Chapter 648 Railway

The West Siberian sunshine in the afternoon finally made Grove, who dragged a piece of brown carrion to the camp, feel a little warm.

In his hand is a war horse's thigh that was frozen to death and buried by heavy snow. Recently, it reappeared after the snow melted, but it was probably patronized by the wolf, so only half of the horse's legs could be seen.

Because the freezing time was too long, the meat was basically rotten. If no one had eaten it before, but now when he dragged the found horse's leg back to the camp, it caused countless voices of swallowing.

Almost without his instructions, the small camp of hundreds of people immediately became chaotic. The cauldron was set up with a bracket, and the wet firewood was lit and emitted choking black smoke. In the past, no one dared to do so, because it would attract Chinese planes, but now everyone can't take care of it. In fact, many people have been captured. It is even rumored that the Chinese will immediately put down their weapons when they come, because it is better to be a prisoner than to eat these stinky meat.

After a while, the snow began to churge. After a few simple cleaning up, the soldiers threw their legs into the cauldron, and then sat around, smelling a stinky smell and dripping saliva.

Grove sat next to him and looked at everyone. It turned out that he thought he was different from these serf soldiers who were called gray animals by the nobles, because he came from a small noble family in Moscow, but after experiencing this severe winter, he watched his troops drop from 1,000 to less than 300 now. He was completely numb. Yes.

After the fortress of Tomsk was cut off, many people thought that His Majesty Nicholas II, who was affectionately called the "little father" by the Russians, would immediately send a large army to rescue them, but after a winter, everyone clearly realized that they had actually been abandoned.

Russia is not afraid of shells, not afraid of planes, but afraid of being abandoned!

So he has heard a lot of news during this period. The radical soldiers said that as long as they returned to the country, they would immediately overthrow Nicholas II and end the damn war. Some people said that there had been riots in the country and so on.

He didn't know whether it was true or not. He only knew that he just wanted to end all this now, even if he was hit by a shell.

A soldier from Kiev found a little spice from there. The smell in the cauldron suddenly smelled a lot better. When the water boiled again, the soldiers couldn't wait to rush over.

Grove divided a bowl, but when he thought of the disgusting scene when he dug out this thing from the snow, he always felt difficult to swallow, but his stomach betrayed him. When he picked up the bowl and was about to close his eyes to drink it, a buzz suddenly came from the sky.

Several Xinhua planes appeared in the distance. The soldiers were scared and hid in the bunker one after another. In the chaos, even the big pot was accidentally knocked over, and the soup spilled all over the ground.

Grove put down the bowl and stood up straight in the surprised eyes of the soldiers, as if he was deliberately setting a target for the other party, hoping to drop a bomb to take him back to heaven.

But what made Grove vomit blood was that the planes that passed overhead did not seem to see him at all, and continued to fly west along the railway line not far away.

Sitting in the army version of the hummingbird long-range reconnaissance plane, Zhan Tianyou actually saw the Russian second lieutenant isolated on the snowdrift, but the telescope swept from him for less than a few seconds and was moved to the heavily damaged Siberian railway line.

"Jian Gong, look."

The assistant's fingers pointed to a railway line about one kilometer long, and even the roadbed was destroyed, which made Zhan Tianyou immediately frown. As the plane continued to fly along the railway line, his eyebrows frowned deeper and deeper.

This time, he was appointed by the emperor to inspect the Siberian railway line. Although the emperor did not say it clearly, he knew very well that the war was logistics. Australia and the Arabian Peninsula can be transported by sea, but if the northwest wants to win, it must rely on the railway. The troops enter, and the transfer of materials cannot be separated from the railway line, so this one runs through The whole major artery of Siberia became the emperor's heart disease.

As the assistant keeps pressing the shutter to record the part and extent of the damage of the railway line, Zhan Tianyou has begun to shake his head and sigh. Now he has only flown less than 200 kilometers, and he can hardly see the complete section of more than 30 kilometers. God knows what the scene will be like to continue to fly, although it can't be the end. Sure, but years of experience tells him that it is even more difficult to repair the railway quickly.

The reconnaissance aircraft continued to fly westward under the protection of the four wild horses. Although there were many problems along the way, Zhan Tianyou still observed every detail very carefully, and sometimes let the pilot circle twice to see clearly. Just as he had just finished looking at the railway bridge on a river, he suddenly felt that the plane suddenly rushed up.

"What's the matter?" Zhan Tianyou and his assistant were shocked. As soon as they asked, their ears were suddenly filled with fierce explosions and roars.

"Zhan Gong, look!"

The young assistant held up the telescope and quickly found the direction of the explosion. He only saw explosions and fire lights rising in front of a huge fortress in the distance. The dense Russian soldiers were hitting the fortress in waves, but no matter how hard they tried, the machine guns and cannons on the fortress would shoot them back. .

The assistant who saw the real war scene for the first time blushed with excitement. He raised the camera and was about to shoot, but was stopped by Zhan Tianyou: "Don't waste film, we still have something big deal."

"Oh." The assistant put down the camera and felt a little regretful. He believed that if he could take this photo and take it back, it would definitely cause a sensation.

