Li Ming originally wanted Gao Jianguo, Wang He and the others to rest for a day and walk, but these old guys knew about the grain in Jiangnan, and they could still sit there, so they asked to leave immediately.

Before the launch of the Central Plains Campaign, the board of directors of the company specially convened various departments to make statistics on the materials stored in the past two years, and the results were very unoptimistic.

Even if the capture of the Far Eastern Army in various parts of the Central Plains is added, it will not last long, after all, in the future, the Far Eastern Company will manage most of the Central Plains, and no matter how much grain it has, it will be stretched.

This is also the main reason why the Southern Army carried out the plan to plunder Jiangnan, that is, it hoped that the Yangtze River Fleet could loot a batch of grain and other materials in the southern part of the Daimyo Jiangnan to alleviate the dilemma of insufficient grain reserves of the company.

But who would have thought that the various detachments of the Yangtze River Fleet would actually make such great gains in various parts of the Yangtze River, which is definitely an unexpected joy. Although the Yangtze River Fleet does not have specific statistics, from the analysis of the telegrams sent back by various detachments, the amount of grain they captured in Jiangnan is definitely quite large.

Originally, the ships allocated by the Southern Corps for the Yangtze River Fleet were the largest among the three major inland river fleets, but in the face of the mountains of grain piled up in various places, the ships of the Yangtze River Fleet were insufficient.

Li Ming transferred a Type 39A large eight-engine airship from the Northern Corps, and then everyone took this airship to fly in the direction of Wuchang Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Type 39A large eight-engine airship is a new type of airship developed on the basis of the Type 39 airship, and because of the continuous efforts of the Far Eastern Power Research Institute in Vladivostok, the power of the eight engines equipped with the Type 39A airship has been increased by more than 20 percent.

The power has been strengthened, so that the cruising speed, flight altitude, load weight and air time of the Type 39A large eight-engine airship have been improved to varying degrees, and the problems existing in the Type 39 airship have been improved in an all-round way.

Moreover, the Type 39 Type A airship has optimized the power and handling structure, has the basic ability to resist storms, and has some ability to take off and land in bad weather.

The most important thing is that the Type 39A large eight-engine airship uses a hydrogen liner and an airbag with helium outside, and also fully absorbs the lessons of the Type 35 airship, and makes large-scale improvements to a large number of potential safety hazards, so the safety performance of the Type 39A airship is very strong.

In fact, since the establishment of the airship unit by the Ministry of the Air Force, seven airships have been wrecked and crashed due to various reasons, including the one that Li Ming once ridden.

In order to avoid the psychological pressure caused by the airship crash of the company's employees, the Military Commission did not report these accidents, but adopted the method of "covering the lid", even if many internal employees did not know about these accidents.

Although the Type 39A airship has excellent performance in all aspects and has strong safety performance, the high cost has always made the company unable to make up its mind.

However, after the incident of Li Ming's airship being wrecked in bad weather, the company finally realized the seriousness of the problem and decided to replace the Type 39A airship on a large scale and gradually eliminate the old Type 35 airship.

At present, the Ministry of the Air Force has equipped nearly 100 Type 39A large eight-engine airships, and the reason why the number of equipment is still very small is that the main reason is that the production capacity of the Vladivostok large airship and airship R&D center cannot be increased, and there is always a big bottleneck in annual output.

But this situation will be alleviated soon, the big airship R & D center has established a large airship manufacturing enterprise in the starting point town, the annual output of the 39A airship will be greatly increased within two years, and the cost problem that has been criticized by people is also because of the scale of production capacity, the cost will be greatly reduced.

When the airship taken by Li Ming, Gao Jianguo and others flew into the airspace of Wuchang Mansion, everyone looked down on the Yangtze River through the porthole in the airship pod, and was immediately shocked by the spectacular scene on the ground.

The surface of the Yangtze River is densely covered with all kinds of boats, constantly going back and forth between the two sides of the Yangtze River. Thick clouds of black smoke from the barges on the river steam deck almost obscured the entire sky.

In order to transport the grain seized from Jiangnan to the Jiangbei region as soon as possible, various detachments of the Yangtze River Fleet forcibly requisitioned a large number of ships in the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty, such as fishing boats, merchant ships, and cao boats, and even the painting boats of Qinhuai in Nanjing.

Countless ships from the south of the Yangtze River in Suchang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other areas are filled with grain, and then sail to the north of the river, each river is stuffed to the brim, like a continuous dragon swimming slowly, there is quite a magnificent scene of hundreds of boats competing for the current to ride the wind and waves.

The Wuchangfu wharf on the riverside and the Hankou and Hanyang wharves on the other side of the river were crowded with people, and countless officers and soldiers from the Far East and requisitioned local migrant workers were busy day and night on both sides of the Yangtze River.

Horse-drawn carts and trolleys were endless, filling the city of Wuchang with grain, and then transporting it to the wharf by the river. The riverside wharves are full of grain, and the wharves are also full of boats, constantly going back and forth between the banks of the Yangtze River.

From time to time, there are several extremely fast sailing ships roaring back and forth on the river, responsible for organizing and managing, and guiding a large number of ships to enter and leave the port.

Because of the chaotic situation around Wuchang Fucheng, the Yangtze River Fleet built a temporary airship take-off and landing site on a vacant land a few kilometers away from Wuchang Fucheng.

Although it was already known that Li Ming, Gao Jianguo and many other members of the Standing Committee of the Far East Board of Directors had rushed to Wuchang Mansion, Ye Changsheng, Liu Dong and others could not spare time to come over to greet them.

They have been very busy these days, even Ye Changsheng personally took a speedboat to command on the river, and he only slept for less than ten hours in a few days, and he was so tired that he had lost his appearance.

Li Ming, Gao Jianguo and others got off the airship and came to the riverside, and Ye Changsheng specially sent a speedboat to pull everyone to the Wuchang Mansion wharf. The speedboat is a modular assault boat of the engineering boat bridge unit, which can quickly assemble several modular blocks into a speedboat, equipped with a single-cylinder diesel engine.

The speedboat was speeding on the river, and the speed was very fast, and it was not long before it reached the waters near Wuchang Mansion. But when the speedboat arrived here, the speed slowed down, and in the face of the dense ships on the river, they could only patiently wait for the unified command of the temporary command post, although the naked eye had seen the Wuchangfu wharf not far away, but still waited on the river for more than two hours to get the instructions.

(To be continued.) )