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That is, because of the possibility of fighting, the top of the cab of these vehicles can be pushed open, and the personnel can stand on the seat to shoot at the target outside, and they can also stand on the seat to observe the distance when driving in peacetime, and the rear of the car is a large wooden convertible car, which can directly load various goods. At the same time, the carriage also has a closed design, which can even be connected to a steam pipe to connect the radiator for heating, this kind of closed carriage is mainly used as an ambulance and a long-distance personnel transport vehicle, and the overly cold environment will cause serious damage to the soldiers, so keeping warm has become the biggest need.

With the body of warmth, this puts forward higher requirements for the vehicles manufactured by the Industrial Committee, such as personnel transportation vehicles for loading personnel, trucks for loading goods and special engineering vehicles, and several sets of different bodies have to be designed according to different vehicles, which makes Zhang Yuan feel very headache. However, at the seminar, Yuan Zhenli of the Air Force proposed a solution that made Zhang Yuan feel very embarrassed, that is, to directly produce the chassis without a carriage, the chassis and engine layout adopt the same configuration, which can be mass-produced, and the superstructure of the vehicle is designed and produced according to demand, such as passenger compartments, truck compartments, etc., so that the vehicle chassis can be quickly produced first. And when the chassis of the vehicle has been determined, only the upper compartment needs to be designed separately, which will not affect the production speed and overall progress of the vehicle.

Although the production experience of the vehicle factory for the use of propeller vehicles is not very mature at the moment, it has produced several vehicles, and the experience is still a little after all, so it is not too labor-intensive to produce a unified standard vehicle chassis alone. As far as the standard amphibious support vehicle used by the Marine Corps is concerned, the total production man-hours are about 70,000 hours, but because the industrial production of the Senate uses assembly lines and standardized production, it is about 1,000 hours after combination. The production of these mechanized vehicles in the vehicle factory is an assembly line operation, and it is three shifts, so it can maximize the production efficiency of the vehicle, and when all the parts are in place, the vehicle can be rolled from the final assembly line, which can ensure the output of three to four vehicles a day.

Today's chassis production has been reduced by almost 700 man-hours due to the simplification of production, so that production can reach about six to seven vehicles a day. Of course, nothing can be taken for granted, especially when it comes to a serious matter such as producing vehicles. There are many chassis components of amphibious vehicles, such as vehicle girders, special gearboxes for large trucks, steam engines, boilers, seamless pressure-resistant steel pipes, transmission shaft transmission chains, spiral rollers and large five-person cabs, these components must be mass-produced by different factories, such as the girders and spiral rollers of the vehicle, which are processed and produced by the hardware factory, the steam engine and boiler are produced by the Dongfang Port Boiler Factory and the foundry, and the seamless steel pipe is produced by the seamless steel pipe factory that was established not long ago. The cab is produced directly by the vehicle factory, and the gearbox is produced and tested in a heavy industry laboratory, without the tempered glass produced in the glass factory.

These parts are large and small, and most of the production processes are more complex, and the production time is naturally varied, although this 70,000 man-hours seems exaggerated, but it is not surprising. Many of these complex components cannot be produced in a day, so the industrial sector is now busy preparing for the first large-scale vehicle production on a daily basis.

These spiral-propelled vehicles and Marine Corps amphibious vehicles are identical in principle, but have been modified as needed. The original amphibious vehicle is propelled by two spiral drums, and in recent exercises, the size of the drum is inconsistent, the buoyancy is uneven or the thread is worn and the thrust is insufficient, and the car body often turns inexplicably when driving in the undulating waves or the beachhead of different heights, or the car body loses its balance, and even overturns in serious cases, causing damage to the vehicle personnel. The reason is mainly because only one spiral drum is used on each side, and all the weight is only concentrated on one side of the drum when the thrust of the sea wave is added, which will naturally make the car body unbalanced, so the new screw propulsion vehicle adopts the design of two total four rollers on each side, and because the rear of the car body is loaded with goods or more people, the main weight will be concentrated in the rear of the car body, so the drum at the rear of the car body is not only longer and wider than the front drum, Spring steel is also used for shock absorption to reduce the degree of bumps on occupants and cargo when the vehicle is moving.

