Chapter 1124: A Huge and Effective Imperial Machine.
Under the flapping of the giant eagle's wings, the official documents flew in all directions, and all places soon received Luo Chong's orders.
In the governor's office in Jiahai County, Qiongzhou Island, Yang Feng was not surprised to see the order in his hand.
When attacking the Xin tribe on Zhudao Island, Xue Tu was the commander-in-chief, and he was a military officer under the commander-in-chief. In today's terms, he was the chief of staff. Therefore, he was very familiar with the six guards that landed on the island. He knew that the Leopard Guard was a mercenary recruited from the Tang tribe and would be released sooner or later.
As for the leader's temporary change of mind and the reorganization of the Leopard Guard into an engineering unit on the spot, he had also heard some news. The leader had long planned to establish a professional engineering unit, but there was no movement. Look, isn't it here now?
The Leopard Guard had good military discipline, but not much combat effectiveness. Yang Feng didn't care much about it, and soon asked his personal soldiers to forward the order to the Leopard Guard, but he also issued another order himself.
The leader's idea was to reorganize the Baotao Guard into an engineering unit and send them away directly. However, the empty Yashan County could not be without a garrison. It was the estuary of the Qingshui River in the entire Qiongzhou Island and the most important port. How could there be no garrison? !
Therefore, in addition to forwarding Luo Chong's order, he also transferred 2,000 Yingyang Guards from Chaoyang County to Yashan County to take over the camp and defense mission of Baotao Guards.
As for Chaoyang County, there were only the Yu clan who fished there. They were the first people in the entire Zhudao Island to surrender to the Han tribe. Anyone could rebel, but the Yu clan would not.
Moreover, it was not an important port, and it was even less likely that there would be an enemy attack from the sea. There were neither external enemies nor internal strife. Putting 2,000 troops there, what was there to defend?
It was better to transfer them directly to a more useful position.
However, as the Grand Commander, he only had the power to command troops, but not the power to transfer troops. If he wanted the Eagle Guard to be transferred to Yashan County, he had to first say hello to Xue Qingyao, the governor of Qiongzhou. Xue Qingyao was in charge of administration, and he was just the opposite of him. He had the power to transfer troops, but not the power to command them.
In short, the army was not under his control at ordinary times, but he could call them up. However, if Yang Feng disagreed, he could not transfer many troops.
These two people were used to check and balance each other. Without the other, it would be impossible to transfer the troops on the island at will.
After a transfer order was issued, the Eagle Guard quickly broke camp and set off to Yashan County for rotation.
As for the Leopard Guard, at the command of the two thousand soldiers, they took off their armor. They put down their steel knives, long spears, halberds, bows and crossbows, and armor.
After serving in the army for several years, there were no deaths in the entire Leopard Guard. They returned with the same number of people as when they came. This was the luckiest.
In addition, they also earned a lot of military pay from the Han tribe, which could buy many good things for their families. The food in the barracks was better than what they ate at home. At least they could eat rice three times a day, and there were meat and vegetables for every meal. To be honest, many people didn't even want to retire and go home.
If you ask them to go home for a holiday, they would definitely be willing, but if they were directly asked to retire, many people would be very entangled.
Going home can bring a wife and children to a warm bed, but will life after returning home be the same as before? It would be better to stay here and continue to serve in the army.
Fortunately, the order was issued from above. Although the Bao Taowei was retired as a whole, it was not disbanded. Instead, it was reorganized into the First Railway Corps, which was responsible for building railways in the future. The military pay, food, and treatment were the same as before. Moreover, this was to build a railway for their hometown, and they were working at their doorstep. All the soldiers became happy. Only a few wanted to apply for home leave, but it was not approved for the time being.
No matter what you want to do, go back first, and there will be plenty of opportunities when you go back.
On the day the order was issued, after coordination from many parties, more than a dozen large ships arrived at the mouth of the Qingshui River in Yashan County and sent all the soldiers of the 1st Railway Corps Regiment to Takuhai County.
The boat was borrowed from the cross-sea bridge. The Han tribe had many boats that went to the bridge to transport building materials, such as steel bars, cement, and river sand. These had to be collected and made from various places and then sent to the bridge construction site. When these boats returned, they were basically empty because there was really nothing to send to the north.
It was nothing more than getting some sea fish that the northern people had never eaten, pickled them into dried fish, and then they were worth shipping to the north.
But this time it just happened to help Yang Feng.
At the construction site of the cross-sea bridge, Zhuping received Luo Chong's order and without saying a word, he selected a thousand prisoners of war with quarrying experience and asked them to take a boat to Takuhai County immediately. When passing by the eastern part of Qiongzhou Island, he also took the soldiers of Bao Taowei on board, completing two tasks at once.
At the same time, the comprehensive research institute on the lake island in the eight counties of Hanyang also received Luo Chong's order.
The comprehensive research institute also has its own industries, such as glass factories and coking plants, especially coking plants, which are a kind of chemical plants. There is also an explosives factory that Luo Chong had just prepared before going south, which is also its subordinate unit.
The main component of picric acid explosives is phenol, which is distilled from coal tar, which is a by-product of coking plants. Therefore, Luo Chong only needs to hand over the matter of mobilizing explosives for construction projects to the Comprehensive Research Institute, and they can arrange for execution immediately.
On the other hand, Dali in Xingang County also received Luo Chong's order and complied with all the above requirements. Tools, rails, and railway accessories are all easy to deal with, but Luo Chong wants two trains right away. This is really a bit difficult. No matter how fast the trains are built, it will take a month, right?
Fortunately, Luo Chong came up with an idea. First, one train was drawn from each mine in Xingang County and Dongxin County, and then they would produce more by themselves. Moreover, it was not just two trains. Luo Chong wanted eight trains, two of which were for Dali and Jing Yan, and the others were also to be shipped to the south.
The south was short of trains. Although there was no railway for the time being, it did need so many.
For example, the line from Takuhai County to the capital is a loop line, with two lines going back and forth, but only one train is running, which seriously reduces the transportation capacity of the railway. At least one train is needed for this line alone.
There is also Youfu, the eight counties of Yuantang tribe, and even Qiongzhou Island. Railways will be built on the island in the future.
Ten trains are not enough for so many railway lines.
Dali had no choice but to withdraw trains from the mine, and then prepared a batch of materials, which were immediately transported to the dock of Weishan County for loading, ready to be transported south by water.
At the same time, Youfu also received Luo Chong's order in Qi'an County in the middle and lower reaches of the Liuyang River, but he was the last to receive the order because the flying eagle letter was sent directly to Qi'an County, and Youfu was not there at the time.
Youfu had already planned the railway route from Qi'an County to Taigang County. At this time, he was also preparing for the construction of the Qitai Line Railway. When he saw Luo Chong asking him to split the road construction team in half, he frowned immediately.
The Qitai Line is the most geologically complex, route-wise and construction-difficult route among all the railway projects of the Han tribe. He was still worried that he didn't have enough manpower, and now half of it was going to be taken away. How could he not be worried?
Fortunately, Luo Chong had another explanation later. When he saw Luo Chong said that he would supplement him with at least one thousand regular army engineers, You Fu immediately laughed.
Yes, I was still worrying too much. The leader is such a smart man, how could he not think of something that I could think of? So I handed the people over without hesitation!
(End of this chapter)
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