Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 505 New Equipment Proving Ground

"This weapon is really good." In the temporary camp, the yellow bear praised the newly unsealed wooden box, "It's much better than the first generation."

The E-type packing box manufactured according to the unified standard contains the "second-generation standard spear", which is specially used to arm the local irregular armed groups of the crossing group.Steel triangular spearheads treated with a modern heat treatment process are coated with a protective layer of "hell oil", which is the grease boiled from the last black residue left over from the extraction of coconut oil, and is used for industrial lubrication and rust prevention. .

The spear shaft is made from a car, and after anti-corrosion treatment, it is full of toughness, and it can be guaranteed to be immortal for several years without fumigation.This standard spear was specially manufactured and issued to the militia, and it was too extravagant to equip them all with Mini rifles.

Three hundred standard spears and three hundred machetes.Two rattan hard hats per person—one for work and one new—with steel reinforcing beams added to the top and sides for use in battle.It is also the only armor worn by the miner-cum-militia.Of course, with the current processing capacity of the machinery factory, it is easy to manufacture high-end armor such as chain mail and plate armor in batches, but it is just a bit wasteful.Someone proposed to make cotton armor, but the militiamen who distributed this thing in Hainan Island would rather go into battle shirtless.Someone also suggested a European-style simple protective gear: use a cross-shaped belt to fix the front and rear breastplates, shoulder armor, and the like.

In the end these proposals were all rejected.Now that the regular army does not need body armor, the militia is even less necessary.

Before the miners came, they had already gone through Wei Aiwen's basic military training in the quarantine camp, and had basic organization and discipline.They are organized according to the formation of the army, and are also divided into squads-platoons-companies.When taking action, take the class as a unit.One of the main tasks of the yellow bear is to train it so that it can master basic hand-to-hand combat skills and simple tactical coordination.Form a self-defense defense system with the infantry platoon as the core and the militia as the auxiliary.

Long-range weapons, the crossing group didn't bother to configure them. Thirty Mini rifles were enough to stop the enemies they might encounter in Qiongshan at a long distance.The yellow bear didn't even think that a rifle was necessary.

"With these [-] men, if you train well, you can take down Qiongzhou Mansion with spears and machetes without rifles." Huang Xiong boasted, "A few small thieves nearby came to sacrifice their swords. "He was a little eager to try.

"Taking Qiongzhou Mansion?" Tang Menglong was deeply suspicious.At least there are more than 2000 soldiers from Baisha in Qiongzhou Prefecture, no more than a few hundred guard soldiers in scanty clothes at most in the counties.

"Of course." The yellow bear didn't change his face.Since he voted for the Australians, he received military officer training and was deeply poisoned by the "omnipotence of discipline and organization". He was full of contempt for the Ming army.

"Let's watch, chief, you will become an elite soldier within three months!" Huang Xiong patted his chest.

"I still have to point them to open mines for me. Your military training can only be done in your spare time." Tang Menglong declared hastily.

Coal mining is a laborious job, and after a day's work, you have to practice. I'm afraid the miners will rebel.If there is no training, these 400 people will be a mob. No matter how big the bragging is, if there are seven or eight hundred bandits, thirty rifles may not be enough to see.

Finally, it was agreed that each miner's shift would have one day off every six days.In this day, take half a day to practice and half a day to rest.

Four hundred coal miners are now guest construction workers. Under the command of Zhang Xingpei and Shan Daoqian, they are building camps and roads. Although they do not have construction machinery, they have endless black powder and durable tools, which are the most time-consuming and labor-intensive. The workload of earthwork excavation works is much smaller.

In fact, Xu Yingjie from the Ministry of Chemical Industry has almost killed himself several times, blew up the laboratory three or four times, and jumped into the explosion-proof ditch several times. After that, he has already completed the trial production of nitroglycerin.The different grades of coconut oil obtained by cold pressing and then hot pressing now meet the supply of edible oils and some industrial needs of the crossing group.Glycerin, a basic chemical raw material with a wide range of uses, was used to test explosives as soon as it was mass-produced. Nitroglycerin was too dangerous as a military explosive, but civilian explosives for mining were quite easy to use.

Xu Yingjie used diatomaceous earth to adsorb nitroglycerin and made a relatively safe glycerin explosive block.But the Navy refused to transport it on board - the safety of this thing is relative.

Large prefabricated wooden houses could not fit in the traffic boat, they were loaded on rafts pulled by the traffic boat.It took Zhang Xingpei's construction team less than three days to complete the construction of the wharf of Jiazi Coal Mine. However, the fortification work has not yet started, and a simple trench was dug, which was filled with standard defensive bamboo sticks made by Lingao. .They are not cut by hand, but produced in batches on machines in woodworking factories, and also undergone machine frying and anti-corrosion treatment.

The Executive Committee regards the construction of Jiazi Coal Mine as a rehearsal for mining Tiandu and Hongji.Including organizational form, equipment trial, program management.Therefore, although Jiazi Coal Mine is small in scale and of average importance, the treatment it enjoys is the same as that of Tiandu and Hongji in the future.

