The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

Just look at how many ethnic minority compatriots who come to cities to work naturally separate themselves from local religions and you will see that this is not a big problem that is difficult to solve. The key lies in how to solve it.

Those who do extreme things are a minority in any group. In many cases, it is the extreme minority that kidnaps the majority. If everyone is really so extreme, then what is the point of "The Art of War" that is to attack the mind first and just eliminate them physically? Everyone is imitating the American scalping skills to see whose boots are more exquisite.

Taking all the above into consideration, the players did not turn the annihilated Ma family army into a Jingguan in the end. Fear can be used as a means, but not as an end. Now the entire Northwest has known the strength of the Volunteer Army. The power is enough, and the next thing is favor↑↓!

We need to make the locals feel that the volunteers’ kindness has yet to be fully appreciated?(^?^*).

To put it bluntly, this is an internal conflict. What is important is unity, not destroying unity. This is not weakness. In any case, the people in the northwest region will not think that the volunteer army that can turn 300,000 Ma family soldiers into corpses is weak.

After some field investigation, the players were surprised to find that although there are many ethnic groups in the area, the degree of sinicization shows a clear "high in the east and low in the west". However, even for ethnic groups that have not been completely sinicized, there are already quite a lot of Han cultural genes in their cultural system. In other words, everyone has long been a part of Chinese civilization.

The current ethnic distribution in Northwest China is roughly as follows:

Hui people: mainly live in Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and other places (poor).

Uyghurs: concentrated in Xinjiang (very poor).

Tibetans: Their main settlement areas are Qinghai and southern Gansu (they are extremely poor).

Kazakhs: Ili, Xinjiang, Aksai, Gansu and other places (very poor).

Dongxiang, Tu and Salar: mainly distributed in Gansu and Qinghai (poor).

Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek: Southwestern Xinjiang (very poor).

Russians and Tatars: northern Xinjiang and Gansu (generally poor).

The Baoan and Yugur peoples are ethnic groups unique to Linxia, ​​Sunan, and other areas in Gansu (poor).

Xibe people: a group that migrated from Ili, Xinjiang and Northeast China (poor).

Mongolian and Daur: western Inner Mongolia and parts of Xinjiang (poor).

The economic distribution is very even, and the people are evenly "poor".

It is worth noting that the cultural heritage of many ethnic groups here has long been completely mixed with Han culture. Of their past folk customs, they have basically only retained the holidays, and can only rely on myths and legends and imagination for more.

In this case, let’s not bother with distinguishing between different ethnic groups. It will only make the geography exam more difficult. In the future, we will all be part of the Chinese nation, and the ethnicity column on our ID cards will all be “China.”

This measure has been fully implemented in the liberated areas, and it directly and clearly states that there is only one nation in China, and that is the great Chinese nation. We are all-encompassing, and those who enter China are Chinese!

This land only recognizes people with cultural identity; blood ties are not absolute.

Those guys who pay attention to national bloodline, the people who buy dogs downstairs from us, attach great importance to this, as do the old European aristocrats.

Then, through a lengthy process of merging similar items, they successfully created hemophilia, which spread to the entire royal inheritance of Europe. This is truly a "great" social practice in the history of human genetics (boo).

The only thing worth praising is that this disease does not harm ordinary people. After all, how can poor families deserve hemophilia? The children are sent away very quickly. Only powerful families can allow such lives to survive. It is all their own fault.

Classic example: DuPont.

Anyone interested can check it out, those guys really know how to have fun.

The liberation of Northwest China was a good thing, but no one could laugh at all.

Because this place is too poor!!!

In 1939, even thieves had to donate money in the Northwest, and even rats had to be turned into food.

Historically, the daily life of Northwest Chinese people at this time was dominated by the idea that "being alive was a miracle, breathing was living, being able to move meant working, and being alive meant surviving." Quality of life didn't exist, and life's pursuits were a dream. Waking up each day felt like waking up two meals short, and often insufficient energy intake led to malnutrition, considered a "healthy state" in the local area.

In 1928, there was a severe drought in northern Shaanxi. Local tree bark became "hard currency" directly. People had to scramble to find Guanyin soil. "Human markets" were opened in every hungry place, and living people were exchanged for "one dou of millet".

