Chapter 316 Air Attack on Tokyo

Most of the air forces in the tenth war zone are multi-functional fighters, mainly to defend against the air strikes of the army and navy air forces of the Japanese army and navy. The bomber troops themselves are the weakness of the construction of the air force in the tenth war zone, so Zhang Xuewu has a headache. There is only one nerve in chemical weapons. Sarin poison can be put into actual combat, and there are also reserves of shells and aerial bombs. As for biochemical weapons, it can be said that there is no one.

Although Zhang Xuewu is also secretly conducting experimental research in the Gannan region, due to the small number of Japanese prisoners of war sent, it is impossible to obtain comprehensive data. Moreover, the medical level in China is extremely poor. Once the virus is put in, it is easy to cause the unlimited expansion of the epidemic. The final result may be brought to the Chinese people. The damage and loss are far greater than that of the Japanese army. This is a foolish act of killing 800 enemies and losing 3,000 of themselves.

There are indeed heavy bombers in the Soviet Union's aid to China, but the heavy bombers equipped by the Soviet Air Force are not strategic bombers, but tactical bombers. Their range is far from the range of Martin, Prince, Boeing and other European and American products in the 1920s, so the Soviet aid heavy bombers are for Zhang Xuewu. It's basically useless, so it's all given to the national political axe.

The most important problem is that Zhang Xuewu does not want to be completely rigid because of dozens of bombers and national political axes. Since then, Chiang Kai-shek has specially instructed the delegation to the Soviet Union to strive to buy long-range heavy bombers and large bombs of more than 500 kilograms.

In history, Xu Huanzhang, the captain of the 14th Brigade of the Chinese Air Force, and Tong Yanbo, the deputy captain, took off from Wuhan Airport and raided Japan with leaflets instead of bombs, which was also a famous humanitarian bombing incident!

For Zhang Xuewu, it is another matter whether he can blow up or not. Whether he can blow up or not is another matter. In fact, Zhang Xuewu still has a batch of trump cards in his hand, but this batch of trump cards is controlled by the Soviets. Zhang Xuewu several times asked the Soviet Union to transport fifty "batbao leis" to Baotou, but The Soviet Union, out of repression and control of the tenth war zone, allowed the tenth war zone to send pilots to the Soviet Union for training. The receipt of equipment was always on the pretext that the design of the new heavy bomber was still seriously flawed and it was not easy to hand over.

In fact, the so-called "battle fortress" heavy four-engine bomber is a large four-engine bomber designed by Zhang Xuewu's Baotou Air Force Third Design Institute and Fluid Mechanics Research Institute according to Zhang Xuewu's requirements and basic data, but Baotou does not have the ability to produce and assemble such a large four-engine heavy bomber. Experience, the main problem is that several aircraft manufacturers in Baotou are producing BF-109K multi-purpose fighters and Falcon fighters overnight. These two multi-purpose fighters can undertake half of the tactical support tasks, and can also compete with the Japanese army for air power. The practical surname is very high, and the strategic bomber It's not a luxury thing that Zhang Xuewu can afford.

The battle fortress designed by Zhang Xuewu's instructing the design institute is actually imitating the flying fortress B-17 of the U.S. military. The origin of the U.S. military's flying fortress can be traced back to 1934. The U.S. Army Air Force proposed a two-ton of bomb to fly at a cruising speed of 3,500 kilometers per hour. The bidding for the design of heavy bombers with a combat radius of 3,100 kilometers is an ambitious plan. The new bombers will be able to cross the two oceans of the United States for strategic deployment. This bidding is called Plan A, which focuses on feasible research, but if the design proves to be successful, the military will Order a production prototype.

Martin Aircraft Company and Boeing submitted a preliminary design, and the Model 299 produced by Boeing drew on many of the experience of Boeing's Model247 all-metal commercial airliner, basically connecting the aerodynamics of Model247 and knots. Combined with the four release bureaus of Model 294, the aircraft is equipped with four 750 horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-1690-E nine-cylinder air-cooled star engines, which drive the three-leaf propeller. The huge and heavy main wings are installed under the fuselage of the circular profile, and the main landing gear is raised forward in the inner engine compartment. The main wheel does not have a full income, and the edge is still exposed to the airflow.

Since the Model299 prototype is owned by Boeing, it is painted with the U.S. civil registration number X-13372. The crew consists of eight people, including the main and deputy pilot, the bomber, the pilot/radioman and four gunners. The body is equipped with four streamlined machine gun turrets, one on the back of the aircraft. The position near the rear edge of the wing, the second position is behind the rear edge of the abdominal wing. One is installed on both sides of the waist of the rear fuselage. The machine gun rotates freely through the internal bracket. In addition, there is an additional machine gun bracket behind the transparent nose. Each bracket can be equipped with a 7.62mm or 12.7mm machine gun, so The organic guns are all manual. The internal magazine of the Model 299 can hold eight 250 kg bombs. However, the U.S. Air Force does not have the equipment requirements for strategic bombing. It just wants to be used for technical reserves. Coupled with the gap in funds, they will order the YB-17 at the end of 1936. The number was reduced to thirteen.