Originally, according to the original design, the new vehicle was originally intended to use the differential to control the vehicle steering, but the production technology of the differential is still being restored, and it cannot be taken out in a short time, so the most primitive method can only be used for steering, that is, the spiral rollers on the left and right sides use different speeds or directions of rotation to make the car body steer, just like the steering mode of a tank. After such improvements, the weight of the chassis of the vehicle is about two tons, and after adding fuel and boiler water, the weight reaches about three tons, and it can travel about 100 kilometers after a full tank of fuel. The new vehicle can travel at speeds of up to 52 km/h on the ground and 10 km/h on the water, but can be about double when combined with a water-based kit to reduce wave drag.

This kind of vehicle was not named at the beginning of the design, because the wooden rickshaw was named Rolls-Royce in the past, so that most of the patriarchs had a lot less taste for naming the vehicle, but when this vehicle was tested at the sandbank range, many naturalized citizens were very surprised that this vehicle could not only launch but also run on the beach, and could carry about two tons of cargo, so that they were full of awe of this kind of vehicle, and called it a sacred cow, Of course, the veterans of this curry-flavored name did not like it, and privately called it "rhinoceros", so the name was directly applied at the finalization press conference of the Industrial Council, and this large transport vehicle capable of carrying two tons was called "rhinoceros transporter".

After the Rhino transporter was finalized, the military council placed an order for 30 vehicles from the vehicle factory, which had not yet begun to order parts, but the vehicle factory received an order for another 30 vehicles. Zhang Yuan was still confused before, and after inquiring, he learned that the order for the additional thirty rhinoceros transport vehicles was actually placed by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade.

For this northward action to quell the rebellion in Shanxi, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade represented by Gu Qingqian was very interested. Of course, what kind of results the army going to Shanxi could do there was basically no attraction to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and they were interested in the northern market of the Wu Dynasty. Speaking of which, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade has coveted the Wu Dynasty market for a long time, and has tried their best to break into the internal market of the Wu Dynasty, but no matter how hard they have tried in the past few years, they have never been able to enter it. The reasons are, first, the economy of the Wu Dynasty basically belongs to the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economic system, and the life of male farmers and women weavers makes most of the people very satisfied as long as they can eat and dress warmly, and their wives and children are already very satisfied, and they are not interested in the things that add icing on the cake and improve the quality of life; Second, the domestic market of the Wu Dynasty was basically monopolized by the local squires or peddlers, most of them pursued high profits caused by the monopoly, often in order to occupy a piece of territory and fight, at the expense of killing people and seeing blood, for foreign cheap and good quality products are congenitally full of hostility, and the Wu Dynasty is a country dominated by the autonomy of the gentry, in the Wu Dynasty decree not to go to the countryside, the countryside is basically managed by the squire clan, in order to ensure profits, The squires would repeatedly instill the idea that foreign products were rubbish to the common people under their rule, so Chinese goods were not particularly popular in the inland markets of the Wu Dynasty, which had not had much contact with imported goods; Thirdly, due to the blockade of the coastal trade routes by the Maidno people and Zheng Zhilong, even the inland merchants who wanted to come to the Oriental Port could not find a way to come to the Oriental Port, so they could only buy the high-priced Chinese goods sold by the merchants who had been exploited by the Maidnor and Zheng Zhilong at a high price, and sold the original low-priced dumped goods into high-priced luxury goods, which also seriously affected the sales and promotion of the goods in the Oriental Port.

For the veterans of the Senate Department of Commerce and Trade, the inland market of the Wu Dynasty was like an untapped gold mine, and in order to dump a large number of products from the Eastern Port, they even had the heart to launch a war to force the Wu Dynasty to accept Chinese goods.

