Chapter 710: Changes on the aircraft

Yan's economic development is not slow in the other six countries. At least. They have their own iron factory in Liaodong. Coal mine base. These coal and iron are transported in large quantities to the northern iron and steel base of Qin State. At the same time, there are also medicinal materials, such as ginseng, and so on. There are also a lot of leather, wood and so on. The paper industry in Yan State is also relatively developed. One third of Qin State's paper is made in Yan State. Most of the paper demand in the six countries comes from Yan. Because Yan Guo not only has large-scale papermaking equipment. There is also a large amount of virgin forest deforestation.

However, other countries just gave up because they did not have technical equipment. For example, the State of Chu in the south. They can't produce paper because they don't have such color technology and equipment.

In general. Yan State still has a few economic and industrial developments that can be used in the country. But economic development is inseparable from operation. The economy of Yan State obviously lacks proper management. In particular, Yan Wang frantically levied taxes on these companies in order to satisfy his own desires. This puts a heavy burden on these companies. It is difficult to have long-term development. In particular, they do not have enough funds to expand the scale of the enterprise.

These companies have the worst thing. That is, it is difficult for these business operators to obtain some major infrastructure guarantees. Especially the guarantee system like Qin State. The reason why Qin State developed rapidly. In addition to tax light. There is also a huge investment in public facilities. such as. Large-scale railway construction. Qin Guo completed the bidding in a competitive manner. There is also a highway network. And the city's water supply system. Sewer system. There is also the urban power network system of Qin State. In order to provide lighting for Xianyang, the first city with a population of over one million. Qin State also vigorously develops public lighting systems. The impact of this system is. The people of Qin State had great convenience to stay and work in Xianyang, Qin State.

And these government inputs. It has also stimulated the development of many economic industries. For example, the construction industry of Qin State. Qin's cement and steel production has grown extremely fast. Not only the output is fast. It also led to the leading of Qin's construction technology. The emergence of cement pouring technology allows construction to be completed faster. And the quality is good.

It is not only an industry of construction. There is also the power generation industry. Qin's power generation industry is developing rapidly under the stimulus of Qin's public lighting system. A series of power plants have been established. The scale of power generation is getting bigger and bigger. And the power of the generator is getting bigger and bigger. In addition to power generation. There is also the manufacturing industry such as Qin's lamps and wires. They are in order to obtain government orders. It is bound to increase the intensity of innovation to make Qin State's electrical development faster.

It can be said. Qin's rapid economic development is inseparable from Qin people's painstaking management. Especially the Qin people have invested a lot of money to get the expected results, which is what the people of Qin should get.

in contrast. King Yan's inaction. In particular, the frenzied tax collection in taxation has created a great burden on Yan's economy. This burden has a great negative impact.

Yan Kingdom not only has war needs. At the same time, there are also the personal needs of King Yan. This demand is that King Yan has renovated his palace extensively. Not so much repair. It's better to say it's reconstruction. A five-story reinforced concrete building has been built in Yanwang Palace, all of which are converted with brand new fiber glass. The floor is covered with tiles that only a few families in Qin can afford, and the entire palace also has an independent palace system. In order to decorate the building, Yan Guo also used specially customized crystal lamps. You know, there is no crystal lamp in the palace of King Qin. It can be seen that the decoration is very unusual.

Yan Guo was so wasteful of taxes. And he did not hesitate to spend military expenses to build a palace for himself. When Shangwen heard these reports. He even felt that such a government should not be helped. But in fact, Qin can only do this. Because Yan and Qi are still at war. Qin needs to consume the military strength of both sides to achieve its goal of depleting national power.

Qin also knew that Yan could not last long. It is even said that the collapse of this country is just around the corner. Especially when the Qi army eliminated the frontline army, they would immediately counterattack. This threat does exist.

"We need to use air power to carry out continuous air strikes against the upcoming Qi army to destroy the enemy. In addition, we need to have an aircraft capable of night combat to contain the army's night fighting behavior." Wang Jian just Put forward opinions purely from a military perspective.

"Our plan is like this. The Celestial Army is responsible for seizing air supremacy. It also strikes at the airships that continue to fly into the air, while our Army Aviation Corps strikes against ground targets." Wang Jian said, placing a label with the Celestial Army on the big sand table. And the flag of the Army Aviation.

