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I just said there:

"Lieutenant General Zhang Baolong proposed a way. The Air Force is responsible for logistics support. We discussed it and felt that it was feasible. However, in this case, we need to reduce it.

"Tell me more about it. This suggestion is very good. Why didn't I think of it?" Zhao Gang patted his head with some regret. He felt that after twenty years, the innovative cells in his head seemed to have been lost. He sometimes forgot the real world that the most commonly used in World War II knows, but he really got back to life.

"It's the case. We first determine that if we defeat India, at least 60,000 people will be needed in the early stage of the war, and the consumption of these people is about 500 tons per day. Therefore, in the early stage, our transportation capacity must be guaranteed to be about 500 tons per day. We can consider taking off large transport aircraft from Xinjiang, Urumqi and other places to ensure such transportation. It takes 100 times a day to complete it."

The staff officer explained on the side that several huge red dots on the map are particularly eye-catching, each red dot represents a giant airport. On the huge Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is no red dot. A giant airport is built on a plateau with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters:_

"What about in the late stage of the war, we have to fight a battle that can win the war, rather than rushing to enter and then withdraw in a hurry. India has great potential for war. Do you have to expect their incompetent defense minister to pave the way for us?" Zhao Gang's words aroused the generals' laughter, and after laughing, it was still the staff officer who explained:

"In the end of the war, we need 500,000 people to defeat the Indians. Considering the expansion of the intensity of the war, we need to ensure 15,000 tons of war supplies per day. Considering the advancement of the war location and the lengthening of the supply route, we need 5,000 large transport aircraft every day to ensure the supply supply." After the staff member's face remained unchanged, he did not know what the 5,000 large transport aircraft meant, so he could remain indifferent, and Zhao Gang knew what this meant.

It means that China 5's large transport aircraft means that maintaining such a route requires all large transport aircraft. The aircraft and pilots cannot rotate together and need a certain amount of time to rest. Considering the danger of this route, not only British aircraft, but also the altitude of this route, not only conquering another thousand-year-old country, but also conquering the insurmountable plateau peaks at the same time, and on the land of unfamiliar enemy countries, the final victory is achieved with such a steep supply line.

Whether to do it or not is also a difficult question. If you don't do it, you have to let India restrain its defensive strength by your side, and eventually turn into a huge cancer. The war will inevitably become a long-term situation. Even if you win the final victory, it can only be considered a residual victory, and the enemy country is in ruins. And your country is also desolate. Thinking of this, Zhao Gang made up his mind

"After doing it, order the Engineer Corps immediately to open a new airport in Tibet at any cost."

Tibet is located in the southwestern border of the motherland, with a vast land and sparse population, complex terrain and geology. It is the main body of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with a high cold and oxygen deficiency. The climate is harsh, with many mountains in the territory, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters. The world is recognized as a "forbidden zone in the air" in the land. No one has ever thought about building an airport here, but after Zhao Gang's order, hundreds of thousands of troops entered Tibet one after another. In less than three years, five large airports were seen. Although they did not catch up with the air transport of Hump, they played a huge role later. After twenty years of sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, China's strength was enough to move mountains and fill the seas and shock the barbarians.

"Then, we mobilize large transport aircraft and start concentrated transportation training." Zhao Gang stretched out his hand, gently clicked somewhere on the map, and said vigorously: "Pick this place down and then present a gift to the empire as our sixth province."

The towering Himalayas lie on the border line between southwest China and India and other countries. The mountains are towering into the clouds, the weather is changing constantly, and the population is sparse. In the second year of World War II, Tibet, which was originally deserted, was boiling. China's aviation athletes opened up an air route across this mountain with fearless spirit, continuously transporting countless sources of strategic material resources into China, creating a miracle in the history of human aviation. This is the famous "hunch air transport".

"Camel" is not a specific geographical term. It represents a winding air route. The route starts from Assam in India in the west and spans the Himalayas, Gaoligong Mountain, Salwen River, and Nujiang directly to Yunnan and Sichuan in our country. The areas through which this route passes

The mountain canyons are staggered and the peaks above 7,000 are less than 7,000 meters higher than the transport aircraft's climbing authority, so they had to: |起. News reporters were amazed at the undulating mountains under the wings, which were vividly called "hunchbacks", and praised the air route that traveled through death, which was called "hunchbacks".

