readx; After coming out of the General Staff, Chen Jingyun did not go directly back to the Presidential Palace, but immediately went to the Air Force Department. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 According to the current military and political system of the Nanjing Republican Axe, the former military command was reformed into the National Military Commission, and the departments established below are still five major departments, namely the General Staff, the Equipment Department, the Logistics Department, the Air Force Department, and the Navy Department. This is different from Beiyang, which belongs to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Navy, because strictly speaking, the current military strength of the National Army is dominated by the Army, and if you have to talk about the Ministry of War, then the State Military Commission is the Ministry of the Army, and the Ministry of the Air Force or the Ministry of the Navy below are only subordinate departments. This point makes the people of the navy and air force quite dissatisfied, but they are dissatisfied, but they have no way to change this fact, they can only send officers from the admiralty and the air force to serve in the general staff, after all, this staff department in the national army can not only command the army, the navy and the air force are also at their disposal, in order to avoid letting a large group of army turtles command the navy to fight, the navy's Sa Zhenbing sent several capable admirals from the admiralty to serve in the general staff, In order to be responsible for matters belonging to the Navy in the General Staff.

After Chen Jingyun went to the Ministry of the Air Force, he simply listened to Wu Shizhong's report, and now Wu Shizhong's military rank has risen with the expansion of the scale of the Air Force, after the Jiangbei Campaign, in view of the expansion of the Air Force, it is also because the Air Force has played a huge role in the operation, Chen Jingyun in order to reward the people in the Air Force Department, so he directly promoted Wu Shizhong to lieutenant general, and also proposed the exclusive rank of the Air Force, that is, the same as the Navy, the establishment of the Air Force rank, instead of the previous Army rank, Of course, this hierarchy cannot be changed, but it is just a change of name, called Air Force Lieutenant General, Air Force Major General. In order to distinguish it from rear admirals and rear admirals. And this similar title is the so-called military rank.

After Wu Shizhong was promoted to lieutenant general, Chen Jingyun was promoted to three major generals in the Air Force, namely the commanders of the three wings. Basically, the ranks of the middle and high-ranking generals of the Air Force were collectively promoted to one side.

Wu Shizhong wore a dark blue Air Force lieutenant general uniform, and respectfully introduced the recent development of the Air Force to Chen Jingyun!

"In the early stage of operations, our air force has achieved brilliant results, but also suffered considerable losses; the first and second wings have lost about 30 planes one after another, and after our air force has increased the purchase of the latest types of fighters and bombers, in addition to supplementing the losses of the first and second wings, it has also expanded the size of the third wing. After nearly two months of rest and replenishment, our air force now has three fighter squadrons, equipped with 48 D5A series fighters. It has four reconnaissance squadrons, equipped with 32 D4 reconnaissance planes and 32 D5 reconnaissance planes, for a total of about 62 reconnaissance planes. There were three bomber squadrons, armed with forty-eight B3 bombers. All D4B bombers previously in service in the Air Force have been retired from active service due to damage or crashes. Wu Shizhong said slowly.

The situation of the Air Force is not the same as that of the Army, the speed of updating the equipment is too fast, the Fuzhou Aircraft Factory is developing and producing at the same time, and the existing models of aircraft are technically modified in almost ten days and half a month, for example, the D5A fighter has gone through four batches since the beginning of 1913, and each batch will correct some existing problems, so although the fighters equipped in the National Army are all D5A fighters, several batches of D5A fighters are different. Other bombers are even more so, although there are almost ten D4B bombers in good condition, but in view of the poor service status of D4B bombers, Wu Shizhong did not hesitate to kick D4B bombers out of the active industry, you must know that the National Army Air Force is only equipped with more than 30 D4B bombers, of which more than 20 have crashed, except for a few that were shot down, the rest were all crashed because of the technical failure of the aircraft itself, and lost a lot of valuable pilots. This made Wu Shizhong hate the D4B bomber very much, so the remaining D4B bomber was retired, and the B3 bomber that began to be accepted in the spring of this year is the first aircraft designed specifically for the purpose of bombing in the national army, the surname can be stronger than the D4B bomber There are also many problems, which need to be continuously optimized and designed by the Fuzhou Aircraft Arsenal, and the B3 bomber has gone through many batches in a year. Of course, there is no need for Wu Shizhong to tell Chen Jingyun, and it is okay for the Air Force insiders to know.

Chen Jingyun himself also knows the size of the air force, and now the national army air force has maintained about 150 aircraft, which is also the largest in the world, although the aircraft in the Chinese civil war has been in the limelight, and has also attracted the attention of various [***] people, so they have also successively expanded the size of their respective countries' fleets, such as Britain has nearly 100 aircraft, and Germany and France also have about 100 each. However, as far as the surname of the aircraft is concerned, the aircraft owned by the national army is higher, and the reason is very simple, that is, the national army air force has the needs of actual combat, and the design of the aircraft is designed according to the requirements of the air force, and now most of the aircraft in other countries are set up by the aircraft manufacturers themselves, and the air forces of various countries are purchased, and they are generally reconnaissance aircraft. However, they have not yet learned how the machine gun is loaded into the nose of the Nationalist Air Force, so most of them still stay at the back seat of the machine gun and manually controlled by a special machine gunner, which is simply the same as the fighter modified from the first-generation D4 aircraft of the National Army and the Beiyang Army from the aircraft purchased by the Beiyang Army.

