readx; The soldiers of the Beiyang Army who had been bombed and strafed by aviation machine guns on the front line in southern Jiangsu really had an intuitive feeling for the bombers and fighters of the Nationalist Army, but they would certainly not be able to tell what kind of bombers were being dropped on them in the sky and the fighters that were strafing bullets at them in the sky. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

So up to now, the world still has only a concept of the fighters and bombers of the national army, such as being able to drop bombs, such as machine guns on airplanes. However, there is no way to know some technical details, and it is even more impossible to know the cam linkage firing mechanism specially proposed by Chen Jingyun for the Fuzhou Aircraft Factory, and outsiders do not know at all that the air force units of the Nationalist Army have been equipped with D5A fighters that are specially used for air combat and can shoot nose shots.

Therefore, Liu Baoming's target is also the Nationalist Air Force unit in the war in southern Jiangsu, and the focus is on reconnaissance. As for bombing and strafing the ground with machine guns, these aircraft models could not be purchased by foreign countries, so Liu Baoming had no choice but to try to modify them himself, or even develop and manufacture an aircraft by himself.

However, due to its technical ability, undertaking training and aircraft assembly, and renovating any Nanyuan Aviation School has limited technical ability, it is impossible to be supported by the heavy industry system of the entire Fuzhou Arsenal like the Fuzhou Aircraft Factory, and a bomb dropped in the air alone gives Liu Baoming a headache, and he has no other professional ammunition arsenal to develop aerial bombs for him, so in the end he has to learn the old method, directly carry a grenade on the plane, and throw it directly into the air with his hands.

The installation of machine guns also encountered great trouble, because of the structural problems of the aircraft, it was very difficult to install machine guns, and like aerial bombs, Liu Baoming did not have a professional light weapons arsenal to improve and develop aviation machine guns for him. Therefore, although the machine guns equipped with the aircraft of the National Army and the Beiyang Army are all based on the Madsen light machine gun, the Madsen aviation machine gun equipped on the aircraft of the National Army is specially improved and optimized, and the Beiyang Army reluctantly put the Madsen light machine gun on some aircraft, but it is only after simple manual modifications, and can only learn from the original D4 series aircraft of the National Army, put the machine gun on the back seat, let the backseat pilot carry out manual strafing, and be careful not to sweep the wing braces on both sides during the shooting process.

But no matter what, Liu Baoming finally tossed out the aviation unit all the time, picked up the technical level and training level, and asked himself that except for the national army air force in the south, there is no opponent in the world! Indeed, there are only two air forces in the world equipped with machine guns, the National Army and the Beiyang Army, and the others are still at the stage of playing with pistols. However, the great powers of the aircraft on the Chinese battlefield naturally attracted attention, especially after learning that the Nationalist Army had loaded the aircraft with machine guns and bombs, it created a new idea for them, Britain, Germany and France have carried out relevant experiments on the installation of machine guns and bombs, and Germany, which attaches more importance to the aircraft, has even given Fokker a research and development task, requiring them to develop an aircraft equipped with machine guns. In their opinion, the advantages of the airship, such as bomb load and range, are enough to throw the plane to the other side of the earth. On the contrary, Britain was very interested in the mode of bombing with aircraft, and after conducting relevant bombing tests, it began to develop a special bomber.

Here, whether it is the Beiyang Army Air Force, which is studying the Air Force of the Nationalist Army, or the great powers, there is a mistake in their understanding of the installation of machine guns on aircraft, that is, the machine guns on aircraft are used to strafe the ground, not to engage in aerial combat. As for such a misunderstanding, it is because the Nationalist Army has never used machine guns to engage in aerial combat with the enemy's air force before, not because it does not have such ability, but because there is no enemy, and the air force of the Beiyang Army is still being formed, and there was not even a shadow last year, so let the Nationalist Army go there to find an air combat opponent.

The latest D5A fighter of the National Army is designed to meet the needs of aerial combat, and the way the nose shoots is enough to ensure its superior air combat ability.

