(...When everyone thought I was fully preparing for the expeditionary force to set up, I was actually racking my brains to design a trap to ambush the Japanese Zero War. This plan is called the patio... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The weather gradually became hotter. Before the day was clear, early birds were occupied by early birds on the ground in the houses. They used this short time to not be harassed by people to peck at the earthworms and other small insects that had crawled out of the cracks of the stone slabs in the middle of the night. Their cheerful chirping also woke the owner up, so the wooden door of the main hall opened, and the birds had to fly back to the trees and make crisp protests. But soon their chirping was covered by another louder sound...

Early in the morning, the Central News Agency's radio began to use its unique soft and delicate female voice to call on citizens to welcome and warmly to the soldiers who came to Chongqing to gather, and called on everyone to send their best wishes to these soldiers who were about to go on expedition. The numbers and arrival dates of the troops that were about to arrive were even clearly announced on the radio and newspapers; Fang Xianjue and Lu Gongliang's troops were the first to be hit, and then Jiang Guangnai's troops, they were all coming to Chongqing to gather!

After the meeting all night, Chennard and Zhou Zhirou still seemed to have a lot of things to say. They arrived at the car because they were about to separate from each other, so they had to stand beside the car and continue discussing.

Because during the meeting last night, the expert group responsible for dissecting Japanese Zero fighter jets from Guangdong finally sent a summary information. This information made Chennard, who had been doubting whether the Japanese could create a fighter jet with a performance that surpassed Europe and the United States, had to face the reality: After everyone determined that the material used by this Japanese fighter jet was different from any aircraft in the world today. This is a new aluminum alloy with super strong metal strength but very light!

The severity of the material determines the speed and range of the aircraft, because this Japanese aircraft can almost wipe out the Soviet I-16 in a large air battle, and the Japanese have fully understood the "Hurricane"'s approach to using high-speed flight in the battle with the Chinese Air Force, so Chennard judged that the actual maximum speed of this new Japanese fighter was definitely above 520 kilometers. In addition, from Guangdong's intelligence, since this amazingly light aluminum alloy also has super metal strength, he also assumed that the flexibility of this fighter is no less than that of Japan's Type 95; if this is true, it would be a disaster for the Chinese Air Force!

In order to verify this information, Chennard asked Cao Xiaomin to send two "hurricanes" to the Soviet battlefield to find an opportunity to fight with this new Japanese fighter to test the opponent's comprehensive strength. Cao Xiaomin immediately approved and was ready to contact Lu Ganzi after dawn...

"From the report, the equipment of this fighter is quite tempting toward our Air Force. As we all know, the Chinese Air Force is very brave in combat. They often crash into enemy planes when they find that the battle of entanglement is not good for them and use their relatively powerful firepower to fight against their opponents. They often shoot down Japanese planes and are only injured. However, this Japanese fighter is equipped with large-caliber machine guns, and just one shot is enough to make us prepare to smash the warriors who fight with him to pieces (this is the inference of the old leader of the Ninth Division of the People's Liberation Army Air Force stationed in Foshan, Guangdong, before, because at that time, the main fighter jets in Europe and the United States used to increase the number of machine guns and increase the fire density as the firepower of fighters, and the only enemy of the Japanese Air Force at that time was the only enemy of the Japanese Air Force at that time. It was the Chinese Air Force. They were the first to use machine guns on fighter planes, but they were afraid of being hit by the Chinese Air Force... I don't know if the old man was joking, but it felt like it was valid.)... Such a light aircraft and an engine with an almost 1,000 horsepower plus an external fuel tank may have a combat radius of more than 3,000 kilometers!" Chennard looked at the opinion that it had gathered national experts and British people invited to analyze, and his face turned blue at the meeting - in front of such fighter planes. The aircraft of the American Volunteer Air Force were completely targets! He was in charge of the summary and just said halfway, the main generals of the Air Force were all feeling guilty, and even the weaknesses of Type Zero were not heard in the second half...

The weakness of Type Zero has only been found: there is no armor to protect the pilot and fuel tank, which means that if you are hit, it will easily cause the pilot to be severely damaged or the plane catches fire. However, it is not easy to hit such an aircraft... Maybe the Japanese designed this way just to make it almost impossible to be hit by Chinese planes? The Chinese Air Force generals in the conference room were nervous by this night, especially when they heard Cao Xiaomin say that Type Zero would launch a cluster strike on Chongqing. They were even more at a loss!

Although everyone thinks that Cao Xiaomin's trap plan is feasible, everyone has no confidence to win the battle at this moment. They just hope to scare the Japanese through such a trap and not come... But is this possible?!

