Chapter 372 Hot Air Balloons, Bison Hunting and Weight Loss
Chapter 372 Hot Air Ballooning, Bison Hunting and Weight Loss
Claude returned to the theater headquarters in Lanhu Town full of worries. He only felt that he was in a bad year. Even a simple grenade production would make such a big mistake. Even if the matter could be solved, the time and production costs would be greatly increased.
, this always makes Claude feel a sense of imminent crisis.
The previous information about the Kingdom of Hicks came from the Kingdom’s Army Ministry that the Kingdom of Hicks had transported two well-trained standing corps to the Port of Vibato two months ago. It is said that the Kingdom of Hicks
There are still three standing legions being formed and being trained in the country. Currently, the Kingdom of Hicks has four legions in Vibato Colonial County on the Nubisian continent. In addition to the two standing legions, there is also a Nasseri
A volunteer field regiment composed of retired soldiers from the Kingdom and a volunteer light cavalry regiment composed of retired soldiers from the Principality of Karnars...
At the same time, what made Claude feel uneasy was that the spies who had been deployed at Vibato Port suddenly lost contact and no longer sent any intelligence. The intelligence staff reported that this situation was very likely to be due to arrest or misunderstanding.
What an accident, he sent a few more spies there, but no information or intelligence came back.
It is worth noting that the original spies lurking in Vibato Port and the spies later sent there were all Nikanchas, because only the Nikanchas wandering around would not alert the enemy. At the same time, they could find Viba
The Nikancha people who came to the port to work as coolies got a lot of information from the mouths of those Nikancha people.
Although it is said that the Nikancha people are discriminated against under the direct jurisdiction of overseas countries because the nature of this nation is too bad, we have to admit that they also have advantages. For example, they are very united internally and have a sense of responsibility for their families. Those Nikancha people who were sent there as spies
Their families are all in overseas territories, and monthly benefits and subsidies are distributed to their families. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for those Nikancha people to rebel, and they hate the Kingdom of Hicks very much.
Stopping the intelligence staff's request to continue sending Nikancha spies to Vibato County, Claude carefully read all the intelligence about the Kingdom of Hicks sent by the Kingdom's Army Department in the past six months. In fact, from the Kingdom
The information sent by the War Department has been delayed for more than 20 days in Claude's hands. There is no way, the journey is so long...
According to intelligence, the Kingdom of Hicks transported the two standing legions to the port of Vibato two months ago. In addition, the delay in sending the intelligence to the war zone means that the two standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks have already arrived at the port of Vibato.
He stayed in Hong Kong for three months. Claude was not worried that the enemy had increased the combat power of the two legions, but that he was worried because he had not understood the enemy's movements during these three months.
It wasn't until he turned to the latest issue of intelligence that Claude's eyes lit up, because the intelligence said that the combined fleet led by the Kingdom of Hicks had hurriedly set off to the mainland of Nubisia within the past two months, and the ocean transportation it escorted
The fleet was fully loaded with grain and grass, so much so that the price of grain in the Kingdom of Hicks fluctuated, rising by an average of 10%...
Thinking of the smuggler from the Hicks Kingdom who came from Vibato Port half a year ago and wanted to buy food but was tricked by General Vansnik, Claude breathed a sigh of relief. He doubted the colonial food of the Hicks Kingdom.
The tense situation has still not been relieved. Then the Kingdom of Hicks transported two standing armies to the port of Vibato, which will add fuel to the fire. Otherwise, the combined fleet would not transport food there in such a hurry. Generally speaking, like this
You need at least a month to rest and recuperate after returning from a trip to the sea, instead of rushing to load up food and go to sea immediately.
The adjutant, Major Anders, was summoned to interrogate the Thunder Division's itinerary. Major Anders reported that according to the news sent by the Falcon Eagle, the Thunder Division would be back in about two days.
This time, Belklin, Murray Ed and others not only led most of the Thunder Division to show off their power on the border between the Cromwell Territory and Vibato Colonial County, but also annihilated several troops who penetrated deep into the Beringana Territory.