Friends who have thoughts on the "human market" can go to Baidu or ask AI. It is best to check before eating, which is the last kindness to your stomach.

The population of Hengshan County (now Hengshan District) in Shaanxi Province was halved, with rats spreading plague by trampling over corpses. People in Xihaigu, Ningxia, were even worse off, with a family of five squeezed into a single tattered quilt, relying on the weather for water. During the dry season, they had to run dozens of miles to fight stray dogs for muddy soup, and even that was considered a luxury, as those who didn't had already starved to death at home.

After natural disasters came man-made disasters. The Ma family army, these beasts, emulated the African "model of benevolent monarchs" in their inhumanity. Ning Ma came up with the "70% land confiscated as military property" scheme. This was Northwest China in 1939. Even without natural or man-made disasters, the locals could barely get enough to eat. 70%? This was just another excuse to starve people to death, the equivalent of turning peasants into serfs, with the harvested grain taken away before they could even warm it. Even more outrageous, this guy in history also absconded with 7 tons of gold, leaving the people in the desert to curse at the empty vault.

Did you think that was the limit? Come, meet this looting expert, this paragon of animality, this fighter jet of garbage, this Qingma who even treated his own servants like consumables. His counter-revolutionary actions included, but were not limited to, the brutal slaughter of the Red Army's Western Route Army, the plundering of Qinghai to the point where even the Gobi Desert was richer than the locals, a reign of terror, the breakdown of family ethics (he even spared his own granddaughter), the undermining of national unity, and so on and so forth. And yet this guy actually lived until 1975, passing away "prematurely" at the age of 72, in Saudi Arabia. It seems he lived a pretty good life (gritting his teeth).

Compared with the previous two pseudo-people, Gan Ma is relatively more anthropomorphic. If you don’t believe it, just compare it with the photos. Appearance reflects the heart, and the ancients’ evaluation is still very reasonable.

The old man was considered a patriot among the warlords. He was not advanced enough and had done some wrong things, but his family tradition could at least prevent the volunteer army from playing a family tree elimination game on him, and his descendants at least had the right to become citizens of New China.

Apart from anything else, this guy at least dared to fight the Japanese, and he even fought against them under the threat of poison gas bombs. He was much stronger than the other two guys with the surname Ma. After checking the relevant information, the players did not send the old man's head to Yan'an, but handed the body to his family for burial. As long as his family does not hinder the reform in the Northwest region, this matter will be over.

Next is the key point. Economic development requires road construction, and the road conditions in the northwest region make all players have high blood pressure.

Here, mules and horses are considered top-of-the-line motor vehicles. The folks of northern Shaanxi spend their entire lives traveling within a radius of no more than ten miles. Their clothes are patched upon patched, their tatters a testament to the hardships of life. If the thickness of the patches equaled armor protection, then the folks of northwestern China would have Tiger-class armor per capita. Of course, many people don't even have many patches. It's not that they're richer, but they can't even afford the cloth to patch them. Many children simply run around naked.

Because the local ecological environment has been severely damaged (a legacy of history), geological disasters are like the drawing of lots by the God of Hell. Villagers in Zhouqu, Gansu, who live in mountain valleys, have been physically wiped out by mudslides. Before 1950, life expectancy was less than 40 years, and local wildlife lived with more dignity than humans. Healthcare? Nonexistent! A 30% infant mortality rate is the starting point. Sickness is a matter of endurance. If you can't handle it, you dig a grave at the village entrance, often with the help of neighbors. Many cemeteries are mere mass graves, devoid of coffins or anything else—those are considered capital-intensive.

It is said that Chinese is a two-dimensional language that can always express understanding of the world in a magical way. However, facing such an impoverished Northwest, looking at those naked children who are timidly looking at themselves from a distance, and those fellows who cannot even have one pair of pants and whoever goes out has to wear pants, the players discovered for the first time that nine years of compulsory education has its limits after all. In this situation, they were speechless.

If this is poverty, it is too cruel.

