“…… The side walls of the trenches can be easily reinforced by using wooden strips, and as for the usual maintenance, they can be solved with proper turf cultivation! ”

At this time, in the combat conference room, only Tang Haoran's voice could be heard, and the generals and colonels of the headquarters such as the commander all listened to his ideas with a careful listening attitude, and of course, it was inevitable that the stenographer quickly wrote down the marshal's thoughts so that the professionals could sort them out. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Maybe other people don't know about it, but as a geotechnical expert, Xu Zhiyuan is keenly aware of Dashuai's thoughts, and also sees the benefits of this simple fortress system, his biggest feature is that he uses local materials, and the raw materials required for the construction of the fortress are completely local, and rarely use industrial materials such as concrete and steel. And this fundamentally solves the problem of the competition between the fortress and industrial construction for industrial materials, and more importantly, to save money!

Fund! This is the real problem, the Military Command Department does not have hundreds of millions of funds for the construction of the fortress, how to solve the problem of funds, is the fundamental reason for the delay in this work, the reason why everyone will say "wait a minute" is not the railway, but the funds.

However, compared with the fortified regional fortress built by borrowing from the naval base, the funds spent on the current fortress of Dashuai are limited, and it is only barbed wire, electric lights, pumping machines, and other facilities, and the troops only need to invest manpower, dig trenches, and cut down trees to complete the construction of the fortress, and the construction of the fortress can be completed in a few months, or more than a year, and the defensive fortress system against Russia in the northeast can be put into use. Even, if necessary, this can go one step further.

"Sir, I noticed that the walls of the positions and dormitories are fenced with small sizes of wood, and I think that planks can be used in non-main areas. In order to prolong the life of the wood. These timbers should be dried. In addition to the logs, multiple layers of small wooden strips should be used to slow down the erosion of the roof by the soil layer......"

When Xu Zhiyuan mentioned his idea, he even mentioned that he could learn from the construction of the "underground nest", in fact, there is not much difference between them, the only difference is that the bunker is deeper into the ground, and its top defense capability is stronger.

"In Kanto. In order to save wood, a lot of ground nests will be through three or four layers of mud walls, compared to wood walls, it is more resistant to decay, because under the mud wall is the fire kang, every year in winter, burning a winter fire kang can burn all the moisture in the wall to bake, this ground nest is used for more than a long time, when the staff travels, I have even seen the use of more than 30 years of the nest......"

When Xu Zhiyuan said this, how could Tang Haoran disagree. It is nothing more than turning an indoor stove into an outdoor fire pit.

"Well, that's a good idea. I think we can do this, of course, my ones are just an idea, based on local materials, self-reliance, after all, we may be able to wait for the railway, but will others wait for us? So, everything should be ...... as soon as possible."

After a slight pause, Tang Haoran was silent for a moment, and then added.

"In the trenches, the most important thing is the barbed wire, I think the headquarters can organize the troops to study the use of this barbed wire, if necessary, the barbed wire can be distributed to the fortress areas first, of course, these barbed wire can now be stored in the warehouse first!"

Many things can always be agreed on in a very short period of time, at least in the eyes of outsiders, Tang Haoran's words are very reasonable, indeed, the construction of fortifications is urgent, after all, no one can guarantee that the Russians will not enter the northeast before the construction of the railway, some things are still prepared in advance, so that people can sleep soundly.

However, if you really want to sleep soundly, how easy it is to say that!

"At present, the strength of the Russian army in the Far East is about 50,000, and its mobilizable strength is 120,000, and if you calculate the 175,000 troops of the Russian army stationed in the Viceroyalty of Nikolai, its strength is 2.5 times that of our ......."

Pressure is always everywhere, even if a problem is solved, there will always be new problems, and the pressure of reality on the Russians almost overwhelmed Tang Haoran.

"Two battleships, 8 cruisers of the first class, 5 cruisers of the second class, 2 torpedo cruisers, 11 gunboats, ...... mine-strike ships"

Close your eyes, just remember these numbers, Tang Haoran can intuitively feel the pressure of the Russians, in another time and space there is a famous saying "China in recent times is in the Japanese and Russian step-by-step pressing, struggling to survive", for any Chinese who want to seek prosperity and strength, the threat from Russia cannot be ignored, not to mention, the northeast has no room to retreat, lost the northeast, the so-called "Tang Marshal" is just another "Zhang Liuzi".

Silently lit a cigarette of cigar, Tang Haoran took a deep breath, and let the cigar smoke fill his mouth to taste its fragrance, but today's Cuban cigar can't taste any fragrance.

