On the seventh day when the Tang Dynasty fleet landed at Silla Pier, the originally deserted pier was crowded with people. There were at least thousands of people working here.
In such a huge area, they cleaned up all the weeds, branches, trees, etc. on the ground, then used large stones, stone mills, etc. that they brought, tied them with ropes, and then began to compact the ground hard.
On the pier, large ships are constantly docking to unload cargo. In order to achieve this mission goal, the Datang Navy is fully providing transportation support.
This is not only a logistical support, but also a special training for the Navy's ultra-long-distance support.
Not only transportation, but also cargo handling, logistics support, and even dockless cargo transportation under special conditions are a kind of training.
Even the loading, fixing, and preservation of cargo on ships is a science. It can be said that the previous Tang Dynasty navy only learned how to sail ships and how to train to live at sea, but they had not practiced such large-scale cargo transportation at all.
This time is an opportunity for actual combat.
A large number of steel pipes were first transported from Datang to Silla, and along with them was a special ship. It was not the largest ship in Datang, but it was definitely the most special.
Because a steam engine was installed on this ship.
Putting a steam engine on a ship, just like a train, turns the ship's sails and human propellers into propeller power driven by the steam engine. Datang engineers have already proposed it.
Although Lu Daqiang and others did not invent the steam engine, their thinking was not bad. When Li Ke invented the train by improving the power of the steam engine, they had already started thinking about the various uses of the steam engine.
In particular, the use in combination with various means of transportation is the first thing that comes to mind. For example, the combination of a steam engine and a carriage, the steam engine pulls the carriage instead of the horse, and the power is directly pushed to the wheels.
The other is the ship. The carriage is too small, and the steam engine is very large. Although it is not difficult to connect, the volume is too large, and the fuel transported by the burning steam engine is also a huge volume.
But ships are not part of this problem. The ships are very large. Even the steam engines used in trains are too small and even need to be enlarged. There is enough space on the ships to pull the coal needed to start the steam engines.
Therefore, research on steam engines on ships has been ongoing, but there are currently many difficulties.
Some technologies are difficult to implement on a small scale, but they are still difficult to implement on a large scale.
However, in the process of studying how to get steam engines onto the ship, they unexpectedly discovered another way. In fact, it was not considered another use, but was discovered during the construction of the Weihe River Bridge.
That is to place the steam engine on a large ship and drive the pulley block to hoist some large components, or combine the steam engine and the hydraulic system to drive some large forging hammers for river operations.
Or powering some machinery for concrete work in the river.
This kind of ship is called an engineering ship. The power of the ship has not changed. It is still a sail or even a human oar. However, the machinery driven by the steam engine installed on the deck can provide a lot of mechanical assistance.
This can be regarded as a technological research and development and progress caused by the fact that Datang has now begun to build bridges.
Li Ke doesn't care about these aspects at all now. As long as you put in the effort, the state-owned commercial bank will provide relevant funds for research.
This time it was such an engineering ship that went to Silla, and the hammer it drove was already a usable steam hammer.
The steel pipes driven into the river were driven directly into the river bottom by the ship's steam hammer to a depth of nearly five meters as foundation piles.
The distance between these steel pipes is very close, and then the steel wires are wound into a net. Then a large amount of gravel transported by these people is loaded into the net, and then sunk to the bottom of the river.
This is the dock expansion work that has been started. These things have far exceeded the expectations of the Silla people. They are all confused, but they all know the power of Datang.
So it was normal for Datang to have any new machines. After the shock, it was much easier for them to accept them.
The huge ships, the engineering ships that emitted thick smoke and made loud noises were all their topics of conversation.
The construction speed of the dock has far exceeded everyone's expectations. Similarly, other military supplies are also being transported to the dock, including cement.
Anyway, the military supplies transported here are actually enough for local use, so the remaining space is empty, and the large Tang Dynasty fleet is enough to transport enough supplies here.
Baekje next door has not expanded its docks and scale in this way. This is because for the time being, such a dock is enough. The senior officials of Baekje are also Buyeo people, and no one knows whether there are spies here.
But the people at the bottom of Baekje are actually no different from the people of Silla, so what Cheng Yaojin carried out was actually similar to Xue Rengui.
Just find some excuses and reasons, use food to hire people, and then build camps.
There has been no increase in other aspects, so there are not many transport ships here, which is far behind compared to Silla.
The army has reached the eighth day. When Li Daozong got up early in the morning and saw the rolling dark clouds in the sky outside, he squinted his eyes slightly. The opportunity came.
In eight days, given the distance between here and Jincheng, the various deeds of the Tang Dynasty army had already spread throughout Jincheng. There were already many people living near Jincheng in the camp who came here to work.
Soon, officials from the Taishi Bureau accompanying the army arrived here.
"How is it?" Li Daozong asked.
"According to meteorological observations, the probability of rain tonight is as high as 80%. However, there is a problem. It will either not rain. If it does rain, it will probably rain heavily." An official from the Taishi Bureau said.
"That's it. We will order the troops to assemble in a moment. We are going to rush to the border between Silla and Goguryeo. The first day's march destination is Jincheng." Li Daozong said with a serious face.
"yes."
"Tell Xue Rengui that 500 soldiers will be reserved here for the time being. Most of the literate soldiers can be left for him. This is our important logistics supply and no mistakes are allowed." Li Daozong said solemnly.
"yes!"
The military camp that had been silent for seven days suddenly became agitated. After leaving five hundred soldiers behind, the remaining five thousand soldiers began to gather from all sides of the entire camp toward the center at a speed like a tide.
The difference is that this time these soldiers are wearing armor and equipped with all weapons and equipment, which can be described as fully armed.