If this is the old world that New China wants to save, then it is too difficult.

in case……

"There are no ifs! Our pioneers persevered, so there's no reason why we, the cheating Fourth Calamity, can't hold on!"

The player "Sergeant Gout" gave up his dream of boarding the sea without hesitation, because here, the power of the Fourth Scourge was more needed.

Let us create a new world with our own hands!

Chapter 107: The Soviet Army Attacks

(I'll take a break. I won't be moving today. Good night.)

"We're hiring! We're hiring! Everyone who comes to work will be paid in cash, on the same day, and we'll have three meals a day... Get in line next to me! No cutting in line!"

In Lanzhou City, the player "Rose Fruit" was shouting with a loudspeaker.

From the airborne landing in Lanzhou to the end of the battle, and up to now, Rosehip has had a very fulfilling month.

After the Ma family army was completely wiped out, the battlefield had to be cleaned up, and the problem started with cleaning up the battlefield.

For players, it is very simple to deal with the corpses of the Ma family army. Just use a flamethrower. No bacteria or virus can continue to thrive in a high temperature of nearly one thousand degrees Celsius, and there is no Nurgle here.

But just as the players were cleaning up the battlefield, a group of locals suddenly rushed over and began to frantically snatch the corpses.

Yes, you read that right. They not only looted the corpses for money, clothes and weapons, they even left the corpses bare. Some of the locals, who were so skinny that they had only a few rags on their bodies, simply grabbed the corpses and started eating them raw. The scene switched directly from cleaning up the battlefield to a biochemical crisis.

Because everything happened so suddenly, and the fellow villagers' performance was too terrifying, the players did not react for a long time. By the time they reacted, the battlefield was already full of fellow villagers who had taken advantage of the situation.

Now the players are anxious.

It’s not that they feel sorry for the spoils, they only cost a few dollars. After completing the task of annihilating the Ma family army, the points earned by the players can be directly exchanged for more than a dozen modified Xuanyue cannons to fire on the spot. They are worried that these people will bring the corpses back and cause a plague or even bigger problems.

"Quick! Stop those fellows!"

"Fellow villagers, you can't eat corpses. It will cause problems!"

"What's the use of shouting? Cans, take out all the cans, quickly!"

"Yes, yes, folks, there are canned foods, everyone can eat canned foods!"

Then things went from out of control to out of control here.

“There’s food, there’s food!”

"Meat, I can eat meat now!"

"Get out! Get out of here! It's mine, it's mine!"

Tens of thousands of local people entered into a life-and-death looting mode on the spot, and began to kill with weapons they picked up. Those who grabbed the cans immediately began to smash them with stones, bite them with their teeth, squeeze out the food inside and start eating, without caring whether others would swing sticks at them. After the person eating was beaten to death, the others immediately took the canned meat out of his mouth and stuffed it into their mouths.

These people were all nearby villagers and refugees. They would do anything for a bite to eat. They had naturally witnessed the war in Lanzhou City, and they assumed that after the war was over, they would be able to grab some food from the battlefield and bring it back to eat.

In the barren northwest where a "human market" can be opened, this is a "very normal" thing.

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, the players had no choice but to suppress it violently, using shields and sticks to disperse the crowd. In the process, they gathered the obedient people together, gave them opened cans of food, and calmed them down. At the same time, they also let others know that they would have food if they were obedient. Only then was order barely maintained.

Even so, this sudden stampede still caused the tragic death of more than 3,000 people. Many of those who were trampled to death looked emaciated and appeared to be crawling forward.

The starving disaster victims really have little humanity left. They are just creatures acting to survive.

At this time, the population of Northwest China had reached 20 million, and more than 90% of them lived in extreme poverty.

Having enough food and clothing doesn't mean you can live well. Having enough food and clothing by cooking porridge made from wild vegetables, tree bark, and shrubs is also considered enough food and clothing. In 1939, the concept of food and clothing in Nanjing and Gansu was completely different.

From that day on, Rose Fruit began to work with other players to provide disaster relief, barely managing to maintain a fragile balance in the area surrounding Lanzhou City, at least preventing people from starving to death within the visible range.

But the situation around him made him unable to be optimistic.

