July 2, 1923, Daxing Airport.

If you count from the landing of the little devil in Tianjin, the entire battle of Jinjing has lasted for nearly 2 months.

Daxing Airport has been built into the largest front-line airfield in the Beijing-Tianjin battlefield, which can afford about 30 percent of the Southwest Army's northward transportation and supply tasks, and is the greatest guarantee for the Southwest Army to maintain the battle of four divisions except for the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway.

Every day, planes can be seen taking off and landing non-stop, and the first runway is for fighters to take off and carry out aerial suppression and aerial bombing missions. Due to the current extremely tight logistics, the air combat mission is still limited to emergency support and air strikes on the enemy's infantry groups and artillery positions.

The runway is of the highest quality, and it undertakes the take-off and landing tasks of the C-31 heavy transport plane, and this kind of heavy transport plane, which is transferred from the Taiyuan North Airport, is now the main type of aircraft of the Southwest Air Transport Brigade, and its carrying capacity of up to 5 tons at a time has made this kind of transport plane prestigious, and even Chairman Chiang of Nanjing knows that there is a kind of behemoth in the southwest, and the transportation volume of one sortie can be compared with the transportation volume of a squadron of the Kuomintang Air Force. From the initial 50 C-31 transport planes to the Chengdu Aircraft Factory's full throttling and three shifts of work, and after producing 40 planes in two months, the entire northbound transport fleet reached the transport level of nearly 100 planes.

The third runway is the backup runway, which is mostly used by the on-the-spot transport planes. Although the construction of the airport today is relatively simple, it still takes a lot of effort from the southwest.

"Commander, it's a good time to go to Zhengding this time, I see that you haven't seen anyone in the past few days, and you have turned white."

Xu Wenyou, commander of the second battalion of the Third Division, happily said to Dai Anlan on the side: The Third Regiment received an order from its superiors to come here to receive a new piece of equipment. Xu Wenyou also picked up Dai Anlan by the way.

"It's all battalion commanders, not big or small." Dai Anlan reprimanded him slightly, the latter just touched his head, he left the battlefield for a few days, and he didn't even smell the gunsmoke, of course it would turn white, but speaking of which, he was really not used to it in the past few days, "It's nothing, and you'll know next." ”

As the best performance in the entire battlefield and the first unit to start with the army, the 3rd Regiment made many achievements, especially in the battle to gain time for the main force and defend Langfang.

And the rules of the third division have become an important task, let the third regiment go up, Dai Anlan received an order a few days ago, let him go to Zhengding, to participate in a military meeting there.

"Boom ......"

Amid the roar of the aircraft's engines, another transport plane flew from the southwest, lowered its altitude, landed and landed.

"Commander, the plane is coming. My gut told me that this time it must be right. ”

"I don't know what equipment I'll receive this time." Dai Anlan nodded to Xu Wenyou, took the cigarette he handed over, took out five yuan and bought a sun-brand lighter and lit it with a snap, this kind of lighter called zippo in foreign countries, the wind is good, the flame is smokeless and the burning is stable, it is a lighter brand that is very popular with the officers and soldiers in the southwest. The most common model costs only five cents, and ordinary soldiers can afford it.

"Hehe, the head of the regiment borrowed it from me, I like your lighter." Xu Wenyou, the commander of the second battalion, snatched the lighter, lit it with a click, watched the light blue flame rise, and with satisfaction, he leaned over the cigarette, lit it, and took a breath. Although military discipline in the southwest is very strict, it does not include such times, and there are no special regulations for smoking, provided that the task is not delayed. "Tsk, it's a good thing, it's a pity that it's a little expensive, a man has to have a good lighter, and you are just like that, the head of the regiment. I heard that in foreign countries, this thing has to be sold for more than a dozen dollars or even dozens of dollars, and it is frighteningly expensive. ”

"Let's go, when the Battle of Jinjing is over, this lighter will be given to you." Dai Anlan smiled and took back the lighter, he knew that Xu Wenyou's family conditions were not very good, in addition to the paralyzed old father, there was also a very capable daughter-in-law, and the burden of supporting the family was very heavy, so it was impossible to be willing to spend five yuan to buy a lighter like himself. Under his leadership, although the second battalion has a ruffian, it is brave and resourceful in battle, especially Hou Xiaoshan, the commander of the third company under him, the whole monkey spirit, who does not want to die in battle, but uses his anger and brains to kill the enemy.

"The head of the regiment is really good, we deserve to be friends in exchange for hiding from guns."

While the two were talking and laughing, they had already boarded the car and arrived on the airport tarmac, where the transport plane had opened the tail door and was unloading. When he saw a strange car driving out of the cargo hold of the plane, Dai Anlan swallowed his saliva. "Weasel Battlefield Assault Vehicle ......"

"Lieutenant Colonel! Major! A second lieutenant officer who came out of the warehouse walked straight up to Dai Anlan and saluted.

"Ensign! I am Lieutenant Colonel Dai Anlan of the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Division, who is responsible for receiving equipment, and this is my 2nd Battalion Commander Xu Wenyou. Dai Anlan returned the salute and handed over his military ID card at the same time. A logistics officer stepped up and, with the cooperation of another airport security officer, checked the documents of the two men.

