Chapter 495: Spring

No one in the Northern Liao government and the opposition thought that after setting up camp in Zhongjun Town, before they knew it, it had been several months, winter had passed, and spring had come.

The armies led by the Blood Qi Army extravagantly used the vast territory of Northern Liao to carry out adaptive training, while the camp-building operations of the Dongping armies, which had become traditional, were constantly improving with abundant time and material input. Zhongjun Town, which was originally an unobtrusive place, has now become a small city because of the garrison of large armies and the construction of a large number of barracks.

A simple road that is not too wide extends from Yunzhou and is almost complete. Naturally, the main force of road construction was still the Northern Liao prisoners of war. But when these prisoners of war often had access to better food than they had in the barracks, they also felt strange that the only difference between them and the previous ones who had worked hard for their commanders was that the prisoners of war were not paid.

Dongping didn't think that the food standards they gave to the captives were very high, mainly because Ye Tao felt that it was appropriate to let the captives work hard and complete the road and other projects as soon as possible, and pay a low labor cost. In addition, these road works are not officially organized, but are contracted by several large construction groups. Ye's Workshop is not among them, although Ye's Workshop is now the highest level organization in the world from architectural design, landscape design, construction, related supporting engineering construction and even property management, it is not that it is not tempted by the highly profitable project of road construction, but Suo Yong After weighing and calculating, he still thinks that he should finish the project of Danyang Xindu first.

The several large groups that came this time are all construction banks that have solid experience in many road and bridge projects in Dongping over the years. Originally, in the agreement with them, it was expected that a large number of hired workers would be used, and there were detailed terms of labor security, but at that time, it was considered that the fortified Qingye of Northern Liao might not be able to recruit locally, but now, after having batches of prisoners of war, these prisoners of war were naturally rented to these camp construction banks at a very low price, and they were managed by the garrison camp system. In this way, for the construction bank, it is an ultra-low cost, and Ye Tao did not ask these construction banks to return part of the project payment, but only asked that these prisoners of war be treated as people who can be "united" as much as possible. On the one hand, Ye Tao's most reasonable request, on the other hand, the soldiers of the garrison battalion were staring at the side, and it seemed that it was not easy to do too much, and the food standards given by these battalion construction banks were about one-third of the average combat unit in Dongping.

But even so, it is already inconceivable for these Northern Liao prisoners of war who once entered the battlefield, and their food was usually to sell tea and pancakes, and occasionally eat meat. Generally speaking, the food is always a rotation of rice, noodles, steamed buns, pancakes, and fried noodles that are now gradually becoming popular in Dongping, and every meal must have vegetables and soups, although it is not very rich, and the food of the soldiers of the garrison camp on the side cannot be compared, but what more could these prisoners of war ask for? Not only that, but if you have a taboo due to allergies or religious beliefs, you will be arranged separately. There were some people in the northern part of Northern Liao who did not eat pork, and prisoners of war from this region were uniformly prepared for meals. If you think it's delicious or not delicious and dislike this kind of food, then it's just looking for a cigarette, and even your own people won't help you talk.

At first, the Northern Liao prisoners of war were still trembling, but later on, they gradually became accustomed to this kind of lenient treatment. Although the work was hard, they were able to have the courage to talk to the sergeants of the garrison who guarded them. The sergeants of the garrison battalion are the best at dealing with people in all the armies, and their usual tasks are far more such as security patrols in the city than battlefield duties. Listening to the sergeants of those garrison battalions telling their experiences of being eliminated by those main battle battalions with regret, the Northern Liao soldiers were embarrassed. However, even for the most basic garrison battalion, the comprehensive training time in a year is more than 450 hours, and the cost of equipment from head to toe, including horses and so on, for each person is more than 400 Yunzhou silver dollars, and the salary of recruits for a year is 120 silver dollars, and the cost of training for a year is about 200 silver dollars. And the garrison battalion that came to Beiliao to undertake all kinds of battlefield duties even had a combat service allowance of fifteen silver dollars per month for each person.

