Chapter 1846 Seaplane
When the US troops retreated, Zhou Xing and his team had already reached dozens of kilometers away. In a few hours, these special forces were enough to go to a safe place and cut off the western exit. On the other side, they could also act immediately. Once both ends were cut off, not only would the entire Pacific Railway have no room for a turn, but even the Japanese side would be much safer.
In itself, they are only planning to set up a strategic depth from Salt Lake City to Rocky Mountains, but once China blocks the Rocky Mountains, it will become the absolute wing of the armored forces. The West Coast army will simply not be able to cross the Rocky Mountains and arrive at the Central Plains. They only need to consider the East Coast.
In the dense forest, Zhou Xing and his men had already gathered together. At this time, they were heading towards a mountain 30 kilometers away. After blowing up the bridge near Sacramento, the mission had been completed. They needed to meet with the main force. Next, they would start the next stage of action in turn according to Chen Cang's plan, especially after negotiation with Japan, Japan would protect at least one destroyer into the Rocky Mountains. This was a great help to them. Some key points were found, and they could use explosives and other points, and they could use destroyers.
This is also the result of everything going well. I have considered using the destroyer before, but no one would have thought that everything would go so smoothly. Japan did not resist in the entire central region and drove straight in. On Sacramento, everything was successfully destroyed four bridges, which was equivalent to the Cherry Blossom Plan and the Chen Cang Plan. They were all in the best state to be implemented. Now of course, they are in the most extreme direction.
From Sacramento to the Rocky Mountains at the other end, it is at least 500 kilometers, and it is still a rugged mountain road. There is nothing else to borrow except a railway. Although there are not many stations inside, there are always more than a dozen stations. Some of the garrisons cannot pass by the railway. The special forces of more than 200 people are very powerful, but if they really fight head-on with the garrisons on the railway line, they may not necessarily be the opponents of those garrisons. If they are not careful, they will suffer casualties.
Now it is blocked by Japan and bombed by China. For a long time, this area has been a vacuum. Under such circumstances, China can easily arrange various combat plans. This part of the partial division is not only small in number, but also not safe, so it is better to go back.
The best way to cross the mountains is actually an aircraft. Before the helicopter appeared, the one who cooperated with the special forces was the most important one. Although it was quite restrictive and could not take off the seaplane without water, there was no need to build a runway. It was enough to take off as long as there was water.
Whether it is the Sakura Plan or the Chen Cang Plan, the final ending of the seaplane is seaplane. However, the former requires a larger seaplane because the Sakura Plane aircraft needs to fly directly to Alaska. If it is considered an air city, it will be at least 4,500 kilometers. Seaplanes with such a range will require at least a huge amount, at least a water surface of more than 500 meters. However, the Chen Cang Plan does not need it. It is a special forces of China and has aircraft carriers to cover it behind it. The distance between the aircraft carriers and the aircraft carriers is less than 400 kilometers, and there is no need for large or even medium-sized, and a few small seaplanes are enough.
At present, after the four railway bridges were devastatingly blasted, they had contacted the aircraft carrier. At least 8 small aircraft took off and headed to the agreed area. In the mountains of the United States, there are still a large number of mountains, mountains, even valleys and lakes. Most of them cannot take off and land. However, many of them can take off and land. Unlike large seaplanes, they need to find water surfaces above 400 meters. Ordinary light aircraft have a range of less than 2,000 kilometers, and even gasoline barrels they can carry for replenishment. For example, seaplanes taking off from aircraft carriers do not carry anything when taking off. They can load one or two tons of gasoline, and when staying in the lake, they either refuel or store gasoline, and use it on the return trip. This can also greatly enhance the range of the seaplane.
Many of the central mountains in the United States are steep mountains. Even in the 21st century, there are not many people present, let alone in this era, even cities like Salt Lake City and Sacramento, there are not more than 100,000 people. How could there be people in the depths of the mountains next to them?
Zhou Xing and others marched quickly in the dense forest. Although they had to climb a mountain with a relative altitude of more than 700 meters and an absolute altitude of 800 meters in the middle. Of course, the height of the whole mountain is 1,400 meters. They only need to reach the mountainside. There is a half-mountain lake of at least 4 square kilometers. The calm lake water has become the best runway. The 8 planes have already stopped here, waiting for their arrival. Then after they boarded the seaplane, they will fly to the base camp in 2 hours. Near the location chosen by the special forces, less than 15 kilometers, there is a lake of about 3 square kilometers for special forces to take off and land.
Next, except for flying back to the aircraft carrier for recharge, most of the remaining seaplanes will shuttle through the central American mountains. With the help of the plane, it is impossible to fly directly to the railway, but it can enter every area flexibly and variably. After all, the Central American Mountains are too steep, with mountains over 3,000 meters above sea level. Sometimes, a little bit of a road is to cross several mountains.
At present, China has taken the initiative in Chen Cang's plan. Within a week or even half a month, the United States cannot take into account the Pacific Railway, but in order to avoid the long nights and dreams, it is better to complete the task as quickly as possible.
Zhou Xing and others marched in the dense forest and headed to an unknown mountain lake. It was another scenario when they were far away in Washington. On the Washington side, the Joint Army Meeting had just passed one night of discussion and dispatched the order. The generals finally reached a similar result for two days and two nights of discussion. After carefully analyzing that there were not many loopholes and problems, they immediately sent the order out.
