Chapter 1763 logging
In this unmanned valley, in addition to this part of the alert force, there are also some people who are busy. Their work has nothing to do with the alert and camping. Even the personnel have been selected before and were ordered to rest during the entire march. Therefore, they basically spent the marching last night in sleep. It is not very good to rest overnight, but it is also good. At this time, they were energetic and were ordered to go to the depths of the forest.
This is the best thing about the actions of the armored legion. Ordinary army marched overnight, no matter who was anyone, they were all over the place. Even if they were resting in shifts, someone had to take over. After several consecutive days, the iron army turned into a soft-legged shrimp. Therefore, in the era of the mainland army, marching day and night was only used in special places and when surprise troops were sent.
This problem does not exist in mechanized troops. Although resting on armor is not as good as in camps, after China's modification, the comfort and noise are greatly reduced, temporary resting is feasible. Some nerves are even thicker and resting is very good.
Of course, the task of this group of people is not to hunt. Although there are many animals in the jungle, they have to rely on hunting to replenish supplies. This is almost a drop in the bucket. In the quiet wildness, gunfire can still spread far and far away. Therefore, before entering Canada's no-man's land, for the New Army, gunfire is not allowed unless necessary.
The task of this group of people is very simple. They cut wood, clear out a large enough area in the depths of the dense forest. During this camping, in order to protect the armored troops, they chose a dense forest full of tall trees. The requirement of airdrop is to have an open landing site that may not necessarily be flat. At least from the perspective of the air, you can see that the open space is the best, without any obstruction. Even if the airdrop materials deviate a little from the wind, they can be collected quickly.
This part of carefully selected personnel needs to open up at least 50 landing sites in the dense forest. Each landing site does not need to be very large. It only needs to have a square with a diameter of 30 meters, that is, 900 square meters. The landing sites will be arranged deep in the dense forest. The combination of radio guidance and ground arrangement will guide the airplanes to facilitate the aircraft to find the target.
50 airborne fields can accept airdrops from aircraft. Even if the efficiency of dropping 2 airborne objects per minute, one airborne field can accept at least 60 tons of materials per hour. This efficiency is not low. Generally speaking, the aircraft can use one hour to complete airdrop operations, and this part of the airborne materials will be the main source of supply for the New First Army in the future.
All of them were used for airdrops, and this kind of supply method was almost epoch-making. Even during World War II, there was no such way of airdrop supply. Even if World War II was the first attempt of airborne troops, most of the airborne troops died miserably. Whether it was the US airborne division or the German airborne division, they were often airborne in a relatively large area of competition. Without supplies or reinforcements, they were the only ones, and the death rate was extremely high.
Occasionally, a few large-scale airdrops were given partial supply airdrops in the besieged troops, mainly solving the urgently needed material problems. Such airdrops are a drop in the bucket for the ground troops and at most they can survive. In fact, few troops, with the help of airdrops, turn defeat into victory.
After World War II, with the strengthening of air force, the significance of airdrops began to increase. In the 1950s, in the war that took place in the Far East, it was surrounded by five or six times of heavy troops, and was overturned by people and horses. It almost reached the Jedi US military, using airdrops and air strikes to break out a bloody road, saving the name of no reorganized regiment of the US military being wiped out. Of course, the symbolic significance is greater than the actual significance. This regiment was almost half-destroyed, and the airdrop paid a huge price, consuming a lot of fuel, and some were shot down. Most of the airdrops did not fall on the heads of the US military, but into the hands of the encirclement troops.
In the 1950s and 1960s, there was still half a century before this era. In theory, the difference in technology would be very huge. Even if China's technological strength is not as good as the US military in the 1950s and 1960s, it is not much different, especially in specific fields, such as the Air Force, which surpassed the US military of that era.
The strategic bomber with a take-off weight of more than 90 tons and a maximum load of more than 30 tons, in the 1950s and 1960s, the US military may have a match, but it is far inferior in terms of range and stability. After all, China has begun to use turboprop engines. This technology was developed in the 1980s and 1990s because the entire world air force has entered the jet type and has no way to enter the military under the premise of Mach as a speed unit. However, because of the unique nature of fuel saving, it has become the standard configuration of large passenger aircraft in later generations. It can be said that it is a bit born at the wrong time.
