Chapter 311: Mechanical Engineering Airship
"There is no danger around, you can descend, you can land!"
The scout held up the binoculars and repeatedly confirmed that there were no zombies in this mountain range, and then called the mechanical engineering airship to descend from the high altitude of Rimi.
Today's airship has been exhibited to the point where it is no longer a single transport type, but towards a comprehensive utilization exhibition. The airship design bureau is becoming more and more mature, and the airship they designed even surpasses the modern concept of airship in application. In particular, the introduction of mechanical engineering airships has brought the use of airships to a peak.
Mechanical engineering airship is a combination of all kinds of machinery in the gondola, can carry out air operations, can carry out sea operations, 6 places, mountains, canyons and other terrain operation capabilities, is the most important maintenance and construction of the Chamber of Commerce, responsible for the construction of large buildings.
The mechanical engineering airship in the sky landed on the edge of the railroad that had been abandoned for several years, a deserted field, full of weeds as tall as a man, and some of them were gradually withering and yellow in the moonlit sky.
The volume of the mechanical engineering airship has more than a dozen levels, and this one is the same level as the military airship, with a huge body, and it is also a mechanical engineering airship that goes out to work. It landed in the weeds, the hatch of the pod opened, and a dozen soldiers rushed out first, half on guard, half pulling out the ropes hidden at the bottom of the pod, looking for trees to hold the airship in.
After repeatedly confirming that there was no danger, more than 20 maintenance engineers wearing blue overalls and blue helmets walked out of the airship. Carrying toolboxes, they were escorted by soldiers, and soon cut through the low bushes on the side of the railroad and walked onto the railway line.
For reasons that it had not been used for several years, the railroad tracks were rusty, and a large number of weeds grew on the gravel grain road, which almost covered the railway.
Of course, weeds don't interfere with the trains, and they are not the real reason for the arrival of the engineers. The trees on both sides of the railway were broken off and some places that collapsed due to rain due to lack of care for a long time.
What's more serious is the lack of the rail, which is displaced......
Since the Chamber of Commerce proposed to resume the transportation of the railway, the railway from Qingyuan City to the Qaidam Basin to Lenghu is among the urgent repairs of the Chamber of Commerce. If there is no accident, the railway will also become one of the most important ways for the Chamber of Commerce to connect Lenghu and Tianzhou City, completely solving the dilemma that people have difficulty traveling and can only rely on airships.
However, the railway has not been used for nearly six and a half years, and there will be all kinds of problems, which require a lot of time and manpower to be repaired by the Chamber of Commerce.
And there is another problem, the use of the railway, the area it passes through is very large, will pass through some cities, towns, counties, mountains and so on. A large number of zombies have become an important obstacle to the use of railways. Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for is that this section of the railway leading to Cold Lake is completely within the scope of the Chamber of Commerce, and the environment here is sparsely populated, so you don't have to worry about zombies.
The Chamber of Commerce sent a total of ten mechanical engineering airships, as well as a large number of personnel, to be responsible for the maintenance of the entire railway.
Now this one is only one of ten, and they are made up of soldiers, crews, engineers, and scouts, working together to deal with a series of problems along the railway.
In fact, many road sections are some minor problems, but for the train, any small problems may cause fatal danger. This also increases the workload of the maintenance engineers, and the mechanical engineering airship, almost stop-and-go, rises and falls.
The problem of this section of the railway is not very big, mainly because the slope through which the railway passes has slipped and the mud and rocks need to be removed.
The popularity of the communicator made the maintenance engineers who had identified the problem quickly call the mechanical engineering airship parked nearby, and after it lifted off, it sailed at a low altitude to the slope where it had slipped. As the machine in the pod started, one of the digging arms was activated with a roar.
The crew members who control the mechanical engineering airship all have rich experience in airship piloting, and under their control, the mechanical engineering airship can accurately land to the height they want and carry out the operation. The nimble shoulder digging arm digs up a large amount of soil underneath, and under the work of a dozen small thrusters scattered around the mechanical engineering airship, it can flexibly move forward, backward, left and right, and finally move the mud and rocks to the wasteland next to it.
After most of the debris has been removed, the subtle steps can be done manually.
After all the debris was emptied, the engineers tested the rails again for normal problems, and only after confirming that they met the standards of the railway and could pass the train normally, then they packed everything up, returned to the mechanical engineering airship, and lifted off again, slowly continuing along the railway.
Before the end of the world, there were still a large number of trains running on the railway, so inevitably, after more than an hour along the road, this machine-gun engineering airship finally saw a half-derailed train, its locomotive and half of the carriage pierced into the field next to it, and after a few years, the green paint in the carriage peeled off, revealing the rust that bloomed like a flower inside.
For a few years, the people who died on the train were turned into zombies, and some of them did not leave here, but wandered around the neighborhood.
Probably because the surroundings were all wilderness, they almost looked like mud figures, because they were covered with dirt and some moss grew on them.