The development of the "Camel Route" is a new type of war, using air supply as the main supply mode, and the troops no longer consider the weapon systems they carry, and everything depends on air transport. This new combat method has brought about a revolutionary combat method.

July 4, 1917:

After that, several major aircraft manufacturers in China immediately began to develop or transform existing large transport aircraft, especially radar devices, and added mountain warning devices. Moreover, after two large aircraft crashes, the third aircraft finally successfully completed a voyage of 3,000 kilometers and successfully landed at an airport in Pakistan. Afterwards, it was found that there were many scratches on the aircraft, most of which were less than a millimeter, and most of them were caused by snowflakes. The steel fuselage could not resist the snowflakes flying on the snowy mountains. The harsh environment could be imagined.

Due to limited transportation capacity, Long Zhixiang, deputy director of the Ministry of Transportation, who is responsible for the transportation dispatch of this route, said on July 9, 1917, and he maintained the "hunchback route" at all costs, but the transportation volume of the humming route is still not optimistic.

On 711, the Hump Airlift Team was established. At first, it was equipped with only 350 large transport aircraft allocated by the Air Force, which shows that the Air Force underestimated the difficulties of "Hump Airlift" and overestimated the Air Force's transportation capacity. The Air Force began to promise to transport 500 materials per month. As a result, 12 reached 280 to 406 tons, and dropped to the 17th.

In the face of this situation, Zhao Gang expressed his dissatisfaction, while Long Zhixiang, deputy director of the Ministry of Transport, questioned the necessity of continuing to provide war materials to the Hump Route. He ignored Zhao Gang's instructions and refused to continue to perform the duties of the Hump Route General Manager on 17.

Zhao Gang was extremely angry about this and immediately used his power to directly remove Long Zhixiang from the position of Deputy Minister of Transportation Long Zhixiang, and personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Hump Route, claiming that if the head of a department was preparing to change places, he could cause trouble for Hump Route. He would immediately remove this person's position and announce the appointment of an unknown employee of the Ministry of Transportation as the deputy commander of Hump Route. This person was named Tiecan, who was silent and silent before. After being promoted by exception, he was immediately announced that he would take a plane for Hump Route in person.

720, Tiecan set off from Kunming Airport and flew to Tingjiang, Pakistan on a Chinese Airline plane. An air force transport plane took off at the same time. When he arrived at Kunming Airport, Tiecan saw that the air force transport plane had long disappeared. It turned out that when the air force pilot flew over the "hump peak", he saw that the weather was not good, so he gave up halfway and flew back to the Tingjiang base. Tiecan was very embarrassed about this.

On the 721st, when he met Zhao Gang, he talked about his experience at the Tingjiang base: "At present, each aircraft has only one flight of pilots, and there is no supplementary preparation for holidays. There is an airport in Tingjiang. All Air Force transport aircraft and civilian aircraft use this airport, so they cannot be evacuated anymore, and large transport aircraft have to be parked on the runway. In addition, the pilots of this air aviation are not experienced talents, so although their spirit is great, they cannot be expected. The Air Force has not given me excellent pilots." It has a bit of self-mockery and self-excited meaning.

The "Camel Air Freight" in July 1917 was not ideal, and the whole month transported 8,732 tons was far lower than the combat requirements at that time. The reason was very complicated. Although there were factors such as the inactiveness of the US Arms Distribution Bureau, the more important thing was the limitation of conditions. According to the Humpion Route Command, 504 aircraft were necessary to transport 5,000 tons of materials through the "Camel" and 3,400 ground crews, and 5 airports at each end of the air transport line. Each airport could accommodate transport aircraft. In addition, in Tingjiang and Yunnan, a large amount of aviation gasoline and aircraft parts must be stored, complex navigation devices and air strike alarm systems must be built, and sufficient air force forces to protect the route must be deployed. All of these have become unfavorable factors that restrict air freight.
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