Although his talent is not as good as Guo Wei and his sense of smell on the battlefield is too bad than that on Niu Dashuang, Hu Bing and others, Shu Jia, as the commander of the guard division, is very proficient in the arrangement of various terrains.

It is useless to take tricks in Linxiang County.

“A lot of temporary working hours.”

As a division commander, Shu Jia was still willing to go to the front line to investigate and patrol horses. He saw that there were sentries on the high ground and a castle on the hillside.

From south to north, sandbags on the north bank of Yougang River are like city walls, with barbed wire and trenches intersecting. In fact, you can guess whether the artillery position is hidden in the middle.

Shu Jia, who was frowning, was never worried about the local armed forces in Linxiang County. From the beginning, the guards were careful of the sudden invasion of Ezhou forces.

Wuhan's industrial production capacity is extremely terrifying, and various types of vehicles with steam power have extremely low fuel requirements. It is precisely because of this that the amount of steel determines the depth of combat power.

Wuhan is unfathomable.

Such a giant must never imagine relying on spiritual will to fight hard.

Shu Jia has never been an adventurer, which is why he became the commander of the guard division.

"Where is the second regiment now?"

"Tingfan, you can cross the river at any time."

"Only by pulling out the nails south of Longyuan River can the situation be opened."

"The division commander, several bridges in Longyuan River are guarded by heavy troops, and Lujialing is the commanding heights here, and the entire river bay is within the observation range, and it is attacking..."

"No strong attack."

Shu Jia's tone was calm. He observed the intersection of Longyuan River and the Gang River several times, and knew that there was no chance to attack strongly. He had already done such a thing as persuading surrender.

But the opposite Linxiang garrison did not respond at all.

"Order, the Engineer Corps prepares for earthwork."

"yes!"

"Mobilize fellow villagers on the spot and organize transportation teams."

"yes!"

Suddenly, Shu Jia said again, "I reminded the propaganda staff that although the local fellows welcomed us, they were not familiar with us. They had to settle their wages whenever they were working. If they didn't have it for a while, they could write an IOU first."

"yes!"

"Notify the first regiment and launch an attack at Wangjiatan at 10 o'clock, force the Yougang River to establish a position at the beach on the north bank!"

"yes!"

...

The engineering regiment of the Guard Division is quite special and belongs to the reinforcement regiment. In addition to normal combat tasks, it was initially responsible for transport, earthwork, defense, etc. However, later, the "Xiang Yi Army" expanded very quickly, so professional engineering regiments had to be needed, such as temporary construction of command centers, mobile office locations, etc.

The Engineer Corps is not shabby, and there are also large steam cars, but the number is relatively small, with only three units. Each unit has an extreme cargo capacity of 10,000 kilograms. The dry firewood consumed by 150 miles is about 50 kilograms, and at the same time, it requires 350 kilograms of boiler water.

Unlike Wuhan's high-end goods with vertical gear transmission, the steam truck of the Guard Division Engineer Regiment uses chain transmission.

The requirements for terrain are obviously not as high as those of Wuhan products.

But relatively speaking, with the industrial foundation that Wang Jiao has saved, it is still not a big problem to maintain these three junks.

Mainly easy to repair.

In fact, looking at the whole country, the engineering regiments are quite rich, because the main forces in the western empire may not have a loading vehicle with an extreme cargo capacity of 10,000 kilograms.

It’s not that I can’t afford it, but that the superiors are unwilling to be worthy of it.

There are trains in long distances, and there are riding animals in the middle of the short distances. As for fighting nearby, it means that life and death are destined to be rich and noble in heaven...

Three heavy trucks have also been modified, one of which was equipped with a hydraulic hopper. However, because of the special operation, it had to increase the counterweight during excavation operations.

The other two vehicles can be equipped with hydraulic bulldozers, but they are relatively simple. Usually, they need to maintain bulldozers after working for about fifty hours.

But with these three big guys, the first thing is to transport personnel and tools is extremely efficient, and the second is to excavate very quickly. Since the guards used these three big guys, every time the "People's Party" headquarters was transferred, they could quickly level the land and then build temporary buildings.

Although the small industrial cluster in Anren County is backward in technology, it gives the "Xiang Yi Army" its own industrial self-sustainment. After Wang Jiao takes up these industrial capacity at all costs, it has the effect of double the efficiency of the "Xiang Yi Army" conquering the surrounding areas.

