Eagle's Beak Rock, a line of sky, the soldiers who were searching for the wells finally cheered, looking for a few gaps that Lin Xi said, they finally dug two wells, one of which has been dug to more than three feet wide and eight feet deep, the water has been able to trickle from trickle, to gushing out more than a foot, although there is still mud, but there are already soldiers using buckets to carry water to clarify, and now five or six groups of excavation teams, all shrinking to dig these two, the strength of the number of people, and the motivation to survive inspires the soldiers.

The hundred households in charge of digging the well of the Xuanyi Army ran to the temporary camp under the eagle's beak rock with two personal guards, and shouted: "Marshal Qiyu, minister, two drinking springs have been excavated now. ”

Minister Wei Jie was surprised and excited, and muttered, "Sure enough, Marshal, the army is at peace." ”

Tu Xicai asked happily: "What is the excavation depth now, and what is the speed of the water?" ”

Baihu, who was in charge of digging the well, said: "Back to the marshal, the water is only one foot deep now, and it is not easy to dig underneath, so we don't have the right equipment." I dig while digging water, but when I dig out water with a bucket, I can't clean the water. ”

Song Aoxing said: "When the Venerable Master was leaving, he told us about the excavation of the Zigong Salt Well, and I remembered that we used a punching cone, so that we needed to use a punching cone for water excavation. ”

Digging the well Baihu said: "Well, Song Yuanzheng, we didn't rush the cone." ”

Song Aoxing said: "This matter is extremely difficult for others, but for our sacred Chinese Academy of Engineering, it is only a matter of a quarter of an hour. Old things, take some steel, charcoal, bellows, anvils, sledgehammers, long poles, wood, ropes, and let's make a small crane. ”

Tu Xicai ran and patted Song Aoxing's chest: "Old Song, don't say anything, I'll give you a horse meat for the Engineering Institute later." ”

Song Aoxing laughed: "Marshal Tu, we will do, since the old man Mozi, there has never been such a scenery, with skills, the feudal officials, for the benefit of thousands of people, God opened his eyes, the ancestor appreciated the meal, I saw it." Don't worry, without this horse, our old buddies will also do it for you. ”

Song Aoxing took a cadre of the Engineering Institute to the well excavation site without mentioning it.

Hu Buqi, director of the Communications Department, has already led a small team, together with Wang Zhong, acting Pope Qingxu Zhenren, and Jingshan Daoren, acting minister of the Ministry of Supervision, to set up a lookout post from the peak of Eagle's Beak Rock, and a limited telegraph team of the Engineering Academy is responsible for setting up an early warning communication line from the base camp with wooden supports (telephone poles).

The reason why it is called early warning, because in addition to the electric bell communication, this line can not do other light and voice now, after all, the Xuanyi number can not be removed, now the engineering institute of people have come over, there are involved in the production of tung oil wrapping auxiliary workers, that thing is actually very simple, that is, the copper rod drawing, drawing, and then drawing, pulled to about one or two millimeters thick, you can apply tung oil.

If you want to be a little more fine, Lin Xi has designed a kind of wire twist turntable, the two wire twists are hung on the top corner of a hexagonal manual turntable, the crank of the manual turntable, there is a copper pipe about one inch thick, the center is empty, the copper pipe is about an inch wide, there is a handle on both sides of the rocking handle, the copper wire that comes out, after sticking tung oil, there is stickiness, and then the thread ends of the two wire twists are glued on the copper wire, shake the handle, stretch a few times, and then pass the copper wire through the hole in the center of the copper pipe, After that, one person can brush tung oil, one person shakes the handle, and one person pulls the copper wire evenly.

With this simple mechanical structure, the production speed is flying as fast as possible, although it takes three people, plus there are people who forge copper, but the final efficiency, is still the difference between heaven and earth, after the tung oil twine twine is wrapped with copper wire more than three or four feet, it is very soft, it is easy to arrange, before people wrapped the thread, the labor required is about the same as now, but the quality can not be compared.

Nowadays, the factory semi-automatic machinery and manual work, not counting the front wrought copper drawing, only look at the last semi-drawn wire coating, three or four breaths of a foot of speed, it is completely easy to achieve.

If all six corners are fitted with a twist, and one foot is covered between one breath, it is not unattainable.

Calculate it in this way, it can reach more than 3,000 feet in almost an hour, more than 1,000 zhang, if it is converted into a two-way communication line, it is three wires installed side by side, which is exactly more than 1,000 feet, if it takes two hours, it can almost complete the wired communication from the eagle's beak cliff to the trestle.

Of course, copper is money, and these wires are almost made of money. The significance of wired communication lines is not very large, so Tu Xicai and Yuan Weijie generally decided to lay these lines in the key parts of the Eagle's Beak Rock Cottage.

