A few days later, at the end of the vacation, Yu Hongyun and more than 160 officers and men who had finished their vacation arrived at the port of Odessa on a fast small steamer, and saw three blackened ocean-going submarines parked in the harbor from a distance.

According to officers with knowledge of their peers;

This is a new ocean-going submarine developed by the Royal Navy, with a displacement of more than 3,800 tons and a endurance of more than 7,000 kilometers.

The submarine has a strong transport capacity, capable of transporting 960 tons of supplies through the Spruance Strait quietly.

I don't know what kind of secret transportation mission he carried out when he arrived in Crimea.

If Zheng Xiaowu is here, he will definitely find a way to inquire, that is a guy with a lot of curiosity, drink a lot of wine, is there anything he doesn't know about the anecdotal history of the commander of the division and regiment, commonly known as "Shi'er Mom".

Can such a person be liked by the chief?

The goods will come to an end when the deputy battalion commander is done, and it is a waste of time to continue to stay in the army.

If it weren't for the fact that his broken mouth was looser than the belt of his trousers, he would have been the battalion commander of the main combat battalion by now, and maybe the lieutenant colonel and deputy commander would have hoped.

As a result, it was all bad on this mouth, it was good to drink two cups, and when it was too big, I couldn't control my mouth......

Yu Hongyun didn't have much to do, listening to the discussion of the officers in his ears, and looked at the three long-sized ocean-going submarines moored in the harbor, which belonged to the wave-piercing type sharpened bow, which could easily separate the waves and get high speed.

There is a 76 mm howitzer in the front of the hull, which is an important weapon for the submarine to strike the freighter, and when the enemy is found alone, the submarine will surface and use the gun to sink or capture.

Because torpedoes are very troublesome, submarines will only carry out torpedo strikes when encountering enemy ships, large freighters, or enemy convoys.

After the small steamer docked

Yu Hongyun followed the flow of people ashore and was allowed to leave after checking his military ID cards, and the officers stationed around Odessa left either on foot or by car.

He had to take a train to Kiev, and after a two-and-a-half-hour drive, he got off at a small town called Kriviozero, where the 4th Division in Kalimantan was stationed.

The railway was very busy, carrying on the daily transportation of millions of troops of the Second Army and its subordinate Belarusian troops, from materials to ammunition, from food rations to retired officers and soldiers.

I waited for more than an hour

Yu Hongyun took the morning train at the Odessa railway station and headed all the way to the north, and the final destination was a small station in front of him.

Sitting on the train and looking out the window, in the large wheat fields that have been harvested, local Ukrainian farmers are driving their cattle to plough the fields, which is a very hard work, you can see many women and children working, and rarely see young and strong men.

On the Eastern Front

Tsarist Russia sacrificed too many young and middle-aged laborers, and Ukraine was the hardest hit area by conscription, and many peasants in their 50s were forcibly conscripted, because of the deep disadvantages of bullying and concealment in the Belarusian army.

After many troops suffered heavy losses, they forced the local people to fill their ranks for fear of accountability.

Yu Hongyun has been here for more than a year, and he has seen the wolf-like White Russian army arresting Ding, and the villages he passed through were either old with gray hair or young men who were not as tall as rifles.

In the coastal towns, the factories were relatively good, and a large number of male workers and citizens could often be seen coming, but in the countryside the situation was much worse, basically the same as what he saw.

It is better to be a peaceful dog than a troubled world.

Those ragged old Ukrainian people, with a weather-beaten and miserable look on their faces, are all hungry to the bone, and most of the fat and strong are landlords, gentry or thugs.

Wherever in the world, wars have brought great suffering to civilians, without exception.

As a foreign army, the 2nd Army could not do anything about it, and in order to maintain a stable and stable situation in the occupied areas, it could only turn a blind eye.

However, in the Greater Crimea region (i.e., the border line leading from central Moldova, including Odessa, the Crimean peninsula and other coastal areas, totaling about 130,000 square kilometers), the Ukrainian landlord class in this region was massively evicted and replaced by the area around Kiev.

The vacated land should be set up as a camp for the White Russian army and collective farms of Chinese descent, and the land should be divided among the officers and men who had made meritorious contributions in the war.

Now, large-scale infrastructure construction is underway.

When it comes to infrastructure, Western Ukraine, despite its European location, has an outrageously low level of infrastructure, with the only railway running from Odessa to Kyiv and all the way to Minsk in Belarus.

Of course, it's broken now.

It belonged to the German-occupied zone and was facing off from the 2nd Army, the forward position of the White Russian vassal army, only a dozen kilometers away from the German army.

Belarus was divided into two, the one near the west was occupied by the Germans, the one near the east belonged to the new Russian workers' government, and after entering the Ukrainian region to the south, it was occupied by the 2nd Army.

