Chapter 534: After the Typhoon
At 3 p.m. on 28 June, at the Vostyang Port Airport, two Baizu attack planes were ready to take off. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoUnlike usual, this time the Mosquito gunboat was followed behind the runway.
The weather radar on the Dongfeng has been constantly monitoring this typhoon since the passage of the last typhoon, and the aftermath of the typhoon was tossed and turned until noon on the 27th. The Joint Chiefs of Staff originally planned to use the Air Force to carry out reconnaissance and bombing missions yesterday afternoon, but because the typhoon blew down the oil depot at the end of the open runway, the iron barrels of fuel prepared for the planes were smashed a lot, and the remaining fuel was not enough to ensure the maximum range of the planes, so the Air Force finally requested that the battle plan be postponed and the attack was changed to 8 o'clock on the morning of 28 July.
However, the rainfall brought by the typhoon exceeded the expectations of the road and bridge construction department of Dongfanggang, and a large number of roads and roads along the way collapsed due to the heavy rain, causing the vehicles transporting fuel to be greatly troubled during transportation, and it was not until about 2 o'clock in the afternoon that the fuel needed for the attack was delivered. Originally, according to his design, a semi-buried oil storage tank would be installed in the airport, but the Planning Commission did not approve the iron plate he requested, and there were not enough welding rods for welding, so the oil storage tank plan has been on hold. However, someone in the chemical department patted his chest with him, and the trial production of the welding rod has reached the final stage, if nothing else, it can be done in about two months, and Yuan Zhenli can only count on the priority to solve the problem of oil storage tanks at that time.
Now Yuan Zhenli is sitting in the pilot Baizu attack plane, checking his instruments one by one, in front of him is another indigenous pilot who has just completed cultural training - this is a joke to him, the naturalized man in the back seat was probably a guy who repaired the earth with a hoe a few months ago, and now he just learned to read and write, and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within a hundred will go directly to heaven with him...... Isn't this an international joke? But he has no better way, and at the moment, the whole planet is afraid that there are not many people who can be suitable to be pilots, and the group of naturalized people with peasant faces in his air force pilot team are already extremely rare short generals.
Thinking of the short man, Yuan Zhenli couldn't help but sigh again, when he used to be a ground crew member in the Air Force, he often looked at the group of handsome pilots who were red-eyed, and a height of one meter eight was simply a hard rule, but-thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at the rearview mirror on the cockpit cover, and the tanned naturalized pilot in the back seat was smiling at him honestly. The height of these pilots was basically 1.65 meters, a far cry from the pilots he imagined and remembered majestically marching in front of the airport. Yuan Zhenli also wanted to choose pilots from the relatively tall Meideno naturalized people, but he was helpless due to the rigid requirements of the science and technology department of the Senate, and the naturalized people of this "high-precision" department were not allowed to choose Meideno personnel under three years old, that is to say, if he wanted to get a few Meideno pilots, even if he got a few Meideno ground crew, he would have to wait at least until after 1631, and before that, the sky of the Senate could only be defended by these short and thin Annan or Wu Dynasty naturalized pilots.
On the runway in front of the plane, a ground crew raised a hand towards the sky and began to turn in circles, which was an indication to start the engine. Yuan Zhenli opened the engine oil circuit as instructed, and then raised his thumb to make a gesture to several ground crews near the propeller, and the ground crew immediately pushed a starter car over. This kind of starter car is actually a frame with wheels underneath, and an extended connecting rod on it, which can be directly attached to the joint in front of the propeller, and the propeller can be started by rotating the crank behind the connecting rod...... This is a specially developed "air force equipment" after two dangerous situations, and at the beginning, the ground crew directly used their hands to pluck the propellers. The first time was a ground crew who didn't understand the direction of rotation of the propeller and was injured by the rebounding propeller, but fortunately, Yuan Zhenli has always mandated that all ground crews must wear safety helmets when carrying out maintenance and other work, otherwise they will definitely kill people on the spot. As for the second time, it is also an unfamiliar with the operation of the ground staff, too hard when starting the operation, directly pushing the propeller after the body leaned forward too much and rushed into the propeller, but also luckily dodged in time to cause no casualties, since then, Yuan Zhenli absolutely did not allow anyone to start the propeller with his hands, so the industrial department specially designed such an engine starting car. In front of the connecting rod is a helical gear that follows the direction of rotation of the propeller, which can push the propeller to rotate during start-up operation, and after the engine starts, it will directly push the connecting rod of the starter car away to prevent danger. Soon, the propellers of the two hundred-tongue birds were already turning rapidly, and the pilot of the other plane was He Rolling Long, as one of the only two veterans of the Air Force, he naturally could not give up the opportunity to fly the plane in person.