The development momentum of the Air Force is good, although the current aircraft is still extremely primitive, but it has already reflected its great value, and even Chen Jingyun has already fantasized about when he will be able to build an aircraft that can carry heavy bombs or torpedoes.

There were no anti-aircraft guns or anti-aircraft machine guns on the warships in those days, so even if the torpedo bombers they made were slower, as long as they could fly to the bow of the warship and drop torpedoes and bombs, then it would be considered a success. As for how to penetrate the defense after the intensive deployment of anti-aircraft fire on the [***] ships in the future, that is a question that should be considered in the future. What Chen Jingyun wanted was the sudden surname of the first air raid, to maximize the power of the air raid without any preparation from the enemy, to carry out an air raid on Pearl Harbor-style war, and to win the game in one fell swoop. He did not intend to carry out a second air raid, because after the first air strike, the enemy, no matter how stupid, would know to deploy a large amount of anti-aircraft fire on the warship, and once the dense anti-aircraft fire was deployed on the warship, it was almost impossible to break through the anti-aircraft fire of the battleship and drop bombs before the aircraft could reach the mid-thirties.

Thinking of this, Chen Jingyun felt that it was necessary to instruct Wu Shizhong again: "The development of the Air Force is still very good, but I hope that the Air Force will pay attention to it!" ”

As soon as Chen Jingyun finished speaking, Wu Shizhong pricked up his ears and prepared to listen attentively, and several adjutants who followed him also picked up a small notebook and pen and prepared to write it down, what Chen Jingyun wanted to say now was not idle chat, but instructions for the future development of the Air Force.

Chen Jingyun paused for a moment before arriving: "At this stage, the Air Force should still focus on reconnaissance of enemy intelligence, supplemented by hot tasks such as bombing and airlifting. At this stage, the Air Force is doing well now, and it should be maintained! In addition, as I said before, the Air Force will continue to step up the research and development of new aircraft and develop aircraft capable of carrying torpedoes and heavy bombs as soon as possible. Speaking of this, Chen Jingyun looked at Wu Shizhong, and then said: "As we all know, China's coastal defense is weak, and the aircraft has the advantage of fast speed and sudden surname, if it can carry air-dropped torpedoes and heavy bombs, then can it deal a major blow to the enemy's large warships?" I also said this when I was at the Fuzhou Aircraft Factory before, but the Air Force has not paid enough attention to it. Work in this area should be appropriately strengthened in the future! ”

Chen Jingyun said that it should be appropriately strengthened, and Wu Shizhong and the others stopped in their ears and consciously regarded this matter as a top priority.

In fact, Wu Shizhong had heard of the idea of torpedo aircraft proposed by Chen Jingyun before, but the core of the Air Force's mission at that time was to provide intelligence for the army, occasionally bombing, and during this period, he also ventured to carry out the first airlift mission in human history. These things kept the generals of the Air Force extremely busy, so it was natural to ignore the maritime threat that Chen Jingyun paid great attention to, or "the naval threat."

Chen Jingyun was ready to turn his face with Yu himself in the future, but he did not say it publicly, and he never even said it to his close subordinates, and in view of the fact that the Nanjing Republic still maintained a good relationship with Yu Ben, the Nationalist Army did not yet have the idea of starting a war with Yu Ben in a short period of time, and even the Nationalist Navy, which regarded Yu Ben as its biggest enemy, Sa Zhenbing and those people did not think that he could have broken out in a short period of time.

Now Chen Jingyun recalls the old words, Wu Shizhong and other people in the Air Force can be regarded as taking the torpedo bomber matter to heart, began to prepare for the formation of a sea bomber unit, and proposed the design task of the torpedo bomber to the Fuzhou Aircraft Factory, and before that, Wu Shizhong and others plan to modify the B3 bomber to a certain extent, anyway, the bomb load of the B3 bomber is not small, and the bomb load can reach 600 kilograms when fully loaded, but the speed will be seriously shortened when fully loaded. Therefore, in fact, the B3 bombers in the National Air Force have never been fully loaded in actual combat, and most of them carry four 100-kilogram bombs or eight 50-kilogram bombs, and the bomb load is basically kept below 400 kilograms.

Although this level of bomb load cannot carry those torpedoes with a moving capacity of up to 600 to 800 kilograms, it can carry the 250 kilograms of aerial bombs newly developed by the Fuzhou Arsenal. Although this kind of aerial bomb was originally developed as a strike against the enemy's fortifications, it is not a big problem to use it against enemy warships, of course, the specific model may need to be modified, such as reducing the charge to enhance the armor-piercing ability, and the fuse should also be appropriately modified, but in general it is not a big problem.