As soon as the air force of the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army fight, the latest D5A fighters equipped by the Nationalist Army will knock down the planes of the Beiyang Army like beating the water dogs, and the air battles between the planes will officially appear in people's field of vision, and will soon enter the field of vision of the commanders of various affairs. Large-scale armament of aircraft will become a foregone conclusion, and the world's third branch of the air force will officially join the war, and the war will enter the era of the three-in-one earth, sea, and air forces.

If the struggle between the air force of the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army arouses a sufficiently large repercussions, then the air force will be added to the already severe arms race on the European continent, and large-scale aircraft will be equipped before the outbreak of the European war, and the air force will join it and play a huge role in the initial outbreak of the European war, so that the large-scale participation of aircraft in the world war will be one to two years earlier.

For some small changes in the world caused by his appearance, Chen Jingyun is psychologically aware of it, and at the same time he will not pay too much attention to it, what should come will always come.

After the establishment of the First Air Wing of the Air Force Department of the Beiyang Army, it successively purchased a number of pigeon planes, and under the auspices of Liu Baoming, began to import engines, learned the model of the Nationalist Army and prepared to build its own aircraft, and at the same time, it also modified the existing imported aircraft to a certain extent, modified a batch of aircraft equipped with machine guns, and then added those aircraft that were not modified to form a total of three aircraft squadrons.

As time slowly passed, after Chen Jingyun re-established the National Assembly in Nanjing and publicly announced a crusade against Yuan Shikai, the situation along the Yangtze River was tense, and at this time, Yuan Shikai finally dropped this air wing that had been prepared for nearly a year into the southern Jiangsu region, preparing to let it be stationed in Jiangbei to provide air support for Feng Guozhang's Second Army.

Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui had high hopes for this, hoping that this aviation wing, which had been formed at a large cost, would be able to offset the air superiority of the Nationalist Army and provide air support for the Beiyang Army in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui, as well as the most important air intelligence support.

Feng Guozhang on the front line paid more attention to this, as early as before the Beiyang Air Force went south, he had already built an air base in the Jiangbei area to prepare for the arrival of the Air Force, and when the Beiyang Army arrived, Feng Guozhang went to greet him in person, which shows that Feng Guozhang attached great importance to this aviation wing.

The bombing and strafing of the enemy by the National Air Force was fine at the beginning, although there were heavy losses because of the lack of air defense experience, especially the heavy artillery regiment was blown up several heavy guns, but after the experience of being bombed, the Beiyang Army purchased a large number of Madsen light machine guns for air defense, and even tried to modify the Makqin heavy machine gun for air shooting, and now Feng Guozhang's second army has been equipped with two air defense battalions, Specially equipped with Madsen light machine guns and a few modified anti-aircraft heavy machine guns, it was used to protect military positions, especially artillery positions, from aerial bombardment by the National Army.

From the war in southern Jiangsu to the present, as long as the weather permits, the planes of the Nationalist Army will fly over the positions of the Beiyang Army almost every day, although they dare not reduce the altitude due to the possible ground air defense fire of the Beiyang Army, but they have also obtained a large amount of aerial reconnaissance information, which has almost exposed every move of the Beiyang Army to the sight of the Nationalist Army.

On the other hand, the Beiyang Army did not know much about the movement of the Nationalist Army on the other side, and could only learn about the movement of the Nationalist Army through some open and lurking spies in the south of the Yangtze River, and the source of such information was too limited, so that Feng Guozhang could not figure out the detailed military deployment of the Nationalist Army in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui, and all he knew was that the Nationalist Army on the other side was getting more and more day by day, but he did not know the detailed movement at all.

