The so-called details determine success or failure. When the staff formulated the combat plan, they did not consider bringing enough wooden boards to the transport ship. There were some trees growing sparsely nearby at this landing site, but none of them were made of timber. So Sun Du had no choice but to organize a cutting team to cut trees in the distance. Not to mention that it is not so easy to move trees from a distance, considering that long-distance logging is very easy to reveal whereabouts, he cannot take this risk.

OK, this has become a big problem. A good cook cannot cook without rice. This problem cannot be solved by the engineer company commander. Guan Zantang could only smile bitterly and said to Qi Sheng:

"Mr. Qi, your subordinates are really unique in their eyes. Why did they choose such a good place? Can Lord Qi tell me how far it takes to run to have decent trees? In any case, the treasured iron lump on the boat must be brought ashore as soon as possible. If this armored chariot is missing, the Qing army will not be able to stop it and let the Qing army run away. Humph, I will settle the score with you. Did you ask me to report it because Qi Sheng chose the wrong login location, which made the Tartars escape?"

Qi Sheng and Guan Zan Tang have been together for a long time, so of course they know that Guan Zan Tang has never forgiven him, so they smiled and said:

"It's not my subordinates' fault. The task was arranged. I just said that I wanted to find a secluded harbor with the right water depth. Who would have thought that I would carry those heavy iron lumps ashore! Come on, Brigade Commander Guan, don't worry. There is a forest on the beach twelve or three miles away from here. Sun Du and I had a discussion together. The best way is to send hundreds of people, send a few boats, cut down the trees, throw them into the sea, then string them up with iron wire, and then pull them up with the boat. We will be able to prepare enough trees soon. If we weren't worried about exposing our target, we would have done this long ago."

Guan Zantang thought that this idea was good, and this was a way to enlarge the row. The Ming army carried sufficient iron wire with the army, so there was no problem using it to tie the trees into rows. So he patted Qisheng's shoulder and said:

"Brother, this is a good idea. We might as well follow the flow and set up a landing ground there to confuse the Qing army to attract the attention of the Qing army."

Turning his head and ordering Huang Ziyong beside him:

"Huang Ziyong, bring you five hundred brothers and go and cut five hundred trees for me. The thicker the tree, the better. I ask Lord Zheng Zhibao to send you the steam-powered ship and send a few more boats. After you cut the trees there, you will pretend to be landing in a big way. Do you understand?"

"yes."

When Qi Sheng's subordinate who felt very wronged led Huang Ziyong to cut down the tree, Guan Zan Tang said:

"Mr. Qi, okay, don't be so frowning. The iron ship was pulled on a wooden raft and arrived a little over a dozen miles away. It was much faster than the shoulder-to-carrying man. Okay, this matter has been resolved, so let's prepare for the next step."

Qi Sheng introduced:

"The nearest Qing army is twenty-five miles away from here, and within a radius of twenty miles, there is a low mountain that can be used as an artillery position. This is the case."

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Huang Ziyong and his party quickly arrived at the forest. It took not long to cut down six hundred trees. The trees were thick and long, so there was no need to worry about not meeting the specifications. Soon, one wooden raft was built one by one. There was a long string of wooden rafts behind the iron ship. The iron ship, which was running very fast, suddenly seemed difficult to walk. There was no choice but to go twice.

Before dawn, the iron ship dragged the first raft to the original landing site. So the engineer company began to build a new pontoon bridge.

What the engineers had to do was to nail the wooden rafts a little more neatly. Hundreds of logs lined up in a row and extended to the sea surface in the distance. When they arrived, in order to prevent the soldiers carrying heavy objects from spraining their ankles, the engineers also deliberately filled a layer of soil in the joint between wood. In this way, the soldiers walked on the pontoon bridge and were as if they were walking on flat ground.

With this wide pontoon bridge, heavy armored vehicles were carried to the shore. As it turns out, the pontoon bridge still has many shortcomings. For example, after being laid with soil, it looks very beautiful. When it is not load-bearing, it is like walking on the ground. However, once eight people carry heavy iron lumps on it, the wooden raft is pressed down and sinks down, the soil immediately becomes mud, and inevitably, someone sprained his ankle.

In this way, in order to bring the heavy treasure to the shore, twelve people were injured one after another.

