New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

() After a period of negotiation, Ron and Miss Kong Er reached an agreement.The two parties will first build the first airport in Guanghan. According to the agreement, the airport will be handed over to Ms. Kong Er's company to build it.In the construction cost, except for some necessary materials that need to be purchased from the United States and need to add shipping costs, other prices, except for labor, are completely compared with the United States, and the labor price is paid at half of the same price in the United States.Calculated in this way, although the cost of the airport is not low, it is not enough to come up with a sky-high price of [-] million US dollars for five airports.

For Ms. Kong Er, this is of course not as much as paying in fiat currency first, and then converting it into US dollars according to the official exchange rate.However, now that the Americans have noticed this trap, Miss Kong Er also understands that the Americans are not those small people in the country who can use force to force others to submit.If you really want to make people unhappy, if you shoot and break up, you won't make any money.According to the current plan, Miss Kong Er can still earn a lot of money.

In terms of this project, Ms. Kong Er, or the efficiency shown by KMT is really not bad. Just after the two parties signed the agreement, within a week, the construction of the airport started in full swing.According to the agreement, the construction of the airport should be completed within 5 months.Looking at Miss Kong Er's efficiency, it shouldn't be a big problem to complete it as scheduled.

According to the design, Guanghan Airport will have two runways, the main runway is 2600 meters long and 60 meters wide.The auxiliary runway is 1400 meters long and 45 meters wide.The entire airport covers an area of ​​6000 mu.In order to be able to take off and land heavy bombers weighing up to 60 tons, the runway of this airport is of a high standard.According to the design, the airport runway should first be paved with large cobblestones, then paved with crushed stones, rolled and compacted repeatedly, then poured with cement, rolled and compacted, and then crushed stones should be laid on top, and then cement should be poured, and so on. , the entire runway will eventually have a concrete layer as thick as 0.6 meters.

Compared with the United States, China has a severe lack of heavy machinery.Therefore, the construction of the entire airport is almost entirely dependent on manpower.This even includes the crushing of stones and the tamping and rolling of runways.But in China, manpower is very abundant. The kmt government directly expropriated nearly [-] farmers for the construction of the airport.Due to the adoption of the recruitment method, there is no need to pay wages to use these people, only to provide food and drink.Of course, Miss Kong Er will not report it to the Americans in this way when the time comes.

Ron visited the airport a few times after construction started.That scene reminded him of the scene of Li Shitou's overhaul of water conservancy that he had seen in the documentary:

On the huge construction site, there are moving heads everywhere.Countless people are divided into groups, some are busy leveling the land, some are carrying the load to transport the excavated soil to other places, and there are dozens of people in a group, they are pulling the soil with moso bamboo The huge stone rollers dragged by the twisted ropes are used to flatten the land.These huge stone rollers, which are taller than people, were chiseled out by local masons who worked overtime for this project.The Chinese do not have giant road rollers, so they can only rely on this method to solve the problem.And these huge stone rollers basically have no other function after the airport is repaired. After they have completed their historical mission, they are often abandoned near the airport at will.Before crossing, Ron had seen such large stone rollers near many airports in Sichuan.

On the other side, countless people pushing wheelbarrows are transporting carts of pebbles here from the bank of the Minjiang River.Because the few cars are used in some more important places.Therefore, all the cobblestones required for laying the foundation of the two runways have to be pushed by a wheelbarrow and a small cart.

Next to the runway, huge hangars are being built.At the same time as the hangar, there are also several huge factory buildings with mysterious purposes, as well as a large area of ​​housing.At that time, some Chinese personnel asked why so many houses were needed near the airport.But I only got an answer from the Americans, "Military secrets, no comment".In fact, these factories are the future incendiary bomb assembly plants, where miniature incendiary bombs will be glued to bats and then loaded into diffusers.As for the housing, it was prepared for the workers at that time.

The construction speed of the airport is quite fast.Although there is a lack of heavy machinery, although most of the requisitioned migrant workers are malnourished, and although their due wages have been deducted completely, these simple Chinese farmers still rely on their love for the motherland-although they may not use this word-in the end. Pure loyalty and love, with their thin hands full of cracks, and their weak but strong shoulders like steel, carried this huge project and let it advance at a speed faster than mechanized construction.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Ron remembered a few months ago, when he first came to China in this era, he had a conversation with General Stilwell.

In that conversation, while scolding the KMT government, General Stilwell spoke highly of Chinese soldiers.

"Chinese soldiers are the best soldiers I have ever seen. They are determined, tenacious, and love their motherland. If they can be properly led, advanced equipment, and reliable logistics support. They can rival any Allied forces. You are very It’s hard to imagine how these soldiers persisted in resisting the Japanese for years. Their military salaries were embezzled, and their logistics couldn’t even ensure that they had enough to eat. More than half of them were seriously ill. Malnutrition, running more than a kilometer may directly cause death. They did not undergo any decent training before going to the battlefield. Some people did not even shoot a single shot before going to the battlefield! Countless soldiers did not fight until they died. The bullets are not as many as the American recruits can shoot in a week of training. After changing soldiers from many countries, they must have collapsed directly, such as France, such as many countries in Europe. Unfortunately, their governments have been wasting their money Loyalty and blood!"

