The Japanese army launched an attack on the Han army on the opposite bank in two separate ways, but the Han army killed more than 6,000 Japanese troops at the cost of less than 200 casualties, reimbursed more than three-quarters of the damage of two Japanese brigades, and basically reimbursed two Japanese artillery wings. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But this first day of fighting also made the Japanese military top brass see the huge gap between the Japanese army and the Han army.

The Japanese army attacked the Han army's position with several times the superiority in numbers, and was wiped out by the Han army not long after landing, and the powerful firepower of the Han army made individual Japanese high-ranking people feel a trace of despair: the Yalu River cannot be broken!

At the same time, the army hated the navy even more, because the navy accounted for most of the military spending, but could not give any help in this war.

However, the army could only attack the powerful Han army with old weapons that were no different from a few years ago, and suffered heavy losses.

"It's all blamed on the Navy bastards." The contradictions between the army and navy are gradually deepening.

However, no matter how much they resent the navy, it was useless, and this war would continue to be fought, and if the company did not make a little contribution, Britain, France, and Russia would not share any benefits with the company.

The headquarters of the Japanese army in Korea, a number of high-ranking Japanese soldiers, are still fiercely discussing how to break through the defense line of the Han army.

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Railways and highways are an important part of a country's transportation, especially in the era when transport cars have not yet appeared, railway transportation is the top priority, not only has a very big promotion of military strength, but also has an excellent role in promoting economic development, "if you want to get rich, first build roads" is a wise saying.

In the five-year development plan, the railway and highway lines in Siqi have been fully opened, and the economic development of Siqi will be greatly improved in the future.

However, the construction of railways and highways is not an easy task, and the construction of 20,000 kilometers of roads and 4,000 kilometers of railways in Siqi Province can be completed in five years, and if it is calculated in money, it will definitely cost more than 100 million taels of silver, rails, sleepers, cement and labor, which do not cost a huge amount of money.

The materials for the construction of the railway can still be solved, and the most important thing is the labor problem for the construction of the railway and the road, after all, the construction of the railway and the road in some sections is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will be killed or injured.

Take the United States in the sixties of the nineteenth century as an example, in order to build a railroad, more than 50,000 Chinese participated in it, and at least one-tenth of them fell in that land forever, as for the Irish, the number of blacks killed was not less than that of the Chinese, which shows that in modern times, building railroads is always a dangerous thing, always accompanied by death.

The same is true for the construction of railways and roads in Siqi.

Yan Xueyi demanded that the construction of railways and highways should be completed as soon as possible, and a large amount of manpower would be used, but the danger of road construction made Yan Xueyi give up a large number of over-recruited ordinary people to build roads.

So at the beginning of the road construction plan, Yan Xueyi chose coolies, criminals, Manchu captured officers and soldiers, adult male bannermen living in Rongcheng Mancheng, these are coolie candidates, in the entire Siqi road construction plan, the Han Kingdom invested a total of more than 100,000 such coolies, which is one of the fundamental reasons why Siqi Province was able to complete the road repair plan in five years.

However, when the road construction project in Si Tun province ended, a total of 4,537 coolies died and 2,461 were disabled due to various causes.

If the coolies are replaced by ordinary people, it will lead to the destruction of thousands of families, and the death and injury of coolies will not hurt or itch for the Han Kingdom, and coolies are completely consumables.

When the four-way road construction plan was almost over, the Han Kingdom also began to launch a final attack on the Manchus, and in less than two months, the centuries-old Manchu Dynasty fell into the hands of the Han Kingdom.

However, after the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Han Kingdom ushered in a new challenge, that is, the Four-Power Coalition composed of Britain, France, Russia, and Yueben.

For this reason, the Han army, the main armed force of the Han Kingdom, had to be scattered and stationed in various places to confront the upcoming four-nation coalition army, but the powerful strength of the Han army came from the advanced weapons in their hands, and this advanced weapon was very dependent on logistics, but in addition to the perfect transportation facilities in Siqi Province, there was not even a cement road in other places, and the logistics problem of the Han army was very serious.

Fortunately, there is also the secret weapon of the airship, the new airship has a large load and a speed of up to 100 kilometers per hour, which is enough to transport supplies from Siqi to all parts of the country in a little more than a day.

Airships are good, but the cost is high, and the current number is limited, can only be used entirely for the military, so after the start of the "Changing Sky Plan", a new road repair plan has also begun, and this time the road repair plan will be more than ten times the scale of the road repair plan in Siqi Province.

Just completed the four road repair plan of 100,000 coolies, and continue to go to the four directions of the province to continue to repair the road, and there is a steady stream of new coolies to join the road repair team, the number of coolies soon exceeded 200,000, in order to guard these coolies, the Han Kingdom dispatched two garrison brigades of 7,000 armed police, once the coolies rioted, it is easy to cause greater chaos.

Fortunately, there are two garrison brigades guarding the coolies, so that the coolie team has not had much trouble for the time being, but with the passage of time, the number of coolies continues to increase, and there are nearly 80,000 bannermen in Yanjing City alone to join the coolie team, which is still the remnant of some of the most heinous bannermen in Yanjing City.

There was no choice but to continue to increase the number of troops to guard the coolies, and if the armed police were not enough, they would send those militia converted auxiliary police.

By the end of July, the number of coolies had exceeded 500,000, and the rapid increase in the number of coolies had greatly increased the speed of road construction, but the number of armed policemen guarding the coolies had reached 10,000, and there were more than 30,000 auxiliary policemen armed with large knives and spears.

The key is that the armed police are equipped with an average of three heavy machine guns per 100 people, and most of the rest are equipped with bolt rifles, officers are equipped with pistols, and auxiliary police are only equipped with broadswords and spears.

Under the advice of their superiors, the armed police and auxiliary police guarding the coolies have always been vigilant and will deal with them seriously once there is a disturbance, but he himself has already set his eyes on these coolies. (To be continued.) )