A large number of steam engines were used in the development of Sanya, including not only the Mozi Type 1 and Type 2 standard steam engines, but also the "Suichao Type 1", a lightweight machine imitated from the American small steam engine. These machines are widely used in various
On the other hand, it acted as the prime mover, greatly saving manpower and improving work efficiency. Compared with the state on D-Day, the elders couldn't help but sigh: Although the overall technical level has declined, the scale of application has increased several times.
One result of the widespread use of steam engines was the surge in demand for coal. So much so that the Navy soon had to arrange three transport ships to transport coal.
The best thermal coal is naturally Hongji anthracite, but the supply of Hongji coal is intermittent. Lingao mainly supplies low-quality lignite and peat from Nanbao area, also mixed with lignite shipped from Guangdong. Sanya Development has
The demand for coal caused Lingao's coal reserves to plummet, and Zhan Wuya had to issue a warning: Even if the production of agricultural fertilizers was stopped and all lignite and peat were diverted to power and chemical industries, the inventory would not be able to last for less than a week.
The Jiazi Coal Mine, which was mined with great effort, supplies lignite for coking, but everyone is reluctant to burn it - it took a lot of effort to accumulate this amount. Coking coal is a very scarce resource in the south.
The Ministry of Commerce issued a notice asking all overseas stations to try to step up coal imports. Within the group, the call for developing Hongji Coal Mine became louder again. People kept declaring the importance and significance of developing Hongji Coal Mine to the Planning Council. In the Senate
Many people in the Standing Committee also hold this view. At the State Council meeting, many professionals from the Industrial Energy Commission also expressed concerns about the coal supply situation and demanded stable and reliable coal supply.
"It is indeed necessary to develop Hongji," Wu De said, "but opening a sub-base in the short term will exceed our current capabilities. The fortification pressure of Hongji Coal Mine is greater than that of Sanya, which means that it will be under the eyes of the Northern Dynasty.
The armed separatist regime below is impossible without the deployment of heavy troops and a sufficiently powerful naval detachment."
"According to the reports of Bei Kai and others, isn't the Hongji area deserted? Would the Northern Dynasty go to war over such a small place?"
"It's hard to say." Yu Eshui was called in to serve as a consultant for the meeting, "Everyone, everyone wants to know how Vietnam gradually changed from a county in the Han Dynasty to a dominant country in Southeast Asia?" He cleared his throat, "That's it.
What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine. Vietnam's successive chiefs spared no effort to occupy surrounding land, and they maintained a high degree of vigilance against other people's encroachment. Moreover, Vietnam is not a big place, and news spreads faster than the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as we build a fort locally, the Northern Dynasty court will know about it in a short time. If they know about it, they will definitely attack."
"Can we collude with the Southern Dynasty? Anyway, we have to break up with the Northern Dynasty."
"Of course, the Southern Dynasty will definitely welcome us to risk our lives and consume the Northern Dynasty without thinking about it. The question is," Yu Eshui said, "What can we get from the support of the Southern Dynasty?"
"The Southern Dynasty may not necessarily send troops to support our operations. Even if they do come, everyone may not want to use them, right?"
"Monkey's army is nothing..." Dongmen Chuiyu just finished his comment when he was interrupted by Yu Eshui:
"Don't underestimate the Vietnamese and Northern Dynasties armies in the late Ming Dynasty. They were equipped and trained under the guidance of the Portuguese and Dutch. They were widely equipped with firearms and were quite European-style. They were definitely not the semi-savage armies of the Southeast Asian princes.
.And with the continuous civil war in the past few decades, the military's combat capabilities will not be very bad. We have no problem holding the fort, but we may not be able to effectively control and exploit it without investing a lot of power."
"In this case, the only option is to take a peaceful approach." Wu De said, "I think sending people to Vietnam, first buying the land through commercial channels, setting up a manor and slowly exploiting it. If possible, just use local agents.
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In the end, it was decided that Leizhou Station would handle the matter in detail - they already had certain commercial and trade relationships in the local area and had also established some social relations. Leizhou Station's proposal to set up a trading company with Vietnam was also approved at the State Council
Vietnam not only has coal, but also a large amount of rice and wood. These are the materials that the Crossing Group needs most, and they can even be called strategic materials.
