Chapter 590: The runway is completed
readx; Su Dao chose to build an airfield at this time, and it was nearly a thousand kilometers behind enemy lines, which really gave the sappers a headache. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info.
Although a brigade of airborne troops was sent to protect them, the feeling of being behind enemy lines was obviously different from before, even staring at the artillery fire to work was much better than this feeling.
No one knows when a bullet will suddenly come out and kill themselves, so working in this environment, the pressure on the soldiers is still very high.
In addition, the difficulty of the project is also very large, first, they do not have professional construction equipment, like this kind of concrete runway for all kinds of requirements are very high, you must use professional equipment, otherwise there will be all kinds of problems.
Although some equipment has been shipped, those equipment can only play a certain role and cannot fundamentally solve the problem.
Heavy equipment such as roller forklifts and other heavy equipment cannot be transported, so the soldiers are also very entangled in this aspect.
Second, it is very difficult to excavate the runway because of the cold and snowy weather here, and secondly, the weather is too cold for the concrete to solidify at all, and even mixing cement or something is still a problem.
To build an airport, such a huge project, all the materials need to be flown in from thousands of kilometers behind, this kind of cost is absolutely huge.
The carrying capacity of a transport plane is so large, it takes nearly 100 sorties of cement, sand and gravel alone, plus steel bars and equipment, etc., and at least 200 or more transport planes are required to complete this project.
"Third brother, what should I do? The weather conditions are too bad to start work. ”
A captain with a cigarette in his mouth and an iron pickaxe in his hand slammed the ground hard, and in response to a cold echo, even the ground had become stronger than bricks.
In this case, there is no possibility of construction at all, in fact, it is not suitable to build a house in winter, building materials are the most vulnerable in winter, even if it is built, the condensation of lime or something is not good, and it is easy to cause the house to collapse.
Not to mention that the moving rolling has to withstand the take-off and landing of fighters weighing dozens of tons, and the requirements for the runway of Jian-2 are no worse than the quality of the house, and even much stricter than him.
The take-off distance of the J-2 empty aircraft is 400 meters, what is the standard for this empty aircraft? They didn't carry any ammunition, not even the shells of the cannons, and then the mailbox was only half filled with fuel, in this case four hundred meters.
If it is filled with fuel and artillery shells, and equipped with a Chinese Sword air-to-surface missile, then its take-off distance will be 470 meters, and if it is a modified nuclear bomb, then the take-off distance will reach about 510 to 540 meters.
According to the full load of cannon shells and half of the fuel, the distance required for landing is 500 meters, that is, the runway they are about to build must be at least 600 meters, and the width must be between 40 and 60 meters.
Of course, this is mainly a runway built for J-2, and other fighters will all stand aside, and the use of this runway like J-1 is a waste of resources.
And when they build a runway, the length of the runway naturally cannot be exactly 600 meters, but it must be lengthened to 1,000 meters, or 1,500 meters.
After all, taking off at 470 meters is to drive the engine to the maximum, and it will damage the fighter itself, and no one will do that under normal circumstances, anyway, it is just taxiing for a long distance, and it is not a big deal.
It is not that the enemy planes have approached the airfield and the fighters need to be lifted into the air as soon as possible, but under normal circumstances, the current Chinese Imperial Air Force bases are generally running in a circle with a radius of 3,000 to 4,000 meters.
Although there is no runway, it is very proven, and if the conditions are right, some lawns will be planted, which is also a common practice at air force airfields during World War II.
"Build a house, make the construction site indoors, let's light a few more fires inside, use fires to increase the temperature in the room, you take someone to measure the data first, I'll go to Brigade Commander Meng to discuss something, and then ask the rear to transfer something else."
Huang Dashan thought for a moment and said firmly.
Completing the construction of the airport in a month, with the current manpower, is very difficult, this is simply an impossible task, if you want to build quickly, you must build a house, even if it is a simple steel structure or whatever.
They have to get the temperature inside up so that the concrete can solidify, otherwise it's all empty talk.
Soon, Huang Dashan found the commander of the airborne brigade, Meng Dezhu, and explained to him the situation on the side of the engineers, although Meng Dezhu also felt some pressure, but there was no way, everything was based on the tasks of the engineers, and in desperation, he had to choose to back down and fully cooperate with the work of the engineer brothers.
In this way, Huang Dashan rowed two regiments from the airborne brigade, and as for the arrangement of these two regiments, he also told them bluntly that when they went to cut down trees in the woods, the diameter of the trees must be more than 30 centimeters, and the shortest length should be about 4 meters.