Originally, the scouts on the mechanical engineering airship did not pay attention, thinking that some mud balls were just human-like. But who knew that in the mechanical engineering airship climbed up, like a clay man, with teeth and claws.
And the zombies lying on the railway, covered with small weeds and moss, if they were not alarmed by the sound, they got up from the railway, in the sky, even if they had a telescope, it would be impossible to think that this pile of moss and weeds would be a zombie that could give people a fatal blow, right?
The first time I saw a zombie in this state, it really scared everyone on the mechanical engineering airship, and at the same time, it was a secret luck that the airship entered the absolute safety of the sky.
The appearance of bird corpses has made the sky no longer absolutely safe, and it is still very dangerous to sail alone with a mechanical engineering airship like this. However, the analysis of the intelligence department, coupled with the ubiquitous reconnaissance aircraft, has long confirmed that the number of bird corpses is not large, and there are no bird corpses in this area.
Due to the reason of being covered in mud, these zombies instantly have a nickname that is different from other zombies: mud corpses.
After observing in the air for a while, the number of zombies still left here in the train below is only about a hundred, and they are no different from ordinary zombies, and there are no special infected people.
Their only skill, let's not talk about it for the time being, is to use the mossy weeds on their bodies to lurk and camouflage, and it is easy for people to enter their hiding place unknowingly.
Hundreds of zombies are a very easy thing for the dozen or so soldiers equipped on the mechanical engineering airship.
A little farther away, a dozen soldiers were lowered, and the mechanical engineering airship was lifted off again, hovering over the train that rushed out of the tracks, making a lot of noise to lure out the zombies that might still be lurking.
The effect was really good, and a few zombies crawled out of the tattered carriage of the train.
It may be the reason why they were seriously injured when the train derailed, and through the telescope, you can clearly see that they are all mutilated, some limbs are broken, and when they climb out of the carriage, their arms are dangling, and there is a little bit of tendon in the connection.
Not only these few, but also the people who were thrown out during the derailment and fell into the farmland at that time, after turning into zombies, turned out to be using the farmland as a point, rolling out of the quagmire, lurking in the quagmire. As they crawled out of the quagmire and struggled to stand, they were dripping with mud and sticking to them with thick locusts on them. The rotting flesh, while stained with mud, turned out a white rotten opening, and there were faint white corpse insects moving inside.
This kind of strange zombie is indeed surprising, they can be said to be natural latent masters.
There are also a few bazookas and machine guns on the mechanical engineering airship, but they can't be used against the railway, right? As soon as the rockets bombard, everyone will have to be busy for most of the day, and they will not be able to row at all.
The soldiers who can be selected are all elites with strong combat effectiveness, don't look at it as just a dozen escort teams, but their combat effectiveness will not be weak. As soon as they got off the airship, they immediately assigned their responsibilities and felt towards the train that was on track.
Attracted by the sound of the airship hovering overhead, the zombies' attention was not on the ground.
More than a dozen soldiers found a good position, raised their guns and fired a burst, and more than a dozen zombies that were relatively high in front fell in an instant. Their heads were hit, and around the hole where the bullet had hit, mud and moss flew and were lifted off. Probably after staying in such a wet place for a long time, their brains still retain a lot of water, and when they hit, black liquid comes out violently.
Attracted by the sound of gunfire, these mud corpses that reacted, like prey with delicious food, frantically pounced.
A passenger train, to say the least, will have one or two thousand passengers, and according to the evolution probability of high-level zombies, there will be at least hundreds of high-level zombies. But these zombies don't know where to move.
The remaining zombies are not high-level zombies, nor are they special infected, and they seem to be a mighty charge, but in fact there is no threat.
Years of experience in dealing with zombies, coupled with the fact that they have participated in large-scale zombie wars, made these dozen soldiers calm and calm, focusing on point shooting, and shooting the zombies that ran up one by one, hitting their heads.
The entire battle time was only about ten minutes, and the more than 100 zombies all fell on the railroad tracks.
In order to ensure absolute safety, the soldiers approached cautiously and re-shot each zombie's brain to prevent possible accidents.
This train, with 35 carriages, is supposed to be a long-distance train across three provinces from the number. Half of it derailed, and half remained in the iron. Without really making sure that there were no zombies in the carriage inside, the soldiers did not advance, but let some of them be on guard and began to clean up the corpses on the track in the iron.
In order not to affect the opening of the train in the future, it is not enough to throw the body next to it.
In choosing a place that would not have an impact on the railway, a large pit was dug up, and the corpses were not even crystallized, but they were carried and thrown down, then covered with earth, and a wooden plank was used to carve on it with a knife :) (; The words of the cemetery of the train victims can be regarded as allowing them to be buried after six and a half years of tossing.
After waiting for a while, the soldiers finally approached the train, and after searching for the zombies, they did not reappear before they gave a signal to the mechanical engineering airship in the sky.
