Chapter 236 News from China
Nadya stayed with Ron for a day in London, and even slept in Ron's hospital room at night. But Ron's foot was still in a cast, so, well, nothing exciting could happen.
Early the next morning, Ron and Nadya had breakfast together, and Scott had already completed all the procedures for leaving the hospital and arranged the vehicle.
"Ron, are you going back to the army now?" Nadya looked at Ron and said, tears welling up in her big eyes.
"No way, that's what war is like. Now is the critical moment." Ron explained.
In fact, Nadya did not understand this. In the Soviet Union, it was very common to serve with injuries.
"However, I'm not going back to the front line right away. Someone is taking care of the front line matters. I'm just going back to Portsmouth to recuperate and work as a consultant for others." Ron said to Nadya, "The leave you asked for is still quite long.
If you are interested, you can go there for a few days to relax."
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Because there was no need to cross the sea, the Army Airlines did not arrange a flight for Ron. The most comfortable way to travel within the UK was by train. The hospital directly sent Ron and the others to the station in an ambulance.
When Nadya pushed Ron onto the platform, Ron looked at the platform of Waterloo Station and suddenly felt that he had seen this place before. Ron had never been to Waterloo Station in his previous life, although
I have been to England twice, but I have never taken a train here. Where does this strange feeling of familiarity come from?
At this time, several young men ran back from a place not far away from Ron. As one of them ran, he turned back and shouted to the others: "Hurry up, the time is almost over."
This man was running and shouting back, but he didn't see what was ahead. As a result, he bumped into a pillar, fell back, and sat down on the ground.
"Haha!" Ron suddenly remembered where his sense of familiarity came from, so he unconsciously said again: "This unlucky Muggle."
"What is a Muggle?" Nadya, who was behind Ron, naturally heard this sentence. Nadya, who was smiling with her lips pursed, asked this question.
"Ah, Muggles, just..." Ron didn't expect Nadya to ask such a question. He couldn't answer according to "Harry Potter" and said that "Muggles" refer to idiots without magical talents. So he
I quickly found an excuse: "Muggle is a dialect in the Philippines, which means fool. You know, I have stayed in the Philippines for a long time."
"I remember you told me about the giant python and the monkey-eating eagle in the Philippines." Nadya replied with a smile.
The current Waterloo Station is really similar to the one in the "Harry Potter" movie, especially when a steam locomotive puffs into the station, it really looks like "Harry Potter".
The train that takes the students to the magic school in "Potter". Speaking of which, Ron also rode this kind of steam locomotive once in his last life when he was in elementary school.
There was a string of green leather cars, and the simple carriages were crowded with all kinds of people.
However, British trains are much more luxurious than the green cars Ron rode in his previous life. China Airlines booked Ron a private compartment, which was fully equipped with sofas, beds, and bathrooms. Except for the lack of LCD TVs and Internet services, other places
It's much better than the high-speed train Ron took in his previous life.
However, there is no place for Nadya in this box. When Lu Airlines booked the train car, they didn't know that Ron's girlfriend was coming. Although the box was not small, there was still a document to be handed over to Scott.
Ron took a look, so naturally Nadya couldn't stay in this box.
Scott also booked a berth for Nadya, but it was not such a luxury box. It was just an ordinary box. But according to Nadya, the conditions were pretty good. Much better than those in the United States.
, compared to the Soviet Union, I don’t know how much better it is.
By Ron's standards in his previous life, British trains are now as slow as a snail. This is natural. How fast can a steam locomotive run? It's only thirty to forty kilometers per hour. What's even more terrible is that
There are so many freight cars on the railway now. If it is in peacetime, the rule on the railway is that freight cars must give way to passenger cars. But this is war time, and everything must give way to war. And Portsmouth is
An important port in Britain, it was shipped to North
Many supplies on Mandy Beach are shipped from Portsmouth. Therefore, the trucks currently running on the railway to Portsmouth are basically military trains transporting military supplies. They have the highest permission to pass.
All other trains had to give way to them. As a result, the express that Ron was riding was also made to look like a slow train. It didn't run very far before it had to stop to make way for those military trains. It made it so long from London to Portsmouth.
If you look at the distance, it actually takes more than ten hours to run.
Knowing that Ron still had official business to deal with, Nadya accompanied him to lunch in Ron's car and then left. After Nadya left, Scott took out the document.
This is a document transferred from China. Here it first mentions the air strikes carried out by the B-29 unit against Japan.
After the completion of several airports in China, the Americans began air strikes against Japan. At first, the b-29 attack targets were some Japanese industries in Manchuria (Northeast China). Since 9.18, the Japanese occupied Northeast China,
They began to build various industries in the Northeast to plunder the resources of the Northeast. When Japan and the United States went to war, the iron ore and coal mines in the Northeast became the key for Japan to support the war. Therefore, it also became the B-29 of the US military.
First target.
