After the beginning of spring, the northwest ushered in the vitality of the new year, after a cold winter, the grassland began to sprout again, countless ice and snow began to face the warm spring sun into bubbling spring water, moistening this natural pasture that has been full of cattle and sheep since ancient times. And this year, when Datang entered the weather for six years, this grassland ran through a dragon from east to west, and the Northwest Railway, which had been suspended for a winter, passed through the Kupiro Desert at this time and began to re-enter the construction stage, and countless prisoners of war followed the skilled workers of the railway company under the supervision of the National Guard to continuously lift the huge rails transported from the rear and then put them on the cement sleepers that had been laid little by little, and then countless railway workers began to lay screws and rivets for fixing, Then carts and truckloads of gravel began to move on, gradually moving away on the road to Shule, and countless people in the major cities along the way drove cattle and sheep to find pastures while curiously watching these things that were unheard of for them, and the first words such as railways and trains were scattered from time to time in the conversation of the people.

"Qi Qi Marshal, the deputy prime minister has already set off for Shule and sent someone to ask when the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army will arrive." Liu Xuan couldn't help but smile when he saw Gao Siji and Wan Yi playing against the ancient city of Everross, and came over to inquire about the internal relocation of the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army.

"Brother Si, there is an order from the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense to request the formation of a theater in the northwest, what do you suggest?" Wan Yi nodded and asked Liu Xuan to sit down as well. The theater system is an arrangement of the Tiance Army for the garrisons in various places, and this method from later generations can actually avoid the concentration of troops to a large extent, and bring local generals to support their own troops, and at the same time, they can maintain the combat strength of each unit as much as possible. Therefore, Xu Tianxiang considered forming a war zone in the northwest to test this idea.

"The northwest is on the front line, although we have now submitted a truce with the big cannibal, but to be honest, both sides are afraid that they will disdain this kind of national letter, if it weren't for the previous naval warships that shocked us, I'm afraid that our side would have started a fight a long time ago. Therefore, the theater of operations in the northwest is not so much an experiment as it is a test of whether the theater system can meet our requirements under actual combat conditions. Gao Siji's words made Wan Yi nod for a while, and the General Staff set up the two first batch of war zones in the northwest and Tibetan areas, but I am afraid that the meaning in it is the same. Therefore, Wan Yi said: "I plan to report to the General Staff to merge the Western Expeditionary Army and the Northwest Station Area, and use this as the base to form and improve the command system and jurisdiction system at all levels in the Northwest Theater." ”

"Marshal Gaojian, once the Western Expeditionary Army and the Northwest Theater are merged, on the one hand, we will avoid forming a separate set of men and teams, and we will be able to implement the theater system as soon as possible, and at the same time, once the big cannibals attack, we will pull all the troops up as soon as possible." Gauss agreed with Wan Yi's approach, and on this basis, he and Liu Xuan perfected and enriched Wan Yi's idea, so that it was already dark after Liu Xuan recorded this resolution in detail.

"Well, the notice will go down, the headquarters will leave the camp early tomorrow morning, return to Shule, and the Quiros will be handed over to the Uighur Corps, and the subordinate battalion, the personal guard battalion, and the heavy cavalry battalion will also leave one by one and enter other cities to station." Wan Yi saw that it was already dark, stood up and smiled, and asked Liu Xuan to convey the order and arrange for the troops to leave Genros and return to the interior for deployment. Genros is located in the border, the output is not much, the 200,000 soldiers eat horses and chew on the pressure on the logistics is too great, the current possibility of war is not very likely, a few days ago the big food side also sent people to bring gold and silver treasures to the last capture of the generals at all levels to redeem back. Therefore, relying on the strength of the Uighur army and the ability of Hammud, even if the other side attacks in a big way, the situation can be temporarily stabilized.

"The deputy prime minister sent someone to inform us if there is something going on over there in Shule?" Gauss also remembered at this time and asked.

"I heard that the Northwest Railway is about to close in Shule, so let's have time to go over and attend the opening ceremony." Liu Xuan's words made both of them feel surprised, and at the same time, they were also very happy, the railway was repaired to Shule, which means that the logistics supply of the Tiance Army will save a lot of money every year, and a steady stream of materials across thousands of miles from the inland transportation road Shule can be unimpeded all the way, which will have an immeasurable impact on the next step in the northwest and the big cannibal competition.

