Chapter 554: Unequal Air Combat

Chapter 554: Unequal Air Combat

Chapter 554: Unequal Air Combat

When Shao Quanzhong saw this guy who claimed to be a genius, he immediately took a liking to him.

The young man is only 22 years old, but his hair is quite thin, sharing the same problem as Shao Quanzhong.

Of course, the reasons for the thinning hair of the two are different. Shao Quanzhong is bald for the same reason as the late Franz Joseph I and Hungarian national hero Count Andrassy, ​​while Haber's is simply "smart heads don't grow hair."

This doctor of chemistry did not call himself a genius because of arrogance, but just a rhetoric to get into Qiao Garden. When he really talked to Shao Quanzhong, his attitude was still very humble.

It is similar to the Chinese diplomats, who first brag to get you to notice them, and then have the opportunity to sell you their strategies.

What do you call this? This is called high IQ and EQ. He is the same type as Nobel and Edison, good at selling himself, and completely different from Tesla and Meucci who invented the telephone.

With the emotional intelligence of the latter two, if it weren't for Shao Quanzhong's protection, they would have never been able to make it and would have died of poverty and illness.

"I am a student of Professor Hoffmann of Berlin University. By the way, Professor Hoffmann is a disciple of Professor Liebig, who you invited to Xiaoxiang Cliff to create fertilizer for Daxia."

This is a guy whose words can definitely capture people's hearts. In the first few sentences, he pointed out his identity as a disciple of a famous family.

Liebig and Shao Quanzhong were very familiar with the merit of inventing fertilizer, which was like a blessing to the people of Daxia and even the world. It greatly increased the population growth of countries around the world and saved countless people from starvation and death.

Unfortunately, the old gentleman passed away just a few years after he came to China. His disciple Hoffmann was the pillar of Berlin University, and Germany was reluctant to let him go, so he never came.

Hoffmann made Germany the dominant force in the dye industry, and generations thereafter made money from this industry. Even into the 21st century, Germans are still reaping the benefits of the technology that Hoffmann brought to Germany.

This person was favored by Hoffman and accepted as his disciple, so he must be very talented.

"At the age of nineteen, I obtained a doctorate degree..."

"Okay, I'll accept you. Just tell me what you want from me."

After hearing Yali's translation, Shao Quanzhong immediately prepared to recruit the person.

I'm not bragging. I have a PhD from Berlin University at the age of 19. I'm a student of Hoffmann and a grandson of Liebig. With this resume, I'm in high demand wherever I go.

Such an elite talent, who took the initiative to come to see him, must have something to ask for. As long as it was not too excessive, Shao Quanzhong was prepared to agree.

Shao Quanzhong's eagerness to recruit talents made Haber stunned for a moment. I just started to talk about it, and the most important skills have not been thrown out yet, but it was taken away. I really should have come here earlier.

Harber smiled slightly, "I am Evan's fellow tribesman—"

Shao Quanzhong seemed to understand that Evan's people were not welcome in Germany. "Did you escape from a concentration camp?"

"I remember asking Evan to rescue him in advance. He is so mean that he didn't even find me a talent like you? I want to ask him to return some money. This guy is not a decent person."

Harber shook his head, "Your Majesty, you have wronged Evan. He will not leave me."

"I had just graduated with my doctorate when Waldersee recruited me into a special research group, where I developed a method for the industrial production of chlorine and mustard gas for Germany—"

Damn, what a ruthless person.

In this European war, poison gas killed 10 people and disabled more than million people. Six million people of the same ethnic group died in the Evin concentration camp, most of them died from poison gas, which was originally developed by this kid.

"I was protected by Prime Minister Waldersee himself because of my outstanding contribution to Germany, not because of my race."

"After Daxia and the Federation declared war on Germany, I regretted what I had done and had been wanting to flee Germany. Until recently, I took the opportunity of a business trip to escape."

Shao Quanzhong rolled his eyes. This man was a ruthless and bad guy, but he was also quite smart and capable.

What remorse? It was obvious that he saw that Germany was about to be destroyed, and that he, who made poison gas, would surely have a miserable end, so he came to me for refuge.

Shao Quanzhong looked serious and righteous. "You caused the deaths of so many innocent people and soldiers. You have a lot of blood on your hands. You come to me to escape punishment? This - what can you do for me?"

