Until now, several Medeno generals have found it very interesting, the weapons and tactics of the Chinese have far exceeded their expectations, although they may not be able to cope with such an attack now, but after all, it is not themselves who have been beaten, and it still looks like they are still relishing. By now, the attention of these people has begun to be drawn to the busy beachhead.

At this moment, the soldiers on the beach put up several wooden signs of very large size, painted in several different colors, and small hair boats in the sea were carrying people towards the beach. Their direction was obviously determined according to the different colored planks, and soon they reached the beachhead, and the people on board quickly jumped out of the boat, and began to move around the various wooden signs, the whole beachhead was like an ant's nest, and the busy crowd was coming and going, and the officers were holding maps in their hands, directing the soldiers around them to move on the beachhead, some were assisting in unloading supplies, and some were moving some strange-looking parts from the boxes that had been unloaded.

Several small ships also left the queue of fortune ships and capital ships at this moment, and headed for the beachhead, but there were no chimneys with black smoke and water vapor on them, and they were all carried by several sailors, some with oars in their hands, others with cables. A small hair boat approached the boats, and the nearest man on board threw the cable over. Although the telescope was a little blurry, it was still clear from their movements that they were tying a cable to the small hair boat. The sailors in the small boats behind threw the cables in their hands to the previous boat, and soon the boats were strung together in a long column.

"They're going to tow these boats to shore, but what's the use of towing them to shore?" Mycenaeus muttered to himself, and Kirkman next to him snorted softly, "It's definitely not for landing, most of them have landed now." ”

"But they've all landed, what do you need a boat for?" Mycenae became interested, watching the small hairboat with black smoke belching black smoke on the surface of the sea dragging a long fleet of boats towards the shore. The people in the boat were not idle, they were busy in the boat, some picked up long poles, others picked up some planks from the deck of the boat. On the beachhead they were heading to, a large group of soldiers were running toward the sea with logs on their shoulders, many of them with ropes. "Wait!" Mycenae suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, "They're building a pontoon bridge!" ”

That's right, these boats were indeed used to build floating docks, and even if the navy of the Senate did all kinds of spicy destruction of these Fukuhiro ships, changing them to the point that they couldn't even be recognized by their mother, they were still far from enough. Whether it is the Fuguang ship or the sand ship known as the very large tonnage, it is still too little for the needs of the Chinese Navy, and there is a lack of space for transformation on it, at best, it is to install a vague wooden winch or boom on it, and the weight that can be lifted when lifting large goods is small, and the things that can be lifted can be moved by a few people, and the efficiency is too low. Nowadays, during the landing period, the use of small hair boats for single transportation not only delays time, but the waves are more likely to cause collisions between small hair boats and transport ships and cause accidents, and the best way to unload materials from the transport ship is to drive directly to the pier or trestle.

But it is not easy to build a wharf or a trestle, especially the Senate's pursuit of the tonnage of transport ships can be called perverted, so the waterline of these ships selected as transport ships is quite deep at the moment, and it is absolutely fatal to drive these transport ships to the beach to unload at this moment, and it is good to run aground on the beach, if you are hit by the transport ships behind, you will be unlucky immediately. Therefore, if these transport ships can unload supplies smoothly, they can only pass through trestles or docks, so there is only one solution left, and that is floating docks.

At this time, even if the Oriental Port has a terrifying-looking steel production, and even welding rods and welding machines that can be used for welding, it is still unrealistic to use them to make a van floating dock, so the navy has adopted a simple method - pontoon floating docks. Anyway, the boom and winch on the transport ship are very poor and cannot lift more than 500 kilograms of goods, so the buoyancy requirements for the floating dock are not so large, so ordinary boats can also be used to form the buoyancy unit of the floating dock.

