Chapter 60: The Age of the Great Railroad
"You know what? The generals who were beaten down by a group of soldiers are really embarrassed......" Li Wenyou stepped forward and looked at Gan Ning, who was surrounded in the middle, and couldn't help but joke. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"You know, if you really fight, you may not be able to keep me!" Gan Ning said unadmittedly.
"Sons, let him look at your left hand and see if he can still speak so confidently!" Seeing this, Li Wen did not continue to say anything to him, but turned his head and shouted to the soldiers.
Suddenly, the soldier in front raised his left hand, and the five faintly visible arrows made Gan Ning's scalp tingle. Although this is not a gun, it is pointed at a large number of arrows, and these arrows may be triggered to shoot out at any time, and I am afraid that I will feel my scalp tingle if I change it.
"Can you put your hands down? It's not a good thing to accidentally shoot out......," Gan Ning said as he looked at Li Wen and the others.
"Put your hands down! In addition, you can rest assured that unless we pull the safety bolt open, there will be no sudden ejaculation at all! When Li Wen heard this, he immediately gave an order to the soldiers, and finally did not forget to tease Gan Ning a few words. This kind of ink door provides ideas, and the sleeve arrows made by the military factory themselves are not so unsafe.
"You should be glad that it is not on the river, otherwise you may not be my opponent!" Although Gan Ning's crisis has been lifted, he is young and vigorous in the end, and it is inevitable that he will have to leave some cruel words.
"We agree with this, but if it really comes to that time, it's hard to say that you will definitely have the advantage!" Li Wen was not angry with his opponent and said, you must know that in the logistics baggage, there are more than 50 grenades.
It wasn't a black powder grenade, it was an incendiary bomb made from fractionated gasoline, sugar and other things, and it was said that there was such a thing as white phosphorus, and it was basically impossible for an enemy within 50 meters of the explosion to survive anyway. Even if poured on stone or steel, it can burn for nearly two quarters of an hour.
The waterproof treatment of the black powder grenade has not been done well, and after all, if this thing is thrown incorrectly, it will not cause much damage, especially against large ships. So if there is a water war, he thinks that it is better to use incendiary bombs, at least even if it falls to the surface of the river, it can continue to burn.
You know, in ancient Greece, others used this thing against enemy troops, although it was mixed with oil instead of gasoline.
It's just that the incendiary bomb is a hole card, and Li Wen doesn't want to be exposed to others casually. So in the face of Gan Ning's provocation, it was not exposed. However, Gan Ning was not stupid, knowing that the SAR army was only afraid of other means, he was speechless.
"It's going to be completely bright, aren't you leaving?" Li Wen looked at the sky, a bright light had risen in the far east, the sun was about to rise, and the dawn had arrived.
"I'm really not leaving! Count yourself as a captive! By the way, do you still recruit trolls in the SAR? Not to mention anything else, on this big river, a certain Jinfan Army is also one of the best existences! Gan Ning didn't leave.
One is to realize that the times seem to have changed, and the mode of war may affect the military model of the entire Han Dynasty with the continuous appearance of the SAR army. Under this premise, it is becoming more and more difficult for water bandits like them; The second is also interested in the Special Economic Zone, many people say that the Special Economic Zone is good, and now it seems that nothing else is known, but this army is definitely a strong army!
Thinking that if there is such a force under his command or something, it is a man's romance! For any male, good weapons and strong subordinates always come first!
Only when neither weapons nor subordinates are satisfied, do they retreat to the pursuit of beauties and mounts. Regardless of the era, this is mostly the case. After all, the two factors that make up the dignity of men are ability and descendants.
Ability can be one's own strength, powerful weapons and excellent mounts are the best accessories, but an industry, a good position, and even a large number of subordinates are the key to all this; As for offspring, this is also a derivation of ability, and the male proves his strength by possessing more of the opposite sex and reproducing more offspring.
The so-called ** silk counterattack goddess, in a sense, is to make up for the ability by counterattacking the goddess when the career is not satisfied, in order to prove that she is actually very capable, in the final analysis, it is still self-esteem......
"Anyway, you're really on it? Anyway, we are also going to propose to the chief to set up a navy, and you can let your subordinates try it. If you are selected, then you will naturally not worry about the treatment. But if you don't get selected, you'll have to find a way to place them! Li Wen said to Gan Ning angrily.
"Is the selection of the Special Administrative Region so strict?" Gan Ning asked a little caught off guard.
"It's useless for me to say this, you can see it for yourself and think for yourself!" Li Wen didn't answer in depth, but he didn't drive Gan Ning away. He knew a little about the situation of the Jinfan thief, and he had already read a little information before the station, which was provided by the intelligence department converted from Momen.
This is a group of water bandits that appeared three or four years ago, but their combat effectiveness is really good, which makes the families and officers and soldiers in Jingzhou have a headache. The SAR has little experience in water warfare, and it really needs a group of people who are familiar with water warfare to help guide them, and the Jinfan thieves are quite okay.
In fact, Li Yu is not without experience in water warfare, anyway, he has both theory and knowledge. There may be problems with the application, but to sum up, the water warfare of this era is nothing more than the concept of 'more ships fighting fewer ships, and big ships fighting small boats'. In the end, there is no artillery, and this argument can be applied to most water battles by purely relying on ramming, rocket projectiles, and gang jumping.