In fact, when the three of them arrived at Shule, Tuoba Sijian had almost prepared, Yang Yi even personally sat in Shule and dispatched the National Guard to patrol along the construction site for hundreds of miles around the clock, and all the prisoners of war were ordered to carry out construction day and night, and countless stones were forced to lay a road to Shule in the desert grassland, and the railroad tracks that were constantly transported from the rear were also approaching Shule every day.

"Deputy Prime Minister, we're not late, are we?" Gauss said with a smile that Shatuo and the Dangxiang clans had basically resolved their grievances over the years, and under the situation that the economic development of the mainland was in full swing, common development had allowed the young children of the two clans to live in harmony, and several large-scale projects were jointly established last year. After the tribal hatred was put aside, the relationship between Tuoba Siji and Gauss Ji gradually improved, and they had been working together in the northwest for so long. So Tuoba Siyan also smiled: "You came back early, according to the construction team is expected to be able to complete the closure at the end of March, mainly because of the rear capacity, but the cabinet has already come to the news, the queen mother's BMW factory has begun to produce trucks, that is, after adding charcoal, they will run on the ground by themselves, if we can transport a batch to the northwest, I think our side will get a greater improvement." ”

"Don't look at me, it's not wartime now, I don't have any good ways to do it in the logistics department, let's honestly wait for the railway to be repaired and then let Zuo Tiancheng find the emperor to get it." Wan Yi knew what the other party was thinking when he stared at him after Tuoba Sizhi finished speaking, so he waved his hand and directly refused: "If it really doesn't work, when the treasury on Saman's side is confiscated and shipped back, I will find Tiancheng and ask him to go to the logistics department to say hello and get a batch to come over." But the quantity is not estimated to be much, since this thing is so good, you think about how much you need in the mainland, but I am afraid that even if the queen mother's BMW factory keeps working day and night, it will not be able to meet the demand. ”

"Forget my deputy prime minister, you think our military might as well go to Mr. Cen for this matter." Gao Siji followed: "Now that the war in the northwest has temporarily ended, it is estimated that the central garrison battalion may be rebuilt, so it is impossible for the General Staff to allocate too many materials over, the current Tibetan area is the focus, after all, the war over there has been fought for more than a year, and now Chen Yu and Xue Yang's coalition army have crossed the city of Pibo and are heading towards Lhasa, the logistics and transportation there are more troublesome than in the northwest, I heard that all the prisoners along the way are taken care of on the spot, The Ministry of Communications and the National Guard even sent a large number of people into Tibet in order to build a road, but I think the difficulty is not ordinary. Therefore, once this kind of transportation artifact appears, it will inevitably tilt towards the Tibetan area. ”

"Forget it, that's all I said." Tuoba Si said with a wry smile: "Counting on this, I might as well find a way to transport some steel carriages over, there are many cattle and horses in the northwest, and the carriage is not slow." ”

When Wan Yi and the others were talking about this matter, Liu Xuan's side was also arranging for the troops to return to the east, although Li Feixue and Tie Liang both felt that the war had not been fought enough, but now that the war in the northwest has eased, their central garrison battalion has not been in the northwest for a long time, so these people are almost ridiculing each other while pulling out the camp and retreating eastward, and the huge troops are coming all the way in the northwest grassland, and the sky and the sun are covered when the army marches.

"Enlighten the generals, the command headquarters ordered, the central garrison battalion immediately moved out and stationed along the perimeter of Shule." The order brought by the herald made Tie Liang and the others look at each other and immediately speed up.

At this time, Wan Yi and other military and political giants in the northwest were already waiting outside the city, only to see a yellow-white silver line in the east gradually approaching Shule City, and the newly built railway station outside the city thought it was in the interior of the Central Plains if you didn't pay attention. Almost everyone was watching as the silver thread moved forward little by little amid the countless figures and the sound of a unified trumpet.

"Yang Yi, you have completed the construction of more than 200 miles of railway in more than ten days, how did you do this?" Gao Siji stood next to Yang Yi and asked a little curiously. According to the statistics of the Railway Division, even in the plains, the railway can not be repaired for a kilometer a day, mainly because the lifting equipment is too backward, and the newly repaired lifting equipment is still being tested in the laboratory.

