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Chapter 744 Chapter 744 North-South Transportation
Datang Kingdom is an interesting country. This country has strong production capacity and abundant supply of raw materials. It can produce a large amount of materials and equipment every day.

Then the country seems to be short of everything, there is no oil here, there is a lack of steel there, and sometimes there is even a certain degree of crisis in food.

Compared with other countries, Tang Mo, as the king of the Tang Kingdom, was really tormented by this phenomenon, but also happy.

The news he hears when he wakes up every morning is always mixed, with some good news to celebrate and some bad news to cause headaches.

For example, when he heard that Qian Jinhang had boarded the train and would arrive in Chang'an soon, he was even happy to increase his breakfast.

But when he heard that the relief supplies in the southern region were about to run out, he felt that it was a sin to eat more at this time.

In fact, a large area of ​​Tang State is in a state of harvest, especially in the north where there is no disaster.Qi State is also a big grain-producing country, especially the vicinity of Beiyuan City, which is a good place to grow grain just like the northeast plain of a certain country.

The land here is very fertile, and at the same time, the terrain is very flat: many corpses were buried during the war in the past two years... Well, it is definitely the first choice for farming.

It's a pity that it is not easy to transport grain from the north to the south, because the railways in the south were damaged by floods and the traffic was cut off. It will take a while to repair.

The army occupancy rate of the repaired railway is quite high. After all, in the southern region, there are almost 100 million troops and prisoners stationed around Xicong. These people all need to eat.

At the same time, the country of Tang had to redistribute the grain stockpiled in the southern region to places further south: the place Strauss fought was too big, and the population was too large.

This is not a joke. The entire northern plain of Chu State, or the southern plain of Tang State now, is crowded with tens of millions of refugees. They have no food, have just been hit by a disaster, and have been fighting with various troops for a long time.

Compared with the disaster-stricken areas of the Tang Kingdom, the southern plains can really be described as devastated: the people there are disheveled, sallow and emaciated, people look like ghosts, and the whole area is like a ghost land.

There is no other solution. If the disaster relief is not done quickly and the people's livelihood there is restored, then the Tang State's occupation here is tantamount to finding a problem for itself that will never be solved.

Only when the people here have food to eat and work to do can this place truly settle down and become an inseparable part of the Tang Kingdom.

So, regardless of the fact that the southern region itself was short of food, Tang had to transfer the food reserves for disaster relief to the southern plains it had just occupied, and first barely feed the former Chu rebels who could no longer survive there.

The effect was remarkable. After receiving the relief, the turmoil in the southern plain subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The common people handed over their guns, and gradually began to resume production under the organization of Tang officials. Their land was actually very fertile, but it was a pity that these lands belonged to the nobles of Chu.

Now, the troops of the Tang State helped them kill all these landlords, drove away those high-ranking nobles of the Chu State, and turned these fertile lands into unclaimed land.

Immediately afterwards, the Tang State promulgated a decree that these lands would be given to farmers for cultivation without compensation, and the people's hearts were stabilized at once, and the rest became logical.

Although the Chu State also tried to organize several counterattacks, as long as their troops left the mountains and entered the plains, they would be wiped out by the Tang army.

In terms of combat power on the plain, the Tang army can really be said to be the ceiling of the world, and the Chu army itself is still second-rate, so it can be said that it has almost no chance of winning.

It's just that in the muddy southern area, there are almost no roads. It is very difficult for Tang Jun to move and turn, so road construction seems to be put on the agenda again.

It's a pity that Tang State no longer cared about transporting materials and temporarily building railways and roads on the southern front. As for Chu State's fragile transportation lines, it is very difficult to support the existing material transfers.

Fuel, ammunition, food, medicine...these things are all waiting to be used, so how can we think about a shitty cement asphalt road roller if we have the capacity?
To be honest, if it weren't for the seizure of a batch of extra food and supplies prepared by the Dahua Empire at Nanfengkou, Tang State might be in a more passive situation now.

The grain supplies at Nanfengkou did solve the urgent needs of the Tang State, but those grains were also disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

First of all, there are as many as [-] Dahua troops who surrendered in the southern oilfield area. They also have to eat and drink.

Therefore, the grain hoarded in the nearest Nanfengkou will naturally be allocated to the southern oilfield area: they surrendered so thoroughly and kept the oilfield facilities intact. Just this awareness is such an achievement, and we can't make them hungry again Stomach?
In addition, the newly conquered Wangchun City and Tengyun City also need food. The Dahua Empire exploited these cities in order to raise military supplies. Now these cities are controlled by the Tang Kingdom. You must invite people to buy people’s hearts, right?

