Chapter 744: 744 North-South Transportation

Chapter 744: 744 North-South Transportation

Chapter 744744 North-South Transportation

 The Kingdom of Tang Dynasty is an interesting country. This country has strong production capacity and abundant supply of raw materials. It can produce a large amount of materials and equipment every day.

Then the country seems to be lacking everything. There is no oil here, there is a lack of steel there, and sometimes there is even a certain degree of food crisis.

 Compared to other countries, Tang Mo, as the king of the Tang Kingdom, was really tortured and happy by this phenomenon.

The various news he hears when he wakes up every morning is always mixed, with some good news worth celebrating and some troublesome bad news.

For example, when he heard that Qian Jinhang had boarded the train and would arrive in Chang'an soon, he was even happy to prepare a little extra for his breakfast.

But when he heard that the disaster relief supplies in the southern region were running out, he felt like it was a sin to eat more at this time.

 In fact, a large area of ​​the Tang State's land was in a state of good harvest, especially in the north, which was not prone to disasters. Qi is also a large grain-producing country, especially the area near Beiyuan City. Like the Northeast Plain of a certain country, it is a good place to grow grain.

 The land here is very fertile, and at the same time, the terrain is very flat: many corpses were buried in the war in the past two years... Well, it is definitely the first choice for farming.

Unfortunately, it is not easy to transport food from the north to the south, because the railways in the southern region were damaged by floods and traffic was cut off. It will take a while to repair.

  The army occupancy rate of the repaired railway is quite high. After all, in the southern region, there are almost 1 million troops and prisoners stationed around Xicong, and these people all need to eat.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty had to distribute the food hoarded in the southern region to places further south: the area Strauss conquered was too large, and the population was too large.

This is no joke. The entire northern plain of Chu State, or the current southern plain of Tang State, was crowded with tens of millions of refugees. They had no food, had just suffered a disaster, and had been fighting with various troops for a long time.

Compared to the disaster-stricken areas of the Tang Dynasty, the southern plains can really be described as devastated: the people there were not fully clothed, their faces were yellow and their muscles were thin, and the people looked like ghosts, and the whole area was like a ghost land.

 There is no other solution. If we do not provide disaster relief quickly and restore the people's livelihood there, then the Tang State's occupation of this place will be tantamount to finding a trouble for itself that will never be solved.

 Only by allowing the people here to have food to eat and work to do, can this place truly settle down and become an integral part of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, regardless of the fact that the southern region itself was also short of food, the Tang State had to transfer the disaster relief grain reserves to the southern plains it had just occupied, and first barely fed the rebellious people of the former Chu State there who could no longer survive.

The effect was remarkable. After receiving the relief, the unrest in the southern plains subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The common people handed over their guns and gradually began to resume production under the organization of Tang officials. Their land was actually very fertile, but it was a pity that these lands previously belonged to the nobles of Chu.

Now, the Tang troops helped them kill all these landowners, drive away the superior Chu nobles, and turn these fertile lands into ownerless land.

Immediately afterwards, the Tang State issued a decree that these lands would be used for farming by farmers for free. The people's sentiments were stabilized at once, and the rest of the things became logical.

Although the Chu State also tried to organize several counterattacks, as long as their troops left the mountains and entered the plains, they would be wiped out by the Tang army.

 In terms of combat effectiveness on the plains, the Tang army can really be said to be the ceiling of the world. The Chu army itself is still second-rate, so it can be said that it has almost no chance of winning.

It's just that in the muddy southern region, there are almost no roads. The movement and movement of the Tang army was very difficult, so road construction seemed to be suddenly put on the agenda.

It is a pity that Tang State has no time to worry about transporting materials and temporarily built railways and roads on the southern front. As for Chu State's fragile transportation lines, it is very difficult to support the existing transportation of materials.

 Oil, ammunition, food, medicine...these things are all waiting to be used. How can we have the transportation capacity to consider some **** cement asphalt roller?

To be honest, had it not been for the seizure of a batch of additional grain supplies prepared by the Great China Empire at Nanfengkou, the Tang State might have been in a more passive situation now.

The food supplies at Nanfengkou have indeed solved the Tang Dynasty's urgent needs, but the food is also disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

 First of all, there are as many as 100,000 Dahua troops who surrendered in the southern oil field area. They also need to eat and drink. At the same time, the southern oil field area has also been suffering from precipitation for a long time, and they cannot be self-sufficient in food.

Therefore, part of the food hoarded in the nearest Nanfengkou will naturally be allocated to the southern oil field area: they surrendered so completely and preserved the oil field facilities intact. With this awareness and this achievement, we can't let people go hungry again. Belly?

