1890 King of Southeast Asia

H16, the culmination of China's aviation industry in the past decade, first flew in September 1915, and the entire fuselage has undergone long-term wind tunnel testing.

It was finalized in June of the following year. In the past 9 months, more than 100 flight tests have been carried out and more than 60 changes have been made.

H16 heavy 4-engine bomber, 4 meters long, 40 meters wingspan, fuselage frame made of aluminum alloy, the exterior is mainly made of balsa wood as the main raw material, the skin is linen, empty weight 5.6 tons, maximum take-off weight 10.1 tons.

Powered by 4 325 horsepower aircraft engines, providing 1300 horsepower of abundant power, and adding a mechanical supercharger structure, the maximum ceiling reaches 5500 meters.

This height is slightly lower than the later model of Germany's Kentucky R-VI heavy bomber, but that is the Kentucky R-VI equipped with a single engine-driven supercharger with more than 200 horsepower.

Excluding the necessary fuel, it can normally carry 1,400 kg of bombs. When the range is reduced to 700 kilometers, it can carry 2,500 kg of bombs.

When carrying 2,500 kg of bombs, the combination of bombs is almost fixed. There are two plans:

1 ton bomb and 5 100 kg bombs are hung on the belly, and two 500 kg bombs are hung on both sides of the fuselage;

4 500 kg bombs are hung on the belly, and two 250 kg bombs are hung on the wings.

2,500 kg of mounting is too extreme, and the aircraft's maneuverability will become very poor. It is generally not used in this way unless there is absolute air superiority - such as now.

Buzz buzz buzz~~

"Entering the combat zone, I saw the 6th Army's artillery shells exploded. That should be the Ottoman artillery position."

"When encountering updrafts, all aircraft should keep their distance. How can there be updrafts at this time? Where did it come from?"

"Found target No. 1, prepare to attack, all aircraft should pay attention to the ground situation, don't get lost, whoever gets lost will have to wash the socks of the whole division for a month!"

"Kunpeng Flying Squadron requests the first batch of bombing. We brought too many bombs. It's too difficult to control under the influence of updrafts. We have to throw away 1."

"Captain, this is aircraft No. 7112. Our instrument panel is faulty. I think the hydraulic gauge is broken."

"7112, I'm in front of you, keep an eye on me and follow me."

"9527, what are you doing? Why did you suddenly descend? You almost hit me!"

"Sorry, I didn't see you. My left engine just shut down. I'm lowering the altitude to try to restart it. It was too sudden and I didn't have time to remind you."

"All aircraft keep their distance. The Kunpeng Flight Brigade will replace the Xuanniao Flight Brigade to carry out the first batch of attacks. The primary target is the enemy's artillery position."

"The bombing mission of the remaining squadrons will be postponed as planned."

"Remember, if you get separated, throw away the bombs as soon as possible and return along the railway line."

"If you make an emergency landing in enemy territory, dismantle the onboard machine guns to build a defensive position and wait for the rescue of the 6th Army brothers. Don't run around!"

"Start the action!"

Huang Zhengfang quietly listened to the noisy voice of the air force on the radio station.

With the advancement of materials technology, large bombers are equipped with radio devices, but generally only the squadron leader's seat is equipped with wireless broadcast communication devices for command.

The supporting facilities of ordinary bombers are a receiver and a radio station, the kind for sending messages.

The communication is limited. In addition to the weight of the communication device, there is also power consumption.

Rumble~~

A thunderous sound came from the direction of the Ottoman Empire, and many people looked at each other in surprise.

You have to know that this is more than ten kilometers away, and you can still hear such a loud noise.

"How big a bomb must it be to make such a noise? I can't even hear the 105 gun bombing..."

"The smallest bomb carried by their planes is 50 kilograms, which is about the same as the 152 howitzer. The 152 howitzer is a divisional gun, but we don't have it."

"This noise is not the noise of the 152 howitzer. It may be a 250-kilogram bomb. I have seen the navy's bombers dropping bombs, which are 250 kilograms. One bunker is destroyed."

...

The staff discussed this noise. It was the first time they saw a bombing. The former Oman Division had seen airship bombing, but the scale was not comparable to this.

"The brothers in the Air Force have already started to move, and we must hurry up, Chief of Staff!" Huang Zhengfang shook his head at these people.

"Here!" The Chief of Staff immediately stood up.

"Let the brigade troops take over the 19th Regiment's defensive position, and the 18th and 19th Regiments will disperse to raid the enemy camps and transportation hubs. While the Ottomans are stunned by the air force, we will win the battle in one battle." Huang Zhengfang said and glanced at his watch.

"How long will it take for the division headquarters to arrive? We are seriously short of troops, hurry them up."

The size of the air force allowed Huang Zhengfang to basically predict how the next battle would be fought. The enemy was scattered, and I pursued them. I didn't have enough people and couldn't hold them back. Then I chased them desperately and was eventually dragged down by the scattered enemy.

