Chapter 240: Special Train

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Accompanied by the sound of firecrackers and rumbling drums, a train carrying twenty-four carriages rumbled into the huge new town railway station, welcomed by countless colorful flags. The head of the www.biquge.info [Fengyun Novel Reading] The train had two ribbons tied on the front, and deliberately pulled a long whistle, slowed down like a dragon and slowly entered the station, and stopped next to the brand-new platform No. 1.

With this train as a symbol, it represents that after three years of construction, with the roadbed of the Yunnan-Wei Railway during World War II as the core, the repaired and reconstructed railway has finally been successfully connected to the east and west, and the whole line has been connected.

Nowadays, from the base area, it is completely connected with the domestic railway network, south to Guangdong, east to Shanghai, north to the capital, only need to change trains once in Kunming, and then through the Shanghai-Kunming Railway and Chengdu-Kunming Railway, it will smoothly reach any city.

The newly built Xincheng Railway Station, the main waiting hall has three floors on the ground and two floors underground, and is built with the structure of reinforced concrete columns and steel frame glass halls, covering an area of 18,000 square meters, which is enough to accommodate tens of thousands of passengers waiting here at the same time, and the whole presents a distinct science fiction style and magnificent momentum.

In addition to the main waiting hall, there are various functional buildings such as glass-roofed rain shelter corridors, underground entry and exit passages, ground diversion channels, taxi parking areas, ramps, elevated diversion channels, etc., which extend more than 200 meters to both sides, forming a huge modern three-dimensional building complex.

There are 12 other platforms in the station, which are enough to meet the needs of 12 trains to stop at the same time, including eight platforms for passengers to get on and off the train, and four platforms for cargo loading and unloading, which can transport more than 20,000 passengers and carry more than 5,000 tons of goods at one time!

The smooth opening of this railway is of great significance to the base area: from now on, the base area, which is deep in the mountains, will no longer be closed. Whether it is the exchange of personnel or the transportation of various raw materials and goods, we can realize unimpeded exchanges with the country through this railway, integrate more closely into the domestic economic circle, and develop ourselves with better help of the strong economic potential of the country.

The biggest bottleneck that previously restricted the development of the base areas no longer exists!

On this jubilant and festive day, Guan Fei, Zhang Shengguo, Sun Yaohua and other major cadres in the base area all attended the celebration of the use of the station, and tens of thousands of citizens, students, workers, and technicians spontaneously poured into the station, while sighing at the grandeur and beauty of the new station, with tears in their eyes, happily watching the first train enter the station, and shouting out heartfelt cheers.

In the past, when they went back to visit their relatives, they could only take a vehicle to transport supplies, blowing the wind in the body for hundreds of kilometers, and after arriving in Kunming, they had to find ways to buy the nearest train ticket to their hometown, and then stay on the train for several days before they could reach some of the big cities where the train stopped.

The journey lasted a week or more, and it was very exhausting.

After staying at home for two days, I couldn't say much to my parents and relatives, and I had to hurriedly ask someone to buy a ticket and embark on the journey back to the base area again.

Now that the railway is connected, they can take the train directly from Xincheng Railway Station to Kunming. Then, according to the agreement between the base and the country, there is no need to queue up to buy tickets, you can exchange tickets at Kunming Station with tickets, transfer to the Kunming, Shanghai-Kunming lines and return home directly, the transit time is shortened by more than one-third, you can stay at home for two or three more days, and the hardship of the whole process is reduced by half.

Thousands of miles of ruggedness, all the way to change!

Although the transit time is still long and a little hard, the connection of the railway has made everyone no longer have the feeling of being a lonely wanderer. It's as if they are just working in a certain city in China, and they have a greater sense of dependence and belonging emotionally, and they feel that the base area is closely linked to the motherland, as if they are a whole, and their lives are more at ease and their work enthusiasm is higher.

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The domestic section passes through the Menghai port and ends at Ruili, which is connected to the base area with these two points.

According to the lot, it is composed of the center line and the change line.

The middle line starts from Menghai, divides into two from the middle to the north and south of the base area, and terminates at Rolling County. Because of the large drop of the mountain road, the construction is difficult, and at the same time the lack of funds before, the railway has just been repaired to Mengxi, and there are still more than 70 kilometers away from the southernmost point, and it is expected that it will not be completed and opened to traffic until the end of 81 or the beginning of 82.

The construction of the ring line has not even begun.

In half a year, the highway in the outer ring of the base has just been preliminarily completed, and some sections of the road have not even had time to be fully paved with cement roads, and they are still dirt roads. In the planning of the ring railway, only the construction of the roadbed is partially completed, and the sleepers and rails will be partially cast by themselves and partially purchased from the country after the funds are in place, and then the construction can be started.

It is optimistically estimated that the full opening of the ring railway will not be until the end of '83.

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The middle line railway crosses the Jiehe River from Menghai, and after reaching Kangka Town, it is divided into two, one goes directly south to Longkang, Mengxi, and finally to Rolling Lane. The other is to turn east from Kangka, Yankangka-Xincheng Valley Highway, reach the Salween River and turn south, to Xincheng Railway Station, and then from Xincheng Railway Station through the whole city, from the southern valley through Longkang, to Longkang, and to achieve merger with another line, to the north or south.

The line to the Neustadt railway station, after arriving at the Salween River, is also divided into two, one to the north and the other to the south.

