Chapter 480: The Land of the Dead
readx; While the soldiers were struggling with what to do with the winter, they followed the team to the westbound train, where dozens of trains were already waiting in the station, and the soldiers who arrived first filled the entire train, whether it was a few passenger cars or a train for pulling goods. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, there are still mainly freight cars, and there are only two or three passenger cars, most of which are still at the other end of the railway, that is, the line responsible for operating the Moscow-Novosibirsk region, because of the influence of the war zone and the influence of the railway, it is unlikely that they will run even if they want to.
Soon, when the trains were full of soldiers, the locomotives that had been ready began to smoke and haul the wagons away and head straight to the west, each train taking an average of only about five minutes apart, and now they were not subject to the monorail problem.
There was no need to go to the rerails and wait for the opposite train to pass, and the entire Soviet railway became a special troop transport line for the Northern Army Group in the blink of an eye, because in order to facilitate the connection between the Northeast and the Soviet Union, and to strengthen the control of the Chinese Empire over the occupied areas.
The railway, which had only reached Harbin in the early years, was extended a lot during the year, and now it is connected with the Soviet railway, which can go straight west to Siberia and even Moscow, and east to Vladivostok.
Since the construction of this railway, the various transfers of troops and even the supply of materials of the Northern Army Group have become much more convenient, and many times they are directly loaded onto the train through the northeast, and then the baggage troops are waiting at the corresponding station, and after the train arrives, the baggage troops begin to unload, and then send them to various troops.
The time alone saves a lot of time, and those wounded soldiers who are not suitable for air transportation can also arrive in Jinxi directly by train, which is very convenient.
The train is like a guy who can't exhaust his strength, rushing forward with his head down, maybe to let the soldiers experience the beauty of the Soviet Union, or so that they can experience the cruelty here, or so that they can adapt to the environment here more quickly.
Therefore, the door of each carriage is wide open, and the troops in Vladivostok have already installed two push-pull mesh doors in each carriage according to the actual situation of the troops, and when the soldiers go up, close the door from the inside, so that they can see the scenery outside, and do not have to worry about people falling down, and in case of emergencies, the soldiers can also quickly leave the train.
In order to allow them to adapt to the battlefield environment here in the shortest time, they are equipped with a soldier in each carriage, specially for these new soldiers to explain along the way, at least let them know the general situation here, so as not to know where to go when they are not familiar with the place.
After a day and two nights of non-stop running, the train passed through many mountains, crossed many plains, and saw how many houses destroyed by the war. When it was just dawn the next day, the scene in front of them completely shocked these newly arrived soldiers of the Ninth Army.
I saw that both ends of the railway were bare, and there were burned ashes everywhere, and there was no life on the whole earth, even the soldiers on the train couldn't help but feel a chill in their backs.
"We are currently located in Angarsk, and we passed through the city of Irkutsk just before dawn, but at the moment we are throwing in Irkutsk, which is nothing more than Irkutsk Oblast, which is equivalent to a province in our country.
The city of Irkutsk was the easternmost part of the previous Battle of Irkutsk, the frontal battlefield defended by the reserves of the First Army, where they eventually fended off the Soviet Red Army, which was on infinite attack.
On either side of us now are the positions of the 11th and 12th Armies of the First Army at that time, but the distance is a bit far away and we can't see it on the train. Prior to that, the position in which we are currently located was the center of the first encircled units of the Soviet Red Army.
That is, the bait sent by Zhukov was trapped here, and he couldn't move at all. It was here that we annihilated a whole million Soviet troops, and if you look north, forget it, you won't see it anyway, just know that there is such a thing. About thirty kilometers to the north was the defense line of the Eleventh Army, and about fifty miles was the place where the Fifth Army's 52nd Army carried out a second encirclement of the Soviet army.
What you see now is a decision made after being forced to do so. At that time, the corpses of a million Soviet soldiers could not be buried in this area, and finally after the rain, and the weather slowly became hotter, the plague gradually appeared here, and all the Soviet soldiers who were still alive were also infected.
And we didn't have a better cure, so the 11th and 12th armies had to follow the order to burn the area and use fire to take the plague away. It is precisely because of this incident that your Ninth Army has been transferred.
Because after this incident, the Eleventh and Twelfth Armies were all isolated, and they could not be released until they were ensured that they were not infected with the plague, and you are here now, just in time to take over the task of the First Army, and join forces with the Fifth Army to attack the Soviet army opposite.
