"Attention! Your right-hand side! Looking at the white frame painted on the ground? The buoyancy box is the same size as this frame! You need to find the protrusions on both sides of this thing, where the instructor and I are standing...... "Standing on the training grounds, a dozen officers who have just been seconded from the Navy to the Forces nouvelles are repeatedly explaining to the Army engineers around them how to fix the buoyancy boxes and assemble them in a straight line. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After being seconded, it took only three hours for these naval personnel to assemble and under the guard of Jinyiwei, they were directly isolated in a military airfield on the outskirts of Tianjin Port. The officers from the Navy were ordered not to contact their families until they stood on the runway of the airport and learned that they had become the first Navy officers in the world to fly in an airplane.

In order to transport these people to the front line that Wang Jue needed in the fastest and most covert way, these officers were transported by two Anyun 1 planes and flew directly from Tianjin to a military airfield near the Trooping Mountain, which had just been sorted out and built. At this time, the plane was still a relatively unsafe means of transport, so senior officers like Wang Jue were not allowed to take the plane.

Strictly speaking, they were also the first military personnel to fly in actual combat. The previous rides were all experimental in nature, but this time there are recorded combat operations using aircraft to transport personnel in actual combat, and the military also attaches more importance to this and considers many aspects......

Because of this, these poor naval officers were required to leave a simple will before boarding the Elite 1 aircraft. This frightened more than a dozen men who had not yet sat on the plane to feel the freshness brought by technology almost peed their pants, and it took a long time for the pilot to explain before they got into the cabin of the plane under the constraints of military orders.

So much so that these frightened people along the way got off the plane and still had palpitations when they got in the car. They vented their grievances and dissatisfaction along the way on these army sappers who were being trained by them.

"At this time, there will be infantry covering you to go up first! You have to keep in mind to keep up with the soldiers who rush first, and if they get hit by a bullet, you're on your own, you know? On the other hand, the instructors from the army are also emphasizing what will happen again and again, and they have to explain to each soldier what will happen on the battlefield, so as not to cause chaos and affect the speed of construction.

All the soldiers were keeping note of these things, and now the advantage of the fact that most of the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles had gone to school and had received training and education - the quality of these soldiers was very high, and the atmosphere of learning was very strong. These soldiers will analyze and think about the tasks assigned by their superiors and draw up more reasonable and concrete action plans based on their own experience.

The attack plan drawn up by Wang Jue is not so much a plan of action as an instruction manual for new equipment. The Ming army will launch a plan to force the crossing of the Liao River in the next day, which will start with the construction of sappers on the west bank of the Liao River, build a strong approach bridge under the cover of smoke, and fix a structure that can be used to lock the pontoon bridge.

Immediately afterwards, the entire process of erecting the pontoon bridge was completely changed: the Ming army drove the pontoon bridge with gasoline engine power, and pushed directly upstream from a short distance downstream, and lined up the buoyancy boxes and the boat itself dragged behind on the river. Then the sappers swarmed up, fixed these buoyancy boxes and boats, and laid them with the iron plates prepared in advance!

It is estimated that the time to connect this new pontoon bridge is one-tenth of the construction speed of the old pontoon bridge in the past, and in this case, as long as you bear one-tenth of the original cost, you can almost seize the opposite bank position and establish a bridgehead position. Then the prepared tank units will immediately begin to cross the river, and soon the opponent's defense will collapse and lose the ability to counterattack as more and more tanks cross the river.

In order to be sure, Wang Jue prepared two pontoon equipment at the same time, just in case. Moreover, there are still a lot of equipment and materials left over from the forced crossing of the Liuhe River on the front line of the Ming army, and it is also possible to build an old-fashioned pontoon bridge on the Liao River. Three pontoon bridges were to be built at the same time and were to be used as logistical transport and to replenish reserves after the troops crossed the river.

"In front of some of the boats, machine guns are set up to cover the engineers. The rest of the part is a hiding place for the sappers, and the tools you have in your hands are also reserved on it, and if you lose it, you can go to the bow of the ship to find it! The instructors were running around on the fake hull of the ship painted in lime on the ground, and they checked with the soldiers in front of them where each part would be.

The boat will travel from downstream to upstream, in fact, it is also because the structure of the traditional boat has changed - the traditional boat used to cross the river is mainly oars, in order to save effort, it is naturally faster and more convenient to go down the river. However, the new boats have a power system, and even if they form a pontoon, they can turn on the engine to counteract part of the impulse of the river.

Therefore, if the new boats with engines do not want to play steer again on the field, they should be safer and more practical to swim upstream from the downstream. This is a change brought about by technological innovation, and it has nothing to do with the command and thinking of the commanders.

The progress of the times has made it faster to build pontoon bridges, and there are more ways for tanks to cross trenches. In order to deal with those anti-tank trenches more than 5 meters wide, the Ming army prepared more advanced bridge-building tanks this time, which sounds very lofty, but there is really no new technology and creativity in it.

Different from the current complex structure of the bridge-building tank, the bridge-building tank used by the Ming Empire is actually just a modern interpretation of another ancient equipment: the Ming army directly borrowed the design of the suspension bridge on the ancient moat, transplanted it to the front of the No. 1 tank, and designed it into a new equipment with a very fashionable and simple style.

Of course, in order to reduce the weight of the suspension bridge equipment ahead, the 10-meter-long bridge is mostly made of wood and has a large number of triangular support structures. 1 In order to carry this bridge body, the tank also added a large number of counterweights behind the body, removed the original turret, and replaced it with an engine to pull and release the rope that lifted the suspension bridge.

In order to support the weight of the drawbridge in front, two small wheels were added in the direction of the bridge body near the tank itself...... This bridge tank is also very easy to use, just drive into the edge of the anti-tank trench, release the cable and let the bridge body fall to the opposite side like a drawbridge, and you're good to go! (To be continued.) )