Harber shuddered at the beginning of Shao Quanzhong's words, but smiled at the end. Sure enough, people who can accomplish great things are not so pedantic. They are like-minded.

Uh, just a fellow traveler.

Whether it is pedantic or not depends on who died. If those things killed people from Daxia, Shao Quanzhong would have pushed him out and killed him immediately, even if you have the power of Tesla.

Now, it depends on whether you are valuable and worthy of my protection.

When it comes to his own value, Harber is very confident.

"Before I came to see you, I took a look around Xiaoxiang Cliff and found that there was a synthetic ammonia group that was researching the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizer."

"However, they have not been instructed by famous teachers, their level is very average, and the direction of their research is completely wrong, and it will not bring you any benefits."

"My great-grandmaster, Professor Liebig, studied fertilizers. From Professor Hoffmann to my generation, we have been thinking about how to make nitrogen fertilizers."

"When I graduated with my doctorate, I already had a rough idea in mind. In the past few years, I was forced by Waldersee to study poison gas, but I never forgot my master's mission."

"You give me this project, and I promise to make qualified nitrogen fertilizer for you within five years."

"This is a product that has a global demand of approximately 150 million tons per year, which will bring the population under your command to over 1.5 billion."

You don't need to tell me, I already knew this, the question is whether you can do it. This guy came with achievements, which is obviously more reliable than those chemists who are working on the problem.

Although his achievements resulted in numerous deaths, if he really invented nitrogen fertilizer, it would be enough to make up for his crimes.

Shao Quanzhong patted him on the shoulder and said, "Young man, I'm going to take a gamble on Professor Hoffman's vision and give you a team and enough funds to give it a try."

"But you have to change your name first. When you achieve something, I will make you famous all over the world."

"Don't do your research in Xiaoxiang Cliff. If someone finds you, and a righteous person asks me for you, I can't refuse, right?"

"You can go to Lanzhou to do research. I will assign you enough doctors and masters from Daxia to serve as your assistants. You don't need to do those repetitive and simple formula experiments yourself. Let your assistants do it and you can just supervise."

"At the same time, I will form a secret team for you, and the research on poison gas will continue."

"I don't plan to use poison gas, but we have to understand it. In case someone else makes it, we have to know how to defend against it in advance, right? So, you study how to control poison gas specifically for me, are you willing?" Anyone who is unwilling is a fool. This is the purpose of Haber coming to Shao Quanzhong.

"Your Majesty, if you give me enough manpower to do those boring and repetitive formula experiments, then the progress of my research will be greatly accelerated and it won't take five years."

"I've heard about your emphasis on science. Hearing about you is worse than meeting you in person. Your wisdom can illuminate the sky of the entire world."

Um, listen to how good they are at talking, Tesla, why can’t you learn from them?

The more Shao Quanzhong looked at this villain, the more he liked him, although he knew clearly that Haber had probably flattered Waldersee in the same way.

People still like sweet words even though they know they are poisonous.

Don't women know that the sweet-talking gigolo is actually unreliable? But they still throw themselves into the fire.

Those honest people who have true feelings in their hearts, but are not good at speaking, will still end up alone. This is how the world is.

The two hit it off immediately, and the genius villain Haber rushed to Lanzhou that day with Shao Quanzhong's order and began his journey to whitewash himself.

…………

English Channel.

Liao Rong and Dewey met on the Bozhou, and the seven aircraft carrier formations of Daxia and the seventeen aircraft carrier formations of the Federation successfully joined forces.

Grant, the commander-in-chief on the Liangguang, sent a telegram, announcing that the land attack on the German army would begin immediately.

Daxia had more than 100 aircraft carrier escort warships and the Federation had more than 300 escort warships, all of which began to bombard German military facilities along the coast of France and Britain.

Ten Daxia missile destroyers were used to fill in the gaps. The German warships no longer existed, and the anti-ship cruise missiles could also attack ports and land facilities.

A large number of carrier-based aircraft took off and carried out dive bombing on German artillery positions and airports along the coast.

The newly-launched aircraft carriers did not have any catapult devices, and today’s aircraft are small in size and have short take-off and landing distances, so they do not need catapults.

At the same time, another result of the small size of the aircraft is that the number of carrier-based aircraft far exceeds that of later modern aircraft carriers.

