Chapter 1035: Secret Airport

In the north of Nanjing, near Wuxi, the construction of Wuxi New Town, is an important node in the north of the Yangtze River, where two railway lines are staggered, because of the proximity to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the textile industry led by light industry is extremely developed, the textile industry in the northwest is basically the next in Jiangsu, this new Wuxi, has become increasingly prosperous, with the textile industry and the tertiary industry as the center, more than 4 million taxes are paid to the Nanjing government every year, and it is the first among the nearly 100 nodes in the south.

Wuxi is one of the railway nodes built in the northwest, the closest node from Nanjing, and the richest, for various reasons, after the Chinese New Year, hoarded almost 100 million cotton cloth, all ordinary white cloth, Wuxi took over the printing and dyeing of the northwest, became the largest printing and dyeing base in southern China, these cloths will be completed without interest printing and dyeing and other processing, and then sent to all parts of the country, or directly made into garments.

It is this batch of cotton cloth that has attracted the peep of Japan and the revolutionary party, conservative estimates, no matter how low the price of cotton cloth in the northwest is, it is not lower than 0.3 northwest yuan, 100 million horses, that is, almost 30 million, this is enough to move the revolutionary party, according to the agreement reached between Japan and the revolutionary party, one of the two brigades will be put here, and the other will be put at the other end, where Zhenjiang is located, where the center of handicrafts is located.

Around March 31, the American warship loaded with Japanese soldiers docked near Nanjing, and the Americans were willing to help Japan, but because they dragged the northwest into the quagmire of war, it did not mean that the Americans were willing to obey the orders of the Japanese.

Japan, which was locked off by the wall, was blasted away by the Americans with warships. Behind Japan, it was the Meiji Restoration. embarked on the road of capitalism and took refuge in the British as a dog. The industrial output value of the United States is almost more than 30 times that of Japan, and Japan will have to develop for many years before it can catch up with the current figures of the United States, which is a huge chasm.

The fleet docked at the dock in Nanjing, and had already prepared for the revolutionary party. The Americans stubbornly let the Japanese get off the ship, and then left, without even stopping for a moment, so that the Japanese's desire to use the American gunboats was frustrated.

Through simple exchanges, not even a single division was prepared on the Nanjing side, and the main action in the south was still relied on by the revolutionary party, after the Japanese disembarked. Directly stationed in a military camp in Nanjing, they will stay in the barracks for 5 days, 5 days later. They would follow the 7th and 12th armies of the revolutionary party to Zhenjiang and Wuxi to attack the railway nodes. Gain access to the vast wealth of the Northwest.

Since it was not a war, plus there was the cooperation of the Kuomintang. The Japanese disembarked in a good time, and the two brigades spent an afternoon. Almost in the evening, the personnel were unloaded, and the equipment was also down, but they were piled up on the dock in a disorderly manner, and there were few motor vehicles on the Nanjing side, and there were not many horses and carriages, and it was necessary to mobilize enough porters until tomorrow, and more than 30,000 soldiers could not stop on the dock for a long time, so a certain number of personnel were discharged to guard the munitions, and the rest went into the barracks to rest.

Having eaten a lot of Japan's benefits, the revolutionary party expressed a certain degree of welcome to the arrival of the Japanese troops, and tonight, there was a welcome dinner for the principal officers, and for the ordinary soldiers, there was also a supplementary meal.

They didn't know that their negligence and delay had deprived them of their last chance, and if at this time, the revolutionary party army had been prepared, plus the two brigades of the Japanese, it would have caused some trouble to the northwest, but after five days, everything was settled.

The Third Army's rapid reaction units were the first to complete their training, and they took trains in batches to the south, and more than 300 noncommissioned officer schools in most places in the northwest have mobilized tens of thousands of graduates to the south.

Wuxi and Zhenjiang as the first and more important node cities, equipped with a special number of personnel to them, until April 4 or so, to complete the deployment of personnel, almost 1,800 people, respectively stationed in Wuxi and Zhenjiang, with their strengthening, Wuxi and Zhenjiang troops, to a certain extent, combat effectiveness is strengthened to the extreme, this, the southern revolutionary party and the Japanese do not know at all, what they see, or a peaceful and business as usual city, You can't see the undercurrents surging beneath the city.

