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August 28, 19o8 (the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu).

Since the CSD completely occupied Yungui in mid-June, it stopped moving, which made the worried Qing court, especially Xiliang in Liangguang, finally relieved. According to Xiliang's idea, no matter how awesome the Party is, it will take at least half a year to digest these two provinces. But unfortunately, Wen Deji did not go as he wished.

Just today, the CSD, which had been silent for more than two months, began to move again, and it was a big move. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which had been resting for more than two months, took the lead of the air force and began to attack the two large cities.

This time, the revolutionary army dispatched a total of three newly formed infantry divisions, three infantry regiments, and more than 20 battalion and company-level units, with a total strength of more than 90,000 troops. It is divided into 3 roads in total, respectively from Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan three directions, towards the two Guangzhou.

The Air Force dispatched a total of 128 aircraft from eight squadrons, and eight armed airships from one group. Moreover, in the past two months or so, not only has the Sixth Army been reorganized, but these air armaments have also been further improved. For example, the "Sparrow" trainer aircraft can no longer be seen in the aircraft fleet above Liangguang, and two new types of aircraft are used instead.

J-1 "Big" fighter and J-2 "Raven" fighter. The former "Big" is a product of Hubei Aircraft Factory (Efei), which was established after the liberation of Hubei last year, and the site was originally intended to be located in Wuhan, but considering that there are too many foreign forces there, it is not conducive to secrecy, so it was changed to a plain between Yingcheng and Yunmeng, close to the Sichuan-Hubei Railway.

Because it is a new factory, the technical force is weaker, so their product J-1 "Big" fighter adopts the company's more mature air-cooled motor (in fact, the liquid-cooled engine appeared earlier, and the first aircraft on the earth was liquid-cooled with a liquid-cooled motor. However, the Tuojiang Power Machine Qì Factory under the command of Xingke has been air-cooled from the beginning, so for Xingke, the air-cooling technology is more mature). The designs of those planes during the First World War were too primitive and the structures were rather strange, and Wen Desi and those cyborg engineers naturally looked down on them.

Therefore, the blueprint of the J-1 is the choice of the original space-time Soviet Union's I-15 and Italy's cR. 42, these 2 products of the 3o years. The aircraft designers under Wendeji did not copy exactly the same aircraft, and they carried out a series of redesigns and magic changes on the basis of these two aircraft. Not to mention the knowledge of later generations, their working conditions alone are better than their contemporaries. There are wind tunnels that are at least 3o years ahead of their contemporaries, and quantum computers "Xiaofei Fei" to assist in the design and simulation of real yàn, so their design degree is extremely fast, and they do not have to make physical tests like their counterparts at this time, and modify them while producing.

In the end, this "big" fighter launched by Efei is like a cR. 42 and I-15 mixture. Full captain 7. 15 meters, wingspan 9. 85 m (upper wing) / 7 m (lower wing), height 3. 2 meters, empty weight 138o kg, maximum take-off weight 2o8o kg. The power system is a "hhQ-o3" piston air-cooled motor ("hhQ" is the Chinese pinyin alphabet of "aviation", "piston" and "air-cooled"), which is the best air-cooled aviation motor that Xingke can mass-produce at present, with a single power of 2oo kilowatts (268 horsepower), and the propeller is a pair of hardwood three-bladed propellers.

Although the aircraft still has a two-wing design, it uses a number of measures to reduce drag in the appearance. The fuselage was streamlined as much as possible, and the tension between the two layers of wings was removed and replaced with aluminum alloy brackets and steel tubes. Although the landing gear cannot be recycled, a streamlined conformal wheel cover has been added. In addition, a semi-sealed cockpit is used, that is, a streamlined wind shield made of plexiglass is added in front of the cockpit to cover the front and side of the pilot.

Despite these drag reduction measures, the power of the motor is not strong enough, and the degree and ceiling of the Big are not as good as the blueprint (the Il-15 is 786 hp, cR). The 42 is 89o hp), but due to the new design of the later generations, the fuel consumption is greatly reduced, and the range is increased compared to the blueprint model. The maximum degree of the "Big" is 23o km, the cruising degree is 18o km, the practical ceiling is 735o meters, and the range is 1ooo km.

The main armament is two 7mm coaxial machine guns (modified from the "Cobra" light machine gun) on both sides of the nose propeller, equipped with a firing coordinator, each machine gun has a reserve of 5oo ammunition, and the ammunition chain feeds. In addition, there are 6 hardpoints under the fuselage and under the wings, which can also be used to carry bombs, rockets with a total weight of no more than 25o, or disposable drop fuel tanks.

The "Big" fighter was flown in January this year, finalized and mass-produced in mid-March, and officially installed in the troops at the end of June.

The J-2 "Raven" fighter is the work of Chengdu Aircraft Factory, and the predecessor of Chengfei is the aircraft branch of Xingke Aircraft Factory. Since the director and chief engineer of Xingfei are all airship factions, the aircraft branch is very unimportant, if it were not for the secretary's continuous support, the resources obtained would definitely be less, and even the "Sparrow" could not be mass-produced. Therefore, after the liberation of Sichuan, Wen Desi became independent of the aircraft branch and moved to Chengdu to establish the Chengdu Aircraft Factory alone.

