Mergu'a and others saw Wukanbei's angry expression and quickly asked: "Brother Wukanbei, do you also have a grudge against the red-haired man?"
"They killed my wife and children!"
Mergu couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, and reached out to pat Wukanbei on the shoulder. Four years ago, his eldest son also died in a fight with the red-haired man. Not only him, but also Sembakul and six others.
At that time, each family member died at the hands of the red-haired man.
Liu Sheng said to Wukanbei at this time: "Tell them to lead the way for us and find the red-haired people, and I can give them ten steel axes."
Wu Kanbei looked up at Liu Sheng with gratitude on his face. The reason why Wu Kanbei joined Beihai Town was mainly because of the oath Liu Sheng made before his hospital bed.
After listening to Wukanbei's translation, Mergua thought for a while and then said: "Although there are many of you, I don't think you can win. The red-haired people are all strong and tall, and they also have iron pipes that can spit fire. Just now.
When I came in, I looked all the way and you guys are too thin." He paused and shook his head.
Zhao Xin understood what Mergua meant. Although there are more than 3,000 refugees here, most of them are thin and short, and their physical fitness is really poor.
It is said that when these Henan refugees first disembarked, both men and women had dark faces, malnutrition, and no light in their sunken eyes. After a few months, although these people had enough to eat for a period of time, they were not as good as the current situation in Beihai Town.
The ability can only make them full, and it is simply impossible to achieve comprehensive nutrition.
In the late eighteenth century, China's population had exceeded the 300 million mark. According to data recorded in the "Unification of the Qing Dynasty", the country's cultivated land area at this time was more than 7.01 million hectares, and the per capita cultivated land area was only 2.45 acres (grain production was less than
Eight hundred catties, taking into account factors such as shelling, loan repayment, tax payment, etc., the final amount of grain in the hand is less than four hundred catties). According to the level of agricultural productivity and the situation of rent and taxation in this era, four acres of land is enough to feed one person
The warning standard. If it is lower than this standard, it can only struggle on the line of poverty and death.
This is just data for one person. In this era, most Chinese peasant families do not even have four acres of self-cultivated land, and they have to rent land from landlords to make a living for the family.
To put it simply, physical fitness depends on nutrition, and nutrition depends on unit grain output and per capita cultivated land area.
Zhao Xin smiled and said to Wu Kanbei: "Go and call your company commander over." It is useless to explain more. For indigenous people like Mergua, everything can only be done with strength. The physical fitness of the refugees is not good.
But the nutritional level of the soldiers can be completely guaranteed. Two companies of troops are enough to fight hundreds of red-haired Russians!
Not long after, the guard company commander arrived. After seeing the ceremony, Zhao Xin said to him: "Ask a squad to gather at the southern guard post. Set up a few targets a hundred meters away to give us friends a firepower demonstration. Also tell us
People, don’t panic when gunshots ring out, do whatever you need to do.”
After the guard company commander left, Zhao Xin smiled at Mergua and others and said, "Friends, please, let's go take a look together."
When Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng stood up from their seats, Mergua realized how tall they were. With his height of 1.6 meters, the top of his head could only reach Zhao Xin's shoulders; as for Liu
Well, don’t mention it if it’s too embarrassing!
The seven confused Kuyefiyaka people followed Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng to an open area in the south of the residential area. At this time, five targets were already standing a hundred meters away. A dozen migrant workers were carrying
Several large logs walked towards the target. These logs were to be placed behind the target to stop stray bullets.
Although the soldiers in the guard company are not new recruits, they still need to be well protected to avoid stray bullets. It doesn't matter if they hit a wild beast, but if they hit a Feyaka native in the butt, it will be a big deal.
After more than ten minutes, when everything was ready, Liu Sheng gave the order to prepare for shooting without waiting for Meier Gu to ask questions. Five soldiers walked to the shooting position, first pulled the bolt to expose the magazine, and then took out ten bullets.
The magazine was pressed into the magazine. After the "click-click" sound of pressing the bullet, the five soldiers pulled out the magazine, pulled the re-entry machine, and loaded the bullet.
"Report, preparations for shooting are complete!"
The squad leader shouted loudly: "Kneel down and prepare to shoot!"
At this time, the five soldiers stood with their left legs upright, their right legs bent back, and they aimed their guns at the same time.
"Turn on the safety!"
"Start shooting!"
"Bang! Bang!"
When the first gunshot rang out, Sembakul and the other six people immediately lay on the ground with their heads in their hands. They were so frightened that they almost peed themselves as soon as they got wet! Mergu'a's face also turned pale, his bladder became tight, and he almost peeed.
Can't hold it back.
By the time the shooting was halfway through, the six people from Sembakul were so frightened that they couldn't help but retreat. They squatted on the ground and covered their ears, shouting: "God of Fire, spare my life! God of Bear, spare your life!" However, in the background of bursts of gunfire, they
Next, their shouts were ignored by others.
