"I always had a plan, but the exam time was too tight to write it down. In fact, it is very simple, in the driver's left foot position, make a pedal, when you press it, the transmission shaft of the engine is separated from the gearbox, the engine is in an idling state, and then hold the gear lever to adjust the gearbox gear combination to achieve variable speed and torque change. ”

Luo Songxi cautiously threw out a manual shifting scheme. Originally, he planned to come up with the automatic transmission plan in one step, because once the automatic transmission is destroyed, it will break faster and more completely.

But Camus's words just now made him feel not very good.

However, Antonidas, who is now in charge of the empire, has enemies on land, in addition to the Federation, and Jinghai Hou West, whom he has always wanted to get rid of. The Imperial War Department wanted to install new vehicles as soon as possible, and the wheels would not necessarily be in the direction of the west, but also to the east.

After all, the Federation and the Empire are separated by 100,000 mountains on land, and if they really want to fight, warships may be far more effective than chariots.

But even the manual transmission scheme still made the eyes of several researchers present light up.

Switching gears, you must first detach the transmission shaft from the gearbox, and then make the transmission shaft and the new gear set occlusive, the principle everyone understands, but between this bite, how to achieve it smoothly, for the imperial scientists who have not been in contact with the gearbox at all, it is undoubtedly a huge problem.

But Luo Songxi's simple single sentence immediately opened their minds.

Only Camus said with a little concern, "This idea is indeed the most perfect idea at the moment." However, such a combination of hands and feet will inevitably require retraining of the driver. I'm worried that the military department doesn't have so much time for training. ”

I don't even have time to train drivers? This is obviously the rhythm of the car rumbling to the front line as soon as it leaves the factory.

The sense of crisis in Luo Songxi's heart was even worse, but he could only spread his hands casually, "The military department only requires that the new cars be installed in place within three months, and how to train drivers is their business." ”

Why the hell hasn't Luo Qingming contacted him yet? The empire may have a large-scale military move in three months, and this is the information that needs to be transmitted back to the federation as soon as possible.

Camus clapped his hands and made a decision, "Just use this plan, everyone will refine and optimize together, and strive to come up with the first prototype car in a week." Neil, you go to Alyosha right now to ask for someone, a lot of the preliminary work is still experienced by the people on their side. ”

Then he patted Luo Songxi on the shoulder, "You are really a treasure of the empire. When the new car is put into production, I will apply for the Imperial Special Contribution Medal for you. ”

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For the next week, Luo Songxi never saw the sun.

He saw how crazy the researchers at the Academy of Engineering, led by Camus Lucia, worked.

In this R&D team, except for him, all are full researchers, not even senior associate researchers, and the youngest is forty-eight years old. But the whole group never left the underground arsenal, to be exact, there was barely time to rest.

The most common state is that an old researcher, who is very sleepy and falls on the sofa and takes a nap, only two or three hours, suddenly jumps up from the sofa and shouts, "I have a new idea, who will help me verify it." ”

Luo Songxi recalled Professor Sang Rachel, the most famous alchemist in the Federation, who should be just fifty years old this year, but she has rarely participated in research and development in person, and spends most of her time taking students to do projects together, and she only puts forward high-level ideas on the most critical issues.

A week later, the first prototype No. 001 with a manual gearbox finally rolled off the production line in the workshop outside.

Looking at the rolling off the assembly line of this prototype, Luo Songxi's heart couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment with pride, and for a few seconds, he forgot his true identity.

The attitude of these researchers around him was deeply infectious.

In the past week, although he was able to come up with the principle and idea of manual transmission, the technology that the 77 could give him, after all, was transferred from her memory bank, and there were still too many details to be adapted to Tia's unique elemental-powered vehicle. And these crazy scientists really overcame all the technical difficulties in a week.

The glossy range above Camus's head seemed to expand again, but he still looked at Luo Songxi with a smile and made a gesture of please to him, "John, you come to test the car." ”

Luo Songxi nodded, sat in the car, drove the car into the special test site, and accelerated and decelerated repeatedly.

The gearbox still has a noticeable frustration when shifting gears, but it's undoubtedly a huge success. When the torque change is at its maximum, the tires provide reliable grip that allows the bulky armored car to drive at speeds of more than 120 yards per hour.

With the gearbox, the handling of the vehicle is much better than when he was racing in Xichen Mountain, Xixing City.

When he jumped out of the car, the researchers around him applauded enthusiastically.

