The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 463: Fighting as a brigade?
The University Town around Dianchi Lake is a super large project.

In addition to building various university campuses, there will also be supporting projects such as transportation, electricity, water diversion, and communications.

The total investment for this entire mega project is estimated to reach RMB 300 billion.

In addition to the campus and scientific research institutions, a highway will be built around Dianchi Lake, with a total length of 110 kilometers; a subway will also be built around Dianchi Lake, with a total length of 110 kilometers.

Kunming City or Yunnan Province certainly cannot afford so much money.

Among them, Panshan Group contributed RMB 100 billion, and the other RMB 200 billion was borrowed from banks by Yunnan Province using Panshan Group's tax revenue as collateral, with an interest rate as low as 2%.

The interest rate is very low, only 2%, but when the amount is large, the interest alone will be 4 million a year, which is shocking.

Liu Tao went to the city to attend the provincial party committee meeting.

Because after the Lantern Festival, construction of highways and subways will begin.

The construction of the subway was handed over to the Ministry of Railways, while the expressway was constructed by China Construction Group.

At this time, there is no need to worry about a lack of workers.

Because there is too much idle labor in society!
However, with the development of society, labor costs are obviously much higher than a few years ago, and each year is higher than the previous year.

At nine o'clock the next morning, a general plan of the Yunnan Ring Plan was hung in the conference room.

This is the current master plan formed by continuous adjustments to the master plan over the past few years. Every university, every scientific research institution, etc. are all well planned.

Two different ring roads are very obvious, namely the Dianchi Ring Expressway and the Dianchi Ring Metro.

A few days after the meeting, grand groundbreaking ceremonies were held for both projects.

For the construction of the Dianchi Lake Metro, four super-large shield machines were specially prepared. Each shield machine can dig 24 meters in 24 hours. Four machines can dig 96 meters per day. It will take less than four years to complete the entire Dianchi Lake Metro project.

The ring expressway project also took about four years to complete.

At this time, Liu Tao also received good news, that is, the Hong Kong government finally approved the "Hong Kong Island Line", with a total length of 11 kilometers and a total investment of 120 billion Hong Kong dollars.

And the project undoubtedly fell into their hands.

This also means that there will be endless projects to be done in the next few years.

Of course, there is a reason why the Hong Kong Island Line subway is expensive, as the geological conditions are much worse.

Malone Military Training Base.

Three combined arms brigades are in training.

As the saying goes, sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war.

It takes a thousand days to train soldiers and only a moment to use them. Only by training hard in normal times can they exert their combat effectiveness and reduce casualties on the battlefield.

By now, the three combined brigades are finally fully staffed.

The troops and equipment are fully staffed.

The soldiers of the three combined brigades can now be described as "proud soldiers and brave generals"!
Since the rotation of war, every surviving soldier has at least one military medal, and the third-class medal is the minimum.

One company and battalion after another was awarded honorary titles.

A force with honor is a force with real strong combat effectiveness.

For the troops, the honor of the troops is above all else and must be defended with blood and life.

Each combined brigade was established not long ago and they are all young troops.

But now every combined brigade is a unit with honor, and the honor of the unit is the collective honor of the soldiers.

The honor that the soldiers possess also influences the new recruits who join later, making them want to make achievements and train harder.

There were constant sounds of gunfire and artillery fire; that was live ammunition being conducted.

Liu Tao nodded slightly. Now the three combined brigades were all filled with murderous aura, a murderous aura that had been truly tested by blood and fire on the battlefield, fought time and time again, and condensed through the blood of the enemy.

Holding a telescope, Liu Tao kept looking around. The consumption of the three combined brigades last year reached a staggering level.

Whether it is the consumption on the battlefield or the consumption in daily training, it is all very exaggerated.

Liu Tao seldom comes to the Malong Military Training Base, only two or three times a year, which means he may not come once a quarter on average.

The military and political chiefs of the entire Malan Military Training Base are Li Fuguo and Zhao Guoping.

Hearing the footsteps, Liu Tao knew that Li Fuguo and Zhao Guoping were coming.

Put down the telescope in your hand.

"What do you think? Do you want to use brigade-level combat units to participate in rotation battles?" Liu Tao asked.

Not long ago, Li Fuguo and Zhao Guoping submitted a joint report to Liu Tao.

However, they took the initiative to ask for battle and requested that three combined brigades participate in the battle in the south as brigade units.

Before, the units involved in the battle were battalion-level combat units.

There has never been a whole combined arms brigade in combat.

In Liu Tao's opinion, this is simply using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Li Fuguo and Zhao Guoping looked at each other, and Li Fuguo said, "Director, the morale of our combined brigade is high now, and everyone is very willing to participate in the war."

"Furthermore, the mountain battles on the battlefield have basically ended. The terrain to the south and east is relatively flat, which can give full play to the combat effectiveness of our combined brigade." Li Fuguo said, "Didn't the factory director draw a line before? Now it seems that we can fully realize that strategy."

"We will first participate in the war as a brigade to conduct a running-in process. Once we have practiced on the battlefield, the three combined brigades will attack together to break their backbone and force them to surrender!" said Li Fuguo.

At the beginning, the line drawn by Liu Tao was as large as 10 square kilometers. Everyone thought it was completely impossible.

But by now, the mountain fighting has basically come to an end.

Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lao Cai, Lai Chau and Dien Bien are almost under control.

Further south, there are only a few strategic locations left!

It can be said that at the current rate of progress, this war will be over in two to three years at most.

If we don't hurry up, there won't be many battles left to fight.

The enemy suffered heavy casualties. Almost all of the veteran and elite soldiers were killed. A large amount of weapons and equipment were lost. More importantly, they lost the advantage of terrain.

Zhao Guoping said: "We now control about 1.5 square kilometers. As long as we increase our efforts, the territory we control will become larger and larger."

"And we can send out the Laotian and Cambodian guerrillas. It would be best if we can cut them off from the middle." Zhao Guoping smiled and said, "Even if we can't cut them off, harassing them and making it difficult for them to transport supplies is also good!"

Although this idea is hurtful, it is a good idea.

After being refitted, the guerrillas of the two countries still had some combat effectiveness, but the narrow terrain and mountains were too suitable for guerrilla warfare.

The narrow area in the middle, with a width of about 45 to 50 kilometers, was a fatal blow and could be easily cut off.

Once the north and south are cut off, the enemy will suffer a fatal blow because a lot of supplies have to be mobilized from the south to the north.

However, the Truong Son Mountains are not so easy to control. The most important thing is that Laos and Cambodia are too weak. The guerrillas of the two countries now only have a total of tens of thousands of people.

They are more than capable of protecting themselves, so it is completely impossible for them to fight a big war.

Liu Tao hesitated for a moment, thinking in his head. Although he had read the joint report several times, to be honest, he was still unsure.

After all, the consumption of a combined brigade is too high. As a brigade is a combat unit, how many bullets and ammunition should be prepared?
In addition, the terrain is complex. If the enemy sends a large number of troops to wipe out the whole army, Liu Tao will be heartbroken.

It is not easy to build a combined brigade.

These combined brigade cadres are the seeds of China's future combined forces.

(End of this chapter)