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Chapter 614 Strategic Air Force

So the few people went out to take a look. Sure enough, two more "Da Peng" landed on the airport runway, and a general and an admiral came down from one of the "Da Peng". This batch of transport aircraft obviously did not take off from Tehran, because the escort fighter jets were air forces from the Central Asia Military Region. (To be continued. ^^").

Although the general who walked out of the railway was wearing an air force general's uniform, none of the pilots looking around on the runway knew him. This was strange. Look at the general's gray-haired appearance, he should be a veteran in the army. But why did none of so many pilots know him?

The good-worship person hurried to the club to find Zhao Qiwen and asked him to identify who the old general was. The pilots in the squadron now basically know Li Chengbi's background, the second son of Defense Minister Li Shaojie, must have known many veteran generals.

After all, the Minister of Defense, who had been in the military for half his life, was a veteran of the Chinese coalition. The regular visitor of the family was not a literati and poet.

Li Chengbi followed his comrades to the vicinity of the runway and looked closely. Sure enough, he really knew the old general. He was not someone else, but Wang Yuanshan, the elder of Chinese artillery. However, he was usually low-key and did not attract attention. He had never been seen in the newspapers. Only then did few people know him.

However, Li Chengbi did not immediately reveal the identity of the old general because he was also very curious. As far as he knew, Wang Yuanshan should have retired at the age of Wang Yuanshan, why are he still in the army now?

And what is even more strange is that not only was the rank of lieutenant general promoted to general, but even the service branch changed from an army to an air force.

Before Li Chengbi could figure out this problem, a person had already rushed over the runway, a lieutenant colonel of the Air Force, rushed straight to Li Chengbi and said.

"Is it Lieutenant Colonel Li Chengbi? General Wang asked you to go over and talk."

Li Chengbi nodded and ran over with the lieutenant colonel officer. When he arrived by Wang Yuanshan, the artillery veteran was reminding several air force officers of the matter.

"After establishing the headquarters, you will assemble the ammunition body first, keep the fuse and charge in the underground ammunition depot, and send a special person to guard the military for 24 hours, waiting for the orders of the superiors before making the next arrangements."

After the instructions were finished, the Air Force technical officers immediately followed an airport commander to the warehouse, while Wang Yuanshan turned around and looked at Li Chengbi.

"Chengbi, when will you go back to Tehran?"

"I will fly back to Tehran this afternoon." Li Chengbi responded respectfully.

"Ziyi's troops will be transferred from the Caucasus War Zone to Tehran for rest. If you have time, please contact me."

After hearing Wang Yuanshan's advice, Li Chengbi agreed to the fullest that "Ziyi" was Wang Yuanshan's youngest son. He served in the army artillery unit and was a kid who had played with Li Chengbi since he was a child. Since the war started, the two had not met for about a year.

It is certainly important to contact your childhood friend, but what Li Chengbi is most concerned about now is what Wang Yuanshan is doing here in Ankara?

Thinking of the four "Dapeng" transport planes landed at Ankara Airport today, and the words Wang Yuanshan had just told the Air Force technical officers, Li Chengbi's curiosity was raised again.

He wanted to know what kind of goods these "Dapeng" transport planes were transported to Ankara, so that a general had to escort him personally and what command he had to establish.

"Uncle Wang, aren't you retired?" Li Chengbi found a breakthrough.

Wang Yuanshan smiled and said, "Why, your father hasn't revealed it to you? He specially approved the note and asked me to contribute more than a few more years in the army. So, I don't have to retire for the time being. Now, I have changed the military branches. You are not an outsider, so I told you straight, I am now the commander of the Strategic Air Force. Have you read the report on the "Survey and Yi" missile? Yes, now, all the "Survey and Yi" are under my control."

"You are an artillery... a missile?... Oh, so that's it. (To be continued. ^^")."

Li Chengbi was a little confused at first, but then he thought about it and immediately understood that, yes, the "Zhenyi" missile was another form of cannon. It was not an exaggeration to ask Wang Yuanshan, the artillery elder, to take charge of it.

As for the name of "Strategic Air Force", it is somewhat misleading.

"I understand? It's good if I understand, so I won't talk to you anymore." Wang Yuanshan nodded.

"Are these 'Dapeng' transported the 'Zhengyi' missiles?" Li Chengbi's thinking immediately became active.

Wang Yuanshan was stunned, and then immediately shook his head, "You guessed it wrong. Hehe, want to know what it is? Just stop working in the Air Force. Come and work with me on this strategic air force. Once you enter the Strategic Air Force, you can operate the weapons in the wooden box with yourself."

These jokes were like fleas scratching Li Chengbi's curiosity. However, since Wang Yuanshan refused to say it, Li Chengbi had to return to the club helplessly. After thinking about it with the pilots, everyone thought that the "Da Peng" cargo was strange, but what was strange was that everyone could not guess.

Fortunately, it is a military base here, and the ground crew is skillful. After the large wooden boxes transported by "Da Peng" were disassembled, the things inside need to be assembled.