In addition, the newly conquered Wangchun City and Tengyun City also need food. The Great China Empire previously exploited these cities in order to raise military rations. Now that these cities are under the control of the Tang Kingdom, they have to invite people to buy them, right?

The Tang Kingdom’s own homeland, that is, the disaster-stricken southern region, cannot be left alone. There is food in the newly occupied areas. If its basic base is not full, it will be treated unfairly and people’s hearts will definitely be scattered. So Tang Mo had to find a way to use all available forces to transport the remaining northern grain to the southern region.

 This is a large project that tests transportation conditions, capacity, and the strategic determination of the entire country.

Because of this, many places in the Tang Kingdom were paying the price for transporting food: Tongcheng began to experience shortages of many metals needed for industrial production because food took up the share of industrial transportation.

 How to arrange the efficient operation of the entire railway system is a science, and this kind of scheduling is rigorous and detailed. A slight error will affect the transportation efficiency.

The people responsible for dispatching do not have high-level positions and are scattered in various railway sections. They are responsible for the arrangements of their own areas.

 This has led to inevitable scheduling chaos in many areas, further highlighting the problem of insufficient transportation capacity. Even though Tang's railway management was already the most advanced in the world, it was still inevitable to make mistakes while busy.

 The good news is that air transport was the first to recover, or that it was less dependent on infrastructure along the way, and it played a huge role.

 C-47 transport planes loaded with grain landed in groups at the field airport near Xicong. After unloading the grain, they transported prisoners from the Great China Empire to the north to serve in labor camps.

Those Dahua prisoners who saw a real airplane for the first time in their lives, touched a real airplane for the first time, and flew on an airplane for the first time in their lives, vomited to death in the sky, and at the same time they also enjoyed what it means to truly travel fast.

This is double the transportation capacity: on the one hand, it transports food from the north directly to the southern areas that are in urgent need of food, and on the other hand, it transports food from the southern areas to the north.

The north-south transportation problem is serious, and the east-west transportation will naturally be affected as well. A large number of trains were transferred to support the north-south lines, and the railway capacity in the east-west direction was bound to be reduced.

Therefore, after barely completing the attack in the direction of Fengjiang, the westward group commanded by Burton had to suspend the attack in the area near Fengjiang to stabilize the entire front.

 Sometimes in a war, it is not always the case that whoever can fight will be able to push all the way to capture the opponent. The Tang army's attack was hampered by its own logistics and was forced to give up a good situation.

Originally, while the Great China Empire suffered heavy losses and was in chaos, the Tang army could have launched an attack on the Zangjianxia defense line and Fengjiang defense line, and was likely to achieve a breakthrough and achieve a greater victory.

 However, troop mobilization could not keep up with the pace. A large number of troops could only rely on roads to maneuver slowly, unable to reach the theater in time to expand the results.

 In the end, all I could do was watch the Dahua troops on the opposite side stabilize their defenses, increase their strength, and wait for reinforcements from Qin...

"The current situation is that our army in Xicong has been completely liberated, with more than 300,000 troops." After breakfast, Tang Mo met with Loew and had a small meeting. Loew gave a brief introduction Check out the situation.

"The plan of the General Staff is that one hundred thousand troops will arrive close to the Zangjian Gorge and establish a new line of defense based on the Zangjian Gorge. There is no need for us to continue to attack from this direction. The Dahua army is ready, and there is the Zangjian Gorge. With the natural danger as our support, our army may not be able to gain any advantage by attacking from here." Loew explained the reason for this arrangement to Tang Mo.

 After finishing speaking, he paused. Seeing that Tang Mo had no intention of speaking, he continued: "The situation in the southern region is still very tense, so I plan to send two divisions south to support Strauss."

The staff plan to transfer the remaining troops to the Western Front, join Burton's Western Front Offensive Group, and launch a new round of attack on Fengjiang with the subsequent supplies arriving.

It's just that with today's transportation capacity, it is not an easy task to transfer 200,000 troops to the Fengjiang Theater.

 It may not be possible to complete the entire transportation work, and it may not be completed until the last few days of autumn. This is simply a joke. When all the troops arrive, it may start to snow in the area.

And after such a long time, the Dahua army has already been re-prepared and ready. It is obviously not wise to launch offensive operations when the weather starts to get colder and air support is once again less convenient.

"It seems that this year's war can only be fought here." Although Tang Mo was a little unwilling, it could only be so.

Loew nodded: "If the other party does not end this war, we may achieve greater results next year."

 (End of this chapter)