Chapter 1828 Fixed Flying Wings
The umbrella flowers in the air have changed from single umbrella flowers to huge umbrella flowers. Among the items airborne by the transport aircraft, the largest one is even 4 tons. It is a forklift, specially transported to establish this valley base. A small team of only a few hundred people. If you want to gather these materials together and build a stable base to store it, you must use machinery and simple labor. Even if each person can carry 100 kilograms of things at one time, less than 400 people, each time only dozens of tons, and it takes forty or fifty times to be transported. Without machinery, you may spend all day long to carry things.
The huge forklift is enough to lift items below 3.5 tons. Although the largest airdrop is a 4-ton forklift. Below the forklift, which is about 1.5 tons, it is specially made of squares and partitions. Just look for a flat place and lay some wood to prevent moisture. It is covered with a raincoat. A simple small storage base is formed.
Some paratroopers put their belongings aside. They need to prepare in advance, build bases and Chencang plan in the area set in advance, and China also pays more attention to this core focus, but carpet-style investigations, using planes to take at least 30,000 photos at low altitudes. According to the photos, a similar model was copied in Alaska. The designers also designed based on this. There will be nearly 20,000 tons of explosives in the future and will be poured here. Although the rainfall in the Rockies in summer is not heavy, we have to guard against it. In addition, half a month, we need to live more comfortably.
With the help of simple materials and early airdrops, hundreds of special forces began to lay the foundation. Among these people, three groups did not participate. Their respective forms a cordon at a high place. This valley is easy to defend but difficult to attack, with only one entrance, or on the other side of the railway, in the vast mountains. This is also the fundamental reason why China chose such a valley as its base camp. It is only one aspect, with few people coming to the scene, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
After the forklift came down, several soldiers stepped forward and removed the foam wrapped around the forklift. This was a necessary measure to prevent the forklift from being shaken and collided. The mechanical experts checked the forklift and everything was fine. After the roar sounded in the valley and just started to be high, but with the smooth running of the engine, the forklift sound began to decrease.
Compared with large trucks or cranes, cars with strong output power, forklifts have little output power. The working range is no more than 1 kilometer and the speed is quite slow. With a simple fork, items of a certain weight can be transported from the vehicle or ship to another place, which solves the problem of handling efficiency and greatly saves manpower. China's ports and container terminals use tower cranes and large cranes. However, when loading some large items into containers, forklifts can greatly save manpower, which is also the fundamental reason for the extremely high efficiency of Chinese ports.
It is precisely because the forklift sound is very low that I chose to use it here. The straight-line distance from the railway is about 6 kilometers. If the noise is too high, it will definitely attract the attention of passing vehicles on the railway. Although the train itself is very loud in this era, China dare not gamble. You must know that about 20,000 tons of high-explosive explosives are a dangerous thing in itself. China cannot put it in a safe place like an airport or a base. There are only a few hundred soldiers. Even with the help of forklifts, even if some simple house parts are dropped, it can only shelter from wind and rain. At this time, any shell will fall down, like a cigarette butt falling into fuel, and the explosives will be detonated. In a valley of more than ten square kilometers, the strength of 20,000 tons of explosives cannot be best, but it is also a nightmare. At least, none of these people who are close at hand can escape.
The Pacific Railway was cut off, which does not mean that there were no trains passing by on the Pacific Railway. During the entire Sakura Operation, Japan, with the support of Chinese intelligence, could easily avoid the US and Canadian troops and live in the area, completing an incredible miracle.
This miracle ended when attacking Salt Lake City. The attacked cities are completely different from not attacking. Japan cannot keep secrets. Even if the railway line is cut off in advance, it is not possible. It is easy to break through a city of tens of thousands of people, but it is absolutely impossible to kill everyone. With just one armored legion, this is absolutely impossible. After China knew that Japan captured Ogden, at most one day, the news of Japan's large number of armored convoys attacking the hinterland of the United States would definitely be exposed. The news of the Japanese cutting off the Pacific Railway is probably well known to the Americans.
This is not Hawaii, nor Alaska, this is Salt Lake City, this is Utah, this is in the hinterland of the United States. Once Japan's armored forces bloom on all sides, the political situation in the United States will be absolutely unstable, so it is almost inevitable that there may not be passenger or freight trains coming over this section of the Pacific Railway, but the military train is almost certain.
