The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 236 Emergency Expedition

The military residential area was naturally not built on Panshan Mountain or Tianzhu Mountain.

Instead, it was built in a nearby town.

There are many mountains here, and the towns are not too big, with a town area usually having only a few thousand people.

A military community is a place where you find a piece of land to build houses.

The houses built here are very similar to those in Panshan Machinery Factory, with each building having two households, each with an area of ​​120 square meters, and all of them are staircase houses.

The construction will be divided into three phases, with 8000 houses built, and all property rights belong to Panshan Machinery Factory.

Military family members can live there, but the house does not belong to the soldiers.

Once fully occupied, there will be about 40,000 people.

One thousand houses have been built and are allocated first to cadres.

The investment to build these 8000 houses exceeded million yuan.

In addition, jobs will be arranged for family members, with at least one job for each household.

However, the holidays for cadres of different ranks are different. As for soldiers, they only have three days off each month, and they have to take turns.

The military residential areas are distributed in three townships, and the distance between them is at least four or five kilometers.

The residential quarters that Liu Tao, Li Fuguo and Zhao Guoping came to had already been built and were even inhabited.

Zhao Guoping reported the situation: "Some soldiers' families are unwilling to move to the family quarters, and only a small number of soldiers are married."

This phenomenon exists not only among soldiers, but also among cadres, a large number of whom are still unmarried.

As for the fact that the soldiers' families were unwilling to come, Liu Tao could understand that. After all, many soldiers came from all over the world and were reluctant to leave their homeland. Who would be willing to travel thousands of miles to Yunnan Province? In many people's impressions, Yunnan Province was a border and poor place.

"For cadres who have reached the marriageable age, we need to find ways to get married." Liu Tao also had a headache.

Because this problem exists not only in the combined brigade, but in the entire Panshan Machinery Factory.

There are more men than women!

There are even many people who are still unmarried at the age of 30.

In the surrounding areas, everyone who could act as a matchmaker did so.

But there is still a big gap.

This is a long-standing problem at Panshan Machinery Factory.

After inspecting the military family residential area, Liu Tao left and returned to Panshan Machinery Factory.

We have just entered September.

In the middle of the night, Liu Tao was awakened by a phone call, his eyes were full of shock.

On September 9, the Soviet Union mobilized tens of thousands of tanks, more than 4 infantry fighting vehicles, and a total of more than 2000 Soviet troops to conduct an eight-day military exercise.

This is also the largest strategic exercise in the world since World War II.

For this exercise, the Soviet Union also specially invited journalists from various countries as well as ambassadors and military attachés stationed in the Soviet Union to watch it in person.

The West-81 military exercise was the first in the world to demonstrate the power of mechanized forces.

There is no doubt that this was the largest military exercise in human history, and it was also a "muscle show" by the Soviet Army during its heyday. It allowed the world to see the powerful Soviet armed forces.

The entire West was extremely pessimistic and believed that it would only take a week for the Soviet army to push across Europe and reach the Atlantic coast, and they would be unable to do anything and could not stop it at all.

In this exercise, the Soviet Union mobilized almost all branches of the Soviet Army, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, motorized infantry, rocket launchers, artillery, tactical missiles, strategic missiles, pontoon troops, air defense forces, frontline aviation, navy, and marines.

"The terrible polar bear!" Liu Tao's eyes were full of shock.

At this time, the Soviet Army was truly at its peak and was the undisputed world's largest military power. The total strength of the Soviet Army exceeded 500 million, including 200 million in the Army, with about 200 combat divisions of various types, more than 53000 tanks, more than 63000 infantry fighting vehicles, more than 48000 artillery pieces, more than 4000 helicopters of the Army Aviation, more than 1200 aircraft of the Soviet National Air Defense Force, and more than 11000 aircraft and helicopters of various types of the Soviet Air Force, including more than 6000 front-line combat fighters and attack aircraft, 670 strategic bombers, and more than 1000 combat aircraft of the Soviet Naval Aviation.

"Comrade Liu Tao, please leave for North China immediately. This is an order from our superiors!" the leader said in a deep voice.

"Understood!" Liu Tao agreed immediately.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Tao immediately called the combined brigade headquarters.

The Black Hawk helicopter landed at the Panshan Machinery Factory soon. Liu Tao boarded the helicopter, which went directly to the Tianzhushan Combined Brigade Command.

When Liu Tao arrived at the combined brigade headquarters, Li Fuguo, Zhao Guoping and others were already there, as were the battalion commanders and company commanders of each battalion.

"According to the order from our superiors, the combined brigade must assemble immediately and arrive in Zhangjiakou, North China, on September 9!" Liu Tao announced the order.

Li Fuguo and Zhao Guoping's faces changed.

"Director, is it the north?" Li Fuguo thought of something at the first moment and his eyes widened.

Zhao Guoping thought of it at the same time.

The polar bears have deployed millions of troops in the north, so you can imagine the pressure that brings.

The first thing they thought of was that millions of polar bear lions were marching south.

Any mid-level commander would involuntarily imagine this situation.

The situation is so urgent now that we have to set off overnight, so it is very likely that this is what happened.

Liu Tao waved his hand and interrupted Li Fuguo: "This is just a long-planned drill. There is no need to say anything else. Assemble immediately!"

This action is just to allow the troops to have actual training and to see the training results of the troops. It has no other meaning.

Soon, emergency assembly whistles were sounded in each camp.

"Emergency gathering!"

Everyone is ready to go to the front line at any time!

The battalion commanders of each battalion looked at the time on their watches, and soon all the soldiers were lined up fully armed.

"Destination: Panshan Machinery Factory, let's go!"

Soldiers have a duty to obey orders!
The order was given. Although many soldiers were confused about where to go so late at night, they still carried out the order.

The Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, Type 80 tank and Type 81 infantry fighting vehicle were started. The soldiers entered the infantry fighting vehicles one after another, and those who did not have enough space got on the transport vehicles.

The troops set out immediately.

Li Fuguo and others sat in the command vehicle, while Liu Tao, Zhao Guoping and others took the Black Hawk helicopter and rushed back to Panshan Machinery Factory as soon as possible.

The logistics department is already preparing weapons and ammunition, including training ammunition and live ammunition.

When the troops arrived, the train had also arrived.

The soldiers drove the tanks, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, self-propelled howitzers, and infantry fighting vehicles onto the train one after another, then secured them and camouflaged the surface.

Trains set off one after another.

By noon, all twenty trains had been mobilized and transported.

It takes three days and three nights to get from Panshan Machinery Factory to Zhangjiakou in North China.

Li Fuguo went with the troops, while Liu Tao and Zhao Guoping and a few others took a helicopter directly to the airport.

There are military cadres here, and they will fly to Zhangjiakou.

Many of the cadres were acquainted by Liu Tao, and after some greetings, they boarded the plane.

(End of this chapter)