The new products tested by the Industrial Energy Commission in the project include: modular prefabricated trestles, ship-borne piling machines, shallow-draft inland river traffic boats, mobile complete kitchen equipment, portable Lancashire boilers, large-scale water purification equipment, secondary The first-generation "grassland series" instant rations, "fighting/work" dual-purpose helmets, second-generation militia spears, and standardized defensive bamboo sticks.

It was originally planned to use steam engine power to drive the new trial-produced coal shearer, but after a little calculation by the Industrial and Energy Commission, it was found that mechanical mining was too wasteful.In terms of current manual mining, the so-called 200 miners are actually a general term, and about 18 auxiliary personnel need to be removed, including sailors who maintain the track, load and unload coal, guard the wharf, and operate the transportation boat.Even if there are only 350 people mining, the quota for each miner's shift is 600 tons.The daily output is [-] tons.With shearers, production can easily exceed [-] tons per day.Such a large amount of coal cannot be transported by transportation boats.

Without the use of mechanical mining, the imported boilers mainly provide domestic services.Including pumping water, draining water, steaming rice and providing hot water for bathing.The Ministry of Health reminded Tang Menglong to do a good job in the personal hygiene of the miners.The Ministry of Health also specially dispatched a health worker to Jiazi Coal Mine to take on the task of health care.

The coal mining site completed the infrastructure project very quickly, and it took a long time to install the rails. It was not because the construction was slow, but because we had to wait for Qionghai Coal to bring in the necessary materials.The yellow bear has long turned a blind eye to the extravagant behavior of the Australians, but it is amazing to see that the tracks, sleepers, and even the gravel for laying the roadbed are all transported from Lingao for the continuous construction of the "iron ladder".But for Shan Daoqian and others, doing so is much more efficient and can guarantee the quality of the materials.If the stone is quarried near the construction site, there is no crusher, and the stone blasted with gunpowder has to be crushed manually, and the size of the broken stone may not be suitable; as for the wood collected on the spot as sleepers, it cannot be treated with anti-corrosion, which will affect the service life.Now, it is nothing more than a few more trips to Qionghai Coal, and more manpower is spent on turnover and loading and unloading.

It took less than a month to build the infrastructure of Jiazi Coal Mine. With the help of gunpowder, even the mining surface was opened—the coal seam here is very shallow.According to Tang Menglong's guidance, Panda directly used blasting to peel off part of the surface.

He surveyed the local coal resources on the spot.It is generally believed that this is the continuation zone of the Haikou Changchang Coal Mine in modern time and space. The coal seam has five to six layers, of which the first layer is buried relatively shallow, and most of the reserves can be mined in the open pit.However, the reserves are not large, and the reserves that can be exploited in the open pit are currently about 200 million tons.

Tang Menglong ordered some miners to carry out a trial field mining.It is the same as the data: the coal here is lignite, which is urgently needed by the steel industry.

However, the proportion of coal gangue is quite high. Tang Menglong conducted sampling analysis from the first batch of 100 tons of coal mined, and the proportion of coal gangue and other low-quality coal was as high as 60%.Coal gangue can also be used as fuel to burn boilers, and the remaining 40% is lignite, but this lignite is much better than the lignite mined by the Crossing Group in Nanbao—most of the lignite in Nanbao is earthy lignite, let alone coking, even when The fuel has a low calorific value.It is mainly used as fertilizer for the Council of Agriculture.Anyway, this place is dominated by dark lignite, which can barely be used for coking, which is better than nothing.

This is not beyond his expectation - the coal mines in Hainan itself have this characteristic.Changchang Coal Mine claims to have proven reserves of 6700 million tons, but the actual lignite is only 900 million tons, most of which are coal with low calorific value such as gangue.

Anyway, Lingao already has a coal preparation plant, and it can still be used after screening.However, in this way, Jiazi Coal Mine must provide sufficient raw coal to meet the needs of the steel industry. After all, only four tons can be used after transporting ten tons.

"It's a pity that there are no good bituminous coal mines in Hainan and Guangdong." Tang Menglong felt a little regretful.

Fortunately, there is a bit of a consolation prize here, with kaolin, clay and peat symbiotically growing near lignite mines.They are all very useful minerals.It's a pity that the luck is too poor.It is digested on the spot and has nowhere to go.

It is very ineffective to transport coal with a transportation boat-this thing is only five or six tons when fully loaded.Even if the shuttle does not stop for a day, it will not be able to transport [-] tons. The coal has to wait slowly on the warehouse of Haijia Wharf. After waiting for several days, Qionghai Coal can collect a shipment of coal.Not to mention the transportation of these symbiotic minerals.

In terms of the natural navigation conditions of Nandu River, this kind of flat-bottomed traffic boat has reached the limit of Bopu Shipyard's ability to design and manufacture shallow-draft heavy-duty ships.Now I can only deal with it like this first.

(End of this chapter)