Chapter 285: Northern Base
The vast plains in the north of the www.biquge.info town of Biquge are full of hard-working and busy Liao laborers. Farm machinery galloped across the wasteland, and fields of knee-high artemisia grass were leveled.
The black earth, which had been silent for many years, revealed its true face, glowing with a dark light. Even the Liao people, who have been farming all their lives, can't help but sigh that this land is really fertile.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has a big plan this year, they will continue to develop the land resources north of the town of Biquge www.biquge.info, not only to grow various crops, but also to establish modern livestock farms and military horse farms here.
The company will continue to implement the northward expansion plan this year, and the railway to Artem has begun to continue construction, and tens of thousands of Liao people are busy day and night on the construction site, and trains have come from Vladivostok to unload a large number of materials such as gravel and sleepers, and then leave with a roar.
On several rivers leading to the north, several construction teams of the Construction Committee are working intensively to build several railway bridges over these rivers before the railway is built here. Fortunately, there are no big rivers here, and the widest river is only a few tens of meters.
The Military Commission formed an advance team led by Song Tao and set out for Artem in advance, where it established a northern base. The advance team consisted of two battalions of the Special Operations Team, the Mountain Regiment and the Garrison Brigade, as well as two helicopters and two delta-wing aircraft from the Air Ministry.
As soon as the northern base was built, Song Tao led the special combat team and the mountain regiment to infiltrate the northern part of Artem. The mountain regiments also took platoons and scattered to the north. They will infiltrate all the way to Shuangchengzi in the north, and Song Tao's special combat team will even advance to the vicinity of Ningguta again to conduct reconnaissance.
In the past two years, the reputation of the Far Eastern Company has changed the color of the indigenous tribes in the north of Vladivostok. Many large tribes have migrated north, hoping to get as far away from this evil neighbor as possible.
Some tribes simply surrendered and came to Vladivostok to pay tribute before winter. The Far East Company is also relatively tolerant of these subjugated indigenous tribes, and in the past two years, nearly 100 tribes have migrated to settle in the Far East Company's sphere of influence. Now in the mountains and forests near Vladivostok. There are many such indigenous villages scattered all over the place.
These subjugated tribes were actually relatively poor and weak villages, and the company did not want to change their way of life for generations, so they set up villages and households in the mountains, forests and rivers near the Far East Company, so that these natives could continue to live their old lives.
Originally, these tribes thought that if they submitted to the Far Eastern Company, they would definitely be exploited extremely harshly. After all, in the harsh environment of the Outer Northeast, obeying the strong and accepting the wanton exploitation of the strong is the basic rule of survival here.
But what they didn't expect was that the Far Eastern Company was not as fierce as rumored outside. After they moved into the mountains and forests near the Far Eastern Company, the Far Eastern Company not only built new wooden houses for each of their villages. The young men of the villages were also allowed to work in the Far East.
They don't need to pay too much for worship every year, they only need to pay for some old ginseng herbs and mountain treasures. This little worship is really nothing in the eyes of these tribes who climb ice and snow all year round and make a living from fishing and hunting.
In addition, the Far Eastern Company also built a bazaar near Vladivostok, which provided a place for these nearby indigenous tribes to trade with each other. Now even the laborers of the Far East, with the work quota in their hands, go there to buy what they want.
What pleases these tribes the most. If the old and weak in the village have a disaster emergency, no matter how strict it is, they must be sent to the hospital of the Far East Company. Most of them survived. In this era, not to mention the harsh environment of the Outer Northeast, even in the wealthy areas south of the Ming River, an emergency can bring down a family.
These indigenous tribes, who had submitted to the Far Eastern Company, all felt a little incredulous. Is this still the same Far Eastern company that slaughtered hundreds of tribes and burned Ningguta with one fire?
If it weren't for the tribe being poor. If there was no way to survive the migration north, they would have run away long ago. But I didn't expect the Far Eastern Company to be so tolerant of them. It was also a surprise to them.
This also made the indigenous tribes in the vicinity return to their hearts and live here with peace of mind. And many natives have joined the mountain groups in Vladivostok. became a real part of the Far East.
Because of these aboriginal returns, many poor indigenous villages in the north of Vladivostok have successively migrated to the sphere of influence near Vladivostok to settle down, and the Ethnic Affairs Office of the General Office of the Far Eastern Company is responsible for unified management.
The company's policy for dealing with the surrounding indigenous people is to raise the stick in the right hand and then hand out the carrot in the left hand at any time. This effect is often very good, even if the carrot you hand out is small, the other person is still grateful.
Now Artyom is sparsely populated within a radius of 100 miles. The larger tribes all migrated north, while the smaller tribes gradually returned to the Far East. Now only a few small tribes living in very remote areas remain.
