When Liu Xiao saw that the office had finally calmed down, he said, "The Lord has passed down an order, asking our air force to delay the offensive troops in the Huguang area. What do you think?"
Everyone below looked at each other, and finally one boldly stood up.
This person was also born as a biochemical person, and his name is Wang Kang.
"Commander, this is the first time our air force is displayed in front of the world. We must fight well to let everyone in the world know that Nanyang is not just about the army and navy."
"You don't need to say this? None of you know the key points."
Wang Kang rubbed his head and felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly changed the topic to the main point, "In this case, I mean to give the opponent a powerful one. This time, we must first identify the enemy's key targets, and we should send out planes
Load the reconnaissance pod to conduct large-scale reconnaissance in the Huguang area."
"After figuring out the enemy's logistics base and assembly point, we can then launch targeted air strikes against them, striving to make them lose their offensive capabilities within a few rounds of air strikes, and then we can slowly assemble them.
The heavy troops on the ground carried out repeated bombings until it completely lost its combat capability."
Liu Xiao nodded silently after hearing this. Wang Kang said it very well.
Although the tactics he mentioned were already useless in another era, they were the latest tactics in the Qing Dynasty.
"Okay, just do as Wang Kang said."
After Liu Xiao said this, he knocked on the table and continued to give instructions, "Nanjing is closer to the Wuhan-Guangzhou area, but now we only have 24 fighter planes here, which is obviously not enough. Immediately transfer 24 more fighter planes from Shanghai to
Nanjing, at the same time, let the remaining fighters in Shanghai be prepared, and if the war situation here becomes urgent, let them be ready to transition."
"yes."
"You guys go down and get ready. I want to see the reconnaissance plane take off within three hours."
The group of people then exited Liu Xiao's office and hurried to the aircraft warehouse.
Suddenly, a shrill siren sounded at the airport, and then the entire airport began to boil.
The mechanics quickly ran to the aircraft they were maintaining and began to perform final maintenance on the aircraft.
Three of the planes were quickly pushed out of the warehouse and waited by the runway. Then someone pushed the reconnaissance pod and moved quickly towards them.
The refueling truck on the side also refueled these three planes!
With the reconnaissance pod firmly installed on the belly of the aircraft, the three aircraft are ready for departure.
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After a few more minutes, three pilots walked steadily towards this side.
They came to the plane and boarded the plane along the escalator. The ground staff next to them helped them close the canopy of the plane.
Then these ground staff quickly evacuated from the vicinity of the aircraft with their tools.
As the ground crew evacuated, blazing flames began to appear from the tail nozzles of the three aircraft.
Then the plane slowly left the parking area and drove towards the end of the runway.
After the plane reached the end of the runway, the pilot in the cockpit began to contact the tower.
"Tower, this is 001, can I take off?"
"This is the tower. The wind level is now Level 3 and we can take off normally. I wish you a safe journey."
Following the tower's orders, the flames from the tail nozzles of the three planes became more and more intense, and finally the planes quickly taxied on the runway.
Soon the nose of the plane was lifted, and they were flying lightly into the sky, heading towards the distant target.
After leaving the airport, the three planes formed a formation in the air and continued flying southwest for nearly an hour. When they were about to enter Hubei, they divided into three directions and began to conduct reconnaissance and photography of important bases in Hubei.
The Hubei side was not aware of the Liangjiang aircraft's reconnaissance operations at all.
In this way, these three planes completely surveyed the Hubei area, and they visited almost all military targets.
It wasn't until the fuel alarm came out that the three planes turned around and flew towards the Nanjing area.
When the three planes landed at the airport again, intelligence personnel immediately came forward to remove the flight pods for analysis.
By nightfall, the data from this investigation had already appeared on Liu Xiao's desk.
Liu Xiao took the results obtained from this investigation, carefully compared them on the map, and finally knocked on the table. This investigation was considered a success, but there were still several areas missed, and another supplementary investigation should be conducted.
Therefore, Liu Xiao issued an order that night, requiring the plane to take off again at 5:00 in the morning for the second round of investigation.
Following Liu Xiao's order, three more planes took off from the airport at dawn to conduct supplementary reconnaissance of military targets in Hubei.
This time, because the area of investigation was much smaller and there were clear targets, the investigation speed was very fast. At about nine o'clock in the morning, the plane had landed at the airport again.
After analysis by the intelligence department, coupled with yesterday's investigation information, more than 250 important military targets in Hubei were finally marked on the map.
Liu Xiao did hesitate after taking this information. When it came to these military targets, Liu Xiao did not hesitate at all. Liu Xiao was mainly worried about the Hanyang Arsenal, the largest steel base in China today.
