Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

"You're right, is there anything else?" Lin Yi looked at Ding Yi and continued to ask.

"Yes! But I don't know if it is realistic." Ding Yi nodded heavily.

"It's okay. If you have any ideas, just say it directly. Whether it can be realized is not your concern." Lin Yi looked at Ding Yi and continued to encourage.

Lin Yi is right. As a soldier, not a scientific researcher, what Ding Yi needs to do is to put forward his own ideas. Whether it can be realized or how to realize it is what scientific researchers should consider, not Ding. Yi.

Ding Yi received Lin Yi's affirmation. He first turned to look at Feng Ru, and then said: "Master Feng, if what I said is wrong, don't mind."

"General Ding is very polite. Our duty is to make the impossible possible. If General Feng has any ideas, just mention them directly. Maybe General Feng's ideas can provide an idea for our next research."

"After all, these things have to be handed over to the military in the end, so it is also helpful for us to listen to the military's opinions." Feng Ru still looked at Ding Yi with a smile on his face.

Ding Yi heard Feng Ru's words, nodded, and then said: "Your Majesty, Chief Feng, I'm thinking, since we can add machine guns to the aircraft, can we add bombs to the aircraft?"

"I just watched that brother's performance. Although this machine gun is very lethal, overall, it is not very lethal to ground targets, especially targets with certain defenses, such as bunkers and fortresses. "

"If we add a bomb, we can find a way to hit the bomb directly on the enemy's head."

"In this way, the sound and appearance of a bomb explosion are more deterrent than bullets, and at the same time, it can demoralize the enemy more."

"The second point is that we can eliminate some enemy defense forces in advance and reduce the casualties of soldiers in the rear."

After hearing Ding Yi's words, Lin Yi felt even more satisfied with Ding Yi.

According to the original plan, Lin Yi was also going to ask Feng Ru to find a way to install bombs on the plane.

After all, the planes are out and even the machine guns are used. Why can't they install bombs and turn the planes into bombers?

When Feng Ru heard Ding Yi's words, he did not give an immediate reply, but turned to discuss with the Wright brothers.

A few minutes later, Feng Rucai said to Lin Yi and Ding Yi seriously: "Your Majesty, General Ding, after our preliminary discussion, General Ding's idea can be realized."

"But, again, the engine efficiency of the current aircraft is not good. To add fuel and to add necessary heavy machine guns and bullets, the aircraft has almost reached its maximum take-off weight."

"The remaining weight cannot carry too many bombs. We estimated that at most it will be equipped with two [-]-kilogram bombs. If it is any larger, it will not be able to fly."

Lin Yi nodded when he heard Feng Ru's words.

To be honest, there are not many bombs that can be mounted with two external bombs now.

You must know that many aircraft from the First World War did not even have heavy machine guns.

At that time, pilots could only bring a revolver with them.

However, they carry revolvers not for air combat, but for self-defense after a crash if the pilot has an accident.

It can be said that, let alone now, in the early days after the start of World War I, no matter which country's aircraft, as long as they encountered the empire's aircraft, they would only be shot down.

Not to mention hanging bombs, the biggest effect of this thing is not how much it kills, but its deterrence.

Let's put it this way, for some veterans, they can hear the scream of artillery shells, and can judge the impact point of the bomb from the scream, and then avoid it.

However, bombs dropped directly from the plane will give a large number of people the illusion that the bomb is about to fall on their heads due to the height of the viewing angle, thus causing these soldiers to fall into chaos.

This is to use aircraft to spread fear and disrupt the enemy's deployment.

The one that took this feature of the aircraft to the extreme was the JU-87 of the Hans Third Reich, a Stuka dive bomber.

Its wings and landing gear have special structures that allow the aircraft to make a huge scream when it dives. Allied soldiers once lamented that this scream was the sound from hell.

Therefore, from the beginning, Lin Yi planned to lead the empire's aircraft research and development in this direction. However, before Lin Yi could say it, it was Ding Yi who said it first.

"Are there any more?" Lin Yi felt that Ding Yi was a treasure boy. His concept of using airplanes made Lin Yi very satisfied.

"One more thing, I was wondering, since airplanes can fly over enemy forces, can they be used to transport troops?"

"Transporting troops?" Lin Yi frowned slightly when he heard this sentence, but then he relaxed.

If Lin Yi hadn't confirmed with his assistant before that there would be no other time traveler in this world besides him, he might have suspected that Ding Yi also traveled through time.

When did he think of the concept of transport aircraft and airborne troops? Lin Yi had to be very suspicious.

"To transport troops, this requires increasing the load-bearing capacity of the aircraft. At present, we have no way to do it. We can only start the design after the engine has made further progress."

"At the same time, the aircraft fuselage also needs to be redesigned. The current aircraft fuselage cannot meet this demand, but it is undeniable that this proposal is worthy of our study." Wilbur White said in blunt Chinese.

Although the Daxia dialect he spoke was very stiff, Lin Yi and the others understood him.

"Don't rush this matter now. The engine issue cannot be solved in a day or two, but we can start with adding bombs to the plane." Lin Yi looked at Feng Ru and the others and said.

Feng Ru and the White brothers also nodded, saying that they would work hard.

After seeing that Feng Ru and the others had been arranged, Lin Yi looked at Ding Yi, and then said with a smile: "Fang Xiao told me that you are very smart and know how to adapt. I am convinced of this now."

"You must have guessed what I'm thinking now. What do you think? Do you want to come over and form an air force for me?"

"Let me say it first, this team has nothing now, not even a station, let alone personnel and equipment."

"So, if you are willing, everything needs to be built by you. The empire and I can give you the greatest support."

"At the same time, you need to step down as commander of the Eighth Division, but your name appears in the history of the empire in a special way. Your name will be remembered by the people of the empire."

"How about you, do you want to think about it?"

"Of course, you don't have any psychological burden. Even if you don't want to, as long as you promise not to leak the situation here, it needs to be kept secret." Lin Yi looked at Ding Yi and asked.

He originally thought that Ding Yi still needed to think about it more or less, and after he chose to go to the Air Force, everything would have to be started all over again.

But what surprised him was that as soon as he finished speaking, Ding Yi gave him an answer.