Chapter 205: The Steamship Launches

Originally, the road from Yaogang to Datong has been built along the whole line, and there are migrant workers and the army of Yaogang who are building the road not far away. However, the road conditions of a section of the road from Yaogang are better, and Lu Bingyi discussed with Duan Jingzhong that this section will be repaired later, and those places with bad road conditions will be repaired first. Therefore, there were no workers and soldiers in this section.

Yang Jing and Li Zhi had a bus and a four-wheeled steel-reed carriage together this time, followed by twenty musketeers. Because when Lu Chengxiang and Lu Bingyi returned to Yaogang, they brought back thirty musketeers.

Unexpectedly, they were blocked by bandits on this section of the road, which made Yang Jing and Li Zhi a little crying and laughing. It turned out that there was a group of more than 100 bandits who were blocking the way by relying on the large number of people, Yang Jing went over to cross-road, and when they heard that it was from the kiln gang and the Huwei Dart Bureau, they were very face-saving and said that they could leave the bus. Because the cart was too big, people thought it was useless, but if you left all the other horses and the women in the cart, you would die.

Yang Jing came back to tell Li Zhi about this, and Li Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "The face of our kiln gang is not worth silver, and your Huwei Dart Bureau has no face." There's no way, you have to fight for your own face. ”

Yang Jing also knew that it would be impossible not to do it today, but Yang Jing also knew that these people were obviously new to the group, and they didn't understand any of the rules on the road, so he said: "Kill a few people and scare them." ”

Li Zhi said: "The murder is yours, I want to see the excitement." ”

Yang Jing, who was angry, said: "Okay, I'll give you a little bit of excitement." ”

Yang Jing now has twenty musketeers, as well as a dozen people from his own transport company. Of course, the people in the company are also equipped with muskets, but they have not been in actual combat. Li Zhi and they still have six or seven people, but Yang Jing didn't want to use Li Zhi's people, he told Li Zhi: "Your people are optimistic about the car, if the car is lost, they will settle accounts with you." ”

Li Zhi gathered more than 30 people together and said: "In front of them is a group of bandits who have newly gathered in a group, and they don't talk about anything, and we have broken them up in the past." If you can kill a few, kill a few. Do you hear that? ”

More than thirty people said together, "I hear you." ”

Before Yang Jing's people began to move, the bandits on the opposite side couldn't wait, and rushed over with a shout, Yang Jing shouted: "Meet it." He commanded everyone and rushed up against the bandits.

Those bandits were originally relying on the large number of people, and this time they shouted and attacked together, and they felt very imposing, but they didn't expect that the other party was not only not afraid, but rushed up, and now they were a little blind, and the speed of the charge slowed down significantly. But Yang Jing's horses rushed over quickly. There were more than a dozen horses in total, and apparently the leaders on horseback were all on horseback, and before the bandits could react, the musketeers who rushed up opened fire with their muskets "bang", and the bandits on the horses were knocked off their horses one after another. There was no one to order, and the bandits on foot underground saw that the bandits on their horses were all beaten down, and the timid ones immediately knelt on the ground. There is one who takes the lead, and soon there will follow. As a result, Yang Jing couldn't cry or laugh a little, and the bandits who were still angry turned out to be so useless.

It turned out that this was really a group of bandits who only got together last year, and after the gang gathered, they robbed a large household, got some grain and hid in the mountains for a winter, but soon the food was eaten, and they began to kill horses to satisfy hunger. There was no choice but to come out and rob again, and they were unlucky, but this time they met the people from the kiln.

Yang Jing looked at the bandits who were so hungry that they couldn't stand still, and turned around and asked people to take out some dry food and share a little bit for each of them. One of the bold bandits said, "Good man, you have killed our heads, so take us in, and we will do it with you." ”

Those bandits should all say that they want to fight with Yang Jing. Yang Jing said: "I don't think you are all bandits. If you don't want to starve to death, I'll show you a way, there is a construction site in front of us to build a road, you all go to work on the construction site, at least you can have a stable and full meal, how about it? ”

One by one, the hungry bandits with their chests on their chests and their chests on their backs, when they heard the truth that they had enough to eat, they all said that they wanted to follow. At this moment, there was a strange phenomenon, Yang Jing and his team walked in front, and the bandits who followed behind did not need to be watched, they automatically followed behind, and no one wanted to be left behind.