By the time ten rounds of bullets were fired, Mergu had already covered his ears and retreated to Sembakul and others, but his face turned red. He thought that the iron pipes of these people spitting fire were much more powerful than the red-haired people.
Got it!
After the five soldiers got up, checked the magazine, and left in formation, Liu Sheng asked Wu Kanbei to take the seven Mergua people to the target to have a look. Everyone walked to the target cautiously, and saw only five soldiers made of wooden boards.
The targets had been beaten to pieces, and the logs at the back were covered with bullet holes as thick as fingers.
"God of Fire! You are the messengers of God of Fire!" Dangmeirgu'a walked back to the shooting position with a look of astonishment on his face and said to Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng.
After listening to Wu Kanbei's translation, Liu Sheng looked disdainful, while Zhao Xin said to Wu Kanbei calmly: "Didn't they say they wanted to see the boat? Take them to the mouth of the river to see it."
Wukanbei, who was well aware of the beliefs of the Feyaka people, already understood at this time that Zhao Xin wanted to use Beihai Town's powerful firearms and mountain-like ships to frighten the opponent.
In fact, for Ukanbe, he was also shocked by this at first. Although he had joined the army for a few months, he was not very clear about what happened to the other boats and tractors except the rifle in his hand.
In Wu Kambei's view, these are things that only gods can possess; so whether it is Zhao Xin or Liu Sheng, they are both existences like gods in his eyes.
At this time, the vigorous construction of houses was still continuing in the residential area; and at the oil refining workshop, the workers started busy after breakfast.
Hundreds of workers wearing gas masks first used large iron ladles to pour crude oil from the oil pit into long wooden boxes that had been prepared in advance. Because the gaps between the boards of these wooden boxes were covered with a layer of plaster, so
There was no need to worry about leakage yet. Then the workers carried wooden boxes filled with oil in pairs and poured them into the oil storage pool dozens of meters away.
When the oil storage tank was halfway filled, Zhang Bo started an oil pump, and the viscous crude oil was pumped into the reaction kettle in the earthen kiln through a hose inserted in the oil storage tank.
The top of the earth kiln is equipped with a smoke exhaust port and an oil outlet. There is a thermometer and pressure gauge on the side of the reactor to monitor the temperature and pressure in the tank. There is a circular sealed hatch on the top of the iron tank. Open the hatch.
You can see the oil transfer situation in the iron tank; and there is a sealed hatch below the iron tank. Its function is to open and drain the cracked oil waste residue, that is, asphalt and heavy oil, after the batch of diesel is extracted.
Zhang Bo felt that there was a chance that these waste residues could be used, and planned to dig a big pit for storage.
When he saw that the crude oil in the reactor was less than half full, Zhang Bo ordered someone to turn off the oil pump. Then, a migrant worker poured a bag of zeolite that had been prepared through the sealed hatch and stirred it with a long iron rod.
, so that it is evenly distributed at the bottom of the tank (the purpose of adding zeolite is to prevent the liquid from violently rolling and boiling.) After everything is completed, close the hatch and tighten the bolts.
It is said that petroleum is less dense than water, is sticky and thick, and has no certain melting and boiling points. The oil refining kilns built by Zhang Bo are actually enlarged versions of laboratory distillers.
At this time, cold river water had been introduced into the cooling box. Zhang Bo immediately ordered his men to light the earth kiln. The first oil refining earth kiln in Beihai Town finally started operation.
As the temperature of the furnace fire got higher and higher, a large amount of charcoal was thrown in, and the crude oil in the reactor began to gradually atomize and crack. Zhang Bo stared at the thermometer and pressure gauge outside the reactor and kept ordering his men to add charcoal.
After about an hour, when the temperature on the thermometer exceeded 200 degrees and approached 250 degrees, Zhang Bo ordered someone to open the valve of the oil outlet pipe at the top of the reactor.
At this time, there was a burst of gas roaring from the end of the oil outlet in the distance, which sounded a little breathtaking. After a while, a drop of light yellow liquid finally flowed out.
"Sir! Oil is coming out!" A worker responsible for observation hurriedly ran to Zhang Bo and shouted. After hearing this, Zhang Bo quickly ran to the oil outlet, reached out to dip his hand into the transparent liquid that flowed out, and first rubbed it with his fingers.
Take it twice, then put it to the tip of your nose and smell it.
At this time, Zhao Xin, who came after hearing the news, also came over, wearing a gas mask and squatting next to Zhang Bo, and asked in a muffled voice: "How is it?"
"No problem!" He turned to several workers and ordered: "Hurry up and connect the hoses and steel pipes."
Upon hearing this, several workers quickly connected a hose connected to the oil storage tank to the oil outlet pipe and tied it tightly with iron wire.
Zhao Xin let out a long breath through his mask and said to himself, "It's really hard work! I have been preparing for this little bit of diesel for several months. Thousands of people have traveled across the ocean. It's really not easy! But everything is
It's worth it, at least I no longer have to spend tens of millions to buy gas every once in a while.
