Chapter 364 Foreign Laborers

With the strong support of the Military Commission and the People's Affairs Commission, the transportation capacity of Mudanjiang Town has accelerated sharply, and it has increased several times. △ Top novel, www.materials have been guaranteed, and the construction speed has gradually accelerated.

A few days later, the first group of nearly 10,000 Japanese laborers from the Satsuma Domain arrived in the town on three landing ships. In the following month, the northern part of the Amur Bay was crowded with Western-style sailing ships, Chinese-style junk schooners, Slupp sloops, clippers and Korean banya boats, which almost filled the sea near the mouth of the Sepin River.

In order to curry favor with the Far East Company, the Satsuma clan brought in more than 30,000 Japanese laborers from all over Japan last winter. Xiao Hanguang of Luzon also forcibly recruited more than 50,000 natives of Luzon, and if it weren't for the lack of transportation capacity, he could get more than 100,000. Moreover, Wang Yaowu also let the soldiers of the Dongjiang River land on the coast of North Korea, and collected nearly 10,000 North Korean refugees by deception and robbery.

The company's nearly 100 offshore steam-deck barges, wooden sailing ships, and armed fishing boats were all mobilized, and even two landing craft joined the team to transport foreign laborers.

On the surface of the River, there are a variety of boats transporting foreign workers. As soon as they got off the boat in Yanhe Town, the Far East Company began to close its doors and let the dogs go. The first Japanese laborers of the Far East Company rushed up viciously.

These Japanese laborers, who had been in Vladivostok for more than three years, were the most loyal dogs of the Far Eastern Company, and as the foremen of these newly arrived foreign laborers, they used very direct means to stand up and beat them with wooden sticks, and only after beating them loudly and begging for mercy did they kick and kick them into the purification camp.

Dozens of Japanese laborers in the decontamination camp shouted and cursed, shaved off their hair, and asked the foreign laborers to change into blue-and-white vertical overalls, Russian-style suede shoes, and a set of daily necessities. All in a Russian canvas backpack.

As soon as the foreign laborers came out, they were driven aside by a group of wolf-like Japanese foremen, beating and scolding, and scattered all the Japanese, Koreans, and natives of Luzon, and formed a squadron of foreign laborers in teams of 100 people. Occasionally, a few of them couldn't stand it anymore and tore up a few times with these Japanese foremen.

The samurai of the Japanese death army, who were standing on the sidelines, immediately rushed over. Cut off their heads with a single sword. The headless corpses were scattered on the ground, and the bright color of blood made the rest of them unconsciously honest.

These newly arrived foreign laborers trained for a few days in the concentration camp in Yanhe Town, mainly to learn the rules here and ensure absolute obedience. Anyway, the camp was filled with all kinds of ghosts and wolf howls every day, and every day foreign laborers were dragged from tents to the playground by death soldiers and hung on wooden shelves outside, for a day and a night.

After more than a month of busyness. After all the foreign laborers from Japan, North Korea and Luzon gradually adapted to the rhythm here, they were driven to the roadbed construction site of the railway and highway between Yanhe Town and Mudanjiang Town, and began to be busy day and night.

Although they have to work more than 12 hours a day, they can still manage three meals, at least coarse grain tortillas, pickles and vegetable soup every day. Of course, this is also the only way that every foreign worker can enjoy such three meals after completing their work tasks for the day.

If a foreign worker is unable to complete the task. I can only get a corn tortilla to pad my hunger, and Yan zhòng will be starved for a meal. But the ten best people in each squadron who completed the task. There will be an extra salted fish, and the ten people who complete the best tasks every month can have a day off, and the three meals on this day of vacation will have canned whales to eat.

In the future, these more than 100,000 foreign laborers will be the main labor force in the Far Eastern Company's various highways and railways, coal mines, iron and iron mines, quarries, forestry farms and other construction sites, and they will also be engaged in dangerous positions in chemical plants, cement plants, iron and steel plants, petrochemical bases and other enterprises.

The two landing craft slowly came to the mouth of the Yipin River. There are also plenty of offshore deck barges waiting in line to enter the River. Because of the large number of barges sailing on the river surface every day, the company has set up a ship management station at the mouth of the river to manage the boats entering the estuary.

Li Ming stood in the wheelhouse of the landing craft and looked at the two 10,000-ton giant ships moored in the distance. In order to prepare war materials, the company deliberately used the company's heavy fuel reserves. It was used for two 10,000-ton ships to sail to Luzon, and brought back nearly 40,000 tons of rice, copper, bauxite, lead and other war materials hoarded in Manila at one time.

Not only that, but every day, there are sea boats carrying rice and other supplies from Manila to and from Manila to Vladivostok and Port Arthur. These included three landing ships of the Admiralty and almost all of the sailing ships.

In the storage and transportation warehouse of combat readiness materials of the logistics department in Yanhe Town, all kinds of ammunition, grain, and other combat readiness materials have been piled up. After waiting for the railway to be completed, he began to transport materials to Mudanjiang Town day and night.

