Claude returned to the theater headquarters in Lanhu Town full of worries. He only felt that he was in a bad year. Even a simple grenade production would make such a big mistake. Even if the matter could be solved, the time and production costs would greatly increase. , which always makes Claude feel a sense of imminent crisis.
The previous information about the Kingdom of Hicks came from the Kingdom’s Ministry of War. It was that the Kingdom of Hicks had transported two well-trained standing corps to the Port of Vibato two months ago. It is said that the Kingdom of Hicks There are also three standing corps in the country being formed and receiving training. At present, the Kingdom of Hicks has four legions in the colonial county of Vibato on the Nubisian continent. In addition to the two standing legions, there is also a volunteer field legion composed of retired soldiers from the Kingdom of Nasseri and a Kanner Volunteer light cavalry regiment composed of retired soldiers from the Principality
At the same time, what made Claude feel uneasy was that the spy who had been deployed at Vibato Port suddenly lost contact and no longer sent any information back. The intelligence staff reported that such a situation was most likely due to arrest or an accident. He sent several more spies there, but no information or intelligence came back.
It is worth noting that the original spies lurking in Vibato Port and the spies later sent there were all Nikanchas, because only Nikanchas wandering around would not alert the enemy. At the same time, they can find the Nikancha people working as coolies in Vibato Port and get a lot of information from the mouths of those Nikancha people.
Although it is said that the Nikancha people receive discrimination in overseas jurisdictions because of their poor character, we have to admit that they also have advantages. For example, there is great internal unity and a sense of responsibility for the family. The families of the Nikancha spies sent there are all in overseas territories, and monthly benefits and subsidies are allocated to their families. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for the Nikancha people to rebel, and they hate the Kingdom of Hicks very much.
After stopping the intelligence staff's request to continue sending Nikancha spies to Vibato County, Claude carefully read all the intelligence about the Kingdom of Hicks sent by the Kingdom's Army Department in the past six months. In fact, the information sent from the Kingdom's Army Department has been delayed for more than 20 days before reaching Claude's hands. There is no way, the journey is so long.
The intelligence said that the Kingdom of Hicks transported the two standing legions to the port of Vibato two months ago. In addition, the delay in sending the intelligence to the war zone meant that the two standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks were already in Vibato. I stayed in Hong Kong for three months. Claude was not worried that the enemy had increased the combat power of the two legions, but that he was worried that he had not understood the enemy's movements in the past three months.
It wasn't until he turned to the latest issue of intelligence that Claude's eyes lit up, because the intelligence said that the combined fleet led by the Kingdom of Hicks had hurriedly set off to the mainland of Nubisia within the past two months, and the ocean transportation it escorted The fleet was fully loaded with grain and grass, so much so that the price of grain in the Hicks Kingdom fluctuated, with an average increase of 10%.
Thinking of the smuggler from the Hicks Kingdom who came from Vibato Port half a year ago and wanted to buy food but was tricked by General Vansnik, Claude breathed a sigh of relief. He doubted the colonial food of the Hicks Kingdom. The tense situation has not been relieved. Then the Kingdom of Hicks would add fuel to the fire by transporting two standing legions to Vibato Port. Otherwise, the combined fleet would not have transported the food in such a hurry. Generally speaking, after returning from a trip to sea like this, you need at least a month to rest, instead of rushing to load up the food and go to sea immediately.
He called in his adjutant, Major Anders, and asked about the Thunder Division's itinerary. Major Anders reported that according to the news sent by the Falcon Eagle, the Thunder Division returned in about two days.
This time, Belklin, Murray Ed and others not only led most of the Thunder Division to show off their power on the border between the Cromwell Territory and Vibato Colonial County, but also annihilated several troops who penetrated deep into the Beringana Territory. The light cavalry squad of the Principality of Karrnath killed more than 30 people and captured more than 20 prisoners during the reconnaissance. They only suffered three serious injuries and more than ten minor injuries. Not a single soldier of the Thunder Legion was killed.
These guys are doing pretty well, and this is probably the only good news Claude has heard recently. Taking advantage of the free time in the past two days before they came back, Claude decided to think about the motivation issue.
In fact, Claude has always thought that the black iron shell of the projectile does not need to be processed, and can be directly cast with a mold to create cracks or something. But after asking Mr. Veblen, Claude regretfully discovered that the mold-making technicians hired by the iron ore workshop did not have such fine skills. It was easy to cast a drum-shaped black iron shell with a smooth outside, but he wanted to cast it. If there is no cracked black iron shell, the technology is beyond the control of these casting personnel and mold technicians.
