Chapter 578 Military transport plane?

"Okay, then go and organize the troops first! Your most important task today is to familiarize yourself with the troops!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jia Sanniu and Gu Chengyuan both stood up.

"The military region's operations department will issue the task outline for this recovery operation a little later. The specific tactics will need to be formulated by your own staff in accordance with the task outline!" Having said that, Gu Chengyuan couldn't help but patted Jia Sanniu on the shoulder.

This grassroots squad leader who was promoted by himself finally started to have his own staff.

Anyway, I feel a little emotional, a bit like being a father without any loss...

"Yes, I will ensure to complete the task!" Jia Sanniu raised his hand and saluted, his eyes firm.

"Go!" Gu Chengyuan waved his hand.

"Take care of yourself, Chief!" After saying that, Jia Sanniu turned around, opened the door and left.

.....

Not long after Jia Sanniu left, Chief of Staff Wu Bin, who received the news, came to Gu Chengyuan's office again.

"Commander, I heard that you appointed Jia Sanniu as the commander of the 1st Medium Combined Brigade and put him in charge of the operation to recapture the Ye'an New District?"

"Chief of Staff, do you have any ideas?" Gu Chengyuan leaned back in his office chair, a Parker pen spinning on his slender fingertips like a baton, which was dazzling to watch.

"Commander, I came here to discuss with you the operation to retake Ye'an New District. The General Staff has some new ideas for this."

"When I discussed this with you before, I didn't anticipate the current changes in the military strength. Now there is an additional medium-sized combined brigade, so I was wondering if you could take advantage of this operation to recapture Longbao International Airport as well?"

"Longbao International Airport?"

Longbao International Airport is the largest airport in Yezhou City and even in the entire Yezhou Province. Gu Chengyuan had thought about it before. He originally planned to use it to station the Air Assault Brigade after it was recaptured.

However, due to the continuous increase in investment in Yucheng, the return of the Airborne Assault Brigade was nowhere in sight, so the matter was left unresolved.

Longbao International Airport is located in the eastern suburbs of the night market, about 30 kilometers away from the stream area. There are almost no large residential areas around it. Compared with the urban area, the difficulty of recapture is very low.

The reason why no one cared about it was not only because of the shortage of manpower, but also because they felt it was unnecessary. After all, the aviation fuel in Chongyi City was too much to use up.

But when the chief of staff brought it up at this time, Gu Chengyuan felt that he might have some ideas, so he did not rush to express his opinion.

"The Chief of Staff has any ideas about Longbao International Airport?"

"Yes, Chief. First of all, I want to apologize to you on behalf of the General Staff, because..."

"Okay, okay! Chief of Staff, there are only two of us, so there is no need for all this empty talk. Just tell us what you think!" Chief of Staff Wu Bin was interrupted by Gu Chengyuan before he could finish his self-criticism.

"Yes!"

After hearing what the leader said, Wu Bin decided not to waste time on these nonsense and chose to get straight to the point.

"My colleagues and I had fallen into a misunderstanding before. We thought that only military aircraft could play a role in the army, and we placed too much emphasis on the combat attributes of aircraft!"

"Recently, during a discussion, Comrade Zhang Yaowu, a staff officer of the Operations Department, proposed the idea of ​​converting civil airliners into military transport aircraft. After discussion, we all agreed that it is very feasible, so we want to give it a try!"

Civil airliner converted into transport aircraft?

Hearing the chief of staff's idea, Gu Chengyuan suddenly felt as if the fog had been cleared!

Yes, who says the military can only use military transport planes?

Ordinary civil aircraft may not be as functional as military transport aircraft, but compared with military transport helicopters, they are completely superior in terms of capacity, speed, etc.!

If there were large aircraft such as Boeing 747, Boeing 785, or Airbus A380, it would be no problem to transport an entire infantry battalion at once.

You should know that taking into account the riding comfort, the Airbus A380-800 can carry 555 passengers in a typical three-cabin (first class - business class - economy class) situation.

