"Commander!" Chen Zhaoming saw that Wang Jue had discovered him, and immediately stood up and saluted and called Wang Jue. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe veterans who came out of the new army, called Wang Jue, the commander who had trained them single-handedly, like to use the title of commander, and he is not a general. It seems that in their hearts, their own commander can only be called a commander forever, because sooner or later he will become a marshal or even the generalissimo of the empire, and the title of general is not respectful enough!

Wang Jue smiled and returned a military salute, and the military uniform on his body always had a discipline buckle that was not fastened, making his whole person look a little lazy. After returning to the military salute, Wang Jue walked over without a frame, pulled Chen Zhaoming and the heads of several factories behind him to open a distance, and asked eagerly: "The purpose of my coming here is very simple, I just want to ask, what is your good way to quickly erect a pontoon bridge on the Liao River?" ”

Chen Zhaoming didn't speak immediately, but thought for a few seconds before saying to Wang Jue: "If it's across a small river, we already have our own way...... But now it is necessary to cross the Liao River, which is a severe test for the entire equipment system. ”

It is more convenient to talk to smart people, Wang Jue immediately heard the meaning of Chen Zhaoming's words: what Chen Zhaoming said was not that he couldn't do it, but that this was a severe test. Wang Jue understood the difference in this answer, and immediately realized that he seemed to have come to the right place this time.

"It seems that I have come to the right place this time, tell me in detail, what method do you plan to use to solve the problem of crossing the river of the troops?" Wang Jue looked at Chen Zhaoming and asked in a good mood.

Chen Zhaoming led Wang Jue to the factory, and at the same time introduced the process of developing and producing supporting tank auxiliary equipment here: "Commander, we have recently improved the original design of boats for crossing rivers. We've enlarged the hull and made it more slender. This would allow us to transport the boats by rail, and we would be able to drop more soldiers on the opposite shore at a time. ”

"Does this just make the battle for the beach a little more efficient, and there are other improvements?" Obviously, Wang Jue did not have much interest in improving the design of boats for crossing the river, and in his opinion, even if more troops were allowed to land on the opposite shore as soon as possible, it would not be able to change the fact that his troops were still outnumbered on the beachhead.

"Operational Plan No. 708...... We got inspiration from there. Chen Zhaoming opened his mouth to mention a battle plan that had been shelved for a long time, and said to Wang Jue: "This plan was drawn up by Ge Tianzhang, in order to ensure the combat operations after the naval battle, the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group at that time specially designed a floating dock equipment for unloading that can float on the sea. ”

When it comes to "Operation Plan No. 708", Wang Jue is like thunder. This stranded plan, which was not a secret in the Ming Empire, was once implemented because the conditions were too harsh, so it was finally abandoned. The main idea of this plan was to organize 200,000 troops to land in Ceylon as soon as the navy gained sea supremacy over Ceylon.

However, at the time of the formulation of this plan, Ceylon had just become independent and swept away many warships of the Ming Navy. At that time, the Daming Navy Division had experienced various fiascos, its vitality had not yet recovered, and it could not guarantee absolute superiority over the Ceylon navy, and it was simply unable to support a distant landing operation - so this plan eventually became a paper talk, and Ge Tianzhang's first attempt to solve Ceylon once and for all ended in vain.

Of course, this plan did not waste manpower and material resources at that time, at least many cross-sea landing equipment and landing ships were developed at that time and became the basis of the amphibious operation of the Ming Empire Navy. Chen Zhaoming found his own inspiration from the weapons and equipment developed in this plan, and developed inland river crossing combat equipment.

"Well, we've made some improvements to the buoyancy box that was originally intended for the floating dock...... There is a batch of such equipment in Tianjin Port, and it should not be difficult to transport it to Liaodong. Chen Zhaoming smiled and continued to explain his thoughts to Wang Jue, he introduced while pointing to a huge box full of rust traces where he passed: "This is one of the buoyancy boxes, abandoned here, has been converted into a water tank, and the corrosion resistance test ......"

"Haven't missed yet?" Wang Jue looked at the old antique in front of him with some surprise, and asked in disbelief.

"Just kidding, how can you not miss it? Because this thing is a disposable device, it has long been scrapped......" Chen Zhaoming replied with a smile.

"Scrapped ones can be used?" Wang Jue heard that Chen Zhaoming was fighting the idea of those buoyancy boxes in Tianjin Port, and asked: "The batch of things in Tianjin Port is almost the same age as this old antique, and it doesn't sink when it is placed in the water?" ”

Chen Zhaoming shook his head and explained to Wang Jue: "This batch of buoyancy boxes was made up by Ge Tianzhang a year ago, and His Majesty the Emperor has been thinking about the treasure land of Ceylon......

Wang Jue nodded when he heard this explanation. To say that the Ming Empire did have a few unknown emperors, but most of them were conscientious. After all, these emperors all stood out from the crowd, and none of them were really stupid. After sighing a little in his heart, he continued to ask, "Then how are you going to use these buoyancy boxes?" ”

"We lined up the buoyancy boxes and the new boats separately and fixed them." Chen Zhaoming pointed to the scrapped buoyancy box and described his idea to Wang Jue: "After the upstream is fixed, go down the river in sections and build a pontoon bridge on the Liao River near Tieling, we only need to connect a few sections of such pontoon bridges, and we can let the tank pass through the Liao River in a very short time!" ”

"Are you sure you're sure to do that?" Wang Jue already knew the answer he wanted, so he stared at Chen Zhaoming with his shining eyes, as if he wanted to find the answer he wanted in the eyes of the other party.

"Put a gasoline engine on board! Adopt a powertrain instead of manpower. I'm sure I'll be able to build a pontoon bridge in the time you need, Commander! Chen Zhaoming opened his mouth to answer Wang Jue's question, and his firm attitude also made Wang Jue temporarily let go of the heart hanging in mid-air.

Wang Jue nodded and said, "I'll find a way to call the engine." The ship's business is up to you! ”

"100 inland river assault boats with engine compartments have been produced in Shandong!" Chen Zhaoming said proudly: "General Liu this time, it can be regarded as a meritorious service!" (To be continued.) )