Chen Jingyun has high hopes for the aviation industry, and in recent years, China has lagged too many backward powers, especially in military science and technology, and it is very difficult to keep up with the pace of the great powers with a normal way of development.

Chen Jingyun doesn't need to know how to build battleships and aircraft carriers, nor how to build nuclear bombs and the like, or even other technical issues, he just needs to know that these things are useful in the future, the direction of development is right, and the knowledge of new things is Chen Jingyun's biggest advantage.

Based on this, Chen Jingyun began to build the aviation industry almost after taking Fujian, and set up an aircraft factory in the Fuzhou Arsenal, and then the people below also selected various talents for training. Of course, whether it is China or foreign countries now, aircraft are still a new thing, basically in the stage of exploration, various technologies are also accumulating and exploring, and the large-scale application of aircraft is not realistic.

Although the current aircraft are still in an extremely rudimentary state, Chen Jingyun still can't wait to establish the first aviation unit, and has purchased dozens of planes for training, training follow-up personnel, and reconnaissance.

"According to the Governor's previous request, we have tried to install machine guns and bomb drops on the plane!" Qin Guoyong stood in front of a two-wing wooden plane and explained to Chen Jingyun: "There were many troubles in the early stage, such as insufficient power and insufficient load capacity of the aircraft. To this end, we have carried out a lot of technical research, and at the same time from the United Kingdom and other countries to buy more powerful engines! After successive improvements, the main problems are solved! ”

Chen Jingyun nodded, pointed to the plane in front of him and said, "This is it?" ”

Qin Guoyong said: "Yes, this is our latest improved model, using a higher power engine, further strengthening the fuselage, and installing our specially developed bombing device, according to the data we have tested so far, this aircraft can carry several 20 kg or 50 kg special aerial bombs for ground bombing." ”

Chen Jingyun became interested when he heard this: "Yes, let them demonstrate it!" ”

This bomber just can't see any effect on the ground, as the so-called seeing is believing, only after seeing Chen Jingyun with his own eyes can he rest assured.

Qin Guoyong invited Chen Jingyun to come for a demonstration of the plane, and when Chen Jingyun spoke, naturally someone began to prepare for the plane to take off. And Qin Guoyong said: "Governor, please go to the high platform to watch here!" ”

As Qin Guoyong arrived at the viewing platform, Chen Jingyun picked up the telescope, and at this time, the latest model of the plane had also begun to taxi slowly, and then quickly rose into the air, as the roar of the plane became farther and farther, the plane also climbed higher and higher, even if Chen Jingyun looked at it with a telescope, he could only see a small black dot. However, the plane quickly turned around and flew two or three times in front of the high platform, apparently pre-arranged. Then the plane flew away again, and then dropped several small black dots in the distant airplane state, and as the small black dots landed, there were several explosions with a bang.

Seeing that the plane successfully dropped the bomb, Chen Jingyun also showed a smile on his face: "Okay, it seems that Mr. Qin has not been idle during this time!" ”

Qin Guoyong saw the successful completion of the bomb throwing demonstration, and he also let go of the thought he had been mentioning: "This is the result of the joint efforts of many colleagues in the aircraft factory. ”

"In addition to this bomber, we also used the fuselage to modify another combat aircraft loaded with machine guns, a two-seater version, with a pilot in the front and a machine gunner in the rear, and a Max light machine gun specially modified for the aircraft in the back seat." Qin Guoyong continued to explain.

Although Chen Jingyun also watched the drill of the plane, when he saw that the machine gun of the plane could only fire to the left and right or the rear, he was a little puzzled: "Why is the machine gun not installed in the front or wing position?" Chen Jingyun remembered that those propeller fighters in the past always loaded their machine guns in front and fired forward.

In this regard, Qin Guoyong replied: "We also tried to load the machine gun in the wing position, but because the strength of the wing was not enough, and it affected the flight attitude, so we gave up, and in the nose position, there was no way to install it because of the influence of the propeller, and the machine gun bullet would hit the propeller when it was fired." ”

Chen Jingyun pondered after hearing this, in his limited historical and military knowledge, he knew that the machine gun of the plane could be loaded with the nose position, but what kind of technical obstacles were in it was not something he could know, and after pondering for a long time, he said: "Since the bullet will hit the propeller, then you will find a way to make the bullet not hit the propeller!" ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun say this, Qin Guoyong was also a little embarrassed, but he was a technician, since Chen Jingyun, the big boss, had made a request, he could only continue: "Understand, I will carry out relevant research work in the follow-up!" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded and said, "There's no urgency in this matter, you guys take it slowly!" ”

After watching the demonstration of the new aircraft, Chen Jingyun also had some confidence in the aviation unit he had created, thinking that he had been training for more than half a year, and it was impossible to carry out ground bombing, but it should be no problem to get some reconnaissance!