However, in line with the concept of standardized assembly line production, these boats did not just find a boat to stuff in, but specially commissioned the lumber mill to produce a batch of standardized boats, these boats have a lot of space on them, which can be loaded with various pontoon materials, such as struts, bridge decks and a large number of connectors, and there are semi-enclosed decks at both ends of the boat, which can prevent large waves from hitting the water in. There are also special hinges between the bridge deck to prevent the bridge from falling off under high waves.

The shape of these ships in the eyes of several Medeno generals can be described as strange and inexplicable, but at this moment they have full consciousness - the Chinese will not do anything for no reason, since they want to toss the ship like this, there must be a special reason. Soon they were even more astonished by the fact that the sailors had erected a huge frame on the deck of the ship, which looked as if it were still metal, and the men next to them had quickly picked up the planks from the ship and set them in a regular pattern in the middle of the frame.

"Sure enough, it's a pontoon!" Mycenaeus said with some excitement, "You see, every boat is now a bridge deck, and as long as it is connected to each other, it can become a pontoon. ”

As if to confirm what he said, the small hair boat near the shore let go of the towing cable on the ship, and there were at least two sailors with poles standing on each buoyancy unit at the moment, and some people were holding oars or some incomprehensible things in their hands, and about ten meters or so from the shore, there were already people on the shore who had built an approach bridge directly connected to the gentle beach, and the people on the buoyancy unit carefully controlled the bridge deck to lean slowly and smoothly against the approach bridge.

The personnel on the approach bridge threw the cable on the ground, stretched out the grappling hook, pulled the pontoon bridge in three or two strokes, and when it approached the distance of one or two meters, the personnel on the approach bridge had begun to jump directly on the pontoon bridge and reinforce the bridge deck with the tools in their hands. At the same time, more people began to fix the pontoon bridge and the approach bridge, and all kinds of equipment appeared in their hands one after another, which dazzled the few Meedno generals, but even with so many tools and equipment, these Chinese soldiers used it in a disorderly manner, and connected the first section of the pontoon bridge in an orderly manner.

After the installation was completed, the Chinese soldiers poured onto the pontoon bridge and began to connect the second section of the pontoon, and the action was as fast and accurate as when connecting the first section. Kirkman, who had been silent since he started to build the pontoon, looked up at the sun at this moment, and said slowly, "It took them less than ten minutes to build the first section of the pontoon, a speed that we are far from reaching." ”

"It's not unusual, look at their pontoon!" Russell pointed to the buoyancy units on the sea that had formed the bridge deck, several of which were close to each other, and the sailors ran back and forth on them, and the poles and oars in their hands would poke into the water from time to time, skillfully propping the connected bridge deck towards the bridge body. "I don't know how they managed to train such skilled pole bearers, it's like a boat that has lasted a lifetime."

The sailors above were indeed very skilled, but they were not trained by the Senate, but their boating skills were very proficient before they came to the port of Orient. Lu Zhi was carefully holding a hook at the moment and standing on the pontoon bridge deck that had been connected to three or four sections, as a tanker, he was not at all difficult to row and support the boat, so he was directly sent to serve in the army boat bridge company. As soon as he came to the Oriental Port, he felt as if he had arrived in another world, which did not have the dust on the streets when it was clear, the ankle-deep muddy water when it rained, and the drowning on the ground, nor the corpses that did not often appear on the streets and alleys. Since I came to Oriental Port, there are three or four storey houses everywhere, and I don't have to worry about eating the last meal or not, not only food, but also clothes. If there is anything you don't like to like, it's only the learning tasks that you have to complete every day, and you have to know at least three words every day. Driving a boat for more than ten years, he can be said to be really painful to learn things, before peeking at the students in other people's private schools, which is not sitting there with his hands behind his back and his eyes closed, shaking his head and reciting "Zhihu is also the same", but when he came here, at the beginning he learned some tadpoles that looked weird, and the chiefs called them "pinyin", he didn't know a few words in this square, and he was forced to learn pinyin at the moment, which was simply torment.

