On the seventh day of the landing of the Tang fleet at the Silla wharf, the originally barren wharf was crowded with people, and at least tens of thousands of people were working here.

In such a large area, they cleared the ground of all the weeds, branches, trees, etc., and then tied them with ropes with large stones and stone mills that they had brought in, and then began to tamp the ground with force.

On the dock, large ships are constantly docking and unloading, and for the purpose of this mission, the Datang Navy is making every effort to provide transportation support.

This is not only a logistical support, but also a special training for the Navy's ultra-long-range support.

Not only transportation, but also cargo handling, logistics support, and even cargo transportation without a dock under special conditions are a kind of training.

Even loading, securing, and preserving cargo on ships is a science. The previous Datang Navy can be said to have only learned how to drive ships at sea and how to train to live at sea, but they did not practice such large-scale cargo transportation at all.

This time it's all an opportunity to fight.

A large number of steel pipes were the first to be transported from the territory of Datang to Silla, and with it came a special ship, which was not the largest ship in Datang, but it was definitely the most special.

Because a steam engine was installed on this ship.

The steam engine on the ship, just like the train, turned the sails and manpower propellers of the ship into propeller power driven by the steam engine, which Datang's engineers had already proposed.

Although Lu Daqiang is indeed not the inventor of the steam engine, their thinking is not bad, when Li Ke invented the train by improving the power of the steam engine, they have divergent thinking about the various uses of the steam engine.

In particular, the use of combining with various means of transportation is the first thing that comes to mind, such as the combination of steam engine and horse-drawn carriage, which pulls the carriage instead of a horse, and directly pushes the power to the wheels.

In addition, there are ships, the volume of the carriage is too small, and the volume of the steam engine is large, although it is not difficult to connect, but the volume is too large, and it is also necessary to take into account that the fuel transported by the combustion steam engine is also a huge volume.

But ships are not a problem, they are so large that even the steam engines used in trains are too small to even be enlarged, and there is enough space on them to pull the coal needed to start the steam engines.

Therefore, the research on the steam engine on the ship has been carried out, but there are many difficulties at present.

Some technologies are difficult to make small, but it is still difficult to do them big.

However, in the process of studying the steam engine on the ship, they accidentally discovered another way, which was not actually another use, but was discovered during the construction of the Weihe Bridge.

It is to place the steam engine on a large ship, drive the pulley block to lift some large components, or combine the steam engine and the hydraulic system, which can drive some large forging hammers and so on for river operations.

Or to power some of the machinery for concrete work in rivers.

This kind of ship is called an engineering ship, the power of the ship has not changed, it is still sails and even human oars, but the machinery driven by the steam engine installed on the deck can provide a lot of mechanical assistance.

This can be regarded as a scientific and technological research and development and progress triggered by Datang's current start of bridge construction.

Li Ke doesn't care about these aspects at all now, as long as you toss, the state-owned commercial banks will provide relevant funds for research.

This time, it was such an engineering ship that went to Silla, and the hammer it drove on it was already a usable steam hammer.

The steel pipes driven into the river are driven directly into the bottom of the river by the ship's steam hammer, which is close to a depth of about five meters as foundation piles.

The pipes were very close to each other, and then the wires were wound into a net, and then a large amount of rubble brought by these people was loaded into the net, which then sank to the bottom of the river.

This is the wharf expansion work that has started at present, these things have far exceeded the expectations of the Silla people, they are all confused, but they all know the strength of Datang.

Therefore, it is normal for Datang to have any new machines, and after the shock, it is much easier for them to accept it.

The huge ship, the smoke and the engineering ship that made a loud noise, were all their talking points.

The pace of construction of the wharf has far exceeded all expectations, and other military supplies are also being delivered to the wharf, including cement.

Anyway, the military supplies that were transported were actually enough for local use, so the remaining space was empty, and the huge number of Datang fleets was enough to transport enough supplies to arrive here.

Baekje, next door, did not expand the dock and scale in this way, because it was enough to have such a dock for the time being, and the high-ranking officials of Baekje were also Buyeo, and no one knew if there were spies in it.

However, the people at the bottom of Baekje are actually no different from the people of Silla, so Cheng Yanjin's execution is actually similar to Xue Rengui's actions.

It's just an excuse and a reason to use food to hire people and then build camps.

There is no increase in other aspects, so there are not many ships to transport here, and it is far worse than here in Silla.

The army had reached the eighth day, and when Li Daozong, who got up early in the morning, saw the dark clouds rolling in the sky outside, he squinted his eyes slightly, and the opportunity came.

In eight days, with the distance between here and Jincheng, the deeds of the Tang army have already spread throughout Jincheng, and there are already many people living near Jincheng in the camp who have come to work here.

Soon, the officials of the Taishi Bureau who accompanied the army arrived here.

"How?" Li Daozong asked.

"According to meteorological observations, the probability of rain tonight is as high as eighty percent, but the problem is that this rain either does not fall, and if it rains, the rain may not be small." The official of the Taishi Bureau spoke.

"That's it, after a while, the army was ordered to assemble, and we prepared to hurry to the border of Silla and Goguryeo, and the destination of the first day of the march was Jinseong." Li Daozong said with a serious face.

"Yes."

"Tell Xue Rengui that 500 soldiers are temporarily reserved here, and most of the literate and other soldiers can be left for him, this is our important logistical supply, and no mistakes are allowed." Li Daozong said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

The barracks, which had been silent for seven days, was suddenly agitated, and after leaving five hundred soldiers, the remaining five thousand soldiers began to converge in the middle from all sides of the camp at a tidal speed.

The difference is that this time the soldiers are all wearing armor and equipped with all the weapons and equipment, which can be described as fully armed.