A certain industrial capacity is a devastating blow to the mobilization and self-sustainment of traditional agricultural society.

But there is no doubt that there is always a limit.

When no new returns are generated, these investments that do not create profits are dead costs.

Therefore, no matter what the strategic goal of the entire "People's Party" is, from the perspective of actual needs, the "People's Party" must constantly expand its living space outward.

Only by expanding the living space can more small farmers be liberated, landless farmers are reorganized back to the land, and then further support the industry through the surplus brought by agricultural production.

This is something that has to be done.

Wang Jiao can't figure it out before traveling through time, but after traveling through time... he has to figure it out even if he can't figure it out.

Someone must sacrifice, either sacrifice together, or sacrifice part of it first and then survive all.

It is usually an ideal state to be bitter first and then sweet. The real situation is nothing more than being bitter first, then not so bitter. Even if it is not sweet, it is not bitter at all.

But no matter how fragile industrial capacity is, the improvement of agricultural productivity is much stronger than piling up labor.

In addition to the soil operation used by the engineering regiment, the explosives used by the engineering corps can also be used in mountain blasting operations. In the past two years, the total number of labor used by a large number of small reservoirs has been built, and the reason is that Anren County has its own blasting object factory.

Ordinary black gunpowder is more than enough.

The production of black gunpowder has zero threshold for the "Working Party" and can be promoted to a large number of grassroots units.

At this time, the Engineer Corps quickly set up a position on the south bank of Yougang River, and two small steam locomotives acted as powerhouses on the spot to drive the drilling rods.

A large number of woven bags on the truck are loading through the earth and stones in the truck's bucket, and the speed is very fast.

At the same time, small cars can also be equipped with digging buckets. In addition to people digging, the soil and rocks in the truck are mainly due to the digging buckets.

The only drawback is that the working time of the machine is not as long as the working time of the machine. During an emergency operation, the total amount of earthwork for the strengthening labor is still above the machine.

After all, a single digger can compare with ten people and twenty people, but it can't compare with one thousand five hundred people.

...

"fire!"

boom!

Boom boom!

Through the Yougang River, the enemy troops on the north bank directly attacked the beachhead positions, destroying the earthwork of the guard division on the south bank.

The best way to deal with artillery is also artillery.

After observing the artillery positions on the north bank, it is time to test the artillery quality of both sides.

The widest width of the water surface of the Wangjiawan section of the Yougang River is 88 meters, mainly to install a floating bridge, but the narrowest part is only 27 meters. There was originally a cross-river bridge, but it has been artificially damaged.

At this time, both sides were within the firepower range of each other, and even if the guard division's gun range was not as good as the opponent, it would have no effect.

"Kill the opponent's artillery!"

"yes!"

The frontier position of Wangjiatan was in a state of being ready to cross the Gang River at all times. The regiment headquarters was in Wangjiatan, and a hilly place southward was the headquarters of the guard division.

"There are not many cannons on the opposite side."

Holding the telescope and observing for more than two minutes, the division commander Shu Jia could determine that his firepower density was still above the other side.

At this time, Shu Jia made a preliminary judgment. Although Wuhan helped Hunan local armed forces training, the equipment was definitely not that generous.

Most of the time, arms transactions usually reflect political stance and attitude.

Cannons are valuable, but shells are not valuable.

However, shells are the most unaffordable.

Local armed forces usually buy cannons to scare people. Local forces that really dare to consume a large amount of shells are not good enough if they are not top wealthy families.

When Feng Fu planned to build the "Jingnan Army" and swept across Guangzhou, the amount of artillery shells consumed in one day was enough to rebuild Anren County.

After multiple rounds of artillery attacks between the two sides, the intensity and frequency of the opponent were obviously greatly reduced. Shu Jia boldly guessed that the orders the opponent might receive were just to guard for a while, rather than to be cautious.

Leave a way out and run away, which is the reality.

So Shu Jia immediately issued an order: "Order a group! Rotate shelling!"

"yes!"

You can't scare people away.

It is true that the opponent is not easy to do, it is true; the opponent does not have the determination to fight to the end, it is also true.

It's not contradictory.

The Engineering Corps continued to work, and on the north shore, the highest name was "Yingbingang", and several soldiers who were covered in dust were cursing there.

"Damn it, this is Guo Wei's presence? How could the cannons of dogs be so dense!"

"Does these beasts' shells cost money?!"

"Have the pack horse team arrived?"
To be continued...