The reason is simple. With the complete liquidation of the three horses in the northwest, the northwest region quickly fell into anarchy, and players were unable to quickly fill these vacancies in a short period of time.

It was only then that everyone was surprised to discover that their talent training system had always had problems, or in other words, the Volunteer Army itself did not have the ability to generate administrative talent. Those so-called administrative personnel were all temporarily transferred NPC commanders and fighters, and most of the time they were serious and rigid executors with little flexibility.

Ultimately, human problems must be solved by humans themselves, so the players decisively turned to the Red Party.

At that time, Yan'an was China's largest modern talent reserve base. The talents trained in other places were like looking for gold in a cesspool, while those in Yan'an were like moving gold from a vault. Everyone knew which side to choose.

After receiving the Volunteer Army's request for support, the Red Party also felt obligated to dispatch cadres to the Northwest, led by Chief of Staff Xu himself. This was his personal request, because the Volunteer Army also had to hand over the survivors and remains of the West Route Army.

There wasn't much to find, but after seeing it, Chief of Staff Xu still burst into tears.

It's all the fault of Zhang and Wang.

Although it was not stated explicitly, the Red Party at this time had become a talent pool for the Volunteer Army, and the Volunteer Army opened all government positions to the Red Party without reservation. However, there was one thing that was absolutely not compromised: corruption and bribery would be punishable by death, starting with the death penalty, and the family members would be implicated, with no upper limit.

Some people thought this was too cruel, but at an internal meeting of the Red Party, the comrades finally reached a consensus.

"We fought the Japanese and the Kuomintang. Why? It was for the people of China. If our soldiers forget this original intention, then they are no longer our comrades, but traitors who have betrayed their beliefs! We will show no mercy to traitors! The Volunteer Army believed in us and gave us opportunities. We must not be ungrateful and must be clear about our mission and responsibilities. The bottom line of serving the people cannot be broken!"

During the voting process, more than half of the votes were in favor, some abstained, and a small number retained their opinions. The Red Party will resolutely implement the anti-corruption and integrity work of the Volunteer Army and continue to advance it in depth. The fight against corruption is always on the road.

This is equivalent to pointing a gun at oneself. As for the opponents, in the face of the Volunteer Army's intelligence gathering capabilities and powerful armed forces, their fate will be no different from that of the enemies on the battlefield.

Because the volunteer army would really drive tanks to fight corruption and execute on the spot anyone who dared to resist.

Similar things have happened in Northeast China. The cause was that former reactionaries infiltrated the revolutionary ranks and wanted to re-engage in land annexation. As a result, the work was done in the morning, the people left in the afternoon, and the whole family reported to the hard labor camp the next day. The whole process took no more than 36 hours, and the evidence was conclusive, which made countless people with ulterior motives instantly kill their desires. They didn't want to experience what life in a hard labor camp was like.

While players in the northwest region were busy with poverty alleviation work in the northwest decades in advance, Irkutsk west of Lake Baikal had become a battlefield where the Soviet Red Army advancing eastward engaged in a fierce battle with the Volunteer Army.

They had no choice. This is also one of the important nodes of the Far East Railway. The weather has warmed up now, but the average annual temperature in Siberia is -2 degrees Celsius to 7 degrees Celsius. Although extreme high and low temperatures have occurred in history, it was still within this fluctuation range in 1939. Even if it is extremely high temperature, as long as the Siberian volcanoes do not want to pay tribute to the trilobites, the impact will only be on the surface. Otherwise, there will be no permafrost zone.

Therefore, the Soviet army only had three months to operate, or at most four months, otherwise they would have to contend with the extremely cold weather in Siberia. A temperature difference of more than 20 degrees Celsius between day and night is commonplace here.

The reason why the Soviet Far East has a small population is as simple as that: it is too challenging for the survival limits of carbon-based organisms.

Because Comrade Steel was very clear about the significance of this operation to the Soviet Union. If it failed, the fall of the Far East would become an inevitable countdown. The whole of Europe was already on the brink of war, and a new world war was about to break out. Once Europe began to bleed, the Soviet Union's attention had to be shifted to Europe, otherwise they might have to face a pincer attack.

