"Brother Li, do you still remember what I said last time about the business of killing Japanese warships?"
Chen Feng glanced at Zhao Gang, and then returned his gaze to Li Yunlong.
Although Zhao Gang was still looking at the deal price, half of his attention was on Chen Feng, indicating that Zhao Gang was also very interested in this new business.
"Of course I remember."
Li Yunlong laughed:
"I've been waiting for a month or two, and I thought I had forgotten about it."
"So, this new business is to kill Japanese warships?"
"That's right!"
Chen Feng nodded seriously, took out a stack of photos and a map from his pocket, and handed them to Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong took the photo and looked at it. The photos of this era were all black and white, and they were taken from a high altitude. Li Yunlong judged from the photo that this was a port, and a military port.
In the military port, there is a large warship and several small warships parked.
"The business this time is to bomb the Japanese military port?"
Li Yunlong's expression changed, as if he had guessed something.
"That's right!"
Chen Feng nodded:
"To be precise, the business this time is to blow up the Japanese aircraft carrier."
"Blow up the Japanese aircraft carrier?"
Not only Li Yunlong, but also Zhao Gang, who heard Boss Chen speak, immediately put down the notebook in his hand and pricked up his ears to listen.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang's vision and structure are now different from what they used to be.
Even those who have never seen an aircraft carrier know that it plays a huge role in naval warfare.
The emergence of aircraft carriers changed the naval battle model of battleships and cannons fighting each other, and created a new combat method of carrier-based aircraft air strikes, thereby replacing battleships and becoming the new maritime overlord.
The Japanese combined navy fleet has many aircraft carriers and dominates the ocean world, looking arrogant and domineering.
It's not easy to blow up a Japanese aircraft carrier.
Chen Feng continued: "Last month, the Japanese Navy and the US Navy fought a naval battle in the Coral Sea. The two sides almost drew a draw, and one aircraft carrier each suffered heavy damage."
"The heavily damaged aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy is called Shokaku. The flight deck of this ship was hit by three aerial bombs and was seriously damaged. It is currently being repaired at Yokosuka Naval Port."
"This warship deal is to blow up the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku."
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang nodded. Boss Chen often sent Yan Shuangying to northwest Shanxi to deliver international war reports.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang also knew something about the Coral Sea battle between the Japanese Navy and the US Navy.
Chen Feng thought about it carefully and realized that the Battle of Midway, which would determine the direction of the Pacific War, was only going to happen in these few days.
This battle also caused hard-to-heal wounds to the top brass of the Japanese military, and this painful memory lingered until the end of World War II.
"Is this the Japanese aircraft carrier Xianghe?"
Li Yunlong turned to a photo and his expression changed.
"That's right!" Chen Feng nodded, "This photo was taken when the Xianghe aircraft carrier was just completed. I also spent a lot of effort to get it."
Li Yunlong looked carefully and saw that the entire length of the Xianghe aircraft carrier almost filled the entire photo.
"How is the defense of Yokosuka Military Port?" Zhao Gang asked calmly.
The bombing of the Japanese aircraft carrier Xianghe was an exciting event for the whole country.
But the Xianghe aircraft carrier is the main battleship of the Japanese after all, and the Japanese cannot fail to take precautions, so it is not an easy task to blow it up.
Maybe, the bombers and crews who go to bomb will never come back.
The Eighth Route Army had a weak foundation, and with only a hundred or so pilots, it could not withstand heavy losses.
"Currently, the defense of Yokosuka Military Port is very weak."
Contrary to Zhao Gang's expectation, Chen Feng said:
"The Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy have been fighting in the Pacific recently. Most of the Japanese warships are in the Pacific. Even the destroyer Yukikaze, the frigate directly under the Shokaku aircraft carrier, has been transferred. It was blown up in the past few months.
The best chance."
Chen Feng is also very familiar with this Xuefeng.
It was the only destroyer of its class to survive until the end of World War II. It participated in most of the battles in the Pacific War, but it was not seriously damaged, and less than 10 people were killed.
I wonder if the Xuefeng can still survive until the end of World War II with the Eighth Route Army's rapid growth in strength thanks to my own great assistance?
After a pause, Chen Feng continued: "If you are afraid of losing the bomber and crew, I suggest that the bombers carry Goblet aerial bombs and use radio-guided Goblet aerial bombs to bomb this place at an altitude of 4,000 to 5,000 meters.
A Japanese aircraft carrier."
The German battleship Tirpitz was destroyed by the Allied Goblet bomb.
Fighters and attack aircraft can't fly that far.
However, the accuracy of heavy long-range bombers carrying conventional bombs for high-altitude bombing is very low, and low-altitude bombing is very risky. The Japanese fighter jets are not vegetarians.
If you want to kill the Japanese aircraft carrier, given the current situation of the Eighth Route Army, dispatching long-range strategic bombers carrying Goblet aerial bombs is the best way.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang couldn't help but their eyes lit up, this was a good idea.
"Brother Chen is indeed an expert."
Li Yunlong grinned and asked in an extremely expectant tone:
"I wonder what the price is for killing this Japanese aircraft carrier?"
