After walking through this mountain, the Valley of Happiness is in front of them, and the excitement of reaching the end of the road urges them to continue to move forward, and finally arrive at the base where they have been for a long time. In fact, as early as when he was on the mountain, Liu Ye was observing this so-called Happy Valley, and as a military commander, he looked at this base more from the military side.

I had heard Lin Long's simple description before, and knew that Happy Valley should be a good base, with peaks in all directions, basically cutting off the possibility of directly entering the valley, and some key locations were easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Other people's narratives are always not accurate, Lin Long himself has not been here, it is relayed through others, under the premise that the base itself cannot be changed, it must be carefully observed and plugged as much as possible, but after I came, I saw that this valley made Liu Ye more satisfied, and basically met his requirements.

Liu Ye's requirements for the valley are not high, in the deep mountains, it is not easy to find, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the terrain is complicated, the area of the valley should be slightly larger, otherwise it will not be able to accommodate so many people. This time, there were many people who followed them, more than 60,000 before, and more than 10,000 on the way to relocate, a full 80,000 people, and there was not enough living space to accommodate so many people.

The Valley of Happiness is about 40 square kilometers, which is a large valley in the middle of the central mountain range. The valley is an irregular oval, about 10 kilometers long, a little more than 4 kilometers wide, and about 3 kilometers at the narrowest point, which is relatively spacious. Among the mountains and sanitation, the altitude is higher, at least more than 500 meters. The terrain is relatively gentle, and the climate is okay. The total area is not small, a large valley. In the middle of several mountains, close to the main peak of Hehuan Mountain, because the mountains are extremely rugged, even well-trained warriors are unlikely to pass too much through the peaks.

According to some previous understanding, Liu Ye clearly saw that there were four roads into the valley, three of which were in the east, which led directly to the interior of the central mountain range. One of them even winds its way through the central mountain range, eventually leading beyond the mountains to the western seaside.

This was an unexpected surprise, although Liu Ye didn't go to see it in person, but Lin Long knew that in the past, the aborigines here would sell some seafood, and this was deep in the mountains, beyond the central mountain range, even if it was only forty or fifty kilometers away in a straight line. It may take 100 kilometers to cover a winding mountain road, which is nothing for a single powerful hunter, but for an activity like fishing. There is no direct road, and it is difficult to pass.

In itself, Liu Ye is still worried. When the submarine forces arrived, they could only be able to get a foothold first. Even after the whole training is completed, I slowly think of a way. The supplies are transported, but with this passage, the reinforced troops can even come here directly, without having to climb over mountains such as the central mountain range, and directly reach the seaside, which will become a continuous transportation channel in the future.

The other two, respectively, lead to the depths of the mountains, and travel with difficulty, but these three passages all lead to the west, and in the case that the Japanese do not know much about the valley, it is impossible to attack from the west, because the partition of the central mountain range, basically, does not use defense, and runs around such a large circle, and runs to the middle of the central mountain range, and they are not found by them, so they do not have to mix. At most, pay attention to the key thing to protect is this passage to the east.

This passage is actually to enter the valley, they take this road, the mountain terrain is complex, can detour and pass more, but this road is relatively smooth and flat, from the beginning of the mountain, only the distance to walk, about 150 kilometers or so, winding, can set up ambush many places, as long as a little preparation, it will become a place to kill the enemy.

Along the way, the key places are in Liu Ye's mind, and the defense of the valley itself, except for some necessary sentry posts, is not so important, and once again looking at this irregular oval, valley

Most of them are dense forests, only about a few hundred acres of land, which are opened up, a simple look at the hydrological environment, it is estimated that it can be opened up, almost 10 square kilometers or so, this is 15,000 acres, which is a lot, if you plant a batch of grain in the northwest, it is no problem to feed a prime of life with one acre of land, which greatly reduces the pressure on food, plus the grain produced by hunting and picking in the mountainous areas, in a sense, the self-sufficiency rate can reach 3 percent, which is quite beneficial for protracted warfare.

Huge population pressure, Liu Ye is very clear, it is impossible to solve the food problem all, the mountainous area is the mountainous area, the natural conditions are bad, the living environment is poor, if it were not for safety considerations, he would not come here at all, if the power in his hands is a little bigger, it is enough to directly open up a base in Wufeng, and in addition to resisting, it can develop steadily, but unfortunately he only has 300 people under him.