With the roar of the engine, smoke began to rise from the chimney on the back of the mosquito machine, Lin Jinlai carefully checked the voltage of the generator, and then turned on the motor under the command of the ground crew. The ground crew waved a small red flag on the ground, signaling the pilots of the three planes preparing to take off to pay attention, and then with the flag displayed on the tower, the ground crew waved a small yellow flag at them, half-kneeling on the ground and leaning in the direction of running, and waving his right hand in the direction of take-off.
"Take off!" Yuan Zhenli opened the throttle valve to the maximum and nodded at the two ground crews behind the wing. The ground crew quickly removed the wheel blocks, and the plane began to hop up and down the runway.
"This damn typhoon!" He Rolling Long said on the radio, and also asked the ground crew to move the wheel block. The impact of the last typhoon on the runway is very obvious, even if the runway maintenance team has repaired the runway, but there is still water in many places, potholes make the aircraft bounce during the taxi, such a jump may be just a bump for the car or Rolls-Royce, but for the aircraft is likely to produce landing gear fracture or metal fatigue in key parts of the aircraft. Both Yuan Zhenli and He Rolling Long are very worried about this situation.
However, after all, the runway is compacted and reinforced, and there are special drainage ditches for drainage, although the two hundreds were bumpy during takeoff, they both took off normally, so that the two pilots couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief - now the Chinese Air Force is comparable to the European Air Force during the First World War, except that they now have parachutes that were not available in that era, and the others are almost the same. If there is an accident during the runway taxi, it is likely that the plane will be destroyed and people will be killed, and there is no joke.
After taking off, Yuan Zhenli handed over the pilotship to the trainee pilot behind him, and he turned to look at the mosquito plane that was sliding on the runway behind him, and he was most worried about this mosquito plane. The main body of the mosquito machine is different from that of the Mozu, it is all made of wood, and it is driven by an electric motor, and after the battery efficiency becomes low, the Air Force rudely directly adds a diesel generator of hundreds of kilograms on it. The plane itself had the vibration of a diesel generator, coupled with the jumping on the runway, Yuan Zhenli was afraid that it would resonate and cause the plane to disintegrate.
Fortunately, the body of the Mosquito was originally relatively light, and the battery pack was removed when the generator was installed, and although the Mosquito was very bumpy on the runway, it still took off normally. The three planes, with the Mosquito in front and two hundreds on the left and right wings, circled over the airport and flew towards the south.
On the left side of the plane is Dongfang Port, where many of the roofs originally composed of red ceramic tiles have been directly lifted off, Yuan Zhenli raised his binoculars and looked over there, and many workers were climbing on the roof to rearrange the roof tiles. On the right side of the plane is Bunker Hill and the old old village, rows of double-storey white huts are looming under the cover of the woods, and there are large empty fields and barracks on the mountainside of Bunker Mountain, and many recruits can be seen training on the drill ground from a distance. Beiqiaotou Town and Jieqiao can already be clearly seen ahead, compared to the large number of houses near Dongfang Port City without roofs, there are more collapsed houses in Beiqiaotou Town, many streets have been unrecognizable from the air because of the collapsed houses, firefighters in red clothes for disaster relief are searching for survivors in the rubble, doctors in white coats are examining the wounded in an area that has been cleared, and to the north of them is a temporary tent area - Most of these tents were used by the Senate when they first landed at the beacon.
