UGB #212 - Everyone is happy
#212 - Everyone is happy
The 20 P-51D fighters were delivered with priority, just as Ren Zhong had requested. This fighter had only been in mass production for six months, and the Yankee Eagles front lines were also experiencing shortages. The 20 planes Ren Zhong requested were obtained by cutting back on aid intended for the Limeys.
To expedite the exchange for rocket technology, General Shi coordinated with the rear after Ren Zhong made his request. The Yankee Eagles went all out, transporting warplanes from their homeland towards Australia while simultaneously mobilizing a squadron of Australia's active-duty warplanes. They then conducted a new round of naval pursuit against the short devils in the South Seas, conveniently delivering these weapons to the Gulf of Tonkin, from where they took off directly from the aircraft carrier.
Although the P-51D Mustang fighter was a land-based fighter, Ren Zhong knew that it had undergone shipboard trials. Taking off from an aircraft carrier was not a problem, but landing on an aircraft carrier was more problematic, which is why it was not used as a land-based/sea-based general-purpose aircraft after the trials.
After all, on the one hand, it did not have folding wings, which occupied valuable space on the aircraft carrier, significantly reducing the number of carrier-based aircraft. On the other hand, its landing and recovery had not been specifically designed for shipboard operations, affecting the safety of landings.
Otherwise, when bombing the little devils, this long-range fighter would have been used to provide full escort for the B-29 bombers.
However, Ren Zhong directly told General Shi about this feasibility. After General Shi consulted with aviation professionals in the Air Force and confirmed this feasibility, this maritime transport method was adopted. The planes took off directly from the aircraft carrier and flew to Jia Tianxia to replenish their fuel tanks—after all, reducing weight as much as possible during takeoff from an aircraft carrier is the most effective way to reduce risk, so these warplanes all took off with half-full fuel tanks.
After refueling at Jia Tianxia Airport, they could fly to the border region airport on the same day.
When the aircraft delivery team arrived at the border region airport and reported their safe arrival to General Shi, who was in the accompanying capital, General Shi suddenly remembered the inexplicable premonition he had when he saw their expanded but empty airport in the border region.
Therefore, General Shi did not mind the border region's small calculations. He even transported nearly ten oil well mining equipment into the border region. The arrival of new fighters meant a large consumption of fuel, and General Shi could not obtain valuable fuel for the border region, after all, the Yankee Eagle troops in the Pacific region were facing a large shortage of fuel, which had to be transported from the distant homeland.
However, the border region found oil. Although the quantity currently seemed small, Staff Officer Ye assured General Shi that if a new batch of oil extraction equipment could be obtained, the border region would barely achieve self-sufficiency.
General Shi did not know that the border region's oil refining and mining aspects had already begun a large-scale expansion plan for the operation of thousands of tanks and cars.
After the No. 1 oil well with a daily output of 1 ton, the new locations for drilling wells according to Ren Zhong's requirements had achieved more than 10 new oil wells with a daily output of more than 4 tons. If the new batch of oil extraction equipment supported by General Shi was added, the border region's crude oil production would exceed 100 tons per day!
On the refinery side, the small factory with a primitive refining capacity of 10 tons per day had undergone continuous expansion and had completed the renovation project of refining 100 tons per day. Now the second 100-ton-level refinery had completed most of the basic infrastructure construction and entered the equipment production and installation stage. The second-generation oil refining equipment developed by the Dawn Research Institute was designed from the outset according to a scale of 100 tons per day.
With the large-scale use of electricity and the successful development of crane equipment and hoisting equipment, the border region had entered the ranks of mechanized construction, which was completely different from the pure manual construction of local blast furnaces in the beginning.
The application of gantry cranes made it possible to install equipment weighing tens of tons, which allowed the factories in the border region to generally carry out a new round of equipment upgrades and iterations. After all, in the refining equipment, with qualified basic materials, it was not difficult to make it bigger.
The difficulty lay in the processing and installation, but the mass production of G506 trucks and the successful production of high-strength tires successfully realized short-distance transportation of large mechanical equipment.
The five small factories in the border region began to gradually upgrade to medium-sized factories.
Therefore, Ren Zhong said that there was no pressure at all to support these 20 fighter jets.
Instead, Ren Zhong warmly invited the pilots who delivered the planes to stay and rest for a month, and let them serve as free instructors for a month, spending time with the first batch of students in the border region's aviation class. After a month of intensive training, they finally taught a group of seed instructors who could fly the planes into the sky.
Then, at General Shi's urging, these pilots boarded the returning C-47 to return to their combat posts.
While they were there, Ren Zhong asked the students to compile the experiences of these Yankee Eagle elite pilots every day, and compiled the first version of the aviation class's flight guidelines.
