Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 597 Amazing speed
On the southern edge of the Horqin Grassland, [-] soldiers of the Liaodong Army and more than [-] young men were busy on the Gobi Desert. The dense stream of people lined up tens of miles long.

What they have to do is actually very simple, that is, dig two rows of pits about half a foot wide and half a foot deep in the ground, then fill the pits with gravel, and then lay sleepers and rails on them.

As for how to balance the rest of the sleepers and tracks, it is natural that the head of the Ministry of Industry will bring special tools and experienced craftsmen to adjust, and they don't care.

This seemingly simple task needs to have a clear division of labor and process if it wants to be efficient. Those who dig pits, sieve soil, move gravel, move sleepers, lift rails, etc. must be assigned in advance. Work, and follow the process.

They can't fill the pit with gravel before it's dug, and they can't fill the pit with gravel without sifting out the soil, and they can't lift the rails before the sleepers are padded.

They are quite familiar with these, because they have basically participated in the construction of the Liaodong Railway in the past few years, and the cooperation is quite smooth.

More than [-] people were busy working on the tens of miles long railway line. Suddenly there was a rumbling sound of horseshoes on the grassland, and the whole ground trembled.

Zu Dabi, the leader of the army, lay down on the ground and immediately jumped up and shouted: "At least tens of thousands of cavalry, all infantry, quickly take weapons and form an array, and all young and strong retreat."

"Wow", the tens of miles long dragon instantly separated from his position like a wave. The infantry of the Liaodong Army quickly picked up the swords, guns, shields and even muskets that were put aside, and formed rows of shields and shields in the north. The gun formation, while the young and strong who came to work quickly retreated south.

Zu Dabi quickly got on the mount led by his personal guards, rode to the front of the formation, took out the binoculars and looked north, he couldn't help but sighed slightly disappointed

Uh, it's Liaodong iron cavalry, and their governor Lu Xiangsheng is leading the team.

He always wanted to kill the enemy and make meritorious service, but he was sent to repair the railway for several months.

He kept fantasizing that Huang Taiji would come to make a sneak attack, but in the end it was his immediate superior who came.

Oh, itchy hands!
He put down the binoculars helplessly, pulled out the hatchet behind his back, and waved it towards the void.

What's this bastard doing?

Lu Xiangsheng rode his horse and ran up to take a look, he couldn't help being dumbfounded.

In fact, Zu Dabi just felt a little uncomfortable, so he swung the ax for a while to loosen his muscles and bones.

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng had already galloped up to him, he hurriedly put away his ax and bowed his hands: "The last general will see Mr. Lu."

Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the pawns who were waiting in full battle and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

Ugh, forgot to ask them to take the guy.

He quickly waved to the back and said: "Hurry up, hurry up, take the guy away, did you see that Master Lu is here?"

Immediately afterwards, he turned his head again, cupped his hands and said, "Uh, didn't the general think that the Jiannu cavalry came to attack you? Offended, offended, and please forgive Master Lu. I don't know if Master Lu will come and give orders."

This kid has learned a little bit of writing.

Lu Xiangsheng said solemnly: "I don't have any instructions, the emperor is coming, so I should come to inform you in advance."

The emperor is here!

Zu Dabi hurriedly shouted to the back: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and work!"

He thought Taichang was here to see if they were slacking off.

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but shook his head with a smile.

These two idiots seem to have learned to be smart and know how to figure out the holy will.

However, this time it was wrong.

He raised his binoculars and scanned towards the east, then beckoned and said: "Come on, Da Bi, go over there with me to find a flat land, and when the emperor comes over, we can set up camp."

When Zu Dabi heard this, he hurriedly followed Lu Xiangsheng and tens of thousands of Liaodong cavalry to the east.

They ran for nearly a quarter of an hour before they found a flat ground with a radius of several miles near the locomotive to the east.

This so-called locomotive is actually a two-way locomotive, with only a few carriages in the middle, which are specially used to transport rails and sleepers, and there is one on every newly built railway line.

This kind of locomotive will follow wherever the railway is repaired. Anyway, it can be driven on both sides without turning around. It is more convenient to transport rails and sleepers.

After Lu Xiangsheng found the place, he sent Kuaiqi back to lead the way. They waited for about half an hour before a huge convoy of [-] infantry chariots and [-] horse-drawn carriages came in a neat formation.

Those pawns and young adults who were repairing the railway just glanced at it curiously, then lowered their heads and went to work on their own.

They have seen this infantry fighting vehicle before, so there is nothing unusual about it.

However, before the camp was surrounded by two hundred infantry fighting vehicles and two thousand carriages, a row of huge black shadows appeared in the east.

This time, the pawns and young men who built the railway were a little surprised, because all the strange chariots came from the east, some with giant arms, some with iron hooks, some with big shovels, etc. The cars are all so weird.

What are these chariots used for?
Could it be that these are chariots used to attack the city or tear down the city wall?

These are certainly not tanks.

Holding up his binoculars, Taichang glanced at the strange team, and couldn't help but slightly nodded.

Well, these special machines are doing well, at least, Song Yingxing didn't bother to misunderstand him.

