GBP Chapter 135: Bombing the Japs to Develop the B-29 (Seeking 5-star praise and gifts)
Chapter 135: Bombing the Japs to Develop the B-29 (Seeking 5-star praise and gifts)
Zhang Chi, who roughly understood the ammunition unlocking mechanism, continued to ask the system:
"So the Goblet Bomb is unlocked with the Lancaster bomber in John's tech tree, and the Hurricane I bomb is unlocked with the Strong Type 5 attack aircraft in the Qian Kingdom tech tree?"
[Yes, the host's understanding is correct.]
"great."
With the system's answer, Zhang Chi knew that not only was the problem of fried eggs solved, but there was also a place to buy hydrogen bombs.
He quickly switched to the technology tree interface in his mind.
Currently, in terms of the air force, he has unlocked the technology trees of Qian, Fuso, White Eagle, and John. However, since he has been using the military aid provided by Stevenson, the vehicles he has developed are all on the White Eagle technology tree.
"Let me see how far I have unlocked so far?" Zhang Chi muttered as he refreshed the page in his mind.
Since the main force of the independent air force is the gold-coin vehicle F4U-4B, Zhang Chi has never paid much attention to the research and development of air force vehicles before, and let the system automatically unlock them according to the order of vehicles.
“I级的【P-36战斗机】、【OS2U水上飞机】、【TBD鱼雷机】等老爷机已经研发完了？II级的【P-40E‘战斧’战斗机】、【F4F‘野猫’战斗机】、【A-36‘阿帕奇’攻击机】也研发出来了？这金币载具研发速度就是快啊。”
“那正好研发完II级的【B-34轰炸机】和两个【B-25J轰炸机】的改型，就可以研发III级轰炸机线的【B-26轰炸机】、【B-17‘飞行堡垒’重型轰炸机】和【PB4Y-2‘私掠船’反潜巡逻机】。”
"Then there's the B-17G and B-29A-BN 'Superfortress' from the Tier IV bomber line. Hehehehehe, the Japs, the Little Boy, and the Fatty are coming!"
Within the system, the [B-29A-BN 'Super Fortress'] requires 63,000 R&D points and 200,000 Silver Lions to purchase.
Now Zhang Chi has enough Silver Lion Coins in his pocket, and all he needs is some research and development points.
Including the front-end bombers that need to be unlocked at levels II and III, Zhang Chi calculated that a total of nearly 30 research and development points would be needed.
If a synthetic pilot shoots down a Japanese Type 1 fighter in an F4U-4B, he can only get 120 research and development points (only 10% of the benefits are obtained if his subordinates kill the enemy).
"We have to destroy 3000 of them? The Japs have only built more than 5000 Type 1 fighters in total, right?" Since more advanced vehicles require more research and development points, Zhang Chi found that just shooting down planes was definitely not enough to develop the B-29.
Zhang Chi thought about the rewards of bombing war zones with bombers in the game and asked directly, "System, does bombing things with bombers also earn research and development points?"
【以金币载具A-1H‘天袭者’攻击机为例，其炸死一个鬼子兵8点研发，炸毁轻武器装备也有1~10点研发，炸毁建筑10~1000点，炸毁火车、重武器、油库等设施100~1500点研发（皆为下属击杀的10%收益，若宿主亲自驾驶飞机则为所列数据10倍收益）】
Zhang Chi was unmoved by the 10-fold return offered by the system.
What a joke! A general in charge of tens of thousands of troops personally flying a plane to drop bombs? Unless the plane was carrying a little boy to Sakura Island, he would definitely be on the plane himself.
"So, we still have to learn from General LeMay and send bombers to bring warmth to the Japanese before we can develop the B-29?" Zhang Chi thought about it and knew that it was time to send out the bomber unit.
The B-25A 'Mitchell' twin-engine medium bomber (pictured at the end of the chapter, the author said) obtained from Stevenson had a bomb load of 3000 pounds and a range of 2000 kilometers.
The A-1H Skyraider attack aircraft purchased directly with 20 kilograms of gold in the system has a bomb load of 6000 pounds and a range of 2500 kilometers.
With such a short distance, let alone bombing the sacred toilet at Sakura from the South Seas, we can’t even reach the oil fields in Borneo.
Taking into account fuel-consuming actions such as climbing and turning, the B-25 fleet, departing from the Xinwangping base, can bomb Mandalay in the central region, while the A-1H fleet can bomb Yangon on the coast.
"We still need heavy bombers. If we can bomb the oil fields in Borneo and Java, I can't even imagine the profits." Looking at his short-legged planes, Zhang Chi couldn't help but sigh.
The B-17 has a range of 3000 kilometers and in the future, departing from Yangon, will be able to cover North Sumatra.
The B-29 has a range of 6000 kilometers. In the future, starting from Yangon, it will be able to directly cover important cities and large islands such as Borneo, Bangkok, Jakarta, Malacca, and Luzon.
This shows the importance of the B-29 as a powerful weapon for a great power. Therefore, neither the White Party in the future nor the White Eagle's minions such as South Annam and South Korea will be able to obtain the B-29 heavy bomber. Uncle Sam can only give them some small toys such as P-51 and B-25 for self-defense.
On the contrary, with the B-29, other people's capitals are within your air strike range, and they have to speak to you in a low voice for fear of startling you.
In order to speak loudly on the international stage in the future, Zhang Chi decided to launch a massive bombardment on the Japanese and use their heads to exchange for research and development points to develop the B-29 without delay!
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So far, Stevenson has provided Zhang Chi with hundreds of P-40 fighters, more than 100 C-47 transport planes, and more than 60 B-25 bombers.
However, the fighter planes had achieved the result of shooting down the Japanese planes, and the transport planes were also running back and forth to transport goods, but the B-25 bombers did not perform at all.
Although Stevenson also knew that unlike fighter jets that were easy to operate and transport planes that could be directly flown by pilots from Qianhang Company, the training of large bomber crews was very time-consuming.
But that was Zhang Chi, the magical Zhang who brought him countless victories and reputation.
Because Claire's air force was focused on bombing missions within the country of Qian, the originally planned bombing of Southeast Asia was never carried out.
Stevenson, who developed path dependence, thought of Zhang Chi again. Could he bring him another miracle this time?
Therefore, when he learned that Zhang Chi had requested information about the Japanese airports and oil depots in Mandalay and Rangoon through Jason from the Intelligence Bureau, he laughed so hard that crow's feet appeared at the corners of his eyes.
Facing Zhang Chi's request, Stevenson waved his hand and said to all his subordinates:
"You must give my General Zhang your full support. Intelligence, heavy bombs, spare parts, fuel, whatever he wants, you must give it to him. Instead of sending C-47s over the Hump to transport things that are destined to end up on the black market for the son of a bitch, it's better to give them all to Zhang Chi. At least he will actually drop the bombs on the Japanese!"