Early the next morning, several colonel-ranking officers enjoyed a breakfast of milk and meat buns. The sweet and smooth milk whetted the appetite of several people, but what they didn't know was that the milk was brewed with milk powder, and it was Mengniu brand. The soldier's breakfast was not so rich, only steamed buns, pickles and white porridge, but no one gave any opinions.

After breakfast, Colonel Ramsay was approached by Lotsey and arranged with him for the prisoners to join the labor. The colonel was very resistant to this matter, "Lieutenant, we are prisoners of war, not slaves, and we are not obliged to do manual labor for you. The use of captives as slaves was a barbaric practice that only existed in Roman times. In fact, this kind of behavior has always existed, including now, when the colonel said it in order to show that the West is a high civilization.

"Colonel, we didn't mean to treat you like slaves." Lotsie corrected the colonel's statement, "We just ask you to do what you can during your stay in the prisoner camp. You know, we're in a difficult environment right now, and we don't have extra food to feed so many people who eat idle meals, so ......"

Colonel Ramsay heard the Chinese repeating the same old tune, and vaguely threatened to stop the supply of food, so he had to say: "I need to discuss it with my colleagues." ”

"Okay, I hope you don't keep me waiting too long." There was a hint of a smile on the corner of Luoxihe's mouth, and he knew that the British would definitely give in. "By the way, because the prisoner camp has expanded, I have been promoted to captain."

Ramsay returned to his colleagues, and after listening to his account, everyone fell silent. Originally, most people did not have hope for the colonel's negotiations, and thought about the British themselves to deal with the prisoners, compared to the Liberation Army, which was already very humane.

"Lieutenant Winters, what is your opinion?" Ram asked the lieutenant standing on the outermost side, drawing everyone's attention to the "senior" prisoner.

Shangguan asked, and the lieutenant, who didn't want to be a bird, could only answer stubbornly. "I think it's better to do what the Liberation Army wants. The more than 30 people who came first, except for the wounded, all started to work for the Liberation Army the next day, and they also joined after the wounded recovered. In fact, the labor intensity of these jobs is not large, and the Guangfu Army has a lot of advanced construction machinery, which can complete most of the work. So I suggest that we still do what the Liberation Army asks. ”

This is exactly what Ramsey needs, in fact, he has no intention of having a hard top with the Liberation Army, and now that there are steps, he immediately borrows the slope to get off the donkey. "But I'm never going to work like a coolie." The colonel made his final request.

Luoxihe didn't plan to let a few old guys go to work, so he let a few colonel-level officers stay in the prisoner camp to bask in the sun, and the lieutenant-level officers were responsible for being foremen and leading the soldiers to work.

The British prisoners were not assigned to the base, but were assigned to build bridges and roads, that is, to build roads and bridges from the county town to Luohu through the base.

This section of the highway management committee from the county seat to Luohu is named "Baohu Highway", which means that Bao'an to Luohu, with a total length of 18 kilometers, because there is no slope and curve, and the usual traffic flow is not large, so the Ministry of Construction chose the concrete pouring pavement. The width of the road is six meters, and there are two lanes in both directions. The British prisoners were divided into squads of twenty men and began their work under the leadership of the construction crews. These so-called assistant constructors are actually some indigenous laborers, because they have construction experience, they are more clever, and they learn things quickly, and they already have the level of migrant workers in the original time and space, so they were selected to serve as construction workers. With short haircuts, a hard hat, and a blue overalls, there are not many indigenous marks to be seen. Each team also has an English-speaking survivor who leads a team of three security guards who escort the captives and supervise their labor, as well as guest interpreters to translate the construction crew's words to the captives.

Road rollers, bulldozers, heavy dump trucks, and bulk cement trucks drove by on the road, and the British prisoners were stunned, after all, few of them had even seen steam vehicles. On the contrary, the local natives have become accustomed to it, and they scoff at the fuss of foreigners.

The roadbed of the highway chose the former official road, which is not known how many years old, can only run two ox carts in parallel, and after being trampled by countless people, it has become potholes, similar to the machine farming road in the remote countryside of the original time and space. Walking on this kind of road, you will be covered in gray on sunny days and mud on rainy days. Dump trucks bring in a lot of gravel piles on the road, which are then bulldozed by bulldozers, then rolled back and forth by road rollers to make them smooth and strong, and finally concrete pavement is poured on this hardened roadbed.

The assistant construction worker instructed the captive laborers to frame the road surface on the roadbed with a 20-centimeter-wide channel steel, and then the bulk cement truck dumped the concrete into this frame, and the captive took a shovel to shovel the leaking concrete back into the frame. After the concrete fills the box, the assistant construction worker takes a vibrating rod, inserts it into the concrete at an angle, turns on the switch, and the vibrating rod begins to twitch up and down. The survivor in charge of guarding looked at the buzzing stick, with a lewd smile on his face, and raised his eyebrows at Luo Yuan, the chief engineer who was checking the situation next to him, "I'm afraid this thing is for horses, right?" "When pouring concrete components, it is necessary to remove the bubbles in it, carry out tamping, make the concrete dense and combined, eliminate the honeycomb surface of the concrete, etc., so as to improve its strength and ensure the quality of the concrete components. After waiting for the vibrator to work for 20 minutes and making sure that the bubbles in the concrete have been lined up, the construction worker takes the surface vibrator and places it directly on the concrete surface. Two captives hold the handle of the vibrator and drag it according to the needs of the work under the command of the construction crew. The vibrator generates a ground vibration wave that is transmitted to the concrete through the vibrating base plate fixed with it, making the concrete more compact. Finally, the captives put a stick roller on top of the channel and pulled it back and forth, so that the surface of the mud was as smooth as the upper edge of the channel.

