However, considering that the current troops were not full and in order to achieve the goal of winning the first battle, we finally decided to send out a battalion.
At the same time, the transportation team's previous plan of sending only one thousand-ton cargo ship was modified as time passed, and became a fleet of ships.
In addition to the 1,000-ton cargo ship, it was accompanied by two 500-ton fishing boats and three 100-ton patrol boats.
Well, the heaviest thing in this fleet is actually not the thousand-ton cargo ship, but the three 100-ton patrol boats!
The reason is simple. Although these three 100-ton patrol boats may look small, they were originally security ships passing through the former dock area.
This 100-ton patrol boat has a 12.5-caliber heavy machine gun!
Well, even the big guys at the dock area management committee didn’t know about this before. It was only when the dock area was being cleaned up that the logistics team discovered these three patrol boats parked behind a stranded 10,000-ton oil tanker.
boat.
No way, the 10,000-ton oil tanker was too big, and it was a rare reed area, so no one noticed the patrol boat submerged in the tall reeds.
Fortunately, even through time travel, these three patrol boats could not be destroyed.
There is no doubt that with the accompanying of these three 100-ton patrol boats, the safety of the entire fleet will be greatly improved.
Of course, those three heavy machine guns will not be used unless absolutely necessary.
Because the bullets of the heavy machine guns are limited, there are only ten ammunition boxes in the deck warehouse of each patrol boat, and each magazine only has 150 rounds of ammunition.
In other words, if you don't save money, these bullets will be consumed soon. After all, when the trigger of a heavy machine gun is pulled, at least a few bullets will fly out. If it is held still, it can take at most ten minutes to kill this bullet.
1500 rounds of bullets.
Soldiers carrying Thunderbolt 1646 rifles were boarding the ship one after another. Their eyes looking at the freighter contained incomparable shock.
In their opinion, it was a miracle that such a large ship was made of iron and could still float on the water.
It is precisely because of this that they suddenly became more convinced of those thieves.
Of course, the most important thing is that they will receive an additional combat subsidy while they are away fighting. This combat subsidy will be given directly to their families to avoid financial problems at home after they leave.
This undoubtedly calmed the hearts of many soldiers and made them less afraid of leaving here.
In order to see off the fleet as it set sail, many bigwigs from the Provisional Management Committee came to the scene one after another. The logistics team even prepared a small band to play on the side, filling the dock with a cheerful atmosphere.
When it comes to this voyage to develop coal mines, the technical force is still very strong. The interim management committee sent the only Chuanzhong Lei Jianming with geological survey experience to the fleet.
The ships began to leave the dock one by one, and after converging a few kilometers away from the coast, they took the thousand-ton cargo ship as the flagship, followed by several fishing boats, and three 100-ton patrol boats guarded both sides, and began to move towards the open sea.
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The fleet set off here, and Fang Xiaoyue immediately focused on the development of machine tools.
What he plans to develop this time will be an industrial master machine in the dock area. As long as this machine tool with high enough precision is successfully developed, machine tools with lower precision can be easily mass-manufactured.
No way, without machine tools, it would be too slow to streamline industrial production.
No matter how powerful Fang Xiaoyue is, he is still just one person.
In order to develop industrial machines, the Provisional Management Committee even allocated all the collected iron materials to the industrial group.
Fang Xiaoyue also quietly carried out a large amount of metallization work in the warehouse.
Although the metalized material appears randomly, it is not fixed.
But after a lot of experiments, high-quality steel reserves were quickly accumulated.
Of course, at the same time, the reserves of gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, and other metals have increased significantly.
For this reason, the industrial group had to specially apply to the Provisional Management Committee for several underground warehouses to hold these metals.
That's not to say that these metals are useless, but if they were taken out now, they would be a little conspicuous.
Besides, if the time-traveling plates were spread out, the metals wouldn't be too much to be honest.
It is a long process to develop machine tools from scratch.
Whether it is the design of the machine tool or the stress relief of the machine tool, it takes time.
Especially for the stress relief of machine tools. Although there have been special stress relief machines in later generations, there certainly are not here. Therefore, after the parts such as the bed of the machine tool are manufactured, they need to be left in the open air to be exposed to wind and rain.
After being exposed to the sun for several years, the internal stress is slowly released, and finally it can be used to make machine tools.
Otherwise, the stress generated during hot processing of parts such as the bed is not released, and the stress will cause the machine tool components to deform to a certain extent, ultimately leading to a decrease in the accuracy of the machine tool.
But Fang Xiaoyue is different. First of all, his level 10 mechanical design and manufacturing skills include part of the design and manufacturing capabilities of machine tools. At the same time, there is no mechanical stress inside the metal evolved from metallization.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyue only needs to modify the metalized machine tool parts to a certain extent, and then he can directly assemble it into a machine tool, instead of leaving it in the open air to be exposed to wind and sun, which would waste several years.
In just one week, Fang Xiaoyue built the first real machine tool by hand.
Well, the instrument machine tool before was just a simple micro machine tool, or a manual machine tool.
But now this machine tool is different. It is driven by electricity and its total weight exceeds twenty tons!
Even in later generations, this would still be considered a medium-sized machine tool.
When this medium-sized machine tool was started for testing for the first time, many bigwigs from the interim management committee rushed over to join in the fun.
No way, even Sister Qian Lihong of the logistics team knows that the birth of this machine tool means that the industrial technology capabilities of many people have directly entered the modern level!