Born in distress and died in peace. When Cao Xiaomin suggested that Japan would come to the bombing, some people disagree. However, when the advantage of Zero War was shown, everyone agreed with Cao Xiaomin's view. When everyone could not come up with a good response, the trap plan proposed by Cao Xiaomin became everyone's only breakthrough. By dawn, everyone basically divided the worker and who was responsible for preparing for what. Even Chennard and Zhou Zhirou were sent to Guangdong and Yunnan respectively to further prepare for the ambush plan.

"Actually this is a good thing..." Chennard saw Cao Xiaomin, the last step out of the venue with his special American optimism, said: "We now infer that the Japanese are coming, at least they will not act before defeating the Soviets. We still have enough time; maybe when they want to act, we can already crack them!"

The rigorous Zhou Zhirou shook her head. He knew that this was impossible. How long would it take for a fighter to be designed to come out of the prototype and then mass-produced? But Cao Xiaomin suddenly felt a trembling in his heart: the wooden plane of Havilland Company seemed to fly at a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour during the test flight! The haze in his heart suddenly seemed to reveal a column of light. He waved his hand suddenly: "Let's go, come with me, take you to see something..."

"Yes, our plane is very fast. In fact, the maximum speed reached over 630 kilometers per hour during the test flight..." When the engineers of Havilland Company saw Cao Xiaomin and the giant Zhou Zhirou of the Chinese Air Force, Chennard came together. He quickly responded to all their questions respectfully: "Later, the bomb rack was slowed down when equipped, but in the actual missile flight test, it could still reach a level flight of 595 kilometers. If it was diving, it would be faster..."

"Do you think the Zero can fly to 600 kilometers?" Cao Xiaomin asked Chennard in Chinese, but saw that the latter was already clenched with excitement!

Why not use this wooden plane as a fighter? Cao Xiaomin really wanted to propose, but he held back because Chennard and Zhou Zhirou would think about it themselves.

"We can formulate such a tactic, let our 'mosquitoes' ambush at high altitude, then dive down to attack the enemy plane, and whether they are intercepted or not, they will immediately continue to dive and leave the battle group at a speed higher than 600 kilometers per hour. We can install more machine guns on this plane, four or even six, and continue to use our high-speed tactics to deal with the enemy..." Chennard's tactical design accidentally aimed at another life gate of Zero War: the dive speed is slow!

Six machine guns? Zhou Zhirou thought this was simply whimsical. In his concept, he thought it was to install twelve machine guns on the "mosquito"! He looked at Cao Xiaomin, but saw Cao Xiaomin's expression on his face - Cao Xiaomin was thinking about whether to install two Vulcan cannons on the mosquito!

"Yes, our fighter jets are more likely to be shot when charging in a straight line than the enemy, but our planes have strong bombing ability and once equipped with so much firepower, they may not suffer losses when facing the front!" Chennard continued his excitement: "What a pity, the fuselage strength and other data of this aircraft are not enough to complete difficult tactical actions and cannot be used as fighter jets; but I believe that the unknown Japanese people are used to easily catching up with others or leaving others behind when they are used to being easily surpassed by a fighter jet, and they will definitely be scared to death! Take a step back and say that if there is a mosquito high-speed as a high-altitude sniper, we dare to entangle the enemy with hurricanes; just like we entangle the enemy with the I-15 and then hit the I-16 high-speed! With such a tactical combination, if we fight within a short range like Chongqing, we may not lose to the Japanese!"

How could he crack Zero War in this way?! Cao Xiaomin was a little surprised, but he was still glad that he had not been smart enough to suggest changing the "mosquito" into a fighter plane, otherwise this person would have lost it!

Although I don’t know if this is possible, Chennard’s tactics at least gave the Chinese Air Force a hope. So Cao Xiaomin immediately asked Chennard to fly to Guangzhou with relevant senior technical personnel from Havilland to conduct a physical inspection of Zero War, and then rushed back to formulate a new air force training plan. When the relevant personnel of Havilland heard that they were going to inspect a new fighter jet, which was inspecting Japanese fighters that almost wiped out the elite Soviet Air Force during the Japanese-Soviet air battle, they even gave up the telegram to ask for instructions, and immediately expressed their willingness to go!

When everyone was excitedly walking out of the conference room of the Aviation Research Institute, a group of sparrows in the patio were alarmed and immediately flew to the trees to protest. Cao Xiaomin looked at the naughty sparrows and suddenly laughed: "Have you ever put on a condom to catch sparrows? Our plan should not be called a trap, just call it a patio, just wait for the group of little sparrows to come down!" (To be continued)rq!~!

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