"Lieutenant Colonel Dai Anlan, I am responsible for escorting this batch of Weasel Battlefield Assault Vehicles, please sign for it."

Immediately, Dai Anlan and an officer from the logistics department stepped forward to confirm and sign the documents, which can be regarded as receiving this batch of equipment on the spot.

Xu Wenyou walked up to Dai Anlan and said in a low voice, "Tsk, head of the regiment, this thing is really good." How did it even go to the front. ”

"Yes, I saw it in the cutting-edge weapons class of the military academy back then, this is a very good paratrooper tactical assault vehicle, before the air capacity can not reach a high level, this type of assault vehicle is most suitable for infantry rapid assault."

Dai Anlan's face was a little solemn, the cutting-edge weapons course of the military academy, many military cadets have taken it, but everyone is a little skeptical about the weapons and equipment described in the class, after all, some of the weapons have exceeded people's imagination, and even more, each weapon has a clear name.

For example, this kind of Weasel battlefield assault vehicle, judging from the pictures in the text of the year, the structure is very simple, the engine is very strong, almost in line with the requirements of all-terrain maneuvering on the battlefield, the obstacle passing ability is strong, the front baffle of the cab of the assault vehicle has a certain bulletproof function, with the tearer heavy machine gun on the back seat, machine gun or a grenade launcher introduced in the text, will play a huge role in the pursuit of the enemy, or when breaking through the blockade line. This is an advantageous infantry ultralight fighting vehicle at low armored battlefield strength.

Just thinking about it, the Weasel assault car had slowly driven over, although the assault vehicle was far inferior to the armored vehicles and tanks equipped in the southwest, but it still made Dai Anlan like it at first sight. On the wheelhouse sat a pilot soldier with two weapons already mounted in the back seat, a grenade launcher that could control the shooting from the driver's seat, and a Ripper heavy machine gun with a single rear seat responsible for firing. It's almost exactly the same as the illustrations in the cutting-edge weapons class that year.

"Perhaps, one day those weapons on the map will appear in front of our eyes, perhaps, they have been tested in a laboratory in the southwest at this time." Thinking of the strange weapons in the frontier weapons class, and thinking about it carefully, Dai Anlan has seen at least three types, one is a strategic transport aircraft that is somewhat similar to the large transport aircraft in front of him, one is the individual bazooka that has been sent to the troops one after another over the years and has been updated, and the other is the Weasel battlefield assault vehicle in front of him. Thinking of the behemoth strategic bombers, the super-high-speed machine guns that can cut off a position in an instant, and the cloudburst shells that can blow up a fortified fortification with a single shell, he even had the illusion that these weapons might appear one after another within a few years.

"There are two more planes landing soon, so you can pick them up together."

The second lieutenant officer briefly introduced that the weight of this Weasel assault vehicle is not light, almost one ton, at least one C-31 can only transport a maximum of four Weasel assault vehicles and its special gun grenades, and 24 of the first batch will be transported to the front line, which is not only to put the new weapons to the test, so that the paratrooper units that are being formed can test weapons, but also to supplement the choice of surnames when it is difficult for heavy armored forces to reach the front line quickly.

"Second Lieutenant, although these assault combat vehicles are easy to use, we also need armored vehicles and tanks more, do you want to report to the logistics department and transport them to the north as soon as possible." Xu Wenyou, chief of staff of the regiment, rubbed his hands and said, his face full of sneers.

The second lieutenant officer of the logistics department smiled, and then saluted, "Major, the logistics department is studying the needs of the front line every day, and the relevant equipment is already in the transportation plan." ”

"When will you be able to go north?"

"Sorry, it's a military secret."

“……”

Dai Anlan smiled and apologized to the second lieutenant, "I made you laugh, he was just overly curious, and he would be locked up by himself when he went back." ”

"Commander......"

Dai Anlan saluted and got into the assault vehicle, and the soldiers brought by the third regiment also jumped into the cab and started the assault vehicle. For Xu Wenyou, Dai Anlan looks at it from two sides, this kid has always been a guy with loose discipline, but he is still very good at fighting.

In less than an hour, two more C-31s landed, and Dai Anlan successfully received them, and the assault team composed of a total of 12 Weasel assault vehicles was really very stylish, attracting the attention of the soldiers at the airport along the way.

However, before the convoy could leave the airport, it was stopped.

"Who is Dai Anlan, the commander of the third regiment of the third division."

A captain in charge of the airport guard walked over and asked with a salute.

"I just, what's the matter?" Dai Anlan jumped out of the car in confusion, he had just returned from Zhengding, and he was going to go to the military headquarters after receiving this batch of equipment, could it be that the battlefield had changed?

"I just received an order forwarded by the military department, let Commander Dai go over immediately, there is an urgent mission!!" The captain succinctly conveyed the order he had just received.

Dai Anlan nodded, and asked Xu Wenyou to take the commando team back first, take care of it, and get on a weasel assault car and drive directly towards the military headquarters.

(To be continued)