Chapter 531: Military City
"Is this wall completed now? There are no other steps?"
"Yes, at least I guess they did. They have already built a lot, so this low wall is probably built that way too."
"Oh, don't you think this is such a waste? They just built a frame of a good house. At first I thought a lot of immigrants would be relocated to Juba! But after all the fuss, they built so many useless things. It's such a waste of good cement and bricks."
"The building has been built, but there is no follow-up result."
For the citizens of Juba, the military built a strange place in the south of the city. What is strange about it is that it spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to build a bunch of houses that cannot be lived in.
At first, the citizens of Juba who participated in the help thought that Juba was going to expand. Because East Africa has developed rapidly in recent years, the number and area of cities have also increased, and urban development is still good.
After all, Juba Province is the capital of the Nile Province. If it wants to expand, it is not impossible to arrange immigration.
However, the 311th Division, which had caused such a big fuss, ended up building a bunch of semi-finished buildings in the south of the city, which were completely uninhabitable, but the 311th Division did not move away.
The so-called semi-finished product actually looks more like a newly built city near Juba, except that this city is extremely strange.
This is the urban terrain simulation field at the Juba Integrated Training Base, a training ground used in East Africa to study urban siege and street fighting.
It is said to be in the south of Juba, but in fact it is more than ten kilometers southwest of Juba, and there is even a tropical jungle between the two.
"This urban simulation field is built based on the forms of cities in the East and the West. We have set up application scenarios such as slums, ordinary residences, ruins, and special buildings to study our army's response plans under complex urban terrain situations."
The 311th Division is quite familiar with this urban simulation field near Juba. This place is used to simulate and train urban warfare tactics.
As East Africa was established only recently and there were no declining cities, the only option was to build this city simulation field directly near Juba, which was considered a wasteful act by some citizens of Juba.
It is equivalent to directly building a city, but there is no output and it cannot be inhabited. Isn't this an unfinished project!
The urban simulation field, which looks like an unfinished project but has actually been completed, is certainly not uninhabitable. It just has military barracks and other military facilities inside, which have nothing to do with civilian use. It would be reasonable to regard it as a military city.
In order to deeply simulate the urban environment, a railway station and a port were even built here, but they are just for show.
After all, such a remote area as Juba is not connected to the East African railway network. The train station is just a decoration, and the same is true for the port. There is not even a river nearby.
East Africa will naturally build a railway here in the future, but there is no plan to do so in the short term. Moreover, because it is a military area, only a side line will be built here extending from Juba City to here.
Railways will be indispensable for future military mobilization. Although it is called the Juba Comprehensive Training Base, its area spans three provinces (Nile Province, New Bavaria Province and Northern Lakes Province), a super training ground of more than 20,000 square kilometers.
This area is even larger than that of many small countries. Of course, East Africa cannot use it all. The currently planned military development zone area is 2,000 square kilometers.
This training ground is closest to Juba, the capital of the Nile Province, so it is called the Juba Comprehensive Training Base.
If there is any real connection with Juba City, it is that Juba City helped during its construction. After all, it is the capital of a province, so it made a lot of efforts in the construction of the Juba training base.
This is also beneficial to the city of Juba. In the future, when the East African army trains here, the Nile River Province will definitely be given priority for material procurement.
"The Ministry of National Defense has arranged for the 311th Division to supervise the workers here first to prevent them from running away, especially the blacks. The Nile Province is sparsely populated and the environment is complex. If a worker runs away, it will be difficult to find him. It took several years to clear out the blacks in the Nile Province, and we have not yet completely eliminated the fish that have slipped through the net in the province. So when you are doing construction, keep a close eye on the blacks."
This is the same as the Congo rainforest area in East Africa. East Africa has no idea how many people live there. The indigenous people in the rainforest may only have a dozen people in a small village, and the distribution is extremely scattered, so East Africa has not yet completed the investigation of wild black people.
"Please rest assured, superiors. Even if they want to escape, they won't pose much of a threat. Population reproduction is ultimately a matter between men and women. The black laborers we supervise are all men. Even if they run away, they won't be able to reproduce. They will be gone after one generation. Moreover, the environment in the Nile Province is so harsh that they may not be able to survive even if they escape."
"Your master can handle this matter. I won't say any more."
"Lieutenant General Luo Lai De, after our division completes the construction, will we stay here?" asked the commander of the 311th Division.
"I can't give you a clear answer for now, but it's likely that you won't have to return to your previous base. After all, so many military facilities have been built, and people will definitely be needed to take care of them on a daily basis. And this place is called the Juba Integrated Training Base, which means that it will be built into a training ground for the East African Army, so it will be quite lively here in the future, and other brother troops will probably come here to train as well."
"That's true. This training base is probably the largest in the world in terms of scale. It can accommodate the entire country's military for training together."
"Don't even think about it in the short term. It's not easy to mobilize troops. We need a railway here in the future. Otherwise, few troops will walk here. You are just close, so let your division supervise the work and relocate the base at the same time. This is also considered as being close to the water and getting the moon first."
The 311th Division was originally stationed in the New Bavaria Province, which is the eastern part of the Azande Plateau. The climate of the original station may be better, but the facilities are not as good as the Juba Comprehensive Training Base.
The harsh climatic conditions in the Nile Province happen to be one of the important reasons why East Africa chose to set up its training base here.
The army is not a game of house, but a force of iron and blood, so it is essential to cultivate the army's spirit of hard work and arduous struggle.
The plateau area of East Africa is actually a cozy nest, warm in winter and cool in summer. Once the problem of backwardness is solved, it will be a very comfortable and livable area.
The sweltering environment of the Nile Province can naturally increase the strength of the East African troops and hone their willpower. It does not require much training, and is enough to make people sweat profusely.
This is exactly what Ernst wanted. In the future, East African soldiers will inevitably fight in tropical areas, so resistance to humidity and heat is one of the essential skills of the East African Army.
(End of this chapter)
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