The two landing craft slowly docked at the newly built pier along the river, and the foreign laborers who had been waiting at the pier swarmed up to unload the supplies loaded in the landing craft onto the shore. Several KAMAZ military trucks waiting on the shore roared onto the docks, allowing a large number of foreign workers to carry the supplies onto the trucks, and several large wooden boxes were also hoisted into the trucks with the help of cranes.

Because of the participation of foreign workers and the company's investment at any cost, the construction of the Western Development Zone has been accelerated in the past two months, and the town along the river has basically taken shape and has begun to see its outline. The construction of ports, storage areas, barracks, living quarters and other facilities is nearing completion.

The supplies on the two landing craft were almost full of KAMAZ military trucks. Li Ming did not stop at Yanhe Town, he directly got into the truck and gave the order to set off, and several KAMAZ military trucks roared out of Yanhe Town, all the way to Mudanjiang Town.

The trucks are loaded with various modular components of the shipyard's newly designed river deck barges. On behalf of the Central Military Commission, Li Ming went to Mudanjiang Town to inspect the state of war readiness. He personally escorted these materials by ship to the Mudanjiang Town Shipyard for assembly.

Several real yàn river deck barges built by the company's shipyard have ended the intense real yàn voyage on the Huerha River, and the results of the sea trials are satisfactory, not only meeting the design requirements in various quantities, but also finding out the shortcomings of many newly designed ships, and making reasonable improvements to the follow-up ships.

The company also placed orders for various enterprises in Vladivostok, and all participating enterprises immediately started production at full capacity, and then sent a large number of modular bulk components to the Mudanjiang shipyard for large-scale assembly.

The construction of the road and railway between Yanhe Town and Mudanjiang Town began at the same time, the roadbed of part of the road has been completed, ships of asphalt have been transported to Yanhe Town, and a long section of the road has been paved with asphalt.

Several KAMAZ trucks drove all the way to the highway construction site, and then drove onto the nearby improvised road. The rest of the journey became bumpy, but even so, it only took them a few hours to reach Mudanjiang Town.

Mudanjiang Town has begun to take shape, and infrastructure such as wharves, water storage tanks, steam boiler power plants, storage areas and military barracks are under intense construction. Shipyards, coal washing plants, wood processing plants and other enterprises have been able to start production. Seaworthy river deck barges sail on the Hulha River every day.

The company's energy department has found an open-pit coal mine with good coal quality near Mudanjiang Town, where thousands of foreign workers are working, and now the coal has been successfully produced, and more than a dozen KAMAZ dump trucks are delivering raw coal to the coal storage yard on the edge of the town every day. The raw coal will be processed into refined coal by the coal washing plant, which will be used as coal fuel for the company's trains and inland steam deck barges.

Several trucks drove into the shipyard, which was built along the river, and nearly a kilometer of the river's banks were densely covered with wooden factories. Several steam generator sets roared loudly, and the factory was also busy. Assembled river deck barges line side by side on the surface of the Hulha River.

As soon as Li Ming got out of the car, he saw that Gao Qiang and the leaders of the various detachments of the western garrison were already waiting here, and when they saw Li Ming, they all came up to salute Li Ming.

At present, the garrison in the western garrison area is mainly composed of two newly expanded regiments of the mountain brigade, and after several months of large-scale military training, they were pulled to Mudanjiang Town, where they were responsible for the defense of the army and training here.

In addition to the two regiments of the mountain brigade, one garrison battalion was stationed in Yanhe Town and Mudanjiang Town. Standing guard at various important positions in the two towns, he is also responsible for security patrol duties. In addition, the Death Squad is also stationed in the western garrison, and they are deployed at various construction sites to guard more than 100,000 foreign laborers.

Looking at the heads of the various detachments in the garrison area, standing densely in front of him, Li Ming shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Do you have nothing to do?" Why are they all here, everyone else should go back to the army. Gao Qiang, you walk around with me. ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly shrunk their necks and left in a hurry. Gao Qiang said with a smile: "The Military Commission sent us a telegram, knowing that you are coming today, I want to come over to greet you." ”

Li Ming said with a straight face: "Gao Qiang, how can you get this set." Fortunately, I came by myself, and if Lao Gao comes, you will wait to be trained. Soldiers must lead the soldiers well and fight the battle well, and don't fix those useless ones. ”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Gao Qiang, and then said: "You have a mental preparation, the two deputy commanders of the Eastern Theater this time will be served by you and Qiang Quansheng, you can just know this matter, don't show it off." Several members of the Standing Committee of our Central Military Commission have just been decided, but they have not yet been announced to the public.

The battle in the eastern theater is not easy to fight, but it is very important to the whole war situation, not only to destroy the Tartars in the hinterland of Houjin, but also to block the route of the Tartars to the north into the grassland. You will have to spend some time pondering it now and carefully study the methods for implementing the mountain offensive line and the waterway offensive line in the Eastern Theater. Don't be at the meeting of the Military Commission, Lao Gao asked, if you can't talk about it, then you will lose your adult. (To be continued......)

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