The light cavalry squad of the Principality of Karrnath during the reconnaissance killed more than thirty people and captured more than twenty prisoners. They only suffered three serious injuries and more than ten minor injuries. Not a single soldier of the Thunder Legion was killed.
These guys are doing quite well, and this is probably the only good news that Claude has heard recently. Taking advantage of the free time in the past two days before they came back, Claude decided to think about the motivation issue.
In fact, Claude had always thought that the black iron casing of the projectile did not need to be processed, and could be directly cast with molds to create cracks or something. But after asking Mr. Veblen, Claude unfortunately discovered that the iron ore workshop hired
The mold making technicians do not have such fine skills. It is easy to cast a drum-shaped black iron shell with a smooth outside, but if you want to cast a black iron shell with cracks, the technology is beyond the grasp of these casting personnel and mold technicians.
In addition, even if the black iron shell with cracks is successfully cast, lathe machinery will still be needed to correct the black iron shell to achieve uniform standards. At the same time, the lower port of the projectile will also need to be threaded to install the fuse behind it.
The bottom also requires machining...
Claude had no choice but to draw on the drawings in frustration. What he drew was not a steam engine because he had never seen what a steam engine looked like. What he drew was a hot air balloon machine. I remember when I was growing up in the countryside when I was a child, people in the village used to draw hot air balloons.
The balloon machine is called a firehead machine, and it is the only kind of power machine that Claude remembers in his mind.
The reason why people in the village call the hot air balloon machine a fire machine is very simple. This thing is started by lighting a fire. Firewood, coal, gasoline, kerosene, tree branches, rice straw, newspapers, whatever can be burned, just throw it in.
As long as the fire can be maintained, this thing can keep running.
This thing is not a steam engine and does not require a boiler. It relies on the expansion of hot gas in the cylinder to push the piston and make the connecting rod run. Claude saw an expansion film online in his previous life. It seems to have been installed on buses and trucks on the road just after liberation.
They were all hot air balloon airplanes, burning on fire and moving slowly like a tortoise on the road. It is said that at that time, the motherland had just been liberated and gasoline and diesel were not available, so all the captured trucks were modified with this kind of hot air balloon airplane.
The carriage was loaded with half coal and half cargo for a long journey.
The main reason why Claude was so impressed by this hot air balloon machine was that he had one in his hometown, and his grandfather regarded it as a treasure. His grandfather once told him that there was no electricity in the village at that time, and this thing would be used every harvest season.
Carry it to the drying field, use rice straw to make a fire, and then connect this thing to the threshing machine to remove the chaff from the rice. There is no need to put it in bags and send it to the town, which saves a lot of energy and effort.
When I was a kid, I used to disassemble and clean this thing several times with my grandfather. The structure of the hot air balloon machine is very simple, and it is five big and three thick and very durable. Grandpa said that this thing was made in the years just after liberation, and it was still intact after thirty or forty years of use. Of course, later,
Only then did Claude realize that this hot air balloon machine actually had many problems. The problem was not that it was not easy to use, but that it had a low thermal energy conversion rate and a large waste of fuel. It was noisy and polluted seriously, so it was quickly eliminated.
Later, my grandfather passed away, and the uncle in the village sold the hot air balloon machine to a rag collector for a high price of five yuan. Claude later went back to his hometown to visit relatives and never saw this thing again.
Wiping a glimmer of light from the corner of his eyes, Claude drew on paper the hot air balloon airplane that had impressed him so much when he was a child, including the furnace, the one used for making fire, and then the breather pipe connected to the circular cylinder. On top of the cylinder was the piston connecting rod.
and an iron pipe chimney next to it.
When a fire is lit in the furnace, the hot gas enters the circular cylinder along the vent pipe. When the hot gas begins to expand, the piston connecting rod is pushed upward. When it reaches a certain height, the iron pipe chimney channel next to it is opened. The hot gas is discharged from here, and the piston connecting rod is pushed upward.
It fell down and blocked the channel of the iron pipe chimney. Then when the hot gas expanded in the cylinder, it pushed the piston connecting rod again, rose up, opened the iron pipe chimney channel, discharged the hot gas, and the piston connecting rod fell... just like that
What goes around and over again...this is the hot air balloon machine...
