Chapter 133: Carrying
Speaking of which, it is not that these soldiers have not seen this flying machine during their training in the past few days, and it is said that this "miracle" that something tens of meters long like a 'cow' can fly freely in the sky is quite attractive to these soldiers. But now no soldier thought that this "'milk' cow" would appear in front of him, and this thing usually doesn't look big in the air of a few hundred meters, but at this moment it suddenly appeared at an ultra-low altitude of more than ten meters, which made the group of special investigators in front of them, who were usually the most daring in the entire Senate, a little scared.
"What is this thing for?" "Is it there to fight the rebels?" "We're all together, aren't we? Will it eat us? "The soldiers couldn't help but whisper a little, and many of them quietly retreated, no one was sure what they were planning to do with this thing flying so low now.
"That's it!" Ma Xiang shouted, "Quiet! β
In the end, it was the most 'elite' unit in the Senate, even if the soldiers were still quietly glancing at the descending airship with some trepidation, but no one spoke anymore. At this time, the assembly field was silent, except for the whirring sound of the propellers of the airships.
"This is the newest transport of our Senate - an airship! You see, there's still people in the command cabin watching us! Ma Xiang said and turned around and waved his hand towards the position of the command cabin, the soldiers hurriedly looked at the command cabin, several windows of the command cabin were lit at the moment, and the figure was faintly projected on the glass of the window, and it seemed that someone waved his hand to this side. Ma Xiang estimated that it would take some time for the airship to land, and ordered loudly here, "Now everyone knows that this is an airship, we are the most 'elite' special reconnaissance team in the entire Senate, but they are from the Air Force and Navy, we can't let them look deflated, give me my head up, 'chest', stand up!" β
It is said that the army is a place that pays attention to the sense of collective honor, and with Ma Xiang's order, the soldiers suddenly stood in their positions neatly on the assembly ground, like a silent wall.
The airship stopped descending when it descended to six or seven meters above the ground, and the hatch behind the command cabin slowly unfolded downward, and the lights were on inside, and at this height, anyone could see through the light that there were seven or eight soldiers wearing navy navy blue 'color' training uniforms standing inside, they were holding the handrails one by one, and they were tied with ropes around their waists, and they all came to the outer edge of the deck to look down, and some people turned back to shout something loudly inside, but because of the echo interference in the airship cabin, the special reconnaissance team members below could not hear clearly.
"Okay, this height is almost the same," Yuan Zhenli walked to the end of the deck with the handrail, looked at the height below, and felt a little trembling in his heart. In fact, he is a bit afraid of heights, but now as the commander-in-chief of the Air Force of the Senate, if he tells others that he has a fear of heights, it is estimated that he will be laughed at by all the elders in the entire Senate until he can't hold his head up forever, so he has not told anyone except Yang Canling. He took a few deep breaths, looked down at the height again, and said to the Navy sergeant next to him, "You're the first, but remember what I said before!" Before untying the safety rope and landing, it must be ensured that the rope does not come into contact with the water on the ground, and the first thing to do after touching the ground is to ground the wire that is electrostatically discharged, otherwise it will ......"
Although the non-commissioned officer had heard the exact same warning many, many times, he still listened carefully, and he had seen many veterans demonstrate to him that the glass 'stick' rubbed a few times with sheep 'hair' could flash electric sparks between the iron rods, and they could also make a crackling sound. The flowers were exactly the same as the thunder and lightning in the sky, so he had always felt that the patriarchs were simply performing miracles, and he would listen to whatever the patriarchs said, and strictly follow their instructions.
The airship slowly approached the ground, and several non-commissioned officers slid down the rope, all of them trying to keep their hands off the rope as close to the ground, so as not to become conductors of grounding. After landing, the non-commissioned officers scattered one after another, approaching the cable that they needed to grasp, and they all turned their heads to look at the non-commissioned officer who was responsible for grounding and releasing static electricity.
