Weapons Huai Zhen was not in the temporary camp. Huang Xiong was full of praise for the online force test wooden box, "It's much better than the first generation."
The special packaging box manufactured in accordance with unified standards contains "second-generation standard spears", which are specially used to arm local irregular armed groups that cross the group. The steel triangular spearhead treated with modern heat treatment technology is coated with a layer of protective "hell oil". This is a grease boiled from the black residue left after refining coconut oil. It is used for industrial lubrication and anti-rust.
The spear shaft is machine-made and has been treated with antiseptic treatment to make it very tough. It does not need to be smoked or roasted to ensure that it will remain incorruptible for several years. This kind of standard spear is specially made for the militia. It is too luxurious to equip them all with mini rifles.
Three hundred standard spears and three hundred machetes. Each person has two rattan helmets, one for working, and one is a new product with steel reinforced beams on the top and sides, which can be used during war. This is also the only protective gear for miners and militiamen. Of course, with the current processing capabilities of the machinery factory, it is easy to mass-produce high-end armors such as chainmail and banzai, but it is just a bit wasteful. Some people suggested making cotton armor, but the militiamen on Hainan Island would rather go into battle shirtless with this stuff. Some people also suggested a European-style simple protective gear: use a cross-shaped belt to fix the front and rear goggles, shoulder armor, etc.
In the end, all these plans were rejected. Since the regular army does not use protective armor at the moment, there is no need for the militia to use it.
Before the miners came, they had already passed through Wei Aiwen's basic army in the thinning camp and had basic organization and discipline.
They are organized according to the army's organization and are also divided into squads and platoons. Actions are carried out in class units. 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 militia as the auxiliary.
The Crossing Group did not bother to configure long-range weapons. For the enemies that may be encountered in Qiongshan, thirty Mini rifles are enough to block them from a long distance. Huang Xiong didn't even think that he even needed a rifle.
"With these four hundred men, if we train well, we can easily capture the Qiongzhou Prefecture with only spears and machetes without using rifles." Huang Xiong boasted, "A few little cockroach thieves from nearby have arrived just in time to sacrifice their swords. "He was quite eager to give it a try.
"Capture Qiongzhou Prefecture?" Tang Menglong expressed deep doubts. After all, Qiongzhou Prefecture has more than 2,000 soldiers from Baisha, but the counties only have a few hundred poorly clothed guardsmen at most.
"Of course." Huang Xiong's expression remained unchanged. After he surrendered to the Australians. After receiving officer training, he was deeply poisoned by the idea of "discipline and organization being omnipotent", and he was full of contempt for the Ming army. Even the Jianlu who were afraid of it like a tiger felt that it was no longer a problem.
"Just watch, Commander, he will become an elite soldier within three months!" Huang Xiongbao patted his chest. "I still have to point them to open mines for me. You can only train in your spare time." Tang Menglong quickly declared.
Coal mining is a laborious job, and you have to practice after a day's work. I'm afraid the miners are going to rebel. If they don't practice, these four hundred people will be just a mob. No matter how big Huang Xiong Niu boasts, if there are really seven or eight hundred bandits, thirty rifles may not be enough to see them.
It was finally agreed that each miner's class would have one day off every six days. Take half a day to practice and half a day to rest.
Four hundred years later, coal miners are now guest construction workers, building camps and roads under the command of Zhang Xingpei and Shan Daoqian. Although they do not have construction machinery, they have endless black powder and durable tools, which are most time-consuming and time-consuming. The workload of the earth excavation project is much smaller.
In fact, Xu Yingjie of the Ministry of Chemical Industry had already completed the trial production of nitroglycerin after almost being killed several times, blowing up the laboratory three or four times, and jumping into explosion-proof trenches several times - all thanks to the dried coconuts shipped back from Yulinbao. Different grades of coconut oil obtained by first cold-pressing and then hot-pressing now solve the edible oil supply and part of the industrial needs of Chuanchuan 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 is too dangerous to be used as military explosives, but civilian explosives for mining are still quite easy to use.
Xu Yingjie used diatomaceous earth to adsorb nitroglycerin. A relatively safe glycerin dynamite block was made. But the safety of the thing, which the Navy refuses to transport aboard, is relative.
The large prefabricated wooden houses cannot be loaded on the transport boat, so they are loaded on rafts towed by the transport boat. It took Zhang Xingpei's construction team less than three days to complete the dock construction project of Jiazi Media Mine. However, the fortification project had not yet started. They simply dug a trench and planted it with standard high-quality defensive bamboo. sign. They are not hand-cut, but are manufactured in batches on machines in wood processing plants, and are machine-fried and preservative treated.