Camus Lucia waved his arms and loudly announced, "The prototype test was a great success. ”

He paused, and then said to Luo Songxi, "The engineering department has decided to name the new engine after you, the John Royce manual transmission!"

The surrounding researchers applauded Luo Songxi warmly again. The expressions on their faces were excited and sincere, full of uplifting positive energy.

It's just that they don't know that this gearbox, which they have invested a lot of effort in, is destined to have fatal flaws from the day they were born.

At least for the group of scientists in front of him, Luo Songxi felt a deep sense of guilt from the bottom of his heart.

This kind of emotion will definitely not be in General Konica, Luo Songxi thought, the patriarch of the crow people said at the time that I don't have a paranoid racial concept or national concept, probably just looking at myself, I am a very emotional person, easy to be infected and moved.

Back at the conference table in the laboratory, Camus held a staged summary meeting.

"The next few problems to be solved are the lubrication of the gears of the gear, and the second is the problem of adjusting the engine to achieve the best cost performance......

“...... Once the above issues have been solved, a live road test can be carried out. I have informed the military department that they have begun to stubbornly enter the tunnel for testing. ”

"Why do you want to test the car in the tunnel?" Luo Songxi asked.

"According to the requirements of the military department, the new vehicles first need to be adapted to the road surface, which is to travel for a long time in a mountain tunnel with uneven ground and possible stones of various sizes. Why exactly did you make such a request, you don't have to ask again. Camus raised his wrist and looked at the watch in his hand, "Okay, the meeting is over, everyone has a day off, and at eight o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, we will start work again." ”

Long journeys in mountain tunnels? Which mountainous area will these military vehicles pass through?

100,000 Mountains? Airships can't fly over 100,000 mountains, and vehicles can't even cross 100,000 mountains, which is common knowledge that the entire plane knows. As for digging through 100,000 mountains, that's even more incredible.

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Luo Songxi did not return to his Little John's Alchemy, to be exact, he was not able to return to his Little John's Alchemy. Escorted by two imperial soldiers, he came to the residence specially arranged for him by the Southeast Seventh Ring Engineering Research Institute.

This is a small independent courtyard, deep in the most prosperous area of Gillesto, but it is quiet and quiet, and it is an impeccable residence.

But the two Imperial soldiers did not return, but guarded the door of his residence. In the name of protecting the safety of important scientists in the Empire, it is actually also to monitor Luo Songxi's daily life. After all, the research and development of new vehicles cannot be leaked at this time.

Luo Songxi couldn't care about Luo Qingming's problem of not being able to contact him for the time being. He was so tired that he needed a deep sleep.

But when he lay down in bed, he found that his spirits were still high, and he couldn't sleep for a while. He couldn't tell whether the excitement was due to the sale of a flawed gearbox to the Empire, or whether it was due to a complex cross-generational technology that had finally been realized in his hands.

He lay on his back and looked out the window at the blue sky and white clouds, and couldn't help but ask, 77, "You said that Earls plane, how could you invent such an exquisite device as a gearbox?"

77 "hehe" twice, "Gearbox is the only way for all planes with the automobile industry to go." Once tires are popularized in Tia, even without your push, after decades or hundreds of years of exploration, it is natural that someone will invent the gearbox and push the torque conversion technology to maturity step by step. ”

"But I forgot, the car on Tia's face is not called a car, there is no gas here. 77 said.

"You also heard the Raven Patriarch say that the Tia plane is a man-made plane, a plane with only 30,000 years of light history is impossible to form any natural biofuel, no coal, no oil, 30,000 years the plane has not entered the industrial age. If it weren't for Helmseus' spread of elemental technology, Tia would still be in an era where he could only rely on manpower. ”

"But without biofuels, the dense elemental ore is the wealth of Tia's alone. In other planes that use biofuels, where can we still see such blue skies and white clouds after entering the industrial age?"

Really? Luo Songxi asked thoughtfully. Between the blue sky and white clouds, a yellow bird fluttered by. Seeing the oriole bird, Luo Songxi thought of Lin Xiaoman again, I haven't seen her for a long time, will I dream of her today?

He finally fell asleep, but he still dreamed of Ivelan, dreamed of the cramped mandarin duck room, and dreamed of their "wedding night", but the mandarin duck room was not in the parts factory of Beihai Heavy Industry, but in the arsenal under the Engineering Research Institute.

In the darkness of the earth, the light became darker and darker, and only the gears snapped into each other, emitting an incomparably fitting gasp.