Everyone has been coveting this treasure land in Vietnam, but they can't take action directly due to lack of strength. This boring feeling is like a plump and beautiful woman nearby. You can eat some tofu from time to time, but you can't possess her body.
Panda was carrying a big bag and riding an off-road motorcycle in the wilderness, with a full set of professional-grade bomb disposal protective clothing imported from the United States hanging on the back seat. Although he spent a lot of money to get this set,
But he himself felt that it was of little value - Panda's colleagues in the past said that the only function of this thing was to leave a whole body for him.
The development of Sanya requires a large amount of blasting work. Although Zhuo Tianmin is the commander-in-chief of construction, he comes from a civil engineering background and basically knows nothing about blasting. Panda serves as the deputy commander-in-chief, specifically in charge of blasting and military engineering.
construction.
The personnel available to Panda mainly come from the engineer platoon of the Sanya Dispatch Battalion - this platoon was formed by transferring personnel from the engineer training company. One-third are veterans who have received more than six months of professional engineering training, and the rest are recruits.
Assault training on blasting skills for a month.
In addition, there are graduates of the demolition training course held by the labor team. At that time, some workers were trained in a short-term assault. However, the quality of these demolition workers was not comparable to that of engineers. For safety reasons, Panda mixed the personnel after landing. A few engineers were
Coupled with demolition workers to form a demolition team, a total of five demolition teams were organized, two of which were dispatched to the Luhuitou Peninsula. Their task was to open a road on the mountain, clear vegetation, and clear a stable base for the fort on the top of the mountain.
Platform. The stones produced by blasting can be used as building materials.
For the sake of local supply of building materials, Zhuo Tianmin and Panda had already discussed that in addition to opening a local brick and tile factory, it would be best to have a quarry. For this reason, Bai Guoshi led a team under the escort of the special reconnaissance team.
Exploration has been done nearby. The quarry cannot be too far away. If it is too far away, there is no point in occupying the transportation capacity.
However, in this way, maintaining the operation of the quarry requires at least one blasting team, and the only two teams he can use are the second team. The demand for blasting on construction sites is increasing, especially in Yulin-Tiandu
For the roadbed project, although the roadbed was built along the relatively flat valley section of the Tiandu River, the topography along the way is still quite complex. From time to time, you will encounter mounds and boulders, which must be cleared in time.
If manual cleaning is used, the workload of earthmoving will be staggering. Everyone in the steel sector is clear about the desire for iron ore. Now that the source of coking coal has been solved, more and more coking coal is being hoarded, just waiting for the rice to be smelted.
Steel.
Panda had no choice but to dilute the personnel, reduce the number of people in each team and the proportion of engineers and soldiers in it, and doubled the number of demolition teams. As a result, safety was a concern. Panda sometimes rode a motorcycle and sometimes sat in a car
The traffic boat patrols and inspects various blasting sites to correct various hidden dangers in a timely manner. If necessary, he personally directs the blasting.
The sea breeze mixed with sand hit his motorcycle helmet, and he felt very nervous. Recently, blasting has been widely used on construction sites to speed up infrastructure construction. The proportion of qualified personnel is low, and the risk of accidents is getting bigger and bigger. In fact, on
An explosion occurred a few days ago. A traffic boat transporting black powder suddenly exploded in the bay for unknown reasons. All six people on board were missing - needless to say, they were blown to pieces.
Black powder is the only explosive for blasting that they can supply in large quantities now, but its power and stability are not good. No matter how refined it is, the detonation speed of black powder is too slow, so it is not very powerful when used as engineering explosives. It is far inferior to nitroglycerin.
Easy to use.
According to his request, nitroglycerin explosive and a small amount of ammonium nitrate explosive were shipped to him from Lingao. Nitroglycerin is a relatively safe explosive block that is adsorbed with diatomaceous earth and passivated through a series of treatments. Although it has a certain stability,
It's still a bit insufficient, but now Sanya is in urgent need of high explosives and doesn't care about so much.
The Navy recruited volunteers to pilot the ship, and it took almost ten days to arrive on the original seven-day voyage. These precious cargoes were carefully unloaded and stacked in a dedicated simple warehouse with no sides.
But the problem still arises. Panda has just received the news that a squib on a construction site has occurred.
Squibs are the thing that the demolition team is most afraid of encountering. If they are not handled carefully, they will kill people. For this reason, Panda personally keeps the detonators to ensure the safety of the fire, and only distributes them to the engineers before starting work every day.