The standard displacement of the Essex-class aircraft carrier is 100 tons, the full load displacement is 103 tons, the number of carrier-based aircraft is 1750-, and the number of aircraft in the Federation's aircraft carrier formations is .

Daxia's fleet is small in number, but its aircraft carriers are large. There are more than 300 carrier-based aircraft on the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier, and the total number of carrier-based aircraft exceeds 3,000.

There were more than 2,000 dive bombers and more than 1,500 fighter planes on the Allied aircraft carriers, but their numbers were far less than those of the German ground-based aircraft.

But the Federation is wealthy and powerful, and Daxia is technologically advanced. All of its aircraft are made of aluminum alloy frames and aluminum skins. The industrialized production of aluminum was invented by the Federation.

Most of the German fighter planes were still made of canvas covers and hardwood frames, which put them at a disadvantage in air combat.

A squadron of 16 Commonwealth P26 "Peashooter" propeller fighters led the way towards the German airfield in Calais.

Federal pilot Jack was wearing goggles and chewing gum, laughing at his colleagues from Daxia in his heart.

The streamlined body of the Daxia "Feng-2" fighter jets of that squadron looked extremely impressive, but they were so timid that they rose to over 2000 meters. How could they engage in air combat at such a high altitude?

The young soldiers of Da Xia are unreliable. When it comes to machine gun fire in the air, we rednecks are the real men.

Is the Daxia Air Force timid? They have no choice.

The Feng-2 aircraft had two first-generation air-to-air missiles, the AA-1, hanging under its wings. These missiles were considered "crude" by modern standards and had a range of only 4.5 kilometers.

This thing also needs airborne radar guidance, you can't just launch it and leave it alone. 2000 meters is the minimum altitude for airborne radar guidance, any lower will be interfered by ground clutter.

No matter how simple it was, it was still a missile and had an overwhelming advantage over German fighter planes.

By the way, Daxia's pilots are much more valuable than those of the Federation. They are all recruited from college students with high salaries. Otherwise, how could they understand radar guidance?

You can visually see the enemy's biplane fighters coming towards you, there is a squadron of thirty-six of them.

That was the pride of Germany, the "Albatross", a second-generation propeller fighter designed by Germany itself.

Many planes were painted with five stars, which were the symbols of ace pilots who shot down more than five enemy planes during battles with British and French planes.

The Daxia pilot pressed a button, the wing of the plane tilted, and an AA1 flew out with a whoosh. Then, the pilot's task was to stare at the bright spot on the screen and perform radar control on the missile.

Jack stared at the opponent in the distance with his hand on the machine gun button. Suddenly, he found that a black shadow flashed above his head and went straight to the Albatross he was targeting. Then there was a flash of fire and the Albatross disintegrated.

Friendly forces 2000 meters overhead immediately set their sights on the other Albatross.

A squadron of 16 planes fired 2 missile racks into the air. Jack suddenly discovered that there were only four enemy fighters left in the opposite brigade, and the sky was full of parachutes.

The friendly forces in the air dived rapidly and were soon on par with Jack. The pilot on the opposite side made an OK gesture to him, looking very cool.

The sharp-eyed Jack discovered that the thing hanging under their Feng-2 plane was missing. He then realized that it was a bomb that could be aimed, not a fuel tank...

Thirty-two Allied fighter planes surrounded and suppressed four German Albatrosses, and the sky became clear in an instant.

The radio received an order from the enemy captain Shao Jishu. In order to make the friendly forces understand, Shao Jishu considerately used English, "Dive bombers attack the airport. Fighters, all pursue the enemy's bombers that have taken off urgently to escape."

Annoying standard London aristocratic accent. I heard that guy grew up in London...

Humph, we are still good at destroying bombers. We cannot lose to our counterparts in Daxia.

The "Pea Shooter" flapped its wings and chased after a fleeing German bomber. It was finally my time to show off my skills.

The same asymmetric air battles were taking place everywhere. German airfields and artillery positions on both sides of the English Channel quickly lost their combat effectiveness under the combined attacks of naval guns, cruise missiles, and dive bombers.

The German army lost control of the Channel. More than one million German troops who crossed the sea to fight lost their supplies from the other side, as well as the air support from aircraft carriers and land-based bombers from the European continent, and were surrounded around London.

(End of this chapter)