"The crowd tactics work in two shifts, twelve hours a day without stopping." Yang Yi's short words revealed a lot of information, the method of two shifts is in the northwest, and the prisoners of war are calculated according to 10,000 units, otherwise it is absolutely unrealistic in the mainland. However, this method can indeed quickly complete the project in a short period of time, but the consumption and damage to the prisoners of war are not only Yang Yi and even Tuoba Sizhi have chosen to ignore, the prisoners of war have not been collectively slaughtered in this era is already extraordinarily gracious, not to mention that basically the Tiance Army will announce that after three years of hard service, these people will be free, and then they can choose to settle down on the spot and enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Tang Dynasty. It's just that recently this rule has been a little hesitant to be implemented in the northwest, both the military and the civil administration are hesitant about the prisoners of the Tianfang Sect, and even in order to prevent the spread of the Tianfang Sect in other places with the flow of these prisoners, almost all the prisoners of war of the Tianfang Sect have been sent to Khotan and its Safar region, and a large number of prisoners in Khotan have received Buddhist baptism and indoctrination on the one hand, and on the other hand, they have also been transferred to the front line of construction in large quantities by Qian Biao, which is used to open up mountains and blow up rocks and open up the Green Mountains. Today, the city has been carved out of the fortress into a mountainous city, and the city has developed greatly after the influx of people, and because it is located at the junction of Khotan and Safar, it is extremely prosperous. With Qian Biao and Sima Daoxin's ambition to completely connect the two places, there are still greater prospects for the development of secret protection.

But the two of them didn't know that while the Green Ridge Mountains were still being excavated, the railway on the Shule side had reached the last moment, when the last few rails were fixed, almost everyone present cheered in unison, countless firecrackers began to set off around the train station, whether it was the skilled workers of the construction team or the tens of thousands of captives were full of joy at this time, no matter what, this dragon arrived in Shule in their hands, and history was created by them. When Tuoba Siji and Wan Yi began to give speeches excitedly, the train from Qiuzi was also slowly accelerating towards Shule, and a large number of supplies were sent to the front line in the carriage behind the locomotive.

"Please also plant this sapling of hope with me, these saplings will grow into towering trees in the future, they are the monument of tens of thousands of brothers in my northwest working together to build the railway, and you will also be written into the history of the Tang Dynasty with this railway." Tuoba's words once again ignited the enthusiasm of everyone present, and countless workers and prisoners of war spontaneously began to respond to the call of the deputy prime minister, and a large number of saplings were distributed to them, and then everyone worked together to plant hundreds of thousands of windbreaks along the railway, and a few years later, this steel and green dragon became the most beautiful scenery of the Tang Empire. Moreover, after the people of Shule got used to the train, almost every year, a large number of people responded to the call of the Shifu and the Anxibu Political Envoy to plant trees and grass, and expanded along the railway line to the north and south, and the grassland began to chase the desert forward with the spontaneous action of the people, and the greening of the northwest also entered a new development process because of the railway line.

The news of the smooth opening of the railway in Shule also quickly spread back to the Chang'an base camp, and Li Xuanqing couldn't help but smile when he watched the Northwest Railway trunk line he sketched all the way to Shule. And Qiaoxi next to him said with a smile when he saw that the dotted line connecting Shule had now been changed to a solid line: "Big brother, our horizontal line is longer than that in the previous life, and we are about to repair it abroad." But now that this horizontal has been completed, the rest depends on how this vertical should be repaired. Although it is difficult to build roads in the northwest, it is actually slightly easier than in the southwest. ”

"Since the railway entered Hanzhong, it has been progressing slowly, and in the end, there is a lack of human resources in the mainland." Li Xuanqing also knew why the northwest was repairing quickly, but the method in the mainland was not suitable, not to mention that the huge prisoner of war resources there could not be transferred to the mainland for the time being, so there was only the old way, and if there were not enough people, use technology to make up. The large trucks produced by the BMW factory and dozens of large excavation machines have all been sent to the front line, hoping to reduce the difficulty.

"Hehe, big brother, don't worry, it's just a mountain road in Sichuan, and it is directly opened and chiseled, don't all future generations do this? It's just that Sichuan is surrounded by mountains, so Izukawa will need to come again. "Qiaoxi doesn't care, it's not impossible to repair slowly.