Chapter 556: Garrahan Comes to the Door
…… Of course, Zhang Wenjing will not jump into the Qinhuai River, so the joke of "the mysterious case of the Minister of the Republic of China jumping into the river" is not visible to the whole country. Since you don't jump, you have to do it, to put it bluntly, you are taking care of the money in your hand for Vice President Yang, which is also the real reason why Yang Qiu was furious when he learned that he was going to resign.
No one knows better than him that from the first lesson of the 42nd standard that year, Yang Qiu has used his own way to build an army that is different from all countries. This army uses the training syllabus he wrote, uses the weapons and equipment he designed, uses the tactics he proposes, and then goes to accomplish the combat objectives he has set! Yue Peng, Cai Yi, Qiu Wenbin, Shi Xiaolou, Qin Zhangshu, etc., are just coquettish for a while, and behind them there are even younger Liu Mingzhao, Bai Chongxi, Xue Yue, Long Yun, Bingwen, etc., these young people said that they were the fifth and fifth and sixth chapters of the military academy Garahan came to graduate and study in the United States, but in fact, the one who did not receive his private training? In fact, the Wehrmacht has already been engraved with someone's brand, and even the most junior officers and soldiers know that mastering the tactical requirements and movements on the commander-in-chief's training syllabus and following him will lead to the final victory in even the most difficult war on the Western Front!
Victory is the greatest guarantee of military power.
What's more, modern warfare is fought in terms of logistics and money, which is why he, the finance minister, is so important in his eyes.
The day after Yang Qiu returned to Nanjing, Zhang Wenjing personally met with him to retract his resignation, but no one knew what the two said after meeting. In the end, even Mrs. Zhang became Lu Bicheng's friend, and deliberately brought the two together to go shopping and talk about their children, and gradually walked out of the closed and integrated into the Nanjing social circle.
I don't know whether these Zhang Wenjing are good or bad. He only knew that Yang Qiu still abided by the minimum rules, that is, the presidential term limit stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of China.
Five-year terms, up to three terms.
This is a restriction and a shackle. Yang Qiu used the excuses of revolution, constitutionalism and republicanism, and the National Defense Force was originally a unit under the banner of the Republic of China, which came to power under the Kuomintang Party, and finally used the name of the Republic of China, so it was necessary to abide by the constitutional rules formulated by the original Chapter 556 of Garahan. Because of this limitation. He needs to grasp the two rights of military and financial affairs even more, as long as these two are guaranteed, I am afraid that he will not be able to stand up and cause trouble for others. In one fell swoop, the so-called congressional republican system was abolished and a genuine presidential dictatorship was introduced.
Maybe he kept the Kuomintang and the Republican Party just to let the two jump out, right? Zhang Wenjing picked up the pen. Sigh and start a new job.
When the wind and waves were calm in Nanjing, thousands of miles away in the area east of the Ural Mountains, a vigorous retreat was launched.
Inside the Chelyabinsk power plant, more than a dozen combat sappers arriving from Kulen were planting explosives. Power plants and heating are the most important thing to survive in Siberia, and without heating and power generation equipment, the harsh Siberian winters can be daunting for many people.
"Lao Jiu, bring the mines." Yan Kuan took out the yellow explosives from the barrel, carefully stuffed them into the tattered socks he had prepared in advance, and tied them to the generator with butter and rope. Finally, plug in the detonator mounting wire.
He was a demoman of the 209th Combat Engineer Regiment, participated in the Eastern Front with the 20th Brigade, and was stationed in the northwest after returning home. He was still on vacation in Kulen when he received the order, and returned overnight with his comrades and hurried back to the place where he had fought. The mission was to blow up all available equipment and buildings on the way back, with a focus on power generation, heating, and various important mines. However, destroying the power plant is not an easy task. For example, the Chelyabinsk heating power plant in front of it occupies a large area, the equipment and pipelines are complex, and many bombs need to be planted, and each explosion point must be carefully selected. Experienced sappers are said to be able to destroy targets with minimal explosives, and can also make them spend more energy repairing.
"The mines are coming. Brother Kuan. What do you want this thing to do? "Lao Jiu is a recruit who was just assigned to the regiment last year, although he has received a year of training, he has never experienced war, how can he understand the mind of a veteran.
Yan Kuan glanced at the mine, and without saying a word, he picked up one and looked around first, then buried it under a section of pipe, and finally tied the lead wire to the iron pipe. Although these mines were all left by the White Guards, and there were many of them, Lao Jiu still felt very strange. Because judging from the explosion points around it, the pipe connecting the mines will definitely be buried, isn't it a waste?