When they arrived at a construction site, Yang Jing handed them over to the kiln soldiers in charge of this construction site. The soldiers of the kiln gang were of course happy to hear that someone was coming to work. However, knowing that these people were bandits, he gave them a good lesson before they were assigned to various construction sites. The soldiers of Yaogang have a special skill that they can attend classes, which is also something that Liu Yun deliberately emphasizes must be mastered, because they have seen that Zhang Zhimu can recruit many enemy soldiers with a few words, and they deeply feel the power of this method. Therefore, every soldier is also required to have the ability to attend classes. Besides, most people nowadays are much simpler-minded, and it is easy to see results when doing ideological work.

Although Yang Jing encountered a small trouble on the road, it still attracted the attention of the leaders of the kiln gang. In the end, the leaders of Yaogang made a decision to wipe out all the bandits between Yaogang and Zhangjiakou, and the operation should be carried out secretly. Liu Yun and Li Jing are in charge of this matter. Zhang Zhimu said that Yan Xing and them should also participate in this matter, and some of the bandits who surrendered could also go to Niutou Mountain. When the bandits are finished, the buses of the transport company will start operating again, otherwise it will be too bad if there is a little problem.

After arranging for Liu Yun and Li Jing to exterminate the bandits, Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng, Yan Boju, Lu Bingyi, Ouyang He, and Li Yunhe came to Lingshui Wharf to participate in the launching ceremony of the steam warship.

After all, it was the first time to engage in a steamship, and this ship had undergone many modifications in the dock, so that the launching time was pushed again and again. This made Li Yunhe very anxious, and Zhang Zhimu kept persuading him that there were too many aspects involved in such a matter, and he must not be in a hurry. The more anxious you are, the easier it is to make mistakes, and many things come naturally.

This time, when the boat was finally ready to be launched, Li Yunhe was the happiest. He himself felt that it would be difficult to explain if he repeatedly postponed the launch time. In fact, his brethren were even more anxious than he was, but it would not work if such a large system was not suitable in the slightest. Fan Chengkun, who was at the dock, gave great support to these technicians, and gave priority to these people in life. This not only encouraged the steamers, but also put a lot of pressure on them. Therefore, these people are so boiled that their eye sockets are sunken, and their eyes are bloodshot.

After Zhang Zhimu and the others arrived, it was determined that the launching ceremony would be held early tomorrow morning. Seeing that there was still time, Zhang Zhimu and the others went to see the construction sites and workers of the locks and barrage dams.

The construction site is progressing very smoothly, the cement of the foundation has been poured and the dam is being erected. This barrage dam should be built up on both sides of the dam body with stones, tamped with triple soil, the stone dam is made of cement joints, and the stone dam body should also have stone strips to cross into the middle of the triple soil to make the stone dam and the triple soil become one, so that the dam body will be very strong. The locks and spills were built at the same time.

Tang Jingyao, who was in charge of the construction, looked haggard, obviously overworked. When Zhang Zhimu saw him, he said: "Mr. Tang, I think you should take a rest, seeing that you are haggard, you can't go on like this." It's still early for the engineering task. Your body is broken, who will complete the rest of the task? ”

Tang Jingyao said: "It's much better now, everything is included in the plan. There are people in charge of every part of the site, so I can be a little more relaxed. You can rest assured that everything on the construction site is going according to plan. ”

Looking at the busy people on the construction site, Zhang Zhimu was very emotional. In my previous life, I was just an ordinary technician, and if I hadn't crossed over, I might have stayed in front of the computer now to check information or chat with friends. But in just over a year here, so many things have been done. It can be seen that knowledge is the greatness of the saying "power", because the knowledge you have is the crystallization of the wisdom of many people, and these crystallizations become the power to change the world here.

The top priority now is to master advanced weapons, with which we can be invincible in these troubled times. If this steamship succeeds, the next step is to get rifled guns and rifled guns, and now the conditions are in place to produce these things. Another thing to study is *****, this thing should be developed as soon as possible, if the ***** can be successfully developed, the power of artillery shells at that time will be different.

On the morning of the end of March, the weather was still a little cool. The dock was already crowded with people, and if it weren't for Fan Chengkun's soldiers coming out to make a cordon, I'm afraid the crowd would have squeezed into the water.

