Chapter 626
※The deletion officer drove a marsh wheel motorcycle and headed towards the 6th Army Air Force Airport. It took a few five minutes to arrive at the airport. When they jumped off the motorcycle, the first plane of the Nighthawk had already landed.
In order to ensure the safe landing of the aircraft, the airport cleared two very long runways on the landing lawn and laid many iron oil barrels on both sides of the runway. The oil barrels contained a small mixture of diesel and cotton wool. After igniting, the entire runway was visible. The pilots in the sky could clearly see the direction of the runway and be able to fly the plane safely.
Once the plane lands on the runway according to the torch prompt on the surface, just stop taxiing. Regardless of whether the motive has stopped, dozens of ground crew members waiting at the end of the runway will immediately run forward and use manpower to push the plane onto the apron to clear out the runway and ensure the safety of subsequent aircraft.
If the landing aircraft is a fighter or a light bomber, only a few ground crew members can push the aircraft to the tarmac. However, now the landing is a heavy bomber, and no dozens of people are absolutely unable to push it. In some cases, trucks must even be used.
The "Nighthawk Squadron" is a heavy bomber squadron. The squadron has eighteen heavy bombers, divided into three bomber squadrons. The commander of the squadron is Qin Bing, the rank of lieutenant colonel, which is one level higher than the rank of the fighter squadron leader. This alone shows the weight of the heavy bomber troops in the president's mind.
Qin Bing, whose courtesy name is Binglie, was from Guang'an, Sichuan. He studied at Shunqingfu Middle School. "In a year, he went to Chengdu to join the 6th Army and the Gangmen Academy to study military affairs. In the past, he would join the Tongmenghui. After graduating from the 6th Army and the Gangmen Academy, he served in the Sichuan New Army. After the "Wushen Revolution" broke out, the Sichuan Branch of the Tongmenghui immediately started to launch an uprising in the Four. Qin Bing's task was to instigate the Sichuan New Army to respond to the uprising of the Party, but the Sichuan Governor Zhao Erxun took the lead and disarmed the new army. As a result, the Sichuan Uprising initiated by the Tongmenghui failed. Qin Bing's revolution
The identity of the Party was exposed, and he had no choice but to follow Xiong Kewu, Huang Shuzhong, Xie Chi, Rao Guoliang, Yu Ying and other revolutionary comrades to flee to Wuhan. At that time, Zhao Bei had already led the Republican army to restore Wuhan, and it happened to be the Spring Festival. It was that time that Qin Bing met the Commander-in-Chief. However, because the Tongmenghui insisted that the Tongmenghui should lead the revolutionary cause, Qin Bing was unable to stay in the Republican army in the end, but followed Xie Chi and others to Fujian and defected to the Revolutionary Construction **.
Qin Bing did not stay in the Fujian army for long. Soon he followed his superiors to Guangdong and participated in the liberation work in Guangdong. However, because the Junxian faction controlled the Guangdong regime and the revolutionaries were excluded, Qin Bing had to follow Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others to travel around to seek the opportunity of the Tongmenghui. He eventually arrived in Guangxi. He served as a military adviser in the revived Guangxi Caoming government for a period of time. Later, the war broke out in the North and South, and Qin Bing followed the Guangxi Revolutionary Army to Hangzhou in the north and confronted the Beiyang Army across Taihu Lake.
After the United Front defeated the Beiyang Army, Song Jiaoren planned to install a group of Tongmenghui cadres in the basic cadres of the United Front, so Qin Bing was transferred to Li Liejun's army and served as the regiment commander. However, Song Jiaoren was assassinated and died. This "Sand Mix Plan" died, but Qin Bing did not leave Li Liejun's army. He was immediately promoted to brigade commander. Later, some senior cadres in the Tongmenghui planned the "Guangdong Incident" and sent people to contact the Tongmenghui everywhere.
Qin Bing was also on the contact list, but before Qin Bing made up his mind to follow Chen Qimei, Li Liejun had already learned the news, so he sent someone to put him under house arrest in the headquarters. As a result, during the entire "Guangdong Incident", Qin Bing stayed in Li Liejun's headquarters until Chen Qimei and others fled to Nanyang that he was kicked out of the headquarters by Li Liejun and was "gifted" and left the country. He ate at the Yan Xishan shogunate and sat on the bench for almost two years.
Until two years ago, the general player ordered the military and political chiefs from all over the country to recommend aviation talents. So Yan Xishan reported Qin Bing's name and guaranteed him. So Qin Bing was transferred to the Aviation Office. After strict review by the 6th Army Department and the Military Intelligence Bureau, he was able to pass the test. In this way, Qin Bing, who was born in the Bingmu Academy in Sichuan, became an Air Force cadet, starting from the grassroots flight non-commissioned officer. With his tenacious perseverance and excellent results, he was promoted by the president. It was not until this time that Qin Bing learned that the president had been caring for him, a young officer he met at the New Year's banquet. In fact, Yan Xishan's recommendation was just a smoke bomb. The president himself decided to choose Qin Bing to enter the Air Force.