These are all solid, practical insights. Although they are specifically aimed at the P-51D Mustang fighter, many of the principles, especially the tactical thinking of this period, can be universally applied to different aircraft.
Ren Zhong's free ride on the Rogue Eagle's flight training saved the Border Region's first air squadron at least half a year of exploration time.
You need to know that the pilots the Border Region can find are all flying relatively early aircraft. For a cutting-edge fighter like the P-51D Mustang, these pilots never even dreamed of it.
So, if no one leads them, they may be hesitant in getting started and afraid to touch anything.
Even if Ren Zhong could find the Rogue Eagle's Mustang fighter flight training manual from that time, it would be the same.
It's like when we learn to drive, we initially have a natural reverence for the vehicle, leading to hesitation in actions not specifically instructed by the coach. In reality, many people drive for years without learning how to use the car's lights—for example, the yellow light, or even switching between low and high beams. We see people driving with their high beams on in the city, which isn't necessarily because the driver is inconsiderate, but because they probably don't know why they turned them on and don't know how to turn them off.
Faced with the changes in the Border Region, the Japanese naturally took action. They were certainly unwilling to have a strong aerial opponent appear next to them. For a long time, the skies over North China had only belonged to them. So, when a fighter squadron appeared in the Border Region.
The Japanese decisively dispatched their air force to bomb, attempting to eliminate the Border Region's fledgling air force.
However, Ren Zhong left the Rogue Eagle pilots behind not only for coaching but also to take to the skies at critical moments for on-site, practical teaching!
Although there wasn't extra space on the planes for trainees to experience it firsthand, on the ground, the aviation students witnessed a battle specifically initiated near the airport to draw out the Japanese warplanes!
Faced with the excessively powerful P-51D fighters, the Japanese Type 97 fighters, which had come aggressively, had almost no resistance. More than a dozen fighters were completely wiped out by 20 P-51 fighters, leaving none remaining!
The Rogue Eagle pilots' clean and efficient combat made the aviation class's soon-to-be pilots' blood boil!
It was as if they were also possessed by the god of war, and would be just as brave and unmatched when beating up the Japanese in the future!
After this battle, the Jin-Sui Japanese air force was almost completely defeated. From then on, the Japanese air force no longer dared to take off and approach the Border Region's airspace.
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Before finding a new, elite fighter that could effectively counter the Border Region's terrifying air force, the Japanese knew that the air force was powerless against the Border Region. Even in the skies over North China, the days of the Japanese dominating the skies were gone forever.
The aviation class, which could fly after a month of training, soon had a very resounding title in the Border Region: the Border Region Special Divine Eagle Brigade!
Even though they couldn't fight like the Rogue Eagle pilots yet, with the Rogue Eagle pilots' prestige established, the Japanese now didn't dare to approach the airspace near the Border Region, greatly increasing the Border Region's strength.
On the other side, Ren Zhong also unreservedly carried out the work of delivering the rockets.
For him, although this matter was somewhat risky and could easily lead to being taken advantage of, at this point in time, the trends in the Pacific and European theaters were somewhat clear, but victory was still far away.
The Rogue Eagles were unlikely to slap themselves in the face and go back on their word for such a small thing.
So, the real risk wasn't actually that great. After Ren Zhong retained the most core advanced gyroscope technology and control technology, he gave them a set of ready-made things to send over for assembly and matching, and decisively opened up the rest of the technology to them--the fact that the Rogue Eagle flight team could stay for a month was also related to Ren Zhong's willingness to cooperate so readily, which made General Shi feel more favorable towards the Border Region.
Ren Zhong's openness made the Rogue Eagles produce rockets faster. When the Border Region's Dawn Research Institute sent a hundred sets of gyroscope control systems to the Rogue Eagles via air relay, the factory there quickly produced the first large rocket—the Rogue Eagles named this rocket the Hawk H-1 rocket because it was Major General Hawk who was in charge of this work. According to their tradition, this new weapon of mass destruction was called the Hawk.
However, Ren Zhong didn't care about these things. Once these things were traded, they could call them whatever they wanted. Anyway, in the Border Region, it was called Dongfeng, and this was a title that no one could take away.
The first test launch of the H-1 rocket was very successful. With its great depth, the Rogue Eagles directly carried out a full-range test and concluded that the Dongfeng rocket's limit was not the originally stated 650 kilometers, but about 680 kilometers.
This was even better than the data provided by Ren Zhong and his team! The Rogue Eagles were naturally very satisfied with this result. After completing the test, they actively began the second phase of complete technology exchange. In their opinion, although they could also imitate the remaining gyroscopes after dismantling and analysis, it was still faster to produce them with the existing design process.
Now, thousands of people are dying every day. With such a weapon of mass destruction, it's a crime to delay its deployment on the battlefield for even one day!
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