It seems that if you have assembled armored vehicles to accompany you in the future, you must make various preparations, such as bringing enough wood boards, or simply repairing a temporary dock.

In order to serve these eight armored vehicles, sixteen professional engineering personnel responsible for assembly came to the scene. As the first company commander of the first armored vehicle company, Qu Song naturally took on the task of assisting. Qu Song's armored vehicle company, eight armored vehicles, was equipped with a total of 88 regular crew members. A armored vehicle company can only be equipped with five passengers, but driving this armored vehicle is a total of physical work, so it has to be equipped with two more people driven by humans. Once one three people can't shake it, the second team will be able to take the second team immediately. Of course, the second team cannot last for a long time, and the third team will be able to take it forward in time. If it is verified, I don't know if this is the earliest "three shifts" in the sense of "three shifts".

Han Ershun is a member of the manpower drive. He and Lu Qixi, who is in the same group, are now obeying the two assembly masters, doing the work of lifting iron plates and iron lumps. As soon as he lifted an iron plate, he had to carefully face the hole position. Someone had to hold it so that the iron plate could not move randomly. Only after inserting the fixed pins could he pull it out. Then the two masters began to twist the bolts.

Han Ershun looked curiously at the master's hand and twisted a bolt in just a few strokes, and then the iron plate was fixed. Han Ershun said to Lu Qixi:

"Qixi, look at how magical he is. A big iron nail can make the iron plate tightly by wearing a hat. What's this called?"

Lu Qixi has never seen any tricks, but he thinks he is more knowledgeable than the silly Han Ershun, so he said:

"You don't understand this, this is a cap nail. A nail is a nail, a cap is a cap. Do you know? If you wear a cap on a large iron nail, it will get stuck tightly."

Qu Song happened to come over and heard that Lu Qixi pretended to understand and was fooling Han Ershun, a stupid guy, laughed at that time, and said to himself that the idiom "Ding is Ding Mao is Mao" could be misinterpreted like this.

Hearing Qu Song laughed, everyone laughed. The two masters were so busy that they continued to work. The commander of this group was named Deng Xinchao. He had worked in carpentry for a few days before, and thought he was a craftsman, so he smiled and said:

"Brother Qixi, you can write an idiom in stock. I tell you that nails are rivets or rivets. This is something that everyone who has worked in carpenters knows. Nails are used for mortise and tenon. You can't mess it up, otherwise you will be messed up."

Qu Song asked with a smile:

"Is this idiom 'Ding is Ding Mao or Mao' or 'nail is nail rivet or rivet'? It's the same when you read it out loud. Which one is right?"

A group of people were joking here, Guan Zantang walked over and called him from a distance:

"Qu Song."

Seeing that it was the brigade commander, Qu Song stopped joking and responded loudly. Everyone immediately changed to a serious face.

Guan Zantang ignored so much, but ordered in an unquestionable tone:

"Qu Song, I asked, the armored vehicle can be assembled within one hour. I ordered that after the assembly is completed, I would immediately load the ammunition and then go to the battlefield. Be sure to rush to the front line tonight and no delays are allowed."

The design of this armored vehicle has been simplified to the maximum extent, but it is still very complicated to assemble. There is no lifting equipment on site, so it is all dependent on shoulders and hands, which is even more troublesome to lift the hole. Fortunately, there are many people, one group of eleven people, plus two masters responsible for assembly, and finally assemble the armored vehicle into a mold. Looking at the loose parts from east to west and assemble them into an armored warrior on their hands, they were all very excited, even though they were sweating profusely.

Then, load shells and bullets into the car, load 50 30mm shells and 5,000 12.7mm machine gun bullets, and the entire armored vehicle is a chariot that can be put into combat at any time.

However, those who have tried to shoot guns and cannons in the car have experienced the harsh environment in the car after shooting. As long as you shoot, smoke will inevitably spread inside the car. The artillery shells and bullets produced by the Ming Dynasty are all made of thunder mercury as the base fire, and they no longer need to fire the flint sand and iron needle structure of the past. The fire-killing method was not used half a year ago. However, the 30mm shell launcher still uses black gunpowder, but strong oxidants such as potassium perchlorate, copper oxide and red pill were added to it.