The airship did not land as Ma Xiang imagined, but dropped two rope ladders from the tail of the cargo hold 'door', the landing of the airship is not an easy task, take-off and landing are carried out through the emission of hydrogen, now the production and storage of hydrogen is not a problem, but whether it is Yuan Zhenli or a large group of veterans of the Industrial Committee, no one trusts their half-baked craftsmanship, if there is a leak in the hydrogen emission - this thing has not been detected, it is really a little fire' Flowers can make the entire airship a huge torch that illuminates the Oriental Harbor, and it may not be possible to parachute in time, so it is better to minimize the chance of landing on the ground until the airtightness can be absolutely guaranteed or a way to obtain helium with a very high safety and "nature".
"Chief!" The non-commissioned officer in charge of directing the take-off and landing ran to Ma Xiang and saluted him, "You can board the boat, please start boarding the boat!" β
Ma Xiang couldn't help but open his mouth, saying that he was looking forward to the grand occasion of the soldiers running and boarding the boat after the airship landed, but the ...... in front of him said, "Well, okay, hard work!" Ma Xiang had no choice but to salute back, and then turned around and shouted at his fourth detachment, "Prepare to board the boat." β
The soldiers climbed along the rope ladder towards the cargo hold 'door', which is not a problem for them at all, whether it is the navy or the special reconnaissance team, the rope ladder is immune to the rope ladder, you must know that the fourth detachment has two rope ladders up to ten meters long in the operational equipment, the rope ladder is very useful whether it is climbing the deck or quickly crossing obstacles, so whether it is the navy or the special reconnaissance team, climbing the rope ladder is a necessary skill.
The soldiers who entered the airship's cabin all stood a little helpless, and it was not until the soldiers who climbed up behind pushed them that they moved to the side in confusion.
"Come here! Come here, there's a seat, everybody find a place to sit, we're ready to take off, hurry up! Yuan Zhenli saw that the soldiers were standing near the cabin 'door' in a daze, and hurriedly waved at them, this is not the first time he has seen this situation, even when he himself came in for the first time, he stayed there and didn't know what to do.
The crew of the airship hurriedly came over to lead them to their respective places to sit down, and then led the others, and for a while the cargo hold was a busy mess.
Above them was a huge air bag, made of several huge canvas pieces, the air bag was swollen, and even when the soldiers were seated, they continued to look up at the monster stained with glue seeping from itβlike a huge bubble of 'urine' that had been blown up.
After a while, as several non-commissioned officers who were responsible for fixing the airship on the ground climbed into the cargo hold, the crew on both sides also put away the cables placed on both sides, and everyone felt that the soles of their feet shook slightly, as if a huge hand was holding the entire floor under the floor and going up, and at the same time, there was a force pushing the airship forward slowly.
This is definitely a magical experience for the soldiers sitting in the airship, even if it is a horse from the old world, it is a unique and fresh experience. Compared with the airplane, the smooth flight of the airship is undoubtedly more comfortable, but he just feels a little stuffy, the air in the cabin seems to be filled with a slightly pungent smell, he dug into his pocket, except for a pack of Wen Qing's cigarettes, he shook his head, 'smoked' on the airship, and had to throw it down to Yuan Zhenli? Bored, he stood up and looked at the benches in the cabin, where the soldiers were sitting and talking excitedly, some of them opened their equipment bags to check if they were missing anything, and a few of them were simply sleeping back to back.
All this in front of him made Ma Xiang feel as if he was in an unrealistic dream, as if he was busy with the decoration and design work of the shopping mall in the old world one second, but the next minute he was already in an airship composed of rags and iron ready to save his comrades from the same world. He waved his hand to dispel his illusions, though at first glance it seemed like driving away the mosquitoes flying around him.