The main reason why I am telling you this is to remind you not to touch the corpses of the Soviet soldiers as much as possible, especially those that have been dead for a period of time, if in the course of the battle, you see a large number of Soviet soldiers coughing, or weak when there are no external injuries, in this case you can only ask for good luck. Because as long as they show this symptom, they are most likely infected with the plague. ”
The soldiers who followed were looking at the black, ash-covered land, explaining the situation to them in detail.
Each of them had been trained for a week, and they had already been told what needed to be explained in detail on the way, and they had already memorized some of the data.
Some people may think that the reinforcement of troops to the front line needs to be accompanied by a docent, which looks like a tour. But if anyone really thinks so, they are very wrong, and if they do not explain the situation of the battle of Irkutsk, no one can guarantee that there will be a second First Army.
Now that there is only one, it can be delayed to control the situation on the battlefield, but if there are a few more, it will not be much, even if only one army group is suspected of being infected on a large scale, and now the entire offensive situation of the northern army group will collapse in an instant.
The Third Army is currently stationed in the northern region, and even then, the strength is somewhat insufficient, and even some posts have only one squad of soldiers, but fortunately there are not too many people there, and the soldiers only need to report the situation to the higher command on a regular basis through the radio.
As for the supply or something, all units below the battalion level will use airdrop supply, and those above the battalion level will be transported by trucks.
The Seventh Army, on the other hand, is currently guarding the area around Vladivostok and is responsible for building and improving the situation of Vladivostok Harbor and turning this natural ice-free port into a naval base for the Northern Army Group of the Chinese Empire, so as to make all the preliminary preparations for launching an attack on Vladivostok in the future.
So don't look at the Northern Army Group has a lot of troops, but the only ones that can be used are the First Army and the Fifth Army, and now that the First Army is paralyzed, the Fifth Army can only defend in place and postpone the offensive.
This time, two army groups were transferred from the rear, and if one of the army groups was infected again, then the speed of the attack would be significantly slowed down, and if two army groups were infected, the situation would be extremely bad.
Once the troops attack, it is not that they can be stopped, the reason why they stopped this time is mainly because the Soviet army withdrew in a hurry, which allowed Liu Ling to have enough time to draw out the First Army, and if he did it again, he would not dare to guarantee that he would be so lucky.
That's why the soldiers were reminded to tell them in detail about the situation in Irkutsk when they passed through Irkutsk, and to be sure to mention their vigilant surnames, so as not to cause similar things to happen.
"Damn, I said how I have a cold back, it turns out that there are a million people lying here."
After a long time, a shout suddenly came from the silent carriage.
Although this cry ruined the current atmosphere, it has to be said that it was this funny cry that also broke the gloomy atmosphere in the carriage, and the soldiers gradually forgot that a million people had been annihilated here, and they didn't seem to think that this place was terrible.
However, they deeply remembered what happened here, and firmly reminded themselves that they must remember the situation of those infected with the plague, and stay away from them as much as possible, it is very dangerous to go to the battlefield, and if they are killed by the plague again, they will be unlucky to go home.
Everyone sympathized with the First Group Army, but no one wanted to follow in the footsteps of the First Group Army, and no one wanted to die of infectious diseases, and they didn't know what other countries were like now, but they knew that the medical level of the Chinese Empire was very advanced, and many of the medicines used by foreign countries were exported from the Chinese Empire.
Take the morphine and penicillin and hemostatic powder that everyone now has, except for some countries in Europe, many countries do not have them, and their soldiers can only resign themselves to fate after being injured, and even take some other methods to stop the bleeding or something, and they have to worry about the nightmare caused by the inflammation of the wound.
They don't have to worry about this, as long as the wound is not too big, the hemostasis is scattered, the bandage is directly wrapped on it, and then they go to the military doctor to get an injection of penicillin and basically wait for the wound to heal.
If the wound is larger, it will be dispersed with hemostasis first, and then wrapped in a bandage, and then go to the military doctor to ask him to stitch up the wound for himself, which is basically not life-threatening, these are things they dare not imagine before, but now they feel that it is normal, and they feel terrible without these medicines.
But now, even the military doctors have nothing to do about these plagues, how can they not feel terrible in their hearts? This place has been regarded as a place of death by them! (To be continued.) )