In the ruins of Qingluan Port, local workers were working with Qin prisoners of war and Tang garrison to clean up the wreckage on the dock.
There is still a mast exposed on the sea in the distance. It is a Qin cruiser that sank in the port. Before it sank, even the artillery was removed and deployed on the shore to serve as a fort.
Unfortunately, the fort belonging to it has been blown up by the Tang army, and this is now a port under the control of the Tang Empire.
On the other side of the port, there are at least thirty Qin submarines of various styles parked densely. Some of these submarines are slightly larger, some are slightly smaller, but they all look rusty.
There is no way, they have not been maintained by someone for more than ten days, and they have been left to dry in the wind and sun, and they can no longer be used.
Qingluan Port originally had a dedicated submarine dock. They were built on the outside of the hidden port in a newly developed area.
There is a military zone over there, with large barracks, field airports, and various other facilities. Unfortunately, when the troops of the Tang Empire came over, the resisting Qin army destroyed everything there.
It has to be said that the Qin army that defended Qingluan Port showed rare combat effectiveness. They fought until the last moment. Only when generals like Sun Guang ran away did the Qin soldiers who stood firm surrender.
Before surrendering, Qin's engineers deployed explosives and blew up all the submarine docks hidden under the cliffs.
It takes more time to clean up the ruins there, so these returning submarines can only dock at ordinary docks and let the sea water corrode and rot.
Within a few days of these submarines docked here, they could no longer be used. The Tang army would not be interested in these outdated junk. The Qin submarine soldiers are now in prisoner-of-war camps, let alone driving them.
These are war machines.
What's more, some of their main parts have actually been dismantled: Tang Jun didn't have much energy to manage these junk, so he just destroyed the key parts and piled them in the corner of the dock to be scrapped.
The diesel engines of many submarines have been directly destroyed, and some have even had their hatch covers removed: as long as they dare to dive, seawater will pour into the hull...
All the torpedo fuses have been removed, and some periscopes and the like have been simply destroyed with grenades... In short, these submarines have long been out of use.
"So many new submarines, after less than a year of use... will be dismantled as scrap metal. What a pity." A Qin prisoner saw those submarines, shook his head and sighed.
He will not forget the scene of celebrations in the Navy when these brand-new submarines were built more than a year ago. The military band kept playing, the officials clapped and cheered, and the submarines that had just been built were pushed into the water and splashed.
Huge waves.
A new submarine is launched in almost two or three days. This gadget with a displacement of several thousand tons is indeed easier to produce than a complex aircraft carrier battleship.
But they did not play their due role in the war. Of the more than 100 submarines built by the Qin State before the war, at least half were sunk by the Tang Army.
"Waste..." Another Qin soldier shook his head and sighed. He also felt that it was a serious waste to scrap so many submarines for nothing.
In his opinion, it is unbelievable that Qin lost this war: How did Tang, which was so extravagant and wasteful, win this war? This is completely contrary to common sense, isn't it?
What they didn't know was that several bosses had already arrived at the dock over there, accompanied by an officer from the Tang Army, to inspect these submarines.
These bosses purchased these submarines and planned to dismantle them and re-smelt them into steel. After all, the steel used in these submarines is still very good.
On the city's roads, civilians, workers, and the military are all filling in the big holes created by the shells. They are trying to fill the roads with the surrounding waste materials to restore traffic as much as possible.
Children are also picking up broken stones around the building so that after a day's work, they can receive canned food or other items for dinner.
Due to the lack of heavy machinery, the city's repair progress was very slow. No matter how powerful the Tang Empire was, it had its limits. After swallowing up the territories of Chu, Shu, and Dahua, the reconstruction work indeed began to slow down.
The areas close to the Tang Empire look pretty good, and the construction progress there is also the best. However, in the areas far away from the Tang Empire and close to the front lines, the construction of the Tang Empire seems to be somewhat inadequate.
There is a shortage of manpower everywhere, a lack of tools everywhere, and a shortage of heavy machinery. In order to support the army's operations, precious transportation capacity can only be provided to the army first.
The further away from the mainland of the Tang Empire, the worse the road traffic will be, the greater the pressure on the logistics troops, and the less strength the military can spare to support the local area. This is an objective law and cannot be changed.
Qingluan Port is located in such a place that is too far away from the mainland of the Tang Empire. The resistance of the Qin State destroyed the railway here, blew up the airport, and destroyed the dock, which further made the reconstruction work difficult.
Compared with those cities that surrendered easily, Qingluan Port was obviously one of the most severely damaged cities. And what made the locals hate it was that most of the damage was caused by the Qin defenders' own explosions.
How great it was to blow it up at the time, how difficult it is to repair it now. Countless prisoners of the Qin army were escorted to engage in post-war cleanup work, and their treatment was not as good as that of the locals.
"Hurry up and work! What are you mumbling about? This place is so damaged, and it wasn't you who blew it up yourself? What's the use of complaining? Do you understand that you have to use your labor to pay off the debt? Pay back the debt you owe!" looked at these Qin people.
The Tang Army soldier who took the Chinese prisoners scolded, interrupting the two prisoners' sighs.
The two of them did not dare to continue looking at the scrapped submarine on the other side of the dock. They lowered their heads and began to move the gravel on the ground with their hands.
The sound of gunfire has stopped, and the cries of seagulls echo over the dock. A Tang Empire transport ship loaded with supplies is parked far away on the sea. It has to wait for a while before it can be repaired by the ship. Now
The only working pier.
At this moment, ships were leaning on both sides of the dock being repaired, and a group of dockworkers were constantly transporting supplies from the ship. These goods from Dongwan Port filled the area where the goods were temporarily stored.
In the center of the city, which was almost blown to the ground, a huge red royal flag was raised, accompanied by the cheers of the Tang army. The local people also shouted and applauded. In the eyes of these people, the war had finally come to an end.
