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    Zhang Zhidan is not a reckless man. He is not like No. 1 who dives deep into the swamp and transforms into a dragon in a sudden change. He is more like the silent spring rain that moistens things. He uses trade, medical care, education, industry and other means to subtly change things.  Achieve your goals quietly.  So after walking out of the living room, I didn't rush to formulate any attack plan. Instead, I arranged for Fei Wenhua, Park Eunxing and others to stay, and then helped distribute the weapons and supplies they brought to the Northern Alliance Army. I didn't take Yunqi until the arrangements were made.  Urumqi Northwest Theater Command.

    When the plane arrived at Urumqi Airport, Fang Rui, Mei Sheng and Long Yun were already waiting at the airport after receiving the news.  

    Fang Rui and Mei Sheng were both his comrades-in-arms in the same year, and Long Yun was the commander-in-chief of the Afghanistan campaign nine years ago, so the four of them went straight to the topic without exchanging pleasantries.  Zhang Zhidan first introduced the situation told by Nadersha and others: "It is not difficult to deal with 20,000 rebels. The Asian Brigade has three regiments, totaling more than 7,330 people, and they were trained by General Shi personally. Fighting these puppet troops is not a problem."  The big problem lies with the Soviet infantry division in Kunduz. I heard from them that the Soviet army has equipped a lot of artillery and trucks in recent years, and there is also a cavalry regiment to help. If it moves slowly, it is likely to be dragged down in Hindustan.  What a mountain.

    My idea is that you get me some heavy weapons, preferably armored vehicles and tanks, so that I can at least hold off the Soviet army for a while.  As long as he can enter Kabul and capture Amanullah, his puppet troops will definitely disperse in a hurry.  Also, I need your help in gathering troops. The resource roads are poorly accessible, and the Afghans¡¯ confidentiality measures cannot be trusted. Using such a large force will definitely alarm the Soviets, so the remaining Asian Brigade soldiers will have to leave in batches, and finally  It was better to avoid detection by flying in the air. After arriving at the place, I was trying to find a way to find a mountain col for them to hide in for a while.  "

    "This is a good idea. I will ask the Air Force to add more flights soon. Go more often and return less often. It will waste some gas." Of course, friends who grew up together must support it, so Mei Sheng was the first to speak: "I have a lot of old-fashioned gray wolves here.  Armored vehicles. There are also more than 20 damaged T26 tanks. I think this is it. You go and file a report and apply. I will have someone repair it as soon as possible. I will definitely give it to you in half a month at the latest. But you have to think about how to transport it.  When these big guys hit the road, there¡¯s a lot of noise.¡±

    "There's no need to be in such a hurry. We have to wait until October anyway. Even if the Soviet Union responds to support then, its transportation capacity will be reduced due to the cold weather. And even if it wants to go crazy and attack us, it will have to wait until spring next year. No  As for what goes wrong.¡±

    Fang Rui also agreed not to rush.  But he did it for political purposes: "Tukhachevsky, Blyukher and others must have been killed by Stalin! These two people have a great influence in the Soviet army, and hiding it is just a temporary measure. According to my estimation,  Stalin will definitely continue to purge the inside of the army, and the troops stationed outside are the most worried about it, and they will be in chaos first when the time comes."

    "Minister Fang is right, the Soviet army will definitely be in civil strife for a while. But then again, how are you going to attack Kabul? Even if an armored battalion drags the Soviet army from the flank, it will be difficult for the main force to quickly cross the Hindu Kush Mountains.  "Long Yun, who had been silent until now, interrupted.  He is now the major general commander of the 7th Infantry Division, and there are rumors that he will be promoted to lieutenant general by the end of the year.  Once you become a lieutenant general, you can compete for the position of army commander.  So even Mason valued his opinion and asked: "Is the Hindu Kush really so difficult?"

    Long Yun nodded: "From north to south, the Hindu Kush Mountains are like the big iron gate at the gate of Kabul. There are only a few roads. The Soviet army will definitely protect them. I have seen these roads in general in the early years. If I  If we come to defend, we only need to put up one or two battalions and strengthen the rapid-fire artillery, machine guns and bunkers. Even if the enemy has tanks and heavy artillery to help, it will be no problem in ten and a half months."