With the president as a backer, Qin Bing went straight up, from the 6th Army Air Force Warrant Officer to the current Air Force Lieutenant Colonel. The president's intention was clear, and he hoped that Qin Bing could see this, that is, the president would never prejudice against his family because of his minor mistakes in the past. As long as he corrected the mistakes, the president would not blame him. This was not only for Qin Bing to see, but also for others to see, and the effect was very good. Back then, Chen Qimeilu was named after him.
The members of Tongming from Nanyang were ordered to return to China. The people who invested in the pie would be hungry. The people of Ba were all talents. They played an important role in the exhibition of industry and commerce. Of course, the president has never forgiven Chen Qimei's "culprits" who had been wanted by the warrant. This also shows that the president is a person with a clear personality. For this reason, Qin Bing now admires the president. In his opinion, the president's strategic vision is unmatched, and the president's political skills are even more brilliant.
Although Qin Bing has been studying aviation technology in China and has never been to Germany to study, due to the president's favor and his excellent performance, the General Staff eventually decided to appoint Qin Bing as the squadron leader of the "Nighthawk Squadron".
Unlike other bomber units, the "Nighthawk Force" is a heavy bomber unit. It currently has two squadrons, namely the "Nighthawk" and "Nighthawk 2", which have a total of 36 heavy bombers, all of which are the latest "Vulture" bombers.
The "Vulture" bomber is a four-range heavy bomber developed by China. This bomber is equipped with four self-made water-cooled inline gasoline engines. This motivation is improved based on the latest German internal combustion engine. Each motor can provide rated power of 260 horsepower. The four motors are sandwiched between the upper and lower wings, providing enough power for the bomber to ensure that it can reach 150 kilometers and climb to a height of 2,000 meters, due to the fuel tank capacity.
More abundant, the transition range of the Vulture heavy bomber reached an astonishing six hundred kilometers, which allowed its combat radius to exceed 250 kilometers. The Vulture heavy bomber's empty weight was nearly five tons. The ammunition load reached an astonishing eight hundred kilograms. It required four members to drive this behemoth, one was a pilot, one was a navigator and captain, and the other two pilots were machine gunners. They were responsible for manipulating the four machine guns on the plane to provide the aircraft with sufficient self-defense firepower.
The research of the "Vulture" bomber began two years ago. The prototype fuselage of the aircraft was secretly completed by the Zhengzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Factory a year later, but due to the slow development of the motivation. It was not until the end of last year that the manufacturing and testing of the first prototype was actually completed. After that, the Aviation Administration issued a mass production order under the pressure of the president, and required the factory to make every effort to ensure the production of such heavy bombers, and to produce at least two squadrons of "Vulture" bombers before the middle of the old year.
The Aviation Administration has very high requirements and cannot affect the production of fighter jets. In order to ensure the completion of the mission, Wuhan Feiquan Manufacturing General Factory had to establish a branch factory in Sichuan and a wing manufacturing factory in the deep mountains and forests of Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, specializing in the manufacturing of wing parts. Even so, it only barely completed the tasks assigned by the Aviation Administration. By the end of May this year, a total of 35 "vultures" and prototypes were manufactured, which happened to be two squadrons.
Qin Bing was ordered to lead the team to receive this batch of heavy bombers into service. After receiving the plane, the pilots flew all the planes to Gansu, where they completed relevant flight training missions. The reason they chose Gansu was mainly to keep it confidential. According to the information on the aviation industry exhibitions of various countries collected by the central government, the "Vulture" heavy bomber is currently the world's largest bomber load, the farthest range, and the most powerful. In order to achieve unexpected strategic strikes, it is necessary to maintain the secrets of the existence of such heavy bombers until after the war begins.
Facts have proved that the central secrets were done very well, and even the Germans did not seem to realize the existence of "vultures". Of course, the price of confidentiality is that the production of such aircraft is too small, and the "vultures" of the two squadrons cannot completely satisfy the president. Once the war begins, the relevant confidentiality principles will be abolished to ensure that more "vultures" are provided for the Air Force.
Now that the war is about to break out, the "vultures" can finally make their debut on the world war stage. Qin Bing and his pilots flew all the way from Yu Su to Shandong, refueled at several airports in the middle, and arrived at the Dengzhou Air Force Base on time.
After the "Vulture" landed on the runway, the base staff members who came to contact were truly surprised. A few days ago, they had received a formal notice that a heavy bomber would be deployed at Dengzhou Airport. However, since they had never seen such heavy bombers before, the staff members always took it for granted that this heavy bomber was slightly larger than the two-motivated medium bomber. But now, they finally realized how much they were wrong. In front of the "Vulture" heavy bomber, the staff members felt more and more that they were too short and the vigorous vitality of the industrial era.
Chapter completed!