The new Tsarist government was now powerless to challenge the occupation of the 2nd Army, which adhered to the will of the Entente and did not recognize the legitimacy of the new Tsarist government.

Today, in Kyiv, foreign intervention forces, including 11 European countries, have arrived one after another, and the total number has increased to more than 67,000, and they are constantly crossing the border to fight in support of the white bandit rebellion in eastern Ukraine.

In short, the current situation in Ukraine is a mess, only in the core occupied zone of the 2nd Army, that is, in the Greater Crimea region, the situation is stable, and there is a thriving construction scene.

More than 500,000 captives worked together to carry out construction, and the scene was really crowded and spectacular.

This is a sight that cannot be seen in other regions.

A long barbed wire fence has been pulled out along the dividing line drawn by the Holy Lord, and there is a 3-kilometer-wide separation zone with other Ukrainian regions, which is strictly forbidden for anyone to cross illegally.

Behind the barbed wire

Build a reinforced concrete permanent bunker every 150 meters, which can station 10~12 soldiers, equipped with 2~3 heavy machine guns, and build tunnel fortifications.

In times of emergency in combat readiness, troops can be quickly stationed.

Large fortifications were built every 500 meters, which could accommodate a company of soldiers and were equipped with small and medium-caliber artillery, enough to cover the surrounding area.

Every 4~5 kilometers, a strong military camp is built, and various open and dark bunkers are built around it, and large trench positions can be stationed in a battalion of soldiers in peacetime, equipped with armored trucks and other patrol vehicles. In wartime, it is a solid support point for the entire front.

In the rear positions of the exclusion zone, concealed artillery positions were built to strengthen fire support on the forward front.

Yu Hongyun knows;

When the war is over, the 2nd Army will shrink back to Greater Crimea, where the empire is truly located.

So, he looked around, and the advancing train left behind him one village after another in the vast western Ukrainian wilderness, with its ragged villagers, winding country lanes, high-roofed buildings with Russian characteristics, and clear rivers......

The idyllic scenery was left behind, this was a foreign land, and it had nothing to do with the officers and men of the 2nd Army, regardless of who ruled it in the future.

They are just passers-by of this land, and they only care about the construction of the Greater Crimea region, and as for the suffering of these Ukrainian people, the local tyrants and gentry oppress the people, then it is not something they should care about.

The train staggered for two and a half hours, and the long whistle finally entered the station, and the town of Cleviozeroo arrived.

The officers and men of the expeditionary force did not like these complicated and awkward place names in Russia, so they referred to it as the 4th Division, which means the 4th Division of Kalimantan.

Yu Hongyun got off the train, looked around with the bag in his hand, and heard someone shouting from a distance; "Camp, here."

There were quite a few officers and men who got off the train, all of them were officers and soldiers on leave in rotation of the Fourth Division, and there were many military vehicles parked outside the small railway platform, and one of the second lieutenant officers was waving and shouting at Yu Hongyun.

Yu Hongyun smiled when he saw him, this is Hu Dazhuan, the guard platoon commander of the battalion headquarters, because the tank battalion is still 5 kilometers away from the town, so he specially drove to the railway station to pick him up.

"Big bolt, you've worked hard, how long have you waited?"

"It won't be long, and we'll only be there for half an hour."

"How's it going in the camp, is everything normal?" Yu Hongyun said as he threw the bag in his hand into the jeep and sat in the co-pilot's seat.

Second Lieutenant Hu climbed to the back seat and sat down, and replied; "Report to the barracks, everything is normal in the armored tank battalion, a few days ago a batch of spare parts arrived, our battalion is organizing officers and soldiers to repair and maintain vehicles, and now it has come to an end. It is planned to organize military tactics workshops and model work in the near future, and we are waiting for you to return to the helm. ”

"Oh, let's go, go back to the camp."

"Yes, sir." The jeep driver of the guard platoon raised his hand in salute, replied, put the joystick in gear, added the accelerator and flew away.

The town of Cleviozero, a very traditional country town, with streets only about 300 meters long, is now lined with military vehicles parked along the road, and the flow of soldiers is very lively.

As soon as the jeep left its normal state, it began to accelerate and bumped along the country dirt road.

The entire Ukrainian region is very backward in terms of infrastructure, and there is not even a single asphalt road.

The so-called roads are dirt roads, at most in large cities like Kyiv, some stone roads or gravel roads are paved, and out of the city are dirt roads, but some are a little wider and some narrower.

Sit in a jeep

When the face is really upside down, the flesh jumps wildly, and the speech is "shaking" and can't be heard clearly, sitting in the car must firmly grasp the iron handrail in front of you, otherwise a big pit can throw people out.

Ten minutes later

An orthodox Russian village appeared in front of you, where the armored tank battalion was stationed, a village known as Zhevorovsky, which was quiet and beautiful against the backdrop of wildflowers and greenery, if you didn't consider the neatly parked rows of steel chariots.

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