"Haiyan No. 1 calls bird's nest! Haiyan No. 1 calls bird's nest!"

"Bird's nest received! Bird's nest received! Report the reconnaissance situation."

"I found that a large number of Japanese troops were moving from Chenyang to Liaoyang along the Anda Line, and there were a large number of vehicles, livestock and logistics personnel accompanying him, which seemed to be carrying a large amount of supplies."

"Well, pay attention to taking photos and videos, and obtaining first-hand information. This is our first reconnaissance operation and must be completed successfully."

"I know, I have taken more than 200 photos and am now taking photos."

"Very good. Pay attention to your flight altitude, don't be too close to the ground, safety first, and don't let the Japanese be aware of it. Return immediately after the camera is finished."

"clear."

After finishing the call with the ground command, Zheng Zongming returned to the ground. Today was the first reconnaissance operation of the aircraft team. Zheng Zongming's mission was to reconnaissance the situation of the 40 kilometers around Liaoyang. At this time, he had already circled Liaoyang and took about an hour and a half. Now, he was slightly westward to the north of Liaoyang, and found a large number of Japanese troops moving towards Liaoyang along the railway.

It turned out that after the military meeting, the military team immediately conducted an inspection of the fixed-wing aircraft R&D team. It was confirmed that the reports of the aircraft team were true, and Wang Xinping, who was responsible for reporting to the military team, said that in the old time and space, the first time fixed-wing aircraft participated in the war was the Italian-Turkish war between 1911 and 1912, which was only 6 years away. The aircraft manufactured by the aircraft team can basically reach the level of 1915-1920 in overall performance, so it can be completely able to participate in the war.

After negotiation, the military team finally agreed to the application of the aircraft team to allow the aircraft team to participate in the battle, and decided to pull out four more cars for the aircraft team to modify and use.

In fact, the aircraft team made this application for its own benefit. The aircraft team has been established for more than a year. At present, the technology of modifying aircraft with automobile engines has been basically mastered, and it has accumulated a certain amount of accumulation of fixed-wing aircraft structure, details and flight technology. However, using automobile engines is just a transition, and ultimately, it is necessary to use engines produced in this era. Moreover, the aircraft team is now cooperating with Gao Liu Automobile Company, but they hope to work alone and set up an aircraft manufacturing company.

Although time travelers all know the future prospects of fixed-wing aircraft, even in this era of the initial stage of fixed-wing aircraft, the personal capital of time travelers is not affordable. Gao Liu Automobile Company is the largest family among time travelers, but it must cooperate with the government to establish it. However, the East China government is in a mess and needs too many places to invest. Therefore, if a fixed-wing aircraft wants to get the support of the government, it must have special performance, and the best performance is naturally on the battlefield. Only by proving the value of fixed-wing aircraft on the battlefield, even if it is only the initial stage of fixed-wing aircraft, can the government be invested by the government.

Moreover, the members of the aircraft team also decided through an agreement that if an aircraft manufacturing company is established in the future, the Gaoliu Automobile Company model will be adopted, and all members of the aircraft team will be used as a consortium to cooperate with the government. Although the government still accounts for the majority of the capital and implements it on everyone's head, it may not even have 1% of the shares, but considering the broad future prospects of the aircraft, this still has great economic value. Therefore, the members of the aircraft team also hope to perform well in this war, which is not only for the overall interests of the East China government, but also for their own personal interests.

On May 23, the aircraft team established a flight detachment to participate in the war, led by Wang Xinping, and set off for the battlefield with two aircraft, 6 pilots, 6 trainee pilots and 55 logistics personnel.

On May 26, the Flight Detachment arrived in Liaozhong, and Qiu Yahui, the commander of the 2nd Army stationed in Liaozhong, received an order from the Military Commission on May 23, so he immediately organized personnel to build the airport. Fortunately, the propeller aircraft did not have high requirements for the runway, and the general crushing of the slag can be used. Therefore, when the Flight Detachment arrived, the runway had been basically formed, and the runway was urgently compacted that night, so it could be used the next day. More than 20 tents were also built on the side of the runway for the flight detachment to use.

On May 27, the Northeast Theater Air Force was officially established and was designated as regiment level, but it was directly commanded by the theater commander, Wang Xinping served as the captain and the ground commander, Zheng Zongming served as the deputy captain and flight team leader, and a test flight was conducted on the same day to prove that the runway was available.

Early the next morning, the two planes were dispatched together to conduct air reconnaissance on Chenyang and Liaoyang respectively. Zheng Zongming was responsible for the reconnaissance mission of Liaoyang.

