There is a wasteland covering several miles behind Yangping Town. It was originally sparsely populated, but since it became a settlement point for the wounded, it has become lively in an instant.
As the number of wounded increased, the place became more and more crowded. Even the medical team with more than 100 doctors and more than 400 nurses felt overwhelmed.
In order to solve this problem, Gao Hongming ordered the engineering company and the baggage battalion to quickly build a runway capable of taking off and landing transport aircraft.
For this purpose, not only the engineering company and the supply battalion began to take action, but also more than 3,000 young and strong laborers from Yangping Town were mobilized. It only took three days to level a piece of flat land more than 900 meters long and more than 10 meters wide.
Then lay the PSP perforated steel plate, and a simple runway is built, and today is also the day when the runway is officially completed and put into use.
When Gao Hongming and Xie Wenqian arrived at the runway, escorted by Dabao and dozens of soldiers from the guard battalion, they found that the place was already crowded. There were not only doctors and nurses from the medical brigade, but also an infantry company responsible for the safety of the medical brigade and
People came to see the excitement.
But unlike those people who were in high spirits, Gao Hongming's first thought after seeing this scene was safety issues.
He frowned, lowered his head and said a few words to Dabao. Dabao nodded in agreement, and then called in two more companies from the guard camp through the walkie-talkie to separate the spectators from the wounded until a distance of three hundred meters was maintained.
Then someone was sent to invite Gao Hongming over.
Dabao's behavior naturally caught the attention of the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Third Army who had arrived early.
There are some people who approve of this move and some people who are disdainful of it.
A staff officer of the Third Army couldn't help but murmured in a low voice: "This is too much to make a fuss about. We don't care much about it, but the caliber of a small regiment commander is actually bigger than the military seat."
"Shut up." A calm companion on the side warned in a low voice: "If you kid can build such a family business from scratch, let alone a military seat, let alone a stage show here, you will be considered a master of music.
Even if it goes to Chongqing, the Chairman will have to grit his teeth and endure it."
"I……"
The staff officer wanted to say more, when suddenly there was a burst of cheers from around him.
"The plane...the plane is coming!"
"Our plane!"
Amidst the cheers, a group of black spots began to appear in the sky, and soon a low roar was heard in everyone's ears. As time went by, these planes gradually became clearer, and then bursts of sound came from the crowd.
The array exclaimed.
"Oh my god, why is this thing so big?"
"There is such a big iron bird!"
As people screamed, the first C-47 transport plane landed on the runway. The nearly 14-ton aircraft hit the perforated steel plate with huge inertia, making a muffled squeaking sound, and then bursts of green smoke came out.
, and then taxied for hundreds of meters on the runway before slowly stopping.
Then, the three trucks that had been waiting on the runway immediately drove over quickly. Dozens of soldiers from the supply camp jumped out of the vehicles. The cabin door slowly opened, and the soldiers from the supply camp moved the things in the cabin.
Come down.
Gao Hongming pointed to the aircraft and explained to Tang Huaiyuan and Brigadier Chen: "We have two transport squadrons, a total of 24 C-47 transport aircraft, with a maximum load capacity of 5.7 tons, which can carry a platoon of soldiers or twenty soldiers
wounded.
Now if the two squadrons are dispatched together, they can transport 136 tons of supplies and transport 480 wounded people at one time. Since we are only more than 300 kilometers away from Liantai County, if we open up the transportation, we can dispatch five to six troops every day.
batch."
After hearing this, Brigadier Chen silently calculated in his mind, and not only exclaimed: "My dear, so the troops we can transport in each batch can reach 6 companies, based on five to six batches per day.
, it can transport three to four regiments of troops, which is amazing."
The surrounding staff officers were also secretly frightened, and many of them realized for the first time the power of airlift.
However, Gao Hongming shook his head, "Mr. Chen, that's just an algorithm under ideal conditions. In fact, such ideal transportation sorties are rarely achieved on the battlefield. You must know that the Japanese will not just watch us transport large-scale transportation by plane.
Supplies and casualties.
They will definitely send fighter planes to intercept them. You must know that our transport planes are unarmed and have no resistance at all when encountering Japanese fighter planes. So do you see those planes in the sky?"
After that, Gao Hongming pointed to the sky, and Brigadier Chen and others discovered that there were dozens of fighter planes hovering in the sky.
"These fighter planes are all escorting our transport planes. Even if our transport planes have landed, they do not dare to slack off. They must guard our transport planes in the air. Otherwise, it will be difficult for a few Japanese planes to come and throw them away.
Drop a few bombs or fire a few rounds of bullets, and we'll have a lot of fun."
After listening to Gao Hongming's explanation, Brigadier Chen and others realized that nothing is invincible. Those seemingly huge steel birds are actually very fragile. A bomb or a shuttle of large-caliber bullets can make them invincible.
Injured or even destroyed.
While everyone was talking, soldiers from the supply camp had already driven nearly a hundred trucks to load and unload all the cargo brought by more than 20 planes. Then came the nurses from the medical brigade, and the caregivers carried stretchers onto the plane one by one.
These stretchers carry all seriously injured people, who will be sent to Liantai County for further treatment.
It only took less than an hour for these transport planes to land and load the wounded.
Soon, as the first plane started, its speed increased from slow to fast, and soon it shot straight into the sky. After the two transport planes formed a formation in the sky, dozens of fighter planes that were originally hovering in the sky quickly joined them, and then
Gradually disappeared from people's sight.
Looking at the plane going away, Brigadier Chen and Tang Huaiyuan couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. After these days of fighting, the number of wounded in the army has reached more than 1,600, including about 500 seriously wounded. This time they can
All the seriously wounded were transported away, which is of great significance to the morale of the troops and reducing the burden and pressure on the medical brigade.
The two of them looked at each other, and then at Gao Hongming beside them. Even though they had been in the arena and official circles for half their lives, they were amazed by Gao Hongming's endless methods.
Not to mention all kinds of advanced light weapons, even heavy artillery, tanks and even various aircraft. How on earth did he do it?
Just when Brigadier Chen couldn't help but want to ask, another plane came from a distance. When he looked closer, he realized that this plane was small and exquisite, like a dragonfly.
I saw the plane landing in a hurry, bouncing and gliding on the ground for tens of meters before stopping. A female pilot jumped out of the plane, looked around and ran towards Gao Hongming and the others.
.
"Regiment... Sirs, it's an emergency. The Japanese's 31st, 33rd and 36th divisions have approached Qiuyang County, and are only more than ten kilometers away from us!"