The United States also knew that it was difficult for it to deal with the large number of armored forces. If it was not sent here at the beginning, it was to accumulate strength, because if there were too few troops, it would be easy for the other party to seize opportunities. If there were a small number of troops, it would definitely be delivered. However, if there were too many, a coordination problem would arise. In this case, they would not allow the army to come, and prepare first. Anyway, if it was done, it would be very fast. As long as it was prepared, the local area would coordinate and mobilize it quickly.
Because of this, Chinese special forces can easily enter the mountainous areas and fight a time difference. Not only did they not have any traces of trains within 200 kilometers, but even after landing, when they started to sort out these supplies, there was no train coming. They were ready to take their time, so they simply accelerated the speed and sorted the supplies one by one with the roar of the forklifts.
The aircraft took half an hour to complete the entire airdrop process, and a total of 2,000 tons of various materials were airdropped, including 30 various machinery and equipment, including forklifts. These tools were mainly forklifts, a total of 15, as well as other cranes, small forklifts and several off-road vehicles. The former was used to dig pits, while the latter was used to move in the Rocky Mountains.
With the help of mechanical tools, more than 2,000 tons of materials were quickly gathered together and sorted together. They were divided into three parts. The first part is of course the giant flying wing used in the first operation. This flying wing was a sequence that had just been added to the special forces to fight in mountains or to fly on a large scale. This kind of fixed wing can be folded, and the entire size is only one meter square. After being stretched out, the umbrella surface of the entire fixed wing exceeds 100 square meters, which is enough to bear huge weight.
This huge wing, which is composed of polymer composite materials, can carry about 1 ton of materials, that is, in addition to people themselves, it can also carry at least 900 kilograms of various materials. The peaks of their valleys are more than 7 kilometers away from the Pacific Railway, and they are all rugged mountain roads. The valleys here are chosen among the huge peaks on both sides. If they pass through the ground, they cannot carry a large amount of materials at all.
The members of these special forces are all powerful by Kong Wu, and they are specially selected, but they cannot be used as livestock. According to Chen Cang's plan, more than 700 kilometers of railway lines in the entire Rocky Mountains will be destroyed at least 70%. Among them, various bridges, traffic roads, and tunnels are all key points. Some places, even valleys, are destroyed, and no chance of repair will be given, and most railway forks and key points will be completely destroyed. As long as the goal of about 80% can be achieved, this railway must be rebuilt. This is also the ultimate goal of Chen Cang's plan. The amount of explosives used can be said to be unprecedented.
With such a huge task, all the supplies cannot be airborne near the target location in advance, so there is a lot of transportation. The complex environment of the Rocky Mountains requires a lot of transportation from here to any target location. Fixed wings have become an inevitable choice. With the help of airflow at high altitude, a relatively large amount of supplies can be delivered to the destination step by step under the control of personnel.
For example, at the node of the Pacific Railway a few kilometers away, there is about 3.7 kilometers of mountain valley bottom here. The narrowest place is no more than 8 meters, and the widest one is no more than 17 meters. To destroy the place and completely block the entrance, it requires at least 200 tons of explosives. Even if there are more than 300 people, each person carrying 100 kilograms of explosives, it takes 6-7 times. The rugged mountain road is far more difficult to walk than ordinary flat ground. Even these soldiers have enough physical strength to complete these transportations, and it takes at least 2 hours to complete the transportation. The return journey may be faster, and it takes 3 hours to go back and forth. There is nothing to do in a day, and it is all placed on transporting these materials.
But the fixed wings are different. On the mountain peak, the relative height is about 800 meters. As long as the weather is not stormy, you can go through the fixed wings. Under the premise that the wind and other things are beautiful, a fixed wing of about 250 is enough to transport about 200 tons of materials to the next side of the railway. The time it takes not very long, maybe no more than half an hour, and there is nothing physical strength. The team members can continue to bury explosives. If everything goes well, even before the arrival of the evening, they can bury the explosives and detonate them to complete the task of blocking the exit.
Chapter completed!