Expedition to Europe

The idea was good, but Long Chengyuan didn't appreciate it. When he came to the hangar and saw the brand new "Kangaroo" that had been dismantled and was a bit broken, he was even more distressed.

"You are really a bunch of prodigals. Do you know how much such a plane is worth? A full 750,000, and you just dismantled it like this? Who can afford to pay for it?" Long Chengyuan looked angry, but he seemed to be showing off a little.

Qin Zhiyuan knew that the Lan Fang military was now selling the "Eagle Eagle" for one million pounds, and the more advanced "Kangaroo" was not sold at all. If it was sold in a few years, it would cost at least 1.5 million pounds.

The arms trade is really profitable!

With Long Chengyuan, the chief designer, in command, the modification progress was much faster. Three days later, the modification was successfully completed. On the basis of the original, the armor on the belly was added, and the fuselage structure was strengthened. The final result was that the empty weight reached ten tons and the flight speed was slower. If there was no cooperation with the "Falcon", it would basically be impossible to catch up with the Italian "Hurricane".

While Long Chengyuan was modifying the Kangaroo, Dou Yongyi was also organizing the Air Force to formulate a combat plan.

This is relatively simple. The Hurricane was not at an advantage when facing the Falcon. The Falcon only needed to control the Hurricane in an area, and then the Kangaroo would definitely complete the mission.

After knowing Dou Yongyi's plan, Long Chengyuan postponed the action time for two days. During these two days, Long Chengyuan continued to modify the Kangaroo, adding a ram to the belly of the fuselage. When it was on the ground, it was retracted into the belly. When it flew into the sky and the landing gear was retracted into the belly, the ram would automatically come out. In addition, Long Chengyuan had a new idea in the past two days. This enhanced version of the Kangaroo would not need to be modified back in the future. After completing the mission, it would be equipped with a few more machine guns, cannons, etc., and it would be used as an air fortress.

Qin Zhiyuan also strongly supported Long Chengyuan's idea after knowing it, so two more Kangaroos were converted into air fortresses, and verification would begin after completing the mission.

In fact, the concept of this so-called "air fortress" is similar to the future attack aircraft, which is what Western countries call "close air support aircraft". Attack aircraft are also called attack aircraft. They are mainly used to attack targets within the enemy's tactics or shallow battle depth from low altitude or ultra-low altitude, and directly support ground forces in combat. Attack aircraft have good low-altitude maneuverability, stability and good ability to search for small ground targets, and can be equipped with a variety of ground attack weapons.

Attack aircraft are the most vulnerable to losses from the opponent's attacks on the battlefield. In order to improve survivability, they are generally armored in their vital parts.

At present, the use of aircraft by various countries is not perfect enough, and there are not many types of aircraft. In addition to fighters and bombers, there are reconnaissance aircraft. Bombers are still high-altitude fighter-bombers, and there is no concept of "close air support".

In Qin Zhiyuan's vision, in the future battles of the Lan Fang army, the task of close air support will be undertaken by helicopters, so Qin Zhiyuan did not propose the concept of attack aircraft.

Qin Zhiyuan has been guiding the development of Lan Fang's air force equipment, or Lan Fang's technological development, but there will definitely be a day when Qin Zhiyuan will let go. At that time, everything will depend on these Lan Fang technicians, so it is very important to cultivate the subjective initiative of technicians.

For example, the "air fortress" concept proposed by Long Chengyuan, even if it is not successful, it is nothing, at least it is a successful attempt, which is enough.

July 7, 1924 is destined to go down in history.

That morning, two "Hurricane" fighters of the Italian Air Force went to the sky near Sardinia, the western province of Lan Fang, as usual.

In fact, such behavior is normal after Sardinia announced its joining Lan Fang. Although Lan Fang announced that Sardinia is now part of Lan Fang, the Italians do not recognize this statement. The Italians insist that Sardinia is an integral part of Italy, and the airspace of Sardinia is the airspace of the Italian Air Force. The Italian Air Force has the right to fly freely in the Italian sky.

Although Lan Fang and Italy were not on good terms, they had not yet reached the point of going to war, so the Lan Fang Air Force's way of dealing with the harassment of the Italian Air Force was to expel them, and the matter was settled by driving the planes out of the sky over Sardinia.

During this period, Qin Zhiyuan wanted to plot against the Italians, so the Lan Fang Air Force's reaction speed and intensity were reduced. As a result, the Italians were very arrogant and thought that this was the result of the improvement in the quality of the Italian Air Force pilots, so they came to Sardinia a little frequently.

It is actually very simple to improve the quality of pilots. Just like training the marksmanship of the army soldiers, you have to be willing to invest, and there is only one word - flying.

With more flights and enough flight hours, experience will slowly accumulate, and the quality of pilots will gradually improve.

In the era of biplanes and triplanes, the Italians could not fight against the Lan Fang fighters at all. At that time, even the airspace of Italy was similar to that of Lan Fang. The Italians could not defend themselves at all by allowing the Lan Fang Air Force to enter and exit at will.