The technical officers who followed "Dapeng" were not in enough staff. In order to hurry up, some of the pieces of work were handed over to the airport ground staff. Therefore, two ground staff members were lucky enough to see clearly the appearance of the thing after the parts in the wooden box were assembled.

So, during lunch, Li Chengbi and several pilots invited ground staff to dinner, and asked for advice. Then, the two ground staff drew a sketch to open their eyes to the pilots.

After seeing this, everyone's curiosity immediately faded, because they seemed to have seen the things on the sketch before, at least they had seen similar ones.

That's right, this mysterious thing that made the pilots curious for a long time is actually an unmanned aircraft. Its appearance is somewhat similar to the V1 missiles of Nazi Germany, but it is much larger in size. There are similar aircraft in the Air Force, but they are all target aircraft.

Germany's v1 missiles have appeared many times during the Battle of the Caucasus and the Battle of Turkey. Tehran and Baghdad have been attacked by such cruise missiles. Although the attacks have not suffered much casualties, the panic caused is quite obvious.

Compared with the V2 missile, the most obvious feature of this V1 missile is that it is not a high parabola ballistic trajectory, but takes off, cruises like an aircraft, and then rushes towards the target like an aircraft dive.

To be precise, this is actually an unmanned, one-time suicide attack aircraft. Because its flight trajectory and speed are very similar to jet aircraft, it is also used by the German army to confuse the enemy's radar.

The German * army used v1 missiles to attack targets when they lost air supremacy, mainly to create panic. The accuracy of these missiles is as low as that of v2, and they cannot be expected to play any specific tactical role.

However, if the missile's warhead is replaced with a large-scale destructive warhead, then this is a very powerful weapon, such as chemical warheads, biological warheads, and even nuclear warheads.

Could it be that this kind of aircraft that is being kept tightly in the airport warehouse, which looks like a V1 missile, is also a cruise missile? Including Wang Yuanshan's identity, could it be that this missile is actually equipped with a nuclear warhead?

Thinking of this, all pilots, including Li Chengbi, immediately realized the strategic value of this weapon, so they immediately shut up and stopped discussing the matter. Curiosity is one thing, and leaking military secrets is another thing.

However, everyone was still a little curious. They guessed that the Strategic Air Force was planning to bring these things that were likely nuclear warhead cruise missiles to Ankara. What was this plan to do?

Could it be that, as broadcast on radio stations a few days ago, it is necessary to launch a comprehensive nuclear strike against Nazi Germany and fascist Italy?

Everything is a mystery, but the answer may not be in the hands of the strategic air force commander. In fact, like the pilot and the ground crew, he is just a small part of this powerful war machine. The person who started this war machine is now far away in Cairo, Egypt.

Amid the roar of the engine, a German-made "Junke 52" transport plane landed on the runway of the field airport. When the cabin door was opened, an officer with the rank of German Wehrmacht Army colonel poked his head out of the transport plane.

He tidied up his wrinkled collars and looked at the runway. Just as he poked his head out, two German-made TA183 Crow fighters took off from the runway next to him.

The jet fighter roared into the air, and the air waves wrapped in the plane mixed with heat rushed towards him, causing the German colonel who had just poked his head to frown.

"Col. Stauffenberg, the marshal asked me to pick you up, you can call me Chuck."

A German "barrel car" drove near the "Junker 52" transport plane, stopped the car on the lawn, jumped out of the car, a German officer with the rank of Army Lieutenant, walked to the cabin door of the transport plane, and saluted the German colonel who was looking around.

This German colonel is Stoffenberg. He has just flew here from Germany, and this is Plovdiv, the southern city of Bulgaria. It is not far from the southern border of Bulgaria. The plane can enter Turkish airspace in another half an hour.

Stauffenberg planned to go to Istanbul, Turkey, but after the plane flew to Plovdiv, the pilot could no longer continue flying southeast because it had entered the Chinese Air Force's hunting ground, and any air targets targeted by Chinese Air Force fighters would be intercepted and shot down.

Therefore, all transport planes of the Luftwaffe have been banned from approaching Turkish airspace, and even the sky in southern Bulgaria is not absolutely safe. The Chinese Air Force's "Thunder" combat opportunities invade here from time to time, and this area is also nicknamed the "storm forbidden zone".

No German pilot is willing to fly a clumsy propeller plane in this airspace. Even jet fighter pilots regard this sky in Southeast Europe as a daunting path. If they can take off alone, they will definitely not take off alone. If they can fly in formation, they will definitely fly in formation.

Colonel Stuffenberg jumped out of the plane, stood on the lawn, and looked at the mud-filled "bucket truck".

"Chak, has the railway between Plovdiv and Istanbul not reopened to traffic yet?"

Lieutenant Chuck had long guessed this question about Mr. Colonel, so he immediately answered the question of the colonel.

"Yes, Mr. Colonel. Since the Chinese dispatched a large number of bombers to bomb the railway line last week, the railway line from Plovdiv to Istanbul has been bombed intermittently, some railway stations have been completely destroyed, and some tunnels have also collapsed. Under such circumstances, the trains are no longer open to traffic normally. Now the best and safest means of transportation are cars."

