Chapter 573 Eagle, Eagle, Eagle

In the morning, when the first ray of sunshine dispelled the chill of the night, Xia Shihui walked out of the barracks with a breath. In fact, no matter the pilot flew for nearly 20 hours in a row for two days, he would be extremely tired.

The base probably also knows that these new pilots are working very hard. Today, they canceled the morning exercise for the first time, so it seems that the whole base is still sleeping peacefully.

But Xia Shihui knew that the foggy apron in the distance must have been busy, because today is an extremely important day.

After washing up, Xia Shihui tied his belt and checked the gun. After grabbing the short leather coat, he walked to the canteen with a helmet with goggles. On a drooping sleeve of the leather coat, the triangular golden eagle armband was particularly eye-catching.

Along the way, this armband, which is different from the ordinary black eagle head of the air force, provoked strange eyes from soldiers from time to time to time, but he did not feel any strange. As a newly formed force of the air force, they still looked very mysterious, but no matter who saw the plane they brought yesterday, I'm afraid that the first reaction was true?

With more and more troops of various numbers in China, armbands have become a good way for soldiers to identify each other, similar to air force eagle heads, navy dragon claws, army double-headed eagles and navy dragon wings. Familiar people can know a general idea by looking at armbands.

Of course, this is only the most basic, and there are many unique and alternative armbands. Because there are no strict regulations on the general ginseng and the headquarters of the armed forces, the officers at all levels below give full play to their imagination to design the armbands of their troops. The most exaggerated is the few seals seen in the last test flight from the transition of Ryukyu. The armbands are actually The blonde beauty plays with the double-headed snake logo. I really don't know how their design was recognized by the Admiralty and the General Staff.

After having breakfast in a hurry, Xia Shihui immediately walked to the base command center not far away, saying that it was the command center. In fact, it was just a three-story cement house, but the nearly 20-meter-high chimney-like command tower on the side was eye-catching.

Ordinary people may be surprised to see that it is full of antennas and a spacious house-like tower on the top, but he is used to it. As an air force pilot, this standard flight command tower can be seen in many bases in China, and even Honolulu, Luzon and other places have a lot, more and more Many airports and flight control towers indicate that the air force has passed the previous construction period and will officially take the stage with the war.

Stepping into the command center, Xia Shihui came to the combat room under the guidance of the soldiers. After he opened the door, he found that the combat room was already full of pilots, including not only the partners who came with him this time, but also the fighter pilots temporarily stationed in the Northwest Military Region.

After saying hello to everyone, he found a seat next to him and sat down. As soon as he took out his notebook from his coat pocket, the door was pushed open again.

But when they saw the people coming and dressed up, almost everyone was a little dumbfounded. At the same time, a loud shout next to them made everyone stand up and salute.

"Regone!"

"All members of the Second Air Division welcome His Majesty the Emperor."

Looking at the pilots crowded in the conference room, Li Mo saluted and smiled, "Sit down, everyone. I'm just listening to tactics today. Don't talk to me."

Listen to tactics?

Xia Shihui was stunned like everyone else. This is the place for pre-war flight plans and tactics. What did the emperor listen to? And he is also dressed as a pilot. If it hadn't been for the shout just now, I'm afraid everyone would have regarded him as a person who looks like the emperor.

Guan Ning, who followed behind, first saluted Li Mo before walking to the tactical board. As a member of the North African Eagle, he is now the division commander of the Second Air Division. Although there is only one flight regiment here, because of the deep front line, the Second Division also took advantage of this opportunity to send pilots to practice. With this The combat effectiveness of the second division has also begun to rise rapidly. It is said that it has been tied with Tian Yun's first division with the most old pilots.

After quickly turning out the map of investigation and mapping during this period, Guan Ning immediately motioned everyone to sit down and said, "I believe everyone has guessed some of today's tasks."

Guan Ning picked up the baton and pointed to Krasnoyarsk, a strategic town on the eastern line of Russia, north of Minusinsk, next to the Yenisei River, and continued: "Krasnoyarsk is 323 kilometers away from here. According to the reconnaissance during this period, the Russian 11th Army has taken this place as the front. Along the headquarters, radio detection also found that a large number of radio signals appeared here every day, so according to the requirements of the Northwest Theater Command, we will carry out multiple rounds of tactical bombing here today.

Judging from the intelligence of the army reconnaissance company and the previous reconnaissance photos, this headquarters is built in a mountain pass, with hills on three sides of the southeast and north. In addition, the northwest wind is very strong these days, so if the bomb is less than 400 meters, it will be dangerous. Here is a reminder.

In order not to attract the attention of the Russian army, we will give up a straight line this time, so after taking off, we need to go northeast along the Yenisei River, then detour to the west after dropping bombs, and fly straight back from the front line. Because Siberia will enter winter, the high-altitude wind speed will begin to strengthen, so the flight altitude should be controlled at 1500. Next, try not to go high if it is not necessary.

In addition, the first wave of bombing will be carried out by the newly arrived bomber squadron. After the bombers leave, the first team will immediately drop bombs, and the second brigades must wait for the reconnaissance aircraft to evaluate and then carry out the point bombing, and the three major teams will be reserves.

After saying this, Guan Ning put away the baton and looked at Li Mo. He suddenly raised his head: "In addition, I have to announce something. Today, Your Majesty will personally lead the bomber brigade."

The emperor personally led the bomber brigade?!

