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A large military depot and distribution center for supplies can be set up in Foshan Town. He thought about using its geographical advantages to not only purchase military supplies on a large scale: rice, grains, livestock, fruits, cloth... but also to distribute the supplies conveniently.
His mind works very fast, and part of the purchased materials can be processed directly in Foshan, while the other part can be transferred to Hong Kong for processing. The rice purchased was ground into brown rice and stored in the grain mill of the military station, and then ground into polished rice for distribution before being supplied to the troops. According to the nutritional theory proposed by Chen Sigen, Fu Bojun no longer eats brown rice. The reason is that brown rice takes more time to cook, which wastes fuel, and brown rice is difficult to digest and requires more chewing to fully absorb. It's obviously not possible to have too much time to cook and eat on the battlefield.
In addition to grain, vegetables can also be purchased and processed locally in Foshan, and processed into dried vegetables and pickles to supply the troops. If the transportation time does not exceed 72 hours, fresh vegetables can simply be transported directly to the frontline troops.
As for meat, eggs and even candies, Hong Huangnan has the idea of using local raw materials to make them on site. Especially for meat, with the fast and convenient water supply system, there is no need to even consider pickled food. He can use his expertise in gourmet food to make some dishes with a long shelf life to serve to the soldiers on the front line.
After drawing the schematic diagram, Hong Huangnan returned to his desk. The chicken at midnight has begun to emit an attractive aroma. He took a sip of the tea brought by his secretary and opened the folder he had just received. Inside were the line drawings of several inland river ships newly designed and built by the Senate's shipbuilding industry for the Guangdong Raiders.
Guangdong itself does not lack inland river vessels. On the river from Guangzhou to the Pearl River Estuary, there are at least three to four thousand inland river and mixed river and sea vessels anchored all year round. Except for small boats such as fishing boats and flower boats, most of them can be used to load cargo and carry people. Although the cargo capacity is not large, the ship's draft is shallow enough, which can basically meet the needs of navigation on the main branches and tributaries of the Dongjiang, Xijiang and Beijiang rivers. There are also many local merchant ships along the coast, so it won't cost much to requisition them directly.
However, Hong Huangnan was not very satisfied with these ships: these ships were all sailing ships, and the cargo holds were not suitable for the various standard packaging boxes widely used by the joint logistics department. Although a large number of these ships are temporarily needed for transportation, it is still necessary to establish a backbone transport fleet of its own.
In Hong Huangnan's consideration. These specialized ships should not only be motorized, but also have a certain degree of protection. Especially to defend against arson attacks on river banks. There are lessons learned from experience: During the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary, the Marine Corps made extensive use of various captured wooden ships. The ship losses in the battle were mainly caused by the enemy's arson weapons. Therefore, these ships are not considered to use sails.
He initially focused on existing naval vessels, specifically motorized three-engine boats. These boats had a shallow draft and were equipped with small steam engines, making them ideal shallow water vessels. In addition, the Type 621 paddle wheel tugboat is also a very suitable inland water vessel. Intelligence personnel reported that the Type 621 ship could sail to Wuzhou without any difficulty. You can even sail further upstream to Nanning.
Using the 621 tugboat to tow barges can transport a large amount of materials and personnel. The "Water Supply Column" in Hong Huangnan's mind is roughly based on this. But this is not enough.
For the main channel of Sanjiang, the "supply column" of the 621 ship can generally flow unobstructed, but when it reaches certain areas in the upper reaches and many tributaries, the 621 ship is too big. Therefore, "small steamers" with shallower drafts are also needed to perform transportation and towing work. This type of small steamboat was still active on many rivers in China until the 1980s.
In addition to transporting ships, small inland river gunboats must also be equipped in order to protect shipping safety, eliminate water bandits, provide fire support for landing troops during operations, and deter coastal villages.
These requirements are mixed together. This became a topic for the veterans of the shipyard. In view of Shi Jiantao's initiative, he was specifically responsible for the project. As for the designer, Zhong Ziheng, the only chief designer of the "Central Ship Design Institute", was naturally in charge.
After coordination between the General Administration of Military Affairs and the Planning Institute, the design work of the ship was carried out in Lingao, and the construction of the entire ship was arranged in Hong Kong. Naturally, engines, artillery and the like still have to be shipped from Lingao.
The first page of line drawings that Hong Huangnan opened was the 621 "inside" type. The so-called "inside" means that it is specially used for navigation on inland rivers. This was completed by Zhong Ziheng with a few changes to the prototype of the 621. The main changes were to install a smaller engine to save the cabin volume and reduce the coal bunker reserve. The paddle wheel was changed to a tail wheel to adapt to shallower river channels.