At this time, the flight altitude of the aircraft is about 1,200 meters, which is also the regulations of the aircraft team. When performing reconnaissance missions, the flight altitude must be above 1,000 meters. This is not a fear of being shot down, because there are no weapons to shoot at the air in this era. The main reason is that the aircraft fly too low will be affected by ground spoiler. The pilots of the aircraft team basically only have a few months of training, and the flight time is only about 100 hours. In the old time and space, they can only be considered rookies, and they have limited experience in dealing with ground spoiler. In addition, the performance of the aircraft is indeed limited, so they simply use medium and high altitude to avoid ground spoiler. In addition, they do not want to attract the attention of the Japanese army. The dry sound of the propeller aircraft is much smaller than that of the steam sprayer, and there is basically no movement at an altitude above 1,000 meters. Although the aircraft will be discovered by the enemy sooner or later, the later the better.

Moreover, the aircraft team installed a 12-fold camera on the belly of the aircraft and installed a display screen in the cabin. It does not require observation with the naked eye. The pilot only needs to look at the display screen in the cabin and adjust the angle of the camera. Therefore, flying higher will not affect reconnaissance.

At this time, a smoke line appeared on the railway. Zheng Zong knew that the train was coming, so he immediately operated the plane to fly parallel to the railway, adjusted the position of the camera, and took the train down.

After the shooting, Zheng Zongming operated the plane, turned a corner in the air, and returned to Liaozhong Airport.

The plane landed steadily on the runway, warmly welcomed by ground crews, celebrating the successful success of the first aerial reconnaissance operation. More than half an hour later, the second plane also landed safely.

While Wang Xinping arranged ground crews to inspect the two aircraft and prepared to conduct another reconnaissance in the afternoon, he ordered two pilots carrying the U disks that stored the photos and videos to arrive at the headquarters of the 2nd Army, handing over the reconnaissance situation today to the staff officers of the headquarters, and assisting the staff officers to separate the shooting situation.

The footage taken by the plane reconnaissance of Chenyang shows that the Japanese army in Chenyang is conducting large-scale dispatch, a large amount of supplies were piled up in the train station, and two trains are transporting supplies. Two other troops left Chenyang and moved towards Liaoyang. About 20 kilometers north of Shenyang, there is another Japanese army retreating from a position towards the Chenyang urban area, which seems to have given up the position.

In addition, the Russian army also appeared in the northeast and 30 kilometers northwest of Shenyang. However, the number of troops was not large, but it was definitely not a reconnaissance force, it should be the vanguard.

It turned out that the East China government reached an agreement with Russia on May 26, with the Russian army attacking Chenyang, and the People's Army attacking Liaoyang, and the two sides used the Shilihe River as the boundary; Russia agreed that after defeating the Japanese army, the two sides would negotiate to resolve the ownership of the three eastern provinces under the principle of the [Delivery of the Three Eastern Provinces] Treaty; Russia also proposed to the East China government that the People's Army would first launch an attack on Liaoyang, and the Russian army would then attack Chenyang.

This is the result of Curobatkin's strong demand. He has experienced the Russian-Japanese battlefield. He knows how strong the Japanese army is. Moreover, with more than a year of war experience, the attacking side is obviously much more difficult than the defending side. Therefore, Russia's confidence in attacking Chenyang early was seriously insufficient, so he hoped that the People's Army would launch an attack on Liaoyang first, so that the Japanese army would definitely transfer troops from Chenyang to back aid, so that both the troops and the defense line would be greatly weakened. In this way, the Russian army would attack Chenyang again, and the opportunity would be much greater.

The East China government did not have much trouble with Russia, and agreed immediately. On the one hand, the victory of the previous stage of the battle has greatly increased the confidence of the East China government. Moreover, the East China government still has several ace weapons. This time, it also puts armored troops into the battlefield. Therefore, it is full of confidence and is too lazy to fight with Russia. Anyway, it will eventually fight with Russia.

At the same time, the Japanese Manchurian Army Command also received a domestic order, requiring them to give up Chenyang, but the Russian army must occupy Chenyang, preferably causing the People's Army and the Russian army to compete for Chenyang and a war broke out.

After receiving the domestic order, Oyama Iwa and Otaro Gentaro also breathed a sigh of relief. Honestly, the two have been under tremendous pressure these days. After all, facing the attacks of the People's Army and the Russian Army, it is difficult for anyone to remain calm.
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