Several naval non-commissioned officers were leaning on the deck to chat, and some people were leaning on the porthole to look out, Ma Xiang was about to walk over, but saw a non-commissioned officer running from the command cabin, saluted him and said, "Chief, Chief Yuan, please go to the command cabin." β
As the non-commissioned officer came to the command cabin and closed the 'door', Ma Xiang smiled bitterly and looked the entire cabin up and down, left and right for a while, "I said you guys were too hasty to get on the horse, right?" Saying that, Ma Xiang pointed to the top, "There is no ceiling 'flower' board, and you can see the airbags on it from here, and the boards used to isolate different cabins are also of different heights, just like the small cubicles of the previous office buildings." β
"Pull it down," Yuan Zhenli smiled and spread out a map of Dongfang Port on the table that had just been drawn recently, "Isn't this to save money and make a revolution?" The carrying capacity of the airship is limited, we calculated that the airship should be able to carry about six tons of weight, but just calculated an ideal value, the weight of some parts of the airship itself was forgotten, and a lot of reinforcing parts were added in the production for safety, and the result was that the airship could only carry about four tons of weight. β
"Four tons is not too little, at least forty heavily armed soldiers," Ma Xiang said and laughed out loud, "Forty people is really useless." β
"Isn't it? You don't count the weight of the personnel needed for the operation of the airship, and these ......" Yuan Zhenli said without raising his head and pointed to the planks of the compartment, "This thing is also dead, so many partitions can be saved, and they can be shortened, which finally saves more than a ton of weight, and now the airship can carry six tons of weight." β
"What did you call me for?" Ma Xiang suddenly remembered at this time and asked, "You don't want to introduce the airship to me, do you?" β
"Of course not, you come here," Yuan Zhenli said, pointing to the map, "We're going to be there soon, so I'm going to discuss with you where to land." β
"That's it?" Ma Xiang couldn't help but be stunned, so he looked out of the porthole, Yuan Zhenli couldn't help but shake his head, "It's not so fast, it will take more than ten minutes, but we have to consider the danger of falling." β
"Dangerous?" Yuan Zhenli saw the question mark on Ma Xiang's face and nodded, "Yes, Shabak is equipped with our own weapons and equipment, the rifle 'firing' range is at least four hundred meters, the artillery can be farther, and there are more dangerous machine guns, if we get too close, we will inevitably be in danger of being shot." β
"Shot?" Ma Xiang's voice was interrupted by Yuan Zhenli before his words fell, "Yes, one or two bullets are nothing, too many bullets will definitely make the airship leak, if it hits the steel beam, it will produce sparks, and it will directly roast us, not to mention the cannon, one shot can turn us into torches." Yuan Zhenli said and looked on the map, pointed to a place and said, "I can only land your fourth detachment here first." β
Ma Xiang leaned up to take a look, he remembered this place, he had also been there, it was the place where the main army force was hidden during the Battle of Shabak, and it was also an army camp at the moment, but because it was too far away from Dongfang Port, the logistics supply was inconvenient, so it had been idle except for the occasional use of the army during the rapid march training or the remote reconnaissance training of the special reconnaissance team.
"Okay, this is not far from Shabak, and it's still in the jungle, so it's good to hide 'sex', so let's do it here." Ma Xiang nodded in agreement.
Yuan Zhenli smiled and nodded, "Okay, then I'll let the airship fly over there, and you can climb the rope ladder to go down when you get there." β
"Okay," Ma Xiang saluted him, "thank you for carrying us so quickly." β
"Well, yes, it's all for the senate, isn't it?" Yuan Zhenli didn't salute, but just reached out and shook his hand, "I wish you success in your operation, and you must rescue our elder!" β
"Yes, that's certain, the mission must be achieved!" Ma Xiang interrupted Yuan Zhenli before his words fell, "The mission must be achieved, let me say, we only shouted by express delivery, haha." β
"That's right, that's right! Open the door! SF Express! The command room was immediately drowned out with laughter.
With the knock on the 'door', the soldier's voice sounded outside the 'door', "Captain, we have reached the Boundary River, are we flying towards Shabak or Camp No. 1?" β
"Well, okay, pass my orders, target, Camp One!" As soon as Yuan Zhenli's words fell, he heard the soldiers outside repeat loudly, "Yes, chief, target, Camp No. 1!" β