The executive committee will preliminarily organize the construction of Jiazi Coal Mining Field Duhehongmu, including organizational form, equipment training and use, and sequence management. Therefore, although the Jiazi Coal Mine is small in scale and of average importance, the treatment it enjoys is the same as that of Tian Du and Hongji in the future.
The new products tested by the Works Energy Commission in the project include: modular prefabricated trestles, ship-mounted pile drivers, shallow-draft inland traffic boats, mobile complete kitchen equipment, mobile Lancashire boilers, large water purification equipment, secondary The first-generation "Grassland Series" ready-to-eat rations, "fighting and 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 coal shearer, but after a little calculation by the Works Energy Commission, it was found that mechanical mining was too wasteful. In terms of current manpower mining, the so-called four hundred miners is actually a general term, which excludes about 200 auxiliary personnel, including sailors who maintain tracks, load and unload coal concubines, dock guards, and operate transportation boats. Even if there are only two hundred people mining, each miner's class weighs one pound. The quota for a shift is a couple of tons. The daily output is tons. If a shearer is used, the daily output can be easily exceeded. Ton. There is simply no way that so much coal can be transported by transport boat.
Without the use of mechanical mining, the delivered boilers mainly provide domestic services. Including pumping water, drainage, steaming rice and providing hot water for bathing. The Ministry of Health reminded Tang Menglong that miners must do a good job in personal hygiene. The Ministry of Health also specially dispatched a health worker to Jiazhidie Mine to take charge of health care tasks.
Caidi Point completed the infrastructure project 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 ship the necessary materials. Huang Xiong had long turned a blind eye to the extravagant behavior of the Australians, but he was truly amazed when he saw that the tracks, sleepers, and even the gravel used to lay the roadbed for the "iron ladder" were all transported from Lingao. But for Shan Daoqian and others, this is much more efficient and can ensure the quality of the materials. If the stone is quarried near the construction site, there is no crusher. The stone blasted with gunpowder has to be crushed manually, and the broken size may not be suitable. As for the wood collected on the spot to be used as sleepers, it cannot be treated with anti-corrosion, which will affect the service life. Now, it is nothing more than Qionghai Coal making more trips and spending more manpower on turnaround, loading and unloading.
The infrastructure construction of Jiazi Coal Mine took less than a month. With the help of the power of gunpowder, even the mining surface was opened. The coal seam here is very shallow.
Following Tang Menglong's guidance, Panda directly blasted away part of the surface.
He conducted an on-site survey of local media resources. It is generally believed that this is the continuation zone of the Changchang Die Mine in Haikou in modern time and space. There are five to six layers of coal seams, of which the first layer is relatively shallow and most of the reserves can be mined in the open. However, the reserves are not large. Currently, the reserves that can be mined in the open pit are about 2 million tons.
Tang Menglong ordered the deployment of some miners to conduct an experimental sharp mining. It’s the same as the information: the coal type here is lignite, which is urgently needed by the steel industry.
However, the proportion of coal and coal is quite high. Tang Menglong sampled and analyzed a batch of tons of coal mined from Li, and found that the proportion of coal and other inferior coal was as high as 100% or more. Coal and rock can also be used as fuel to burn boilers, and the rest is brown coal. However, this lignite is much better than the brown coal collected by Chuanchuan Group in Nanbao. Most of the lignite in Nanbao is earthy brown coal, not to mention coking. When the fuel is too low in calorific value. It is mainly used as fertilizer by the Council of Agriculture. After all, this place is dominated by dark brown coal. This lignite can barely be used for coking, which is better than nothing.
This did not surprise him. Hainan's coal mines themselves have this characteristic. Changchang Coal Mine claims to have proven reserves of 10,000 tons, but the actual lignite reserves are only 10,000 tons, and most of them are low-calorific coals such as lignite.
Anyway, Lingao already has a coal preparation plant, which can still be used after screening. However, the Jiazi Coal Mine must provide sufficient raw coal to meet the needs of the steel industry. After all, only four tons of ten tons can be transported.
"It's a pity that there are no good coal mines in Hainan and Guangdong." Tang Menglong was a little regretful.
Fortunately, there is a little consolation prize here. Kaolin, clay and peat coexist near the lignite mine. All are very useful minerals. It's a pity that the transportation capacity is too poor. Digest it on the spot and have nowhere to go.
It is very inefficient to transport coal by transport boat. A full load of this thing is only five or six tons. Even if the shuttle kept running, it wouldn't be able to transport 200 tons in a day. The coal would have to wait at the cargo terminal at Haijia Pier. It would take several days for Qionghai Coal to get a shipment of coal together. Not to mention transporting these symbiotic minerals.
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