Section 820 Traffic Warfare
Four slender railroad tracks, stretched parallel to the vast and infinite land, one end of which actually extended to the capital of the gods in the east, and the other end, through the Western Regions, the old land of Turgish, through a two-river basin (Amu Darya and Syr Darya) to reach the Great Eclipse of Khorasan, and then set foot on the Persian Plateau to Isfahan, and then quickly divided the army into two routes, all the way to the south, to the city of Abadan, all the way to the west, and rushed to another two river basins, that is, the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in white clothes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Despite its long journey, it travels through a variety of terrains such as deserts, plains, grasslands, forests, mountains, and more.
For the Tang people, this is a lifeline, every day there are whining, panting trains dragging long wagons, from east to west, loaded with soldiers, civilian materials, grain, live animals and poultry, rushing to the front line of the westward expedition.
When the train on it returns from west to east, it is quieter, and the passengers on it either go east to run errands or return to their home countries for vacation, and sometimes there is a train of wounded, even coffins, miserable.
All the Tang people and even those who joined the Tang people believed that as long as there was a railway, the westward expedition would eventually succeed!
Because it makes the most troublesome supplies no longer a problem, it can change the way, even in the west, you can eat rice and baked cakes made of oriental rice noodles, providing the army with unlimited strength, so that the army is like an unbeatable monster, constantly resurrected with full blood, full of vitality, and beating cannibalism!
The father of the railway, it was Wei Xi, who invented the train and the railway, which should be something from the heavenly realm!
Because the watch and clock were not yet perfect (he had already begun to organize people to invent them), the accident occurred, and the railroad track he designed was a two-track system, which reduced a lot of trouble, but also caused a lot of trouble, after all, the double track required twice as many resources.
The mother of the railway, is Princess Taiping, this woman is a railway construction maniac, she also wants to go down in history, she enthusiastically drives her engineers, migrant workers and slaves (anyway, she doesn't have to carry a hoe to dig the mud), follow the army, where the main force of the army is allocated, the railway will be built!
She invested too much manpower, material and financial resources in the railway, so that she had no money to buy new clothes during the Chinese New Year, and had to rely on the sponsorship of her mother.
But the results are Wenran, and where the army goes, the railway goes.
The Western Expedition has become a legend, and Princess Taiping's railway is also a legend.
The people of the East are accustomed to living on railways, and when they go to war, they first look at "where are our railways!" ”
And for the big cannibals, this railway is extremely annoying, as long as the railway exists for a day, the Tang people will pinch them at any time and in high spirits, which is too hateful!
The current big cannibals have already known the meaning of the railway, and realized that the robot horse (train) running on the tracks is the culprit that helped the Tang people attack them, so the big cannibal must destroy the railway!
Break the war!
Yang Chengxian, the general of the right guard and the Duke of Anguo, looked at the section of railroad track in front of him with a blue face, which was full of boulders and blocked the tracks.
In front of the boulder, there is a train parked, just one meter away from the boulder!
One more meter and the train is in danger of capsizing!
Fortunately, the driver looked carefully, saw the road conditions, and immediately braked sharply, otherwise this was a train transporting people, and there were 2,000 soldiers on it!
If there is an accident on this train, 2,000 soldiers will be in danger, and they are afraid that the army will vomit blood.
They were so lucky, but more than 100 people passing through a small railway station on Lake Namak on the Persian plateau were killed, and the other side also destroyed the railway for ten kilometers, causing a serious incident of derailment of a (freight) train!
The saboteurs came from the tribes of the mountainous northeastern part of the Persian Plateau, and they were instructed by the Great Cannibals to wander out of the mountains and attack the railway, killing all the people on the railway station and destroying it.
Yang Chengxian didn't go to see the scene, but he received a report that those tribes were self-defeating and planted sleepers and other flammable materials together, and burned the railroad rails on top of them, burning them into a twisted shape.
When the train rushed, even if it found that there was no road ahead, even if it was an emergency brake, the vehicle rushed forward with a huge inertia, and soon deviated from the track, like a large shovel of rolling dust, and the whole train fell crookedly beside the railway!
In fact, there were many problems with the Tang army's westward expedition: for example, although it conquered Khorasan (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and parts of Iran), it did not touch the adjacent "imperial cemetery" ---- Tocharian (Afghanistan).
So he bypassed and did not fight.
In the same way, the Persian plateau is vast and the terrain is complex, and even the great cannibals are only remotely occupied in many areas, and there is no actual occupation!
Whether it is Tocharian (Afghanistan) or the Persian Plateau, there are countless tribes distributed, because the environment is too treacherous, the tribesmen have developed a strong and warlike character, and the terrain is mountainous, the terrain is complex, Wei Xi comes from later generations, who doesn't know how powerful, he is grateful to them, and grasps the key points to fight.
This leaves a big hidden danger!
In Khorasan, because the railway to Mulu (Mali) passes through the desert, even the most warlike tribes have to think carefully about crossing the desert to build the Tang railway.
The railways on the Persian plateau were closer to the mountainous areas, and the tribes set out from the mountains to destroy the railways, attacking the railway stations or the settlements of the Tang people, piling up large stones and thick dead tree trunks, and crossing the railways, and those with railways directly picked up the rails and burned the sleepers, and destroyed the roadbed without the railways, and hollowed out the earthwork and stone ballast under the sleepers...... As a result, the train will derail and landslide at least and overturn in serious cases.
They sabotage the railroad so hard that it stops running, while they rob the trains, get supplies, kill and wound people!
There are even some occupied areas, there are not only a large number of obedient people, but also those who are in the Tang camp and have a big food in their hearts, they are disgruntled and waiting for an opportunity to sabotage, as long as the occupying army is negligent, they will attack and carry out crazy sabotage on the railway!
Where there are many people, it is often a railway hub, where railway trains meet, and the destruction of these hostile people is even more dangerous and confusing.
They know more about the transportation plan, so that they can target it, achieve internal and external collusion, and carry out sabotage accurately.
Or they are slacking off and delaying the loading of the train......
The problem is in front of Yang Chengxian, who is responsible for supporting the logistics line, he knows the significance of the railway to the Western Expeditionary Army, it can be said that without Wei Xi, there will be no Western Expedition, and without the railway, it will be difficult to guarantee the victory of the Western Expedition!
Personnel, materials, supplies, horses and animals, etc., all of which are inseparable from the transportation of railways!
As soon as the railway stops, there will be a truce at the front!