However, the 621 itself is designed based on large-depth waterways such as the coastal and Pearl River waterways, and the line shape has not been specially optimized for shallow draft. Although the ship's draft has been reduced by modifying smaller engines and other measures, its seaworthy range is already relatively limited. Hong Huangnan looked at the indicators. Only the Xijiang River is unobstructed, so there is no pressure all the way to Wuzhou.
The second line drawing that follows is of a river gunboat with an iron frame and wooden hull. According to the 500-ton dividing line, its standard displacement of 260 tons can only be regarded as a boat.
This is a river gunboat "carefully designed" by Zhong Ziheng. The specific blueprint is the river gunboats that the great powers sailed on the Yangtze River in the 1920s and 1930s. Due to the dual requirements of "riot control" and "deterrence", these gunboats are often equipped with larger-caliber artillery and a considerable number of light rapid-fire weapons. The speed is faster than the wooden boats on the river. Due to the consideration of crossing the Three Gorges and entering the interior of Sichuan during the dry season, the draft is generally very shallow.
This technical requirement coincides with the General Staff's river operations in Guangdong. Therefore, this river gunboat code-named 798 was designed by Zhong Ziheng to implement this requirement. The main scale is 54.86 meters long. Width 8.23 meters, draft 0.79 meters. Equipped with two reciprocating 500-horsepower steam engines and two coal-fired boilers. It has a crew of 56 and can carry a platoon of troops if necessary. The Type 798 does not consider navigation capabilities at all, and adopts a shallow-draft inland river boat line with an extremely low trunk line. Due to limited hull space, the Type 798 has a common feature of this type of river gunboat: a long and large superstructure. Coupled with the tall double chimneys and the profile of the huge 130mm front-loaded rifled gun, the entire ship appears top-heavy.
However, thanks to this design, it can pass through most of the waterways of the three rivers in the east, west and north and a considerable number of tributaries. With its "towering" body and "big cannon", appearing on any section of the river will definitely be a strong deterrent to surrounding local forces. When necessary, it can also be used to deliver troops and transport supplies. Although the hull is made of iron-framed wood, the cabins mainly exposed on the waterline are all equipped with hot-rolled thin steel plates as armor. Except for the Hongyi cannon, it is completely immune to most Ming army firearms at close range.
Hong Huangnan was very satisfied with this river gunboat, but due to his understanding of the stingy character of the Planning Institute, he was skeptical that the Planning Institute would eventually agree to build several special-purpose river gunboats, the Type 798 gunboat. Of course, he personally strongly supports this new type of weapon. Compared with the thousand-pound siege guns boasted by many senators, the river gunboats anchored in Baietan are more convincing.
As if to contrast with the river gunboats, next is a small inland river gunboat that the planning institute will obviously like very much. It is based on the 25-ton inland river gunboat that the Japanese army once widely used in China. The seaworthiness of this gunboat is almost unlimited. During the Anti-Japanese War, it could be seen everywhere from small riversides in the south of the Yangtze River to rivers in Guangdong. Of course, it goes without saying that it is used on the Yangtze River. The People's Liberation Army also uses it to go to sea to support the battle to liberate offshore islands. The remaining hulls were used as handy ships along the Yangtze River until the 1990s.
The problem is that this kind of small boat uses an internal combustion engine, and its industrial capabilities are relatively weak in this regard. The design plan is to use an enlarged imitation of a compact 12-horsepower steam engine designed and manufactured by American steam engine enthusiasts brought by Li Di. An 18-horsepower steam engine. Natural speed and endurance are greatly affected. The overall ship specifications are 18.1 meters long, 3.5 meters wide, with a full load displacement of 30 tons. It is equipped with a naval version of a 70mm trial 32-year-old brigade gun - which can be used as an infantry gun when it is attached to wheels.
"This gunboat is simply too ugly to look at." Hong Huangnan couldn't help but comment.
But ugly as it is, it is a very useful boat. The "Water Supply Column" does indeed need such flexible and cheap armed boat escorts.
The last is the so-called 1024 type inland steamboat. Obviously, designer Zhong didn’t put much thought into it and directly copied the existing design information. In addition to changing the power to an 18-horsepower small steam engine and adding a coal bunker, it was active on China’s inland waterways throughout the 20th century. The "small steamer" is no different. Type 1024 adopts a conventional shallow draft design with a flat bottom and low freeboard. Although its appearance is unattractive and its performance is mediocre, it has strong navigation adaptability. Easy and flexible to use. Hong Huangnan decided to use this kind of ship as a mobile transport force for joint logistics.
"That's enough. It's best to build a batch of them all." Hong Huangnan drew a circle on his name and put the documents back into the document basket. I made a mental estimate of how many various ships would be needed.
However, he was a little worried, because it was already early autumn, and there were only more than three months before the launch of the attack. I wonder how many of these new models of ships would be put into use by then? He knew nothing about the efficiency of the Hong Kong shipyards, and no progress reports were given to him. (To be continued.) xh211.