The Tang Kingdom's own homeland, that is, the disaster-stricken southern region, cannot be left alone. The newly occupied areas have food, and if one's basic plate is not full, it will be treated unfairly, and people's hearts will definitely be scattered.

So Tang Mo had to find a way to use all available power to transport the remaining grain from the north to the south.

This is a big project that tests the transportation conditions, capacity, and the strategic determination of the entire country.

It is also because of this that many places in the Datang Kingdom are paying for the transportation of grain: Many metals needed for industrial production in Tongcheng have begun to be in short supply, because grain has taken up the share of industrial transportation.

How to arrange the efficient operation of the entire railway system is a science, and this kind of scheduling is meticulous and meticulous.A slight error will affect the carrying efficiency.

The people in charge of scheduling are not high-ranking, and they are scattered in various railway sections, and they are responsible for the arrangements in their own area.

This has led to inevitable dispatch chaos in many regions, further highlighting the problem of insufficient capacity.Although Tang State's railway management is already the most advanced in the world, it is still unavoidable to make mistakes while busy.

The good news is that the first to recover, or the air transport that is less dependent on infrastructure construction along the way, has played a huge role.

C-47 transport planes loaded with food landed in groups at the field airport near Xicong. After unloading the food, they transported the prisoners from the Dahua Empire to the north to serve in labor camps.

Those Dahua captives who saw a real plane for the first time in their lives, touched a real plane for the first time, and flew in a plane for the first time, vomited to death in the sky, and at the same time enjoyed what is called real rapid progress.

This is double the transport capacity: on the one hand, the food from the north is directly transported to the southern area, which is in urgent need of food, and the food mouths in the southern area are transported to the north.

The north-south transportation problem is serious, and the transportation in the east-west direction is naturally also affected.A large number of trains have been transferred to the north-south line for support, and the railway capacity in the east-west direction will inevitably be reduced.

Therefore, after barely completing the offensive in the direction of Fengjiang, in the area close to Fengjiang, the westward group commanded by Bolton had to suspend the attack to stabilize the entire front.

Sometimes in wars, whoever can fight is not guaranteed to be able to push all the way to the opponent. Tang Jun's attack is restricted by his own logistics, and he is forced to give up the good situation.

Originally, taking advantage of the heavy losses of the Dahua Empire and the chaos, the Tang army could have launched an attack on the Zangjianxia defense line and the Fengjiang defense line, and it was likely to achieve a breakthrough and achieve a greater victory.

However, the mobilization of troops cannot keep up with the rhythm. A large number of troops can only rely on roads to maneuver slowly, unable to reach the theater in time to expand the results of the battle.

In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the Dahua troops on the opposite side stabilized their defenses, increased their strength, and waited for Qin's reinforcements...

"The current situation is that our troops in Xicong have been completely liberated, with more than 30 troops." After breakfast, Tang Mo met with Loew and held a small meeting. Loew briefly introduced Check out the situation.

"The plan of the staff department is that [-] of them will approach Cangjian Gorge and build a new line of defense relying on Cangjian Gorge. We don't need to continue to attack from this direction. The Dahua army is ready and there is Cangjian Gorge Relying on natural dangers, our army may not be able to gain any advantage by attacking from here." Loew explained the reason for such an arrangement to Tang Mo.

After he finished speaking, he paused. Seeing that Tang Mo had no intention of speaking, he continued, "The situation in the southern region is still very tense, so I plan to send two divisions south to support Strauss."

The remaining troops, the staff department plans to transfer to the western front, join Bolton's western offensive cluster, and add the follow-up supplies to launch a new round of attack on Fengjiang.

It's just that with the current capacity, it is not easy to transfer 20 troops to the Fengjiang theater.

It may not be possible to complete the entire dispatch work, which may not be completed until the last few days of autumn.This is simply a joke. When the troops are all here, it may start snowing in the local area.

And after such a long time, the Dahua army has already made preparations again and is ready for battle.It was clearly not wise to go on the offensive when the weather was starting to turn cold and air support was once again inconvenient.

"It seems that this year's war can only end here." Although Tang Mo was a little unwilling, he could only do so.

Loew nodded: "If the other party doesn't end this war, we may achieve greater results next year."

(End of this chapter)