In addition, even if the black iron casing with cracks is successfully cast, lathe machinery will still be needed to correct the black iron casing to achieve uniform standards. At the same time, the lower opening of the projectile also needs to be threaded to fit the bottom of the fuse behind it, which also requires mechanical processing.
Claude had no choice but to draw on the drawing in frustration. What he drew was not a steam engine because he had never seen what a steam engine looked like. What he drew was a hot air balloon machine. He remembered that when he was growing up in the countryside, people in the village called the hot air balloon machine a fire-head machine. This was the only kind of power machine that Claude remembered in his mind.
The reason why people in the village call the hot air balloon machine a fire machine is very simple. This thing is started by lighting a fire. Firewood, coal, gasoline, kerosene, tree branches, rice straw, newspapers, whatever can be burned, just throw it in. As long as the fire can be maintained, this thing can keep running.
This thing is not a steam engine and does not require a boiler. It relies on the expansion of hot gas in the cylinder to push the piston and make the connecting rod run. Claude had seen an expansion film online in his previous life. It seemed that just after liberation, the buses and trucks on the road were equipped with these hot air balloons, which were burning and moving slowly like a turtle on the road. It is said that the motherland had just been liberated at that time and there was no way to buy gasoline and diesel. The seized large trucks were all modified with this kind of hot air balloon machine, and the trucks were loaded with half coal and half cargo for long distances.
The main reason why Claude was so impressed by this hot air balloon aircraft was that he had one in his hometown and his grandfather regarded it as a treasure. Grandpa once told him that there was no electricity in the village at that time. During the harvest season, he would carry this thing to the drying field, use rice straws to make a fire, and then connect this thing to the threshing machine to remove the chaff from the rice. If you knock it off, you don’t need to put it in a bag and send it to town, which saves a lot of energy and effort.
When I was a kid, I used to disassemble and clean this thing several times with my grandfather. The structure of the hot air balloon machine is very simple, and it is very durable. Grandpa said that this thing was made in the years after liberation, and it is still intact after thirty or forty years of use. Of course, Claude later learned that there were actually many problems with this hot air balloon machine. The problem was not that it was not easy to use, but that the thermal energy conversion rate was low and fuel was wasted. It was noisy and polluted, so it was quickly eliminated.
Later, when his grandfather passed away, the uncle in the village sold the hot air balloon machine to a rag collector for a high price of five yuan. Claude later went back to his hometown to visit relatives and never saw this thing again.
Wiping a glimmer of light from the corners of his eyes, Claude drew on paper the hot air balloon machine that impressed him so much when he was a child, including the furnace, the one used for making fire, and then the vent pipe connected to the circular cylinder. Above the cylinder is a piston connecting rod and an iron pipe chimney next to it.
When a fire is lit in the furnace, the hot gas enters the circular cylinder along the vent pipe. When the hot gas begins to expand, the piston connecting rod is pushed upward. When it reaches a certain height, the iron pipe chimney channel next to it is opened. The hot gas is discharged from here, and the piston connecting rod is pushed upward. It fell and blocked the passage of the iron pipe chimney. So when the hot gas expands in the cylinder again, it pushes the piston connecting rod again, rises, opens the iron pipe chimney channel, discharges the hot gas, and the piston connecting rod falls down, and it starts over and over again. This is the hot air balloon machine.
Looking at the hot air balloon machine on the drawing that was no different from the impression in his mind, Claude thought to himself, have I skipped the steam engine stage? There is a mechanical power problem. If you create a projectile and have a trump card in your hand, you don't have to worry about how much the enemy's troops will increase.
It is true that war promotes the development of human history and the advancement of science and technology. If he hadn't been facing a powerful enemy, Claude might have been unable to recall the thing he had seen as a child in his previous life. At this time, he did not realize how much change the hot air balloon he drew would bring to this other world.
Grabbing the blueprint, Claude left the theater headquarters, got on the carriage, and said to the coachman: "Go to my sister's place."
Two days later, the Thunder Division returned to Lanhu Town. Several senior officers of the division, including Belklin, Murield, and Diavid, came to report to Claude. After talking about the process of patrolling Cromwell and Beringana, and the process of ambushing the enemy's light cavalry reconnaissance team in Beringana.
Claude was curious as to why the enemy's light cavalry team was discovered in the Beringana Direct Territory. Logically speaking, they should be conducting reconnaissance in the Cromwell Direct Territory because it was connected to the Vibato Colony County of the Hicks Kingdom. Claude couldn't figure out why the light cavalry of the Principality of Karnars went so deep into the Beringana Direct Territory.
Murray Ed reported that the enemy's reconnaissance team was not actually here to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. They were scouting the buffalo hunting grounds in advance.
