"A carriage-like vehicle? In three days, the rebels were probably able to advance more than 100 kilometers, and by the time we sent our troops, I am afraid that there were already rebel outposts and vanguard troops occupying the pass of Mount Gallen.

If we can send 500 soldiers to the pass in one day and crush these vanguard forces to take the pass, we should be able to buy three days for the follow-up troops.

Deputy Division Commander Xia Lin, can the vehicle you mentioned be able to transport 500 soldiers in one day?"

Rye asked as he took out a ruler and compass and compared them on the map.

"I'm not sure yet, let me do the math first!"

Xia Lin had only just come up with the idea of using the magic motive to develop and build a batch of simple magic cars to transport the soldiers of the new army, and he didn't have much in his heart, so he asked Ley to bring scratch paper and pencils, and began to calculate the cost of the plan on paper.

"At present, the horsepower of an MD1.4.2 type magic machine is 4.2 horsepower, that is, 252 kgf·m/s, excluding the weight of 70 kg, it can provide 182 kgf·m/s power, and six magic machines work at the same time, that is, 1092 kgf·m/s horsepower.

If the main structure is all made of wood, and the weight of the Magic Car's shell, tires, and other facilities is controlled to less than 40 kilograms, then it can carry four crew members at a speed of 4 seconds, which is about 17 yards......

Xia Lin felt a little headache when he calculated it, the power of the MD1.4.2 type magic motor is still too small, and the magic consumption is too high, if you build a magic car with such an index, although it can be done, the cost is a bit high.

Six magic machines consume 55 silver mar's magic energy liquid every hour, which is a veritable gold-swallowing behemoth.

Finally coming to a conclusion, Xia Lin let out a long sigh of relief, dusted off the pencil ash on the calculation paper, looked at this terrible investment of money and manpower, and finally gave up the idea.

Even if he received support from all sides, he would need to invest more than 11,000 gold lunt to produce such a magic car that could carry five hundred soldiers of the New Army, and this investment was impossible for the current Xia Lin. If he had the money on hand, he would have chosen to use it in other more critical ways.

At present, the magic car he envisioned only has the possibility of manufacturing, but it does not have the possibility of practical use.

"How?"

During the time of Xia Lin's calculation, Ley handled a stack of documents of the New Army by the way, and when he saw Xia Lin stop writing, he got up and asked with some expectation.

"I'm afraid not, the cost of this plan is too great, and we can only choose the defense line of the Feifa Forest-Dak River tributary to resist the rebel offensive."

Xia Lin said helplessly, and when he heard this, Lai immediately showed a disappointed look.

"But don't worry too much, although the defensive line of the Foffa Forest-Dak River tributary is not as advantageous as the Gallon Mountain, we have a way to manage this position like an iron bucket."

Xia Lin took out a few pieces of paper again and began to write and draw on them, and soon drew several basic layout diagrams.

With his military literacy, these layout drawings are naturally not professional, but they are like barbed wire fences on the periphery, the central chest wall with the simple black powder mine array, the cross-arrangement of machine gun fire on the position, the calculation of the artillery landing point outside the position in advance, the manufacture of artillery observation beacons and other things are all summarized in these position layout maps, which can be regarded as the only military knowledge that Xia Lin has accumulated by wandering around the forum.

"What is this?"

Ley watched as Xia Lin continued to draw slightly abstract patterns on the paper, and when Xia Lin began to mark the names of each pattern on it, he vaguely understood that this seemed to be a layout map.

After comprehending this, he looked at the various facilities on the layout map of the position, which were like a net of heaven and earth, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said thoughtfully:

"I see, this is the layout of the New Army, right?"

"That's right, this layout is surrounded by pits, obstacles, and low, barbed iron

The wire fence hindered the advance of the ordinary infantry, and in the middle the cavalry was prevented from crossing the barbed wire to attack the position with the use of horses, trenches, and black powder mines, so that the rebels would be dealt with devastating fire along this stretch of the road."

Xia Lin said as he drawn.

"Barbed wire is indeed a good thing, but will it be a little too expensive to arrange such a wide front?"

Lai followed Xia Lin's train of thought, and simply simulated in his mind the practice of a regular army facing such a position, and immediately shuddered, but looked at the long line representing barbed wire, and said with some distress.

In order to save time, the second, third, and fourth barracks of the New Army did not build a masonry wall like the first barracks, but used barbed wire to separate the inside and outside, so Ley was no stranger to the utility of barbed wire.

However, this kind of barbed wire can be regarded as a useful thing in the eyes of many poor residents of the new area, so the new army has to arrange sentries to patrol to prevent anyone from stealing the barbed wire.

"What kind of consumption is this wire? One kilogram of iron can almost pull out ten meters of iron wire, according to the standard of eight wires on one line, the ten-meter-long line of defense consumes only 8 kilograms of wire, like this eight-kilometer-wide defense line, that is, 6,400 kilograms of wire.

With the technical level of our steel mills and steel processing plants, the cost of producing one kilogram of iron wire is only 10 silver mar, and the cost is more than 200 gold lundes. And with such a barbed wire defense line, the obstacle to the infantry is extremely powerful.

The combined consumption of the three lines of defense will not exceed a thousand gold lundes."

"How can these wires be so cheap? Then why do you leave these gaps in such a line of defense?"

Surprised, Ley asked strangely when he noticed the vacant passage that Xia Lin had set up in the middle of the barbed wire.

"This is to reduce the enemy's desire to destroy the barbed wire, and at the same time to gather the enemy so that our soldiers can concentrate the fire.

People always have such a characteristic, that is, they are easy to like and fear difficulties, and with such a passage set aside in advance, ordinary enemies can easily be influenced to choose to avoid those dangerous barbed wire fences and break through the passage.

And these passages will be set up to be more curved, allowing the enemy to spend more time passing through, and when they gather to pass through the passages, our *** light machine guns and grenades will be able to wield!"

Xia Lin explained with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth.

"That's a terrible tactic...... I think that with this positional plan, we have a considerable hope of resisting the offensive of the rebels, and even bring in some soldiers as surprise soldiers to rush out from the north flank at a critical moment in the battle, and maybe we can defeat the rebels!"

Looking at the abstract patterns on the drawings, as if seeing these passages turn into a terrifying bloody meat grinder in front of his eyes, Ley couldn't help but shudder, but his military qualities quickly brought him back to his senses, and he began to think about how to make the most of the advantages that this position layout brought by it.

"That's your business, Commander Ley, I also brought you a Type 2A rifle with new copper-shelled ammunition this time, I originally planned to update the equipment of the new army, but now the big war is about to be over.

This ammunition can be used in conjunction with *** light machine guns to reduce the failure rate of light machine guns, and the output is several times higher than that of paper shell bullets, you can arrange machine gunners in the company to get familiar with the shooting feel of this bullet as soon as possible!"