Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 563 Blasting
A large number of steam engines were used in the development of Sanya, not only the Mozi Type [-] and Type [-] standard steam engines of Chuanzhong, but also the light machine "Sui Nest Type [-]" imitated from the small American steam engine.These machines are widely used as prime movers in various aspects, which greatly saves manpower and improves work efficiency.Compared with the state on D-Day that year, the veterans couldn't help feeling: Although the overall technical level has declined, the scale of application has increased several times.

One result of the widespread use of the steam engine was a surge in the demand for coal.So much so that the navy soon had to arrange three transport ships to transport coal.

The best steam coal is of course Hongji anthracite, but the supply of Hongji coal is intermittent, and Lingao mainly supplies low-quality lignite and peat from the Nanbao area, as well as lignite from Guangdong.The demand for coal in Sanya Development has caused Lingao's coal reserves to drop sharply. Zhan Wuya has to issue a warning: Even if the production of agricultural fertilizers is stopped, all lignite and peat are transferred to power and chemical industries, and the inventory will last for less than a week. up.

The Jiazi Coal Mine, which has been mined with great effort, supplies lignite for coking, and everyone is reluctant to burn it-it is hard to accumulate this amount.Coking coal is a very scarce resource in the South.

The Ministry of Commerce issued a notice: all overseas stations should try to step up coal imports.And within the group, the call for developing the Hongji Coal Mine has grown louder again.People continue to lament the importance and significance of Kaifa Hongji to the Planning Institute.There are also many people in the Standing Committee of the Senate who hold this view.At the State Council meeting, many professionals from the Industry and Energy Commission also expressed concern about the coal supply situation and demanded a stable and reliable supply of coal.

"It is indeed necessary to develop Hongji," Wu De said, "but to open another sub-base in the short term, but it exceeds our current capacity. The fortification pressure of Hongji Coal Mine is greater than that of Sanya, which means that it needs to be under the nose of the Northern Dynasty. It will not work without the deployment of heavy troops and a sufficiently strong naval detachment."

"According to the report of Bei Kai and others, isn't Hongji a deserted area? Will the Northern Dynasty go to war for such a small place?"

"It's hard to say." Yu Eshui was summoned to act as a consultant for the meeting, "Everyone, everyone, you want to know how Vietnam gradually changed from a county in the Han Dynasty to a small bully in Southeast Asia?" He cleared his throat, "That is What’s yours is mine, what’s mine is still mine. Vietnam’s chiefs of all dynasties have spared no effort in encroaching on the surrounding land, and they have maintained a high degree of vigilance against other people’s encroachment. Moreover, Vietnam is a small place, and news spread faster than Ming Dynasty Many. As long as we build a fort there, the Northern Court will know about it in a short time. If they know, they will definitely attack.”

"Can we collude with the Southern Dynasty? Anyway, we will lose face with the Northern Dynasty."

"Of course we can. The Southern Dynasty definitely welcomes us to use up the fire and consume the Northern Dynasty. The question is," Yu Eshui said, "what can we get with the support of the Southern Dynasty?"

"Nanchao may not always send troops to support our operations. Even if they come, everyone may not want to use them, right?"

"The monkey army is a fart..." Dongmen Chuiyu was interrupted by Yu Eshui just after he made a comment:
"Don't underestimate the army of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Vietnam in the late Ming Dynasty. They were equipped and trained under the guidance of the Portuguese and the Dutch. They were equipped with extensive firearms and were quite European-style. They are definitely not the semi-savage army of the Southeast Asian states. .Besides, civil wars have been going on for decades, and the combat capability of the army will not be bad. We have no problem defending the fortress, but it is impossible to effectively control and mine it without investing a lot of force.”

"In this case, the only way is to go peacefully." Wu De said, "I think sending people to Vietnam, first buy the land through commercial channels, build a manor and slowly mine it. If possible, use a local agent .”

In the end, it was decided that Leizhou Station would handle the matter in detail—they already had a certain commercial and trade relationship in the local area.A little social connection was built as well.The proposal of setting up a trading company with Vietnam proposed by Leizhou Station was also passed at the State Council.Vietnam not only has coal, but also a large amount of rice and timber, which are the materials most needed by the Transit Group, and they can even be called strategic materials.