As for whether it is useful or not, you will know after trying it.

Thinking of this, Taichang directly said to Zu Dabi who was at the side: "Dabi, tell everyone to stop and rest aside, everyone, stay one mile away from the railway line."

Uh, what is this for?
Although Zu Dabi didn't understand what Taichang wanted to do, he sent the order.

Taichang, on the other hand, led Lu Xiangsheng and a group of guards on horseback towards the weird team.

Naturally, Song Yingxing had seen Taichang a long time ago. These special machines were not the same as infantry fighting vehicles. The front of the driver's cab was not equipped with steel plates, but glass.

He had already seen the huge car formation, and he also saw Taichang and others in front of the car formation. He just didn't expect that the emperor would come up to meet him in person.

Uh, what should I do now?

After thinking for a while, he still raised his hand to stop the motorcade, then hurriedly got out of the car, stood in front of the car and bowed his hands: "My humble minister sees the emperor."

This guy, why did he run down? I am waiting for you to drive the machine over and try it.

Taichang was stunned for a moment, and then said to Cao Huachun beside him, "Go, give Chang Geng a horse."

Cao Huachun waved his hand quickly, and a guard immediately got off his horse, led the horse forward, and asked Song Yingxing to ride on his own.

Seeing that Song Yingxing was already on his horse, Taichang immediately waved and said, "Let's go, let's try."

Song Yingxing quickly waved his hand to the back, and led the convoy towards the railway line under construction.

The Liaodong Army is still very experienced in railway construction. Basically, the front section close to the locomotive has been paved with gravel and even sleepers, and the tracks have been lifted to the side, ready to be put on the shelves.

Naturally, there is no way for the machines in this kind of place where the repairs are almost the same to be driven in to work.

They had no choice but to keep going, and kept going, until they were more than ten miles ahead, and finally reached a place where no foundation had been dug and no gravel had been filled.

Seeing this, Song Yingxing immediately ordered two machines with row plows to drive into the half-dug foundation, then inserted the row plows down, and drove directly along the railway line.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered two machines with shovels to drive over, dropped the shovels into the dug tunnel, and pushed them forward.

This is a machine dedicated to digging foundations. The plow and shovel are of good size, and there are iron plates on both sides of the machine for shoveling soil. The board shunts to both sides.

As long as the two machines are driven one after the other, the foundation will be dug, and the ground on both sides of the foundation will be compacted.

Of course, this is only the first step.

The next step is to fill in the gravel.

There are quite a lot of stones on the Gobi Desert, but some are big and some are small. The big ones can be bigger than a person, and the small ones can be used directly by sieving the soil.

This cannot be done purely mechanically, and someone needs to help.

Song Yingxing called Zu Dabi to discuss for a while, and Zu Dabi immediately recruited thousands of strong infantry, who were originally responsible for sifting soil and stones.

Immediately afterwards, Song Yingxing waved his hand, and the two row plow excavators began to work.

They first plowed across the Gobi Desert, and then pushed back, it was a mound like a hill. Thousands of strong men only needed to go over with a sieve to screen out the stones in the mound.

The same is true for the soil and rocks shoveled out of the foundation. They only need to screen out the rocks inside and pile them into two piles according to their size.

Immediately afterwards, two bulldozer-like machines continuously pushed the selected stones into the foundation, under the large pile and above the small pile, at a very fast speed.

As for the sleepers and rails, there are also special machines for loading them, and they are driven aside.

These two machines are equipped with chutes on the side, and the machine that transports the rails also has two large iron arms, and there are hoists on the iron arms.

However, the efficiency of these two machines is not very high, and people have to go up and slide the sleepers up and down the chute, or lift the rails with a hoist, and then push them onto the chute to slide down.

Next, it is necessary to use manpower to lift the sleepers and rails to the paved gravel roadbed.

To put it bluntly, these are two specially transported machines, which just save the effort and time of people carrying them from a distance.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help instructing: "Chang Geng, your machine for transporting sleepers and rails can be raised a little higher, so that it can be driven directly on the paved gravel.

The machine for transporting the sleepers can add a chain conveyor belt at the back, and the conveyor belt can also be equipped with slots according to the intervals of the sleepers, so that as long as the sleepers are slowly transported down the slots, the people below only need to straighten the sleepers. up.

Also, the machine for transporting the rails can be made into two chutes with pulleys. As long as the rails are hoisted and placed in the chutes, the rails can slowly slide down and slide onto the sleepers. "

Song Yingxing heard the words, couldn't help nodding and said: "I understand, I will change it when I go back, and I will be able to change it in a few days."

In fact, the speed of laying railways is fast enough without changing the speed of these two machines.

Because the most time-consuming part of laying the railway is to dig the roadbed, fill the gravel, and move the sleepers and rails.

These few things are replaced by machines, and the speed of laying the rails is quite amazing.

Basically, as long as the machine is driven over, the rails will be laid at a speed visible to the naked eye, and there is no problem in laying more than 100 miles a day!

Moreover, with these machines, a lot of manpower can be saved, which can be directly used to build cities and stations.

(End of this chapter)