Chapter 36: Ambush Airdrop (I)
The label of this medicine bottle has four italics written on it, "Expressing Deficiency and Determining Disease", and Zhou Changfeng's first reaction is that this is a painkiller?
Just as the people of the original plane translated Paracetamol as "paracetamol", the Ming people naturally pursued Xindaya when translating foreign languages, so Zhou Changfeng looked to the text to make sense.
The commonly used non-steroidal pain relievers and anti-inflammatory drugs these days seem to be only aspirin, right? Other painkillers are the kind of things you shouldn't touch.
Facing his skeptical gaze, the second lieutenant of the military doctor explained: "This is a new type of antimicrobial drug jointly developed by Qianyuan Company and Merck & Co., Ltd., and the performance of the first phase of clinical trials is okay. ”
In fact, this "deficiency disease" is sulfadiazine, which was extracted by the cooperation of Shanghai Qianyuan Pharmaceutical Company and Merck Sharp & Dohme's branch in Daming.
A few years ago, the well-known German Farben discovered the antibacterial ability of "Bailang Duoxi", which is the first synthetic antibacterial drug in human history; Subsequently, the Institut Pasteur in France discovered that its active ingredient was actually sulfonamides, and the name sulfonamide became a sensation all over the world.
For the first time, mankind has a drug that can fight bacterial infections, so more than 200 papers have emerged in just two years, which shows how popular it is.
Sulfonamides are a large family, hundreds of which have been synthesized in a few years, but they have different properties, and the key is to find sulfonamides with good efficacy and few side effects.
Sulfadiazine is translated as "Deficiency and Disease" by Qianyuan Company Xindaya, which is a broad-spectrum bacteriostatic agent and has inhibitory effects on most Gram-positive and negative bacteria.
As a result, this achievement was immediately concerned by the imperial court, animal testing and clinical trials were carried out successively, and because of the situation in Wusizang, the military department ordered a small amount of production to be provided to the army before the test was completed, and if the clinical trials were not hindered, everyone was happy, otherwise they would be destroyed on the spot.
Zhou Changfeng didn't care, since the test was correct, then take it, in this era when there are no antibiotics, what can you ask for if you have sulfonamide antibacterial drugs?
After inquiring about the specific situation of each defense area one by one, he went to rest with peace of mind - several wooden boxes were moved together, and then a blanket was laid out to be considered a bed.
While the perimeter wind fell asleep with the sporadic sound of gunfire, Lingzhi's airstrip was a busy scene.
There are usually no fighter planes taking off and landing here, and generally only liaison opportunities take off and land here, so there are very few ground crews stationed here by the Air Force, only about 20 people.
At this moment, two trucks full of ammunition are being unloaded, and the quartermaster is signing the handover with the ground crew leader.
Bullets, shells, grenades, and explosives are pressed into standard wooden crates, which are then loaded into prefabricated drop boxes.
In order to carry out this airdrop mission, the Air Force dispatched four Type 29 twin-engine service planes from La Sa, which are expected to arrive at the right time.
The night seems to be extraordinarily short, fleeting, and the north and south capitals of the empire are already busy with traffic, but Lingzhi, which is located in the East Sixth District, has just seen the white of the fish belly in the sky.
Naturally, there were no approach lights on the runway of the airstrip, and several planes could only land slowly along piles of bonfires.
After landing on the ground, people rushed up and began to carry the 250-pound drop boxes into the cabin.
The two-engined and two-winged Type 29 service aircraft is far from being compared with a serious transport aircraft, and its two engines are the domestic version of the R-985 "Little Hornet" of the P&Wt company, which is air-cooled and star-shaped, with a maximum output of 450 horsepower.
However, in the high-altitude Uszang region, engine output has dropped significantly, and the Type 29 service plane, which could carry one ton or six people, can now only hold half of its cargo.
As for why the transport plane was not dispatched to carry out this mission, the main reason was that the air force considered that the first battalion was oppressed in the city of Demaji, and the high-speed transport planes would drop supplies at a large interval, and I was afraid that many materials would not fall into the area under their control, so they weighed it and chose a service plane that could fly slowly and had a small circling radius.
An hour and a half later, the four planes crossed the eastern foothills of the Himalayas and reached the skies over the tiny Demagi.
The Ming army on the ground immediately cast four blue smoke canisters in the south, east, and northwest to mark the airdrop area.
Unlike transport planes with semi-automatic airdrop tracks, the airdrop method of service planes can be described as very primitive - manually hook the parachute hook to the steel cable, open the hatch after reaching the target, and kick the drop box down.
"Attention all aircraft, descend to an altitude of 250 meters, slow down and circle."
The four planes circled over Demagi at an extremely slow speed, and the humming sound of the engines cheered up the officers and men of the first battalion on the ground, and everyone looked up to watch the snow-white parachute slowly float down.
Seeing this, the British and Indian troops outside the city were not to be outdone, and organized machine-gun fire to shoot into the air, and tracer bullets pierced the sky and shot straight at them.
Circumference immediately ordered a counterfire to be launched in order to hinder the enemy's anti-air fire.
Twenty 250-pound drop boxes landed one after another, and the soldiers rushed to pick up the goods, which made Zhou Changfeng can't help but think of people going to take takeaways.
He left the headquarters with the same interest, intending to join in the fun, but he didn't go far when he heard gunfire in the northwest, and it wasn't far away, it seemed to be in the city?
Without hesitation, he immediately gathered a platoon in the vicinity, and then led to the northwest with a squad as the front.
After walking through the rubble and rubble and rubble of the rubble, they rushed to the area where the fire was exchanged, and the group immediately looked for cover nearby.
I saw an airdrop box fall in the middle of a three-way intersection, and the bodies of four or five Ming soldiers fell near it, and the only remaining wounded man hid behind the droplet box to bandage himself, and the blood they shed stained the snow-white parachutes covering the ground red.
There were also more than a dozen soldiers scattered nearby, all hiding behind cover and firing back.
Boy? Guarding the drop box and fighting an ambush, right?
Zhou Changfeng then spotted the evil enemy forces, unknown in size, hiding in the ruins of a two-story brick and concrete house just north of the three-way intersection.
The house was in a good location and had a good firing range, and was originally planned to be used as a fire support point for subsequent street fighting, but it was destroyed by a bomb during yesterday's air raid.
Of course, the ruins and broken walls can also be arranged with firepower points, and they are more hidden and unexpected, and as a result, this "enemy" has become their own side?
This Anglo-Indian army that infiltrated the city was really bold, and Zhou Changfeng was very unhappy, so he immediately sent someone to give an order and transfer another platoon to support.
The second team had gone around Heights Zero in the night night and had changed their guard with the first team, which had suffered a lot of losses, and there was a gap of about an hour and a half in between, and he estimated that this enemy detachment had quietly penetrated the line of defense and entered the city at that time.