For now, this arsenal is considered to be second to none in East Asia. It is Zhang Zhidong's hard work over the years and is the basis for the current prosperity of the country.
If this air strike did not destroy this arsenal and factory, the combat capabilities of the Huguang Army would not be continuously weakened. But if the air strike was to destroy the largest steel base in the Far East, then he would even feel that it was a crime.
But Liu Xiao couldn't make the decision himself, so he decided to put this problem on Liu Hai.
He, Liu Xiao, took this map with him and drove straight to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion in Nanjing City.
When Liu Xiao entered the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion, he found that the place was already bustling with people, and various military personnel were shuttled back and forth.
The current Liangjiang Governor's Mansion has become the general headquarters of military operations. All intelligence transactions must be summarized here and then distributed to various places.
Liu Xiao came to the front hall of the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion and was immediately stopped.
"This is an important military area, and you are not allowed to trespass unless there is anything wrong."
Liu Xiao hurriedly took out his ID from his pocket and handed it to the guard opposite, "I am the commander of the Air Force, and I want to see the commander-in-chief."
The guard took the ID and looked at it carefully before handing it back to Liu Xiao and giving him a military salute.
"Commander Liu, please wait here for a moment. I will go in and report to you."
After saying that, the guard entered the headquarters, but he came out soon. The man came to Liu Xiao and gave him a military salute as usual, and then said: "Commander, let Commander Liu go in."
Liu Xiao nodded and replied to the guard, and then you walked into the headquarters.
I saw the staff officers inside, walking back and forth in front of the headquarters. There was a huge map on which the staff officers were constantly marking the positions of the enemy and ourselves.
Liu Hai was also standing next to the map, carefully watching the movements of the enemy and ourselves.
Liu Xiao quickly walked a few steps to Liu Hai and gave Liu Hai a military salute.
Liu Hai had actually noticed that he had come in a long time ago. He didn't even raise his head, but asked: "What's the matter with you?"
"Commander, I will launch an air strike against the enemy today, but there is a problem and I would like to ask the commander to make the final decision."
When Liu Hai heard that he would have a problem, he raised his head and glanced at him in surprise, but still asked: "Tell me, what is it?"
"Commander, if the primary target of this air strike is the Hanyang Iron Works, it is an important iron and steel base of the modern Qing Dynasty. I don't know if we should carry out a thorough attack on it."
Liu Hai straightened up when he heard that it was about this matter. He closed his eyes and thought for a long time, and finally said decisively: "We can buy the equipment if it is gone, we can rebuild the factory if it is gone, but if the soldiers are gone, what can we do?"
Account to their families? You don’t have to worry about that, everything is to reduce our casualties.”
Liu Xiao saw that Liu Hai had made up his mind, so he gave him a military salute, "Yes, I understand, Commander."
Liu Hai was not in a good mood now. He nodded silently and waved to Liu Xiao, asking him to go about his business.
Liu Xiao took a bus immediately after leaving Liu Hai and returned to his airport outside Nanjing.
As soon as Liu Xiao returned to the office, he immediately summoned his squadron commanders and began to assign attack targets and tasks.
"In this operation, squadrons will be used as units to launch air strikes against important enemy targets. The types of ammunition used will mainly be ordinary aerial bombs."
Liu Xiao paused for a moment, and then said: "This battle is also to temper the troops. I hope you can complete the mission successfully."
After Liu Xiao finished these opening remarks, he began to assign combat tasks.
Since it was the first attack, each squadron was assigned more than 5 targets each time in order to achieve maximum success.
Liu Xiao stood there once. After assigning tasks, he immediately asked the squadron leaders to go back and prepare. Liu Xiao himself also dressed neatly and came to the command center of the airport.
The current command center is simply a science fiction world to the people of the Qing Dynasty. There are no paper maps here anymore, all are electronic maps.
But now on the electronic map, every enemy force and every target is clearly marked.
Not long after Liu Xiao arrived at the command center, an inquiry came from the radio.
"Your Excellency, Commander, the attack formation is ready to take off. Do you want to set off?"
After Liu Xiao listened, he went to the large glass window and looked outside. Sure enough, at the end of the runway, there were already dozens of J-H-7 fighters lined up.
"It's okay to take off. I wish you a safe journey."
Following Liu Xiao's order, dozens of fighter planes began to taxi on the runway one after another. They taxied for a distance of more than 1,000 meters. As the first J-H-7 took off, other planes also took off one after another, and then they were at the airport.
They circled in the sky, formed a formation, and then flew quickly to the west, quickly disappearing into the sky.