Battleships costing hundreds of thousands of pounds and millions of pounds, this thing has no role and significance for Liang Guo at all.

The Liang Kingdom, which has fully implemented the Chinese lunar calendar, oases and semi-arid regions everywhere are rejoicing at the construction of the Karakum Canal, and the local defense forces have also begun a dragnet sweep of horse bandits.

In Central Asia, where the environment is harsh, horse bandits have been prevalent since ancient times. Especially in the two decades from 1870 to 1890, the Turkmen, who were constantly threatened by the Russians, were almost universally armed. They were egged and supported by the British, and in order to ensure the security of India, the British desperately hoped that the Turkmen would be able to perform a miracle to stop the Russians from moving south.

So in the Turkmen region, in the early days of the Wehrmacht, guns and arms were scattered everywhere. Some of the defeated Turkmen nobles and leaders fled back to their homes, and they also brought back their tribes and homes with guns and arms.

In the Turkmen region under military control, of course, civilians are not allowed to possess military guns and guns on a large scale. But where can it all be confiscated? Even if the local army paid a high price for guns and sticks, it was still impossible to completely ban them. Besides, every ethnic group has a part of the people with different ideas, you can say that they are old-fashioned and desperately resist the entry of the Chinese Defense Forces, or you can say that they are ambitious, and maybe there is a black hand behind them. Anyway, the Turkmen with a total population of only five or six hundred thousand are scattered in this piece of land in the top three Henan provinces. These armed forces, known as horse bandits by the Wehrmacht, have less than individual strength, and hundreds of people in one share are almost non-existent.

Wehrmacht cavalry units stationed in the Turkmen region. Usually in the form of squadrons, the resistance is chased and cleared.

Just like Yan and Zhao when the Kama Reservoir was about to be built, they took the lead in clearing most of the resistance forces in the two countries. Here in Liangguo, the Karakum Canal project is to be carried out. In order to prevent the possibility of labor unrest, the local garrison also took on the task of exterminating the rebels.

In windy and sandy weather. An oasis in the desert south of Karakum. It is a small green space no more than a kilometer from north to south and east to west, but it is the base camp of the largest resistance group within a radius of 500 miles in the vicinity, and the gathering place of many resistance forces.

Recently, due to the Wehrmacht's dragnet-style clean-up, more than a dozen resistance forces in the southern Karakum Desert have been scattered and destroyed, and hundreds of people have become Chinese guns. This small oasis in front of you, located in the desert, far from the area controlled by the Chinese army, has naturally become a gathering place for the resistance forces in the entire southern desert area of Karakum, and all the surviving resistance forces have fled here. This small oasis called Kaman became the 'light of the night' in the southern region of Karakum for a time.

At least a hundred members of the resistance have now fled to Kaman. Together with the force that Carman had and the people who had already felt wrong before the Wehrmacht had come here, the entire small oasis already had no less than two hundred members of the resistance.

As the owner of this pearl in the dark night, and the leader of the small tribe of Kaman, Kurbanguli is very excited to see that his strength is constantly expanding, even if the arrival of these outsiders has greatly increased the food consumption of the Kaman Oasis. Kurbanguli, who has only force in his eyes, does not feel that it is a burden at all.

Little did he know that just these days, five pigeons from different directions had been released into the sky at different times. Therefore, it is natural that Kurban Guli does not know the periphery of the Kaman Oasis. In the darkness of the night, a detachment of Wehrmacht cavalry had already arrived. And this Wehrmacht cavalry is planning to take advantage of the windy and sandy weather tonight, quietly touch in, and put an end to this black nest in one fell swoop.

"How's it going?" Twenty miles from the oasis, on the leeward side of a sand dune, the dim light could not illuminate the faces of the people inside. A big man with a gray face who couldn't see his true face clearly opened the curtain of the marching tent and walked in, and the cavalry battalion commander who was waiting inside said in a deep voice.

Several officers in leather hats in the military tent stood up and saluted when they saw the arrival, this is the head of the Ministry of State Security in the southern area of Karakum. He was a member of the Central Asia Action Team many years ago.

"Camp Commander Chen is relieved that the horse bandits have not noticed it so far. We're going to make it tonight......"

"You've touched the oasis?" The battalion commander's face changed.

His intuition told him that he was very sure of the tone of the person across from him. So, did he enter the Oasis?