Due to the fact that the entire warship has been greatly transformed, many parts of the ship are welded and reinforced with steel plates. In order to prevent rust, all steel plates are sanded and coated with a red iron oxide anti-rust primer. The sails of the ship have been lowered and bundled, and the masts are full of colorful flags, which looks very festive. Zhang Zhimu and others all came to the ship together.

The launching ceremony was simple and warm, and Fan Chengkun shouted: "Start the launch!" ”

A platoon of soldiers on the shore rushed into the sky and "banged" a row of firearms, and then gongs and drums rang out in unison. The dock gate slowly opened, and the river slowly flowed into the dock from the gate. Because I was afraid that the impact of the water would be too strong, I didn't dare to open the floodgates too much at once.

As the water level in the dock continued to rise, the ship slowly floated on the water.

The boiler on the ship began to ignite, and a large puff of smoke came out of the tall chimney on the ship, and Li Yunhe and the others looked anxiously at the pressure gauge of the boiler. When the pressure in the pot reached a predetermined value, the captain in the cockpit pulled the handle, and the ship's whistle "wooed" for a long time, and then the steam engine turned on with a bang. Li Yunhe and the others were sweating nervously, but the smiles on their faces gradually appeared. But they obviously didn't dare to rest assured, and they were still cautious one by one. At this time, the two winches on the shore dragged the bow of the ship with a rope and aimed it at the gate of the lock in the dock. The ship's steam engine began to drive the propeller to exert force, and the ship slowly drove out of the dock gate under the propeller's propulsion, and the people on the shore cheered.

The latest issue of the "Yaogang Weekly", when the front page reported this grand occasion, wrote: "With the long whistle of 'woo', an era of steam-powered sailing has arrived." ”

The steamer that left the dock drove slowly westward for a short distance until it reached the Fen River, then turned back and headed north, heading against the Fen River. As the pressure of the ship's boilers continued to increase, the captain, under the command of Li Yunhe, also continued to increase the speed of the steam turbine, and the big ship going against the current continued to accelerate forward.

For the first time, there are big boats on the Fen River that do not need sails or manpower to swim upstream. The people on the boat were happily gathered on the deck, and Zhang Zhimu suddenly felt a little pain in his arm, and it turned out that Yang Yulin was nervously holding his arm. Zhang Zhimu hurriedly reminded Yang Yulin, and Yang Yulin realized that he was holding Zhang Zhimu's arm. She blushed with shame and said, "Why didn't you say it earlier, it's not good for people to see it." ”

Zhang Zhimu sighed: "Alas! "Speechless.

Fan Chengkun, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He were also constantly talking over there, but they were obviously very happy. They didn't expect the same steamship as anyone else, they thought of war.

The boat slowed down and turned around in a relatively wide place on the river, and the result was that the boat's handling was very good, after the U-turn, when the boat went down the river, the boat was pushed by the propeller, plus the speed of the current, the speed of the downward movement was amazing, and the people on the deck of the boat all held their smiles and looked at the scenery of the rapid backwards on both sides of the river, and they all seemed a little nervous.

After a few laps back and forth in the course of the Fen River, the big boat slowly stopped at the dock that had been prepared for a long time. The visitors all disembarked.

Zhang Zhimu and Li Yunhe and others came to the spacious cab together. Zhang Zhimu said: "First of all, I would like to congratulate all of you on the complete success of today's sea trial. To be honest, the results today exceeded my expectations, and this is the best reward for your hard work during this period of time. I want to thank you. After we go back, we will ask everyone for credit, and after discussion, we will also give everyone corresponding rewards. But I would like to remind you today that our ship has been successfully launched, but the matter is not over. As you may have noticed, our ship is so noisy that it is unthinkable to sail for a long time in such a loud noise. With such a big vibration, the service life of the equipment will also be affected, so let's not relax yet, and we will spend some time to solve this problem together. During this time, Li Yunhe and I have to work with everyone on the ship to find a way to solve this problem and make our steamship reach practical state as soon as possible. ”

For the next month, Zhang Zhimu and Li Yunhe lived at Lingshui Wharf and worked with technicians to solve these problems. The affairs on the kiln side were all remotely commanded by telegraph.

