After realizing that it was impossible for General Terauchi Shouichi to make it impossible for him to realize the opening of Jinpu Road in July, Shimoda Murori calmed down, sat down by the Yellow River, and carefully calculated. Vertices M. updates the fastest

The engineers of the Japanese army, who came with Shimodamuro Li, had already set up a measuring instrument and began to measure the distance between the two banks of the Yellow River in the Luokou area.

These are all available data, including the flow changes and depth of the Yellow River in different worlds, and there is no need to measure them when the Luokou Bridge was built. However, the Japanese are meticulous in their work, and since the engineers and technicians of the devil have come with Shimodamuro Force, they must have immediately started work and re-surveyed and measured.

No one bothered Shimodamuro, and he could just ponder quietly.

Although Shimoda Muroli once chanted Xu Zhimo's "Farewell to Kangqiao" on the bank of the Ziya River, pretending to be very poetic, he is a typical science and engineering man who studied road and bridge construction after all. If you don't pretend to be forced, your brain is quite useful!

Shimoda Murori's first thought was that General Terauchi Shouichi's order could not be disobeyed, it was a military order, and if it could not be completed, it had to be completed with ideas! Otherwise, it is very likely that General Terauchi Shouichi will really send him to a military court!

You can't go to a military court, you can't go to death! Without him, I can't afford to lose that person!

However, the Luokou Bridge was bombed like this, and it was impossible to build it before the end of July!

On the one hand, it is the strict order of General Terauchi Shouichi, and on the other hand, it is impossible to complete the task, which is really not easy to do!

Moreover, if you want to open Jinpu Road to traffic, it is not just a Luokou Bridge to be repaired, from Luokou to Dongguang, the Eighth Route Army blew up the railway bridges on the Maji River, Laojian River, Tuxiao River and other large and small rivers, if you want to restore the opening of Jinpu Road, the project is too huge, even if you go all out to repair it, it is impossible to repair it without a year!

Those sections that do not involve bridges are relatively easy to manage, and as long as there are enough manpower, vehicles, equipment, and tools, and concentrate on the work, it is expected to be completed by the end of July. Vertex. Fastest updates

Also, where will the money come from to build roads and bridges? That's not a small amount, I'm afraid I'll have to get the cabinet to allocate it again!

As soon as he thought of the need for the cabinet to allocate funds again, Shimoda Muroli began to scold Xiao Siming for being insidious and cunning again, just pick up a few railroad tracks and cut a few sections of telephone lines, why was he so ruthless, he actually used high explosives to blow up the bridge, and it was blown up so thoroughly, it was equivalent to completely paralyzing the northern section of Jinpu Road!

Annoyed, Shimoda Muroli felt that the cost of building the Jinpu Road was too great and not cost-effective, and the Japanese Empire did not have the extra funds to do such a!

But this was impossible, and Shimodamuro, as a major general of the Japanese army and the minister of railways of the North China Front, was well aware of the importance of railways to the Japanese army. It is not only necessary to repair Jinpu Road as soon as possible, but also to repair Longhai Road as soon as possible, so that Longhai Road can be connected with Jinpu Road and Jiaoji Railway!

Not only that, but the Ministry of Railways of the North China Front Army will also build several more railways in North China, such as the railway from Shijiazhuang to Dezhou.

As long as the railway network is connected, the entire North China, Northeast China, and Central China can be connected. By transporting troops by rail, we can put our troops where they are most needed at any time, so that one division can be used as several divisions and regiments, and the troops and equipment can be used to the maximum and high efficiency!

Since it must be repaired, it can be repaired as quickly as possible, and it must not affect the next strategic action of the front army!

Shimoda Murori stopped thinking about anything else, and concentrated on how to realize the rapid opening of Jinpu Road.

The first problem that Shimoda Muroji thought about was money. Because General Terauchi Shouichi was only in charge of commanding the war, reporting to the base camp, and asking for cabinet appropriations, General Terauchi did not care, it was the matter of the Ministry of Railways of the North China Front. Vertices M. updates the fastest

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has been bent on learning from the West and taking the road of capitalist marketization. The weapons, ammunition, aircraft, warships, tanks, and artillery needed by the Japanese army for combat were all ordered by the military department to the enterprise, and the enterprise that won the bid organized the production, and every bullet was counted as money. Including the use of steel, weapons and equipment produced by various companies in the puppet Manchukuo, it is also to be counted as money, but it is basically paid by the puppet Manchukuo finance.

Shimoda Muroli thought for a while and felt that the problem of money was easy to handle, and although the Great Japanese Empire was now suffering from the increase in financial burdens and the deformity of the economy due to the war against China, in general, the war also stimulated economic development. If the Tsushima and Tokushi railways are not built, Japan's steel consortium will have overcapacity. Moreover, the economy of the puppet state of Manchukuo is also very good now, and its gross national product is about to catch up with Japan's domestic gross national product, and it seems that it may even surpass it, and it is capable of supporting the Japanese army to further expand the war.