These data made these Northern Liao prisoners of war not know what to say, so they could only remain silent. Even if it is the garrison battalion with the weakest combat effectiveness in Yunzhou, the cost of equipping and feeding a soldier is enough to save a team of more than ten people in Northern Liao. The soldiers of Northern Liao did not have such a high salary, and many people even joined the army just for food, not to mention the exquisite armor mixed with leather and steel sheets, the sharp knives made of stainless steel, and various unified equipment including saddles, first aid kits, and even water bladders. When the prisoners of war learned that in Ye Tao's guard camp, every weapon of each soldier was custom-made, and their whole body equipment added up, not to mention anything else, the cost alone was two or three thousand silver dollars, and they were completely silent. There were many prisoners of war who had faced the soldiers of the guard battalion in front of the battle at that time, and they could only sigh and admit that those guys deserved such good things, and they were just Xiaoqiang who couldn't be killed, and they were killing machines on the battlefield. These news in the army can most affect these prisoners of war who are also begging for a living on the battlefield, when they feel the strength of the Dongping army, they will naturally no longer put themselves on the opposite side of Dongping. This mood changed, and everything was easy to say. This kind of extravagant army construction, in Ye Tao's view, is nothing more than two sentences "US military equipment, German army's will", of course, this kind of thing can only be said to Tan Weixin, and others don't understand what he is talking about at all. However, the advantages of this elite army policy were vividly displayed in this battle to attack Liao.

As the POWs built the road, they also saw the land on both sides of the road changing at a rate visible to the naked eye. Production, which had been stagnant, was fully restored. After dredging the canals, leveling the land, planning the planting plan, and planting fruit trees suitable for winter transplanting throughout the autumn and winter, in the spring, large areas of land are sown, and the young green sprouts and seedlings look refreshing. In the fields, many new farms have also begun to flourish. Due to the fact that the early stage of the Northern Liao side was really thorough, the places under the jurisdiction of the Northern Liao West Route Army, especially the side near Yunzhou, have been thinned to a certain level, even if the first batch of immigrants from Dongping have arrived, they can still only build these farms on both sides of the road, and gradually develop the entire barren plain, I don't know how many generations of efforts it will take.

At this time, the sergeants of the garrison lost no time in telling the prisoners that after two years of hard labor, they had the opportunity to apply for a piece of land to reclaim, or to go to the city to apply for a job to support themselves. In the future, after all, they still have to rely on themselves to support themselves, and Dongping will not take care of food for the rest of his life. Hearing such news, the minds of these prisoners of war became lively, and they did not notice that the soldiers of the garrison camp had secretly replaced the concept of prisoners of war with rice management...... And their yearning for a better life in the future is far more resentful of the life they are now captive and have no private property.

At both ends of the road, which was built by prisoners of war, there were also different variations. The fort group built around the fortress that was originally built to fight against the army of the Northern Frontier Jinglufu is now used as a large warehouse and material transfer point, and there are several assorted markets for merchants large and small to trade. Although entering the Northern Liao does not mean that you will be able to make money immediately, judging from the current situation, the prospects are very good, and those powerful businessmen do not refuse to make a part of the upfront investment. The most important building in the fortress group was the preparatory office of the Northern Liao branch of the Messenger Bureau, where a large amount of supplies were hoarded, and groups of professionals were constantly traveling back and forth between the Northern Liao, and they had established a rudimentary cable telegraph network in the borders they had already controlled. With the cooperation of the military, all town-level units in the occupied territories have initial airship mooring facilities. Compared with these construction achievements, Zhongjun Town, as the center of the attack on Northern Liao, is a little unbelievably quiet. At least one of Ye Tao and Dai Yun will stay in Zhongjun Town, and everyone can see the training, maintenance, barracks construction, etc. of those armies. But when will the next wave of attacks be? It will take some time for the merchants to digest these achievements now, and they will not care about this, and the army has already been instructed to prepare for the next big march, and out of secrecy, they will not go around publicizing it. The only people who are worried about this matter may be Gao Senqi and the hundreds of thousands of nervous troops under his command. They knew that they were not the professional armies of Dongping that could be transferred to attack at any time overnight, and when they calmed down a little, many of the hundreds of thousands of troops returned to their localities one after another, or were stationed in places where logistical supplies were relatively abundant. Gao Sen has no more than 100,000 elite soldiers who can be put into battle at any time in his hands. And these 100,000 people are still stationed in the towns opposite the line of control of the Dongping army. Gao Senqi became a little moody, Ye Tao didn't play much conspiracy, looking at the construction work on the Dongping side, he could think that the other party's patience was to make it easier to fight them in the future, but he didn't have any way. Seeing that the land of Northern Liao was consolidated by Ye Tao, and seeing that many of the people of Northern Liao had completely surrendered to Dongping, and even those people in the towns under their control were watching, secretly looking forward to when life would improve...... Such a change is really a torment for Gao Senqi. What's even more troublesome is that the direction of the wind in the middle of the morning is also faintly changing in this calm spring.