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Chapter 141: Entering Shanghai

The pilots and technicians sent to Zhangshu Army Airport were ready for complete preparations shortly after arriving at Zhangshu. After Song Hui transported more than 200 tons of air fuel from Changbei Airport, Xie Tian’s plan would be implemented in one critical step. In the past few days, Xie Tian had transported nearly 200 tons of supplies from Zhangshu. Song Hui almost plundered the entire Fengcheng area and prepared up to 30 tons of vegetables and meat supplies for Xie Tian. This was also the last batch of supplies that Xie Tian asked. Once the bombing began, the entire Zhangshu’s aviation fuel would be exhausted, and it would be very difficult to transport supplies back to Beijing.

Xie Tian followed the Il 76 transport plane to Zhangshu again. After arriving, he immediately gathered all the pilots and technicians and said, "This time the mission is very large. All the airport runways south of the Yangtze River will be destroyed, including Tibet, and all the airport information. I believe you have already been familiar with it when you came. Let's divide the work below and ensure that the task is completed before dark today."

A pilot with the rank of colonel asked, "How much damage does the airport need to be?"

Xie Tiandao: "Make sure that no taxi-taken aircraft can complete the landing."

The pilot was very clear about this concept. The crowd nodded immediately. After the technician's inspection and preparation, nearly twenty Su-27 fighters at the airport could be used normally, but the combat radius of the su27 was 1,500 kilometers. Even after the aircraft was reduced to the maximum weight, the radius only increased to 1,700 kilometers. In the southwest, the aerial refueling aircraft could only be used to ensure that the fighter returned smoothly after the bombing was completed.

The camphor tree only has more than 200 tons of aircraft fuel. The maximum round trip of the s27 will consume nearly ten tons of fuel. The radius is too large and it also requires the only refueling machine to follow the trailing support. After the maximum optimization calculation, the fuel can only be used.

The ten fighter jets took off in the camphor tree in sequence, and the refueling planes followed closely to the west and southwest regions. When it was almost dark, the only airport left south of the Yangtze River was the only one of the camphor trees.

However, other airports have only damaged the runways and have not dealt a destructive blow. If necessary, any airport runway can be repaired and activated in a short time.

The officers who have newly entered Zhao Danian's troops have successfully replaced the former core personnel of the army. Although the current army is a bit dispersed in morale, the dispersion makes it easier for them to control. Xie Tian asked the new commander to drive two tanks and two infantry fighting vehicles to Zhangshu. These four vehicles can completely block Zhangshu Airport. Any aircraft that wants to land will inevitably be destroyed and killed.

When Song Hui saw Xie Tian's series of actions after coming to the camphor tree, he vaguely guessed the purpose of Xie Tian's move. Although Xie Tian was on the surface commanding the action with the orders of Chairman Han and Commander Qin, Song Hui knew that this matter was probably Xie Tian's idea, and he had known Xie Tian for a long time. He had been together day and night, and Xie Tian either did not do it or did a great job of his character.

"I will not come back in a short time." Xie Tian found Song Hui and said privately: "Now the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway has been cleared to Tai'an. I guess it can be promoted to Tengzhou or Zaozhuang today. If you are lucky, you may be closer to Anhui. You have to ask Lao Cheng to continue to find ways to open up the railway line from here to Shanghai. Once the two railway lines are connected in Shanghai, our advantage will become great."

Song Hui nodded and said, "I will try my best to cooperate with Lao Cheng's work here. In addition, the materials will be prepared actively for you. Once this railway is opened, it will ensure that the materials can be transported to Yanjing continuously."

Xie Tian asked, "According to your estimate, how much material can be available in Fengcheng?"

"More than 100,000 tons." Song Hui said without hesitation: "And it is conservatively estimated that after all, the permanent population in this area has millions of people, and the grain reserves of millions of people are impossible, and the Xinyu Grain Depot alone has to exceed 100,000 tons."

Xie Tian sighed and said, "So much food cannot be transported back to Yanjing. It seems that he can only wait for the railway to clear."

After Xie Tian returned to Yanjing with 30 tons of food the next morning, the railway dredging work had been cleared to Suzhou, Anhui City, one day yesterday. The dredging work was very smooth. Through the approximate situation shown by aerial photos, it was no longer a problem to unblock the railway to Nanjing within three days. In order to ensure the safety of the railway, the consultant suggested sending a large number of construction workers to completely close the railway stations along the way, that is, directly sealing the railway stations in contact with land in the form of tunnels. As for the materials, for the sake of speed and safety, and not affecting the smooth flow of the railway, Xie Tian decided to remove all the ceilings of all the railway stations in Yanjing and use waste.

The first thing to be affected is Yanjing South Station. With a large amount of supplies in his hand, Xie Tian dared to summon a large amount of labor to work for himself. On the one hand, thousands of laborers, with the cooperation of cranes and transport vehicles, removed the huge ceiling at the top of the South Station bit by bit. On the other hand, a large number of welders were gathered together. On the side of the South Station, they used large cutting machines to remade the steel. After the production of the ceiling, the train was pulled to each station, and they could be built as soon as possible and played a role.

