Chapter 713 Yuping Railway Station

Bang~bang~bang~bang~~~

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At midnight, accompanied by a huge sound of a moving train, a military train carrying half a combined battalion of a heavy combined brigade was slowly slowing down and driving into the Yuping Railway Station in Pingxi Town, Tongren City.

On the train, the active infrared searchlights at the observation points pierced through the rain curtain, and two beams of dim green light cut through the rotten flesh of Yuping Station like scalpels.

When the heavily armored vehicle's front end crashed through the half-closed station entry signal pole, five zombies that were killed by the advance battalion fell from the awning, landed on the ground, and twisted into a heap.

At this moment, the advance team of the reconnaissance battalion, which had arrived half an hour earlier, had successfully completed the cleaning of the zombies and mutant beasts in the station.

We took control of all key nodes within the station, re-established a temporary defense line, and cooperated with accompanying technical personnel to access and restart the station's power system.

If you look down from the sky, the Yuping Railway Station at this moment is like a rekindled broken mining lamp, illuminating this corner of civilization left behind in the dark end of the world.

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"Commander, we have arrived at Yuping Railway Station!"

In carriage No. 10, located in the middle of the armored train, the commander of the 2nd Heavy Armored Combined Brigade, Huang Hailiang, leaned over and woke up the commander of the Tongren Military Sub-district, Zhu Jun, who was sleeping on the table.

"arrive?"

Zhu Jun's eyes were confused when he woke up, but he quickly came to his senses.

For a commander, a large-scale long-distance march like this is a complete test of his ability, physical condition, and spirit.

After Zhu Jun stood up from his seat and stretched his stiff and sore muscles, he immediately gave the order:

"Immediately organize all personnel to unload supplies and equipment!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, Huang Hailiang, who was already a colonel, immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and called the battalion commander of the 1st Combined Battalion.

"1st Battalion Commander! 1st Battalion Commander!"

zizi~

"1st Battalion Commander received!"

"The commander has ordered that the railway unloading work be started immediately! In the organization of the work, the principles of safety and order must be followed!"

"Yes!"

After about 10 seconds,

Kakakka~~

Almost simultaneously, the sound of carriage doors opening was heard on the platform.

A large number of soldiers, dressed in starry sky camouflage training uniforms, wearing tactical helmets and carrying tactical backpacks, and armed to the teeth, filed out of the carriages, gathered on the platform, and were quickly taken to the freight flatbed at the rear of the train.

This armored military train has a total of 10 carriages, the first 30 are passenger carriages and the rear are freight flatbeds.

On these 30 cargo flatbeds, there are a number of ferocious and majestic armored beasts fixed, including 04A infantry fighting vehicles and PLL-05 120mm self-propelled mortars loaded in pairs on a cargo flatbed, and 99A main battle tanks on a single flatbed, etc.

To prevent rain and moisture, all equipment on the tablet is covered with a layer of digital camouflage waterproof protective clothing. From a distance, it looks like a row of neatly arranged camouflage squares.

Zhu Jun, wearing a military coat and a training cap, stood solemnly at the end of the platform, sniffing the cold smell of steel and butter in the humid air, and watching the ongoing equipment unloading work with deep eyes.

Soldiers worked together to move sleepers and build right-angled triangle-shaped ramps on the side of the train flatbed.

Afterwards, the drivers of the 04A infantry fighting vehicle, 99A main battle tank, Mengshi 3 armored assault vehicle and other equipment, under the guidance of their respective squad leaders, slowly drove the equipment off the train flatbed and came to the concrete road on one side for sorting.

Zhu Jun stood in the rain for a long time, and only turned and walked into the station after confirming that everything was going in order.

At this time, Huang Hailiang, commander of the 2nd Heavy Armored Combined Brigade, who was standing next to him and holding an umbrella for him, had half of his shoulders wet by the rain.

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"Hai Liang!"

On the way to the station, Zhu Jun suddenly shouted.

"Here! Commander!"

"There's no need to wait for the next train to arrive. Just wait until all the supplies and equipment are unloaded and then set off directly to the gathering place for our colleagues!"

"They will serve as the advance team to take the G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, turn to the S15 Tongda Expressway, and open up a mobile route from Yuping Station to the gathering place of Tongren!"

