"Wow, General Yang, this is really amazing! This, this air force base is too huge, right?"

As soon as he flew over Tonggu Airport, Chennard was deeply impressed by the large scene production below.

At first glance, I saw that within dozens of square kilometers, dense construction teams were working hard.

The tens of thousands of construction workers and the vast area of ​​dozens of square kilometers are not the focus, but the focus is on the very high degree of mechanized construction.

Excavators, bulldozers, stone crushers, loaders, road rollers, mixers, concrete conveying pumps, concrete conveying pump trucks, concrete mixing stations and other construction equipment can be seen everywhere.

Many of the machines and equipment are advanced construction equipment that Chennard had never seen before. Just looking at these luxurious lineups, Chennard felt an eye-opening heart shock.

According to the plan, the total area of ​​Tonggu military airport built on the mountain is 30 square kilometers. Not only should the mountains on the east side of the airport be hollowed out to build several huge hangars that can accommodate thousands of combat aircraft.

High walls will be built around the airport, and at least two defensive cordons will be built. Military camps, dormitories, supporting living facilities, radar stations, signal base stations, command towers, underground command rooms, underground air defense rooms, etc. will be established in the airport, a series of military facilities will be established.

Its scale will not be much smaller than that of Gaomi Airport. Anyway, the land is not valuable, so you can let yourself enclose land and take as much human resources as you want.

In addition to construction equipment and cement, steel bars need to be purchased in large quantities from the system, and other building materials can basically be purchased locally or directly mined.

Therefore, although building such a huge military airport requires huge manpower and material resources, the construction cost is actually not high.

Walking off the plane, stepping on the hard cement floor, and looking around, Chennard asked in shock: "General Yang, is this a waste? How much financial and material resources does this cement runway alone cost?"

At present, the core area has completed the hardening of tens of thousands of square meters of cement floor, and it is possible to take off more than 500 combat aircraft at the same time. A super-large military airport built against the mountain is quite large.

In fact, the current aircraft is still mainly propeller engines, and the requirements for take-off and landing of the aircraft are not high for the airport. The flat and solid ground can allow the aircraft to take-off and land.

Therefore, the vast airports use grass directly, and even permanent military bases only use some cement runways. It is impossible to create such a vast cement runway like Yang Fan.

Because in the war era, cement is much more expensive than later generations, and the construction of fortifications is in short supply. Even Americans with wealthy power will not be "extravagant" or "extravagant" or "extravagant" to Yang Fan!

"This is really nothing. I have always liked to be perfect and do my best in one go. Although this cost a lot, it is still much more durable than a soil running track!"

Yang Fan smiled calmly. He seemed to be a bit overly extravagant now, but in fact he had thought about it carefully and was not just rich and willful.

Because Myanmar has a subtropical climate that is extremely rainy, if it rains heavily for several consecutive days, the soil texture will definitely become muddy, which will greatly affect the lifting and lowering of combat aircraft.

Moreover, Yang Fan also knew that in the late stage of World War II, aircraft would enter the jet era, and aircraft would become heavier and heavier. Ordinary ground would not be able to meet the take-off and landing of jet aircraft, and cement runways would have to be used.

Although jets may not appear until two or three later, there will definitely be no mistakes in preparing and layout in advance!

"Okay! As long as General Yang has enough financial and material resources, it is naturally the best to repair the cement runway!"

Thinking of the two heavy meeting gifts Yang Fan gave and the rich spirit he exuded, Chennard quickly felt relieved, although he didn't know where Yang Fan got so many steel bars and cement and where he got so many construction equipment.

But this really doesn't matter. As long as Yang Fan is not a big start or a bad start, or is not a big hit and doing a face-saving project, there is no problem.

"Don't worry, there is an old Chinese saying that if you don't have a diamond, you won't take on porcelain work, how can I be so slapped and fat!"

Yang Fan smiled, then pointed to Wang Liguo beside him and said, "General Chennard, I will now introduce you to General Wang Liguo, the commander of the Air Force of the Chinese Tiger Group Army. He is now fully responsible for the Myanmar War Zone Air Force!"

Chennard quickly stretched out his hands to Wang Liguo and said, "Oh, General Wang, hello! I'm very happy to see you here!"

Wang Liguo quickly replied in English: "General Chennard, hello! I am also very happy to see you. You are a good friend of our country!"

After Wang Liguo and Chennard chatted for a few words, Yang Fan pointed to the decent mountain in front with his hand and said, "General Chennard, are you interested in going inside and taking a look?"

"OK!"

Chennard nodded happily. From a distance, he saw that the mountains in the distance had been carefully transformed into permanent fortifications, and several stone caves of hundreds of meters wide were opened at the foot of the mountain.

Just looking from the outside, Chennard could feel a powerful and powerful aura coming towards him.

"Then please!"

Yang Fan smiled and waved his hand, and then walked to the cave hangar one kilometer away under the guidance of the airport manager Wang Liguo.

Although Yang Fan has built an extremely complete air defense radar network in Myanmar, he can be warned in advance and has enough time to take off to meet the enemy.

But there is a saying that goes, "Only a thousand days to be a thief, but not a thousand days to be a thief." Yang Fan still felt that it was safest to put the plane into the mountain hangar.

Otherwise, as long as the Japanese aircraft group frequently harasses on a small scale, the air defense alarm will continue to sound. Even if the pilot can be on standby 24 hours a day, it is impossible to immediately take off the air to meet the enemy as soon as the alarm sounds.

If that happens, it will not only produce a wolf effect, but I am afraid that pilots who have been in a mental state for a long time will have to collapse before they can actually fight the Japanese Air Force.

Moreover, as far as Yang Fan knows, the number of aircraft destroyed at ground airports during World War II is not much different from the number of aircraft destroyed in air combat.

Therefore, instead of being nervous or being sneakily attacked and blown up by the Japanese in one secret, it is better to spend more time and put it directly into the sturdy and safe cave hangar to save worry and effort!

Yang Fan has long been accustomed to cave hangars, but this is the first time Chennard has seen such a hangar. From the moment he walked into the hangar, it was like a country bumpkin who came to the city to see everything strange and everything was fresh, and he kept exclaiming all the way!
Chapter completed!