my bright sword career

Chapter 723 The Runway
Late at night with an open space outside the ancient city

Hundreds of soldiers were sweating profusely, using various tools to level the ground in the dark. In the silent night sky, there were occasional clanging sounds of metal hitting stones.

A captain who was sweating profusely stopped what he was doing, walked up to the willow man and asked out of breath, "Tuan Zuo, are we really going to build an airport here?"

The willow tree man who was also covered in sweat said angrily: "Er Gazi, is it because I didn't say my order clearly enough and I need to repeat it again, or maybe your ears are stuffed with donkey hair and you can't understand my order clearly?"

"No." The captain was a little anxious, "Teacher, it's not that my king is sincerely disobeying orders, it's because the division's order is a bit outrageous. Is the airport so easy to build? Let's not talk about it, it's just for leveling the land. We don't have any livestock such as stone mills, donkeys, cows and horses.

Besides, there is no way to start work when the lights are dark at night. Since the start of work, five or six brothers have accidentally been hit by tools, and the construction period is so tight that a 300-meter-long road will be flattened tomorrow morning. The runway, is this playing? "

"Play?"

The willow man gave him a cold look, "Let me tell you Ergazi, if you have the time to chat, it's better to hurry up and work.

If the runway is not built before dawn tomorrow, I will kill you first before the master can accuse me. "

Seeing the 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 or six hundred engineers, a roughly 300-meter-long soil runway was finally laid before six o'clock in the morning. Although the runway looks extraordinarily rough, it is a The runway is also barely passable.

At [-] o'clock in the morning, the Gaoji people came here with more than a dozen guards. Looking at the runway paved with mud, which was still somewhat uneven, he frowned. He turned to ask the willow man.

"Commander Liu, can planes take off and land on this runway?"

The willow man smiled wryly and said, "Master, time is too tight. The brothers have done their best to build this runway, and 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 smiled helplessly: "I hope the planes coming today can land safely, otherwise our 200th division will be suspended."

As a division commander, he certainly knew the plan of the headquarters.

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 the completion of the airport is related to the life and death of the 200th Division.

Once this plan fails, it means that 200's final way of life will be cut off, and they will have no other way but to die in battle.

"Master, the plane is coming." At this moment, the willow man suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted.

Soon, with a roar, a group of black spots began to appear in the sky.

"Look... it's coming... it's coming..."

"One, two, three...." The interested person counted a total of twenty planes.

Moreover, these planes are divided into two parts, with the twelve planes in the middle being slightly larger, and the eight planes beside them being slightly smaller.

"Quick, send the signal!"

"Bang bang..." Soon, two red flares shot up from the ground.

The fleet quickly discovered the eye-catching flare, and soon the twelve planes in the middle lowered their altitude. After circling to confirm, the first plane began to lower its nose and rush down towards the runway.

At this time, the soldiers of the engineering regiment who had been sleeping like dead pigs after a busy night were all awakened by the roar of the plane. They got up from the ground one by one and gathered around the runway to watch the excitement.

Looking at the strange-looking plane that swooped down towards the runway, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old soldier with a hint of childishness on his face couldn't help complaining to a companion next to him: "Uncle Hei, how good is that plane?" Ugly! It has three heads."

"You kid, you know what a fart." The companion next to him was a middle-aged uncle in his forties. Years of work made him look quite dark and old.

He couldn't help rubbing the boy's head and said with a smile: "Shan Yazi, you, a child who has not yet been weaned, know very well, no matter how ugly this plane is, it is here to save us.

The little devil's plane is pretty, but it's here to kill us.

Besides, it's good to have a plane, you kid is still picky. "

In fact, no matter whether it was the middle-aged veteran or the young man, although they were talking, everyone's eyes never left the plane.

This is a rather weird aircraft, equipped with three engines and three propellers, it looks like a three-headed monster, it is the JU-52 transport aircraft nicknamed Iron Anne.

This aircraft has always been known for its robustness and durability. It can land on field airports and even gentle grass, and its flight performance is very reliable. This is why it was selected by Gao Hongming.

I saw the first JU-52 quickly approaching the runway, and the thick rear three-point landing gear had already been put down.

The moment the plane approached the ground, the nose of the JU-52 rose slightly, and the wheels of the landing gear on the belly touched the ground first, followed by the two wheels under the wings.

The moment the wheels hit the ground, the heavy airframe raised a thick cloud of dust with its huge inertia.

The runway built overnight was naturally not too smooth, and the whole plane bumped and bounced a few times for a while, but fortunately, the structure of the plane was still stable and did not fall apart because of this, until it finally stopped after taxiing for more than 200 miles.

Seeing that the plane finally landed safely, there was a burst of cheers at the airport, and then the second and third planes began to land...

"Brothers, go up and help!"

When all twelve JU-52s docked, with a scream, hundreds of soldiers from the engineering regiment swarmed towards the transport plane.

Soon, as the hatch opened, the soldiers moved out the contents of the transport plane.

At this time, a group of soldiers wearing 36-style German military uniforms came along with the transport plane, and they belonged to the engineer battalion of the Liantai militia.

Two gangs of engineers chanted and lifted pieces of Marston steel 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 board into three sections, with a total of 87 holes punched on it, and buckles on the front and back for the joining of boards.

The splicing of this kind of steel plate specially designed for laying the runway is very convenient. After each steel plate is laid out and then spliced, it can be firmly connected together.

With the joint efforts of the engineers and soldiers, it took less than four hours to transform the original 300-meter-long soil runway into a 500-meter-long standard runway that can accommodate medium-sized transport aircraft and bombers.

(End of this chapter)