Valley Emperor

Ying Yikang took so much thought to get the chance to go to the front line, but before he came, he never thought that when he got to the front line, he would become a foreman.

Ying Yikang, who came back from the inspection of the construction site, saw that the military uniforms he had custom-made from the old tailors in Jinling City were covered with dust, and he sighed and sat down without caring about his former prestige.

It's not the ammunition box that he often likes to sit on when marching and fighting, but a Taishi chair, which was brought over from Jiayuguan not far away.

There were more than 20 people busy in the tent. People in military uniforms and people in civilian clothes were mixed among them. Many people wrote and drew on the drawings with serious expressions, but what they wrote was not a battle plan, but a construction project. Program.

There are still messengers coming in and out from time to time, but what is passed is not a combat order, but a construction order.

All this in front of him makes Ying Yikang feel unfamiliar and helpless!

He is the youngest army major general in the dignified empire, the most eye-catching general in the army, who came to the northwest to be a contractor?

What a **** bullshit!

And the chief of staff beside him also looked like he was unlovable, slumped on the chair next to him.

His chief of staff is also an old acquaintance. He is a senior several years older than him, Brigadier General Fan Feiping. I saw that after he slumped for a while, he picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, then stood up and walked to Ying Yikang. In front of him, he said, "Sir, you can't go on like this, it will affect morale too much!"

"Brothers have worked so hard to come to the front line, but they want to fight to kill the enemy, not to build roads!" Fan Feiping sighed and continued: "A few people have come to me just now to complain, saying that they want to go to the front line. Fight with the Tartars!"

Although Ying Yikang himself has a lot of dissatisfaction, he frowns at the many complaints of his subordinates: "Next time someone complains, you ask him to come directly to this official, the war on the west, there are front lines everywhere, other Troops go out to fight, but we build railways in the rear to provide logistical supplies for friendly troops, which is also fighting."

"Serve the empire and be loyal to the Son of Heaven, how can you pick and choose!"

Although Ying Yikang was dissatisfied and helpless, he knew the importance of maintaining the logistics line.

This time, the focus of the Western Expedition is not to destroy how many Tatars. Actually, how many Tatars are wiped out is of little significance. The actual control of the Western Regions is the focus.

To actually control the Western Regions, it is necessary to have unobstructed logistical supply lines.

Building a railway is the easiest and easiest way to do it.

Therefore, although the 14th Army failed to fight the Tatars on the front line, it was equally important to build railways in the rear, and even more important to some extent.

Because the two forward cavalry corps and the Fifth Army, to a certain extent, are to intercept the Tatar cavalry that may appear and prevent them from attacking the railway site.

To put it bluntly, he served as bodyguards for the 14th Army and 30,000 ordinary workers.

Going into battle to kill the enemy and repairing the railway are equally important.

Therefore, although he is unwilling, Ying Yikang will still firmly implement the order of the peak: repair the railway!

It's just that the atmosphere of the army is not very good now, so Ying Yikang is still going to do something, so he thought about it and said: "When the work is over in the evening, call the leaders of each battalion and regiment to hold a meeting to let them know the road construction task. importance!"

After the evening of the same day, the battalion commanders and the regiments of the battalions gathered in the tent of the division headquarters. Ying Yikang personally presided over the meeting, discussed the importance of the road construction task, and said that this was not just a road construction, but a battle. Task.

Just like any other battle!

If building roads is not important, then in the past, when marching and fighting, in order to hurry up or transport heavy equipment, it is not important to repair bridges and roads?

Do not!

They are all equally important!

Only by quickly repairing the railway, can more supplies be transported to the front line, so that the Western Expedition troops can go all the way westward smoothly, and without taking a step forward, they can occupy one step of land for the empire!

When the railway reaches Hami and Turpan, the empire's territory will expand to Hami and Turpan!

Road construction is also a combat mission, and the successful completion of it also has credit, so don’t worry about not getting credit.

After such a meeting, it can be considered that the military spirit of the main generals has been initially stabilized.

The 30th Infantry Division is like this. The other two units of the 14th Army are not so good, especially the 14th Infantry Division. They are the standing main force, and they have never done such hard work as road building.

You let them build roads, and they are more willing to fight the enemy with one enemy and ten!

I heard that Dong Qiankun of the 14th Division went to Lieutenant General Dai Yanghong to talk about it. After no results, he went to General Lu Yu specially, but was driven back by General Lu Yu.

In the end, it's just a matter of honestly repairing the road!

Directly using a field army to build roads is unique in the history of the Tang Army, and it has never happened in the history of transportation construction of the Tang Empire. one scene.

Compared with the generals below, Lieutenant General Dai Yanghong, commander of the 14th Army, was very indifferent.

