Australian Storm 1876 - Chapter 1106

Chapter 1106 Back to Barracks

A few days later, the vacation was over. Yu Hongyun and more than 160 officers and soldiers who had ended their vacation took a fast small steamer from Yalta to the port of Odessa. From a distance, three dark ocean-going submarines were seen parked in the port.

Introduced by officers with knowledge of the peers;

This is a new type of ocean-going submarine developed by the Royal Navy. It has a displacement of more than 3,800 tons and an endurance of more than 7,000 kilometers. It can run back and forth from Somalia to Crimea without refueling.

The submarine has a strong transportation capacity, capable of transporting 960 tons of materials, passing through the Spruance Strait silently.

I don’t know what secret transportation mission was performed when I arrived in Crimea this time.

If Zheng Xiaowu was here, he would definitely try to find out. He is a very curious guy. After drinking a big drink, there is nothing he does not know about the anecdotes of the officers in the division, commonly known as “things”. mom”.

Would you like such a person?

That thing will end as long as the deputy battalion commander, and it is a waste of time to continue to stay in the army.

If it wasn’t for his broken mouth that was looser than the waistband of his trousers, he would have been the battalion commander of the main combat battalion by now, and maybe the lieutenant colonel’s deputy commander would have hope.

It turned out to be bad in this mouth. It was good to drink two glasses, but when you drink too much, you can’t control your mouth…

Yu Hongyun didn’t have much to do. He listened to the discussions of the officers, and looked at the three long ocean-going submarines moored in the port. He knew that these were wave-piercing sharp bows, which could easily separate the waves and achieve high speed. .

The front section of the hull is equipped with a 76mm howitzer, which is an important weapon for submarines to attack cargo ships. Generally, when a single enemy cargo ship is found, the submarine will surface and manipulate the artillery to be sunk or captured.

Since loading torpedoes is very troublesome, during submarine operations, torpedo strikes will only be carried out when they encounter enemy ships, large freighters or enemy **** convoys.

After the small steamer docked

Yu Hongyun followed the flow of people ashore, and was allowed to leave after the military police checked the military ID. The officers stationed around Odessa left either on foot or by car.

He also had to take the train to Kyiv. After two and a half hours of driving, he got off at a town called Criviozero, where the 4th Division of Kalimantan was stationed.

This railway is very busy. It undertakes the daily transportation of millions of people of the Second Army and its Belarusian troops. From materials to ammunition, from food distribution to furloughed officers and soldiers, they mainly rely on this railway artery.

Waited for over an hour

Yu Hongyun got on the morning train at Odessa Railway Station and drove towards the north all the way, and the final destination was a small station in front.

Sitting on the train and looking out the window, in the large wheat fields that have been harvested, local Ukrainian farmers are driving cattle to plough. This is a very hard work. You can see many women and children doing it, which is rarely seen Young and strong man.

on the Eastern Front

Tsarist Russia has sacrificed too many young and middle-aged laborers. Ukraine is the hardest hit area for conscription. Many peasants in their 50s have been forcibly conscripted into the army. This is because the Belarusian army is deceived and deceived.

After many troops suffered heavy losses, they forced the local people to make up for their fear of accountability from their superiors.

Yu Hongyun has been here for more than a year. He once saw with his own eyes the wolves and tigers of the Belarusian army to capture the soldiers.

In the villages he passed by, the men were either old men with gray hair or immature teenagers who were not as tall as rifles.

In the coastal towns and factories, it is relatively good, and you can often see a large number of male workers and citizens coming and going. In the countryside, the situation is much worse, which is basically the same as what he saw.

would rather be a dog of peace than a person in a troubled world.

The old Ukrainian old men in ragged clothes had a weather-beaten and miserable look on their faces. They were all starved to the bone, and the fat and strong ones were mostly landlords, gentry or thugs.

No matter where in the world, war has brought serious disasters to the common people, without exception.

The    2nd Army, as a foreign army, is powerless to do anything about it. In order to maintain the stability and stability of the occupied area, it can only turn a blind eye.

In the Greater Crimea area delimited by the Holy Spirit (that is, the border line drawn from central Moldova, including Odessa, the Crimean Peninsula and other coastal areas, a total of about 130,000 square kilometers), the Ukrainian landlord and squire class in this area They were relocated in large numbers to the surrounding areas of Kyiv.

Those who dared to resist were directly labeled as a fornicating German. The military’s approach was simple and rude, and it didn’t make sense at all, but the effect was surprisingly good.

The vacated land will be used to build Belarusian military camps and Chinese collective farms, and assign land to officers and soldiers who have made outstanding contributions to the war.

Now, massive infrastructure construction is underway.

Speaking of infrastructure, although Western Ukraine is located in Europe, the level of infrastructure is simply outrageous. The only railway runs from Odessa to Kyiv and extends all the way to Minsk in Belarus.

Of course, it has now been discontinued.

It belongs to the German occupation area and is facing away from the 2nd Army. The forward position of the Belarusian vassal army is only a dozen kilometers away from the German army.

