A camp that can accommodate 2,000 troops is actually not that big. [Full text reading]

In modern society, 2,000 people is about the size of a regiment. Almost two or three buildings were all arranged. On the contrary, the corresponding equipment and facilities of this regiment occupy a wider area.

Let's talk about the various vehicles that are responsible for transporting troops. All kinds of trucks, communication vehicles, water supply trucks, and all kinds of logistics vehicles, as well as all kinds of engineering vehicles and even combat vehicles, which may exist, will occupy a large place with a lot of filling.

The garrison of the 1st Army Corps in the Northwest of the Baath Army was also very large. But it has nothing to do with the equipment of the vehicle.

The Baath Party is still stumbling through the exploitation and production of the Han River oil fields. Baath's oil smelter is still being planned and designed. The Baath Party's oil production and construction troops are still being trained and educated. The production of Baath Party's diesel engines is still in the process of studying and analyzing the physical model data and drawings provided by Wang Shuhui.

Therefore, at this stage, it is unrealistic to expect that the newly formed First Army Corps of the Northwest of the Ba'ath Party will have a large amount of mechanized equipment. The current Revival Army is still a modern army with mules and horses as a whole. Even steam tractors and various steam machinery and equipment can only be used in logistics infrastructure.

Because the number of production and construction troops just recruited in the Yunyang area is insufficient, the camp construction of the entire Northwest First Army Corps of the Reconstruction Army still needs to be undertaken by the First Army Corps itself. Yunyang is basically in a state of great control over army building. After sending 2,000 displaced production and construction soldiers to the First Army who had just completed their physical examinations and redressed, Yunyang completely ignored the affairs of the First Army.

The garrison of the First Army Corps in the Northwest of the Fuxing Army was actually not in Hubei Province, but in Xiping Town, Shangnan County, on the border between Henan and Huguang in Shaanxi.

If it is divided according to the administrative region, Xiping Town actually belongs to the Shaanxi Province of the Ming Dynasty. However, because this area, including the entire Shangnan County, belongs to a remote geographical location, with mountains and people's livelihood. Therefore, more than 4,000 armed forces with unknown attributions were stationed in Xiping Town, and they did not alarm any local government.

After an investigation by the intelligence agency, the First Army found out that Shangnan County had been controlled by several local half-gentry and half-bandit heroes since 1615. From 1615 to the present, Shangnan County has not had a magistrate officially appointed by the imperial court. A county from a local Haoqiang was the only Ming official in Shangnan County.

Shangnan County, with a population of less than 20,000, is more appropriate to say that it is a county seat of the Ming Dynasty, rather than a bandit den.

After the First Army learned about the surrounding environment, it did not enter Shangnan County at the first time. For the First Legion, the bandit reactionaries in Shangnan County and the surrounding areas posed little threat to them. There is only one factor that threatens the First Army, and that is the problem of communication lines, which are responsible for the transportation of a large number of logistical supplies.

The first task before the First Army was not to clear the local bandits, but to immediately start the construction of the road from Xiping Town to Yunyang County.

As long as the construction of the road from Xiping Town to Yunyang County is completed, then through this road, the First Army Corps can closely link its station with Xiangyang and Jingzhou through the Han River waterway.

After all, before the military factories in the Yunyang region were built. Except for some supplies of food and other daily necessities, which could rely on the Yunyang area, all the military supplies of the First Army Corps had to rely on the Xiangyang area. However, the newly built arsenal in the Xiangyang area is not yet able to afford the supply of military supplies for the entire garrison in northern Hubei. Therefore, most of the military supplies still rely on the arsenals in the Jingzhou area, which have huge output and mature technology.

In this case, it is very important to ensure the smooth flow of traffic between the station and the Jingzhou area.

In the ancient agrarian society, industrial construction would have made any resources scarce and scarce. Even if there are serious natural disasters currently occurring in the northern regions of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of displaced people have been provided for the industrial construction of the Baath Party. However, relatively speaking, the requirements for human resources in industrial construction itself are also relatively high. Ordinary displaced people who have not received industrial training cannot undertake the work of industrial construction.

Take the Baath Party's 1st Army Corps in the Northwest, for example. The 2,000 untrained production and construction troops transferred to the First Army Corps by Yunyang are simply unable to effectively undertake the most urgent task of highway construction for the First Army Corps. In the border area of the three provinces where the First Army is located, because of the harsh natural environment of the mountains, the number of wild beasts is more than the number of people. So there was nothing for the First Army to absorb from the local population.

It was only after the 10,000 skilled highway production and construction troops sent by the headquarters of the newly formed Northern Highway Production and Construction Corps arrived that the construction of the entire Xiyun-Xiping-Yunyang Highway began to begin rapidly. However, the small town of Xiping could not bear the logistical supply of more than 14,000 people at all, and the Yunyang area itself had to bear the logistical supply of more than 100,000 people, so both the soldiers of the First Army and the more than 10,000 road production and construction troops had a very hard time.

In order to ensure the supply of materials, the First Army Corps in the Northwest and more than 10,000 highway production and construction troops revolved around compressed military rations and all kinds of canned food every day. It didn't matter if the soldiers of the First Army Corps and the more than 10,000 highway production and construction troops were all people who were accustomed to living a good life under the rule of the Ba'ath Party.

Feng Xinmin, commander-in-chief of the First Army Corps in the Northwest of the Fuxing Army, and political commissar of the First Army Corps in the Northwest of the Fuxing Army, soon discovered the emotional problems on the part of the troops. On the one hand, this experienced political work cadre instructed the logistics departments to speed up the work of logistical production and construction of the garrison and to speed up the work of cultivating vegetable fields and breeding vegetables, and on the other hand, he asked the political work departments to step up the work of building the cultural life of the troops, and arranged for the soldiers to have a large number of spare time lives of listening to operas, watching dramas, and watching movies.

However, Feng Xinmin's magic weapon to stabilize the mood of the fighters is to carry out ideological education.

At present, more than 2,000 new production and construction troops from displaced people, who are in the most enthusiastic mood and have the most positive attitude in the construction process, have become the core targets of the ideological and political work of the entire First Army Corps.

Feng Xinmin did not come up with any very new means of political education, but only organized several activities in which all officers and men participated in the reminiscences of the new production and construction troops.

Old man Mao said, "There is no identification without comparison." This is a universal truth.

Is road construction tired? It's really tiring. But compared with the work for the landlord's old wealth, it is nothing.

Is it bitter to live and rest in the wild? It's really bitter. However, compared with the life of a tenant farmer whose life safety is not guaranteed at all, it is not bitter at all.

Is it almost the same as eating some compressed military rations and tinplate luncheon meat mass-produced by the Baath Party all day long? Pretty bad indeed. But compared to the life of a homeless person who has no food at all, has to change his children to eat, or waits to starve to death, this is a heavenly day.

In fact, whether it is the officers and men of the 2,000-strong Northwest First Army Corps, or the more than 10,000 highway production and construction troops. Their good days didn't last a few years. Three or five years ago, they were either part of the homeless people, or they were not much different from the homeless people.

After such a reminder from the new production and construction soldiers, they immediately cheered up