Unexpectedly, there was still a problem with the dumb gun. Moreover, it was loaded with ammonium nitrate explosive. This ammonium nitrate explosive is slightly safer than nitroglycerine, but the risk factor is still very high.
The blasting site is at 0+1400 meters of the Tiandu-Yulin roadbed. There is a small mound of mixed earth and rock right on the construction line. Shan Daoqian plans to blow it up directly, removing the obstacles and obtaining construction materials.
"How is it?" Panda asked the engineer captain at the scene after arriving.
"The fuse was lit, but it didn't explode." The engineer captain gestured, "I checked after 15 minutes: the fuse was burned out, but the detonator didn't explode." As he said that, he took out the rolled explosive bag.
, "I took it back."
Panda felt relieved after seeing that the detonator had been pulled out, thinking that the safety education was not in vain. He looked at the explosives and found that they seemed to be damp - probably because the high air humidity here affected the sensitivity of the detonation.
The use of explosives is still irregular. Panda thought, crash education is indeed prone to accidents. However, this cannot be regarded as a problem of the soldiers. The explosives and firearms provided by the crossing group are not very standardized. Some even pose great safety risks.
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"Keep blasting." Panda said, "Don't use this pack of explosives. Put it away and take it back."
The demolition team continued to work, and Panda was a little worried. He went to the charging site to see in person. The blastholes were drilled in a very standardized manner, completely following the instructions in the demolition textbook. Several team members were loading charges, but people gathered under the hill.
There were many workers watching the excitement. Panda was shocked when he saw it - what's so good about this kind of excitement? The minimum safe distance was gone. He was about to find someone to drive the workers away when he suddenly heard a scream and looked up.
Look, his blood vessels almost solidified. When a team member was loading, a roll of 75g standard packaged explosives slipped from his hand and fell straight down.
It's over! Panda's first impression was that he was going to be blown to pieces. He remembered that ammonium nitrate explosives were used here. Before they were passivated, they would explode when encountering a big impact. The explosive packets that fell from the mountain were still there.
It won't explode immediately.
In an instant, all the explosion scenes from movies, TV and real life flooded into Panda's mind. He made a tiger leap and fell to the ground with great agility. Whether this move can save his life depends on luck - if the explosives fall close, he will fall to the ground.
You can't survive on earth.
With a "pop", the explosives fell to the ground. Pan Da was surprised - it didn't explode! As soon as Pan Da raised his head, he saw the workers cheering and surrounding them. Pan Da knew that there were always people with cheap hands in the crowd who liked it.
After fiddling around, he quickly jumped up, rushed in front of the person, picked up the explosive pillar, ran a few steps and threw it towards Tian Du River. He jumped to the ground again, his limbs were tightly clasped on the ground, his eyes were closed and his mouth was open.
When Panda was a soldier, he was the second best grenade thrower in the company. In times of crisis, his skills were fully activated. He made a series of moves so cleanly that the explosives fell into the water before even the besieging workers could react. The fire flashed on the river.
There was an explosion, and tall water columns shot into the sky. All the workers who were watching the excitement were shaken to the ground by the shock wave.
Panda was pushed to the ground like a leaf. He felt tightness in his chest, and finally got up. He found that his heart was beating fast and his legs were shaking. He thought that he was lucky to be able to retrieve it this time.
Save your life, otherwise you will have to enter Cuigang early.
"Are there any casualties? Are there any casualties?" he shouted loudly.
"I'm fine." The demolition team leader stood up tremblingly. Generally speaking, the people in the demolition team performed well. As soon as the explosives fell, everyone fell down instead of rushing over to watch.
As for the workers who were knocked to the ground, several had their skin broken when they were knocked down by the shock wave, some felt chest tightness and discomfort, and many more were frightened - they had never seen such a violent explosion.
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"Let's all go back to work." Panda said to the demolition team leader, "You should rest for fifteen minutes before starting work. Pay attention to safety."
The blaster who accidentally dropped the explosive was caught by the soldiers on guard nearby, and he came down the hillside dejectedly.
Panda stopped the demolition team leader who was about to send the unlucky guy to the headquarters for disposal: "Forget it, he made a mistake, but let him not install the explosives. Do some hard work first, and hold a meeting for safety education in the evening.