Pieces of solidified concrete pavement are laid on the ground like neat pieces of tofu, and one by one they extend into the distance. Because it is a half-side construction method, there are still pedestrians on the road, but these natives are all amazed by the hard and solid pavement, and they also praise the good deeds of the Liberation Army to build the road.

Looking at this highway that has begun to take shape, Luo Yuan has a sense of accomplishment, he has never done such a big project in the original time and space, but now he has independently completed all the work from design to construction of a highway, and there are more stages waiting for him to show his skills in this new time and space. Just when he was complacent, a Beijing Jeep 212 slowly drove up and stopped beside him. Huang Fanding and several other management committee members got out of the car, and Luo Yuan hurriedly greeted him. "Leaders, why do you have time to come to me to inspect today?"

Chairman Huang didn't mind that the chief engineer was covered in dust and shook his hand. "Let's just come to see, there are so many prisoners here at once, I'm afraid that the comrades in the engineering department will not be able to command."

"Don't worry about this," Luo Yuan wiped the sweat on his face with the towel hanging around his neck, the weather in South China in June was already very hot, and there was already a high temperature at ten o'clock in the morning. "These Englishmen are still very obedient, and they will do whatever they are told to do."

"How long is the project cycle?" Huang Fanding asked after handing Luo Yuan a cigarette.

"If it doesn't rain, it will be done in half a month at most."

Huang Fanding also lit a cigarette for himself, took a puff and said: "The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and the 'dragon boat water' is about to be issued, so it's best to speed up the progress of the project, otherwise I don't know when it will be sunny when it rains." ”

"I've already dug the drainage ditch, but I don't have to worry about waterlogging." Luo Yuan threw away the half-smoked cigarette and yelled at an assistant construction worker in the distance: "Thicken it there, add more gravel into it!" ”

Looking at the busy chief engineer, Huang Fanding shouted at him, "You're busy, let's go first." Then he and several management committee members got into the car and continued to inspect. The jeep staggered all the way, and arrived at Luohu in more than 20 minutes.

After more than half a month of intense construction, the two piers of the Luohu Bridge have been formed. The width of the Shenzhen River is only 50 meters, the water depth is less than 5 meters, and there is a pontoon bridge erected by iron-hulled barges on both sides of the bridge foundation, and personnel and engineering vehicles flow back and forth endlessly. This iron highway bridge is based on the Luohu Railway Bridge and is built with reference to the Haizhu Bridge. In the original time and space, in the first month of the 33rd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1907 AD), a total of 20 articles of the "Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Loan Contract" were signed in Beijing, and the design was completed in the first half of that year, and the construction started in three sections at the same time in July. At the beginning of the construction, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was 178.55 kilometers from Dashatou to Kowloon, and China and Britain agreed to divide it into two sections, namely the Chinese and British sections, with the second section of the Luohu Bridge as the boundary, of which the middle section was 142.77 kilometers long and the British section was 35.78 kilometers long, and the construction was carried out in sections. The section from Lo Wu Bridge to Kowloon was built by the British. The three-hole Luohu Bridge has 6.17 meters of steel channel girders at both ends and 32 meters of steel girders at the middle of the bridge. On October 8, 1911, the railway from Guangzhou to Shenzhen was opened to traffic. At the end of that year, the two sections of the Chinese and British railways were connected at the Luohu Bridge. In 1912, China and Britain signed a joint rail business contract. In 1959, the People's Government rebuilt the Luohu Bridge into a reinforced concrete bridge, and the bridge deck was more than doubled. In 1962, a tin roof was added, iron railings were added on both sides of the bridge, and sidewalks were paved.

In the new space-time, the topography of Luohu is the same as the original space-time, so all kinds of data for the construction of the bridge can be copied from the data. The bridge body is still a reinforced concrete structure, with a total length of 86.67 meters, a total length of 62.90 meters for the main bridge, and a symmetrical arrangement of two spans in the north and south, which is a three-hole under-supported simply supported steel truss bridge, with a width of 10 meters and a design load of 25 tons. Of course, these still exist on paper.

Most of the British prisoners used wheelbarrows to transport all kinds of construction waste, and then brought in various building materials. Because of the large number of prisoners here, the management committee specially dispatched two squads of soldiers to guard these prisoners, and the scope of vigilance was also very large. The hired native labourers were also instructed to keep an eye on the British prisoners and to report to the guards if they found any attempt to escape.

Zhang Anguo, the elder brother of Captain Zhang Anbang, the captain of the "Xiangmihu" who is responsible for the construction supervision of the Luohu Bridge, is twins, and the elder brother graduated with a bachelor's degree in exploration technology and is engaged in the construction industry; The younger brother graduated from the Maritime College and engaged in inland waterway shipping. They are all jobs that are often exposed to wind and rain, so the skin of the two brothers is relatively dark. At this time, he was running back and forth on the construction site, checking the situation everywhere. The bridge was currently one of the most important projects of the Liberation Army, so a large number of elite soldiers were gathered, and most of the construction engineers among the survivors came here in order to complete the project before the northern coalition forces moved south. All kinds of large-scale I-beams and channel steels were piled up on both sides of the Shenzhen River, which made some British prisoners secretly admire the industrial capacity of the Liberation Army.

The car stopped on the north shore and the occupants crossed the bridge on foot. Huang Fanding stood on a small hillside on the south bank, looking at Kowloon hidden behind the reckless green hills, and sighed: "With this bridge, we can firmly control the Kowloon area." He raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "Okay, it's time, let's go back to the meeting!" ”

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This chapter is poorly written, and you can ignore it.