The line to the south to the railway station of the new town is a civilian line, but the line to the north is a military line to the ammunition factory. There is a permanent sentry post with a platoon to check the passes of passing vehicles and pedestrians, and any individual or civilian vehicle that is not allowed to enter is stopped at the fork in the road and is not allowed to pass.

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It was 12 o'clock in the evening.

The arsenal is still brightly lit, the last shift of workers completed the equipment maintenance, the flammable and explosive raw materials according to the requirements of strict storage and storage, by the factory leaders, each workshop, the team leader repeatedly checked that there is no hidden danger, three or two groups laughed and left the workshop, registered and signed at the door of the factory, walked to the dormitory area, or went to the canteen for supper, or returned home to rest.

Although the workers have left, the lights are still on in the workshops, and the soldiers responsible for the safety of the factory are also holding police dogs and patrolling the factory area dutifully.

The bright lights illuminate the workshop as bright as day, there is no blind spot, and the guards can clearly see the inside of the workshop through the large glass to confirm that no one is hiding in an imperceptible corner, and destroy it while it is unattended.

After the expansion of the base areas, in order to ensure normal training and combat reserves, the ammunition factory added five bullet production lines and three artillery shell production lines, and the production time was also increased from the normal eight hours a day to two shifts a day.

Before the production line, the daily output of a single shift was 40,000 rounds of ammunition and more than 1,000 rounds of various types of shells. After increasing the production line and changing to a two-shift system, the output increased by 12 times, and the monthly output was 5. 14.4 million rounds of 8-mm ordinary steel-shelled bullets, and more than 200,000 rounds of grenades, mortars, special armor-piercing shells, and other types of artillery shells.

The Israeli military division normally fires each soldier once a week with live ammunition, 75 rounds each time; The artillery trains with live ammunition twice a month, and in terms of the training consumption of 10 rounds each time, this production capacity is just enough for the 50,000-strong troops to use for training in January, and it is impossible to increase the stockpile.

And just this level of training, the monthly consumption in terms of cost, is as high as more than two million!

This does not include the damage to guns and artillery caused by training, the maintenance costs caused by the wear and tear of the barrel and barrel rifling, and the medical treatment and pension expenses for injuries, disabilities, and sacrifices caused by personnel training. There are also expenses for weapons and personal equipment for commanders and fighters of the troops, as well as monthly salaries, allowances, subsidies, and other expenses, which are staggeringly large.

It can be seen from this that it is not easy to raise an army, especially a crack army!

More importantly, the base area is only maintained by a light infantry with insufficient heavy firepower. The normal training consumption at this level alone is staggering, and if it is a fully equipped tank unit, armored unit, and air force, the monthly consumption, equipment wear and tear, depreciation and replacement cost is a terrible figure.

This is still Guan Fei's way, he can make money, and he can also rely on the processing and manufacturing capacity built up in the base area, almost no outsourcing, a large number of self-produced weapons and equipment, and after training, the bullet casings can be recycled and rebuilt in the furnace, reducing the consumption to the extreme, and raising such a unit still feels great pressure, and it needs to desperately make money in the international market to subsidize the needs of the operation of the base area.

Think of how difficult it is for the military junta, which is even more strapped to do so, to raise a regular army of more than 300,000 men with a complete army, navy, and air force.

It is no wonder that the equipment of the government army is outdated and backward, and so far it is still using World War II-level weapons, the soldiers are not well trained, and they are defeated in World War I, and they are all out of money!

A penny is hard to beat a hero.

No matter how ambitious you are, with a million soldiers in your chest, from astronomy to geography, you can't do anything without money. Even if you try your best to pull up a team, the troops will be fluctuating if they don't have money to pay their salaries; No money for training is a big enemy, no matter how strong the army is, without normal training for a long time, it can become a sick cat, at most bully the militia level of the armed forces, and in the face of Guan Fei's regular army, it can only be defeated again and again.

As the cadres and workers gradually dispersed, the factory area became quiet, only the neat footsteps of the guards patrolling by from time to time broke the silence.

In the factory department, it is also a bright place.

All the offices are lit up, and in the activity space in front of the office building, a high-wattage incandescent lamp illuminates the surroundings as if it were daytime, even from a hundred meters away.

Dozens of meters away, you can see super-heavy flatbed loading trucks, quietly parked in the open space.

Hundreds of commanders and fighters, dressed in dark green camouflage uniforms and round hard helmets, which were different from ordinary troops, sat quietly on the ground, silent.

The people in the factory department have left, and there is not even a single person on duty at night, and although the whole building is as bright as day, there is no one.

At the front of this group of specially dressed commanders and fighters, there are also two generals wearing the uniforms of major generals.

They are Guan Fei, the commander-in-chief of this secret operation, and Sun Yaohua, who deliberately put down his work and made a special trip to pick up the car.

After the opening ceremony of the railway station was completed in the morning, they immediately drove to the ammunition factory and waited anxiously for the arrival of the special train.

"It's going to be a few hours before the train arrives, right?" Sun Yaohua raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and his expression vaguely revealed a hint of joy, some excitement, some expectation, and some anxiety.

He felt that time was moving so slowly, and he watched the second hand tick and tick, and when he turned around, the minute hand moved imperceptibly, and he couldn't wait for a moment to grasp the dial and turn the hand to the time he wanted to wait.

"For the sake of secrecy, the special train will not leave until after nine o'clock, when the general public will be asleep and will not be seen what is loaded on it. Don't worry, our stuff will arrive soon......" Guan Fei looked through the light and looked into the dark distance, looking forward to the same.

Looking forward to the arrival of that thing......