Belarus is divided into two parts, the one near the west is occupied by the Germans, and the one near the east belongs to the new government of the Russian workers. After entering the Ukraine area to the south, it is the occupied area of ​​the 2nd Army. The three forces are clearly divided.

The new Tsarist Russian government is now unable to challenge the occupation of the 2nd Army, and the 2nd Army upholds the will of the Allies and does not recognize the legitimacy of the new Russian government.

Now in Kyiv, foreign intervention troops, including 11 European countries, have arrived one after another, and the total number has increased to more than 67,000. They have been crossing the border to fight and support the white bandit rebellion in eastern Ukraine.

In short, the current situation in Ukraine is a mess, only in the core occupation area of ​​the 2nd Army, that is, the Greater Crimea, the situation is stable, and there is a thriving construction scene.

More than 500,000 prisoners started construction together. The scene was really crowded and very spectacular.

This kind of sight cannot be seen in other areas.

Along the dividing line delineated by the Holy Master, a long barbed wire has been pulled out from the central part of Moldova to the east side of the Crimea Peninsula. This area has a 3-kilometer-wide isolation belt from other Ukrainian areas. Anyone crossing illegally.

behind barbed wire

A reinforced concrete permanent bunker is built every 150 meters, which can station 10 to 12 soldiers, equipped with 2 to 3 heavy machine guns, and built permanent tunnel fortifications.

During the emergency period of combat readiness, troops can be stationed quickly.

A large fortification is built every 500 meters, which can station a company of soldiers, equipped with small and medium-caliber artillery, enough to cover the surrounding area.

Every 4~5 kilometers, a solid military camp is built. Various bright and dark fortresses and large trench positions are built around it. Usually, a battalion of soldiers can be stationed and equipped with patrol vehicles such as armored trucks. Wartime is a solid point of support for the entire front.

Concealed artillery positions were built on the rear positions of the isolation area to strengthen the fire support for the forward front.

Yu Hongyun knows;

On the day when the war really ends, the entire 2nd Army will shrink back to the Greater Crimea region, which is the real territory of the Empire.

So, he looked around, the advancing train left behind one village after another in the vast western Ukrainian wilderness, the villagers in ragged clothes, the winding country paths, the high-rise buildings with Russian characteristics, and the clear river. …

The very idyllic scenery is all thrown behind you. This is a foreign land. No matter who will rule in the future, it has nothing to do with the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Army.

The soldiers are just passers-by in this land, and they only care about the construction of the Greater Crimea. As for the suffering of these Ukrainian people, the local tyrants and evil gentry oppressing the people, that is not their concern.

The train swayed for two and a half hours, and the long whistle finally came in, and the town of Criviozello arrived.

The officers and soldiers of the    Expeditionary Force did not like the complicated and mouth-watering place names in Russia, so they referred to this place as the 4th Division, which means the station of the Fourth Division in Kalimantan.

Yu Hongyun got off the train, looked around with the bag in his hand, and heard someone shouting from a distance; “The camp is here.”

A lot of officers and soldiers got off the train. All of them were officers and soldiers of the four divisions who took turns on vacation. There were many military vehicles parked outside the small train station platform. One of the second lieutenant officers was waving and shouting at Yu Hongyun.

Yu Hongyun smiled when he saw him. This was Hu Dashuan, the platoon commander of the battalion headquarters. Because the tank battalion was still 5 kilometers away from the town, he deliberately drove to the train station to pick him up.

“Dashuan, thank you for your hard work, how long did you wait?”

“It didn’t take long, we only got half an hour.”

“How’s it going in the camp, is everything normal?” Yu Hongyun said, threw the bag in his hand onto the jeep, and sat in the co-pilot’s seat.

Second Lieutenant Hu Dashuan climbed to the back seat and sat down and replied, “Report to the battalion seat, the armored tank battalion is all normal. A batch of spare parts has just arrived a few days ago. Our battalion is organizing officers and soldiers to repair and maintain the vehicles, and it is now coming to an end. Organize military tactical gain and loss seminars and model work, just waiting for you to come back at the helm.”

“Oh, let’s go, back to the camp.”

“As ordered, sir.” The jeep driver of the guard platoon raised his hand in a salute, replied with a sound, put the joystick in gear, stepped on the accelerator and flew away.

Criviozello is a very traditional rural town with a street length of only more than 300 meters. Today, military vehicles are neatly parked along the road in the town.

The jeep started to accelerate after leaving normal, bumping along the country dirt road.

The infrastructure in the entire Ukraine is very backward, not even a single asphalt road.

The so-called road is a dirt road. At most, some stone roads or gravel roads are paved in big cities like Kyiv. When you leave the city, it is a dirt road, but it is a little wider and some narrower.

in a jeep

His face was jumping all over the place, and he couldn’t hear his speech with “shaking hehe”. When sitting in the car, he had to hold the iron handrail in front of him firmly, otherwise a big pothole could throw people out.

ten minutes later

There is an orthodox Russian village in front of you, here is the station of the armored tank battalion, a village called Zhevorovsky, if you don’t consider the rows of neatly parked steel chariots, then under the background of wild flowers and green trees , looks quiet and beautiful.

(end of this chapter)