就算是不提空客A380-800这种不常见的顶级机型，常见型号的波音747-100\200\400等，典型三舱下搭载人数也在400人左右。

If we only consider practicality without considering comfort, after removing all the seats, it would be very easy to carry an infantry battalion of about 500 people. At the same time, it can also carry a large amount of ammunition and even the small Lynx all-terrain firepower platform.

The only drawback is that it has relatively high requirements for take-off and landing conditions and requires an airport, but this is not a big problem.

After all, the main targets of warfare in the apocalypse are zombies and mutant beasts. It is normal for them to chew on people, but I have never heard of them chewing on airplane runways.

At the same time, compared to the period before the end of the world, there is no need to consider cost issues for air transportation, because whether it is aviation fuel consumption or wear and tear of the aircraft itself, the cost is zero!

Anyway, we picked it up here, it’s free transportation capacity!

Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan quickly made up his mind. He wanted Longbao International Airport!

And except for Longbao International Airport, he wanted all 12 private airports in Ye Province!

First occupy Longbao International Airport, and then use large civil aviation aircraft as a carrier to deploy troops to major airports across the province!

Considering the remote geographical location of the airport, it is definitely more than enough to occupy an airport with the strength of an infantry battalion!

Moreover, places with airports must be important cities or important transportation nodes in Ye Province. Therefore, while occupying these airports, Gu Chengyuan is also controlling the key areas of Ye Province, thereby forming a strong strategic fulcrum.

By that time, the two words "Yesheng" before Gu Chengyuan's title of commander of the Yesheng Military Region would be truly worthy of the name!

Control key areas, build military bases based on airports, contact local survivors, control them, and shelter them...

If they really encounter a gathering that attempts to destroy human unity, or a human armed group, relying on the carrying capacity of large civil aviation aircraft, Gu Chengyuan can fully project troops across the province within an hour and quickly deploy military forces across the province!

"Approved for execution, let's combine them into the Second Battalion to carry out this recovery mission!" After thinking about the pros and cons, Gu Chengyuan agreed immediately.

"Yes!"

...

After the conversation between Gu Chengyuan and Wu Bin, an order from the Operations Department of the 1st Heavy Armored Combined Brigade was quickly issued to the Second Combined Battalion stationed in the gymnasium of the West Second District of the Provincial Military Region.

After Lu Chong left, the person who took over the position of battalion commander of the 2nd Combined Battalion was named Wang Can. He was about 1.75 meters tall and very strong. The tendons on his body were so muscular that they made his starry sky camouflage training uniform bulge out.

He was the squad leader of the 3th squad when Lu Chong was the platoon leader of the rd platoon in the Combined Battalion, and had experienced almost all the battles since Gu Chengyuan's unit was established.

In addition, he followed Lu Chong to participate in the anti-explosion and purge work in the Prime Minister's gathering place, the anti-explosion and stabilization work in the Wanfu gathering place, and other work. It can be said that he has inherited Lu Chong's personal style and working methods, and is even called Lu's successor in private.

The phrase "Lu's successor" is not without origin. In addition to learning all the working methods and personal style from Lu Chong, Wang Can also had very similar experiences.

Lu Chong had the legendary experience of charging into the battleground of hundreds of terrorists with a single gun at the prime minister's gathering place, and Wang Can also had the heroic feat of leading the entire class and using the butts of guns to clear a bloody path among tens of thousands of thugs during the Wanfu anti-explosion and stability maintenance operation!

Because of this, Wang Can is often discussed together with Lu Chong, and the Second Combined Battalion is often referred to as the Iron-Blooded Second Battalion by other units because of the extremely strong personal styles of the two successive battalion commanders.

In this regard, Wang Can was not helpless as Lu Chong's shadow. Instead, he was very happy to hear others discuss him and Lu Chong together.

The reason for this mentality is not only because he has a strong admiration for Lu Chong personally, but also because of Lu Chong's current position and power.

The commander of the 1st Air Assault Brigade and the commander of the Zhanjiang Military Sub-district, which has nearly five brigade-level units under its jurisdiction...

In terms of actual command of military strength, to be disrespectful, I now have more than the chief...

Therefore, Wang Can was naturally very willing to work with his old leader who had become the big boss of the military region.