The big man wiped the sand off his eyebrows and beard with his hands. "Of course not." I just went to the edge of the oasis for a round. Kurban Guli even removed the guards. There may still be a sentry, but I won't alarm them! ”

A staff officer in the tent said with a smile, easing the tension caused by Battalion Commander Chen's stern tone: "There is such a big wind and sand outside, not even a ghost can be seen, and the horse bandits in the oasis would never have imagined that we would attack in such a situation." If there really is a dark outpost, it will be solved by the people of the reconnaissance squadron with knives. ”

"Even if you miss, don't be afraid. We're here! "Naturally, there is no reason to let go of these rebels. The only difference is that the progress is a little slower. Battalion Commander Chen brought a complete brigade, plus the guard unit of the battalion headquarters, a small 600 people!

Camp Commander Chen agreed with this, and his face softened, "I repeat, this time not only to take out the Kaman Oasis, but also to wipe out the resistance forces inside. Don't miss a single one! "As for when to attack, it depends on whether God gives face. If the sand is still so strong in the second half of the night, or even bigger, it will have to wait until tomorrow morning.

But Battalion Commander Chen really didn't worry about the possibility of failure at all, what he was most afraid of was that people would take advantage of the chaos to escape. This is where the vast majority of the rebels in the southern Karakum Desert are gathered, and except for those who have already rebelled, the rest are quite tough hostile forces that must be eliminated. Running away is a scourge, and each of the people in it is the seed that may cause a resistance force to rise again in the outside world.

This time, the order led by Battalion Commander Chen was not only to kill the resistance forces of the entire Kaman Greenland, but also to completely relocate the Turkmen in the Kaman Greenland. Most of these people are family members of rebels, if not not. Left unchecked, it won't be long before a rebel force rises again.

Therefore, all the people will be moved. The Kaman Greens will be a point for garrisons in the southern Karakum Desert, where a mixed squadron of infantry and cavalry will be stationed. There are at least six or seven hundred acres of fertile land in the entire Kaman green area, where grain and forage are grown, and 20 Han families have been relocated to take care of it. Maybe this small oasis will slowly grow bigger in the hands of the Han people!

In recent years, the state has spent a lot of effort on planting trees and grasses in the desert to improve the soil, reduce desert erosion, and reduce the salinization of farmland in oases. With the continuous efforts to maintain and improve the ecological system, the area of oases in Xinjiang has stopped the deterioration of "sand forcing people to retreat", and the area has expanded by 1.2%.

1.2 percent, which is of course a very small number. However, in the big issue of desertification prevention and control, it is a big step forward.

With the technical guidance of the state, the hard-working character of the Han immigrants, and the garrison of a squadron, the Kaman Oasis can expand to a certain extent in the future, not to mention it, at least it can be guaranteed that it will not disappear.

Fast forward a hundred years, and the Kaman Oasis at that time was a pearl in the southern region of the Karakum Desert, covering an area of dozens of square kilometers and gathering nearly 10,000 people to live here. It was one of the most glorious memories in Kaman's history.

It was the desert that ruined it all. In the evolution of time, the oasis became smaller and smaller, and the desert continued to erode the precious arable land and springs, and finally became the current small oasis with an area of less than one square kilometer, a den of bandits!

The decoration of Kurbangul's lair is quite luxurious, and it is also very Turkmen. There was a thick carpet on the floor, silver adorned the walls and the chandelier overhead, and there was not much gold to be seen, and the patterns on the walls and the ornaments on the tables, and the handrails of the stairs were mostly silver. But for the leader of such a small green area as Kurbangul, the 'home' in front of him, which is not inferior to half of the upper class of Turkmenistan, is, of course, luxurious luxury.

When the Wehrmacht took full control of this small green space, Kurbanguli, who was blocked in his lair, chose to surrender rather than resist desperately. In the basement of this house, the Wehrmacht also found a radio station.

The radio didn't keep it secret for long, and the British invented it in the first year after the war. Soon, the Americans also "restored" this sharp weapon based on the remnants of the radio station in the wreckage of the Chinese crashed airship.

"There's someone behind this guy. Let him account for the codebook. Who else is the telegraph operator, find out. The chief of the detective looked at the radio station and shouted a happy face, and dug out a ground mouse. As long as the enemy doesn't realize that something has happened to Kaman, he can try to find some clues. Then before they can react, they will be able to grab a line.

Battalion Commander Chen was more concerned with the battle itself. The resistance to the armed forces was still relatively tenacious, and after defeating Kaman, fourteen of his soldiers were killed and more than twenty wounded. More than 100 of the 200 armed bandits were killed on the spot. In this case, there are more than a dozen traitors who took the initiative to surrender.

It is true that the casualties of a war of annihilation in a place where shelter is dense are far greater than that of a war in the wilderness.

Hundreds of armed bandits were killed along with more than 30 local natives, including women, children, and the elderly. Battalion Commander Chen didn't think there was anything, these were normal casualties. If you really want to blame, blame yourself, who let you be a bandit? (To be continued......)