When the prisoners of war were touching their stomachs while swaying around the slipway to reduce the feeling of fullness in their stomachs, Zhang Yuan, who had arrived, was also looking at the slipway. He wasn't worried that these prisoners of war would take the opportunity to escape, not to mention that there were snipers wearing active night vision devices outside, and even if they let them run, I believe they wouldn't be able to find the next place to eat. "Hehe, having enough to eat has become their shackles." He couldn't help but laugh and mutter.

Xiao Jing on the side couldn't help but reply. "What?"

"It's nothing," Zhang Yuan didn't intend to say his joke either, shifting the topic to the slipway. "You said it took a lot of time to level the slipway, right? Such a large area is leveled, and there is wood provided by your wood team on it, what kind of wood is this? It looks oily. ”

Xiao Jingtou didn't reply, "Originally, according to the information provided by the technical team, it should be 30×30 American pine, but where can I get it here?" I had to cut down a few pine trees in the jungle and process them and send them over, but fortunately, the quality of the pine trees here is really good, and there is still a layer of oil after peeling off the skin. I couldn't find the 40-meter one, so I had to use a few splices to put it together. ”

In order to facilitate the convenience of getting on and off the slipway, the whole slipway is arranged vertically perpendicular to the coastline, and the shipbuilding team was originally going to use an electric winch, but the members with shipyard work experience said that the motor is often easy to overload and burn out when going on the slipway, so the specially selected diesel engine directly drives the winch.

Yang Junbo and several elders of the industrial group carefully checked the two wire ropes and confirmed that there was no problem with the wire ropes, and watched the tide gradually rise, and the time was basically close to the highest water level, he blew the whistle in his mouth and asked all the personnel to gather.

The two-hundred-ton ship was pushed by the tide on the shore of the dark night not far away, and many places on the side of the ship were hit by the firefire shot a few nights ago under the searchlight, and it was still quietly seeping into the cabin.

"Turn on" accompanied Yang Junbo's order, and the two diesel engines in the distance roared almost at the same time, and then the wire rope was tightened on the pulley group. Because the structural strength of the wooden boat is not high, the wire rope is carried in the stern.

There was a squeak of the wire rope when it was being tightened, and a group of captives chatted and watched without fear, but the patriarchs stared at the wire rope very nervously, as long as it broke or something, it was almost all luck.

"Drive slower! Stay steady! Don't be in a hurry! Yang Junbo held the walkie-talkie and shouted inside. This wire rope pulls a small 200-ton lucky boat, and if it is broken, it will fly out and hit everything in half.

However, it was expected that the plot of the wire rope flying did not happen, and the boat was pulled up, but because the wire rope on the butt of the boat was displaced, resulting in a relatively large deviation between the hull and the keel pier, several responsible veterans hurriedly stopped the towing work and pushed the boat down.

The elders of the industrial group carefully inspected each section of wire rope and pulley again, then dragged the bow of the boat in front with a chain to ensure the direction of traction, and then began towing again. With the sound of wood rubbing against wood, the roar of diesel engines in the distance, and the squeak of wire rope pulling, the boat was pulled up again, and the people of the ship repair team hurriedly ran up to check it again, but it was still crooked. Everyone could only hang their heads and pull the boat back into the water again.

After tossing back and forth like this for more than half an hour, several members of the Planning Commission felt pain in the diesel fuel they had artificially consumed, and it was not until the eighth time that they successfully completed the work of putting on the slipway. The nearly two-hundred-ton ship was lying quietly on the slipway at this time, and the tide was also a certain distance from the keel pier, and several patriarchs were taking prisoners to fix the ship, and then erected scaffolding. Several prisoners couldn't close their mouths when they saw the scaffolding, and these Americans' things were amazing, and they had to take a lot of wood and planks to build a platform flush with the ship when they were repairing and building ships on weekdays before they could start working. But these Americans actually built a platform directly with a few iron shelves, and they can be embedded in each other, and they can be built as high as they want. But these "Americans" don't have time to show off their "miraculous inventions."

Yang Junbo immediately brought several ship repair team personnel to the ship to actually survey the parts that needed to be repaired, and the prisoners were each issued with tweezers and plastic bags, their job was to pick up all the warheads on the ship, if they were stuck in the planks, they used tweezers to pluck them, the warheads of these bullets were all copper, in this era, copper is still a precious metal, and it must not be wasted.

At this time, Zhang Yuan was leading a group of veterans of the sub-industrial group to carry plastic buckets to pick butter under the slipway and on the slipway, and when the ship was launched, it would have to be reused.