Everyone has long coveted this treasure land in Vietnam, but they cannot directly attack it due to the lack of strength.This kind of sullen feeling is like a plump and beautiful woman is nearby, you can eat some tofu from time to time, but you can't occupy her body.

Panda was carrying a big bag, and was riding a cross-country motorcycle in the field, with a full set of professional-grade bomb disposal protective clothing imported from the United States hanging on the back seat.Although he had paid a lot of money to get this set of things, he himself felt that it was of little value—in the past, Panda's colleagues said that the only function of this thing was to leave his own body.

The development of Sanya required a lot of blasting work. Although Zhuo Tianmin was the construction commander, he came from an industrial and civil construction background and basically knew nothing about blasting.Panda served as the deputy commander in chief, in charge of blasting and military engineering construction.

The personnel available to Panda are mainly from the engineering platoon of the Sanya Dispatch Battalion. Assault trained blasting skills for a month.

The other is the graduates of the demolition training course run by the labor force. At that time, some laborers were trained in a short-term assault.But the quality of these blasters and engineers cannot be compared.For the sake of safety, after landing, Panda made a mixed staffing.A small number of engineers and blasters formed a blasting team. A total of five blasting teams were formed, two of which were dispatched to the Luhuitou Peninsula. Their task was to open roads on the mountain, clear vegetation, and clear a fort for the top of the mountain. Solid platform.The rocks produced by the blasting acted as building materials.

In consideration of local supply of construction materials, Zhuo Tianmin and Panda have already discussed that besides opening a local brick and tile factory, it is best to have another quarry.For this reason, Bai Guoshi led a team to explore nearby under the escort of the special investigation team.The quarry can't be too far away, if it's too far away, it doesn't make sense to squeeze the transportation capacity.

But in this way, maintaining the operation of the quarry would require at least one blasting team, leaving only the second team at his disposal.There are more and more demands for blasting on the construction site, especially the subgrade project of Yulin-Tiandu. Although the subgrade is built along the relatively flat valley of the Tiandu River, the terrain along the way is still quite complicated.From time to time, mounds and boulders will be encountered, which must be cleared in time.

If it is cleared by hand, the amount of earthwork is astonishingly large, and the extent of the steel sector's desire for iron ore is clear to everyone.Now that the source of coking coal has been resolved, more and more coking coal is being hoarded, and it is time to make iron and steel.

Panda had no choice but to dilute the personnel, reduce the number of each team and the proportion of engineers among them, and double the number of blasting teams.In this way, security is worrying.Panda sometimes rode a motorcycle, sometimes took a traffic boat, patrolling and inspecting various blasting sites, correcting various unsafe hazards in a timely manner, and if necessary, he personally directed the blasting.

The sea breeze mixed with sand hit his motorcycle helmet, and he was very nervous.Recently, blasting has been widely used on construction sites to speed up infrastructure construction steps. The proportion of qualified personnel is relatively small, and the hidden danger of accidents is increasing.In fact, there was an explosion just a few days ago.A transportation boat transporting black powder suddenly exploded for unknown reasons in the bay, and all six people on board were missing—needless to say, they were blown to pieces.

Black powder is the only blasting explosive they can supply in large quantities, but its power and stability are not good.No matter how it is refined, the detonation speed of black powder is too slow, and it is not very powerful to be used as engineering explosives.Not as good as nitroglycerin.

According to his request, nitroglycerin explosives and a small amount of ammonium nitrate explosives were shipped to him from Lingao.Nitroglycerin is a relatively safe explosive block that is adsorbed with diatomaceous earth and then passivated through a series of treatments.Although the stability is still a little insufficient, but now Sanya is in urgent need of high explosives, and it doesn't care about this much.

The navy recruited volunteers to drive the ship, and it took almost ten days to arrive after the original seven-day voyage.These precious goods were carefully unloaded and stacked in a dedicated simple warehouse that was not leaning on all sides.

But the problem still came out. Panda just received the news that there was a squib on a construction site.

