Chapter Ninety-Eight: Aviation Forces

As one of China's first batch of aviation people, he was sincerely happy that someone attached so much importance to the development of aviation, and at the same time, he was even more curious about Chen Jingyun's clear concept of fighter and bomber.

Qin Guoyong specialized in aviation in France, and his understanding of aircraft is at least the top ten in today's country, even if it is not ranked in the top three, and according to his knowledge, although the current development of aircraft in various countries is extremely rapid, and almost every year changes greatly, but he has never heard of the practice of moving heavy machine guns to airplanes, let alone any aircraft that can be loaded with bombs. Today's aircraft are still in a very primitive stage, with extremely limited speed, range, and payload, and their role is limited to reconnaissance. In the past, Qin Guoyong's direction of developing aircraft was also moving closer to this direction, mainly in the hope that it would be able to develop a reconnaissance aircraft that could compete with European and American countries.

But when Chen Jingyun said this today, he suddenly realized, yes! If you can carry people, why can't you put a heavy machine gun on it? Now that you're ready to bring grenades, why can't you bring bigger and heavier bombs?

In many cases, all it takes is a small conceptual shift for things to progress, and often a conceptualized thing can cause a radically different change.

In fact, the first air battle between aircraft in human history was staged with pistols between British and German reconnaissance planes during World War I, and then heavy machine guns were moved to planes, and the first specialized bomber had to be the Ilya developed by the Russians in 1915. The Muromets-V bomber is capable of flying at a speed of one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour with bombs weighing more than five hundred kilograms. As for the torpedo machine, it was even later, and the first specially designed torpedo machine in Britain, the Thorproway "Cuckoo", did not begin to be equipped until 1917.

Airplanes are the same as tanks and even warships, often the major technological breakthroughs of the new generation are only a conceptual breakthrough, and the basic industrial capabilities required to manufacture them have been available before, such as the Dreadnought-class battleships, such as the emergence of tanks. This is why after the outbreak of World War I, the level of fighter research and development and manufacturing in various countries has developed by leaps and bounds in just four years. The most obvious example is the machine gun firing coordinator on the German Fokker plane, which basically has no technical obstacles, but it makes the British and French planes unable to raise their heads so that there is a Fokker disaster, and the British House of Representatives even passed a condemnation bill, saying that the Germans were extremely shameless in torturing and killing British planes that had no ability to resist, but this equipment was learned by Britain and France and immediately installed shooting coordinators on all their planes, and then the situation of the war changed dramatically.

It is not difficult to find that these concepts are lacking in European and American countries now, and even more unfortunately, Chen Jingyun knows what to build in the future and what is better to use, but at present, China lacks sufficient industrial capacity.

At this time, Chen Jingyun turned to Tang Huikang and said: "Now that the aircraft factory belongs to the arsenal, you have dispatched enough technical personnel to assist the aircraft factory in developing aviation machine guns and aerial bombs. Naturally, the aircraft was built at that time, but the supporting weapons and ammunition were not. ”

Tang Hui Kanglian claimed: "When I go back, I will organize relevant personnel to cooperate with the aviation department to develop supporting weapons and ammunition!" ”

Chen Jingyun looked at the plane in front of him again, and felt that it would be okay if the surname could be used for reconnaissance, and if he started training now, he should be able to achieve good results when he cooperated with the army, and after having this thought, he turned to Ouyang Tiandao:

"In this way, Chief Ouyang, you can squeeze out the cost of other equipment, take out some of the money, and buy twenty of these planes first!"

Ouyang Tian had already asked the price, and felt that it would only cost twenty or thirty thousand yuan to buy twenty planes, and he could still get it out of the cost of other equipment, so he immediately said: "Okay!" I'll go back and place an order! ”

Then he said to Feng Qin: "Staff Officer Feng, you can select some good seedlings from the nearby troops to form an aviation unit, and it will be directly under the jurisdiction of the headquarters, and the main training and experimental work will be done in the early stage, so as to expand the scale later!" ”

Feng Qin said: "If you directly form a unit, there is also a lack of technology and the like, do you think you want to start a course at the military academy and then hire relevant instructors for training?" ”

However, Chen Jingyun shook his head and said: "Foreigners don't know more about airplanes than us, and besides, who can you invite to be an instructor this year, there are only twenty planes now, so there is no need to start the course in the Fuzhou Military Academy, just set up a training school directly in the aviation unit, and the relevant technical problems can be solved and trained by technicians sent by the aircraft factory!" ”

In fact, the reason why Chen Jingyun did not open aviation courses at the Fuzhou Military Academy was that in addition to the above factors, what was more important was that the Fuzhou Military Academy was a semi-open school, and nearly half of it was composed of instructors.

Thinking of himself, Chen Jingyun also thought of his own navy, and then naturally thought of things like aircraft carriers, and when his thoughts flowed, he also thought of torpedo planes.

Although the aircraft carrier and the future Sino-Chinese conflict are still far away, Chen Jingyun also plans to let Qin Guoyong and them develop it first.