Now the conditions do not allow, and it is not the rear, he does not have so much steel to use, if it is in the rear, he will directly engage in the steel structure, but now the situation is different, and the steel in the rear cannot be transported in large quantities.
After getting all this, Huang Dashan began to contact the rear, on the one hand, to ask for support, hoping that the engineering corps would send an engineer battalion to help, and at the same time, let the engineer corps be responsible for coordination, they need a lot of canvas.
Originally, Huang Dashan wanted to use iron sheets, but considering the inconvenience of iron sheet transportation, it would greatly waste the air force's transportation capacity, and at the same time, it was also very inconvenient for their construction.
And this thing is also a surname, if the iron sheet is withdrawn when the time comes, it will definitely be thrown here, it is better to ask for canvas directly, the effect is the same, and it is convenient to take it away when you go.
He doesn't need anything too good to keep warm here, all he needs is to build a large tent that can't be blown in by the cold wind outside, and as for the inside, there is a continuous source of fire to generate temperature, as long as it is kept at a certain temperature.
No matter how bad it is, he can also use two layers of canvas to shield it and keep the cold air outside as much as possible.
In this way, the next day, a battalion of sapper reinforcements arrived at the construction site by transport plane, this airport was built by Su Dao himself, although everyone didn't know what to do, but no one dared to be sloppy, no matter how difficult the conditions were, they had to do their best to complete.
At the same time, under the command and help of the engineers, the soldiers of the two airborne brigades who were responsible for helping placed the chopped sticks in their respective positions as required.
The only thing that was a little difficult was that it was not a little difficult to dig the pit and bury the sticks, and it took two regiments and half an engineer battalion a day to complete the work, and the day was all spent digging the pit.
As for cutting down trees, this did not waste much time, two regiments of more than 7,000 people, it takes about half an hour to cut down a tree, and this is already carried out without hurry, the soldiers started the afternoon before yesterday, and it only took one afternoon to cut thousands of trees that meet the requirements.
After all of this, the sky gradually began to darken, and the day here is not long, so it is normal for the day to get dark before the start of work.
At the beginning of the third day, two regiments of airborne troops liberated one regiment, and the remaining one continued to help, and it took another day for a whole rack to finally be erected.
Early in the morning of the fourth day, the canvas that Huang Dashan asked for was finally delivered, and it took two days for Huang Dashan to command his troops to complete the construction of this temporary tent.
Because of the heavy snowfall, if the top is not solid, it will cause the tent to collapse.
As soon as the tent was erected, fires were lit inside the tent, and each fire was not large, but there were many of them.
Because it is a tent made of canvas, it is easy to ignite the canvas if the fire is too big, although the canvas is not easy to ignite, but there are always exceptions to everything.
In this way, the tent, which is 1,000 meters long and 70 meters wide, was filled with thousands of fires for a time, and the temperature in the tent instantly rose a lot.
After one night, the earth began to melt slowly, and the ground began to become muddy, seeing this scene, Huang Dashan finally breathed a sigh of relief, muddy is not terrible, what is terrible is the same as yesterday, there is no difference.
Seeing this, Huang Dashan no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the troops to start working, and for a while, the brothers of the two engineer battalions began to clean up the soil on the ground, and then in groups of several people, they first used trucks to press back and forth on the cleared runway to make the ground solid.
Then the piles are driven manually, because there is no equipment, so this is the only way to do it.
Three days later, after seventy-two hours of busyness, two battalions of soldiers rotated, and even the resting airborne brigade was brought in to help, and finally the foundation was laid in three days.
Then it is to sprinkle lime, continue to pull, build a steel mesh, lay it on the ground, pour concrete, make it porcelain, put a steel mesh, continue to pour concrete, and repeat it three times, the basic work is finally completed, and the work on the surface does not need so many people to carry out.
Half of the people were in charge of the surface, and the rest started to increase the fire to keep the tent as hot as possible.
During this period, you have to keep sprinkling water, otherwise it is easy to crack, but fortunately, the temperature in the house is not low, otherwise where to sprinkle water? It's all frozen.
In this way, on the last day of the month-long period, the runway was finally completed, and the next step was to dismantle the temporary tents outside, and the runway of the airport was ready for use.
As for the tower, forget it, there is no way to build it under such conditions, so it will be used. (To be continued.) )