On the bank of the Heihe River outside the naturalization city, the engineering units of the Beishang Group Army had already built a simple wharf two days ago at the fastest speed. Next to it there is also a small shipyard fenced off for the assembly of barges.

Now all kinds of equipment have been assembled, several newly assembled steam engines are being tested, a huge roar resounded on both sides of the Heihe River, billowing smoke was rising from the tall iron chimney, and a group of technicians supported by the company were nervously debugging various equipment with the cooperation of a large number of officers and soldiers of the engineering unit.

The automobile brigade directly under the Beishang Group Army, a total of fifty KAMAZ 6X6 cars, each of which was towed with a trailer, and all of them were overloaded, most of them were loaded with the standard bulk components of dozens of steam engines. There are also more than a dozen jeeps with trailers, air compressors, generators and other equipment and supplies in the back.

In addition, there are thousands of four-wheeled wagons of the nomadic brigade, all full of various supplies. Even dozens of airships of the airship unit have hoisted several tons of supplies. The horses of each nomadic brigade are also equipped with a field horse carrying system, and they are also able to load various materials such as food and pills.

In addition to the war materials such as food and ammunition, the rest of the vehicles are modular standard components of various equipment. From steam engines and river deck barge components to various tools and accessories, there are many types.

After the Southern Army broke through the Naturalized City, the engineering units began to set up camps, docks, material bases, docks and shipyards along the Black River outside the Naturalized City. The Heihe River outside the city of Guihua directly flows into the Yellow River, and this waterway is very important for the future transportation of materials in the base area, and is the main transportation channel connecting Guihua, Baotou and Bayannur.

Therefore, the engineering unit first built a dock and a small shipyard, which was mainly used to assemble river steam deck barges, and the requirements for equipment were simple. This time, the Beishang Army brought components for ten river steam deck barges from Liaodong, but the timber needed for the barges. Still have to be cut from nearby.

The shipyard was equipped with several steam generator sets, as well as equipment for armoured plate barges, as well as a number of steam-powered machine tools, including woodworking machinery, stamping equipment, casting equipment, and various machined window equipment such as milling and grinding pliers.

This small shipyard. In addition to assembling river deck barges, it will also be used as a small machine shop to handle various machining work in the Loop in the future.

Although the number of equipment is not large, the variety is relatively complete, and the accessories such as knives are also very sufficient. These steam-powered machinery and equipment are the latest products developed by Vladivostok Machinery Factory in recent years, although the accuracy and life are average, and the use of steam power drive, the stability of the machine tool is also unsatisfactory, but in this era is already a high-tech product.

Now the Far East controls enterprises in all regions. Almost all of them are used in this series of machining equipment, which greatly improves the work efficiency of the enterprise. However, the production of these devices has not yet been able to form a large scale, and there is a lack of a large number of qualified industrial workers, so it has not been possible to popularize them on a large scale in the controlled areas of the Far East.

The board of directors of the company attaches great importance to the Hetao base area, and has transferred many expert technicians and experienced industrial workers from various enterprises of the company to the Hetao area together with the Beishang Group Army to participate in the construction of the Hetao base area.

As soon as the equipment at the shipyard was assembled, preparations began for the assembly of the river deck barges while commissioning. Officers and soldiers in the Far East drove away a large number of captives from the Mongol tribes in southern Mo. Logging was carried out on a large scale near the city of naturalization and transported directly to the banks of the Black River. The wood is simply processed and processed directly with woodworking machinery.

The very woodworking machinery and equipment are still being debugged, but the time is urgent, so we can only produce while debugging. Several carpentry machines were at full capacity, and in just two days, all the timber needed for the twelve steam deck barges was ready.

At the same time. After a day and night of hard work by the company's mechanics and engineers, the steam-powered units required for the twelve deck barges were assembled and commissioned.

The engineering units of the Far Eastern Military Commission, although they also belong to the regular military units of the Military Commission, are at the beginning of the construction of the engineering regiment. It is to cope with all kinds of difficulties and obstacles in a complex environment. In wartime, it repairs roads and bridges, builds houses and walls, repairs and maintains, opens mountains and splits roads, lays mines and blasts for field troops, and other emergencies.

Therefore, the Far Eastern Military Commission also spent a lot of resources and energy in order to train engineering troops. The officers and men of the various detachments of the engineering unit are full of talents, and each officer and soldier is multi-talented.

Being able to drive is the basic requirement, and those who can drive all kinds of machinery and equipment are considered masters. Proficiency in the use of various tools and equipment is also a necessary skill, such as fiddling with machine tools, repairing cars, maintaining guns, building a house, digging a deep well, etc., all of which must be picked up anytime and anywhere.

Moreover, they also have to operate in various complex environments in the field, and have all-weather combat capabilities such as wind, rain, snow and fog.

Let's put it this way, if there are officers and men in the engineering units of the Far Eastern Military Commission who retire from the service, all the departments of the Nationalities Affairs Commission will have to pounce on them, and they will have to take people into their own departments if they break their heads, and they will be able to directly enter the work role when they come, and they will be able to be competent for the work of leading cadres at the grassroots level at all levels.

A group of people who can build houses, operate various tools, machine tools and other equipment, and operate construction machinery, and can still overcome all difficulties and carry out various infrastructure, well-drilling, road repair, maintenance, transformation and other work in an extremely difficult and complex environment, and even in an extremely difficult and complex environment, in the case of extreme scarcity of materials, they are all good hands wherever they go.

However, the Central Military Commission (CMC) has given very high treatment to such technical services as engineers, navy, logistical maintenance, communications, and observation. Like the cadres and soldiers of the engineering unit, almost all the personnel who have survived the one-year private stage of recruits will be immediately promoted to non-commissioned officers, and their salaries, salaries, and welfare benefits are of extremely high standards, and their service years are even as long as twenty or thirty years.

Therefore, at the beginning of the formation of the Beishang Group Army, Li Ming specially applied to the Military Commission and asked for the engineer regiment directly under the Military Commission. Gao Jianguo and others also gritted their teeth and agreed, but they still transferred a group of cadres and non-commissioned officers from various battalions to reorganize the Military Commission Engineer Regiment.

Even so, several members of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission still felt that their hearts were dripping blood. The directly subordinate engineer regiment, which had been cultivated for several years, was asked by Li Ming to go over like this, and they were all a little reluctant. However, there is no way, the conditions are bound to be extremely difficult at the beginning of the construction of the Hetao base area, and the Central Military Commission must do its best to support it. (To be continued.) )

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