At the front are two modified steam trucks, driving side by side in front.
An old centrifugal turbojet engine from an old J-5 fighter jet is installed on the front bumper. An oil pipeline is connected from the turbojet engine to the cabin.
There is an oil tank in the bed of the truck. This thing consumes a lot of oil.
This is a special vehicle for clearing snow. It is modified from a scrapped turbojet engine. Erluzi collected more than a dozen of them from Shenyang. Although they are no longer useful as aircraft engines, they are still more than enough to be used as snow clearers.
Behind the snow clearing truck are two steam bulldozers, used to level the road. Behind them are two rows of four steam rollers, responsible for compacting the road surface pushed by the bulldozers. Behind them is Yang Fan's polar RV. There are another hundred people behind it. Fifty steam trucks.
Along the way, we are close to forests, so there is no shortage of fuel. When the ice and snow melt, there is fresh water, so there is no shortage of water.
At this time, Yang Fan felt that it was really wise to develop a steam engine truck. As long as the truck does not break down, it can keep driving. There is no shortage of fuel or water. There is no need to worry if the truck breaks down. Just bring spare parts and replace them. Steam power pack and transmission It can be replaced as a whole. As for repair, we will talk about it when we go back.
Yang Fan and his wife were sitting on the balcony on the second floor of the front of the car, watching the turbojet engine clearing the snow.
"Master, can this thing work? Can such thick snow be blown away by the wind?" Xiao Niangpi asked doubtfully.
"This is not an ordinary wind. Just watch it. As soon as it is opened, the high temperature of thousands of degrees and the spitting fire several times stronger than the typhoon will immediately blow away the snow without a trace." Yang Fan drank. Take a sip of coffee, the old god said calmly.
Weng..., a strange noise came, and the turbojet engine started to rotate. With a bang, a burst of orange-red flames spurted out. Then another engine also spurted out flames. In the cab, next to the driver The man used the joystick to control the swing and pitch of the engine and clear the snow in front.
Visible to the naked eye, the fierce flames erupted and instantly cleared away the snow in front. As the car moved forward, there was no snow within ten meters in front of it.
The car kept moving at a speed of twenty kilometers, which was about five times the speed of the road. There is a road here, and you can go to Shuangchengzi in other seasons. But now it is buried by heavy snow.
In front of the two spray trucks, the snow flew out in all directions as if blown by the strong wind, and many of them melted in an instant. The bulldozers pushed away the uneven areas and removed the ice.
Then the road roller compacted the road. After this trip, as long as it doesn't snow, the road will be restored.
Because the road was built last year, the progress was very smooth.
When you get to Shuangchengzi, it is difficult to turn around and walk southwest because there are no roads there. In summer, you have to use a machete in front to cut down shrubs, vines, and tall grass.
It is about 150 kilometers from Vladivostok to Shuangchengzi. At this speed, we will arrive at around two o'clock in the afternoon. After arriving, we will stay there for two days.
After all, we still need to prepare all kinds of materials for the army's operations. The Jurchen army in the East China Sea also needs to be well dispatched and planned. After all, the winter march is no joke.
An army of 40,000 to 50,000 people consumes at least 20 to 30 tons of food a day. Fortunately, Yang Fan has a steam truck that can carry six tons of cargo. Because he has to take care of the infantry marching on foot. The truck does not need to be too fast, and it can also drag wood behind it.
Sledge, load more materials on the sledge.
When camping in the Donghai Jurchen camp, they were given sleeping bags, the infantry regiments used cotton tents, and the servants were treated the best and used folding vans. It opened up into a very large house, where you could live in or use it as a canteen to feed the army.
The march was not boring, and it was nice to look at the snowy scenery around us.
"Master, what should we eat for lunch?" Xiao Niangpi was a little hungry. She had been marching for more than three hours now and it was already noon.
"How about I cook you a spicy pot and serve it with fragrant rice?" Yang Fan said.
"Okay, okay, I want to add lotus root slices, quail eggs, chicken wing tips and short ribs." Xiao Niangpi immediately agreed.
At the same time as Yang Fan's army set out, the army of Jiannu also arrived at the outskirts of Chifeng City. Two hundred and fifty thousand people joined forces for more than ten miles. For a time, dark clouds threatened to overwhelm the city, and the atmosphere became unprecedentedly tense. Everyone outside the city was
They retreated into the city, not even daring to collect firewood.
Ma Xi failed too quickly, and Tan Shide's army did not have time to enter the castle at the front. Looking at the Jiannu camp in the distance, they had no choice but to enter Chifeng City.
Tan Shide met Ma Dengyun in the festival hall. Ma Dengyun looked solemn and cupped his hands and said, "The current situation of Tan Junmen is very bad."
Tan Shide smiled bitterly and said: "It's not just bad, it's terrible. The princes in the capital don't know how to fight. They point at the map, but we soldiers have broken legs."
"It's better to break a leg than to lose your life. In this situation, if they don't retreat and fight here, all they have in mind is confusion. I wonder who gave His Majesty this bad idea," Ma Dengyun said with a livid face.
What can Tan Shide do? How dare he disobey an order?
He had no choice but to persuade: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to find a way. At any rate, you and I have a small army of a hundred thousand. With the fortified city, we can support it for a short time. After all, there is still a Beijing camp. I heard that Your Majesty also plans to march personally.
But the cabinet was frightened, and they had to talk hard to persuade them to stop."
The tragedy of Tumubao cannot happen again. The ministers will not agree to Chongzhen taking the Beijing camp out of seclusion.
"I have withdrawn all the men and horses in the forts on the front line, but the soldiers at the passes behind us cannot move. If we cannot hold Chifeng, we will have to rely on them to stop Jiannu. I only have three to five thousand men in hand now."
Madengyun said.
"How much food and grass is there in Chifeng City?" Tan Shide didn't ask anything else. He just asked about food and grass.
Madengyun smiled bitterly and said: "The Ministry of War approved me a year's worth of food and grass, which is enough for 50,000 people to eat for a year. However, I was actually only given half of it. It was also mixed with at least one-third of the sand."
Tan Shide knows the virtues of the men in the Ministry of War and their wealth.
However, I was shocked when I heard that there was only enough food for 50,000 people for four months. I brought another 50,000 people to eat. Isn’t this nonsense? Now there is only enough food for two months. This level
Isn't it a joke to prepare two months' worth of military rations for a big war?
"My army is full of 50,000 men. How can we have enough food? When fighting against Jiannu, it's winter again. How can we fight without enough food in the ice and snow outside the Great Wall? Isn't this a blind command by the Ministry of War?" Tan Shide cursed.
