What made the plane ruler of the sky?

Some people say it is an engine, some say it is the many aviation pioneers of the Wright brothers following them, and some say it is World War I that provided it with great development market and support. Everyone has different views on this issue, and Li Han also has his own opinion. His answer is the shooting synchronization coordinator. This theory was born in 1911 and 1912, and was famous all over the world in the design of Russia and France in 1912.

The principle of the shooting synchronization coordinator is very simple. It is to use the rotation of the propeller to control the shooting of the machine gun. When the muzzle points to the gap between the blades, the bullet is shot out, and the shooting stops when the muzzle is aimed at the blades. Through this simple design, the aircraft has strong air combat capabilities. As a result, the aircraft originally needed a large heart and a large tonnage, and two or three people were required to barely control the development history of the aircraft's deformity that fired the ground from the sky and returned to the correct path. Because after the shooting synchronization coordinator was adopted, even if the aircraft was equipped with machine guns, no second or third person was required.

Control only requires the pilot to control the machine gun launch. After all, the aerospace industry has just begun to emerge in this era. Whether it is engines, materials or technology, capital attention is far less than that of new automobiles and other industries. Manufacturing engines with larger tonnage and stronger power will undoubtedly increase the manufacturing cost of aircraft. At present, except for Li Han, major aircraft manufacturing companies in various countries have no country and government forces to provide funds at all costs. Technical and policy support is not even the Folk Aircraft Company, which is cooperating with the German side!

Therefore, when he visited Feng Ru's aircraft manufacturer last year, when he and other aircraft designers suggested streamlining two or three aircraft to a smaller one but still retaining combat capabilities, Feng Ru made it clear that this design could not appear. When the two discussed this view, Li Han suddenly remembered the old fighter jets he had participated in later generations in World War I. The fighter jets that were originally born had just gained the position of ruler by adding the 'fire synchronization coordinator'. Although he was not very clear about how to make a shooting synchronization coordinator, he knew the principle. It was to use some small machines to synchronize the rotation frequency of the aircraft propeller with the machine gun equipped on the aircraft, so that the rotation of the propeller can be used to control the shooting of the machine gun. When the muzzle points to the gap between the blades, the bullets are shot out, and the gun is aimed at the blades when the muzzle is aimed at the blades.

Feng Ru really deserves the name of a master. Within less than three months of Li Han's proposal to him, he not only built this system based on his theory, but also transformed the original Trail Blazer series of aircraft, creating the first batch of strict "fighter" set sail series!

The Chinese people's good dragon psychology made Feng Ru deliberately named it "Flying Dragon" after designing this batch of new fighter jets that used the "Shooting Synchronous Coordinator". This name reminded Li Han of the third-generation aircraft of a certain dragon series in the Republic in later generations. The fighter jet series that was developed in conjunction with other countries was developed by electric control and fire control. The word "Dragon" once hurt the pride of a generation. At present, he personally took a photo and named this fighter jet series that had taken a big step in its own production road besides the engine, "Speeding", hoping that it could open the road to this country's aviation power.

Now, it is time for these warriors to fight for tomorrow!

"Perfect, it's so perfect... Captain, this thing is so perfect!"

At 3 pm on September 16, in Guangji County, Hubei Province, which is only one line away from Anhui, Wang Jian and others got off the boat and took a rest. They were escorted by a team of live-fire soldiers and entered a temporary military camp with strict garrisons.

"The fuselage of nearly six meters is shorter than the Trail Blazer series we are used to, but three pairs of wings that exceed seven meters make it more stable than the Trail Blazer series with a double wing. This aircraft may become the ruler of the sky. The 120-horsepower horizontal star engine makes its speed the world-class, and it is one of the fastest now. It is equipped with a shooting coordinator, two machine guns, and can carry 1,200 rounds. This aircraft, which can pose a serious threat to the ground and should be called an air killer, will be our first battle to revive the name!"

The canvas covered outside were pulled down, and about twenty brand new planes were parked in the open space.

This batch of aircraft is the first batch of fighter jets to be manufactured by the aircraft manufacturer. Of course, although light machine guns were installed in the back seat of the Trail Blazer series trainer jets before, it is obviously not considered fighter jets. It is a world of difference compared to this batch of sailing series.

Unlike the popular double-layer wings in Europe and the United States, for stability and higher climbing ability, Feng Ru designed it as a three-layer wing when designing it. Since the Trail Blazer's two-seat seats are reduced to one person, the fuselage can be controlled. After the redesign, the fuselage is light and the lift is more than doubled than that of the Trail Blazer, which makes the "Starting" have a high climb rate and maneuverability. Choosing to fly high altitude during sneak attacks is enough to avoid alertness from the ground.