This train definitely needs to be scrapped, if it is close to Qingyuan City, or you can carry the soap back and provide a number to move it out of the railway. Maybe after many years, the steel that can still be used on it may not be possible.
The train is also a big guy, and half of the dozen cars that have been derailed don't need to bother, but these dozen or so carriages that are still on the railway must be cleaned up.
If it is artificial, it is true that there is nothing that can be done about it, but the emergence of mechanical engineering airships has changed this difficulty. You must know that the load capacity of this mechanical engineering airship, like that of a military airship, can carry a weight of 12s tons. Naturally, it can take on the heavy responsibility of the crane.
However, it is impossible to solve more than a dozen cars at one time, and the maintenance engineers can only disconnect the connection of each carriage, and then tie the disconnected carriage with the help of wire cables.
Strong load capacity, for the airship, means a strong ability to lift off.
When the wire cable is fixed to the pod, the mechanical engineering airship slowly rises, takes the carriage up little by little, detaches from the rails, moves out of the field next to it, and then lands to put the carriage down.
Seemingly simple work, each carriage, takes half an hour.
It was busy until the afternoon when the dozen or so carriages were handled. And the damaged titanium rails, which are on the mechanical engineering airship, after the removal of the damaged ones, are not very difficult to replace.
By the time the mechanical engineering airship lifted off and left, the damaged section of the railway had been repaired.
The abandoned carriages, the dozen or so cars plunging into the fields, and a new grave next to it, a dozen or so brand new railroad tracks, prove that changes have taken place here.
The input of ten mechanical engineering airships, a large number of personnel, divided into ten teams. This kind of repair efficiency is still very satisfying. Not only did they repair some of the debris that had been lost, but they also tried their best to connect the staggered railroad tracks in some stations to the railroad to Lenghu.
In the busy time of these people, several locomotives staying at the railway station in Qingyuan City, with the efforts of everyone, also recovered successfully, and made a "woo" airbag sound.
However, this does not mean that the railway can be put into operation.
In the area where the railway passes, there are still zombies in several counties, and the Chamber of Commerce also needs to send troops to deal with these zombies.
For the Chamber of Commerce, which already has long-range combat capabilities, this is an opportunity to train troops, and it is also an opportunity to test long-range combat capabilities. In the several townships and counties listed, the number of zombies is not very large, and the largest number is only about 100,000.
The official servant of the Bird's Nest aircraft carrier also announced the Air Force Exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce, which has reached a new level. It will also be the main force of the chamber of commerce's long-range operations, and the task is to clear the nest for some county zombies blocking the operation of the railway.
As the smallest airship aircraft carrier in the Chamber of Commerce's plan, it belongs to light aircraft carriers, and its number will not be large, and three will be built initially to form four light aircraft carrier formations, which will be deployed in four directions, and will be stationed in the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce, Hetianzhou Branch, and Lenghu Branch.
The new airship aircraft carrier under construction, although it has not yet been named and classified, there is no doubt that it will belong to the class of aircraft carriers.
At the end of September, the aircraft carrier Birdlight left Qingyuan City and began to carry out a plan to carry out crimes along the railway route, and it will clear the entire railway of existential and possible threats in a week's time.
Including the railroad side, and the zombies near the railway. Some areas with main roads leading to the railway, which are likely to be attracted to the sound of trains, are also within its clear nest range.
The dispatch of the Bird's Nest aircraft carrier means that the day of opening to traffic will not be too far away.
The ten mechanical engineering airships that returned home, as well as all the personnel, were naturally warmly welcomed by the Chamber of Commerce. But they only rested for three days, and once again set out on the road to repair the railway, this time their task was even more onerous, because the railway they were going to repair was the railway from Qingyuan City to the Lanxi Plateau.
Compared with Qingyuan City, the railway route from Lenghu City is not very long, and the area where it is located is not densely populated. However, unlike the railways passing through the Lanxi Plateau, the harsh environment is a problem, which also requires the existence of several first- and second-tier cities, as well as crossing some rivers and deserts.
The difficulty is definitely several times that of the newly repaired Qingleng Railway, and the danger will increase exponentially.
However, this railway, the importance of the Chamber of Commerce, strategic deployment, has immeasurable value, and its significance is no less than the Qingleng Railway. If this railway can be opened to traffic, it means that the chamber of commerce's major integration plan can be implemented in advance.
You must know that the nearly 3 million people on the Lanxi Plateau are an irresistible temptation. More importantly, the influence of the Chamber of Commerce on the Lanxi Plateau is increasing day by day, and in the minds of everyone, it is already regarded as a part of the Lanxi Plateau, and it is absolutely impossible for others to point to it.
In Zhou Yuanqiang's view, the people on the Lanxi Plateau are almost dominated by arable land, which seriously wastes a lot of manpower, and it is necessary for them to correct their way of life and let them create higher value.