Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 604 The Importance of Railway Repair

Cao Bianjiao gathered three troops from Shenwuying to win a big victory, and the main force of slavery was basically disabled.

At this time, people from all walks of life seemed to be able to push forward frantically, chasing the escaped Mongolian and Yuan tribe herdsmen.

Because the remaining troops of the slave establishment were no longer enough to pose any threat to them, even if they were all the way, they could easily defeat the remaining main force of the slave establishment.

However, Taichang did not order the Shenwuying army to advance crazily.

Because he didn't want things that were originally orderly to become messy.

If the various armies of the Shenwu Camp advance frantically, they will definitely be able to catch up with the fleeing Mongolian Yuan tribe herdsmen, and it is possible to catch up to more than [-] or even more than [-] within a few days.

In this way, it became a mess.

Because the Liaodong Cavalry is only equipped with [-] carriages, and the railway extending to the north of the Horqin Grassland has not yet started construction, the Liaodong Cavalry must transfer the captives to the southeast edge of the Horqin Grassland.

In other words, they can transfer up to [-] to [-] prisoners in one trip, and it takes at least five or six days to transfer them.

In this case, if more than a dozen or 20 herdsmen are caught at one time, it will not be a mess.

So, don't be in a hurry right now, and don't be in a hurry.

The army of the Shenwu Battalion can still advance slowly. Anyway, Jiannu has no power to fight back at this moment. They will be able to take all the Horqin Grassland in a month at most.

At that time, where will the hundreds of thousands of herdsmen go, and continue to run north?
At this moment, the north seemed to be still covered with ice and snow. When they ran over, the cattle, sheep and horses had no grass to eat at all.

In this case, how long can they survive and how far can they run?

Anyway, this time they want to clean up all the grasslands from the Chahar grassland to the south of the ice sheet, and it is impossible for these hundreds of thousands of herdsmen to go to the ice sheet.

These people will be caught by them sooner or later, why are they in a hurry?
Taichang didn't care about these at all at the moment, he was working with Song Yingxing to improve the machinery for building railways.

The railway is too important to Daming.

There is no car transportation at the moment. Although Daming water transportation is quite developed, there are not all rivers where boats can sail, nor can they go wherever they want.

It can be said that railway transportation is the fastest and easiest way of transportation at this moment, and railways can basically be repaired wherever they want.

Once the machine for building railways is developed, Daming will be able to build railways crazily. By then, the entire Ming Dynasty will develop rapidly.

As for the issue of Jiannu and the Mongolian and Yuan tribes, the transfer of captives also depends on the railway, and the development of the outside of the Great Wall will rely on the railway even more.

Therefore, building the railway is the most important thing at this moment.

On the Gobi Desert on the southern edge of the Horqin Grassland, the originally densely packed population of more than [-] people has shrunk by more than half.

Because there are machines for building railways, there is no need for so many people to work on the railway lines. The more than [-] laborers rushed to build the city at the scheduled intersection of the Chahar Railway and the Horqin Railway.

Now there are only [-] Liaodong Army infantry left here, and these [-] Liaodong Army infantry are quite relaxed. They basically sieve stones, move the sleepers and rails, and even move the rails and sleepers There is less and less work.

Because at the moment Taichang and Song Yingxing are researching machines for moving rails and sleepers.

Both of these machines have been modified once.

Originally, the chutes of these two machines were on the side, so someone had to lift the sleepers and rails to slide down on the chute, slide to the side of the roadbed, and then install someone to lift the sleepers and rails onto the roadbed.

At this moment, the bases of these two machines have been raised, and the chute has been changed to the back. After the sleepers and rails slide down, they will fall directly on the roadbed, and there is no need for people to lift them on the roadbed.

Moreover, the device for the lower sleepers is still a chain conveyor belt with many horizontal iron troughs. The people on the car only need to lift the sleepers into each uniform iron trough, and the sleepers will be evenly distributed on the roadbed after they come down. Moved.

However, there is still a problem after the rail slides down, because after the people on the car hoist the rail into the chute with a hoist, the rail slides down at once, not only will part of the sleepers be disrupted, even the roadbed will be poked out twice. a deep hole.

This is obviously inappropriate.

Taichang looked at the messy scene after several rails slid down, and couldn't help raising his hand in embarrassment: "Let them stop first."

After waving the command flag, the two machines moving the rails stopped quickly, and the soldiers of the Liaodong Army did not hang the rails into the chute anymore.

Taichang stepped forward to take a closer look, and immediately had an idea.

The speed at which the rail slides down can actually be controlled, as long as a hook lock is used to hook the screw hole at one end of the rail, and then use something similar to a wheel to slowly lower the rail.

This wheel will definitely not be installed for a while, but it can be replaced manually.

Thinking of this, Taichang couldn't help asking: "Chang Geng, do you have any iron hooks and thick ropes?"

Song Yingxing heard the words, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, how big an iron hook and thick rope do you want?"

Taichang pointed to the rail and said: "The iron hook must be able to penetrate the hole for the screw, and the rope must be able to bear the weight of a rail."

When Song Yingxing heard the words, he suddenly said, "Your Majesty, do you mean to let them hook the rails with iron hooks, and then slowly slide down the chute?"

Taichang nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, this way it won't fall down with a snap and make a mess underneath. However, pulling the rope by hand is only a stopgap measure, and you have to install two ropes in front of the chute for improvement next time. Just a wheel."

Song Yingxing heard the words, couldn't help nodding and said: "I understand."

Soon, he found the iron hook and rope, handed them to the soldiers of the Liaodong Army in the car, and explained them in detail.

Then, there was no problem. After the gourd hoists the rail into the chute, you only need to hook the rail with the iron hook with the rope first, and then loosen the hook of the gourd. The rail will fall down with a snap.

The speed at which the rails come down can be completely controlled by the speed at which the rope is put down, and as long as the rails are lowered slowly, the rails will lie quietly on the sleepers without smashing the bottom into a mess.

After this problem is solved, the two machines seem to be almost the same.

However, Taichang looked at the slightly messy roadbed and thought of another good thing.

He directly took Song Yingxing to the front of the machine carrying the sleepers, ordered the people to stop the machine first, then walked to the front of the machine, pointed to the chassis below and said: "Chang Geng, you can add a bed just below the standard roadbed." The same shape of the trough, the front of the trough is added with a steel plate inclined downwards to press down the excess stones. In this way, as long as the machine is driven over, the roadbed below will become extremely flat and leveled. It’s much more convenient when you’re on the rails.”

Song Yingxing heard the words, couldn't help nodding and said: "I understand."

Taichang immediately added a point: "Also, you can also consider adding a few things like cranes to the steam locomotive that transports the rails and sleepers, so that you don't need manpower to lift the rails and sleepers. You can also use a crane to deliver goods.”

Alas, the emperor is so thoughtful, basically all the physical work is replaced by machines, and it will not be too easy to build railways in the future, basically, it only needs to hire some people to sieve the stones.

Moreover, the machine repairs the railway very quickly, as long as there are enough materials, there is no need to stop at all.

If they make the whole set of machines, they can easily repair two or three hundred miles of railways a day.

(End of this chapter)