Bai Shujie did not think about releasing prisoners of war, whether it was American or British, and it was not the time to release prisoners of war for the time being.

Landes, is a representative of the personal envoy of the President of the United States, Payne. Now that he has figured out Bai Shujie's bottom line, he is not in a hurry.

Because American soldiers live in high-end hotels, the standard of living and trade represents a grade. Although it is not possible to go out and wander around, the courtyard of the special guest house is large enough, and there are radio and newspapers, so there is no problem of mistreatment of zài.

Although the British prisoners of war had much worse food and accommodation, they had absolutely no personal safety problems. At least for now, as long as Bai Shujie is not offended to death, these British soldiers will be able to live.

At the same time, Landers also understood another meaning of Bai Shujie, the so-called prisoner of war camp is on the back hill east of the headquarters, and these prisoners of war are simply "human shields".

If the American bombers dared to come, Bai Shujie's headquarters would have air-raid shelters, and he would have run away by then, and the people killed by the bombing would definitely be his own people.

Besides, Bai Shujie's air defense forces and fighter brigades are not dry meals. It seems that the fighter planes that have recently taken off are more advanced than those of the United States, and it remains to be said whether they will be able to win the war at that time.

Landes thought through the causes and consequences thoroughly, and finally made a choice for himself: forget it, maintain the status quo for the time being, and wait for the international situation to change.

Bai Shujie was not in the mood to pay attention to what Landers was thinking, because he had been dizzy with his busy work in the past two months.

It turned out that the steam catapult had been accepted by Bai Shujie, and the 2 aircraft carriers USS Ark Royal had been installed.

After replacing the engines and making the necessary structural adjustments to the strength of the fuselage, the original 20 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and 20 DC-3 medium-range transport aircraft have been refitted.

The modified DC-3 was named the "Raptor Bomber" by Bai Shujie. At present, it has been put on board the ship and is undergoing adaptive training.

Raptor: length 24.43 meters, wingspan 34.11 meters, height 6.18 meters, two turbofan engines, empty weight 12 tons, bomb load of 6 tons, maximum take-off weight of 25 tons, catapult take-off distance of 82 meters;

The range is 7800 km, and the combat radius is 2800 km. The maximum level flight speed is 950 km / h, the practical ceiling is 13,500 meters, the cruising speed at an altitude of 8,500 meters is 720 kilometers per hour, and the crew is 7 people.

If it carries 6 napalm bombs of 1 tonne, it is specially designed to carry out the task of attacking the fortress; If you carry 500 high-explosive shells of the 12 kg class, then you will bomb the enemy's forward positions specifically.

If you carry 2 3-ton cloudburst bombs, the range of use is wide. It is possible to attack enemy surface ships and perform bombing missions against special targets on land.

Flying Fortress bomber: four turbofan engines, 27.66 meters long, 7.82 meters high, wingspan 37.65 meters, empty weight 18.4 tons, bomb load 12 tons, maximum take-off weight 32 tons, catapult take-off distance 89 meters;

The range is 9500 km; The cruising speed is 720 km / h, the maximum speed is 950 km / h, and the practical ceiling is 14,000 meters. The crew crew is 7 people.

The Flying Fortress performs the same combat mission as the Raptor, but the bomb load is doubled, so it is the only place to bomb certain important facilities.

For example, if you carry two 6-ton cloudburst bombs or two 6-ton napalm bombs and bomb a large city, the effect will be much better.

It is worth mentioning that Bai Shujie's 500-kilogram high-explosive bomb should actually be a "sub-mother bomb". For every 500-kilogram high-explosive bomb, it is composed of 5 100-kilogram bomblets.

The bomb is detonated by a barometric pressure sensor, and the first explosion is 100 meters above the ground, with the aim of releasing five bomblets. The height of the second explosion was 5 to 15 meters above the ground, and steel ball fragments were used to kill and injure.

Each 100-kilogram bomb was filled with 2,400 small steel balls with a diameter of 3 mm, covering a diameter of 150 meters. Such fragmentation bombs do not kill many people, but the number of injured will definitely increase exponentially, and it will be difficult to rescue.

Bai Shujie ordered the research institute to develop this kind of bomb, which is specially prepared to deal with the "swarm pig assault" of the little devils, or to bomb the enemy's marching queue and carry out "surface strikes" against the ground troops.

Jewish experts have given this bomb a very interesting name, what is "God's mercy"!

That is, God is merciful, it is not good to kill, and it is appropriate to teach a lesson. Bai Shujie broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, and directly called this kind of bomb "evil God" in his mind.

The third type of bomb that Bai Shujie prepared for carrier-based bombers was conventional high-explosive bombs, all of which were 100-kilogram fragmentation bombs.

This bomb is mainly used to carry out carpet bombing, clear obstacles on the battlefield, or to prepare for mine clearance. One "Raptor" bomber can carry 56 pieces, and one "Flying Fortress bomber" can carry 108 pieces.

Of course, there is no problem with the fact that such conventional bombs are used to blow people up and destroy ordinary civil fortifications. However, this kind of bomb will kill many people, and Bai Shujie feels "unkind".

There are four types of bombs that Bai Shujie prepared for his bombers: conventional bombs, sub-mother bombs, napalm bombs, and high-energy cloud burst bombs. Of course, against specific targets, torpedoes and depth charges can also be dropped in the air.

However, in Bai Shujie's attack level design, torpedoes and depth charges all belong to the work of carrier-based helicopters.