Although the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact, both the mustache and the bearded man knew that it was toilet paper, but they didn't know when it would be torn up. Therefore, the Soviet Union had to have enough forces in Europe. This meant that when a force that was too powerful for the Soviet Union to deter began to attack the Far East at this time, the Soviet Union had to make a choice and exchange space for time.

At least for now, Europe is more valuable than Asia.

Comrade Gangtie is also prepared to sacrifice the Soviet Union's territory in Asia when necessary, but now is not the time. At least it can still struggle. The Soviet Union can retreat, but it cannot retreat when it can still fight back. This will not be a suitable explanation for the Party and the people. This is why "war must serve politics."

Besides, what if we win, right?

It's not impossible. Just look at how much the Volunteer Army has done in just two years. They even pushed the front line to the Japanese mainland. The Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula must also be their target of vigilance. If they go to war with the Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula, plus the various fronts in the country, the Volunteer Army will be fighting in all directions.

No army in history has ever been able to win under such circumstances, so the Soviet Union still has hope.

The Far Eastern Front, consisting of 500,000 Soviet troops, began to attack Irkutsk under the command of Zhukov. In addition to quickly supplying a large amount of new equipment to the newly formed Far Eastern Front, the Soviet Union was also extremely generous in terms of artillery. Almost all of the Soviet TM series railway guns came out, reaching an astonishing number of 11.

Don’t laugh, the Soviet railway gun is indeed called the TM series╮(╯▽╰)╭.

Moreover, the Russians' idea of ​​building railway guns is quite simple and direct, which is to move naval guns onto trains. Among them, the TM-1-14 railway gun is equipped with a 356mm main gun.

请注意TM-1-14分别代表如下意思：TM-海军运输车。1，2，3代表安装类型编号。14和12是以英寸为单位的口径，分别对应356和305毫米。

Okay, now let’s explain what TM-3-12 means according to this standard.

However, the artillery of these two railway guns both uses World War I technology, but the power is sufficient. There is not much difference in the killing characteristics between World War II artillery and World War I artillery. In essence, they are still chemical energy artillery. In addition, the artillery of World War II can shoot farther and has improved accuracy. If you want more advanced modern artillery, you have to wait until after the Cold War in the 1970s.

In terms of aircraft, the famous wooden miracle, the Lavochkin Design Bureau, came up with the famous World War II aircraft - the La-5.

"As long as there are forests in the Soviet Union, we will have an endless supply of fighter planes."

This is the objective background requirement for the birth of the La series of fighter jets, but don’t underestimate the design difficulty of this series of fighter jets. The wood requirements for fighter jets and general wood are two different concepts, and they are not entirely made of wood, but relatively speaking, more special wood is used.

For example, the La-5's "multi-layer birch laminate structure and resin impregnation" involves: birch frame, special resin treatment, and bakelite layer skin, all of which require modern industrial technology to process.

Therefore, the core of those famous wooden aircraft in World War II was the result of a strong national industry and a complete industrial system that empowered traditional materials, enabling them to enter a new blue ocean track and seize the pain points of support needs to launch a combination of punches.

Another classic that corresponds to this is the British Mosquito bomber. At that time, the Soviet Union and Britain were both industrial powers.

It has to be admitted that the Soviet Union's industry was far stronger than Japan's, and their talent pool was also terrifying. The planned economy that concentrated resources to accomplish major tasks allowed the entire Soviet Union to wield a deadly fist. This was also the fundamental reason why the Soviet Union was able to withstand the German armored assault in the early stages of the Soviet-German War.

When these things were put into the battlefield, the pressure faced by the volunteers was much greater than what the Japanese could inflict.

However, the Soviet army had only one attack route, namely the Trans-Siberian Railway. Originally, a Baikal-Amur Railway could be extended from Taishet. Construction began in 1932, but due to the difficulty of construction, the progress was extremely slow. Later, Japanese prisoners of war were used to build a section, and then construction was stopped in 1953. Construction resumed in 1972 and was finally completed in 1984, becoming the Soviet Union's second trans-Siberian railway.