In front of the Far Eastern Army's logistical wagon transport team is an advance unit composed of engineering units of the Northwest Field Army and front-line nomadic detachments, whose main task is to open roads and build bridges for the Far Eastern Army's logistical wagon transport team, choose a reasonable way forward, sort out the obstacles and potholes on the road, and build simple bridges.

Along this route, there were also large numbers of nomadic detachments that would be deployed around the logistics wagon convoys of the Far Eastern Army. After the convoy has been driving for a while, it will also be supported by the nomadic detachment along the way, and the nomadic detachment will replace the horses pulling the cart, maintain the wagon, and replenish the fodder, water and other materials for the logistics carriage transport team of the Far Eastern Army.

In addition to the company's continuous support in the rear, during the campaign, the troops of the three corps captured countless cattle, sheep, camels, horses, and deer herds in Moxi, Mobei, and ******** grasslands, as well as a large number of grain and dried meat, precious furs, felt leather, tent carts, horse harnesses, weapons, cheese, dried milk, and other materials, which were enough to meet the wintering needs of the North Corps and the Eastern Corps this winter.

After the Far Eastern Army occupied the rivers in various places, the engineering units would set up small improvised shipyards along the coast. The airboat unit hoisted parts of small steam units and transported them here to assemble the river steam deck barges.

Of course, because of the limited conditions here, these steam barges assembled and produced by small improvised shipyards were very rudimentary. Except for the steam power unit and some key components, the rest of the parts must be made of local materials.

Fortunately, in this era, the vegetation is extremely abundant, and the most important thing is wood. Far Eastern officers and soldiers drove Mongol tribal cavalry captives into the mountains to cut wood and transport them to the shipyards below the mountains. A large number of logs are assembled and produced directly without meticulous processing.

Moreover, the steam deck barges produced and assembled by this shipyard are not large, only about half the size of the standard river deck barges in the Far East. The steam units shipped from the company are also miniaturized, so the assembly process is fast. In a few days, a river steam-deck barge can be launched, and then immediately it will be loaded with food and other supplies to the north and west.

In more than two months, the shipyard assembled and produced more than 200 river steam deck barges, and also assembled more than 1,000 non-powered deck barges, which were towed by steam-powered deck barges.

These improvised river steam-deck barges, in addition to providing water transportation for the Far Eastern Army. It is also possible to hang fishing nets and fish in various rivers and lakes.

Especially in large lakes such as Lake Baikal, inland steam-deck barges can be hung with various types of fishing nets made by the company in the form of modern trawls, and compared with the backward traditional fishing nets of this era, the fishing effect is simply heavenly.

Several major rivers in the Moxi and Mobei steppes and Lake Baikal are extremely rich in fish. Among them, there are about 50 species of fish in Lake Baikal, belonging to seven families, the largest of which are 25 species of durmon in the family Duwenidae, as well as salmon, fry, herring whitefish and sturgeon.

The area around Lake Baikal of this era was sparsely populated. There are a lot of fish stocks in the lake, and it can even be said that they are about to become a disaster. If you go down any net, you can get a full net of fish, which is simply an impossible task in modern society.

The units of the Northern and Eastern Corps organize the barges of the river steam decks stationed in the area, as well as the nearby nomadic detachments, in the main rivers and large lakes such as Lake Baikal before the onset of winter. Large-scale netting can greatly alleviate the dietary structure of the units during the wintering period. Increase the nutritional intake of officers and soldiers.

Simple wharves have been built on the shores of Lake Baikal, and river steam-deck barges full of catch are constantly docking, and large numbers of indigenous elders, women and children are excitedly flocking to the wharf to unload all kinds of catches from the boats.

The fresh fish that had just been unloaded from the shore were still struggling alive, two steam-deck barges of the Far Eastern Army. Coupled with a modern large-scale trawl net, such a net is simply the rhythm of digging graves.

Because Lake Baikal is unfished all year round, many big fish are almost fine, and any fish has dozens of catties. Even 100 pounds are common. Some of the big fish are thrown on the shore, and it takes a few natives to work hard for half a day to hold them down.

Where had the natives ever seen such a grand spectacle, and they threw themselves into the fish piles one by one like crazy, regardless of the stench, and handled the mountains of fish on the shore with swift movements. Now as long as you come to the shores of the Segelen River and Lake Baikal, there are patches of dried fish and salted fish everywhere, and the scene is extremely spectacular, and the salty smell permeates far, far away.

The coal resources in the Mobei region are extremely abundant, and the Far Eastern military engineering units have found many small open-pit coal mines along the Segeleng River and near the shipyards, and they drove a large number of Mongolian tribal captives, digging coal day and night, and then using primitive methods to prepare and wash coal, and finally transported to the coal yard at the wharf along the Segeleng River.

After more than two months of continuous excavation by tens of thousands of Mongol captives, the raw coal piled up on more than a dozen wharves along the Segeleng River was piled up like hills, which was enough to meet the use of the inland steam deck barges of the Far Eastern Army.

In addition, in order to meet the fuel for heating this year's winter, the garrisons in Mobei have also found open-pit coal mines nearby, driving a large number of Mongolian prisoners to dig coal every day, and a large number of coal storage yards have been built in various places to dig and store enough wintering coal before winter.

Camps and strongholds have also been built in various places in Mobei and Moxi, all of which go up the mountain to harvest a large number of logs, and then form a circle and then build several watchtowers. The houses built in the camp are still wood-carved flutes, and the barracks, warehouses, stables, toilets, etc., can be built in a few days, and a stronghold can be considered alive.

The nomadic detachment still lives in the yurt, because it is located in the extremely cold northern region, the company has added a layer of cold-proof treatment to the herdsmen's yurts, and the warmhouses of various livestock have also been prepared for cold-proofing, and a certain number has been increased to ensure that the herdsmen and cattle and sheep are cold-proof and warm during the wintering period.

The Northwest Field Army has captured a large number of prisoners in Mobei and Moxi, because they are going to participate in winter training this year, so they have set up winter training camps for them in various places, and the herdsmen who have been trained live in rows of woodcarved flutes.

A standard woodcut flute is ten units, and each unit has three floors of upper, middle and lower floors, which can accommodate about 50 people, which is enough to squeeze anyway. Every house has a pit for heating, and the fuel is coal, and even in the coldest winter, the temperature in the house can reach more than ten degrees. (To be continued.) )