The dredging work took two weeks, and the entire Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway was finally opened to traffic smoothly. After the train was departed from Yanjing, it could arrive at Shanghai Hongqiao Station safely without slowing down. The number of zombies in Shanghai has been greatly reduced at this moment, and it is a material base to be developed.

At this moment, the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway can transport a large number of heavy military vehicles and personnel to Shanghai smoothly. Xie Tian began to have the idea of ​​Shanghai. Although there are still many zombies in Shanghai, it is much less than before. On the day of the railway clearance, he immediately controlled Patton to find Chairman Han, hoping to borrow five thousand soldiers from him, which is enough armored vehicles.

Chairman Han asked in surprise: "What do you want so many soldiers and vehicles to do? If the action is too big, other ruling parties will definitely pay close attention."

Xie Tian said, "The railway to Shanghai has been cleared. I want to bring some soldiers here and try to grab some resources back. By the way, I can also see how the situation in Shanghai is."

Chairman Han asked happily: "Has it been cleared? Have you arrived in Shanghai?"

"Yeah." Xie Tian nodded and said, "It has been cleared to Hongqiao Railway Station. The fastest internal diesel locomotive can arrive from Yanjing to Shanghai within ten hours."

"Okay." Chairman Han said: "Now the supplies in Yanjing are extremely scarce. If the supplies from Shanghai can be transported back, the situation will be much clearer."

Xie Tian smiled and said, "Or why you should allocate the personnel and equipment as soon as possible now and let them get to the South Station to gather at 8 o'clock tonight. I asked my subordinates to hurry up and prepare the vehicle. If the train departs before 10 o'clock tonight, they will arrive in Shanghai tomorrow morning."

"No problem." Chairman Han said excitedly: "If there is a lot of supplies in Shanghai, I will immediately withdraw from Nanyuan Airport and guard the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway with heavy troops. No one except ourselves shall use this major artery that runs through the north and south."

"Let's do it." Chairman Han thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you five thousand people, fifty armored vehicles and fifty military transport vehicles, so as to strive for an unexpected big gain this time!"

Xie Tian also knew in his heart that the news of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway was not concealed for a long time, and Shanghai was not bombed because the temporary military commission was too pity at the time. At that time, other ruling factions would inevitably think of the huge benefits contained therein, so this railway must be strictly guarded to avoid being used.

After Patton finished his conversation with Chairman Han, Xie Tian immediately found a railway consultant and ordered: "You should immediately send someone to prepare two trains underneath, one train has two specialized soft sleepers underneath, the other trains have a flat train, the other trains have a full train, the other trains have a box truck, and each train is reconnected to two internal diesel locomotives, and the full fuel is fully loaded to ensure that there will be no problems."

The consultant asked in surprise: "What are you doing? Such a big battle."

Xie Tian said lightly: "Go to Shanghai."

The consultant was stunned and asked happily: "As soon as the railway was cleared, you are about to take action... OK, I'll make arrangements immediately!"

Fortunately, Yanjing's railway resources were abundant. In a very short time, the two trains were prepared according to Xie Tian's request. At 8 o'clock that night, a large number of troops and armored vehicles arrived. The first thing was to load all the vehicles on the flat car. Most of the personnel also took the vehicles they came on directly. The remaining personnel entered another box car. The entire waiting process took nearly two hours. After everything was ready, Xie Tian took the awakened people around him to board the special transportation soft sleeper in the first train. Except for this train, the remaining 100 flat car were all military vehicles and the core part of combat effectiveness. These people and vehicles cleaned up the zombies near Hongqiao Railway Station, so the subsequent personnel could arrive directly, search for materials and load them.

It was the first time everyone, including Xie Tian, ​​who had been working on a special-level train or had been to Tianjin. Xie Xiaofei was still looking at the carriage and said, "It's so luxurious. I really didn't expect there were such luxurious vehicles on the railway."

Specialized soft sleepers are indeed very luxurious. Each train car is divided into two rooms, with a comfortable large bed and various furniture and appliances in the room. It is simply a mobile five-star hotel. If it is normal, the top officials of the Ministry of Railways are qualified to take this kind of car. Most of the time, they are specially assigned to national leaders for use, so the conditions in all aspects are naturally very good.

Xie Tian smiled and said to several people: "This time I went to Shanghai is not a trip. Although the number of zombies in Shanghai has been reduced by most, it does not mean there is no danger. Moreover, this time we have to collect more materials as much as possible to go back. The area that needs to be discovered and cleared is very large. After arriving in Shanghai tomorrow morning, everyone must obey my instructions and never act without authorization."

Du Yuewei asked: "Hongqiao Railway Station should be a transportation hub, right? Hongqiao Airport is also nearby, and we can find a large amount of aviation fuel there."

"Although aviation fuel is extremely scarce, there are no flight missions for the time being, so it is not an urgent task." Xie Tian said: "What is most lacking at present is food supplies. Only with a large amount of food can the stability of Yanjing be ensured."