Squibs are the thing that the demolition team is most afraid of encountering. If they are not handled carelessly, they will kill people.For this reason, Panda personally kept the detonators to ensure the safety of the fire, and distributed them to the engineers before the start of work every day.

Unexpectedly, there was still a squib problem.And it was filled with ammonium nitrate explosives.This ammonium nitrate explosive is slightly safer than nitroglycerin, but the risk factor is still very high.

The blasting site was at 0+1400 meters of the Tiandu-Yulin subgrade, where there was a small earth-rock mixed mound on the construction route. Shan Daoqian planned to blow it up directly, that is, to remove the obstacles and obtain building materials.

"How is it?" Pan Da asked the engineering captain at the scene after arriving.

"The fuse was lit, but it didn't blow up." The engineering captain gestured, "I went to see it after 15 minutes: the fuse was burned out, but the detonator didn't blow up." He took out the explosive package rolled into a tube , "I took it back."

Panda felt relieved when he saw that the detonator had been pulled out, thinking that the safety education was finally not in vain.He looked at the explosives, and it seemed that they were a little damp—probably because the high air humidity here affected the detonation sensitivity.

The use of explosives is still irregular.Panda thought, crash education is indeed prone to accidents.However, this cannot be regarded as a soldier's problem. The explosives and firearms that the Traversing Group can provide are not very standardized.Some even have great security risks.

"Continue to blast." Panda said, "Don't use this pack of explosives, put it away and take it home."

The blasting team continued to work, and Panda was a little worried, so he went to the charging site to see that the holes were drilled in a very standard manner, completely following the instructions in the blasting textbook.Several team members were loading the medicine, but many workers gathered under the hill to watch the excitement.Panda was shocked when he saw it - what's so interesting about this kind of excitement?There is no minimum safe distance.Just as he was about to find someone to drive the workers away, he suddenly heard a scream. When he looked up, his blood vessels were almost coagulated. When a team member was loading, a roll of 75g standard-packed explosive column slipped from his hand. straight down.

It's over!Panda's first impression was that he was about to be blown to pieces.He remembered that ammonium nitrate explosives were used here. Before this thing was passivated, it would explode when it encountered a big impact, and the explosive package that fell from the mountain would explode immediately.

In an instant, all the explosion scenes from movies, TV and reality flooded into Panda's mind.With a tiger leap, he lay down on the ground with incomparable agility.Whether this trick can save lives depends on luck-if the explosives fall close, you will not be able to survive lying on the ground.

With a "pop", the explosive fell to the ground, and Panda was greatly surprised—it didn't explode!Just as Panda raised his head, he saw the laborers whooped and surrounded him.Knowing that there are always cheap people in the crowd who like to mess around, Panda quickly jumped up, rushed to the front of the people, picked up the explosive stick and ran a few steps towards Tian Duhe, and he was like a tiger pounced on the ground again, Limbs clasped tightly to the ground, eyes closed and mouth open.

When Panda was a soldier, he was second in the whole company in throwing grenades. He fully activated his skills at a critical moment, and made a series of clean movements. When the besieging laborers didn't even react, the explosives fell into the water.The fire exploded in the river in a flash, and the high water column shot straight into the sky, and all the workers watching the excitement were shocked to the ground by the shock wave.

Panda was also violently pushed to the ground like a leaf. She felt a tightness in her chest, and managed to get up.He felt his heart beating wildly and his legs shaking.I thought this time I was lucky and finally got my life back, otherwise I would have entered Cuigang early.

"Any casualties? Any casualties?" he yelled.

"I'm fine." The blasting captain got up tremblingly. Generally speaking, the blasting team performed well. Once the explosives fell, everyone fell down instead of rushing to watch.

As for the laborers who were knocked down to the ground, several of them broke their skins 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 .

"Let's all go back to work." Panda said to the blasting team leader, "You guys rest for 15 minutes before starting work. Be careful."

The demolitionist who accidentally dropped the explosives was caught by the guarding soldiers nearby, and fell down the hillside dejectedly.

Panda stopped the blasting team leader who was going to send this unlucky guy to the headquarters for disposal: "Forget it, he made a temporary mistake, but don't let him do the loading of explosives, do some hard work first, and hold a meeting at night to discuss safety education. "

(End of this chapter)