But now the trip to Shanxi has given them a glimmer of hope, the Chinese army will land from Shandong, through the Jingshi Henan to Shanxi, the road will pass through at least 800 kilometers, along the way hundreds of towns and villages, all of which are potential consumer groups, this forward route, it has become a commercial tour of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade to promote the product. They naturally want to let the industrialized products sweep the land along the way with the army, but it is conceivable that the foreign legion or the army, are all paying attention to 100% "soldier and god speed", at this moment the peasant rebel army has arrived in Shanxi, due to the arrival of winter and slow progress, if we can not seize this time in the winter to carry forward the advantages of mechanized transportation in the winter to concentrate on the annihilation of the chaotic army in the Taiping Xiangling line, it is likely to be annihilation war into a rout, if it is delayed until the spring of 1630, When the ice and snow in Shanxi thawed, not only would these rhinoceros transporters have to be inconvenient to drive because of the better road conditions, but those peasant armies would run around like mercury, and the Foreign Legion only had the strength of a regiment, and with a mere 2,000 troops, it would definitely be overstretched in terms of manpower, so it could only strive to complete the war in winter. And the most important point, the main purpose of this Shanxi rebellion is to capture more prisoners, especially to rescue women and children, the longer it drags on, the higher the chance of their death, if you wait until spring, there will probably not be many women and children left to rescue, so you can only hurry.

If you want to go fast, there is only one way, to increase the transportation capacity of the Chinese army, to ensure that thousands of the main forces of the Foreign Legion can be put into the battlefield at one time, and at the same time to ensure the supply of food and ammunition, but also to transport sufficient cold equipment - tents, boilers, coats, cashmere vests, shoes and socks and other items, with these, in order to ensure that soldiers and captured prisoners will not be killed and injured due to the cold winter early. In order to increase the capacity of the Foreign Legion, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade ordered the same number of rhino transporters as the Military Commission, which will be sent to the Foreign Legion and authorized for the military to transport personnel and supplies to ensure victory in battle.

Of course, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade is not without requirements, there is no problem in using these vehicles, but after transporting personnel and materials to the localities, the subsequent transportation must transport a batch of goods to various cities and villages along the route each time, these goods are basically specially selected commodities by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and they are particularly popular products in Hong Kong and Mingzhou, which are intended to open up the demand for Chinese goods from the inland first, and then radiate to the whole country. In order to ensure the requirements of cargo transportation, one of the two newly launched free ships will be sent to the Naval Expeditionary Force after sea trials to transport personnel and heavy equipment, and naturally carry a large amount of cargo and supplies.

The commanders of the Admiralty were all smiles at the Navy's sudden "generosity" of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, knowing that they had coveted the two Liberty ships for a long time, and that these large freighters with a displacement of 5,000 tons had thrown off the Victory class with a displacement of 3,600 tons in terms of carrying capacity and the rationality of cabin cargo. You must know that the weight of these sixty taels of rhinoceros transport vehicles is more than 180 tons, and it has to occupy a lot of space, and the veterans of the navy have died in the tonnage of the arrangement I don't know how many brain cells, and now the Ministry of Commerce and Trade suddenly sent a 5,000-ton free wheel, which is as gratifying as someone sent a pillow when they were dozing off.

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Of course, the Admiralty naturally knew that the Ministry of Commerce and Trade had intentions, but these small attempts were nothing in terms of being able to assist in the transportation of almost 5,000 tons of supplies, and according to the requirements of authorized transportation, the Navy had the full right to use the free wheels when the first transport troops went north, and when the troops and supplies were unloaded, the free ships would return to the ship immediately, and then return to Hong Kong to replenish and load supplies, and return to the port of Orient. On the second trip north, the Liberty Ship could only carry half of the military supplies, and the remaining half of the tonnage would be used to load goods in the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. In order to protect the safety of military supplies, the Navy must protect the navigation safety of the Liberty Ship throughout the whole process, which means that the steam-powered Victory class must be escorted all the time. Although the conditions were a bit harsh, the Admiralty readily agreed.

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