"There should be enough troops, right? There won't be any difficulties, right?"

Facing the commander who was half a head shorter than him, Huang Hailiang bowed slightly and assured confidently:

"That's enough, Commander. Our train is equipped with an armored infantry company, a tank company, and a self-propelled artillery company. Not to mention opening up a passage, it's enough to take down Pingxi Town in front of us!"

"We have to fight in Pingxi Town, but not now. The first priority is to open up a passage and build a mobile route for the follow-up troops!"

"Yes!"

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Inside the station hall, a temporary military sub-district-level dispatching command center had been set up by the accompanying military sub-district staff, with hundreds of cadres and staff busy coming and going.

In the command and decision-making area located in the core of the hall, in addition to a large command table made of several field tables put together and covered with a layer of camouflage cloth, there are also Tongren administrative division maps, Tongren traffic route maps, Tongren topographic maps, etc.

When Zhu Jun and Huang Hailiang walked in, a staff officer immediately took off their military coats, and then another staff officer brought them boiling hot brown sugar ginger water.

"Thank you!" Zhu Jun thanked casually.

"commander!"

"commander!!"

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Seeing Zhu Jun coming, the busy staff officers in the command and decision-making area put down their work, stood at attention and greeted him.

"Everyone sit down!"

"Chief of Staff, what's the situation? How long will it take for all the 2nd Heavy Combined Armor Brigade to arrive?"

Woo woo woo woo~~

The next second after Zhu Jun asked the question, the roar of a train suddenly sounded outside the station.

No need to think too much, it must be the military train carrying the other half of the 1st Combined Battalion that has arrived!

The chief of staff paused for a moment, waiting for the noise from the train to fade away, before answering:

"Report to the commander, what is limiting the efficiency of our troop deployment is not the speed of the train, but the speed of equipment unloading."

"The Yuping Station we are currently at is a Class 3 station, with 2 platforms and 5 lines (1 side platform and 1 island platform), two of which are dedicated lines, one for grain and oil and one for manganese ore."

"According to the calculations of the Operations Department, when all equipment is unloaded: a maximum of 2 rows can be run in parallel at the same time, with an efficiency of 24 main battle tanks per hour."

"In the case of mixed operations of personnel and materials: a maximum of 3 parallel columns, light armored vehicles x 36 vehicles/hour."

"And our 2nd Heavy Armored Combined Brigade, with all its personnel, equipment, and supplies added up, has a total of 413 flatbed cars, divided into 15 military trains!"

"If we want to unload all 15 military trains, we will probably need to work continuously for more than 18 hours!"

"It takes so long?" Upon hearing this, Zhu Jun frowned slightly, expressing his dissatisfaction.

“Is there no way to optimize it?

As the station closest to Tongren Station in the urban area, Yuping Station will definitely become the main station connecting the night market to the Tongren gathering place in the future. Personnel, equipment and materials from the night market will all get off here.

The current railway loading and unloading efficiency is simply unable to meet the high-intensity military needs.

"Reporting to the commander, the professionals of the Operations Department and the Railway Department have come up with a way to improve loading and unloading efficiency in the short term."

"That is to dynamically divide the existing tracks, using mobile partitions to divide the two 850-meter tracks into: 2x400-meter unloading sections (compatible with the simultaneous unloading of equipment from two synthetic battalions), and the remaining 2 meters as a buffer isolation section to ensure safety."

"At the same time, rail-road connections can be made: three emergency road passages (including two prefabricated steel bridges) are put into use."

"After this transformation, six loading and unloading lines (including two emergency mobile lines) can be opened at the same time, and the unloading time of a heavy combined brigade will be shortened to about eight hours."

After hearing this, Zhu Jun immediately waved his hand and agreed directly:

"Then we'll do as you say. At the same time, we'll apply to the military district to see if we can transfer a construction division here. Instead of increasing the size within the framework, we might as well expand the entire framework!"

"When the time comes, will we need to expand ten or twenty unloading lines at once? Is it necessary to go through so much trouble? What about dynamic segmentation and railway-road connection? It makes me dizzy just by listening to them!"

"Yes!"

Listening to their commander's complaints, the chief of staff and the staff officers in the command and decision-making area could not help but look at each other, all with bitter smiles on their faces.