When Chen Jingyun approved the general staff's plan for crossing the river, the large-scale mobilization of troops by the Nationalist Army, coupled with the adoption of certain secrecy measures, made Feng Guozhang not know what the Nationalist Army on the other side was doing at all, but only knew that the Nationalist Army was moving on a large scale, and this mobilization was very likely to prepare for a large-scale war, that is, crossing the river. And the Nationalist Army was going to cross the river there, and there was no knowledge of the main attack there. As a last resort, he could only ask his subordinate troops to step up their precautions, especially the troops on the front line from Jiangbei to Yangzhou were already in a state of combat readiness, waiting for the Nationalist Army, which did not know where to attack.

Now after the arrival of the air force, Feng Guozhang put his hope of discovering the movement of the national army on the air force.

After three days of rest and preparation, the Beiyang Air Force that arrived in Jiangbei finally had two pigeon planes in the air, and then they slowly headed towards the south plane, preparing to conduct aerial reconnaissance of the Nationalist Army on the south bank of the Yangtze River, especially in the direction of Nanjing. And what the two Beiyang Air Force pilots who flew the pigeon plane did not know was that danger was already waiting for them in front.

In the Nanjing Aviation Base, Colonel Li Tunyang, the captain of the First Wing of the Air Force Department of the Nationalist Army, was enjoying a nap with his eyes closed at the moment; he was the squadron leader of the bombing squadron in the war in southern Jiangsu, and he led and commanded several bombing operations, destroying a large number of Beiyang Army artillery and killing and wounding many Beiyang Army personnel, which can be described as brilliant results; when Chen Jingyun ordered the preparation for the establishment of the Air Force Department, Wu Shizhong, then the captain of the Air Wing, was promoted to the post of major general of the Air Force Division, and when he left his post, he personally recommended Li Tunyang to Chen Jingyun as the captain of the First Wing.

In this way, Li Tunyang became the wing commander of the 1st Wing, the main force of the Nationalist Air Force, which is the main force of the Air Force, equipped with a reconnaissance squadron, a combat squadron, and two bombing squadrons, which are respectively equipped with the latest D5 reconnaissance planes, D5A fighters, and B3 bombers of the Nationalist Air Force. With the approval of the Nationalist Army's plan to cross the river, it is expected that a large amount of air power will be needed in Anhui and Jiangsu, and the Air Force Division has further strengthened the air force in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui. The main air forces of the 1st and 2nd Wings were concentrated at the Nanjing base, ready to provide air support for the upcoming war in Anhui. As for the Third Wing, which has not yet been formed, only some reconnaissance planes are deployed in Jiangxi and Guangdong, preparing to provide air reconnaissance support for the fighting in Hunan.

In addition to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, the 2nd Combat Squadron, the 3rd Bombardment Squadron, and the 4th Bombardment Squadron of the 1st Wing, there were also the 5th Reconnaissance Squadron, the 7th Combat Squadron, and the 8th Bombardment Squadron of the 2nd Wing. Among them, the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron is equipped with D5 reconnaissance aircraft, the 2nd Combat Squadron is equipped with D5A fighters, the 3rd Bombing Squadron is equipped with B3 bombers, and the 4th Bombing Squadron is equipped with B3 bombers. The 5th Reconnaissance Squadron is equipped with D4 reconnaissance aircraft, the 7th Fighter Squadron has not yet completed its full establishment and is only equipped with a squad of 4 D5A fighters, and the 8th Bombing Squadron is equipped with D4B bombers that originally belonged to the 1st Wing. As for the remaining 6th reconnaissance squadron of the second wing, it was deployed at the Anqing base and was equipped with D4 reconnaissance aircraft.

According to this calculation, there are 20 D5A fighters, 16 D5 reconnaissance planes, 16 D4 reconnaissance planes, 24 B bombers, and 16 D4B bombers in the Nanjing Air Base, with a total of 92 planes of various types. In order to ensure the safety of the Nanjing Air Base, the General Staff Headquarters had to dispatch an infantry regiment to take charge of the defense of the air base.

While Wu Shizhong was sleeping, two pigeon planes of the Beiyang Army Air Force had already flown over the Yangtze River and continued to fly over Nanjing!

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