However, in this era, when the whole world has not entered the peak period of piston type, China has entered the era of turboprop. In terms of fuel consumption per unit range and speed, it has completely outdated the piston type engine, and perhaps it is slightly insufficient in terms of speed and explosive power, but large bombers and transport aircraft have never won by explosive power. Just such an advantage can save a lot of fuel space or increase range. Both are the most critical places for strategic transport aircraft and bombers. Therefore, China has almost had huge in-depth attack capabilities and long-range delivery capabilities.
At present, the New First Army's more than 5,000 tanks consumed by the fuel and various replenishments are about 1,800 tons per day. In the event of war, it can even surge to 2,400 tons. This is enough for the entire armored force to consume. If strategic bombers are used, about 60 will be enough. Such a small batch is not difficult for China. The only thing to consider is a large amount of fuel, which cannot be continuously deployed on a large scale like other replenishments.
As a flammable item, after the fuel collision, it is easy to be detonated by Mars caused by the collision, burning down one or two forests. It doesn't matter, it is not their territory. However, once the forest fire is triggered, it will easily attract the attention of Canada. After all, it is not far from the US military camp. Once discovered, it will not be easy to hide, making the entire cherry blossom plan fail. Therefore, it will be divided into 50 airdrop areas for airdrops, which can not only ensure the efficiency of the airdrop, but also ensure the safety of the airdrop.
This is the first day of the cherry blossom plan. As a bet on the Japanese national destiny plan, the initial arrangement was very thoughtful. Not only did this unmanned valley be a campsite, but their airborne ground was in the dense forest to prevent it from being discovered. In the dense forest of tall trees with a height of about 20 meters and 30 meters, a landing ground of 30 meters, a 30-meter radius or even larger cannot be seen in the distance, let alone hundreds of kilometers around, without any trace.
In the dense forest, in addition to being lucky and natural to open such a landing site, a large number of trees are needed to be cut down. In fact, the choice of this dense forest is because the branches and leaves are lush and there are no gaps in the forest, so the cutting work is still very heavy.
Although they did not carry large logging machinery, after some simple modifications, they could still create automatic logging machines. They simply made 200 pieces, all of which were activated by small gasoline machines. These were originally repair tools. After carrying enough gasoline, they could automatically cut them down. In addition, these specialized loggers sent a total of 2,000 people to carry out logging operations to ensure efficiency.
There is no need to land, just airdrop, remove the tall trees blocking the sky. Some shrubs and low trees do not need to be cleaned, because the signs are made of plastic and can be laid on the shrubs. According to the density of these original forests, there will be a number of plants. Every time a landing site is opened, at least 100 shrubs and more than 50 are needed, which means these 5,000 trees. This is not an easy project to complete. Even if there are automatic tools, they will hold on to a day.
In fact, it didn't take long for 2,000 people. These trees were cut down and did not need to be neatly placed, nor did they need to get wood. Among these soldiers, a small number of them, even the timber workers who first landed in Alaska, were crazy about cutting wood. You should know that when they first landed in Alaska, various woods spread throughout Alaska had not started to be mined when various gold mines and other minerals had not started to be mined, the various woods spread throughout Alaska became the focus of transactions between China and Japan. After all, when a large number of ships and ships were transported by people and machines, it was impossible to emptie them. In terms of the efficiency required at that time, it was impossible for ships to wait here, so some of them were valuable and had a certain weight, and wood was one of them.
In China, in order to protect the natural environment, there will be only a selective mining of wood on a large scale. That is, after Siberia obtained it, it became a little more abundant. However, in Alaska, there were only 1 million people with a land of more than 1 million square kilometers. After leaving the settlement area, other places were basically primeval forests and a large number of trees. These were cut down by the Japanese like worker ants and sent to transport ships. In the winter of 1916, Japan transported 3 million tons of various wood to China every month, which can be said to have created a large number of loggers. In the early days of entering Alaska, logging was the largest job for the Japanese, almost supporting the early expenses.
Chapter completed!