The railway was built as far as the fertilizer plant, and it can actually continue to be built southward. Yang Mingzhi did not mention this to Peronisky. After all, the railway matter was studied at the meeting, and the workers successfully completed the work.
, no need to force anything.
There is certainly reason to continue building the railway south, so that the sulfur ore from the mine, as well as the by-products of limestone, alum, etc., can also be transported to the blacksmith village efficiently.
You have to eat your food one bite at a time. This railway line has just been built, and you can't expect that the only train can carry all the transportation of fertilizers and ores. The biggest problem is that there is only one locomotive, and the arsenal has no plans to build another one for the time being.
Small steam locomotive. In fact, the solution to rail transportation is very simple - just use horses to pull the rail car.
Originally, using horses to pull rail cars was in line with the positioning of this railway track. Even in this era, in mineral mining in the Soviet Union and even many countries, horses were widely used to pull cars to pull out ore. In order to better meet the needs of pulling cars, several
Short-legged ponies were also bred.
The Romanians were defeated, and the more than a thousand horses they left behind became an important strategic resource. In the future, horses pulling a large number of rail cars loaded with ore in series on the railway may become the norm for transportation.
These are all possible in the future. Today, the method of transporting ore is still horse-drawn carriages. There was no rain in the swamp during these days, and after the dirt road was smoothed out, there were no accidents in the carriage transportation, not even a horse or donkey sprained its foot.
The fertilizer plant is very close to the military camp next to the mine. Yang Mingzhi remembers clearly that Joshua's female military camp set off back to their base on the 23rd. Compared with other participating troops, this camp worked one day longer. They worked hard for an extra day.
It must have been evening when we arrived at the mine on foot, and these hard-working female warriors were only given two days of leave.
Yang Mingzhi was very interested in the battalion commander whose real name was Qiu Sha, whose Belarusian homophony was Qiao Shuya, and he admired the female soldiers under her command. From that secret observation, he knew that these female soldiers were absolutely
They are women. After all, they have proven their high combat effectiveness with their terrifying achievements on the battlefield.
Therefore, Yang Mingzhi casually boasted to Yevlov: "The female soldiers who guarded the mines and supervised the prisoners of war were as brave as the men on the battlefield. The Romanians were beaten by them until they were completely annihilated. Every female soldier
They all achieved a record of killing enemies, which is also unimaginable in other troops!"
"Yes! I've heard about it, it's incredible!"
Yevlov was not a front-line witness to the battle. He had no choice but to listen to Yang Mingzhi's nonsense about what happened there until a detailed report on the results of the battle was written.
After Yang Mingzhi's embellished description, Yevlov also looked at the female soldiers with admiration.
"Oh, this road is still a bit bad, and there are deep ruts here! Female soldiers have to guard the mines, supervise the prisoners of war, and prevent the prisoners of war from escaping. Now no one will doubt that they can't do their current job well.
.”
Yang Mingzhi nodded: "So I thought of a word, bloody rose."
"Haha! Combining blood and roses is really appropriate!" Yevlov smiled helplessly, "However, it is really helpless to let women go to the battlefield! After all, if we want to survive, we must mobilize everyone who can fight.
, even women and children.”
This was also the first time Yevlov came to the mine. They were escorted by more than 20 guards, and the journey was uneventful. It was not until the group was approaching the military camp that they were discovered by a road checkpoint.
Under normal morale, the checkpoint guards will review all carriages passing here, except for some soldiers who are arranged to patrol the woods to prevent prisoners of war from escaping.
The sudden arrival of the commander and deputy commander shocked the female soldiers at the checkpoint. They were Joshua's soldiers and knew Yang Mingzhi's face very well. News of the commander's sudden arrival quickly spread to the military camp. When Joshua
Just as the remaining troops in the camp were urgently gathered, Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov came quietly.
"Report to comrade commander, comrade deputy commander! The garrison troops of the second battalion of the female battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 284th Guards Division have been assembled. Please give instructions!"
This woman spoke sonorously and forcefully, but Yang Mingzhi was still keenly aware that she seemed to be a little tired. There were only more than a hundred people gathered here. Although the battalion suffered more than 200 casualties in the battle, there were still nearly four people in the whole battalion.
Hundreds of people were safe and sound.
Yang Mingzhi immediately asked: "Comrade Battalion Commander! Where have the remaining people gone?"
"They are supervising the work of prisoners of war in the mine! Comrade Commander."
"Oh? The order I issued the day before yesterday was for all the troops participating in the war to take a three-day vacation. You soldiers should have a good rest in the barracks. I still remember, haven't I already sent a group of armed supervisors here? Could it be that they are older?
You have also gone through military training. What? Even so, you are still worried?"
"this……"
Joshua hesitated a little, because things here are indeed a bit complicated, because the current number of prisoners of war in the mine is not simply the three hundred German prisoners of war.
Yevlov spoke for her: "Berekov, let me tell you about this! I think they were also worried that there were too many prisoners of war and the armed supervisors lacked real combat experience, so they gave up for fear that something would happen.
take a vacation."
"Yes! Yes! That's what we think!" Joshua immediately added.
"Oh? Is there anything else? I haven't had anything to do with prisoners of war in the past two days. Could it be that they were all kicked to the mine?"
Yevlov continued to explain: "In fact, the interrogation raid of the group of Ukrainian traitors you brought back from the front line was over, some were sentenced to death, and most of them were taken to the mines to dig sulfur."
Yang Mingzhi was surprised to hear this, and he was even more surprised that Salinchkin did not order all of them to be executed for treason in accordance with the law.
"I see, it seems that we are becoming more civilized. Anyway, simply killing these traitors to our great motherland is a waste of labor. Letting them do the most dangerous work is also a severe punishment for their betrayal.
"
Yang Mingzhi's words greatly agreed with Yevlov. As a soldier, he understood the ideological trends of grassroots soldiers very well. He said: "The management of prisoners of war is mainly the responsibility of the Soviet of the Republic. Everyone's attitude is surprisingly consistent, that is, we will not
Killing innocent people indiscriminately, but the value of their labor must be completely squeezed out to atone for their sins. Even those traitors, if they did not do particularly bad things, were not killed. This is not only what Salinchkin meant, but also what everyone meant.
the meaning of."
"Haha, that's what everyone means." Yang Mingzhi glanced at the corner of his mouth and muttered, "Actually, it's not what Salinchkin meant."
"Ah? Belekov, what did you say?"
"Nothing? Let's go and see the work of these prisoners of war. By the way, Yevlov, it's your first time to come to our sulfur mine despite your busy schedule. I think you will be shocked by the scene later."
"Okay! I just want to be shocked. After staying in the command center for a long time without incident, my nerves should be stimulated."