Because the water has been initially able to solve the problem, Tu Xi decided to start the process of burying the pot and making rice immediately.

In order to feed the 20,000 people, a stove and cauldron were built on the site, and a flue was set up to cook multigrain porridge mixed with some pickles and horse meat.

At dusk, some improvised tent curtains had been erected, and fire oil, charcoal, cloth, copper and iron were piled up.

The horse team of the Xuanyi Army can only do some simple patrol work, because there are too few horses, but fortunately, there are not many people who dare to come to brush the tiger's whiskers now.

The Eagle's Beak Cliff is a very broken rocky formation, and the bushes are difficult to provide a good foundation for construction, so it is now basically in the form of a meat shield, which is deployed on all sides.

The more than 2,000 scribes selected by Master Wei Jie are now mainly used as liaison officers, working in groups of three at a time, responsible for most of the organizational liaison work with the Xuanyi Army.

A full meal of war meals, this is the first meal of most of the new soldiers of the Xuanyi Army after a hard day's work.

It's a good start.

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Lin Xi said to Fei Zhishan: "Fei Zhishan, I order, you can command it now." ”

Fei Zhishan clasped his fists and saluted: "Obey the Venerable Master's orders." ”

After saying that, the dragon walked in a tiger's step, and the breath of his body was open, and he walked to the front of the general's platform, and said to the commanders of the whole ship at all levels:

"Ladies and gentlemen, since the day before yesterday, our Xuanyi has escaped from death, every moment of every day, it is the sacrifice of the brothers, and today, the brothers on the Xuanyi have lost more than two hundred.

However, our Xuanyi is not a soft persimmon, and each of our brothers has at least a hundred enemies to be our backers, and they are not unjustly killed.

Now, our Xuanyi Army has 20,000 soldiers again, and our sacred Chinese country is growing.

But now the Xuanyi is running out of supplies, and it must be replenished immediately.

Marshal Tu took the Engineering Institute to Eagle's Beak Rock to build a cottage, and now these 20,000 soldiers are about to transport tens of thousands of catties of materials to our Xuanyi.

But everyone also knows that now we have the Xuanyi number and get the materials, that is, the flying dragon is in the sky, and the entire cliffs, mountains and seas are all our masters walking sideways.

If you can't get supplies, then the phoenix with lost hair is not as good as a chicken.

Whether it is life or death, the first thing to see is whether we can receive all the goods safely;

The second depends on whether the Xuanyi army on land can withstand Meng Yuan's thieves and routs all over the land.

Therefore, when we receive the goods today, not only can we prevent it from being at sea, but we must also be able to provide strong support to our brothers in the Xuanyi Army on land.

But we now have less than 100 soldiers to fight, and we don't have sails yet. It's difficult. ”

Shao Ding raised his hand, Fei Zhishan stopped and looked at it, and asked, "Old Qiao, what do you have to say?" ”

"Fei Tou, I don't think we should get close to land in the shallows, we should find a deep water bay to dock, so that we can use the hour of high tide to get as close to land as possible, and even use a few boats as a gangplank to transport supplies up," said Ding Qiao. ”

Fei Zhishan said: "The time of the tide is less than an hour, and besides, where can we have a deep water bay? ”

"We have been measuring the tide for many days, yesterday after the sun set, a half incense into the tide, and then a stick of incense out of the tide, today should be two and a half incense into the tide, and then three pillars and a half incense out of the tide." ”

Fei Zhishan said: "Then where to find Deep Water Bay?" ”

He said, "Fei Tou, the brothers who have been patrolling in the past few days have explored the water, and we need to go more than a mile south, where there is a rocky beach, and there is a waterway, which is very narrow, and if our boat is bigger, we will not be able to enter." ”

Fei Zhishan said: "Can you see clearly at night? ”

Ding Qiao said: "I can't see clearly, so we can only let two or three of our sampans be discharged left and right, and use the pole to explore the way." ”

Fei Zhishan said: "Then why don't we have patrol boats?" ”

Zi Ding Qiao said: "Either let a sampan explore the way, the fishing boat is in the center, and the Xuanyi is in the back, leaving a sampan and pressing the formation in the back." ”

Fei Zhishan said: "A sampan, if it comes to the enemy ship, it is useless. ”

Ding Qiao said: "I can't say anything, at least it can warn, and also, waterproof ghosts." ”

Fei Zhishan said: "Hey, this Hongguanya, it would be great if there was a harbor. ”

Guo Yi, the head of the sect, said: "If there is really a port, how can we still have a chance to be here today, and don't think about it." I think Joe's strategy is excellent. Old Fei, time waits for no one, we must make a decision immediately. ”