    "That would be troublesome." Everyone trusts Long Yun's vision and judgment, and Zhang Zhidan has been away from the army for many years.  So I was a little anxious and asked quickly: "Brother Long, when you say this, you must have an idea, right?"

    Long Yun chuckled: "I know that Kabul Airport is surrounded by flat terrain, and experienced pilots can land on the periphery without a runway. My idea is that a reinforced battalion can be mobilized from the airborne division, and silent gliders can be used to calculate the time.  An air landing will be carried out at dawn to achieve surprise. As long as Kabul Airport can be grabbed, subsequent transport planes can deliver at least two battalions to the city within an hour!"

    "That's right! Why didn't I think of that?" Zhang Zhidan slapped his forehead and secretly cried out that he was confused, but Mei Sheng was not so optimistic: "The above message is to try not to interfere. If you want to call the airborne battalion, I am afraid it needs the president to decide."

    "I'll go find the president myself. If Long Yun's method works, I can save a lot of trouble." Zhang Zhidan was about to take a flight back to Beijing in a hurry. Mei Sheng quickly grabbed him and pointed at the sunset: "You don't even look.  Depends on what time it is, it¡¯s already midnight when we fly over. Just feel free to have a few drinks with us, and I¡¯ll arrange a flight to take you off tomorrow morning.¡±

    Flying thousands of kilometers at night is very dangerous, and there is no need to let the pilot take risks if the matter is too urgent.  But Zhang ZhiyiI didn't stay long. After hurriedly watching the tanks and armored vehicles that Mei Sheng said, I immediately set off for Beijing early on the third day.  But when they arrived, they found out that Yang Qiu had already gone to Jinzhou Huludao Zhaoxin Machinery Company for an inspection, so he had to drag Xiao Jinyun to Shanhaiguan Airport.

    He finally arrived at Huludao at four o'clock in the afternoon. When he arrived at the shipyard, the idea of ??thanking Yang Qiu and the construction workers came into his mind.  Because the former personally planned the national infrastructure blueprint, and the latter worked hard for more than 20 years to turn the blueprint into reality, finally allowing long-distance travelers like him to no longer have to suffer from bumpy roads.

    After the car drove into the shipyard, he had the opportunity to see the whole picture of the largest shipyard in the north after Qingdao for the first time.  Zhaoxin Machinery Company was originally a Sino-US joint venture Huludao Shipyard, the largest shipyard in the Bohai Sea, with an annual design shipbuilding capacity of 300,000 tons.  Due to the economic crisis, the United States was eager to withdraw funds and sold the half-built shipyard to the Republic of China government at a discount of US$6 million.  When the country retreated and the people advanced, it was sold to Zhaoxin Company and renamed Zhaoxin Machinery Company.

    "President, look, this is the roll-on roll-off wheel jointly designed by us and Jiangnan Group."

    When Zhang Zhidan arrived at the shipyard, Du Chongyuan was standing in front of a ship with an open hatch on the side, introducing new products to Yang Qiu and the accompanying officials.  He is the owner of Zhaoxin Company and is one of the sixth batch of foreign nationals studying in the United States during the Republic of China. He worked as an intern at Bath Steel Company and Todd Shipbuilding Company in the United States for three years. After returning to China, he founded Liaoning Zhaoxin Company.  Due to its focus on new technologies, it was listed as one of the private enterprises supported by the state during the reform of the Democratic Progressive State Retirement Reform, and with the help of the state, it eventually swallowed up the shipyard with a small investment.

    But he was not too happy, because shipbuilding is the embodiment of the highest level of industry, with high technical requirements and a large amount of work involved. Therefore, after acquiring the shipyard, he immediately contacted Jiangnan and other companies to send workers to learn the technology, and took advantage of the economic crisis to introduce a large number of European and American talents.  , in these years, they also grabbed many good talents from domestic universities, and finally opened technical training schools in Shenyang and Dalian. It took seven years for Zhaoxin Machinery Company to become one of the top eight shipyards in the country.