Although we know that the two-wing and three-wing series will eventually be eliminated, and at this year's European Air Show, a Belgian man drove a homemade monoplane equipped with 16 cylinders and 160-horsepower GNE engine, which became the first person to exceed the flight speed of 200 kilometers per hour, but the monoplane has high requirements for manufacturing processes and materials, which is not the level that the Republic of China can achieve for the time being. We can only press down first and wait for future development!

"Hey, not the kind I've seen this time!"

Wang Jian did not listen to the introduction of Instructor Qi. In fact, for him who does not know what the shooting synchronization coordinator is, these "little guys" obviously did not have the big plane he saw that day to come.

"Don't mess around, you guys, you're a big mess, these are two completely different!"

Instructor Qi smiled and pulled him, and the two walked towards a group of machines not far away that had not yet pulled down the canvas!

"Don't think it's too small. This time, a total of twenty-six aircraft were transported. Among them, there are eight of these fighter jets named Denver, and eight of them are the big guys you saw this time, a bomber named "Raptors"!"

Instructor Qi's rank is major. He seems to be familiar with this barracks that seem to have only been established for at least three or five months. After seeing him approaching and saluting, several guards did not stop him. They let him pull the canvas himself and show a huge biplane that Wang Jian was not unfamiliar with!

"Yes, that's it!"

Wang Jian's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but move forward, and his hands were on the Raptor bomber that was at least two laps larger than the "Starry" fighter!

"You should be careful, this thing is expensive. It is said that the extra money for a Raptor is enough to buy five good German heavy artillery. This one has a net weight of nearly 72 kilograms, almost twice that of "setting"! It can carry 650 kilograms of ammunition, equipped with electric bomb droppers, bombing sights, driving and piloting instruments. However, because it is too heavy, although it uses a 10-horsepower rotor engine, it will be slower when fully loaded with ammunition. Compared to the 16-kilometer-per-hour Tail Series, it only has a speed of 140 kilometers per hour! How can you be satisfied? Tomorrow's mission, you are going to drive this big guy!"

140 kilometers is not low, at least it is faster than the Trail Blazer coaches they used before!

"That's great, I've been waiting for this day! What a great thing!"

Wang Jian followed him and touched him for a while, suddenly he was stunned. After circling around the plane, he looked stunned and said, "No..."

"What's wrong?"

"It's strange. I clearly remember that this guy had four machine guns in front of him, but why is there no one now?" He turned around with a bitter face and found that all the machine guns he saw were gone, and his face became frustrated!

"Because there is no need... the main combat is about those 'Star Fighters', so don't be unsatisfied. This big guy's cost is enough to equip three or four 'Star Fighters'. He heard from the general manager that he was tight-fitting and fed. In the past six months, twelve aircraft have been created. Except for the four aircraft in Yazhou, the rest have all arrived here. There are orders, saying that it was an order issued by the inspector himself, and the most elite pilots must be drawn to pilot the battle. Your mission is to be responsible for bombing and you don't need to directly participate in the battle!"

Although Instructor Qi said this, he also sneered in his heart. Although the plane had undergone internal simulation test flights, in the opinion of Instructor Qi, this plane that had no attack ability and could only be loaded with bombs and threw things from the sky down is simply a sideways. It is not to mention whether it can blow things up from the sky that is hundreds of meters high. Even if it is blown up, how powerful can it be? It would be better to build a little more "Starry" fighter jets. At least when they were tested, they shot the ground from a sky that was hundreds of meters high, and hundreds of sheep shot the machine gun bullets into meat. He still remembers that scene yet!

"Instructor, can I change one? Just change one, "Chehang"? Do you think it's okay?"

Seeing that Wang Jian was like pickled radish, his whole body became depressed. Instructor Qi smiled and patted his shoulder.

"The order from the side, you should drive one with the best grades. If you change it, it will definitely not work. Let's go and test drive later. Someone will teach you how to use it. Our time is limited. I heard that Tianmeng wants us to help Anhui. It is said that Yancheng in Henan is about to be unable to withstand the attack on Zhoukou Town. Shandong Mixed Brigade has already ordered Yancheng to contact Xiangcheng. He pierced a nail in the defense line in Henan. The Fifth Division heading south of Luoyang also captured Jiazhen. The defenders on the western front of Henan were forced to retreat 30 miles along Lushan and garrison Baofeng. Once the Beiyang soldiers who were fighting with us now broke Yancheng, we would not be able to stand it in Henan! How to defend? Can we still open the left and right from Nanyang to Xinyang... to pull out a defense line of hundreds of miles?"