Before everyone could absorb this sentence, Guan Ning suddenly stood upright and saluted, "Second Division, welcome your majesty to join us!"

With a bang, the whole conference room seemed to explode. Who is the emperor? How glorious it is for the body of the Ninth Five-Year Plan to personally lead everyone to bomb the enemy's position!

Li Mo glanced at everyone and saluted with a smile: "I hope everyone can forget my identity today. Today I just want to be an ordinary pilot and throw the bomb on those Russian devils.

Today, let them taste the power of our bombs!

"Who are we?" Li Mo's voice suddenly raised and shouted out this question that the commander of the air force would ask before each mission. Today, the emperor asked in person, and the pilots shouted vigorously.

"Eagle, eagle, eagle!"

Three loud answers made the whole base boil. The already prepared fighters slowly lined up to the end of the runway under the push and pull of the aircrew soldiers, and 30 of them had a wingspan of 22 meters, and the big guys with two engines were particularly eye-catching.

Looking at these big guys, Li Mo suddenly rushed into pride in his heart. The collision of the Cape Verde seaplane and the destruction of the Agincourt all heralded the advent of the aviation era. Xinhua, as the first to engage in aviation, will naturally not lag behind, and the Kunpeng in front of him is the most perfect embodiment!

The Kunpeng medium-sized bomber is a crucial part of the Air Force's understanding of Li Mo's overseas combat thinking. The project was established five years ago, but it was delayed due to the delay in solving the engine and aircraft weight problems. It was not until a year ago that the new liquid-cooled engine was tested after the Mustang was finalized.

From the outside, it is very similar to the famous German HA111A medium bomber in later generations. There are four crew members, namely the captain, the co-pilot and navigator, the bomber and machine gunner, and a full-time machine gunner.

The air weight is 6,800 kg, the maximum take-off weight is 8,900 kg, and the wingspan is 22 meters. Instead of giving up the cutting wing developed flexibly for the fighter, it chose a more secure round wing tip. In order to minimize the wind resistance, the wing and fuselage combination uses a streamlined shape, using two Kunlun II equipped with a fairing. The 750 horsepower liquid-cooled 8-cylinder vertical V-type engine, three-leaf propeller, with a maximum lift limit of 5,500 meters, a transfer range of 1,500 kilometers, a maximum speed of 310 kilometers per hour, and an internal magazine with a maximum load of 1,000 kg.

In addition, there is a 7.62mm self-defense machine gun on the nose and rear.

Of course, there are very few Russian planes over Western Siberia now. Even if there are, they are almost scared to look up by the falcons and the latest wild horses that have to look around a few times every day, and they don't even have anti-aircraft guns, so the air force dares to let His Majesty the emperor board the plane to fly. Of course, there are also factors of post-war propaganda, but for Safely, 12 Mustangs were arranged to escort the bomber formation today.

The aircrew soldiers are finally inspecting the plane. There are eight 125 kg high explosive incendiary bombs hanging neatly in the open ammunition compartment. It's not that Xinhua can't take out bigger bombs, but that the falcons bombed by the northwest before can't afford 250 kilograms of bombs, so the current storage in the base is 125 kilograms. In stock.

Because the engine horsepower is not ideal, and today's bombing distance is not far, in order to reduce the weight and speed up the flight speed, part of the fuel is deliberately reduced.

In the distance of the apron, Sun Jiugong finally knew why Li Mo suddenly appeared in the northwest war zone. It turned out that he was driving a newly finalized Kunpeng civil model and flew all the way from Sichuan. However, watching Li Mo get into the bomber cockpit of No. 01, he was still a little worried, but Li on the side. Enfu was full of confidence this time and said with a smile, "Don't worry, the emperor has more flight time than many veterans in the air force, and you can see that the civil model over there was driven by the emperor himself all the way, not to mention Guan Ning is still on it."

Even the former Prime Minister said so, and Sun Jiugong could only let go of his worries for the time being.

At 10 o'clock sharp, when the tower signaled that it could take off, 12 lighter and tougher wild horses roared from the runway. When these escort fighters began to circle in the sky, Li Mo took a deep breath, then gave Guan Ning a thumbs up on the side and slowly pushed the oil rod forward.

The two engines began to hiss, and immediately Kunpeng glided along the runway. As the speed became faster and faster, Li Enfu, who was extremely optimistic just now, also became nervous.

Because the engine is not very strong and is almost at its maximum weight, after Kunpeng glided for more than 800 meters, Li Mo felt that the nose began to tilt up and immediately slowly pulled the steering lever.

The air passed along the wing shuttle, and finally picked up the big guy. As it slowly climbed into the sky, the 29 partner planes behind it also took off one after another to join the formation.

When the last sixty falcons with a 125mm high-explosive incendiary bomb were deftly taken into the air, the sky over the base suddenly seemed to cover a huge moving cloud.

Such a spectacular scene shocked everyone in the Northwest Military Region, including Sun Jiugong. The progress of science and technology and the war mode have caught them off guard. Even yesterday, no one dared to imagine that the sky would be covered by a group of iron eagles!

No. 01 Kunpeng, the accompanying reporter who temporarily replaced the position of the machine gunner, lay on the rear machine gun seat and took this picture of Li Mo's self-driving plane leading the bomber squadron to attack the Russian headquarters with trembling hands. Later, this widely circulated photo had a good name.

"The eagle has taken off!"

(to be continued)