Immediately turned to Feng Qin and said: "Now that this aviation unit has been training for so long, and the situation in Zhejiang is also a little tense, I plan to transfer some aviation units to support." ”

This aviation unit is directly under the command of the National Army, and it is usually under the direct jurisdiction of Feng Qin, but Feng Qin is also in charge of administrative work, and he doesn't know much about the specific management, after all, Feng Qin himself doesn't know how to use the plane.

Immediately, Feng Qin called the commander of the aviation wing, and came in a young man of about twenty-five or sixteen, named Wu Shizhong, who was Qin Guoyong's classmate who studied in France. After Qin Guoyong arrived in Fuzhou to build an airplane, he sent a letter to this classmate, inviting him to come to Fuzhou to build an airplane together, this Wu Shizhong will not even have money for steamed buns, and he came immediately after receiving the letter, at first he was developing an airplane with Qin Guoyong, but he was personally very interested in piloting a fighter, and he completed many previous aircraft test flights. After Chen Jingyun ordered the formation of the aviation wing, he also volunteered to join it, and at that time, the aviation wing did not even have a few pilots, and the pilots had to be recruited and trained, so he became the captain of the aviation wing.

After Wu Shizhong walked over, he saluted: "Wu Shizhong, the captain of the aviation wing, has seen the commander!" ”

Chen Jingyun looked at it, and after seeing him holding the rank of lieutenant colonel, he said, "Lieutenant Colonel Wu, how is the situation of the aviation wing now?" Can you fight? ”

Wu Shizhong said: "Report to the commander, at present, our aviation wing has a total of more than 40 aircraft, of which more than 20 are the first batch of training planes purchased, which are somewhat reluctant to be used for combat, and the other 24 are newly purchased batches, of which four are fighters equipped with machine guns, four are bombers used to drop aerial bombs, and the other 16 are reconnaissance planes!" At present, our aviation wing has trained more than 30 qualified pilots, and they are fully capable of completing various combat missions! ”

Chen Jingyun listened to it, and then also looked at a briefing on the aviation wing handed over by Feng Qin, and it was generally clear in his heart that this aviation wing was not a combat unit in the real sense, but mainly responsible for training and experimentation. For example, that batch of training planes was used to train pilots, and those fighters and bombers were also experimental, mainly for testing at the airport, and then the air wing itself was also used for training and training, and the real combat units were also that batch of reconnaissance planes.

So far, the aircraft factory in the Fuzhou Arsenal has not officially finalized any aircraft, and even these aircraft have no model allocation, mainly because most of the aircraft developed now belong to the experimental surname, almost every aircraft manufactured has a different experimental purpose, and the aircraft factory is also constantly developing and improving, for the time being, the aircraft still has great potential for improvement, and it is not necessary to hastily finalize a primitive aircraft with a surname.

Chen Jingyun said: "In this case, the aviation wing is ready to prepare and send a squadron to Hangzhou to support the army in northern Zhejiang." ”

Then he said to Feng Qin: "The current establishment of the aviation wing is too simple and chaotic, and the staff department has to start changing it, well, there is no need to move the four planes for a squadron, and then take four squadrons as a squadron." The aviation wing is subordinate to three to four squadrons, and then it is assigned to the relevant logistics, garrison and other squadrons. ”

Feng Qin wrote it down and said, "I understand, I will make relevant changes after I go back!" ”

At this time, Wu Shizhong said: "Commander, if you want to transfer planes to Hangzhou, do you want to add some from this Fuzhou side!" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded and said: "This is naturally to be added, didn't I just say that I want to change the organization, so that Hangzhou will go to a mixed squadron of bombers and fighters, a reconnaissance squadron." Then continue to purchase fighters here, and re-replenish a mixed squadron and a reconnaissance squadron! ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun personally say that he wanted to continue to purchase aircraft, Wu Shizhong was naturally full of smiles, but Ouyang Tian, the minister of the equipment department on the side, was a little depressed, and his willingness was simple, that is, the price of this aircraft was getting higher and higher, and when he started the first batch of purchases, it was only more than 2,000 yuan a plane, and now it has become more than 3,000, but the equipment department needs to purchase a lot of equipment every month, and the funds are also limited.

Basically, this is an example of a leader opening his mouth and the person below running and breaking his leg.

What the people below think of Chen Jingyun don't know, what he is thinking about is that now the domestic situation is becoming more and more tense, and the pressure on the northern part of Zhejiang is also increasing, since this aviation unit has already become an army, even if it only has preliminary reconnaissance, it can give the army strong support, at least with the air plane to watch, there will not be the last time Zhu Rui mobilized the main force to besiege the 13th Regiment and was not discovered by the national army.