"Does this thing need to be desulfurized? Don't the gasoline and diesel we use over there need to be desulfurized before they can be used?"
Zhang Bo said dissatisfied: "Mr. Zhao, this is for ships. If you can use diesel, you have to eat high-priced food! And desulfurization? What national standards are you planning to set? Let me hear it?"
Zhao Xin was left speechless, and thought to himself, even without desulfurization, this is still better than the heavy oil used in ships. Heavy oil and asphalt are the things that settle to the bottom during the cracking reaction of crude oil, and they are incomparable with diesel!
Zhang Bo said to Zhao Xin at this time: "I won't chat with you anymore. Once the fire starts, it cannot be stopped, otherwise the asphalt precipitated below will solidify. I have to keep an eye on the temperature, otherwise it will not be diesel once it exceeds 350 degrees!"
As he spoke, he walked to the cooling water tank, stretched out his hand to check the water temperature, and continued to instruct the workers behind him: "After a while, the water in the water tank feels a little warm to the touch, so open this valve to let cold water in, and at the same time open this
The valve drains out the previous water. When the water becomes cold to the touch, it stops waterproofing and water inflow. Do you understand?"
The worker didn't understand the logic behind this, but he had completely mastered the tasks of drainage and water discharge in the past few days, so he kept nodding in agreement.
Now that there are no problems with the trial operation, the next step is to burn a large amount of charcoal to prepare for the ignition of several other earth kilns. Zhang Bo shook his head while calculating the amount of remaining charcoal, thinking that it would be nice if there was coke.
Zhao Xin dusted himself off, stood up and looked at the billowing smoke coming from the top of the kiln. Then he saw the migrant workers who kept transporting charcoal to the kiln. He thought to himself that this is not environmentally friendly! Even good trees have been destroyed.
After chopping down the charcoal, alas! Zhao Xin shook his head and left the oil refining site with his hands behind his back.
On the other side, when Mergua and others, together with Wu Kambe and a squad of Beihai Town soldiers, walked to the mouth of the Oha River, the seven of them saw the Thunderbolt parked in the lagoon at a glance without Wu Kambe's guidance.
Mergu'a suddenly took a breath of cold air and looked at the mountain-like giant boat in the distance with a dazed expression.
"What did I mean? Poseidon! They are the envoys of Poseidon!" Sembakul suddenly jumped up, waving his arms, and shouted excitedly. "Who just said they were from Vulcan?"
"It's whatever you say it is!" The other five scumbags looked at each other helplessly. The big ship looked bigger than a hundred whales. It seemed that it must be the messenger of Poseidon.
Mergua was extremely excited at this time, with a strange look in his eyes. He danced towards the thundering horn in the distance and sang a prayer babblingly.
Wukanbei had been shocked the day before yesterday. At this time, he was thinking about the red-haired people in the west. When Mergua was almost done singing, he asked: "Brother Mergua, can you now
Are you taking us to find the red-haired man?"
"No problem, no problem! You take me to see the Poseidon and the Bear God first."
"What?!" Wukanbei blinked, thinking, "What a surprise!"
When Mergu'a and others saw Zhao Xin again, they bowed and saluted seven or eight meters away. Zhao Xinxin said that his attitude would be the same when he came back from the boat. Was he shocked?
"Messenger of the Poseidon! Although I, Mergu, am a Kelada, my people are few and far between now. We are just a flock of headless geese. My people and I are willing to submit to your feet, and I ask you to help us return to our hometown.
, Defeat the red-haired people!" After saying that, Mergua imitated the scene he saw when he met the Manchu officials in Deleng'enmu City, knelt down on the ground, leaned over and kowtowed. Sembakul and others
As soon as he saw him, he kowtowed along with him.
"Get up!" What are you talking about? It's not the New Year yet! Zhao Xin quickly came over and helped Mergua up. He turned to Wukanbe and asked: "What is he talking about?"
When Zhao Xin heard Wu Kambei's explanation, he almost laughed out loud.
At noon, Mergua and the others finally ate the big white steamed buns from Beihai Town. Because there are oil pits everywhere at the mouth of the Oha River and there are no wild animals, Zhao Xin and the others have been eating canned meat or vegetables these days.
, I almost vomited after eating.
However, this was a rare delicacy for Mergua and the others. The large pieces of beef and pork with white grease made their intestines fat and their brains full. Sembakul opened his cheeks and ate it fiercely.
, killed ten large steamed buns and four cans of meat in a row, and finally touched his swollen belly and said to Wukanbei that he must kill a deer as a gift another day.
Don’t underestimate stray bullets at the shooting range. In the past, the instructor in military training in college once said that when someone was shooting, the muzzle of the gun was raised too high. As a result, the bullet flew over the earth wall behind the shooting range and hit an old farmer a thousand meters away.