Claude understood it all at once, and soon it was July again, and the summer bison migration on the Albato Prairie of the Nubisian continent had begun again. Nearly one million bison would migrate from the northern plateau of the Albato Prairie. I went to the southern plains and then returned to the northern plateau in November, going back and forth for nearly half a year.
Some experts have said that this is probably because the bison herd is too large and they have to travel long distances for food and to eliminate the old and the weak. Because between the back and forth, nearly 10,000 old and weak bison are killed every year by predators that follow the herds. Since the colonists joined the hunt, the number of bison hunted every year has increased to 50,000 to 60,000.
Before the colonial war broke out, several towns in the Beringana Direct Territory relied on bison hunting as their main income industry. Their leather products, horn crafts and bison jerky were all specialties of these towns and were very popular in the kingdom. Businessmen love it.
After the war broke out, except for some daring hunters who formed teams to hunt bison, basically all the young men in the overseas territories were recruited into two overseas field regiments, and there was no way to organize a large-scale operation to hunt bison. . Coupled with the order issued by Marshal Michelich to fortify the wall and clear the country, the buffalo hunt has been interrupted for several years.
The Rangers took a rest last year, and then they were notified to return home. Next, they had to work hard to form five reinforced divisions. Everyone was very busy. After most of the unqualified soldiers recruited by the two overseas field regiments were reduced, some people organized and prepared to return to their livelihood of hunting bison. As a result, they were followed on the Albato Prairie in the Beringana Direct Territory. The light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath from the buffalo group were killed and injured many people, and they fled back in panic.
Murield reported that from the confessions of the captured light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath, they discovered that last year the volunteer light cavalry regiment of the Principality of Karrnath dispatched a division to hunt buffalo in the Albato prairie. More than 30,000 heads were killed, and the profit amounted to 70,000 to 80,000 gold crowns. So they wanted to continue to earn extra money this year and sent these reconnaissance teams deep into the Beringana Direct Territory in order to pre-select hunting sites and camping sites.
"General, I think we can kill them." Belklin requested: "They are hiding behind defensive positions in Vibato Colony County, and now they are willing to get out of their turtle shells to make extra money by hunting bison. We can't Let this opportunity pass.”
Claude laughed: "The Thunder Division has just been formed and has only been trained for more than half a year. Do you have the confidence to defeat this light cavalry regiment of the Principality of Karnas?"
Belklin, Murray Ed and other senior officers of the division stood up together: "Report to the general, we have this confidence."
Claude nodded: "Okay, I understand. You go back and wait for the notification. You have just returned from inspection this time. Let's take a good rest for a few days to allow the soldiers to recover mentally and physically."
"Yes." The officers saluted and prepared to leave.
"Merde, please stay for a moment." Claude stopped Mered.
"Boss, what's the matter?" With no one else around, Murray Ed returned to his old title.
Claude touched his chin and asked: "My old classmate, the major who asked you to help him lose weight, how is he doing now?"
"Uh" Murield hesitated for a moment: "Sorry, boss, I didn't fulfill your instructions. He hasn't lost a hundred pounds yet."
"Well." Claude was stunned. In more than half a year, Bockaar has not lost a hundred pounds of fat. How is this possible? Claude knew the daily training volume of the army: "What's going on?"
"That's it, boss, he has only lost about 80 pounds so far. It's not that we don't work hard to help him lose weight, the key is that he is very good at eating, and one person can eat the same amount as three or four people. If he were a soldier, we might We can force him to eat less. But he is a major and enjoys the best treatment in the school. We can't make him stop talking. Sometimes I force him to do heavy physical exercise, but he can eat back all the sweat he sheds in one night. .”
Murray Ed was also very troubled: "When I first came here, I helped him lose about ninety kilograms. I thought that if I work harder, I can complete your instructions and let him lose a hundred kilograms of weight. As a result, he He was already familiar with the division, and found that his rank of major could also enjoy the treatment of a school-level officer in the division, so he started eating and drinking. Like this time, I asked him to participate in a long-distance inspection, thinking that he was inspecting two direct-administered commanders. Traveling long distances allowed him to lose some weight, but he didn't lose any weight. Instead, his two war horses each lost forty or fifty kilograms."
Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Well, this guy Bock Al came to the Thunder Division to eat and drink for free. He could only wave his hand: "Forget it, if you can't reduce it, don't reduce it. You bring him here. I have important things for him to do."
Muriel was relieved to hear that he didn't have to help the fat man lose weight. But when he heard Claude say that he had important things to do with the fat man, he was unhappy again: "Boss, besides knowing how to eat, if the fat man can do anything important, you should leave it to me. "
Claude shook his head: "You won't be able to do it, but your life will be in danger. Only his size and ability to eat can accomplish this."
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