Yuan Zhenli sighed, picked up the microphone and said, "Look below, the impact of this typhoon is really big enough." ”
"Isn't it? There are thousands of people affected in our eastern port. He Rolling Long patted the microphone as he spoke, "Have you heard?" Because of the poor houses in Beiqiaotou Town, many shacks and simple houses have collapsed directly due to the typhoon, resulting in hundreds of deaths, and now the hospital has directly sent almost all the veteran doctors to Beiqiaotou Town to provide relief, and there are two nurses in the hospital. ”
"Alas, in the past, it was said that people would win the sky, but in the end, no one could bear the sky." Yuan Zhenli said and paused, "Beiqiaotou Town is really a disaster, originally we just regarded Annan as another country, and we developed Dongfang Port by ourselves, but who knew that it would suddenly become our own territory, and there were too many refugees on it, so I didn't take care of it." Originally, it seemed that there was a plan to renovate the house or something, and even the quilt was already being ordered, but there was such a typhoon. ”
"Yes, it's really bad luck," He Rolling Long said and looked down, "But at least we are still carrying out disaster relief, at least we can rescue more people, I hope we can kill fewer people, we can't afford such a loss." ”
He Yongkang was nervously operating on the operating table, and the wounded man in front of him had been pulled out of the rubble yesterday, his legs had been smashed because of the collapse of the beams, and the stubble of his bones had pierced the skin and leaked directly outside. He Yongkang has done a lot of such operations in the old time and space, but he has never done such an operation in such a situation now. Most of the medical supplies in the hospital's stock were relocated because of the previous preparations for the defense of Shabak, and due to the damage caused by the typhoon, the bridge over the Jiehe River could not be used until it was repaired, and now it is still piled up in the warehouse of Shabak and cannot be transported.
The wounded were crying out in pain, and the doctors lacked enough anesthetics to keep them calm, and they were all dizzy from the cries of pain outside.
Half an hour ago, the chemical department did not know where to get a batch of nitrous oxide, these relatively mixed purity of narcotic gas was quickly used by the nurses to inhale the wounded and sick, although the effect is not particularly good, but it still reduces the pain of some of the wounded.
If it were to talk about the anesthetic effect of laughing gas, He Yongkang had never thought that it could be called an anesthetic, and he would rather believe in morphine—although this thing was not readily available in the Senate, the procurement department still got some seeds through various channels during the preparation stage. Today, there is more than ten acres of land on Sun Wenbin's farm, and these poppies, now named "Big Red Flowers", are blooming on that land. Of course, the purpose of the senate to plant this thing is not to sell drugs, but for medicinal purposes, and the crystallization of the alkaloids rich in the latex of the opium poppy in hydrochloric acid is morphine, and before a better anesthetic is made, morphine is probably the best anesthetic used for first aid on the battlefield. In addition, the latex shell is also useful - of course, it will not be used to make hot pot, but to make medicines for astringency of the lungs, astringency of the intestines, cough suppressant, pain relief and hypnosis, which has miraculous effects in the treatment of chronic cough, diarrhea, dysentery, prolapse of the anus, and pain in the heart and abdomen.
He Yongkang lifted his glasses, sighed quietly, and carefully looked at the picture taken by the portable X-ray machine, the wounded's leg was broken alive, and the area of the damage was relatively large, and it was impossible to perform surgery without anesthetic. A naturalized female nurse was holding a plastic tube in front of the wounded's nose and opening the valve to inhale some ether for anesthesia. Compared with nitrous oxide, the preparation of ether is much simpler, but ether can affect human nerves and cannot be used for anesthesia for a long time, while laughing gas is relatively less damaging to the human body, so it is used to anesthetize the wounded with untreated wounds.
With the buzz of the engine, He Yongkang glanced up, but he couldn't see anything, overhead was the shadowless lamp in the tent of the field hospital, he smiled bitterly, except for the Senate, who else can fly out to toss people? Seeing that the wounded man was already asleep, he stretched out his hand and said, "Scalpel!" The nurse on the side hurriedly picked up a scalpel and held it with both hands and put it on He Yongkang's hand with latex gloves.
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