After adding strong oxidant, the gunpowder burned more fully and the smoke became much lighter, but after all, it still could not overcome the shortcomings of black gunpowder smoke. After a round of gunfire, the smoke in the car would be filled with gunpowder, and breathing was greatly affected at this time, so let alone war. Wang Chengen had no choice but to further increase the output of smokeless gunpowder, and the subsequent 30mm shells were replaced with fire cotton as launching medicine, so he could only temporarily install a hand-crank fan, constantly ejecting the smoke from the car and constantly inhaling fresh air.

When all 8 armored vehicles were assembled and debugged and loaded the ammunition, Qu Song led the team of armored vehicles to set off. This kind of human-driven armored vehicles was driven by mules and horses and combined with human-driven. Wang Chengen called it hybrid. It was only when fighting, mules and horses were inconvenient to appear, so all human-driven drivers were used. There were five people in the car, three of them were responsible for the drive, and the other two had to handle the hand at any time when climbing the hills so that the human-driven armored vehicle could cross the slope below 30 degrees. As for slopes above 30 degrees, this was not within the design range of the vehicle.

Each armored vehicle was fitted with two mules and horses, three people were arranged to shake the lever, one was responsible for driving, and the other seven people followed the armored vehicles and marched along the way. In addition, two masters were also walking along. So, to be precise, the armored vehicle company led by Qu Song had eight armored vehicles, twenty-eight mules and horses (four spare, eight porch ammunition), and eighty-eight regular armored vehicle crew members, in addition to 16 maintenance personnel, and thirty auxiliary personnel. In addition to transporting and supplying ammunition, these auxiliary personnel can also be replenished as armored vehicle crew members at any time.

Deng Xinchao took Lu Qixi, Han Ershun and You Yongfu in an armored vehicle. Deng Xinchao held the direction and had to brake when going downhill. It would be impossible without this car. Lu Qixi and the other two kept shaking the lever up and down, driving the bulky chariot. Of course, with two mules and horses pulling in front, the gear was now hung in the high-speed gear, and it was not very difficult for Lu Qixi and the other two to shake it.

You Yongfu shook and said:

"Qixi, do you think this car will be running, is it that the two horses in the front that have a great effort, or is it that the three of us have a great effort?"

When Lu Qixi heard this, he was displeased and immediately turned his face and said:

"I said Yongfu, how are you talking? Compare us with mules and horses, what do you mean!"

You Yongfu thought to himself that we didn't mean that, how can people compete with beasts? Just as he was about to explain, Han Ershun said blankly:

"Yongfu, you are so immoral. How can you compare with beasts? Oh, are you saying that we are just doing cows and horses?"

Deng Xinchao saw that these three guys were a little angry as he spoke, and quickly explained:

"What are you yelling? The reason why you selected the three of you to shake this mechanism means that you have good strength. What's the saying that, yes, is that your physical coordination is also good. Of course, you won't keep shaking like this. In the future, there will be more and more armored chariots like the Ming Dynasty. It is said that they will build several thousand. As long as you shake well, you can all sit in my seat in the future."

Deng Xinchao's words are half true and half false, but it is really impossible to sway this leverage. This job really requires a little physical coordination. As for the Ming Dynasty will continue to produce armored vehicles in the future, that is a fact, but one day they may be equipped with diesel engines. Han Ershun is not smart and doesn't look like he looks like an advanced chariot.

Deng Xinchao said this, the three of them were all looking forward to sitting in Deng Xinchao's current seat and giving orders, and they felt satisfied. Han Ershun thought of the pride, and even Harazi flowed out. Just as they were thinking, the front of the car suddenly turned off and the entire armored vehicle stopped. The three people's hands were shocked, but they could no longer shake.

When he got off the car, he found that the track on one side had broken. Deng Xinchao hurriedly called the accompanying master to come forward to repair it. It took him half an hour to pick up the tracks, and the convoy continued to set off.

Qu Song shook his head and thought to himself, the battle has not started yet, and this treasure is so difficult to serve. If he goes to the battlefield and loses the chain like this, will it be impossible for someone to carry a jack to pick up the tracks?

Qu Song smiled bitterly and prayed in his heart, "My armored chariot cannot be embarrassing on the battlefield." Brigade Commander Guan also hopes that this armored chariot will make great achievements! Well, of course, we are even more eager to make achievements.

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Chapter completed!