Wang Jian stopped talking. The situation the military government is facing is very bad now. They just heard that Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan and Guizhou were going to attack the military government. Here, they heard from the instructor that it seemed that Henan could not hold on. It seems that the military government is going to open a gap from Anhui and revitalize this game of chess!

What the two didn't know was that while they were talking, the Shandong Mixed Brigade in Henan, thousands of miles away, which was confronting Ma Rongcheng and Li Jishen, the Northern Army, which was confronting Ma Rongcheng and Li Jishen, finally received support from the first Brigade of Shanxi reinforcements. After three hours of concentrating four heavy artillery battalions, after several days of hard fighting, the low walls of Yancheng and the defensive positions built on dense rivers were basically severely damaged under artillery fire. There was no danger to defend, and at the same time, there were only three less than half of them left. Ma Rongcheng, who was instructed to inform Wuchang, ordered the whole person to fight and retreat, retreat to Fangcheng and then pacify the Runan line, continue to implement the orders of the military government, and block the Northern Army from going south at all costs!

For the military government, compared with the chaos in Hunan and Jiangxi, what the military government is most worried about is to burn the war into Hubei Province. The Yunnan army's attack on southern Sichuan has caused Sichuan's salt affairs to be suspended. The military government's finances will be at least 40,000 yuan each day. This is not the money for the rebuilding of the damaged places in the future. Due to the terrain, although Li Han was unwilling, most of the current heavy industry, railways and industries of the military government are concentrated in Hubei Province. If Henan falls again and burns the war into Hubei Province, he cannot guarantee whether anyone below will be unable to help but jump out to cause trouble!

It is nothing more than a confidence that as long as the battle situation is maintained outside the area ruled by the military government, he can ensure that the lower part will not fall into chaos.

However, if you want to completely change the current unfavorable situation, you must also find a breakthrough from the nearby Anhui battlefield!

"Hello, please show your entry and exit documents!"

On the 16th, a soldier who was dark-skinned outside the temporary military camp licked his cracked lips. He no longer remembered how many times he called out such a thing today!

"Logistics Department transports goods, this is a transfer order!"

Outside the military camp, the length of half a mile from the direction of the county town, an officer with a layer of sweat stain on his back took out a military order and handed it to the alert office for routine inspection!

"Check it out and let it go!"

After confirming that the seal of the military order was correct, the soldier shouted, and the horse and machine guns that were set up several meters behind him were immediately moved to other places. The officer wiped a handful of Han water and made a gesture to the back. The transportation team that stopped because he was inspected began to move again. Carts and carts filled with supplies, and ox carts rushed into the barracks through the gate.

"Good, I've been fainting in four batches of goods these days. I'm afraid I've transported at least 200 boxes of bullets and more than 400 tons of bombs. What are you going to do?"

Smelling the smell of sweat on his body, the young officer who had not rested for a day since the war started, complained secretly in his heart, and at the same time he became a little curious. He only knew that there was a staff member from the staff office who came with him today, and he never came out after entering. I wonder if he had brought some orders from Wuchang!

He shook his head. He just guessed that he shouldn't have known about it. Anyway, there was such a big noise here, and he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to hide it. He should have known it soon!

"Hello, Major Qi! I am Wei Zhen, the staff officer sent by the General Staff Office to convey combat instructions. Now I will convey to you the order from the Inspection Office to transfer to the Military Commission. All crews of the Flight First Squadron will bomb and air strike on Li Chun's unit of the Sixth Division stationed in Shibei Town at 11:40 noon today!"

In the temporary military camp with more than 20 aircraft docked in Anhui in the east of Guangji County, Wei Zhen, a staff officer who came from Wuchang, conveyed Li Han's order. The bombing had arrived in Shibei Town, Anqing, and was cooperating with Wang Zhanyuan's Second Division and Ni Sichong's Anwu army to attack the Sixth Division in Taihu. This was Li Han's decision after thinking for a long time. The Sixth Division really killed 800 enemies and lost 1,000 themselves after a arduous siege in Nanjing. Even if it was an elite, the Sixth Division suffered losses in the face of the anti-Yuan army that relied on the Xiongguan Nanjing to defend.

There are still many troops in the fight against Yuan. The division's Sixth Cavalry Regiment, the 22nd Infantry Regiment, and the 24th Infantry Regiment have lost their combat effectiveness due to heavy losses. Now only the 21st, 23rd Infantry Regiment and the 6th Artillery Regiment, and these organizations are incomplete. The war in Anhui must end as soon as possible, so Li Han decided to set off the Anhui counterattack with air strikes. The three divisions of Wang Anlan, Zhang Bingqian and Ji Yulin have already started preparing for today's attack two days in advance.