In fact, China doesn't just have the best soldiers, they also have the cutest people!As Mu Dan said:

"How many dynasties have risen and fallen by his side

And put hopes and disappointments upon him,''

"How many times have joyful songs flowed on the high road,

How many times have troubles come upon him;"

Our people have experienced countless unspeakable sufferings, but our people have never given up hope, never stopped yearning for a better tomorrow, never stopped fighting, and never feared sacrifice.

"On the highway people speak, clamor, and merry,

But he didn't, he just put down the ancient hoe,

Once again believe in nouns and melt into the love of the masses,

Firmly, he watched himself dissolve into death.

And this road is infinitely long

And he can't cry,

He did not cry because a nation has risen. "

Believe in the people of the motherland, rely on the people of the motherland!Only by merging with them can one be extremely firm and tenacious, and possess the real power of "dare to change the sun and the moon into a new sky".

However, Ron couldn't stay here any longer. He couldn't stay in China for five months at a time, so when most things were on the right track, he had to go back to the United States again.One is that the scientific research over there has to be watched by someone, and the other is that the "Reverse Cross" flight team is about to face another big change.

When the "Reverse Cross" was first established, it was a relatively simple air combat training unit.The main task is to adapt the pilots to various air combats.However, with the development of the war, the form of air combat has become more and more complex, and the army has more and more requirements for air power.As far as the fighter force is concerned, in addition to the traditional escort and interception, safari has become an extremely important combat method, but in the previous "Reverse Cross" training subjects, there was not much content about safari.Moreover, with the weakening of German power, especially the Luftwaffe, fighter force opportunities for conventional air combat were greatly reduced and opportunities for attacking ground targets were greatly increased.Coupled with the second battlefield that is still under consideration, it is an inevitable trend that more and more air power will be used for direct fire support.Strengthening training in this area is also imperative.

In addition, bomber and attack aircraft units also put forward new requirements.In the past, the requirements of the bomber unit were only to train the fleet how to resist the enemy's interception and how to cooperate with its own fighter unit.And now, they're asking for more.

The medium and light bomber and attack aircraft units have proposed to increase the training requirements to cooperate with the fighter units to defeat the enemy's air interception and suppress the ground anti-aircraft artillery firepower when performing low-altitude and ultra-low-altitude direct fire support missions to sweep the ground.In the South Pacific, the b-25s under Big Big Wolf were not satisfied with bombing the Japanese ground targets. In March 43, after taking advantage of ricochet bombs, they strongly demanded to add attacking warships to the training content. And attack submarines and stuff, so you can compete with the Navy.

Under these various requirements, the expansion of the scope of tasks and the expansion of the personnel of the "Reverse Cross" became inevitable.In terms of the combat aircraft and flight personnel directly under the "Reverse Cross", there are only two squadrons, and all of them are fighter units.

With such a scale and establishment, it is impossible to fulfill so many requirements mentioned above.Therefore, the expansion of "Reverse Cross" is imperative.While Ron was negotiating with Miss Kong Er, General Arnold sent a telegram, asking Ron to draw up a corresponding plan as soon as possible.

According to Ron's idea, the "Reverse Cross" should be expanded to the wing level, and the formation should include two fighter squadrons, one attack aircraft squadron and one medium bomber squadron.In addition, the "Reverse Cross" must also have its own ground troops directly under it.These units include ground target units and air defense units that simulate enemy forces.The ground target force should have its own armored vehicles and ships, while the air defense force simulating the enemy's army should be equipped with the enemy's air defense weapons and fight according to the enemy's combat style.At the same time, the training base of the "Reverse Cross" should also be enriched.It should include all kinds of common terrain, the simplest plains, mountains and forests where anti-aircraft weapons can hide, and beaches.

Two fighter squadrons now have "Reverse Cross", but some adjustments in personnel are still necessary.Some pilots may leave the Inverse Cross for other units, or temporarily transfer from fighter squadrons to support other squadrons, while others who rose to prominence in the war join them.However, this number will not be too large, and in general, fighter squadrons will remain stable.

As for the other two squadrons, they basically have to be rebuilt.This is a difficult problem. The U.S. Army Aviation still lacks experience in this area, and there are not many real aces.The navy is very strong in this regard, but let Lu Hang go to the navy for help?Forget it, although the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy have not yet reached the point of incompatibility like the Japanese Army and Navy, but such a shameful thing, the Army Aviation will definitely not be able to do it.It seems that the candidate for the pilot can only temporarily adopt the method of picking the eldest son among the dwarfs.

Compared with the selection of pilots, the new squadron's syllabus may be a bigger problem.Although I got a lot of information from the Soviets, the second-hand information is second-hand after all, and it is still different from my own experience.I am afraid that the new syllabus will have many, many loopholes.But there is no way to do this, and it can only be perfected step by step in practice.

There is also the air defense force, the importance of its construction may not be less than that of other fighter squadrons.

This is really a troublesome thing.