Road construction is a complex undertaking.

Geological survey is the first step, to determine the direction of the road, to carry out overall planning, generally speaking, this has to be carried out one or two years in advance, with the design drawings, the scheme demonstration, to determine that there is no problem, will start.

And now, this first step has been omitted, quite simply, because there is too little time.

The German convoy was very eager for the road, and they could not wait, and at the same time, in order to stimulate the Poles and Belarusians, and to fight the partisans, the road was built in such a hurry.

However, although there was no detailed planning, they did not build it haphazardly, because there was already a concrete road here, and it was expanded according to this concrete road.

The so-called concrete road is of course not a hardened pavement made of cement, there is no such road in Belarus at all, it is a mixture of water and mud, which is quite difficult to walk.

Now, on the basis of this original road, it is being expanded!

The first step is naturally to lay the roadbed, after all, high-grade highways need a strong roadbed.

"Cheer up!" In the forest, old Paul stood on a big rock and shouted to the people who were working: "Only our efforts today will be exchanged for a better life tomorrow!" ”

Whatever they used to do, workers, ordinary citizens, merchants, now they are all the main workers in road construction, and their tools are rudimentary.

Most people's tools are flat poles, yes, there are woods everywhere, as long as you get a suitable wooden stick, and use ropes on both sides, it is a flat pole, and the two ends of the flat pole carry a basket woven from tree branches, and what is placed in the basket is a stone.

The stones were mined from a nearby hill for a distance of more than a dozen kilometers, and now, the distance from the hill to the road is almost all Poles, who pick up the stones from the mountain like ants.

It was a physical job, and many people had swollen shoulders and blood blisters under their feet, and for them, it was simply purgatory-like torture.

But they have no complaints, their homes are gone, they have to adapt to a new life, if they can't build the road quickly, then there is more work waiting for them, they have to build a new city, so to speak, in two or three years, they will repeat the work of today.

They have to adapt.

Most of the Poles worked as porters, and some of the Poles were divided into two teams, one to go to the mountains to mine ore, and they were closely monitored by the Germans because they had to use explosives to blast the stones, and the other was to cut wood in the woods.

The original road was only three meters wide, not even enough to accommodate two cars, but the new road is a two-way four-lane design standard, and the land base must be 26 meters wide!

The original road had to be widened, so they had to cut down the trees on both sides of the road, and after they had cut down the trees, they could use them to make tools or build improvised houses for them to live in.

These days, they are almost in the open air, but fortunately the weather is good, and if it rains, they will be very embarrassed, so they must be able to cover a place to provide protection from the rain.

"It's so unfair, we have to cut down trees, we have to build houses, those Belarusians, just one thing to build roads is enough, how can we fight them!" While pulling a hand saw, a Belarusian complained.

There were no chain saws at all, they didn't have mechanized tools at all, so they had to pull a long saw blade in two hands to cut down the trees, which was quite slow work.

"This is a test that God has given us, and we must accept it, Simon, and endure it, and we will only wait for our opportunity if we endure it first." On the other side was Alex, his two arms were powerful, and he whispered while pulling the saw blade.

The sawdust kept flying, and finally, the saws of the two cut off the last bit.

The trunk began to tilt, and Alex just glanced up and was motionless.

Trees have souls, and sawing off a tree is equivalent to ending its life, so before dying, it will even take away one or two lives, which is smashing people.

For experienced lumberjacks, judging the direction of the tree is very simple, don't turn your head and run, if you can't win, you must first look at the direction of the tree falling, run to the side of the fall, you can easily run away.

And for those who saw the tree, if they saw the direction of the tree clearly, they should not move.

"Boom!" The tree fell, and there was a crashing sound against the ground, like a moan before death, Alex's face showed a relaxed expression: "Even if we fail, we are now building our own house, at least it won't rain, right?" ”

As he spoke, he picked up a small hand saw, and when the big tree was sawed down, he had to cut off the branches and something, leaving only the trunk, and then breaking the trunk into planks, which could be used as materials for building a house.

The big tree here is very thick, two people can't hug each other, and this tree can build a house.

Humming a minor key, Alex looked relaxed.

"Bang, bang!" At this moment, suddenly, two crisp gunshots were heard in the distance, and as long as you listen to the gunshots, to an experienced person, you will know what is shooting.

Mosin Nagant rifle! Alex's brows furrowed suddenly, exactly as he speculated, after his side began to build roads, those so-called guerrillas would definitely come to make trouble for him!

Most of the Poles were ordinary people, and when they heard the gunshots, they immediately panicked!

The one who picked up the flat burden, threw away the flat burden, wanted to hide it with urine, and the one who was planing the roadbed threw away the shovel and pickaxe in his hand, and was still making lunch, and even directly buckled the cauldron on the side to his head!

After the gunshots, silence returned to the woods.

No partisans appeared, but these two gunshots delayed the Poles for half an hour!

"These guerrillas are really going to do their own favors!" Alex said, "I guess in another half an hour, they'll be back in the north for a while." ”

Just to the south, and then from the north, if you attack again in half an hour, then you simply don't build the road.

A few bullets can disrupt your own deployment of road construction!

"Simon, do you dare to fight these guerrillas with me?" Alex asked his companion next to him.

"Dare, then what's not to dare!" Simon said: "It's just that we don't have any weapons at hand, last time we asked the Germans for rifles and set up a road escort team, and the Germans didn't agree." ”

"Weapons? The handsaw in our hands is a weapon, let's go! ”