Counting the time in Xingfei, Chengfei is the earliest aircraft factory in China, and its technical strength is naturally not comparable to that of Efei. So their new aircraft opted for newer, more powerful liquid-cooled engines. However, because the motive did not keep up with the progress for a while, the "Raven" fighter flew more than half a month later than the "Big", and failed to grab the honor of the first official fighter of the Air Force, so he had to get the number of the J-2 in a humiliated manner.

The design of the Raven is based on the Italian cR. 32, and the German AR68, both liquid-cooled fighters of the thirties. Like the J-1, the J-2 is also based on the two blueprint models with a lot of optimization and magic modification, with the help of the powerful computing power of the level computer "Xiaofen", the final product is much more reasonable than the blueprint. Although the design ability of the thirties was much stronger than that of this period, from the perspective of later generations, there were also loopholes everywhere, and there were too many places that could be optimized.

The final J-2 is also a single-seat biplane, closer to the AR68 in shape, but smaller. The total length of the aircraft is 8 meters, and the wingspan is 1o. 3 m (upper wing) / 7. 3 meters (lower wing), height 3. 1 meter, empty weight 16oo kg, maximum take-off weight 266o kg. The power system is a "HHY-O1" piston liquid-cooled motor ("HHY" means "aviation", "piston" and "liquid-cooled" Chinese pinyin letters), which is the first mass-produced liquid-cooled aviation motor, with a single power of 3oo kilowatts (4O2 horsepower), and the propeller is a pair of hardwood three-bladed propellers.

Because the motivation is not as powerful as the two prototypes (cR. 32 is 6oo horsepower, AR68 has 69o horsepower, but the weight is more), so the degree performance of the "Raven" is lower than that of the blueprint model, the maximum height reaches 28o kilometers, the cruising degree is 2oo kilometers, the practical ceiling is 92oo meters (generally can't fly so high, the pilot can't stand it), and the range is 12oo kilometers.

The Raven has more firepower than the Big and is equipped with a coaxial 2OMM cannon (2oo) and two 7mm coaxial guns (5oo). In addition, there are 6 hardpoints under the fuselage and under the wings, which can also be loaded with bombs and rockets with a total weight of less than 3oo kg, or disposable drop fuel tanks.

The performance of these two aircraft can be said to have their own merits, the "Raven" has the advantage in firepower, degree, and range, but the "Big" has the advantage in the turning radius, medium and low altitude performance, and easy maintenance. This made the Air Force feel that it was difficult to make a choice, and in the end, it was General Wen who made the decision, of course, both of which, which big country has only one type of fighter? Both air-cooled and liquid-cooled have their own strengths, and of course they must be developed at the same time.

Because Southwest Aluminum is still under construction, all aviation aluminum is now imported, and there are airships to grab resources, and the number is not enough, so these two aircraft are only in a small part of the front fuselage using aluminum skin, and the other parts are still wood and canvas skin. The frame of the fuselage, landing gear and wings is made of high-strength steel tubes and aviation aluminum alloy, and in addition, the pilot's cockpit, engine and fuel tank parts are covered with a layer of armor steel plates 5-1omm thick.

On top of that, both new aircraft are equipped with radio stations, and pilots can finally communicate without hand gestures and clipboards. This will play a decisive role in the improvement of command and coordination capabilities.

Not only did the Air Force have new aircraft, but the armed airships have also undergone some modifications in accordance with the reactions of the officers and men on the front line, and although they are not as much improved as the aircraft, their combat effectiveness has also been greatly improved.

For example, there are finally professional aerial bombs, from 1o kg to 5oo kg, and there is no need to grab shells with mortars. The bombing and sighting system has also been replaced with a professional-grade one, and it is no longer used to make up with the previous thing that was modified with a gun mirror, and of course the bombing device has also been replaced with a professional-grade one. The base of the gun also has a balanced and shock-absorbing system, which greatly improves its hit rate.

There is also a new weapon -- the 9omm air-to-ground rocket, which is specially used for washing the ground.

As for the professional-grade armed airship, it is still in the factory and has not yet been completed, and this thing is terrifying. It was magically modified on the basis of the 3O-ton "Qingyun-1" airship and was named "Cloud Ray". It has 2 155mm low-pressure main guns, 2 75mm secondary guns, 4 4omm guns, 8 2omm cannons and 12 machine guns, which is the real "Kirov". However, this thing is complicated to manufacture, and there is no ready-made blueprint, and the manufacturing degree is relatively slow, so this Liangguang Battle cannot catch up.

The Air Force was overjoyed to get these new toys, especially the pilots of the aircraft unit, who used to be able to fly unarmed "Sparrow" trainer planes, and who could only stare dryly when they lost all their bombs, but this made them depressed. Now that he finally got a professional-grade fighter, he was naturally armed with sharp weapons and had a murderous intent, so the Qing army in Liangguang unfortunately became the test object of these new weapons.

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