Fei Zhishan's eyes rolled around, and he had an idea, licked his face and said to Lin Xi: "Today, for today's plan, we have no experience in this area before, so you should give me a tune." ”

Lin Xi said: "You know the geography of mountains and rivers best, and you still have to get the specific ideas." ”

Minister Yang Yuxiu said: "Yes, if you lose it like this, aren't you trapped in the present and unjust? ”

Everyone immediately bowed down and saluted, "Don't dare." ”

Lin Xi said gently: "No need to be polite, what Fang just stopped saying is very good, Ding Lao Qiao, his words are well-founded." I do think it's too cumbersome to get to and from the shallows on land, and we keep it from shore, but it's not good for transportation.

So, if you can drive into the harbor and take advantage of the high tide, it is of course ideal. When Marshal Tu left, we expected that it would take no more than a quarter of an hour to deliver tens of thousands of catties of supplies.

It's worth a try. ”

At this time, Mi Sanmei said: "Venerable Venerable Venerable, we now have a radio transceiver, as well as an electric horn, we can solve the communication problem now, between the two ships, you can use an electric horn, between the Xuanyi and the eagle's beak, you can try to use a radio transceiver."

The problem that Guo Jiaotou and Fei Duotou are worried about is the communication between the fishing boat and the Xuanyi, which can not only rely on the loudspeaker to shout, but also our cold photovoltaic panels. ”

Song Qing said: "Sister Mi, we only have cold photoelectric panels on the Xuanyi now, and we can't get them on the fishing boat." ”

Mi Sanmei paused for a moment: "Then, anyway, the electric horn can be used." Liu Ci, do you have anything to use for the fishing boats? ”

Ziding Lao Qiao said: "Commander Mi, the sampan, the fishing boat and the Xuanyi, its practical gas dead wind lamp can be used to signal it, the key is how to notify the eagle's beak rock now that we are going to change places." Also, the sight is not good at night, and when I get to the bay, there are still ground transportation chains to hang on the Xuanyi, after all, the hot air balloon is not there now. ”

Song Qingpu said: "We have a backward sampan, we can take the radio transceiver and go to meet the Xuanyi army, and we can hang a light signal on the Xuanyi to remind them to go to the side of Ranshi Bay." If our Xuanyi is no more than a hundred steps from the land of the fjord, we can use the original fixed pulley, fixed on our main mast on one side, and on the shore on the other, make a few piles, and then pull the rope. ”

Fei Zhishan said: "If it is a steady stream of materials, you can't stand it with a rope in a hundred steps." You need to pick up a group on the fishing boat as well,"

Lin Xi was very relieved, if it was all a group of pigs, then he would be exhausted to death. Now that he saw that his team had a lot of brains, he was relieved, so he commanded:

"What you discussed, I think it's very good, transceiver, let's adjust the two frequency bands now, you be careful, just use people on their backs, if you use the car, I'm afraid it will be upset."

In addition, carry the electric horn car down, the electric horn money can only be made three, you take the drawings, in the future, make nine, guard the eagle's beak rock, this big horn will definitely be useful.

Time is of the essence, so let's get started. ”

Not long after, the Xuanyi hoisted two sets of radio transceivers to the sampan, and Song Qing sent a few technicians and two armies of soldiers to escort them at the same time - the Xuanyi really couldn't draw out manpower, and at the same time, the Xuanyi only needed to transport the radio transceiver to the vanguard of the Xuanyi army, and other materials were ready to go to the fjord of the rocky beach to rush to the tide to rush the supplies.

Then, with the sampan in front, the fishing boat in the center, and the Xuanyi in the back, all three boats with wind lights on, hurriedly searched for the fjord waterway of the rocky beach.

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The hot air balloon was raised again after receiving the support of cloth sewing and the supply of fierce fire oil, and the base camp of the hot air balloon and the eagle's beak rock also used electric bell communication, and now the Xuanyi lookout platform and the hot air balloon can directly communicate visually, and with the help of the telescope, the message can be transmitted directly through the light signal.

Lin Xi looked at the lights on both sides and thought, maybe someone should make up a universal code book?

Coding is a job that will become more and more important in the future.

Lin Xi's thoughts drifted - Chinese has many more words than Western letters, so it is difficult to compile a codebook, just as Western has a typewriter very early, and Chinese has a typewriter very late, and the recorded history is that in September 1915, the Chinese typewriter invented by Qi Xuan, a student studying in the United States in Shandong, was patented. Previously, he reported the description of his invention of the typewriter to the student manager in the United States to the Ministry of Education, and asked him to consult the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce uses the typing machine made by Qi Xuan, which is flexible and well-structured, and the handwriting is still distinct, and it is specially approved to give a patent for 5 years in accordance with the temporary handicraft medal to show encouragement.