Although the b-29 has the most amazing combat radius of this era, the entire Manchuria and even part of Japan are within its strike range. But these targets are already at the limit of its strike range. To attack these targets, the b-29
The number of bombs that can be carried is much smaller than normal. In addition, the cost of transporting materials through the hump route is high, so the strike force is very limited and the effect is very average.
However, during the air raid on Manchuria, the Americans discovered several new Japanese fighter jets.
At the beginning, the Japanese always used Ki-44 Zhongkui fighter jets to intercept B-29s. Zhongkui climbed well, which was a big advantage as an interceptor. And compared to the Japanese Army, which had the most, it only installed two 12.7mm
machine gun
The firepower of the ki-43 Falcon fighter jets and the ki-44 Zhongkui's four 12.7mm machine guns is twice as strong. But this kind of firepower is really like using it to fight the B-29, which is known as the "Super Flying Fortress"
In the hands of TG police
The Type 64 small smash cannon that can't knock down a dog after running out of bullets is just like hitting a rhinoceros. It's no different from scratching an itch. On the contrary, the b-29's fully automatic 20mm cannon can often hit a rhinoceros.
Those ki-44s were beaten into one
A big fireball. Facing the B-29s that formed a box formation, even without escort aircraft, the Japanese fighter jets were no match. Therefore, at that time, the Japanese fighter jets were really a complete tea table when facing the B-29s.
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But not long after, the emergence of two fighter jets changed the situation.
The first is a two-engine, two-seater Ki-45 "Dragon Slayer" fighter jet. Speaking of this aircraft, although some 213 fans later praised it as the "B-29 Nemesis", but to be honest,
The performance of this thing is really terrible. As a twin-engine fighter, each of its engines has a maximum
The power is only 1050 horsepower. When the two units are combined, the horsepower is not as powerful as a Twin Hornet on the P-47. Coupled with the huge windward area, the maximum speed of this fighter is only 540 kilometers. If the B-29 is thrown away
It has a bomb, and this thing can't even fly as fast as a B-29 bomber.
The climb rate of this thing is also a tragedy. The maximum climb rate is only 11.7 meters per second. Even if the entire climb is calculated according to the maximum climb rate, it will take more than 7 minutes to climb to 5000 meters. In fact, as the altitude increases,
The maximum climb rate dropped very quickly. This thing couldn't climb 5,000 meters in less than nine minutes. If it really had to climb to the usual combat altitude of the B-29, it would take less than half an hour. It would be impossible to even think about it.
In terms of flight performance, such a "fighter" is not even as good as the BF-110. It is not suitable for interception missions at all - by the time it slowly climbs into place, everyone has already dropped the bombs and gone home.
But at this moment, the advantage of early warning gave it enough time to climb.
First of all, KMT’s anti-espionage system is extremely bad. Although some Chinese fans always like to brag about Boss Dai and tout him as the top espionage king in China and even the world. They even made up the idea that the Chairman of the Generalissimo was better than the dead Roosevelt.
I know the story of Japan’s surrender. But what if
Boss Dai can be regarded as the king of espionage, and he commanded a group of Jiang Bo (the protagonist of China's first TV series "Eighteen Years of the Underground Camp" in 1981) to infiltrate Boss Dai's military command to such an extent that "one of us is
Who should Li Kenong be in the joke about "kmt agent"?
During the Anti-Japanese War, in Chongqing, the Japanese stole a lot of secrets almost under their noses, and even instigated the rebellion of KMT's second-in-command. In Shanghai, the commander-in-chief of the Central Military Commission was beaten to death by No. 76. Here we are.
Later, during the War of Liberation, KMT’s espionage system was even more penetrated.
You can almost just change the brand and call it "TG Detachment". So some people in later generations made a joke and summed up the best coffee table combination of World War II: soldiers with noodles (Italy), generals with perfume (France), Japanese staff officers, and KMT.
Intelligence.kmt’s intelligence system is ahead of its time.
As a result, there were a lot of Japanese spies active next to the airport where the b-29s were stationed. Almost as soon as the b-29s took off, these guys quickly sent the information back. In this regard, the KMT intelligence department had almost no clue.
There was no other way, so the Americans had to create their own intelligence team to solve the problem.
Secondly, if the B-29 taking off from Sichuan wants to bomb targets in Manchuria, it must fly thousands of kilometers over the Japanese-controlled area. The Japanese ground observation posts can also issue early warning information long in advance. This makes the ki-45
A piece of junk like "Slaying the Dragon" also has a chance to climb to a decent height.
In this way, the first problem of the "Slaying Dragon" - poor climbability - is solved. And its advantages over other Japanese fighter jets - its stronger body and stronger firepower will have the opportunity to be displayed.ki-
45 is equipped with a 37 mm caliber cannon. Even the b-29 can't handle this thing. As a result, during the bombing of Manchuria, the Japanese relied on this stupid thing to shoot down some b-29s.
Chapter completed!