In case of insufficient funds, the U.S. Air Force also decided to order 133 Glass DB-1, a military model B-18 bomber. The B-18 is much slower than the flying fortress, with a short range and a low bomb load. The defense weapon is almost zero. The only advantage is that the cost is only for the flying fortress. Half, because its basic design originated from the DC-2 passenger aircraft, the design risk seemed to be much smaller, so the U.S. Air Force gave up the flight fortress, so it gave Zhang Xuewu a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Since the U.S. Air Force did not want it, Zhou Ying used a high price to buy 20 aircraft and a large number of spare parts as a passenger plane in batches. It arrived in Baotou in 1937 for the immature design institutes, research institutes and other departments to learn and dismantle at that time.

According to the flight fortress, Baotou Flight Design Institute improved the design of the battle fortress and passed the preliminary test of the wind tunnel. It was handed over to the Soviet Union to ask it for production on its behalf. As a result, the Soviets made a big jump after evaluation, because this strategic bomber with a combat radius of more than 3,300 kilometers can be used against the Soviet Union. Most of the targets in the territory posed a threat, so the Soviets played rogue, which was also far beyond Zhang Xuewu's expectation.

However, this time, the Japanese army attacked the tenth war zone, which made the tenth war zone dangerous. The Soviet side was also a little unable to do it. A large number of anti-tank mines, anti-tank guns, long-range 105mm hail rocket launchers and a large number of rockets and 150mm heavy high-explosive grenades made for the tenth zone. , as well as the tank alloy armor plate, Xingxing eight-cylinder diesel engine, etc., all arrived at Dingyuan Camp.

Zhang Xuewu's danger is for the national political axe and the Soviet Union. In history, the children who will be called have milk. Zhang Xuewu is familiar with the road, as if once the fortress cities such as Chaoyang and Zhangjiakou are lost, the tenth war zone will collapse. Zhang Xuewu also sent people to the Soviet Union to contact the 10th war zone to retreat. Zhang Xuewu's actions in the Soviet Union completely scared the Soviets. The Soviets spent such a lot of experience and a large amount of materials. If the 10th war zone was completely defeated by the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Soviet Union would be threatened by himself in the Far East from Heilongjiang to Mongolia, so Zhang Xuewu's flag must not fall. .

In addition, I actually made an air strike on Baotou from the territory of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was also very angry. Considering that Baotou could not mass-manuise such strategic bombers, the Soviet Union decided to fill up the 55 battle fortresses and load a batch of Zhang Xuewu's customized special Plant the incendiary bomb and return to Baotou after refueling inspection in Vladivostok.

As the colonel commander of the first strategic bomber unit of the Air Force in the 10th Theater Command, Zhang Guangyu went to the Soviet Union to welcome these long-time battle fortresses.

Zhang Guangyu, with a secret mission, announced to all 440 crew members in the hangar in Vladivostok, said: "The invaders of this empire carried out an extermination bombing of our Baotou and peaceful residents, and took schools, hospitals and other peaceful targets as the bombing targets. I can't stand it. I'm the tenth The air force of the war zone should carry forward the spirit of fear of sacrifice and attack the capital of Tokyo with airborne special incendiary bombs. The main targets are to attack buildings with marks such as Jingguo Society and the Royal Palace. In addition to loading five special incendiary bombs, each aircraft carries oil barrels and adds fuel from the fuel tank in the cabin. The bombing is expected to be in 1938. It will be held at 2:00 a.m. on February 5th. After the bombing, the aircraft will maintain a dense formation to return. The first destination is Chifeng Airport, and the second destination is the actual control area of our army!"

Zhang Guangyu's words made all the crew present look angry. He said that I brazenly bombed the education base in Baotou Industrial Zone. The children of some pilots and even women of relatives were unfortunately killed in the bombing. He said that the chivalry of my army and navy aviation had been fed the dog, so almost everyone was in the motorcycle. Fight your hands, because the battle fortress is the only aircraft in the tenth war zone that can make air strikes and return!

Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and shook his arms and shouted, "Burn the fire of war to the original! Blood is paid for blood! Burn the flames of war to Japan! Blood is paid for blood!"

The personnel of the Soviet ground logistics base not far away are very strange. Why are the behavior of Chinese pilots so strange? Major General Magorotov, the commander of the Soviet Air Force Base in Vladivostok, also felt a little inappropriate to load special incendiary bombs made by the Soviet Union for the Tenth Theater? Because in terms of the range of this battle fortress strategic bomber, there is no need to install a portable oil barrel at all? Unless it is ready to make a long-distance flight, and once the special incendiary bomb is loaded with a fuse, its safety name will be minimized, which also means that the battle fortress must be bombed before landing?

What if the Chinese bombers taking off from Vladivostok bombed Japan's mainland? Then the consequences will be unpredictable!

(to be continued)