The carpenter quickly brought over all the drills, and there were as many as four or five types, among which the drill was impressively listed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info drill according to the size of the hole to be drilled, the shape is not the same. Like drilling, in many places it is also called pulling drills or something, according to the different dialects of different places, there are various names.

It is mainly composed of drill pipes, drill bits, pressure rods, ropes, and some will add a symmetrical wooden block similar to the flywheel principle, narrow inside and wide outside. And what Xia Xinsheng wants is this kind of drill-like tool with a simple flywheel. Xia Xinsheng drew a simple pattern on the ground, dug a hole on the side, pointed to the pattern and the hole dug out, and explained: "The size of the hole we want to dig is about two horses' hooves thick, and the depth is more than 30 centimeters.

The pattern here is a schematic diagram of a trap drill. Your drill is pressed down with your hands, so it is enough to drill a small hole in the wood, but to drill such a large hole in the ground, it is too hard to use your hands alone, so we have to change it, preferably with your feet, so that it is more labor-saving.

At the same time, people should ensure that they do not have to bend over, and our fighters may immediately participate in the battle after arranging their positions, so it becomes very important to reduce the physical exertion and fatigue of the soldiers.

Finally, the drill bit needed to be redesigned to be larger in size. Second, the way of linking with the drill pipe is bound to be different. You helped us make some samples, and then the main thing was to build the iron part, and we could figure out the carpentry part by ourselves, we were a little short on time, so we had to make everyone tired! ”

After getting the weapons that needed to be made, Xia Xinsheng and his entourage hurried to the Red University, that is, after arriving at the new base area, the Red Cadre Regiment of the Red Army met with the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army Military and Political School to form the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army School. The name is still the same as in history, but the scale is much larger, mainly because the number of Red Army troops who successfully arrived at the base area is much larger than before. There are naturally more good seedlings that can be cultivated.

Hongda is still carrying out ideological and political study in the early stage, and half of the originally planned courses have not been completed. Xia Xinsheng's requirements are not high, as long as the thinking is strong, those who can ride horses are all asked for together, and they are ready to let Xu Zengxu and the three of them lead the first Qingyang in the next day, and familiarize themselves with the style of the troops in advance and understand the combat methods of the Red Star Column. Second, it also strengthened the cadres of the Red Star Column, especially the cavalry corps.

Xia Xinsheng arranged all the things he could think of, and there were not many things that could be done next, first, the comrades guarding the Ministry of Military Industry helped to complete the production of all kinds of equipment, and second, he waited for the cavalry regiment directly under the central government to be transferred from the battlefield and brought back to Qingyang to strengthen the cavalry army. Of course, the most important thing is to wait for the news of the negotiations between the central government and the Northeast Army. If there is a problem in the negotiations between the two sides and no consensus can be reached, most of the men and horses of the Red Star Column will be held back in place and dare not move a bit.

The plan to advance westward can only stay on paper, perhaps Xia Xinsheng can only think about how to fight with the Northeast Army first to reinforce the west without worries. Of course, Xia Xinsheng is not without gains.

From the next day, Xia Xinsheng visited folk doctors everywhere, asking people about home remedies and prescriptions for treating dysentery and other diseases. also let Xia Xinsheng find a lot. The symptoms of the soldiers of Wuwei are mainly due to dietary problems, that is, bacterial infection, which is called "stagnation", "red wo", "red dysentery" and so on in traditional Chinese medicine, of course, the two theoretical systems of temperature and cold are not the same.

Xia Xinsheng inquired all the way according to the symptoms that came, according to the different sayings of each family, summed up the statistics of the medicinal materials that have something in common, nothing more than Huoxiang, woody incense and the like, although there is no way to prescribe the right medicine, Xia Xinsheng also knows that traditional Chinese medicine is more important to match, but it is a pity that the money in his hand is insufficient, and the time to come is too little, and there are too many sick people in the Western Expeditionary Army, so he can only find as many common herbs as possible in the local area. As for success or failure, it can only be left to fate. People in troubled times are not as good as peace dogs, and whoever is their turn can only be the one.

The northwest is already sparsely populated, even with the support of the central and local revolutionary governments, the number of medicinal materials that can be collected within a limited range is too small, and the maximum number of medicinal materials is only one or two thousand catties, and there are so many people who are sick in front, and I don't know if there will be any further infection, so a little designation is not enough. There was really no way, Xia Xinsheng brought the method of treating dysentery to cattle from the veterinarian, and asked the brother troops to help buy thousands of catties of garlic and send it to Qingyang.

The topic turned to the negotiations with the Northeast Army, in fact, the Red Army and the Northeast Army did not consume each other's strength, which both sides were willing to see, especially after the successive battles with the Red Army were lost, Zhang Xueliang's idea of seeking to take the northwest as a territory basically fell through. After abandoning the Northeast, the country's bitter scolding also made many people of insight in the Northeast Army deviate from Zhang Lide and were unwilling to continue to follow.

Like Admiral Lu Zhengcao in later generations, at this time there was already a strong tendency to lean towards the middle workers, and for example, the original navy of the Northeast Army is basically not left now, and most of the air force has left.

More importantly, as a playboy, he only has three minutes of enthusiasm and extreme idealism, and his lack of military and political means has led to the Northeast Army sliding to the bottom step by step. Although he still has a lot of money brought out from the Northeast in his hand, he doesn't know how long he can last under the empty mountain.

It's just that the plan put forward by the Red Army was not enough for Zhang to give up Chiang's big thick legs, and the indecisive young marshal couldn't make up his mind under the hesitation of left and right. There was no breakthrough in the seven days of negotiations. The chairman and the commander-in-chief personally met with Zhang several times, but they were unable to get him to give an answer that reassured the Red Army.

Most of the materials prepared for the Western Expedition were transported on the road, and Xia Xinsheng, who was busy, rushed back to Qingyang with the cavalry regiment of the Military Commission. On the one hand, he presided over the final preparations for the westward advance of the column. On the one hand, fortifications were arranged on the Pingliang line in the area of Pixian and assisted the comrades sent by the central authorities to use the surplus equipment that was originally intended to be transported back to the central authorities to form local garrison units. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the newly formed troops in Qingyang, the Red Star Column transferred 300 soldiers who had been seriously injured or sick by the older grades and handed them over to the local units as the backbone. (To be continued.) )