However, for naval talents, of course, he will not refuse, especially the existence of a fierce general like Gan Ning. This guy is not only good at water warfare, but also good at land cavalry combat and siege warfare, and is completely an all-rounder.
It's not that Li Yu has a collecting habit, or that as long as he is a traverser, he is a little bit of a traverser. The key talent is the talent, as long as it is gold, it will not be buried, otherwise why is Gan Ning and not other water bandits rampant in the world? If someone else can make a name for himself, and even know that he will be extraordinary in the future, but he discards it, it is really brainless......
"That's good...... Give me a few days first, and I'll gather the old department! Gan Ning originally wanted to recommend Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, but he still planned to personally see the situation in the Special Administrative Region before recommending them, so as not to cheat his friends.
"Let's go, as long as you take your troops to the border to register, someone will naturally contact us to come and greet you!" Li Wen nodded and agreed.
Gan Ning immediately left with these 300 soldiers, and I have to say that Li Wen's army was indeed very measured, and in such a big melee, there was not a single casualty. However, there are a few people who have a little sprained or scratched, and it is not a problem.
Not long after, Gan Ning's flagship raised its sails and left. With their departure, Li Wen also quickly took over the security and government of Zongyang. It is declared to the outside world that since Jing County and Juchao County cannot guarantee the safety of Zongyang, and Zongyang is also related to the foreign trade and transportation of the Special Economic Zone, from today onwards, the Special Economic Zone will fully take over the management of Zongyang!
The local people have long hoped that this day will come, and most of the people have no opinions, only those families showed resentful eyes, after all, the special zone does not allow private property, even if it will be redeemed and compensated, but who is willing to give up real estate and land property?
Fortunately, this part of the family, with the killing of Gan Ning, at least more than seventy percent of them died, and the rest did not become a climate, and there was no way to prevent the special zone from redeeming the land here.
"Is this the SAR retaliating against us?" Three days later, everything here was reported to Liu Hong.
"It is said that it is the result of Li Yu's insistence, Lin Ming has been persuaded by Lin Ming, but he doesn't listen!" Wang Yue reported apologetically.
"Li Yu has broken away from Momen and established the Socialist Party. He is trying to further break away from the control of your Momen, so it is not surprising that he will not listen to Lin Ming's words. Anyway, it would be strange if he worked hard!
I'm just curious, how did they get from Taoyuan County to the outlying areas in such a short period of time, and then rush to Zongyang? Didn't they just be there in the first place? Liu Hong asked curiously.
"It's a railway, the kind of railroad that relied on horses in the pre-Qin period! The Special Zone has built such a railway from Taoyuan County to the outskirts of the Special Zone, and as long as the horses run on it, they will not stop at all, and they will run faster and faster, until they reach the open space on the other side of the transfer station.
This kind of railway has very high requirements for rails and sleepers, and crucially, on horses. In recent years, the Special Administrative Region has cultivated a huge kind of horse-pulling horse, which can be used to pull up tens of thousands of pounds of carriages. At present, there are only more than 700 such horses in the Special Administrative Region, and more than 300 of them have not yet reached adulthood. Wang Yue naturally didn't dare to hide it, and the key was that he also got Lin Ming's proposal to promote this kind of railway.
"How fast is it, and how much does it cost?" Liu Hong really came to be interested.
"In less than an hour, tens of thousands of catties of baggage can be transported to the front line, and a hundred fully armed soldiers can be transported to the front line if the soldiers are soldiers. If you don't take into account armament, if you lengthen the carriage, 150 to 200 people should not be a problem!
The cost is slightly higher, and in the past two years, the Special Economic Zone has continued to purchase iron materials for refining, and a lot of raw materials have been consumed to build such a small section of the railway. If we want to build, we can only buy that kind of rail in the special zone, otherwise we will not be able to reach it in terms of hardness or anti-rust treatment technology.
However, with this railway, Li Yu seems to plan to carry out cargo transportation and passenger transportation in addition to the military, so as to facilitate the transportation of goods by merchants, and the transportation fees collected one after another should be able to recover the cost within three years!
At the same time, if two parallel railways from the Western Regions to Luoyang can be built, then all the way through, you can pass through Hongnong, Chang'an, Hebei, Yan, Yunwu, Guzang, Touch (deworming and Lede), Lufu, Dunhuang to Yihe Duhufu, then the Han Dynasty's control over the Western Regions and Xiliang can also be greatly strengthened! Wang Yue proposed.
"That's more than ten times longer than the road in the Special Zone!" Liu Hong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and wanted to say that it was tempting. There is definitely confusion, and it is very big, but considering the cost, it is painful.
"It can be built section by section, which can reduce costs, and if it is put into operation immediately, it can also be profitable as soon as possible!" Wang Yue proposed.
"Good suggestion, I'll consider it!" Liu Hong nodded, but what he valued more was actually in the special zone, which could find the technology that was hard and would not rust just now. But he knew that Li Yu was afraid that he might not give up. Forcing him to rebel, there is no need at this stage, the family has already given him a headache, so don't have another headache for the Special Administrative Region.
But what he didn't know was that after the role of the railway was confirmed, Li Yu increased his investment in the railway, and the entire special zone, from that moment on, really entered the era of the big railway! (To be continued.) )