However, he had to learn, because he and his whole family had been rescued by the Senate navy, and his fishing boat had been nearly torn apart by a storm, and was lying on the beach waiting for the repair schedule, and I heard that it would take at least a year to be scheduled. But since he came here, he has lost sight of the fishing boat he used to be proud of, and the fishing methods of the Oriental Port are very different from the fishing methods that he and his ancestors have passed down from generation to generation. In the past, they had to go to the sea to catch a harvest during the fish flood season, but the cruisers of the Senate went to sea every day and could pull back at least three or four thousand catties of fish every day, as if they had divine help. He also once inquired about the sailors who served on the cruiser and told him that the chiefs were sitting in front of a platform, looking at a glowing board, constantly plucking the sticks in front of the board, telling the helmsman where to go and where to put the net down, and then pulling up the fish with as little as eight or nine hundred catties and as many as one or two thousand catties.

Since the Senate has such an efficient fishing method, he, a former Tando fishing expert, has no use here, not to mention that the sailors who serve on the ship need to reach a second-class diploma, at least know 300 Chinese characters, he can't reach it at all, but he doesn't want to go to the Agricultural Committee to farm, so he joined the army and was assigned to serve in the army unit. However, due to his status as a tanka, he was soon sent to the newly formed Funabashi Company and became an engineer. When he arrived at Zhouqiao Company, Lu Zhi felt that he had come to a place where he was like a fish in water, even if he still had to read and write every day, he could hold the boat in the water to the end or play his best skills, and after a short time, he soon became a corporal in Zhouqiao Company. Now Lu Zhi's three children are learning cultural knowledge in Dongfanggang Primary School, the two boys' learning is not bad, Lu Hua was accepted as a goddaughter by the head surnamed Zhang, and was assigned to the veteran class to accompany him, I heard that the grades are quite good now, he listened to his daughter's teacher praised Lu Hua many times for being very smart, and he will definitely be able to make a big difference in the future.

"Why do girls learn so many things?" While hooking the main bridge with a hook, he pulled and thought, "Don't you still want to get married when you are old?" When the time comes, you will not have to teach your husband and children at home, and you will learn so many things, won't it be all wasted in the end? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, "If only they were all sons, they would be able to work here." He even applied to his own leader, wanting to let his two sons stop going to school and serve directly in the army, so that he could go into battle as a father and son soldier, but the leader mercilessly poured cold water on him, and now the Senate wants to be educated new youth, without knowledge and culture, they can only do the work at the bottom, and if they want their children to be able to soar in the future, they should receive more education.

"Attention! The left is a hard point! The bridge is straightened! He shouted at a few soldiers on the left side of the bridge, who hurriedly held on to the bridge deck with all their might, and several soldiers on the main bridge in front of him quickly pulled the bridge deck where he was, and then fastened the frame of the bridge deck to the main bridge with latches.

"This pontoon bridge is at least three hundred and fifty or sixty feet long, and the water at the end of the pontoon bridge should be at least twelve to fifteen feet deep, so that the junk boats can come close and unload supplies." Kirkman said and sighed, "The Chinese completed such a long pontoon bridge as a trestle in more than an hour, and we have been in Wenshan Port for more than a year now, and we are still using Wenshan Port's own old trestle bridge, and even the wharf has not begun to be repaired." The people on both sides were silent, just continuing to stare at the situation on the sea.

At this moment, the floating dock is almost completed, the sailors standing at the end are waving signal flags in their hands, waving towards the flotilla in the distance, and after a while, several lucky boats in the distance left the fleet and approached in the direction of the trestle, and the three generals did not speak at the moment, just staring at the lucky boats on the sea in the past few days. As a landing operation, the most important part has arrived, and it is not too unusual for soldiers to be able to fight, the key is to transport follow-up materials ashore in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers who have already landed, otherwise, even if they can fight well, they will have to weaken or even fail because of the lack of logistics materials.