In order to verify the take-off and landing of bombers on aircraft carriers and the effectiveness of dropping four types of bombs at the same time, the Yellow Sea was blown up into a miasma in half a month, scaring many big fish to death.

Looking forward to the stars and the moon, on November 23, 1940, Bai Shujie finally looked forward to the first batch of 48 single-engine jet attack aircraft coming off the assembly line.

This single-engine fighter adopts a canard layout, belly air intake, and a turbofan engine, which is the world's first modern fighter with a canard layout independently designed by China in later generations - J-9!

Because Bai Shujie was worried that the existing technical conditions, as well as materials and instruments could not fully meet the requirements, the relevant technical parameters were greatly reduced and turned into a subsonic fighter. The details are as follows:

Including airspeed tube length of 18 meters, height of 5.75 meters, wingspan of 11.35 meters, wing area of 46.70 meters2, front wing wingspan of 5.45 meters, front wing exposed area of 6.20 meters2, main wheel base of 4.76 meters, front main wheel track of 5.69 meters.

The empty weight is 7.5 tons, the normal take-off weight without plug-in is 11.5 tons, the normal weapon load is 15.5 tons, the maximum take-off weight is 18 tons, and the maximum bomb load is 4 tons;

The maximum level flight speed is 1025 km/h (Mach 1), the practical ceiling is 16500 meters, the cruising speed at an altitude of 9500 meters is 925 km/h, the transfer range is 2600 km, the combat radius is 1100 km, and the air time is 3 hours;

The take-off and taxiing distance of the flat runway is 341 meters, the approach speed is 157 km/h, and the landing and running distance is 428 meters; The catapult take-off taxiing distance is 91 meters (open afterburner), and the glide jump take-off distance is 228 meters (open afterburner);

The nose is equipped with a built-in passive phased array radar, a friend or foe identifier, a landing indication system, a radio direction finder and rangefinder, a radio altimeter, and an air formation walkie-talkie. In order to record the effect of the weapon's firing, a camera and a periscope were also installed to observe the situation behind it. On both sides of the nose, two 30-mm guns were mounted.

In order to commemorate this multi-functional fighter, Bai Shujie still named it "Jianjiu", and explained to the person who was very puzzled by the name of the command: "Nine, it means the Great Perfection." Ninety-nine to one, luck for a long time, this is a very auspicious saying. ”

In fact, Bai Shujie's choice of this attack aircraft was specially tailored for the aircraft carrier Ark Royal. Because the flight deck of the USS Ark Royal is 257.6 meters long and 50.6 meters wide.

The J-9's sliding take-off distance is 228 meters, and the surplus length of the long deck is 29.6 meters, which is convenient for the activities of the command staff on the deck. It is possible for two aircraft to prepare for take-off at the same time, thus saving preparation time.

If the battle heats up, you can also take off 1 from the short deck at the same time using a catapult. This made it possible to take off 3 fighters at the same time, which happened to be a complete formation.

Bai Shujie will never forget that during the Battle of Midway, the US military and the imp's aircraft carrier suffered losses one after another, all because when they encountered a surprise attack, the planes on the deck could not take off.

Because of this, the deck width of Bai Shujie's last two main aircraft carriers has doubled to the current 50.6 meters.

Under the main wing behind the Jian-9, there are 6 external attachment points, which can mount the air-to-air missile launch trajectory "invented" by Bai Shujie.

Of course, this kind of thing capable of attacking targets at a distance of 8 kilometers is still on the drawings, and the samples are still being tested in the wind tunnel in the real room, which will come in handy for the time being, and the external pylons can only be used to mount ground-to-sea attack bombs.

There was a preliminary number of bombers and fighters, so Bai Shujie ordered the aircraft carrier Ark Royal of the Fourth Rescue Fleet and the First Submarine Fleet to conduct joint sea trials.

The Shihuang 918 Founding Class Battlecruiser and the Dahan 905 North Carolina-class battleship were jointly dispatched, and the Daming 307 and 308 Qiuyue-class destroyers accompanied them to undertake the protection task together.

The live-fire exercise was conducted in the sea west of Jeju Island. Listen to the sound of the little devils, lest they be eyeing the Korean Peninsula all day long.

Because Bai Shujie is confident that even if the little devil dispatches 100 fighters, the 48 jet attack planes of his two aircraft carriers will be able to kill them.

The mixed fleet fleet went out for sea trials, and Bai Shujie was ready to rush to Wonsan Port the next day, because the 12 North Korean-class cruisers had already arrived for delivery, and he needed to go over and accept them in person.

Originally, it was very smooth, but when he was about to go out at seven o'clock in the morning, Bai Shujie subconsciously glanced at the calendar: January 5, 1941!

A thought suddenly appeared in Bai Shujie's mind: If the historical trajectory had not changed, the Southern Anhui Incident should have happened last night! Thinking of this, Bai Shujie was in no good mood.

At this moment, Xiao Lamei rushed to the office and shouted: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a telegram accusing the Kuomintang 32nd Group Army of attacking the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan!" The Kuomintang also issued a telegram, saying that the New Fourth Army did not respect the order, attacked friendly troops without authorization, and declared it a rebel army, and must be annihilated in one fell swoop! ”

"How did things turn out like this?" Zhao Jinxi, Gan Tong, Lu Ming and other senior officers of the headquarters rushed in one after another and said: "Now is the critical juncture of the anti-Japanese resistance, why did the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fight on their own, isn't this a help to the little devils and let the whole world see the joke?" ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.