Kai Fu Han

Chapter 536 steam locomotive
Ten thousand sailor recruits were assigned to the Army.

Ten thousand army recruits were assigned to the navy.

New river divisions and marine corps would follow.

"Leader, do you still have any immortal talismans? There are another [-] new soldiers joining the army. There are not enough soldiers." After the ceremony, Liu Xinang came over and asked, licking his face.

"No, this year's allocation has been completed. You can find a way to allocate it yourself." Liu Xinqi refused, and then reminded: "Don't misappropriate the spare immortal talismans, they are for life-saving purposes."

Only Liu Xinqi can withdraw the general card from the soldier, so if Liu Xinqi does not participate in the station, if he wants to save the critically injured, he can only rely on the spare fairy talisman.

Although Liu Xinqi has been improving the medical capabilities of the Xinghan League, this cannot be accomplished overnight, and it cannot be accomplished by the medical system itself.

The medical capabilities of the entire country are a big chess game and a manifestation of the industrial capabilities of the entire country.

Simply put, without stainless steel, many medical devices cannot be manufactured, otherwise the rate of bacterial infection in wounds will be very high.Without an excellent sterile environment, surgery can only be avoided if possible.

Xinghan League’s medical system has a long way to go to develop.

"I don't believe it. You must still have some. Just give me some, even if there are only ten." Liu Xin'ang continued to pester him shamelessly, while Gao Yuan watched silently from the side with a smile on his face. He probably had an idea with Liu Xin'ang.

"I will go to the Baishi Bay Research Institute to see something good in a while. Do you want to go see it?" Liu Xinqi changed the subject.

"I'm going, there's nothing going on right now." The goal was not achieved, and if he could stay with Liu Xinqi for a while longer, he would have one more chance.

"Then go and hand over the work here, and we'll set off when we're done." Liu Xinqi turned and left the school grounds after speaking.

The guards had been waiting outside the gate of the new barracks. After Liu Xinqi went out, he found a horse and sat on it to wait.

Soon Liu Xinang and Gao Yuan walked out together.

"Hurry up and get on the horse, I can't wait any longer."

When Liu Zhimu reported to Liu Xinqi yesterday, Liu Xinqi was already looking forward to it and eager to see it. However, he had promised Liu Lizhen long ago that he would come to attend today's recruits' induction ceremony, so he waited patiently for another night.

"What kind of treasure is it that makes the leader of the alliance who has always been 'mature and prudent' so impatient? I must take a good look at it." Liu Xin'ang joked, using a word to praise the elderly.

You must know that Liu Xinqi has just turned 20 years old, and it is still very early for him to be "mature and prudent".

"As long as you talk too much, we will set off when we are ready."

A few people and the guards worked hard and arrived at the foundry in Baishi Bay in half an hour.

This factory is completely different from the previous "blacksmith shop". Many labor-intensive tasks are handed over to machinery, and even the forging work is handed over to steam-powered forging hammers.

"Is it a new weapon?" Liu Xin'ang followed Liu Xinqi as he dismounted and walked toward the foundry, asking as he walked.

"No." Liu Xinqi hurried on his way.

Liu Zhimu, who was inside the factory, had already received the notice and came out to greet Liu Xinqi.

"Leader, let's go here. Locomotive testing takes up too much space, so we built a circular track under the hillside behind the factory." Liu Zhimu introduced while leading the way.

"Locomotive..., track..., foundry..." Liu Xin'ang also became excited. This thing has a great impact on the army: "Has a steam locomotive been built?"

"Steam locomotives have been built a long time ago. What I will show you this time is the results that have met the conditions for use and can be officially produced and put into actual use." Liu Zhimu introduced. "Uncle Zhimu, you are really amazing. You made it so quickly." Liu Xinang said excitedly after receiving the response confirmation.

"It's mainly because the alliance leader gave me thousands more soldiers that I was able to speed up the development of the locomotive." Liu Zhimu didn't dare to take credit: "Moreover, this idea was proposed by the alliance leader."

"Thousands of soldiers, I'm really envious." Liu Xin'ang felt a little appreciative again.

Liu Xinqi ignored him.

Walking out of the back door of the foundry, there is a huge open space outside the door, more than four miles long and more than two miles wide. There is not a taller building in the open space, but some rails are laid on the ground, and there are several tracks.

"The turnout has also been solved?" Liu Xinqi saw a turnout connecting the two rail tracks.

"The research has been done. Ordinary people can pull it lightly and change the trajectory of the locomotive."

"Good!" Liu Xinqi praised.

The turnout is the steering mechanism of the train. The train turns not by the rotation of the wheels, but by the guidance of the track.

"Let's keep going forward. The locomotive is in the factory building in the northwest corner."

Everyone walked into the factory and immediately saw the steam locomotive in the middle of the factory.

A real behemoth, a steel behemoth.

It is four feet long, more than one foot high, and one foot wide. It lies on a five-foot-wide track.

"Such a big steam locomotive!" Liu Xin'ang exclaimed, "Can this move?"

From the appearance of the entire steam locomotive, most parts are made of steel and appear to be very heavy.

"It can move. The power of steam is endless. Let alone this locomotive, even if it drags dozens of carriages behind it, it will still run very fast." Liu Zhimu showed off.

"How fast can it be?" Gao Yuan was also a little envious. This steam locomotive looked much more sophisticated and more advanced than the steam engine on the ship.

There is a lot of space on the ship, so the size of the steam engine does not matter, so marine steam engines are very large and rough.

Steam locomotives are different. In order to fit the entire steam engine structure onto the locomotive head and allow the locomotive to rest on a five-foot-wide track, researchers worked hard and lost countless brain cells.

"It's faster than a horse. We have tested that the locomotive alone can reach 120 miles per hour in a straight line. This is a speed that can run stably for a long time." Liu Zhimu replied.

Long-term stable operation means that steam locomotives can travel thousands of miles a day on the track.

"What about after adding the load?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"It varies according to the load weight. According to the optimal load, a steam locomotive pulls twenty flat cars, each flat car is loaded with [-] loads of goods, a total of [-] loads of goods, and the long-term stable operating speed can reach [-] miles per hour. ." Liu Zhimu introduced.

This is equivalent to fifteen kilometers per hour, three or four times faster than a carriage carrying cargo.

"This steam locomotive can pull cargo that only 4000 people can carry, and it can run as fast as a galloping horse?" Gao Yuan couldn't believe it.

"Yes." Liu Zhimu was very proud: "This is still the first-generation locomotive. Our research institute is confident that one day, we will be able to build a locomotive that can pull 20 loads of cargo and run as fast as a bird."

(End of this chapter)