"I said, what is this butter for? It's all blackened, and there's sand in it, can it still be used? ”

Zhang Yuan didn't even raise his head. "Of course, the sediment and other filters are gone after a few times, but this butter is definitely still usable, and the people of the Planning Commission are still staring at it, don't waste time and pick it up quickly."

Lin Shenhe and several people from the weapons team also rushed over, and they came to evaluate the artillery. But when they saw a few cannons lying on the deck, they said two words to Yang Junbo: "Return to the furnace." ”

"Why do you want to go back to the furnace?" Yang Junbo was a little strange, "Didn't the pirates use it well before?" ”

Lin Shenhe didn't say a word, and directly touched the gun, "You also have to see how thick the wall of this cannon tube is, this thickness is not much thicker than the old gasoline barrels before, do you really plan to use it as a conscienceless cannon in the Huaihai Campaign?" What's more......" said as he pointed at the cannon and pointed a few more places. "This is an iron cannon, and there is no maintenance and maintenance in normal times, there are air holes on the wall of this tube, do you dare to open such a cannon?"

Yang Junbo looked at this barrel that was really as fat and short as a gasoline barrel speechlessly, and could only shake his head.

"But we haven't even built a steelmaking furnace now, so what if this ship needs to be equipped with artillery?"

"You can't use this cannon no matter what, I can guarantee that if our patriarch uses this artillery, he will definitely kill more of his own people than the enemy." Lin Shenhe scribbled a few strokes on the assessment opinions and decided the fate of these cannons. "We don't have a steel mill for the time being, but I heard from the resource exploration team the day before yesterday that we found a coal mine with unknown reserves in the north, and I heard that the quality is acceptable, just a little worse than that of Hongji Coal Mine. The Executive Committee will probably start discussing the issue of the steel mill in the next few days. ”

Yang Feng also climbed up along the scaffolding at this time, and Yang Junbo couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. "Why are you here?"

Since Yang Feng successfully drove the Dongfeng into the harbor and unloaded the ship's supplies to the beach, as a hero who created a new world, he has been accompanied by flowers and applause for a while, but the Dongfeng can no longer move at this time, and he has now become a high-profile captain and has become the left-behind personnel of the Dongfeng. The daily work is to maintain and maintain the equipment on the ship, and even the patrol in the harbor has been taken over by the navy. Now that he suddenly has a new ship, he has seen his expectations for the day when he comes out, and many people have forgotten about him when he goes to the cafeteria to eat lately. His friend Zhang Zefeng still had a meal in the industrial group, and his first three mates naturally couldn't afford to fall and lie on the Dongfeng for the rest of his life.

"I'm here to see the new ship," he said, dragging Yang Minghuan up who was crawling below. "This kind of ship is not much different from the wooden ships of the old time and space, and it can become a sailing ship with a little modification. This ship is of great value to our naval or coastal transport forces. ”

Yang Minghuan climbed up a little breathing, although this is not high, but there are too many people on this scaffold can not be spread at all, and it took half a day to climb up. He said to Yang Junbo on the side, "Your scaffolding is too small, tomorrow you still have to go to the timber mill to get a batch of timber and planks to build a new working platform, otherwise it will be a fatal thing to go up and down, let alone work on it." ”

"Okay, we'll do that, but today's and tomorrow's work is mainly to clean up the attachment from the bottom of the ship, and I suspect that the bottom of the ship has not been cleaned since it hit the water, and there is really everything under the boat. We first have to clean it off and then reapply it with tung oil. ”

"How are you going to modify the ship?" Several people from the navy on the side hurriedly asked, they had already subconsciously regarded this ship as the property of the navy.

"That's right, in the past, these guns were located on the deck, and the center of gravity of the whole ship was relatively high, and there was a threat of capsizing. We plan to modify it below deck and move the guns below deck, three on the left and three on the left and right, so as to provide some protection for the gun shooters and lower the center of gravity. Yang Junbo had already determined how to modify the ship in several previous discussions, so he naturally opened his mouth.

"But the freeboard of this lucky ship is not high, and if the wind and waves are a little stronger, it is easy to enter the water through the gun window."

"We have also considered this problem, and when the time comes, we will set up porthole guards, as long as we don't rush to fight, basically there is no big problem." Yang Junbo paused, "The most important thing is to know the parameters of the gun, so that we can design the gun position." ”

"Don't worry about artillery, we have formed an artillery design team and are designing artillery."

"Is it a breech or a breech? The breech is fine, but the breech is enough space for reloading. ”

"This ......," the speaker also paused...... "Let's discuss this again."