Just like what he did in China.

The frontal attack was extremely fast, and the troops of the Qing Empire and the Japanese were defeated very easily. The Japanese were okay, most of them were held back and eaten, and are now building railways in the northwest.

But most of the troops of the Qing Empire, especially the local troops, ran away as soon as you fired a cannon, and you couldn't catch up with them.

It only took one hour to defeat them, and it took a year to suppress the bandits after the war, but they were still not completely eliminated.

The situation in the Western Regions is not so bad. Nomadic herders will eventually go to towns and most people are half-pastoral and half-farmer, so the bandits have limited living space.

On the grassland, Huang Zhengfang's most common thing was to drive an armored vehicle around to catch bandits.

Every failure made him wiser. Now Huang Zhengfang didn't want to let these Ottomans go, otherwise these defeated soldiers would run into the wild and threaten the supply line.

...

boo!

A 500-kilogram bomb can create a super crater with a depth of 5 meters and a radius of more than 10 meters on ordinary soil, and at the same time stir up a dust cloud hundreds of meters high.

A 230-kilogram TNT charge, the shock wave of the explosion will kill all mammals within 50 meters around, and the killing range of shrapnel is hundreds of meters, and ordinary houses can't resist the penetration of shrapnel at all.

How to describe it? With the explosion point as the center, within an area the size of a football field, without a solid concrete bunker or underground fortification, it is basically impossible to survive.

The current situation is that the air force visited all the transportation nodes and most of the warehouses of the Ottoman army within two hours.

Of the ten Ottoman brigade-level headquarters, four were destroyed within two hours (the brigade commander and main officers were killed), and five were paralyzed (the officers ran away when they saw the situation was not good).

The remaining one was the Ottoman army headquarters. The intelligence department has not been able to find the hidden army headquarters, so the air force only bombed the army headquarters that were exposed.

Because of its low value, the air force only dropped two 100-kilogram bombs, killing 17 people, all of whom were ordinary officers.

The pilots on the mission did not know that this was the headquarters of an army on the front line of the Ottoman Empire. The commander of the army, General Mustafa, was a senior nobleman who did not bother to hide.

Of course, he was even more disdainful of fighting like a rat in the trenches. Because he did not like his own headquarters, he had always lived in a nearby manor, where his 11 lovers were with him.

When the intelligence officer got this information, he also considered whether this was a hidden Ottoman command organization. Finally, after monitoring for a long time, he confirmed that Mustafa was just a straw bag.

After a long deliberation, Zheng Lei believed that keeping Mustafa would be more beneficial to the attack of the 6th Army of the Empire, so during the bombing, Mustafa's villa was not included in the bombing list.

In addition to the headquarters, 6 of the 7 artillery positions of the Ottomans were bombed, and all 4 railway stations were bombed, but the railway stations were bombed with 100 kg small bombs.

The big head was in the barracks, more than 50 barracks of various types were bombed, with dozens of casualties and hundreds of deaths!

The Ottomans had a total of 3 divisions on the front line, with an army organization and complete command posts at all levels.

But in fact, none of the 3 Ottoman divisions was fully staffed. The largest was only 8,000 people, the smallest was only 6,000 people, and half of the full staff. A total of only more than 20,000 people were in an army, and 1/3 of them were killed and wounded after the bombing.

It was not like this at first, because the Ottomans had fought with China, so after the war, the Ottomans, who had prejudices against China, placed two full army groups on the border, with more than 200,000 people.

However, as the war progressed, the Ottomans and the Russian Empire had to fight Greece and draw troops to help Bulgaria resist Romania.

The troops were tight!

After the British launched the Dardanelles, the Ottomans began to gradually draw two armies on the border.

At first, it was a reduction, and the two full armies became one and a half, but they were still two in name.

Later, it was a replacement, throwing the troops that were severely damaged on the front line and needed to rest, then transferring the full troops, and finally stuffing a group of new soldiers in.

Now the Ottomans still maintain the organization of two armies, the numbers have changed but the total number remains unchanged, and there are some old troops, that is, the divisions with single-digit numbers, which seem to be quite strong.

Because the internal information of the Ottoman Empire was too chaotic, the intelligence system of the Huaxia Empire could not get enough convincing intelligence, so the question of the Ottomans' troops was just a guess.

During the field investigation, because the management of the Ottoman Empire was chaotic, it could not be confirmed. It can only be determined that the proportion of new soldiers is large, but the total number cannot be estimated.

It's not the intelligence system's fault, because the Ottomans were transferring troops here and there, and the management was chaotic. They themselves didn't know how many people there were. When the observation group went to Europe, the data from the Ottoman Empire's 6th Army Headquarters was 10 divisions and 120,000 people.

In fact, there are still two army groups, 17 infantry divisions and two cavalry divisions. There are many numbers, but together with various direct units, the total number is only a little over 100,000.

100,000 people are not a small number, but when divided into so many units, it seems very scattered...

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