The original form was a plate about the size of an A2, lined with lead letters. The order of the lead characters is the same as that of newspapers, and the Chinese typewriters are arranged according to the number of radicals. The typist first uses a small plier to pick up the lead word on the lead plate, and when he presses a button, the plier will hold up the lead word and print it on the paper through the ribbon. The feature of the Chinese typewriter is that the typewriter can match the writing habits of the Chinese at that time, allowing the text to be typed vertically. When you press the enter key after typing a line, it will automatically roll back to the top of the page and jump to the next line.

Since the operation of Chinese typewriters was not easy, it was also difficult to pick up words, and at that time most people still used hand copying or mimeographing.

In Hong Kong in the 1960s, only wealthier schools could afford a typist who could operate a Chinese typewriter.

Until the 1990s, due to the popularization of microcomputers, Chinese printing became easier, and Chinese typewriters also withdrew from the stage of history.

Lin Xi has used both types of typewriters, and he can understand the difference in the feeling between using a typewriter and not using a typewriter, in fact, the efficiency is also very different.

Printing letters in English, and even printing mimeographed paper, is mainly used for questions and exam questions.

Chinese typewriters are mainly used to print mimeographed paper, and then mimeograph documents and promotional materials.

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Wait a minute, it's not that far ahead, it's important to think about how to translate light signals into military phrases.

In fact, now the Xuanyi Army is using the light banner of the Song Army.

Most of them are also freshly compiled.

If one set is always used, it is easy for the other party to grasp, and it is almost equivalent to the clear code telegram of later generations.

The reason why Lin Xi thought of compiling a codebook was because with the use of telescopes, and the use of wired telegraphy and wireless telegraphy in the future, the transmission of light signals, or electric bell signals, the speed will be greatly accelerated, and the number of bytes that can be contained will be greatly increased.

In this case, more character encoding is allowed to be passed.

In the future, the universal codebook will be more combined with large-scale communication.

Even if characters and numbers are passed, they can still be re-encoded and decoded.

For example, "today's nine-point attack", you can use a secondary encrypted codebook, such as the Analects, Tao Te Ching, etc., the first word is in the ninth word of the third line of the first chapter, so that you can send 139......

In this way, each short light or ringtone is written as a point "-" or as 0, and each long light or ringtone is written as a horizontal "-" or as 1;

In this way, each bit is recorded with four zeros or 1s, each bit is 1 bit, and the combination of four bits is 4 bits, which are from 0000 to 1111, and there are 2*2*2*2=16 variations.

It is sufficient to record various variations, including the start and end positions.

This type of cipher was widely used in the computer age.

There is also a Morse code, which is a time-on-break signal code that expresses different letters, numbers, and punctuation marks in different sequences.

It was invented in 1837 and the inventor disputed that Morse code was an early form of digital communication, but unlike modern binary code, which only uses zero and one or two states, its code consists of five types: dots, strokes, pauses between dots and strokes, medium pauses between each word, and long pauses between sentences.

Strokes are generally three points in length; The interval between dots and strokes is the length of a dot; The interval between characters is the length of three dots; The interval between words is the length of seven dots.

The advantage of this type of password is that it can have fewer digits, but it may theoretically require better training.

Morse cipher coding is simple and clear, ambiguous and small, and the encoding is mainly represented by two characters: ".", "-", one long and one short, which is used in many situations, such as sending distress signals. In the movie "The Wind", it is used to sew a Moore code on clothes to spread the news. In the anime "Detective Conan", "Mystery Duel, Shinichi vs Okiya Pleiades" (tv511) uses this method.

When using the Moore code light for help, the definition: the light is always on as "-", and the light is short as ".", then you can send various messages through the switch of the flashlight, such as distress messages.

If the light is displayed according to the rule of "short light dark short light short light dark long light long light dark long light long light dark long light short light short light

Because the molar code of SOS is: ··· ---···, according to the above provisions can be used for light coding. This code is actually very simple, three short, three long, three short.

Between improving efficiency and reducing difficulty, Lin Xi is more inclined to reduce the difficulty.

In terms of phrases, from the pure efficiency research, Morse code may be slightly stronger, but considering the power of four-digit coding, Lin Xi is still willing to choose four-digit coding.

In fact, a strong trend towards industrialization is to reduce the complexity of a single operation, so that more links can be stacked to improve overall efficiency.

The use of a homogeneous encoding length also makes it easy to detect and verify errors.

Yes, Lin Xi has already planned to attach a perforated paper tape transmitter and receiver to the radio transceiver.