Aircraft is still a new thing. Several were brought in the Beiyang Army in Beijing, but now it has rust in Nanyuan and has not received attention from the Army Department. Therefore, most people in the Northern Army may not know what the aircraft is, and people are always afraid of unknown things. Even the army is the same. According to the performance of fighting between Germany and Britain during World War I, even well-trained professional soldiers in Europe cannot be spared, let alone the army that has just taken the first step in professionalization in the Republic of China!

Therefore, Li Han decided to use an aircraft to bomb the Sixth Division military camp, which was already depressed due to the loss of war. In order to rely on the aircraft to attack the Sixth Division as much as possible, in order to reduce the resistance encountered by ground troops during attack. At the same time, there is another purpose, which is to use this unprecedented bombing to completely collapse the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division before the attack, so as to end the Anhui battlefield in the shortest time!

The situation in Henan can no longer be delayed. Ma Rongcheng and his team have to rely on three brigades to withstand the attacks of the enemy from the Third Division, the Fifth Division, Shandong and Zhili two brigades, and the pressure is probably not small. The same is true in Shaanxi. After Xiong Bingkun's shortage of troops was discovered, the Fourth Division and the Ninth Division attacked Xiong's troops with the Ninth Division. He must force Yuan Shikai to recognize that Li Han already has an equal force with him and force him to give up the loss and choose to sit at the negotiating table. Therefore, in order to achieve this strategic goal, the Second Division and the Sixth Division in Anhui Province cannot be destroyed in time. He must leave at least one completely and drive the rest of the troops out of Anhui. Only by concentrating most of the strength first forced Yuan Shikai to choose to negotiate with him. The remaining Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong depends on whether he is willing to let go!

Even when facing the military god Cai E, Li Han was confident in holding nearly fifteen divisions in his hand!

To destroy the military camp stationed by the Second Division, it is a bit far from Guangji. Relying on the current Raptor and the cruising ability of the sailor, it can fly to the place but cannot fly back. Therefore, if you want to use an aircraft to continuously bombard the long distance, he can only choose the Sixth Division, which happens to be within the attack range. After just experiencing a tough battle in Nanjing, I believe many soldiers of the Sixth Division should be war-weary. From the geographical point of view, it was the Anwu Army, the Second Division, and the Sixth Division jointly attacked the National Defense Force from the three north and southeastern routes. Once the National Defense Force counterattack, it will become Wang Zhang's troops, Ji Yulin's troops cooperated with air strikes to attack the Sixth Division, and the two sides immediately changed their positions!

"Quick! Fix the bomb! Fix the bomb, hold it gently, don't forget to pull out the insurance pin!"

As time approached little by little, the entire military camp was already busy. Dozens of technicians checked for the last time whether the parts of the plane were malfunctioning. They pushed the cart to send boxes of bullets and bombs to the front of the plane, and then the soldiers who had been waiting there had been transporting the plane and then decorating it!

There were loud shouts of officers shouting and commanding everywhere, just urging to speed up. After all, time is limited now. According to the orders of the surface, the plane must take off before 11:40, and there must be no mistakes.

"I will remind you at the end to relax... Don't be nervous, we just need to do it according to the usual training. I will lead the team myself and fly the No. 1 plane. After entering the target empty, refer to the target photo to drop bombs. Remember that our bullets and explosives are not much, and the oil is limited, so we must escort the bomber to throw the bombs in the enemy position in the shortest time. Just do it like when training yesterday, throw the bombs, and then aim the fighter at the enemy and finish the bullets. I will fly with you and drop the first offensive bomb, hoping that everyone can return safely!"

Looking at the more than 50 pilots in the audience, Instructor Qi knocked on several aerial photos hanging on the wall and said. Because there were only twenty-eight planes, they would be divided into two groups and wait for one wave to come back and the other wave to set off immediately. The aerial photos hanging here are actually a plane sent yesterday. The aerial photos taken by the camera temporarily took a bird's-eye view of the 6th Division's garrison position. Shibei Town is so big that six or seven thousand people squeezed in at once. Now the entire town is dense, so there is no need to worry about not being able to explode.

"I wish you success!"

When the eighteen staggered flight fighters and eight larger Raptor bombers took off one after another, they slowly gathered in the air into organization and made a sound like thunder. In such a magnificent situation, hundreds of people in the military camp on the ground immediately opened their eyes and mouths. Although the queues in the sky were not neat and there were even several flying crookedly, the first large-scale reorganized air strike in the Republic of China and even the entire world had completely shocked everyone!
Chapter completed!