The northern base is located near the modern city of Artyom, and the base is defended by two garrison battalions, and the mountain regiment is stationed around the base as a company.
The entire base was fenced with barbed wire, and four wooden watchtowers were built at the four corners of the base, equipped with machine guns, border binoculars and searchlights. A field has also been leveled in the base to serve as an airfield for the northern base.
Today, Song Tao and the commanders of the various detachments of the northern base were waiting next to the airport. After a while, a "caravan" plane flew over from a distance and landed at the airfield.
The plane slowly stopped, Gao Jianguo and Li Ming just got off the plane, and Song Tao and the commanders of the various units of the base stepped forward to salute them.
Gao Jianguo looked around the base for a while, laughed and said, "It's good here, our War Department has finally expanded its territory, haha......"
Everyone laughed when they heard him. Li Ming also smiled and said, "When we get a foothold in Artyom, let's just push all the way north to Xingkai Lake." Anyway, this is a vast and sparsely populated area, so we don't need to rush to develop it, we will occupy the place first, and then build a strategic buffer zone for Artem. ”
Song Tao also screamed strangely: "Yes, I can see it, in this place where rabbits don't, whoever has a big fist belongs to this place." When I first arrived, I traveled hundreds of miles north with a mountain group, but I didn't find any tribes of any size. Later, when we inquired, we found out that the original tribes here were scared away by our company. ”
Gao Jianguo nodded and said: "Well, the lesson of the night attack on the www.biquge.info town of Biquge is very profound, we must not make such a mistake again, and we must nip all crises in the bud in the future." ”
They walked and chatted, all the way to the headquarters of the northern base, and Song Tao introduced the situation of the defense area around the northern base to Gao Jianguo and Li Ming in front of a newly made sand table.
"The topography here, mostly plains and low hills, is relatively favorable to our defense work, and you can observe a distant area from the base's watchtower through the Guò border telescope. The mountain regiment also conducts patrols in the vicinity of the base every day in platoons.
Moreover, the Air Department routinely takes off twice a day, in the morning and evening, to conduct reconnaissance flights within a range of several tens of kilometers around the base. Even in the event of an emergency, the two helicopters will take off as soon as possible and rush to the scene of the accident to provide support. ”
Gao Jianguo and Li Ming listened to Song Tao's introduction and were quite satisfied. Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "When the railway is repaired here, Vladivostok will be able to connect with Artem." With the support of this artery, our military council can finally develop outward, and build a huge buffer zone for Artem that stretches from Xingkai Lake in the north, Ningguta in the west, and Azhen Hewei in the east, and the indigenous tribes in this area will either submit or get out, and there must be no unstable factors in our territory. ”
Li Ming stood up, pointed in the direction of Ningguta and said, "Song Tao, you have to take the special combat team and the mountain regiment to cross Ningguta, boldly go west and continue to go deeper, and thoroughly find out the situation there." After we develop Xingkai Lake to the north, the next development direction of the company is to go west, and our military committee must prepare in advance. ”
Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "Let the Tartars jump for another year, judging from the current preparations of our company, at the latest before the winter of 1632, we will annihilate the Later Jin regime in Liaodong and completely occupy the entire vast area of Liaodong and the outer northeast." ”
The company's plan to move north into Artem is progressing in an orderly manner. At the same time, various constructions in Vladivostok are also in full swing.
Since the first phase of the thermal power plant was connected to the grid for power generation, the development of Vladivostok has also reached a new level. Many precision instruments brought from modern society can also come in handy.
In addition to thermal power plants, military factories, foundries, and machinery factories have also begun to operate after more than a year of preparation, and a large number of Liao people have taken up their jobs.
The company concentrated its efforts and tilted all its resources towards these enterprises, and only built up the shelves of these factories. Although Liaomin apprentices have been trained for such a long time, there is still a big gap between them and real modern industrial workers, and they still need to continue to learn.
But at least these factories look like that, at least there is no shortage of technical force and management personnel, and the equipment is relatively complete, and the difference is only the plain of the front-line workers.
Now these Liao people have started to work in various positions, in fact, they are still in the process of internship, but as time goes by, they will become qualified industrial workers sooner or later.
In last year's winter training for the Liaomin, the company found a large number of good seedlings with a good foundation in the second batch of Liaomin, and now more than 20,000 new apprentices have been added to Vladivostok. This is mainly due to the fact that the overall quality of the second batch of Liao people is much higher.
The various departments almost broke their heads in order to compete for these apprentices. But wolves have more meat and less meat, more than 20,000 seems to be a lot, but dozens of departments seem to be less. (To be continued) R580