So he said to Qin Guoyong: "There is another kind of aircraft that you can also develop together!" ”

Qin Guoyong asked, "Oh? ”

"Bombers that can carry torpedoes to attack battleships!" Chen Jingyun said.

"Torpedo?" Qin Guoyong was a little confused, he only had a general concept of the torpedo, but this basic concept told him that the torpedo was very big and heavy, casually six or seven hundred kilograms or even tons, how could the plane carry it? But when Chen Jingyun said this, he could only bite the bullet and say: "Don't worry, the governor, we will start the research and development plan!" ”

Chen Jingyun saw the confusion on Qin Guoyong's face: "I didn't say that you should get it out now, now that science and technology are developing so fast, a few years ago, planes could only fly for dozens of minutes, and now it is not the same as a few hours, and it can fly hundreds of miles!" ”

Qin Guoyong said: "What the governor said is true! ”

After visiting this aircraft factory, Chen Jingyun's trip to the Fuzhou Arsenal was almost over, and it took a whole day to visit a huge place, and when he returned to the Governor's Mansion, it was already more than six o'clock in the evening.

At the turn of winter and spring, the sky is getting late, and when Chen Jingyun returns to the mansion, the house is already lit up, unlike kerosene lamps that are still used in most places where Fuzhou was founded, electric lights have been used in the governor's mansion and some other important political axe departments, and the one that provides electricity is the Fule Electric Light Company that the Chen family acquired some time ago. Originally, the Fule Electric Light Company only provided electricity to the mansions of wealthy merchants in Fuzhou City and the political axe yamen, and the scale was not large, but after being acquired by the Chen Mansion, there was a living signboard of Chen Jingyun, and at that time, the Fuzhou Arsenal was vigorously expanding, working day and night, and the generators owned by the Arsenal were insufficient to supply electricity, so in this case, they simply sold their power generation department to the Fule Electric Light Company, and then the Fule Electric Light Company supplied electricity. With this capital, the company expanded aggressively, setting up branches in other cities in Fujian, such as Xiamen and Zhangzhou, and claiming to make electric lights available in all medium-sized and large cities in Fujian within the year.

As soon as I entered the backyard, I could see the maid Xiaohe immediately trotted in after seeing Chen Jingyun, and then shouted softly: "Miss, Miss, the master is back!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Chen Jingyun had already walked in: "No need to shout, I'm here!" ”

Lin Yun inside looked at Xiaohe like this, and also smiled, and then stepped forward to take the coat that Chen Jingyun dragged off: "Today I asked Wang Ma to prepare a soup to calm the nerves and replenish the brain!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "I really remember, I should have only said it once!" ”

"I remember everything you said!" Lin Yun hung his coat on the hanger and walked over: "You think about so many things every day, you have to make up for it!" ”

"Huh!" Chen Jingyun smiled: "It's still good for me!" ”

Lin Yun muttered: "Sister Luo is also very good to you, I remember that she personally stewed soup for you yesterday!" ”

Listening to some obviously apprehensive words, Chen Jingyun walked over and hugged her: "Why, this is also angry, isn't it just having dinner over there!" Besides, you're a lady, so don't bother with that little girl! ”

Lin Yun was actually not angry, but she was a little uncomfortable, after all, she was a newlywed, and she occasionally felt strange when she saw Chen Jingyun running into Luo Li's room: "Not angry!" ”

"Okay, just don't get angry!" Chen Jingyun said: "Didn't you say that the camera was interesting a few days ago, I asked Yu Shifeng to get one, and it can be delivered to the house tomorrow!" ”

When Lin Yun heard this, he immediately said with joy on his face: "Really! ”

Then he leaned over again, and kissed Chen Jingyun lightly with red lips: "Thank you!" ”

Lin Yun's hobbies were originally not much, she used to like designing clothes and the like, since she took wedding photos with Chen Jingyun, she fell in love with photos when she saw the intimate appearance of herself and Chen Jingyun in the photos, if she was an ordinary person, she might take a few more photos, but Lin Yun was not satisfied after taking a lot of photos of the connection, so she simply planned to play with the camera by herself. Cameras in these years are still rare, and ordinary people can't afford to play with them, but for Chen Jingyun, it's nothing, and someone will do it if he orders it.

After dinner, Chen Jingyun hugged Lin Yun: "Didn't you say that the cheongsam was made, why don't you wear it!" ”

"Cheongsam!" Lin Yun's face was a little shy again: "I don't dare to wear that clothes!" I'm going to make the slit a little lower, and I'll wear it for you when the time comes! ”

Hearing this, Chen Jingyun was curious: "What are you waiting for, just wear it now." Anyway, it's not outside, there's no one here! ”

After hearing this, Lin Yun felt that it was too, anyway, it was not for others to see, it was for her husband to see, he had seen and touched his naked appearance, and he had done the most embarrassing things, and now it was nothing to wear a shameful dress! So he nodded shyly.

And the maid Xiaohe on the side muttered in her heart: I'm not human