Qin's air combat force is still aircraft and airship as the main force, the difference is that the airship has been comprehensively improved. The first is to use a rigid airship. In other words, defensiveness has improved to a certain extent. The second is that the filled gas becomes helium instead of hydrogen as previously mentioned. In this way, Qin's airship will be safer and more reliable.

Finally, the weapon system of the airship. Since airships have a large load capacity, this is much stronger than airplanes. Moreover, Qin State had previous experience in the use of aerial gunboats. They found that installing a large-caliber machine gun on an airship can effectively kill and injure ground targets. Especially loading some artillery. Although the caliber of the artillery is not very large. But it can provide continuous target killing.

While transforming the airship, Qin's engineering designers also upgraded the weapon system of Qin's airship.

In the lower part of the airship, a more rigid fiber glass is used to make a transparent cabin. This transparent cabin can be rotated 360 degrees left and right. The machine gun can rotate up and down from 180 degrees to 360 degrees. Two air-cooled machine guns with large caliber .60 double-mounted are installed in this transparent hemispherical cabin.

In this way, the machine gun compartment can continuously fire on the ground. In other places, airships are also equipped with machine guns. For example, there are two machine guns on the front, rear, left and right, so that when combined, the airship has as many as ten machine guns. The firepower is super fierce.

Not only that, engineer Qin also modified a three-inch gun at the left door of the airship. The artillery can fire solid rounds and grenades, but mainly grenades, because the artillery is mainly aimed at ground targets. Rather than an air target. The role of solid bullets is not very big, mainly at this time there is no armored target to strike.

The three-inch artillery is equipped with as many as 120 rounds. Machine gun ammunition can reach 20,000 rounds. Not only that, but also toilet facilities are installed on the airship, because the pilot reported that the previous gunboat had to stay in the air for more than half a day. Some pilots with urgency have to wear seat belts and urinate in the air. What a situation this is.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the airship specially installed a toilet device to provide convenient services for the pilots. This can be regarded as humane. However, the life of a pilot is not so good. First of all, the airship sometimes has to stay in the air for more than 3,000 steps. First of all, the temperature cannot stand, and some people cannot breathe.

Therefore, pilots have to wear thick flight suits, and at the same time, the meal problem cannot be solved well. The main reason is that pilots can only eat cold food. There is no hot food to eat, but fortunately, their stomachs can still accept this kind of temperature. However, long-term consumption will cause gastrointestinal problems.

In addition to these, some power systems are installed on the airship, and the power is provided by the addition of a power supply device to the propulsion device. Electricity is mainly used in two directions. The first is night lighting. They are not used to drive, but to drive searchlights with higher power. This is a night-type airship. This is the first airship manufactured by Qin State specifically for night combat.

In addition to lighting, there is also a radio station. The airship used radio for the first time. For this reason, the Space Army and Army Aviation Corps set up a special wireless communication section, and the ground crew also prepared a large number of personnel for radio training. But the first thing the instructor told them was.

"The radio doesn’t need a wire. You can barely make a call at a short distance, but you’d better send a report. The most important thing I want to say is that it’s because he is wireless. So, don’t hug him too much. Hope. He’s wireless.” That’s how the instructors told their students.

The Qin pilots are very interested in radio technology, mainly because they solved the problem of communicating by shouting or gestures during flight. Although it was told from the beginning that the radio was not very reliable. Indeed, when the instructors were experimenting, they could not do anything at a distance of a thousand steps. The worst part is that sometimes it is very difficult to even send a report. They think this is a broken machine, and they don't know what the military is doing with the taxpayer's money to buy this broken thing.

In addition to the airship, it is the airplane, but the changes to the airplane are not great. Qin Guo still uses the old Eagle-type two-sided fighters. In terms of manufacturing, this aircraft is mainly replaced with some larger horsepower engines, and there is not much improvement. For example, they use metal skins. Did not do it at all.

However, the military used this aircraft to carry out several other derivatives, for example, it was changed to a reconnaissance aircraft, a liaison aircraft, and a battlefield observation aircraft. At the same time, the navy and air force also experimented with a seaplane equipped with floats. This aircraft is mainly used by the Qin State Naval Air Force to use the aircraft on the water. They found that if some special supply vessels are sent to replenish fuel, they can take off and land on the water, which can greatly save the use of aircraft and airports. Because the airport needs special construction, especially when the aircraft is landing, it is easy to crash. If you use buoys, this situation can be greatly improved. The most important thing is that you can get rid of the restrictions of the airport, and the combat area can be wider. This is the most important weapon of naval aviation.