Japan's purpose is already obvious, to destroy the Pacific Railway. In this case, every day of the night, it will cause very serious consequences. At three or four in the morning, they sent the final resolution to every place, requiring the entire eastern and western garrisons to implement it as quickly as possible.
After completing all this, these generals finally left the venue. They were humans, not iron men, and they also had to eat, drink, defecate, and sleep. The two-day continuous meeting was just an urgent matter. Now the orders that should be issued have been issued. The battle against the Japanese Armored Legion cannot achieve results in one or two days. They must be considered for a long time. The generals of this part of the generals seized the time and went back to sleep, but left two generals as duty personnel, with a large number of subordinate personnel.
These two generals, who were said to be generals, were actually subordinate generals, and they were not even involved in the decision-making. Otherwise, it would not be their turn to be on duty. Most of the generals in charge of decision-making have not been asleep for two days and two nights, and have been extremely tired, so it is impossible for them to leave one.
The two generals on duty also knew that they were just temporarily pushed out and were responsible for the duty to ensure that there was a highest decision here to prevent problems. Next, Japan will continue to act. I wonder if it is still 200 kilometers west today. If it is 200 kilometers west, the railway from Salt Lake City to the Rocky Mountains will basically be destroyed.
Not only these two generals had known this, but even the generals who were going to rest now knew that no matter what kind of news, if Japan still went westward and continued to advance, it would be to record the things without disturbing these lieutenant generals.
Who knew that in less than two hours of these senior generals returning, some telegraphers came over. The two of them smiled bitterly. They thought they would receive the message, but they didn't expect it to be so fast. One of the 40-year-old American major generals said: "Take it over, where is it? Where did the other party attack? They went forward 50 kilometers or 100 kilometers."
"God of General, the other party did not move in the Great Plains. We received a telegram and the four railway bridges in Sacramento were suddenly attacked." The attendant said solemnly. Even if he was just a colonel and was only in charge of the telegram room, he got a lot of things from the telegram room, including every move in Japan. The top leaders of the entire army held meetings for two days and two nights in a row. Through his telegram room, he issued a series of orders. He knew very well that the current situation in the United States was even worse now.
After hearing the report from the attendant, the major general replied a little absent-mindedly, "Sacramento, I understand. Please write it down. See how much Japan has moved forward?"
The colonel saw that the major general obviously did not understand what he was talking about, and was about to explain, another major general next to him was stunned for a moment and said to him: "Take the telegram!"
"What's wrong, Brian, is there any problem?"
"Old Jack, Sacramento is not the Great Plains, that's the West Coast!"
General Brian was obviously more familiar with the situation on the West Coast, and even had somewhere to be stationed in Sacramento. He knew very well that it was not the other end of the Pacific Railroad in the central mountains, and one of the important hub cities near the San Francisco Bay.
Jack was also stunned. This was a new situation. He didn't know where Sacramento was, but at his hand, in the war room, there was the most accurate military map of the United States. He quickly found the location of Sacramento from the map and frowned tightly. It was completely incomparable to the appearance. Japan was in the Great Plains, and the sudden attack was near the West Coast, with more than 500 kilometers of the entire central mountain range between them. This was an insurmountable distance for any army.
The most important thing is that the stations of the entire Central Pacific Railway have been notified to closely monitor all activities in Japan. Any movement must be reported to the headquarters of Washington to help Washington search for more information and make judgments.
Under the current circumstances, there was no report here. If there were only one or two stations, it would be normal to miss it. However, there were more than 500 kilometers along the way, at least 15 stations. One omission could not be made. If Japan had already fought, it would definitely be reported. It should not have changed from this. Then there was only one possibility. On the West Coast, while Japan was preparing to attack the Great Plain, it also retained its attack on the West Coast. It was obvious that they wanted to deal with the Flat Ocean Railway, not only including more than 500 kilometers above the Great Plain, but also 500 kilometers of the Central Mountain Range. Even their activities in Salt Lake City and the previous two days were also to conceal the activities on the other end.
The railways within the Central Mountains are what the United States values most. As long as there is enough funds and manpower, construction and recovery are not a problem. Even because the technology is more advanced now, the railways can be upgraded. However, the railways in the Rocky Mountains are different, which is the United States attaches most importance to. Once there is a problem with the railways in the Rocky Mountains, it will be very difficult to restore the entire Pacific Railway.
If Japan only attacked westward, no matter how many kilometers it attacked, whether it was 100 or 200, or even hit the pass of the Rocky Mountains directly, there was no need to alarm the decision makers who went to sleep in the lounge. However, this was not the eastern part of the Rocky Mountains, but the western part. Moreover, on Sacramento, it was obvious that it would be an internal leakage, because the other party seized the time point. At the stall where the order was issued for less than 2 hours, the Sacramento Bridge, which was very critical to transport troops, was blown up, completely cutting off the passage from the West Coast to the central mountain range. Isn’t this a coincidence? Will anyone leak the secret?
This is a big deal. In addition to the highest decision-makers, there are only the joint meetings. All the military regions at all levels below received orders about them. It is very difficult to sum up the whole thing. Is it really a traitor to what they said? But this is the highest authority of the US military. The officers who can enter here are all American elites. They will also give up their faith and defect to the Japanese? This is obviously impossible.
The matter was no longer something that these left-behind generals could handle. Brian and Old Jack made a quick decision and ordered the attendants to immediately notify the generals who had just fallen asleep that this sudden situation would require them to deal with everything.
Chapter completed!