Zhao Ziye said, "I don't think it's a long-term solution to find aviation fuel like this. Hongqiao Airport will not have too much fuel reserves. However, if we can resume production, we can find ways to transport oil from the port to Tanggu Port, and then transport it back to Yanjing for processing and production. I think there should be large oil tankers at the ports in Shanghai, including those container terminals, and there must be a large amount of available materials."

Xie Tian nodded and said, "This is a good idea. Resuming production is necessary, otherwise it will be difficult to last for too long by consumption alone."

Xie Xiaofei asked in surprise: "Brother Xie, since there are not many zombies in Shanghai anymore, why not move the capital to Shanghai directly? We have now cleared the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway and carried out full-power transportation 24 hours a day. At least hundreds of thousands of people can come to Shanghai every day. It won't take long to bring all the people from Yanjing to Shanghai."

"It's OK, yes." Xie Tian smiled indifferently and said, "It's just that the current form of Yanjing is not as simple as you seem. The ruling factions and Chairman Han are not united in their hearts and do not solve this big problem. Even if they move to the south as a whole, they cannot carry out reconstruction with all their hearts and efforts. Only after their power is dismantled can they move to the south as a whole with confidence, then break the Yangtze River Bridge and develop again in the south."

Xie Xiaofei nodded slightly. He didn't understand the battle for power and it was difficult to understand.

Everyone chatted until late at night and went back to their respective rooms to rest. The next morning, the train began to slow down and had already entered Hongqiao Station.

Since the height of the flat train is lower than the station platform, the train slowly stopped after passing the station. Then, the vehicle used its own steel plates to drive all to the ground. Hongqiao Station has an exit for large vehicles to enter. The latter car departed for three hours late. During these three hours, fifty armored vehicles must clear all threats within a radius of ten kilometers nearby to ensure that after the people behind arrived, they can immediately start searching and transporting materials.

Xie Tian, ​​Zhao Ziye and others sat in a tracked infantry fighting chariot, followed the armored troops out of Hongqiao Station from the exit and came directly to the road outside the station. At this moment, there were still a lot of zombies, and they were all attracted by armored vehicles. However, for the armored vehicle group, these zombies were not at all related to them, and they could kill them all the way.

Xie Tian was sitting in the infantry chariot. Seeing the situation outside so relaxed, he felt a little relieved. His goal was not big. As long as these five thousand soldiers could ensure the safety of the area with the station as the center and the radius of five kilometers, the amount of supplies in it would probably be amazing.

Xie Tian spoke to Zhao Ziye, "Ziye, your induction distance can cover the entire Fengcheng Power Plant. I think it is at least twenty square kilometers. You can sense the situation of the zombies nearby, and where are the zombies relatively concentrated."

Zhao Ziye nodded, then closed his eyes, carefully felt the situation around him, and spoke: "There are quite a lot of zombies, but relatively speaking, they are relatively scattered, most of them concentrated in the north, and are moving towards us now. There seem to be hundreds of them in the airport."

"No." Zhao Ziye suddenly spoke, "The one in the airport is not a zombie, but a human!"

"People?" Xie Tian asked in surprise: "Are there hundreds of people? How come so many people are stranded at the airport?"

"It's a human." Zhao Ziye nodded and said, "I just concentrated on sensing that many of those people were armed personnel, and the rest were transporting aviation fuel."

"Transport aviation fuel?" Xie Tian was stunned and thought, if an ordinary survivor was, he would never risk coming here to find aviation fuel. Could it be that Song Hui and the others had entered Shanghai? But it was impossible. After all, Song Hui could not not report to him for such a big thing.

"Who will it be?" Xie Tian said in confusion, "They must have heard the movement of the armored convoy. Didn't they move?"

"I have it." Zhao Ziye blurted out in surprise: "It's the Japanese, they are talking."

"What did you say?" Xie Tian asked hurriedly.

"I'm just Japanese." Zhao Ziye said: "Wait a moment, I'll think about it."

"It should be said that when the Chinese army comes, stop all activities first and hide them." Zhao Ziye said, "That's probably what it means."

Xie Tian frowned even more tightly, Japanese? A few days ago, didn’t Zhang Long say that the Japanese are now huddling on Hokkaido, beating zombies while asking international help? How can you have time to come to Shanghai to get aviation fuel?

"What are they doing now? What weapons and equipment do they have?" Xie Tian asked hurriedly.

"There are four armored vehicles." Zhao Ziye said: "The armored vehicles have moved and are slowly driving into the hangar. Everyone else has entered the hangar and closed the hangar gate."

"...I'll treat our land as a back garden!" Xie Tian hurriedly ordered all armored vehicles to scatter and surround the airport, then rushed into the airport and surrounded the other party.

The armored convoy did not know why Xie Tian surrounded the airport, but they would not be negligent in the execution of the orders. Then, the armored vehicles immediately headed towards the nearby Hongqiao Airport. Along the way, Zhao Ziye was sensing the actions of the Japanese. The Japanese were hiding in the hangar with fear at this moment, and they were whispering to communicate in a low voice. The general meaning was nothing more than being cautious and to wait until the Chinese army left before proceeding to the next move.

However, as the roar of armored vehicles outside became closer, the faces of these Japanese people turned pale.
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