Unexpectedly, before he spoke, he ate Yan Kuan's chestnut fiercely: "Stupid! I ask you, what do you do first if someone comes to build a power plant? ”
"Clean up, of course, recycle what you can use, and finally." When Lao Jiu said this, he suddenly held his mouth, and then looked around and suddenly understood. Hehe Yin laughed: "Brother Kuan! You're so insidious! When the time comes, Lao Maozi will clean up the ruins, and he will definitely move the pipe, and he won't pay attention to such a move haha. ”
"Holy! Hurry up and help. Yan Kuan glared and instructed him to lay a few more mines.
After all the mines were laid, everyone evacuated, and when they reached a safe position, Yan Kuan pressed the detonating bolt fiercely. Rumbling explosions followed, and the huge power and heating plant was buried in the rubble in the blink of an eye, along with landmines.
When the retreat arrived at the railway station, they saw the arrival of locomotives specially modified to destroy the railway. "Dig it up. Slow down, aim at the trench, and put! Under Kong Qinggui's command, the soldiers slowly lowered a large iron hook made of nickel steel with a dark body and all nickel steel into the trench dug between the two railroad tracks. The iron hook is connected to the tail of a special high-horsepower steam locomotive with dense large bolts, and two navy-type small water-tube boilers are installed in the nose of this locomotive, which is several times more horsepower than ordinary locomotives.
Why so much power? The answer came out quickly.
Once the hook is deep in the ditch, the train begins to move forward slowly. Driven by strong horsepower, the deeply pierced iron hook quickly pulled out a trench half a meter wide and two meters deep! The gravel embankment and sleepers above the trench were like pieces of cloth in a doll's hand, all torn off. In less than ten minutes, a roadbed about 2 kilometers long was broken, the sleepers were broken, the bolts fell off, and the heavy steel rails were twisted and deformed on one side.
The work was not over yet, after the rails were loosened, hundreds of White Guards began to move the rails onto the train, and it was very strange to see the lively Lao Jiu, and asked: "Brother Kuan, what are the rails going to do?" The system does not match our country. It's a waste of coal money to transport it back. ”
"You know a." Yan Kuan's backhand was another burst, and he secretly scolded that the quality of last year's recruits was really bad. said: "The United States calls it high melting point scrap, which is a good material. I went back to Baotou and heard from the steel mill that the quality of the rails is better than that of a lot of crude steel. Now there is a shortage of steel everywhere in the country, how good it is to pull it back to the furnace. I've calculated, after this demolition, our steel output this year can increase by hundreds of thousands of tons...... Hey, who's there, there's a bunch of bolts, pull it back to the furnace. "Lao Jiuyi listened to so many benefits. He quickly threw a few bolts onto the flatbed, making his comrades laugh.
However, he didn't have long to pick up bolts before he was kicked away by the regimental commander. Comrades from other regiments began to lay bundles of thick cotton cords in the deep trenches that had been dug. This time, Lao Jiu recognized it. This special cotton cord is stuffed with yellow explosives, and it was only last year that it was equipped with a new explosive weapon specifically for breaking down minefields. But what he didn't expect was that it would be used for this kind of thing in the first place.
The barrier-breaking blasting ropes are all pre-coiled, and it only takes a short time to lay a few kilometers. After everything was ready, Lao Jiu and everyone evacuated again, and after a while, the trench in the distance began to explode violently, gradually forming a line of fire. The smoke of gunpowder is filled, the gravel is flying, and many stones are still smashed with the special explosion-proof steel plate clanging. When the smoke clears, let alone the White Guards who came to help. Even Yan Kuan gasped! Because this roadbed is completely out of sight, the trench dug by the iron hook has been expanded several times by the explosion! Not to mention repairing, it's impossible to even use it again!
"It's exciting!"
Even though he knew that it was impossible to blow up thousands of kilometers all the way back, and it must have been destroyed every few kilometers, Lao Jiu still slapped his thigh fiercely. This kind of destruction is not to mention Russia, which was ruined by the civil war. Even if the Americans come, they have to re-choose the route and take a detour.
"Bandits, you are bandits, you are thugs!!"
"You're going to be punished!"
Suddenly, a series of shouts came from the side. Yan Kuan and everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that the White Guards were escorting thousands of captured Red Army soldiers to the deep pit left by the blasting. When these Red Army soldiers saw that the Trans-Siberian Railway, which they had been defending for several years, was blown up, they glared at Yan Kuan and the others. But the White Guards showed no mercy and used the butts of their guns to make them stand one by one.
"Ready...... The White Guard officer in charge of the execution drew his saber and raised it high, and a line of rifles was aimed at the captives. In the face of this kind of scene, Yan Kuanhe and the soldiers of the Wehrmacht who came to cover the retreat watched quietly, and they couldn't tell what it was like in their hearts.