More than 30,000 Japanese received excellent hospitality on this day, and the high-ranking officers returned with great pleasure, the revolutionary party did not have much ability to fight wars, but the speed of making money and corruption was far beyond anyone's imagination.

The revolutionary party, which was immersed in confusion, did not know that at this moment, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, danger was gradually approaching, and that the Third Army, as well as the non-commissioned officers and students drawn from various schools in the northwest, were transporting personnel from all directions to suitable places through China's developed railway network, and the armament was continuing at various nodes, especially at the nodes where the revolutionary party was on the offensive.

Wuhan, Hubei Province, is a city with important influence in the central part of the northwest, nominally in the hands of Beiyang, but in addition to the government and the core area, the rest is actually controlled in the hands of the northwest, and many products from the northwest are transported to ships through Wuhan every year, and then marketed to all over the world.

35 kilometers away from the three towns of Wuhan, with the help of the night, a racing track quietly began to transform. The changes in this velodrome began yesterday, dozens of trains, arrived in Wuhan yesterday, most of them took the ships that had been prepared, left Wuhan, and the remaining 3 regiments, 18,000 people, with the help of cars and carriages, entered the velodrome.

Because it was a secret coming, most of the personnel only carried pistols with them, not fully armed, for Wuhan, a large city that already has a million people, it is not inconspicuous at all, when almost 18,000 people got equipment at the speed track, armed, a sense of might slowly came.

This is the first batch of vanguard troops to Nanjing, which are ready to take the plane, and the three regiments that entered the racetrack, namely the reconnaissance regiment of the Third Army, the first regiment of the first paratrooper division and the first regiment of the special operations brigade, all of which are the elite of their respective units, aside from the special forces, the first paratrooper regiment and the reconnaissance regiment, among the armies in the northwest, are also considered to be the strongest troops, the reconnaissance regiment is slightly inferior to the special forces, the paratrooper unit was formed in 1913, in addition to physical fitness, it is slightly weaker than the special forces, In other respects, it is even more so.

But today's protagonist, destined not to be the troops, the circuit entered the night, began to change, one by one the separation belt, was removed, changed to another place, when more than 9 o'clock in the evening, when everything was completed, presented under the night, is more than 20 wide runways.

When the racing track was built, the track was very fast, and the standard of paving was also very high, those who were familiar with racing cars knew that it cost a sea of money, and racing was not the most popular sport in the northwest, let alone in the northwest, except for a few enthusiasts and personnel of the intelligence bureau, every once in a while, they would come to the racing track to live, and it was rarely visited here on weekdays, if it wasn't for such a large building, no one would even notice it.

At this moment, in the velodrome, a huge building planned as an indoor velodrome, the partition of the track has been removed, leaving an empty road surface, and at the core of the huge building, the steel floor is slowly opening, as early as the construction time, more of the underground hangar, revealing his true face, this is a secret front-line airport, a total of 250 Northwest transport planes with a load of about 12 tons, and the rest, will fly from various airports in an hour.

The night in the northwest is a city that never sleeps, and the huge electricity is enough to support the northwest to squander electricity, and above the plenary meeting, the northwest even decorates the northwest with lights, forming 4 major landscape lights, which are almost creative, using the black night sky as a canvas, and splashing ink on it with lights.

But outside the northwest, electricity is still a rare thing, the vast countryside, and even some large cities with a long history, into the night, there are few lights shining, it is a darkness, this, the night voyage of countless experiments in the northwest, is enough to prove this.

In the dark night, the visibility is extremely low, and there is no long-distance test tools such as radar, the northwest transport machine will fly slowly at an altitude of 12,000 meters.

The engine in the northwest is in the forefront of the world, not only the power is large enough, the noise is relatively small, some engines, and even some sound insulation measures have been made, the sound has been reduced to a very low level, the high-altitude division of labor in the night, it is almost impossible to hear, all the planes will take off after nightfall, and keep the secret of the plane to the greatest extent.

This was also the first time that the northwest used an airplane in the war, although it was fought against Japan, and most of the planes in the entire northwest were mobilized to Shandong, but the plane was not used, neither carrying nor bombing, and it was used in this war, and it was successfully used. (To be continued......)