"All I can say now is that the price is very good, and the value far exceeds that of this aircraft carrier." Chen Feng turned on the system, took a look at the system panel, and then looked back and said.
Brother Li, it’s not that I, Chen Feng, didn’t tell you, it’s because this shitty system is showing off.
Seeing that Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang were hesitant, Chen Feng added: "If Brother Li and Brother Zhao feel that this business is too risky, they can choose not to take it, but there will be no warships."
"Yes, why not?"
Li Yunlong slapped the table and said with a firm tone:
"Isn't it just an aircraft carrier? Not to mention that this aircraft carrier was severely damaged, even if it was not severely damaged, our new group would have accepted this business!"
Li Yunlong naturally trusted Boss Chen and was not afraid that he would not be able to afford the warship.
Students who came back from training at Boss Chen's military base told Li Yunlong that Boss Chen had a powerful naval fleet, and there was more than one.
But soon, Li Yunlong said calmly with both eyes: "However, this time we are sending out bombers to bomb the Japanese homeland from a long distance. It is different from the previous business. This business needs to be considered in the long term."
Although Li Yunlong likes to make dangerous moves, he generally does not fight a battle that he is not sure of and prepared for.
"Of course."
Chen Feng nodded:
"I will provide the defense situation of Yokosuka Naval Port and surrounding Japanese airport information as soon as possible, as well as information about the Shokaku-class aircraft carrier."
Deploying heavy long-range strategic bombers requires some preparation time in the early stage.
Especially for the Eighth Route Army, which currently does not have a professional long-range bomber crew, it will take longer to prepare.
But it all depends on the human effort. Just set new business goals and then move forward steadily.
As for whether this business can succeed, it also depends on some luck.
However, Li Yunlong feels that he is quite lucky. Currently, he has completed all the business given by Boss Chen without fail, and even some business has exceeded the quota.
"Thank you very much, Brother Chen!"
"Thank you, Brother Chen!"
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang thanked them repeatedly.
Next, Chen Feng discussed some matters about receiving goods with Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.
After dinner, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang persuaded Chen Feng to stay at the regiment headquarters.
However, Chen Feng declined. He had already built a base on the hilltop near Taiyuan. Li Yunlong could call him at any time if anything happened, and Chen Feng could arrive within two and a half hours.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang couldn't force them to stay, so they sent them to the gate of Taiyuan City. Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang sent a sharp sword squadron to escort them for a while, and then they returned to the regiment headquarters.
…
When Li Yunlong returned to the regiment headquarters, he immediately took out the map given by Boss Chen and started studying it.
Zhao Gang was watching with his notebook.
Li Yunlong glanced at Zhao Gang, and the corners of Zhao Gang's mouth turned up slightly.
Li Yunlong, who is familiar with Zhao Gang, knows very well that although on the surface Zhao Gang is not very happy, in fact he is already happy in his heart.
Li Yunlong took out a scale and pencil, used the pencil to draw a straight line from Taiyuan to Tokyo on the map, and calculated that the straight-line distance was 2,400 kilometers.
Each bomber requires two pilots, namely the pilot and co-pilot, and about 10 crew members, who serve as navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, radio operators, radar operators, machine gunners, etc.
Compared with pilots, other crew members are easier to train.
"With all our pilots in action, we can dispatch 50 heavy long-range bombers to bomb the Japanese homeland."
"Yokosuka Military Port is about 50 kilometers away from Tokyo."
"Our missions to bomb Tokyo and Yokosuka naval ports are carried out simultaneously."
"Sent out most of the bombers carrying incendiary bombs to raid Tokyo first and attract surrounding Japanese aircraft to Tokyo for reinforcements. At this time, a small number of our bombers carried Goblet bombs to bomb the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku."
Li Yunlong again measured the distance from Yokosuka Military Port to Tokyo on the map.
Immediately, a preliminary plan was formulated to bomb Tokyo and Japanese warships.
After hearing this, Zhao Gang immediately closed his notebook and came to Li Yunlong: "Old Li, you killed two birds with one stone."
"You kill two birds with one stone." Li Yunlong said, "Labour and management kill two birds with one stone!"
Zhao Gang curled his lips: "Don't they all mean the same thing?"
"but…"
"In the international war report given by Boss Chen, US aircraft dispatched 16 B25 bombers last month, taking off from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier and bombing the Japanese mainland."
"Continuously bombed Japanese cities such as Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe."
Li Yunlong nodded: "I know that the American plane is low on fuel and cannot return to the mothership. In the end, it has no choice but to make an emergency landing in China. However, the heavy long-range bomber given by Boss Chen will definitely be able to fly back to Taiyuan."
Zhao Gang also nodded, although they have not yet received the performance data of the heavy long-range bomber given by Boss Chen.
But since Boss Chen has given a new deal to blow up the Japanese aircraft carrier, the range of the heavy long-range bomber must be more than 5,000 kilometers.
Zhao Gang said in a solemn tone: "This time, although our bombing of Tokyo and Yokosuka military ports cannot bring major changes to the war situation, it is of extremely great spiritual significance to our Chinese military and civilians."