From this point of view, cabinet ministers who understand economics will certainly agree to allocate funds. Moreover, a large amount of materials, such as steel and cement, could be transferred from the puppet Manchurians and paid for by the puppet Manchurian financial appropriations, without the financial burden of the Great Japanese Empire.

As long as the Ministry of Railways of the North China Front Army typed in the report asking for money, Shimoda Murori knew that the cabinet would approve it quickly!

The second problem that Shimodamuro wanted was the dispatch of engineering and technical personnel, construction machinery, construction teams, and materials.

Obviously, relying on the existing strength of the North China Front Army's Ministry of Railways, it will not be possible not only to repair the Jinpu Road in July, but also to complete it in August and September. Only by increasing the number of engineers and technicians and railway work teams from the country, the Ministry of Railways of the Kwantung Army, and the Manchurian Railway can we carry out construction at multiple points at the same time and speed up the progress of the project.

Fortunately, at this time, the railway monopoly enterprise Manchurian Railway, which was created by the Japanese in the puppet Manchuria, was expanding greatly, and there was no shortage of technicians, materials, and construction machinery to repair the railway, and the same was true in Japan. Vertex. Fastest updates

The only thing missing is coolies to build roads!

As soon as he thought of the need for hard work, Shimoda Murori felt the need to suggest to the general of the dead craft that the discipline of the field troops and garrison troops should be restricted, and the slaughter should not be carried out blindly. There are so many Chinese, can they be killed by pure barbaric massacres? The more brutal the massacre, the easier it is to provoke revolt. As in Manchukuo, Beiping, Tianjin, and Taiyuan, the policy of encouraging the inhabitants to cooperate with the imperial army should be implemented, and the system of good citizenship certificates should also be introduced in the rural areas of North China, separating the Eighth Route Army from the common people. In that case, the Eighth Route Army in North China will become a fish without water, just like the Anti-Japanese Union in the Northeast!

Like the current Texas City, there is not even a figure to be found, and the imperial army wants to find a flower girl to comfort them, but they can't find anyone. Will this work? You have to learn from Taiyuan and coax the fleeing citizens back!

This Shimoda muroli thinks a lot!

Shimoda Murori thought that he should suggest that His Excellency the Commander give orders to the Fifth Division, the Sixteenth Division, the Third Independent Mixed Brigade, and the Third Railway Wing to arrest more young and middle-aged men and kill them less, and to arrest them to build railways and highways.

The third question that Shimodamuro thought about was how to organize the construction to make it more efficient and easier to shorten the construction period!

After thinking about it, Shimoda Muroli felt that it was necessary to divide the section from Dongguang on Jinpu Road to Luokou Bridge into one after another as it did for domestic production of aircraft, warships, tanks, and automobiles, and each section was only 5 kilometers or 10 kilometers long, and assigned tasks to the puppet county governments and district offices along the line, and they organized coolies to dig sand and crush stones to assist the imperial army in its operations. Vertices M. updates the fastest

Considering the four counties of Dezhou, Pingyuan, Yucheng, and Qihe, because the puppet county government was boiled by the Eighth Route Army, Shimoda Muroli planned to directly assign the task to the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee, forcing Wang Kemin to quickly appoint the puppet county magistrate to be responsible for the railway repair work.

Several bridges are also like this, from the domestic, Kwantung Army, Manchurian Railway to transfer the railway team, plus the North China Front Army Ministry of Railways railway team, the existing engineering and technical personnel to the fastest speed to come up with the design plan and drawings, and then multi-point construction, go hand in hand, speed up the construction, shorten the construction period!

The fourth problem that Shimodamuro is thinking about is the emergency solution!

The most urgent task at the moment is to first open up the transportation problems on both sides of the Yellow River to ensure that the troops can move quickly and supplies can quickly reach the front line!

Although it may be delayed, the units will be hungry, short of fuel, and short of ammunition, but it is only a matter of time before they can solve the problem. Because the Japanese army can rely on the advantages of sea transportation and railway transportation, the supplies from Qingdao through the Jiaoji Railway and the Jinpu Railway will be continuously transported to Lincheng Station on Jinpu Road, and then transported to Xuzhou, Shangqiu and Kaifeng by car and rubber car. In the future, after the Jinpu Road, Lincheng to Xuzhou section and the eastern section of Longhai Road are completely repaired, the transportation will be more convenient. The Japanese army could even directly transport supplies to Lianyungang, from Lianyungang to the west via the Longhai Road.

Now the problem is the traffic problem in the Luokou section of the Yellow River!