After purchasing the "Hurricane" from the British, the Italians finally had the capital to fight against Lan Fang. Although the chances of winning were still slim, they finally had the power to fight back. Therefore, the quality of Italian Air Force pilots has improved rapidly in the past six months.

After discovering that the Italian "Hurricane" had taken off, the Lan Fang Air Force immediately took off four "Falcons" and began to implement the "Falcon Plan".

That's right, Qin Zhiyuan called this plan formulated by the Air Force the "Falcon Plan", which is quite appropriate.

After the four "Falcons" took off, they immediately formed a group of two to fight against a "Hurricane" respectively.

The "Hurricane" was not as good as the "Falcon" in performance, and it was even more difficult to fight two alone. Moreover, in order to ensure the successful implementation of the "Falcon Plan", Dou Yongyi arranged the pilots to be the ace pilots of the Lan Fang Air Force. In this comparison, the gap between the two sides was a bit large.

The plan made by Dou Yongyi was very simple. Two "Falcons", one chasing the tail of the "Hurricane", and the other on the flank of the "Hurricane", forcing the "Hurricane" to fly to the area where the "Kangaroo" had already ambushed.

The planned ambush site is in the sea area 15 kilometers east of Sardinia, where the average sea depth is about 50 meters. Once the "Hurricane" crashes into the sea, the destroyers cruising in the nearby waters will rush to the scene as quickly as possible to block it, and then the salvage ship will salvage the "Hurricane", and then transport it back to Sardinia and hand it over to Long Chengyuan for dismantling.

The plan sounds simple, but it is still a bit difficult to implement, especially for the "Falcon" pilots. In order to ensure that everything is foolproof, the pilots are carefully selected elites, led by Dou Yongyi himself.

Dou Yongyi is the one who shot down the "Red Baron". Although his status in the Lan Fang Air Force is not as good as Zhou Hongguang and Bao Deshui, Dou Yongyi is much more famous than those two in the world and is an idol in the minds of many pilots. , it was really easy to deal with two unknown little characters.

The two "Hurricane" pilots who were heavily calculated were still unaware. While trying their best to deal with the four "Falcons", they unconsciously flew to the area where the "Kangaroo" had already ambushed.

At 9:30, six planes arrived at the designated area. At this time, the "Kangaroo" ambushing in the clouds lowered its nose and began to dive towards a "Hurricane".

The two Italian "Hurricane" pilots did not know that the doom was about to come. They were all rookies half a year ago. In recent months, they have been repeatedly abused by Lan Fang pilots. Their flying skills have been greatly improved, especially one of them named Sylvinio. He is now the captain of the Italian Air Force "Hurricane" Squadron and a leader among Italian pilots.

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The Italian Air Force is not large. Although the "Hurricane" Squadron has a squadron name, it actually has few planes, only 32 planes in total, of which only half are "Hurricanes", and the rest are still old biplanes.

Although the British support the Italians in the confrontation with the Lan Fangs, they do not trust the Italians, so the support they give is limited.

The British cannot give the Italians enough trust. Looking at the performance of the Italians in the World War, it is really hard for the British to believe that the Italians will be their good teammates.

It's almost like a pig teammate.

Sylvinho is a little depressed now. Just before getting on the plane, Sylvinho was still full of confidence, but now all his confidence has vanished.

These days, Sylvinho feels more and more relaxed when facing Lan Fang's "Falcon". Sylvinho does not think this is Lan Fang's The Air Force deliberately let it go, and attributed this to its own technological progress.

Today's situation is different. When facing the "Falcon", Sylvinho felt very tired, especially the "Falcon" numbered "214". Sylvinho felt that he had gotten rid of "214" several times, but at most a dozen seconds, "214" would re-occupy the advantageous terrain and stare at the butt of Sylvinho's fighter.

If this was in actual combat, "214" would only need a burst of fire to knock down Sylvinho's "Hurricane".

The reality made Sylvinho extremely frustrated. Sylvinho certainly didn't know that the pilot on "214" was Dou Yongyi. As for why Dou Yongyi's fighter used the number "214", if Sylvinho knew the Chinese homophony of these numbers, it is estimated that Sylvinho would not have the courage to deal with "214" at all.

214, you are going to die!

Sylvinho, who had been harassed by "214", did not feel a little relieved until he was far away from Sardinia, but the danger was not over. The "214" did not return, but flew one kilometer behind Sylvinho's plane, which made Sylvinho feel insulted. So Sylvinho turned around and gave "214" a middle finger, regardless of whether the pilot on "214" could see it.

In a trance, Sylvinho seemed to see the mocking eyes of the pilot of "214".

How could it be possible - Sylvinho comforted himself like this, but when he turned around, he suddenly found a big guy flying over his plane.

Compared with the "Hurricane", the enhanced version of "Kangaroo" is indeed a bit big.