Late at night, there is an open space outside the ancient city
Hundreds of soldiers were sweating profusely and were using various tools to smooth the ground in the dark. From time to time, the sound of metal hitting stone could be heard in the silent night sky.
A captain who was sweating profusely stopped what he was doing, walked up to Willow Man, and asked breathlessly: "Commander, do we really want to build an airport here?"
Liushu Man, who was also covered in sweat, said angrily: "Ergazi, did I say my order not clearly enough and need to be repeated again, or is it because your ears are stuffed with donkey hair and you can't hear my order?"
"No." The captain became a little anxious, "Regiment, it's not that our king is disobeying his orders sincerely, but the order from the division headquarters is actually a bit outrageous. Is the airport so easy to build? Not to mention other things, it is just for leveling the land.
We don't have a single stone mill, donkey, ox or horse.
Besides, how can we start work in the dark at night? Since the start of work, five or six brothers have accidentally been hit on their hands and feet by tools. Moreover, the construction period is still so tight. A 300-meter long road must be leveled tomorrow morning.
It’s a long runway, are you just playing around?”
"Play?"
The willow tree man gave him a cold look, "I'm telling you Ergazi, if you have time for small talk, you might as well work hard.
If the runway is not built before dawn tomorrow, I will kill you first before you can accuse me."
Seeing Willow Man's stern expression, the captain knew that his captain was definitely not joking, so he was so frightened that he quickly picked up the shovel and started working hard...
With the desperate efforts of five to six hundred engineers, a roughly 300-meter-long earth runway was finally laid before six o'clock in the morning. Although the runway looked extremely rough, it was said that it was
It can barely be said that it is a runway.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the Gaoji people came here with more than a dozen guards. Looking at the track, which was paved with dirt and still somewhat uneven, he frowned. He turned to ask the Liushu people.
"Captain Liu, can this runway take off and land aircraft?"
Liu Shuren smiled bitterly and said: "Master, time is too tight. The brothers have tried their best to build this runway. More than ten brothers have been sent to the field hospital."
The Gaoji man turned his head and looked around, and saw hundreds of ragged engineers lying around the runway, snoring loudly one after another. He swallowed back the words of blame that he had originally spoken.
He gave a helpless smile: "I hope all the planes coming today will land safely, otherwise our 200th Division will be in danger."
As the division commander, of course he knows the headquarters' plan.
In the telegram sent to him by the headquarters yesterday, Luo Zhuoying and Du Yuming told him the overall plan. It can be said that whether the airport is completed or not is related to the life and death of the 200 Division.
Once this plan fails, it means that 200's last hope of survival is cut off, and they will have no other choice but to die in battle.
"Master, the plane is coming." At this moment, Liu Shuren suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted.
Soon, along with a roar, a group of black spots began to appear on the horizon.
"Look...it's coming...it's coming..."
"One, two, three..." The good guy counted and there were twenty planes in total.
Moreover, these planes are divided into two parts. The twelve planes in the middle are slightly larger, and the eight planes next to them are slightly smaller.
"Quick, send the signal!"
"Bang bang..." Soon, two red signal flares shot into the sky from the ground.
The fleet soon discovered the eye-catching flares, and soon the twelve planes in the middle lowered their altitude. After circling for confirmation, the first plane began to lower its nose and rush down towards the runway.
At this time, the soldiers of the Engineer Regiment, who had slept like dead pigs after a busy night, were all awakened by the roar of the plane. They got up one by one and gathered around the runway to watch the excitement.
Looking at the strange-looking plane that was swooping down towards the runway, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old soldier with a childish look on his face couldn't help but complain to a companion next to him: "Uncle Hei, that plane is great.
How ugly! He actually has three heads."
"You kid, you know nothing." The companion next to him was a middle-aged uncle in his forties. Years of hard work made him look quite dark and old.
He couldn't help but rub the young man's head and said with a smile: "Shan Yaozi, you are an unweaned baby and you know very well. No matter how ugly this airplane is, it is here to save us.
The little devil's plane is nice to look at, but it's here to kill us.
Besides, it would be nice to have a plane, but you are still picky."
In fact, no matter whether it was the middle-aged veteran or the young man, although he was talking, everyone's eyes never left the plane.
This is a rather weird-looking aircraft. Equipped with three engines and three propellers, it looks like a three-headed monster. It is the JU-52 transport aircraft nicknamed Steel Annie.
This aircraft has always been known for its ruggedness and durability. It can land at wild airports and even gentle grasslands, and its flight performance is very reliable. This is why it was selected by Gao Hongming.
I saw the first JU-52 approaching the runway quickly, and its thick tricycle landing gear had already been lowered.
When the aircraft approached the ground, the nose of the JU-52 rose slightly, and the landing gear wheels located on the belly of the aircraft first touched the ground, followed closely by the two wheels under the wings.
The moment the wheels touched the ground, the heavy fuselage raised a cloud of thick dust and smoke with its huge inertia.
The runway built overnight was naturally not very smooth. The whole plane bounced slightly for a while. Fortunately, the structure of the plane was still stable and did not fall apart. It finally stopped after taxiing for more than 200 years.
Seeing that the plane finally landed safely, there was a burst of cheers at the airport, followed immediately by the second and third planes starting to land...
"Brothers, go up and help!"
When all twelve JU-52s docked, hundreds of soldiers from the Engineer Regiment swarmed toward the transport aircraft with a roar.
Soon, as the hatch opened, the soldiers moved the contents of the transport plane out.
At this time, a group of soldiers wearing Type 36 German military uniforms came with the transport plane. They were affiliated with the Liantai Militia Engineer Battalion.
Two groups of engineers shouted slogans and lifted pieces of Marston steel plates out of the engine room.
Each of these perforated steel plates is 3 meters long, 0.38 meters wide, and weighs 30 kilograms. There are two transverse grooves that divide each plate into three sections. There are a total of 87 holes on it, and there are buckles on the front and rear for use between the plates.
The combination of.
This kind of steel plate specially designed for paving runways is very convenient to splice. Each steel plate can be firmly connected together after being laid out and spliced.
With the joint efforts of engineers and soldiers, it took less than four hours to transform the originally more than 300-meter long earth runway into a more than 500-meter-long standard runway that can accommodate medium-sized transport aircraft and bombers.