In order to solve the problem of too much noise on the ship, an asbestos mat was used to protect the surroundings of the steam engine room, so that the noise could not be easily transmitted. I tried it and it worked well. But the problem of vibration is still not easy to solve. I had no choice but to replace all the replaceable support points with rubber pads, which reduced the vibration a lot. Finally, a few spring pads were added to the specific vibration place, so that the vibration was reduced a little, and some mechanical parts were made noise due to machining accuracy problems, so they decided to replace those parts. What makes Zhang Zhimu most pleased is that the waterproof sealing cabin has a good effect, because the sealing effect of expanded graphite is very good. There was almost no water in the sealed cabin.

During this period of sea trials, the captain became proficient in the piloting of the steamship, which can basically be said to be handy, and if the sail is matched, the ship can be handled better. Li Wei led the mortar team to conduct a shooting test on the ship, and the results made Fan Chengkun's officers very satisfied. Later, a steam boat was used to tow other ships, and the effect was also very good. After Zhang Zhimu followed the steamer to Tongguan to deliver the goods once, when he returned to Lingshui Wharf, the steam engine on the 400-stone shallow ship had also been installed and was preparing for sea trials.

At night, the carbon arc lamp on the top of the ship was adjusted by a reflector with a diameter of more than one meter and a large convex lens to focus the light, and a pillar of light could shine several miles away, and shine on the river surface at night, so that the river surface was illuminated brightly, and the boat had no problem driving at night.

The test of the remaining small boats should be much easier with reference to the test experience of large ships, and neither Zhang Zhimu nor Li Yunhe personally participated.

When Zhang Zhimu and Li Yunhe left the Lingshui dock, another warship and a shallow ship of 400 stones had already entered the dock, ready to be refitted.

The first thing I did when I returned to the kiln was to study how to reward all the people who worked on the steamboats. It was decided that all personnel involved in the steamship would be rewarded. The main technical person in charge will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, some of the responsible persons will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver, the general technical personnel will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver, and the participating workers will be rewarded with 2 taels of silver.

The news was transmitted by telegram to Lingshui Wharf, and the busy people on the wharf were jubilant.

What made Zhang Zhimu even happier was that the oxygen generator was successfully produced, and the tungsten powder was also produced.

"It's time for the *** to take care of it." Zhang Zhimu thought.

First of all, Li Yunhe was asked to practice some ferromanganese, and Zhang Zhimu told him: "It is to add some manganese ore and some iron ore in the blast furnace to train ferromanganese with high manganese content." ”

Use refractory materials to make oxygen nozzles, continuously blow oxygen on the surface of the molten iron, as soon as the oxygen blows in, the surface of the molten iron immediately sparks, the impurities in the molten steel burn violently and release high heat, so that the molten steel continues to churn, at this time, the small piece of ferromanganese is placed on the side of the steel furnace to preheat, and the ferromanganese is slowly put into the molten steel along the steel furnace wall with pliers, and then the tungsten is put into the molten steel in the same way, and finally cast into a bar with molten steel, which is placed for use after forging. At the same time, some small pieces of material used to make turning tool bits are also cast for use.

Li Yunhe felt very curious about this steelmaking process and asked: "Will all good steel be refined like this in the future?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "If you want to make high-quality steel, there is no other way but to use this method." This kind of steel, you use them to make turning tools to process ordinary steel, and the efficiency will be improved a lot. ”

Li Yunhe asked: "That is to say, the hardness of this steel will be very large, what kind of drill bit do you want to use?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "With cemented carbide, we now have metal cobalt and tungsten powder that can be made into cemented carbide drill bits. ”

Li Yunhe asked again: "Cemented carbide is even harder, what should be used for processing?" ”

Zhang Zhimu shook his head and said: "Cemented carbide is almost impossible to process, and we have to use powder metallurgy to form it." ”

Li Yunhe wanted to ask about powder metallurgy again, and Zhang Zhimu said: "You will know about powder metallurgy in the future, and now you have to design a rifled gun." ”

Regarding the rifled gun, Zhang Zhimu thought about it for a long time. When I was a child, I used to train with the militia, and I used a semi-automatic rifle in college military training. As a hardcore military fan, I usually know a little about guns.

In the previous life, after many years of experience in use, the caliber of all national guns was being miniaturized. The caliber used in China was changed to 5.8 mm. Although the current processing accuracy can not reach the level of the previous life, but the opponent is not the same, for those soldiers holding cold weapons at a distance of 100 meters to beat them to the point and in 50 meters to hit no essential difference, but to ensure the intensity of each soldier's firepower and the continuity of firepower, because even in the future kiln gang must maintain the strategy of elite soldiers, if encountering crowd tactics, must ensure continuous and fierce firepower to deal with.