At his level, he has already broken away from the low taste of ordinary generals. What he considers is not the direct gain or loss of the battle, but the entire battle situation.

Therefore, he is also the most supportive of Admiral Lu Yu's approach, and even the task of repairing the road is still his initiative.

Can we just build roads all the way to Hami without fighting, and then transport hundreds of artillery pieces to his mother.

In Dai Yanghong's view, this kind of thing is simply a military merit delivered to the door, don't want it for nothing.

As for the Fifth Army and the two cavalry corps, let them blow the northwest wind in the wild!

It is impossible to find Tatars in the wild and fight.

Others Tatars will not come out at all. Maybe after arriving in Hami, those Tatars will run away by themselves. At that time, their own 14th Army will be able to accept Hami City without any effort. Such a good thing usually happens. Can't meet.

Dai Yanghong's ideas are different from those of Ying Yikang and others, but it doesn't matter if his ideas are different. The most important thing in the army of the Tang Empire is to obey orders.

Not only ordinary soldiers and middle and low-level officers, but even senior generals have to obey orders.

Lu Yu ordered the 14th Army to build the road, and the 14th Army had to build the road. If Dai Yanghong disobeyed the order, he would immediately be sent to a military court. Ying Yikang would also be sent to a military court if he disobeyed the order. .

So, despite this or that idea, the XIV Army still invested in building the road.

The soldiers and soldiers of the 14th Army are naturally not special railway workers. When building roads, they cannot do some technical work. They can only do the most common earthwork. Technical work, such as laying railway tracks, is all railway work. The head office's own engineering team came to the construction.

However, the soldiers of the Fourteenth Army are all strong men!

Just pull out one, and it's a sturdy guy with several abdominal muscles. In addition, the troops will be trained to dig and build various fortifications on weekdays, such as digging trenches, building parapets, etc., which are the most basic.

Therefore, these sturdy men waved their hoes and shovels to do the earthwork. It was really fast and good, and the heads of the railway company were drooling when they saw it!

These are the best young and strong laborers, and they are the top two ordinary laborers.

More importantly, no wages!

Because this is a military railway, the construction cost of the railway is directly funded by the empire, and the railway company is still one of the types of road construction that takes money.

Just looking at it and drooling.

These tough guys in the military are not what they can think of, even if they don’t need wages, they can’t afford the military’s food and salary level!

They have been to the field restaurant in the military camp. The food is really good, and they are envious of it.

Later, he had the cheek to find Lu Yuzhi and asked the military to support some ingredients to supplement the meals of ordinary workers.

In order to make the engineering team of the Railway Corporation work harder to repair the railway, the military did not care about these trivial matters, and just approved it. Anyway, for the military, if the railway is repaired one day earlier, it can occupy an additional strategic initiative.

Ying Yikang led the troops to build the road. After more than ten days of repairing in one breath, the whole person changed from a high-spirited young general to a contractor.

When I went to the construction site for inspection, I was not wearing a military uniform, a saber, and gloves as before.

Instead, he was wearing an ordinary military uniform and a hard hat, and he was not holding a saber, but a construction drawing...

This kind of scene made Bi Zhian and other old subordinates see it as extremely abnormal.

Bi Zhian has followed Ying Yikang for several years. Whether it was in Beihai Province or the Northwest, Ying Yikang was a benchmark for soldiers from beginning to end. In the rainy season, he was all dressed in a general's dress, long leather boots, and black leather gloves.

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No matter how you look at it, it looks like a contractor!

With the strong cooperation of the 14th officers and soldiers and the 30,000-strong construction team of the Railway Corporation, the speed of their construction of the railway was quite astonishing, much faster than when the Northwest Railway was built.

The main reason here is that there is enough manpower invested. This is not just a transportation construction task, but a military task.

Another important point is that the design standards of railways are not high. For example, when passing through strong wind areas, the impact of strong winds is not considered, because the speed of trains is inherently very slow and has little impact.

There are also permafrost, desert and other problems. If these problems are for commercial railways, especially for the high-speed commercial railways of later generations, they will undoubtedly be very serious problems.

However, this is just a military railway!

These problems are not big.

The military's requirements are very low, as long as it can maintain the supply of materials for the front-line troops.

As for the high maintenance costs, that might be fatal for commercial railroads, but not at all for the military.

No matter how high the cost is, can countless carriages span thousands of kilometers and walk on the Gobi Desert and the desert?

The extension line of the Northwest Railway is a military facility, which cannot be compared with ordinary commercial railways that are used as civilian facilities.

According to the construction of the 14th Army and the construction team of the Railway Corporation, they will be able to repair to Hami before winter, and to Turpan next year. The vast Central Asian plain has been repaired!

At that time, if the Tatars do not send troops for armed interception, the Empire will be able to repair the railway to Europe in one go!