As long as a small number of people block the road in front, they will either detour to the deep mountains, or they will only be able to attack, with the defense capability of the northwest, is it possible to attack strongly, not to mention the strength of the Japanese, even if it is the regular army of the Northwest Army, unless it is filled with human lives, otherwise in the face of a defensive war of the same level of strength, the sacrifice ratio is definitely 3:1, or even higher.

The road down the mountain is not very easy to walk, especially in the place where there are not many roads, fortunately, it will come down slowly, the location of the mountain pass, Lin Long is greeting him with a smile, they arrived 5 days earlier than Liu Ye, and they have basically settled down, more than 60,000 people, plus the two batches that have not yet arrived, the total number of people will exceed 85,000, which is more than the population of some cities, and the total number of people before Wufeng is only so much.

Where they are, there is a small village gate, which was built by the aborigines, which looks very strange, and then there is a long passage, leading to the location of the village, the village is close to a mountain peak, next to the only small river in the valley, the ground is higher, and even some of the mountains have rooms, this arrangement is to avoid flooding, affected by the monsoon climate, this side of the central mountain range of Taiwan, the precipitation is still quite considerable.

The houses left by the natives are definitely not enough, fortunately, there are tents, the northwest brought 8,000 tents, all of which are large tents, each of which can accommodate at least 12 people, at this time, it doesn't care about what family, some close relatives can settle in a tent first, tens of thousands of people are enough to settle down, plus some are not suitable for living in tents, must be settled in the house, these 5 days, Lin Long mainly did this.

That is, in the past two days, it can be regarded as smoothing out, with the help of some Wufeng Army, the young and middle-aged people are gathered, and it is not the same thing to live in tents, there must be housing, close to 90,000 people, thirty or forty thousand families, and the houses left by the aborigines are only more than 200 sets, this gap is really too big.

Soldiers from the northwest, who arrived in advance, once proposed to use reinforced concrete to build houses, just like in the northwest in those years, a seven- or eight-story building can accommodate dozens of families, and it is relatively spacious.

This once made Lin Long very tempted, the valley of 40 square kilometers looks very large, but if there are 40,000 houses, even if one is only about 100 square meters, it is 4 million square meters, close to 4 square kilometers, plus some public buildings, the entire valley will be occupied by one-eighth to one-seventh, which is not a small number, if it is changed to a building, it can reduce at least two-thirds of the land, which is very critical for the valley.

However, this soldier in the northwest only understands a little, and if he really asks clearly, he can't understand it, and after the officer who understands arrives, he directly vetoes this idea, just kidding, a building is hundreds of tons, even thousands of tons, steel bars, concrete, cement, these things, Taiwan does not have, must be transported from the northwest, but also have to cross the complex mountains, into the valley, rugged mountain roads, not to mention tens of thousands of tons, hundreds of thousands of tons, even if it is one or two thousand tons, it is a relatively difficult problem to solve.

If you really want to get such a large transportation capacity, why bother transporting steel and concrete, directly transporting tens of thousands of troops, and bulldozing the Japanese, hundreds of thousands of tons, even if you add all the weapons and equipment, you can at least transport one army of the Northwest Army, let alone Taiwan, even if it is to fight on the Japanese mainland, it is almost enough.

Hearing the numbers that needed to be transported, Lin Long was stunned, even if he was a military idiot, he knew how to choose, and the Northwest Officer gave him a reassurance, the days in the valley would not be too long, at least four or five months, at most eight or nine months, it must be to leave the Central Mountain Range, the integration ability of the Northwest Army and some backups, the Wufeng Army can definitely counterattack.

The affirmative reply made Lin Long feel a lot more confident, since it is a short-term residence, there is no need to build a large number of buildings, the tents that should have been withdrawn should still be used, and the houses of the natives should be repaired, and on the basis of hundreds of houses, almost 2,000 houses will be built, for some families who are not suitable for living in tents, as for materials, bamboo and wood, there is everything in these mountains.

Under Lin Long's arrangement, with the cooperation of some personnel in the northwest, the young adults who had just arrived in the valley were organized to cut down trees and build houses.

When Liu Ye entered the valley, he saw such a lively scene, for this, Liu Ye was noncommittal, for the administration and daily management, Liu Ye did not attach importance to it, there were a few people in the northwest who specialized in this, combined with Lin Long, and were responsible for the administration of this happy valley, as for himself, he continued to be military, integrated and trained the Wufeng Army, so that the Wufeng Army could truly become a combatable force. (To be continued......)