    Of course, Yang Qiu also contributed to this.  For example, the ro-ro wheel in front of him was a new type of ship that he proposed, led by Jiangnan Group, and designed together with Zhaoxin Machinery Company.  In fact, ro-ro wheels are not high-tech. If it were not for the fact that the dominance of global ocean transportation is still in the hands of the United Kingdom and the United States, and if they are used now, it will be a waste to others, he would have wanted to develop more advanced container wheels.  However, ro-ro wheels are also good, because there are hatches and internal passages for vehicles to go up and down directly, so the loading and unloading speed is fast, and it is not uncommon to reach thousands of tons per hour.

    "There are five decks inside, with circular entry and exit channels, and the decks are marked with sequential numbers. The empty displacement is 6,832 tons, and the full load is 12,515 tons. It can transport 452 two-and-a-half-ton trucks, or 1,544 jeeps at a time. Build this  During the design and construction of the ship, we strictly adopted the standardization manual formulated by the National Standards Committee, and all welding was used, which greatly saved the construction time. The slipway only took 6 months, and the entire completion took only 13 months, and the cost was reduced to 307  Ten thousand."

    "The slipway in the south of the Yangtze River is busy, so we are currently building all these ships. These two ships were ordered by Tianjin Fulongchang Shipping Company and are specially used for car transportation. The two ships currently built are modified models in accordance with the requirements of the Navy.  "The main purpose is to replace the reciprocating steam engine with a steam turbine, which can increase the speed to 18 knots. Next, we are also preparing to build a ferry type and a larger heavy-duty model."

    You definitely can't compete with Ziyou wheels, so Yang Qiu prefers to technically achieve large throughput and high load. This is not because he wants to compete with anyone, but because he takes into account the transportation needs of the many islands in the Southwest Pacific and the Persian Gulf.  Therefore, it is necessary to reserve a strong merchant ship force before the war.  However, the ro-ro wheel also has limitations, and it has high requirements on the dock. In order to reduce the cost, it adopts the standard of civilian ships, which is not as easy to use as a dedicated tank landing ship.

    However, several generals such as Yue Peng and Jiang Fangzhen asked in detail. They were obviously very interested in this new type of ship that could theoretically transport all the tanks and armored vehicles of an armored division and complete loading and unloading within a few hours.  Du Chongyuan kept asking.

    When the two found Yang Qiu, he had already gotten into the belly of the ship to look inside.  I heard that Zhang Zhidan came from Urumqi early in the morning and chased me here again. I quickly asked: "What's the matter?"

    Zhang Zhidan first explained the difficulties in Afghanistan, and then the use of used tanks and armored vehicles in the northwest theater, and finally talked about Long Yun¡¯s idea of ??using the airborne battalion for a raid.  "This Long Yun is very thoughtful." Yue Peng stood nearby and praised him. In fact, he and Yang Qiu also thought of using airborne troops during their research, because the Hindu Kush Mountains were too troublesome.

    But will the use of airborne battalions trigger a war between China and the Soviet Union?  No one dared to guarantee it. Although he was eager to start a war with the Soviet Union to solve the northwest, he was not completely ready yet, so he went to see Jiang Fangzhen and wanted to hear his opinion.

    Jiang Fangzhen is now the military adviser to the Presidential Palace and has resigned from the National Defense Department.After learning the lesson, he smiled more. When he saw the hinting look, he smiled and cursed: "Well, you wife, Zian, you have already thought about it, why are you still looking at me? Germany and Italy are not afraid, so what are we afraid of? Isn't it just an airborne battalion? Take off  He took off his military uniform and put on the clothes of the Northern Afghan Army. Is this what Stalin relied on to start the war?"

    Yang Qiu secretly smiled bitterly, asking the two guys to consult side by side, I'm afraid it will be difficult to clean up the ears.  Agreeing: "Just follow your method, I will transfer one or two from the Second Airborne Division! Strengthen the battalion, and the rest will be done according to Jiang Baili's method." (To be continued.)
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