As long as two steamers are transferred from Qingdao to Luokou Ferry to act as ferries, road traffic can be resumed within a few days, and the movement of troops between the two banks of the Yellow River will not be affected.

Shimoda Muroli even thought that it would be not too late to let the 16th Division Engineer Wing postpone the demolition of the pontoon bridge built on the Yellow River in Pingyin County, and wait until Xiao Siming's troops were completely eliminated and the Eighth Route Army base areas in Hebei, Lubian, Jizhong, and southern Hebei were destroyed!

Shimoda Murori was thinking about it, and he smelled a strong smell of corpses in his nose, and when he looked up, he saw that on the north side of the west end of the Luokou Bridge, soldiers from a squadron of the 3rd Brigade were digging a pit there, and it seemed that they had found the remains of the Imperial Army soldiers who had broken jade at the west end of the Luokou Bridge, and wanted to dig them out and cremate them so that they could bring the ashes back to Japan.

Shimoda Murori immediately pulled out a white handkerchief, covered his nose, and stood up and stared at the frightened eyes as he watched the movements of the group of soldiers.

Some of the Japanese soldiers were holding sapper pickaxes, some were holding sapper shovels, sweating like rain and working very hard. Some specialized in carrying corpses out, and two people carried a corpse.

Shimoda Muroli could see clearly that those Yamato warriors who were hurriedly buried by the Eighth Route Army were all exposed, only an identity tag was hung in the shoulder blade, and a crotch cloth was kept in the lower abdomen, and there was nothing else!

Seeing the scene in front of him, Shimoda couldn't help but feel sad, and he couldn't help but use his legs to lower his head and salute.

From this, Shimoda Murori thought of the fifth issue, that is, the issue of railway safety.

This is a war, it is normal for the squadron to destroy railway and highway traffic when it retreats, and the Japanese army will also destroy the traffic in the area controlled by the squadron. The problem is that the main force of the squadron has been driven away, and the entire North China and Shandong have basically become the occupied areas of the Japanese Army, and the railway is not yet operating normally, so it is not under attack. What does this mean? Explain two problems, one is that the Eighth Route Army operating in North China is too ferocious, and the other is that the railway garrison of the Imperial Army is too weak!

The Tongpu Railway in Shanxi has been damaged many times, and the Zhengtai Railway has also been damaged many times. It is easy to destroy the general road section, the railway operation team can quickly repair and restore the opening of traffic, like Xiao Siming, first blow up the Taohe Bridge on Zhengtai Road, causing Zhengtai Road to be unable to open to traffic for several months, and then blow up the Ziya River Bridge, resulting in the middle of the northern section of Jinpu Road, and then blow up the Luokou Bridge, cutting off the traffic on both sides of the Yellow River, it is simply extremely vicious!

The squadron must do things like Xiao Siming, just by building railways and highways, it can drag down the economy of the Great Japanese Empire, and there is no need to fight at all!

What's even more terrifying is that the status of Luokou Bridge is so important, there are garrisons at both ends, and a garrison team is stationed at each to guard it, but it was still blown up by Xiao Siming!

This is an important target in the hinterland of the area occupied by the imperial army, and it can be blown up by Xiao Siming's troops. Just ask if there is a place in North China that Xiao Siming does not dare to destroy? And what does it mean that the place is safe? Don't go into Beiping City that day and blow up the Special Service Department of the North China Front, that joke will be big!

Shimoda Muroli thought that he had to suggest to General Terauchi Shouichi that the safety of railways and highways should be regarded as the most important thing to maintain law and order in North China, and that he should think of digging blockade ditches on both sides of railways and highways, repairing artillery towers and pillboxes, isolating the Eighth Route Army from railways and highways, using railways and highways to blockade the Eighth Route Army, isolating them in small areas, restricting their activities, and finally trapping them to death completely!

In the entire North China Front, Shimoda Muroli was the first to think of strengthening the garrison of railways and highways, and using railways and highways to blockade the Eighth Route Army!

Not only that, Shimoda Muroli also thought of the "group tribe construction" carried out by Michiichi Sasaki, commander of the Third Independent Mixed Brigade Regiment, in the puppet Manchukuo, and felt that he should learn from Lieutenant General Sasaki's practice, and let the common people of North China assist the imperial army in guarding the railways and highways, form a puppet army composed of Chinese in the nature of the puppet Manchu army, and undertake the task of eliminating the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

Basically, after thinking it through, Shimoda Muroli did not stay in Luokou, and left most of the entourage in Luokou, let them continue to measure, engage in the bridge construction plan, and took a few backbone officers and engineers to take a motorboat, crossed the Yellow River, and went to Jinan to return to Beiping by plane to find Terauchi Shouichi report. (To be continued.) )