The current Jilin, especially the Sanjiang Plain north of Changchun and later generations that now belongs to the north of Jilin, can be said to be an endless wilderness, and there is no way to describe all this when people are scarce, and the more appropriate word is "sparsely populated", some places are hundreds of miles away, and even the army is more than the residents, how to protect such a place?

Later generations did not give Tang Haoran much enlightenment, it was nothing more than immigrating to the real side, but China in another time and space has time to slowly "immigrate to the real side", but this time and space ......

Pacing, Tang Haoran's mind repeatedly pondered the information related to Russia, of course, Russia, which has now annexed Japan, is vigilant for Britain and the United States and other countries, but vigilance is vigilance, if Russia insists on going its own way and chooses to expand to the northeast, at that time, who can stop the Russians?

There is no one else except himself, even if it is the support of Britain and the United States, it will be after the Northeast shows its strength, but war, is it what you want?

With a cigar between his fingers, Tang Haoran thought of the plan of "bringing disaster to the east", which seemed to have succeeded, Japan was destroyed, and it was impossible to launch the First Sino-Japanese War, and even now that the First Sino-Japanese War will be spent peacefully, the Beiyang Fleet is still proudly showing its existence in East Asia, but Japan has become history.

But history is showing people a different situation here, a more powerful Russia appeared, and this Russian expansion ** did not shrink because of the annexation of Japan, but further expanded, and the annexation of Japan further stimulated their greed, so they are now trying to get their hands on the Northeast.

"It's the railway!"

Again, Tang Haoran seemed to remind himself of something, emphasizing these two words again. The Russians wanted to build the railway together in order to shorten the distance to Vladivostok.

"Did they have ambitions because they built the railroad themselves?"

The answer is obviously no, as early as ten years ago, when the Russians intended to build a railway to the Far East, they had already set their sights on this most worrying route, and in another time and space, out of the consideration of "uniting Russia to suppress Japan", Li Hongzhang agreed to build a joint venture with Russia to build the "Eastern Railway", and in this time and space...... The Russians made this request to themselves.

Compared with Li Hongzhang's false "aid" promises, this time, the Russian side put forward conditions that were more based on commercial guarantees, such as increasing the share of explosives, cement, and steel rails sent to the northeast.

"If the Russians can commercialize the problem, can they also commercialize it?"

The room was quiet, Tang Haoran's brows frowned, he took a puff of cigar, and then exhaled the cigarette, letting the smoke fill in front of him, at this time he had only one thought in his heart.

Commercialization, commercialization......

The Russians want to jointly build a railway, do they want to get involved in the Northeast? Of course, the Russians certainly have ambitions and ideas in this regard. After all, the strategic significance of this railway to Russia is even greater than that of China, and it is precisely because he understands this that Tang Haoran will build this railway, so as to avoid Russia from getting involved in the right of way.

But even so, it did not stop the Russians from "co-organizing", and even they were ready to invest 50 million gold rubles at any time to buy 49% of the shares of the railway, which shows their "determination", and now that they have annexed Japan, Russia is naturally unable to accept their own refusal, if they refuse directly, it will cause a diplomatic crisis at best...... No one can guarantee the outcome.

If it's just a diplomatic crisis, it's easy to deal with, but if it triggers a war-Shen groaned, Tang Haoran's brows furrowed, and he muttered on his lips,

"Is it possible to jointly build a railway, and they must not be allowed to interfere in the construction of the railway, it is easy to ask God to send God......

Thinking about another time and space, how could Tang Haoran accept the so-called "joint operation" of the control of this railway between Tsarist Russia and Soviet Russia in the name of "co-operation" or even "cooperation".

"Commercialization, it seems that there is only this way, take a step back first, and give you a track to use!"

Thinking about it in his heart, Tang Haoran naturally thought of the "three-track railway" of later generations, adding a steel rail close to the Russian-style broad gauge to open the quasi-gauge train, so that both the quasi-gauge train and the Russian rail train can travel on this railway.

"Mutual benefit, I'll add a rail to you here, and you have to add a rail to me over there! Then everyone collects transit fees from each other and waits for the future......"

As for their own side, it was the original plan to build a settlement along the railway anyway, and it was nothing more than to assign another task to the strong men on both sides of the railway -- the task of breaking the track, and even the tools could be sent to each migrant in advance, and once the order was issued, hundreds of thousands of strong men would quickly complete the dismantling of the third rail under the command of the police, and at the same time directly load them onto the train and transport them away.

Thinking of this, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips lifted.

"It's nothing more than a one-night change!" (To be continued.) )