But soon he forgot this and shouted excitedly again, because he saw that nearly a hundred tanks and armored vehicles suddenly rushed out of the fire-breathing fortress. These iron guys rushed over the Russian army like monsters. Whether it was cannons or machine guns, all the enemies in front of them were like ice in the sun. It melted and disintegrated like snow, and the Russian soldiers who had just been afraid of death suddenly scared the wolf like an ebb tide and scattered and defeated.

Contrary to the excitement of the assistant, although Zhan Tianyou cheered the soldiers from the bottom of his heart, the previous scene told him that if he could not find a way to quickly repair the railway to transfer supplies, then Tomsk was the farthest point that the army could reach at present.

"Jian Gong, the fortress of Tomsk can land. Do you want to take a break first?" The pilot turned his head and asked.

"Can you still fly?"

"Yes, but the fighter needs to land and refuel, we'd better add more."

"All right." Zhan Tianyou looked at the sky. Although he was very anxious to know the key railway line from Tomsk Fortress to Omsk, after all, the plane had to refuel and the pilot had to rest, so he nodded and said, "Then let's take a rest here tonight and continue west tomorrow."

======="According to Zhan Tianyou, the damage from Minusinsk to Tomsk is the most serious. Of the roadbed has been dug, 20% of the roadbed has been dug up. Although the rest can still be repaired, the rails are seriously missing. In addition, our rails are different from the Russian standard, so we must It must be completely laid. According to his preliminary estimate, it will take at least 6 months to repair this section alone. If there is abundant manpower, it may be shortened, but 3 months is difficult!" When Chen Ping pointed to the map to introduce Li Mo and Tang Shaoyi, he didn't look good.

"There is no problem with manpower. You can use Russian prisoners. If it really doesn't work, I will send two more construction regiments. The problem now is how fast he can improve the speed!" Tang Shaoyi asked.

"He hasn't said this yet, but what about the resources? The resurfacing of the 500-kilometer railway requires not a small amount of materials. Zhao Long asked.

"We can temporarily stop several domestic railway lines and transport all the sleepers and rails we currently have. In addition, the production capacity of steel mills in Xinjiang Province has also increased. If it still doesn't work, we can directly dismantle unimportant railways!" Huang Zichen gritted his teeth and said.

Hearing that everyone was discussing the repair plan, Li Mo frowned and continued to ask, "What about behind Tomsk?"

"The latter part is okay. There are only three breakpoints, the largest of which is Omsk. According to Zhan Tianyou, these three breakpoints are not a big problem. As long as there are suitable tools and materials, plus skilled workers, they can be repaired in half a month at most.

However, if we attack Omsk, the Russian army in Ufa will definitely receive the news that the railway line from Omsk to Ufa will be destroyed. Chen Ping continued: "And the Russian Railway is different from ours. If we want to use it, we must first build a transfer station in Tomsk. Now we have a total of 21 trains in line with the Russian railway tracks, which is enough, but there is no way to get through the section from Minusinsk to Tomsk."

"What's good about that?" Rong Kui slapped and sighed, "If this railway can't be repaired in three months, the materials can't be transported up. It's a bubble to hit Ufa. In this way, even if Nicholas II can be ousted, I'm afraid I can't get the whole of Western Siberia!"

Rong Kui's words aroused everyone's approval. The core of the Qiming plan is to oust Nicholas II from power and force Russia to withdraw from the war. Therefore, after completion, all military operations against Russia must be stopped in any case. If it is completed and continue to fight, no matter who comes to power, there is no way to explain it to the country. Under such circumstances, we will continue to join the treaty.

That is to say, how much Xinhua can occupy in three months, not even an inch can be occupied in three months, and it may even be necessary to give up some conditions in exchange for Russia's withdrawal. After all, the new Russian political axe will not be willing to occupy more than 60% of the territory.

Li Mo also knew that this was a difficult problem. After thinking about it, he immediately asked, "How many trucks can we transfer now?"

"There is no accurate figure, but at present, I have three transportation regiments, plus temporary transfer from the army, or transfer all the spot goods of each factory, it should be no problem to organize 5,000 vehicles." Chen Ping immediately understood Li Mo's meaning and calculated: "According to a truck with 2 tons of cargo, it takes 4 days to return a total of 1,200 kilometers, and then deduct 30% of the loss. As long as two supply stations are built along the railway line from Minusinsk to Tomsk Fortress, at least 100,000 tons of goods can be transported in a month and a half. "Ze!"

"Now there are five Russian trains captured in the fortress of Tomsk. After inspection, Zhan Tianyou said that they can basically use them. As long as the manpower and tools for repair can be transported first, then the method of advancing the border repair can be adopted to open up Omsk within half a month.

From now on, the Russian army did not expect that we would suddenly take Tomsk. In addition, the road was closed by heavy snow in the later period. There were only more than 30,000 troops here in Omsk, so I suggested that cavalry should be sent to raid Omsk in an effort to seize it before they sent a message and quickly repair the railway. Zhao Long's finger pressed hard on Wufa.

"You mean, surprise attack on Ufa!" Li Mo's eyebrows suddenly frowned.

(to be continued)