Latest website: www. As usual, after arriving at the company, Meridi spent a long time leaning over to study the company's train timetable to study how to improve the operating efficiency of the railway. He is an expert in this area.
After the outbreak, his work increased the efficiency of the Pacific Railway by 30%. Because of his outstanding work, the western and central regions received more troops and more weapons. "Other branch lines should also be used to further improve
Efficiency, but the key is to pass through parts of the Rocky Mountains...".
While talking to himself, he picked up the photo on the table, which showed the bombed railway bridge.
"Two more bridges have been blown up, Mr. MacReady."
Jack said as he walked into the office.
"Although we repaired it quickly, the bombing by the Imperial airship has seriously affected railway transportation."
Over the past few months, whenever the weather allowed, Imperial airship forces had been bombarding railways, especially railway bridges - wooden railway bridges were easily repaired, but equally easy to destroy.
"My suggestion is to use steel to build a railway bridge, but as you know, the railway company does not agree to support it."
"Of course, Mr. Macready, after all, the raw materials for wooden bridges are everywhere on both sides of the railway. If it is steel, it will not only cost a lot of money, but once it is damaged, it will take longer to repair. The wooden bridge
The bridge has the benefits of a wooden bridge, at least in the company’s opinion.”
Regarding the assistant's answer, Meredith shrugged noncommittally and then asked.
“Are there any products that need priority for shipping recently?”
"Tanks, United Automobile Company has a batch of tanks to be shipped to the West. You know this is the highest priority product."
"Tank..."
Meredith responded and then said.
"The situation in the west is so severe now. Let's see if there is any way we can squeeze out some transport capacity from these two days' plan to send the tanks to the west as soon as possible."
When the war was going on, both sides would inadvertently implement some kind of plan, especially in the allocation of railway capacity. It took almost half an hour for Meredith and the others to squeeze out a few trains to transport tanks, but
Even so, you still need to wait three days.
After a busy day, Meredith dragged his somewhat tired body out of the company. After leaving the company, on his way home, when he passed a phone booth, he got out of the car and made a call to Richmond.
It is normal to call from the north to the south. After all, they were once the same country. Many people have relatives in the other side, and Mai Ready is no exception. After chatting with long-lost relatives in the phone booth for half an hour, Mai Ready
Ruidi left the phone booth and as he was driving away, he happened to see a train full of goods roaring towards the west.
This scene is happening every day. Thousands of tons of materials are transported to the west via railway every day. After all, that is the front line of the war and the most tense area.
"It's snowing again..."
Looking at the falling snow outside the window, Meredith said to himself, and when he looked at the train going away, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Soon, the Imperial Air Force would bomb certain sections of the Pacific Railroad. Their bombing would not only bomb the railroads, but also specific trains.
"After so many years..."
Sitting in the car, Meredy closed her eyes and seemed to have returned to her dream hometown again.
In the past few years, that hometown only existed in an unknown corner in the deepest part of his memory. At this moment, his heart returned there...
…
Although the situation in the west is tense, the scenery here is indeed very good.
Observing the vast land from the air, everything feels so familiar, with the Rocky Mountains covered in ice and snow on one side and the vast plains on the other.
“It looks like home.”
Xu Shiqin, who was driving the airship, said to the deputy captain on the side.
"Well, it's similar to the Nanhua Prairie. There are mountains on one side and grasslands on the other..."
However, they came here not to enjoy the scenery, but to destroy the railway.
"A train is coming! Our information is so accurate! It's this time, it's this time."
At an altitude of 4,000 meters, Xu Shiqin and his comrades watched the train crawling slowly in the distance. The train was surprisingly long, and the things being pushed on the flatbed car were covered with tarps.
"What's on the train? Is it a car?"
"Could it be a tank?"
"Tanks? Americans actually have tanks too..."
Xu Shiqin ordered.
"Descending altitude..."
In order to have a clearer view of the goods being shipped on the train, under Xu Shiqin's order, the airship lowered its flight altitude, which also allowed them to see the situation on the train more clearly.
The locomotive that was climbing was panting hard and dissatisfied, blowing out large plumes of smoke, like a draft horse pulling heavy cargo, tenaciously and slowly walking.
“It’s hard to see clearly because the goods are covered with cloth,”
"Whatever, when the train gets on the railway bridge, the train and the bridge will explode together!"
The train dragging dozens of flatbed trucks quickly drove onto the railway bridge. Almost as soon as it drove onto the wooden railway bridge, four airships in the sky began to drop bombs. With the whistling sound of bombs, ten
Several bombs weighing 200 kilograms fell on the railway bridge one after another. In the violent explosion, the railway bridge collapsed suddenly. During the construction of the Pacific Railway, the railway company replaced and built a large number of wooden railway bridges on the spot in order to save costs.
Now these wooden bridges have become the weak point of the Pacific Railway. Only a few bombs are enough to destroy a railway bridge. Even the shock wave generated by bombs falling near the railway bridge is enough to destroy the wooden bridge piers.
As the railway bridge collapsed, the train also fell directly into the canyon, and the goods carried on the train were thrown out and scattered in the canyon.
"It's really a tank!"
Dozens of tanks that had fallen off the train were scattered in the canyon.
"The Americans actually have tanks!"
When people looked at the scattered tanks on the ground in surprise, Xu Shiqin sneered.
"Even if there are tanks, so what, they will still be blown up by us..."
After that, he ordered loudly.
"Return immediately, be careful of encountering US military planes!"
airplane!
With the appearance of US military aircraft in the west, there was less and less space left for airships. Although they could still bomb the Pacific Railway as in the past, they could not bomb as unscrupulously as in the past.
And now, American tanks...
When the airship returned from high altitude, Xu Shiqin once again turned his attention to the smoking canyon and the tanks scattered in the canyon.
"Captain, what are you thinking about?"
Vice Captain Liu Dongsheng asked.
"tank……"
Xu Shiqin said.
"Now that the Americans have aircraft and tanks, not all of them learned it after us. How could they have learned it if we had not put these advanced weapons on the battlefield?"
In fact, this is an inevitable consequence of Ming Dynasty's use of advanced technology - it has led to the acceleration of global technological iterations. With the promotion of Ming Dynasty's advanced technology, the world has made great progress compared with history. This acceleration is happening in all directions.