Chapter 639: Airborne Again
"Start attacking!" At 4 o'clock in the morning of May 11, with Meng Xiang's order, a series of subordinate orders continued to spread from the National Defense Staff Headquarters in Xianyang to all directions. A huge Spring Breeze operation began to leave the prologue, revealing more secrets destined to go down in history.
The name spring breeze that someone casually chooses may be vulgar, but under the blowing of spring breeze, even in cold Siberia, it will make everything feel the breath of spring.
When spring comes, what makes people feel the most is the east wind with moist air, at least in the poetry of the Chinese people.
On the battlefield, an operation of Dongfeng sent hundreds of behemoths to start another thousand-mile attack.
"Oh my God, this is the biggest plane I've ever seen!" Hu Sibiao looked at the -130B aircraft in front of him, opened his mouth wide, and exclaimed repeatedly. As soon as they turned into Shihezi Airport along the special military line, when they saw the huge plane, he had already been amazed once, but he didn't expect to see it up close, and it would be even more impactful.
The -47B he rode in before was only more than 19 meters long, which already made him sigh once, and now the -130B has suddenly expanded to more than 29 meters, and the volume is even larger. In particular, the queue not far away to enter the cabin had already slipped for a long time, but they were all absorbed by the gaping hole in the tail. Hu Sibiao took a rough count, and couldn't help but be startled again.
The plane that had been shut down just now already carried more than 80 people, and the -47 plane was already very burdened with only 20 or so people. One -130 can top four -47 to use.
Of course, he didn't know that in the base, the cost of one Hercules was much higher than that of four sky trains.
And when Meng Xiang's order was issued, in the secret flight bases in Huaxia, before the dawn in the sky came, more than a hundred Hercules flew into the sky, whistling through the last trace of the night.
No one knew that the huge amount of money represented behind these more than 100 planes made Meng Xiang feel a lot of pain.
Although soon after the promotion to the third level of the primary level, with the lifting of the ban on the prototype of related technology, those weapons after World War II until the Cuban crisis in 62 were no longer doubled, but according to Hua's explanation, the current level of production capacity of the whole world has not yet reached the requirements, and it has only been reduced to parity. Even if Meng Xiang opened up more sources of wealth for the base, the Hercules aircraft made by the Americans were indeed expensive.
However, one Hercules is already far more effective than four sky trains, and a single higher performance is worth it.
Its cruise speed has surpassed that of many fighters at this time, and the ultra-long-range airdrop makes some impossible a reality.
"Attention, the front reaches Yekaterinburg, ready to land!" The slightly tired voice made the many vanguard soldiers in the cabin suddenly refreshed.
"The first spring breeze has descended on Chelyabinsk!" Not long after, the news transmitted back from the air command center near Chelyabinsk and other places also made everyone in the command headquarters of Chang'an in the rear pay attention to this airdrop shocked.
"Great!" A young staff officer's cry of surprise relieved Fan Chong's heart.
After a run of more than 2,000 kilometers, when he first heard about this plan, the first thing that came to his heart was impossibility-
47 air flight may be achievable, but a full load of soldiers to perform such a mission, without the lack of long-distance fighter escort, is almost the same as sending to death, even if it is smooth sailing, it may not be able to reach the destination.
But the advent of the Hercules plane turned an arrogant plan into reality, and Meng Xiangsuo's words still echoed in his ears: "Airborne to the Ural Pass, control the Trans-Siberian Railway, and completely cut off the Soviet and Russian ambitions in Asia." ”
"Oh my God!" Fan Chong felt his surprise at that time, and the exaggeration of his expression could forcefully refute the rumors of his facial dementia.
"If you want to control the Ural Pass, control the Trans-Siberian Railway, how many troops do you need to invest, and how can it be possible by air?" At this time, the performance of the airdrop outer gate G had not yet begun, and Fan Chong's doubts were even worse. The number of troops sent is small, even if the population east of the Ural Mountains in Soviet Russia is sparse, even if the defense behind them is empty, the Soviet Russian army that counterattacked will be quickly wiped out.
Even when he saw Meng Xiang's quiet smile, he still wondered if Meng Xiang had some nervous problems. Such a crazy idea may be a dream, but when it comes up as a military plan, anyone should be suspicious of the proposer's mental problems. But the first to be raised was Meng Xiang, the supreme commander of the vanguard army.