The rifle is designed to be a reference to the Type 03 rifle. The total length of the barrel is 750 mm, and the length of the barrel is 440 mm. In order to have a simple structure, it is designed as a handguard and an integrated structure. It adopts the principle of gas conduction automatic and the bolt rotary locking mechanism. The gun gas regulator has three positions, "0", "1" and "2", which are used for different shooting conditions: "0" is the gas-holding position, which is used to fire the gun**; "1" is a small blowhole, which is used for shooting under normal conditions; "2" is an atmospheric hole, which is used in harsh environments when the recoil energy of the bolt is insufficient. Not available right now, but leave room for future preparations.

The gun also has a fast and slow machine insurance, when the fast and slow machine turns to the position "0", ** is buckled by the iron body, and at the same time the iron body is pressed by the fast and slow machine, ** can not be released, the transmitter is in a state of insurance. **The front is equipped with a non-adequate insurance, when the bolt is re-entered in place, the insufficient safety protrusion at the tail end of the bolt frame overwhelms the insufficient insurance, and the insufficient insurance is released**; If the bolt re-entry is not in place, the safety will resist and limit the rotation of the bolt, even if the trigger is pulled and the blocking iron is released, it cannot be rotated, so as to achieve the insurance.

There are 3 positions in the fast and slow machine: "0" is insurance; "1" is a single shot; "2" is a burst shot.

When the fast and slow machine is in the single-shot position, pull the trigger, and the blocking iron body is lifted up under the action of the blocking iron spring, and the first and first rotary strike firing needles are released to achieve firing. After firing, the bolt recoil and overwhelm the iron body, and the protrusion bypasses the iron blocking body, squeezes the single-shot iron blocking iron with its arc surface, forcing the single-shot iron blocking iron to rotate and give way, when the ** protrusion turns below the single-shot iron blocking iron, the single-shot blocking iron returns to the position under the action of the single-shot blocking iron spring, and buckles **. At this time, release the trigger, the blocking iron body returns, the single-shot blocking iron is released, the blocking iron body is buckled, and the trigger can be fired by pulling the trigger again to achieve single-shot launching; When the fast and slow machine is in the continuous position, pull the trigger, after firing the bullet, the bolt recoil and overwhelm the **, and at the same time do not put the safety reset in place, and resist the **. When the bolt is re-entered in place, the safety is not in place, and the firing pin is rotated to achieve a burst firing aiming mechanism. The muzzle flame suppressor is also a flared structure.

Taking into account the need for future assassinations, the gun was also equipped with a bayonet. The bayonet can be mounted on a rifle as a bayonet, as a fighting dagger and as a field tool knife.

When installing the bayonet, first put the bayonet ring into the muzzle device, so that the T-shaped groove on the handle is aligned with the T-shaped protrusion of the bayonet seat on the gun, and then pull it back into place, at this time, the T-shaped protrusion of the bayonet seat is stuck by the left and right clamps of the shank seat, and the bayonet ring is inserted into the gas expansion chamber of the muzzle device, and the bayonet is installed; When unloading the bayonet, hold down the left and right clips on the handle and draw the bayonet backwards from the muzzle direction.

The structure of this gun is much more complicated than that of the previous muskets, and Zhang Zhimu can only draw the structural principle based on memory. Li Yunhe also took a lot of effort to understand the principle of robbery. "The gun is too complicated," he said. Caught up with our lathe. But the principle is so clever that it can be understood. I think we can solve the problem of guns, as long as it takes a little time, we have to try to get those sizes slowly. The main thing is the barrel, you make that hard steel. I can't think of a way to do it. However, this gun can hold 30 rounds at a time, and it can also shoot continuously, which is amazing. If each soldier has a few more magazines, it will be no problem to use one as a hundred. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that if this kind of gun could be mass-produced, he would have the capital to make a difference in this era. Now whether it is materials and processing technology, the kiln gang has it, but it still needs time to develop. It seems that after some period of hard work, the time to gain is still enough. It will not be long before electrochemical production will ensure the mass production of smoke-free ** and white **, and then there will be an industrial base to support the use of firearms for war.

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