"Hooray!"
"Long live Russia!"
"Long live the Soviets!"
Knowing that they were going to be executed, some of the Red Army prisoners of war shouted. Except for a few people such as Yan Kuan, most of the Wehrmacht soldiers couldn't understand what they were shouting, but they thought it was nothing more than bold words like "18 years later, another hero". The shouting did not spread, and the vast majority of the prisoners of war still turned pale and slowly closed their eyes. One by one, the prisoners fell one by one as the guns snapped, and the pit that had been blasted open turned into a grave specially prepared for them, with blood and corpses spilled all around.
The phrase "born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other" can no longer be used in Russia, there have been countless such scenes in the past few years, and in Russia, which is in the final stage of the civil war, human life is not as good as grass mustard! These retreating White Guards, apparently aware of their fate, began to massacre prisoners of war and supporters of the Red Army with impunity, and even cooperated with the sabotage of the Engineer Corps. Not only did they blow up the city's facilities, but they also destroyed the railways, blew up the bridges, took everything they could, and finally spared even the women.
Yan Kuan and all the Wehrmacht did not meddle in this kind of thing, but continued their work.
The destruction continued in such an atmosphere at a rate of hundreds of kilometers a day, and when Frunze got the news and hurried to Chelyabinsk, he almost entered the city with tears in his eyes. The tragic scenes along the way made the officer who had been fighting for several years red-eyed. Hundreds of kilometers of railways were destroyed, even the roadbed was completely blown up. More than 40 railway bridges were blown to pieces, not to mention the steel rails, not even riveted bolts were visible, and there was no trace of the telegraph lines laid along the railway.
The city is even more miserable, except for the church, which is still intact, the other buildings have basically been destroyed, and even if they are not blown up, they deliberately dig large holes in the walls or somewhere, and the power plant can be seen from a distance.
"Contact Moscow."
Without a railway, it was impossible to pursue quickly, so Frunze had to let his troops pursue with both feet, and at the same time sent cavalry to make a detour through Kazakhstan in an attempt to intercept the fleeing Kolchak troops.
When news of the total destruction east of the Ural Mountains reached Moscow, Nanjing also received photographs of the destruction from the front.
Murong Han, who returned to Nanjing to report on his work, handed the photo to everyone: "Yekaterinaburg, Chelyabinsk, and Kurgan have all been destroyed. This was taken just 5 days ago in Petropavlovsk, 370 km from Omsk. Look here, the station has been destroyed with explosives and shells, Xu Shuzheng also blew up the dam of the Ishim River next to it to bring in water, judging from the degree of damage, even if it is done immediately, it will not be repaired in a year and a half. ”
"Hehe, I now know why Chenhua said that what was released was a scourge." Li Yuanhong pinched the photos taken by the reconnaissance plane, his two little eyes focused on the shadow of the roadbed for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "This time we and the Russian Liangzi are considered to have a big knot. ”
Yang Qiu was very satisfied with the result: "It's not a family in the first place, whether we are strong or Russia is strong, the first thing to do is to bully each other." The Northwest Defense Belt will not be able to play its initial role until 25 years at the earliest, and the Northwest Railway and the Longhai Line will basically be opened to traffic at that time, and the Northwest is still too dangerous in recent years, otherwise I don't have to make this decision. ”
"I think it's mainly due to the lack of immigrants." Murong Han didn't feel guilty, but his face flashed with inexplicable excitement. "After the Shanghai communiqué, a large number of residents of non-local ethnic groups have been evacuated, and the guerrillas have given us an excuse to empty the population and land. There is now a lot of farmland vacated there, but there is a serious shortage of labor. In Andijan, for example, it is the most fertile land in the northwest, but it has been two years, and the number of registered Han people is only 70,000, and it is not enough to maintain basic cultivation, so we estimate that at least 8 million will be purchased to fill the six provinces on the defense belt. ”
"8 million? To put it mildly, where are we going to get you 8 million now? Yang Qiu glared at him. The more peaceful the country, the fewer people are willing to emigrate, after all, the northwest is still a wild land, there is no house, no food, everything has to start over, unless there is no way to live or an administrative order, otherwise will you be willing to go?
"Chenhua, have you forgotten the victims of the Qinghai earthquake?"
"That's right! That's more than 2 million people, anyway, if you want to rebuild, it's better to go to the northwest. Murong Han jumped up, and was about to come up with a plan to fill in the northwest for the victims, when Wang Anlan suddenly walked in with an excited expression.
"President, Russian envoy Garrahan wants to see you...... To be continued) rq!!