"Is it safe for us to sit in military vehicles?"

After getting on the "barrel cart" equipped by German army, Colonel Stoffenberg asked Lieutenant Chuck, who just shrugged his shoulders and did not answer directly.

However, what happened later proved that the Colonel's concern was not unreasonable. Shortly after the German military vehicle drove out of Plovdiv city, two Chinese Air Force "thunders" appeared in the sky. They were like eagles that discovered rabbits, quickly pounced down from a high altitude, and used machine guns to fire a few shells at the "bucket car" that Colonel Stoffenberg was riding.

Fortunately, only one shell fell on the road very close to the car. Although the shell's shrapnel penetrated the front wheels of the car and caused the car to rush into the woods on the side of the road, it was finally safe. Colonel Stuffenberg and Lieutenant Chuck were both safe and sound.

Since Germany declared war on China, the middle and lower-level German officers have complained about this, and many veteran Junker military nobles have secretly ridiculed Hitler, the Austrian captain, whether his head was burned out.

In fact, the same is true. The Chinese team continues to penetrate Central and West Asia, threatening many German-occupied areas. Although there is no large-scale intervention by the army, the occasional air force penalties make people feel uneasy.

But the car could no longer drive because there were no spare tires to replace it. Colonel Stuffenberg had to run to a nearby town with Lieutenant Chuck, holding the ID of the German officer, and patting the two pistols on his waist. Finally, he easily "borrowed" a half-old civilian sedan from the mayor.

Then they got on the gas car using a "charcoal catalytic furnace" and headed all the way to the Bulgaria-Turkey border. This charcoal car that does not use gasoline is very slow and has constant failures. Every time they walk, they have to stop the car and add charcoal to the catalytic furnace. When Colonel Stoffenberg and Lieutenant Chuck arrived at the border checkpoint, it was already afternoon.

Fortunately, he was not attacked by Chinese planes on the way. Taking advantage of his time on the way, Colonel Stoffenberg slept beautifully in the back seat. In the past few days, he had a serious lack of sleep, and he ran around and was busy connecting, so he was exhausted.

When he arrived at the border checkpoint, Colonel Stuffenberg was woken up by Lieutenant Chuck because the lieutenant found a very good car using real gasoline at the border checkpoint. The car belonged to the Bulgarian major at the border checkpoint. If you want to borrow a car from the major, it is not as easy as "borrowing" the car from the mayor.

Colonel Stauffenberg immediately took out his due airs and told the Bulgarian major that he had something important to rush to Istanbul. If this matter was delayed, no one would bear the responsibility, including this fat Bulgarian major.

Perhaps it was the pass of Stauffenberg, or perhaps it was the phone call that Stauffenberg shook to the German Army Command in Istanbul. After half an hour of tossing, Colonel Stauffenberg finally drove the car with Lieutenant Chuck. Under the current situation, it was enough to get enough gas for his private car, which was enough to prove the Bulgarian major's ability.

With good transportation, the remaining distance was not that difficult. Even though the road was cratered everywhere, Colonel Stoffenberg arrived in Istanbul before four o'clock in the afternoon. Lieutenant Chuck drove the Colonel all the way to the German Command in a car.

The headquarters is the German "Southern Army" headquarters. The commander is Marshal Von Manstein, the most outstanding battlefield commander of the German Army. He is not only the commander of the German Southern Army, but also the highest military commander of the Turkish front line in the Axis.

All the Axis* troops in Turkey were under his command, and Hitler also had high hopes for Manstein and hoped to rely on a "Manstein Line" to block any attempt to land in Southeast Europe.

This "Manstein Line of Defense" extends from the Bosphorus to the Dadaniel Strait. The total length of the defense line is more than 300 kilometers. Behind this line of defense are nearly 1.5 million Axis forces, including more than 900,000 German troops, and there are sufficient strategic reserves in Bulgaria and Greece.

Today, Colonel Stuffenberg came to meet with Marshal Manstein, the commander of the German Southern Army Group, and the Marshal was waiting in the office.

So, when the colonel arrived at the headquarters, Lieutenant Chuck immediately led the colonel into the Marshal's office and waited in the corridor outside the office.

Because it is said that the colonel will not delay too long in Istanbul, and after meeting with the marshal, he will immediately return to Berlin, and Chuck will also be responsible for sending the colonel back to the Bulgarian airport.

As a driver of Marshal Manstein, Lieutenant Chuck didn't know what Colonel Stauffenberg came to do, but he didn't plan to think about it.

Since the United States and Britain threatened to jointly launch a nuclear strike against Germany and Italy at the Cairo Allied Summit, the headquarters has been quite lively in the past few days.

There were many people coming in and out, from Berlin, Germany and Sofia, Bulgaria. Marshal Manstein was also recalled to Berlin once during the period, and the head of state gave the opportunity in person.

The obvious fact is that with the advent of the atomic bomb, the atomic bomb, all the German generals were in a state of busyness, and God knows what they were busy with.

(To be continued. ^^《》).

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