In Fan Chong's excessive surprise, Meng Xiang came up with a detailed outline of the plan. After seeing the physical object of Hercules, Fan Chong put away the reverie in his mind and was a little ashamed of his gaffe. Of course, this plan also frightened many people in the future, and made Fan Chong's shame become a matter of course.
Under the careful deduction of the General Staff, in order to succeed at one time and fight the Russians with a time gap, it is necessary to ensure the initial number of troops and the intensity of control.
Although Meng Xiang has ensured that there is no need to worry about the issue of weapons, just the personnel is enough to make people worry. The number of personnel required at the beginning of the plan was far from enough with just over a hundred Hercules. It is good to be able to go back and forth twice a day for long-distance delivery, and even for longer distances, it can only be delivered once a day. More than a hundred Hercules can only carry more than 10,000 people, scattered in the vast Siberia, and there are simply not a few people left at those important checkpoints.
But Meng Xiang relied on more than these, there were already airborne transport planes in the Red Police base. In view of the fact that the performance of the first-class paratrooper transport aircraft is similar to that of the -47 and Junkers, the price is not preferential, and considering the future second-hand aircraft foreign transactions, Meng Xiang is more likely to choose the transport aircraft in reality. However, when it was upgraded to the second level, the performance of the Red Alert's paratrooper transport aircraft was already similar to that of the Hercules aircraft. And the price inherits the convention of the base, which is exceptionally cheap.
Similarly, the ubiquitous restrictions of the base come with it. Perhaps it is because in the Red Alert game, the paratrooper transport plane is not included in the production unit, but only follows the center of the empty finger. Suddenly, a quantitative limit popped up at the base. Although it is not as exaggerated as only one plane running back and forth in the game, there are only 324 planes in the control area of the three sub-bases of Siberia and Outer Gate G.
"When the empty finger center is at the third level, the tracking control of the intelligent brain exceeds 108, and more accidents will occur." Hua's explanation made Meng Xiang speechless, the number of multi-functional combat vehicles in the army can be in the thousands, but the air has to be controlled? Although base-built aircraft can have better communication and positioning systems, they can be piloted without the need for brain control, and who knows that such limitations will emerge.
Because when there are only three sub-bases around, they can only fly more than 300 planes. Although we are dissatisfied with the base's nonsensical restrictions, the service of more than 300 paratrooper transport planes at the base is enough to be used. Moreover, more aircraft produced can be continuously flown in other places, as long as no more than 108 aircraft are flown within the direct jurisdiction of each sub-base.
This is also the reason why Meng Xiang only produced a few prototypes when the Red Alert series of fighters at the base was already ready for production, and because they were not used on a large scale, he could only produce more than a hundred Hercules transport planes at a higher price.
Five hundred transport planes that can carry an average of more than 90 people can already ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, and Hercules and other planes are accompanied by hundreds of sky trains and the low roar of Juncker at the same time, which can carry out transportation missions to close range.
"We have reached the skies over Irkutsk!" This is a signal from a group of Junkers ladies who arrived at their destination after passing through the transfer at the outer gate G empty finger center.
"We have reached the skies over Novosibirsk!" A group of -47 air trains, which had taken off and crossed the snow-capped mountains, also sent a signal.
At this time, although the Bai-Argentine railway was under construction, it was still early before it was completed. In the vast Siberian Plain, the only thing the Russians relied on was the Trans-Siberian Railway.
During this period of time, the army of the vanguard army had exceeded 100,000 people on the border of Sumen G, and had already blocked the attack of the 250,000 troops of the Soviet Russians. But in addition to the large army stationed in Ulan-Ude, the troops near the nearby Dayirkutsk, a large industrial base in Siberia, have long been emptied. Even those anti-aircraft artillery pieces are not much after the requisition of the Outer Gate G Expeditionary Force and the extraction of Soviet and Russian reinforcements this time.
Similarly, there are other cities along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the troops are extremely empty, so Meng Xiang boldly implements a comprehensive airborne plan. From the Ural Mountains all the way to Lake Baikal, from Central Asia to Kazakhstan to the Far East, thousands of aircraft with the symbol of the vanguard army roared in the dawn sky