them or not.

In fact, there is no need to experience it, they are already very tempted, after all, the appearance and the new engine alone are enough to impress the representatives of the Allied forces to make a decision.

However, of course, the experience is better, so today the leaders of the Eighth Route Army also have arrangements, and the representatives of the allied forces can experience several long-range bombardment of the air force, including the Fury fighter, and they can also test drive.

For the Allied pilots, this was not a difficult task.

However, the experience requirements put forward by the Allied representatives were a little different, they actually wanted to follow the pilots of the Eighth Route Army Air Force to fly bombers to bomb the targets of the little devils, and said that only actual combat could test whether this long-range bomber was so good, and if it was really good, then they would order at least a hundred.

Of course, the leaders of the Eighth Route Army immediately agreed, and the Chinese Air Force also wanted to test it in actual combat, so the two sides reached an agreement that these ten new long-range bombers would form a team together to bomb the targets of the little devils.

In fact, there will be an Allied pilot on five long-range bombers, who will witness the bombing operation and see if the long-range bombers are really better than the American-made B17 bombers.

I have to say that the Allied pilots, as soon as they entered the cockpit of the bomber, were shocked, because this turned out to be a pressurized cockpit, which was much more comfortable than the B17 bomber they flew, because there was no need to wear any oxygen masks, nor thermal gloves or anything, just ordinary cold-proof equipment.

It was very sinful to fly the B17 bomber, so they had to admire the Eighth Route Army.

This is even stronger than the B24 bomber being developed by the United States, after all, the B24 long-range bomber has a range of 5,000 kilometers, but the maximum bomb load is smaller, only six tons, and the take-off weight is three tons less.

The most important thing is that the engine of the B24 long-range bomber is also an aviation piston engine, which is not comparable to the propeller engine, with a single power of only 1,200 horsepower, while this Chinese-made long-range bomber has a single power of 1,600 horsepower, so it can fly 650 kilometers per hour, and the B24 is less than 500 kilometers per hour.

In terms of speed, it is indeed much faster for Chinese-made long-range bombers, which will be extremely advantageous on the battlefield, and the survivability will definitely be greatly improved, not to mention that this bomber also has four 14.5 mm Gatling machine guns, which is compared to the six to ten 12.7 mm machine guns of the B24 long-range bomber, which will only have more firepower and stronger self-defense capabilities.

Similarly, the B24 long-range bomber is also a non-airtight cockpit, and the temperature is dozens of degrees below zero after flying into the sky, but this long-range bomber will not, it can use the exhaust of the engine to heat the air and warm the cockpit, so it is at most as low as about five degrees, not lower.

This time, Duan Yunpeng also boarded the plane in person, piloting a long-range bomber with Zhang Xia, and he brought an allied pilot named Colonel Tom.

Soon long-range bombers took off one after another, and on another runway, ten Fury fighters also took off, and they were escorting these long-range bombers.

The range of this mission was not far, so every long-range bomber was fully loaded with bombs, think about eight tons of bombs, how terrifying, and ten, adding up to eighty tons.

The target is seven hundred kilometers away, and at the speed of bombers and fighters, it will take only an hour and a half to arrive.

So everyone is very excited and excited, the target to be bombed this time is an arsenal of little devils, and this target is of high value.

Zhang Xia was in a good mood because this time she was piloting a long-range bomber with Duan Yunpeng again, and now she was the captain of this long-range bomber, and Duan Yunpeng had become a co-pilot and navigator.

Their cooperation is very tacit, the Allied pilots in the back are asking some questions in English from time to time, and Duan Yunpeng can actually talk to him in fluent English, which makes Zhang Xia like him even more.

The four turboprop engines were very powerful, and the Allied pilot also felt it, and he said excitedly: "Duan, you said that your turboprop engine is the most advanced in the world, and now it seems that you really did not lie to us." I'll tell you the good news, if this test flight goes well, you can get an order for at least 150 aircraft, and this is only the first batch of orders, when we use it well, then we will definitely chase the order, then it may be hundreds of planes. ”

Duan Yunpeng laughed and said: "Mr. Tom, don't worry, our mission will definitely be very smooth, don't worry, we have blown up the little devil several times, the little devil has no way to fight back, it's very safe!" ”

Tom smiled: "That's good, I'll record the bombing process in detail!" ”

The role of a long-range bomber in the war is too great, even more than a fighter, because it is an offensive weapon, and if a hundred long-range bombers are dispatched at a time, hundreds of tons of bombs can be dropped.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army will not be equipped with so much, it is too expensive, so now the Eighth Route Army Air Force only has eight long-range bombers, including the four that are being delivered now.

Eight planes are completely sufficient, and more than 60 tons of bombs can be dropped in one sortie, and the consumption of this ammunition is also very large, if there are too many bombers, there will be not enough ammunition.

The size of the air force is also not small, in addition to eight long-range bombers, there are also twenty Fury fighters, which can be said to be a powerful force, although the number is not much, but for the Eighth Route Army, it is of great significance, and it will definitely become the beginning of the future Eighth Route Army Air Force.

The cruising speed of 550 kilometers is very fast, so soon the bomber group and the escort fighter group came to the sky over a large arsenal of devils.

There is no airfield for devils here, only anti-aircraft fire on the ground, and shooting begins.

It's just that for these large long-range bombers, this devil's artillery fire is not afraid at all, because this time it is horizontal bombing, so the altitude is more than 3,000 meters, and most anti-aircraft firepower can't hit it, for example, anti-aircraft machine guns can't hit so high.

Only a small number of anti-aircraft guns were able to hit this height, but their rate of fire was too slow to pose any effective threat.

Duan Yunpeng commanded the bomber fleet and began to drop bombs.

I saw that these long-range bombers, like old hens laying eggs, threw down dense bombs, and at this time the accuracy was not very important, as long as the deviation was not more than two or three kilometers.