Looking at the hot air balloon machine on the drawing that was no different from the impression in his mind, Claude thought to himself, am I skipping the steam engine stage? Forget it, it doesn’t matter, it just works, as long as it can be solved
Those mechanical power problems, creating throwing bombs, and holding the trump card in your hand, you don't have to worry about how much the enemy's troops will increase.
It is true that war promotes the development of human history and the advancement of science and technology. If he had not faced a strong enemy, Claude might not be able to recall this thing he had seen as a child in his previous life. At this time, he was not aware of it at all.
I don’t know how much change this hot air balloon I drew will bring to this other world...
Grabbing the drawing, Claude left the theater headquarters, got on the carriage, and said to the coachman: "Go to my sister's place..."
Two days later, the Thunder Division returned to Lanhu Town. Several senior officers from the division, including Belklin, Murray Ed and Diavid, came to report to Claude. After talking about this, they went to Cromwell and Baidu.
The process of patrolling the two territories directly under the jurisdiction of Beringana, and the process of ambushing the enemy's light cavalry reconnaissance team in the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Beringana.
Claude was very surprised, why did he discover the enemy's light cavalry team in the Beringana Direct Territory? Logically speaking, it should be reconnaissance in the Cromwell Direct Territory, because it is connected to the Vibato Colony County of the Hicks Kingdom.
Lord couldn't figure out why the light cavalry of the Principality of Karnars went so deep into the Beringana Direct Territory?
Murield reported that the enemy's reconnaissance team was not actually here to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. They were scouting the buffalo hunting grounds in advance.
Claude understood it all at once, and soon it was July again, and the bison migration on the Albato Prairie of the Nubisian continent had begun again in summer. Nearly one million bison would migrate from the northern plateau of the Albato Prairie.
I went to the southern plains and then returned to the northern plateau in November, going back and forth for nearly half a year.
Some experts have said that this is probably because the bison herd is too large and they have to travel long distances for food and to eliminate the old and the weak. Because every year, nearly 10,000 old and weak bison are followed in the herd back and forth.
The surrounding predators hunted them. Since the colonists joined the hunt, the number of bison hunted every year has increased to 50,000 to 60,000...
Before the outbreak of the colonial war, several towns in the Beringana Direct Territory relied on bison hunting as the main revenue industry. Their leather products, horn crafts and bison jerky were all specialties of these towns and were very popular in the kingdom.
Businessmen love it.
After the war broke out, except for some bold hunters who formed teams to hunt bison, basically all the young men in the overseas territories were recruited into two overseas field regiments, and there was no way to organize large-scale bison hunting operations.
.Coupled with the order issued by Marshal Michelich to fortify the wall and clear the country, the bison hunt has been interrupted for several years.
The Ranger Corps rested last year, and then received a notice to return home. Next, they had to work hard to form five reinforced divisions. Everyone was very busy. And after most of the unqualified soldiers recruited by the two overseas field regiments were reduced,
Some people organized themselves and prepared to return to their livelihood of hunting buffalo. As a result, they encountered the light cavalry of the Principality of Karnars who were following the buffalo herd on the Albato prairie under the direct jurisdiction of Beringana. They were killed and injured many people, and they were panicked.
escaped back.
Murield reported that from the confessions of the captured light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath, they discovered that last year the volunteer light cavalry regiment of the Principality of Karrnath dispatched a division of troops to hunt buffalo in the Albato prairie.
More than 30,000 animals were killed, and the profit amounted to 70,000 to 80,000 gold crowns. So they wanted to continue to earn extra money this year, so they sent these reconnaissance teams deep into the Beringana Territory in order to pre-select hunting sites and camping sites.
.....
"General, I think we can kill them." Berklin requested: "They are hiding behind defensive positions in Vibato Colony County, and now they are willing to get out of their turtle shells to make extra money by hunting bison. We can't
Let this opportunity pass."
Claude laughed: "The Thunder Division has just been formed and has only been trained for more than half a year. Do you have the confidence to defeat this light cavalry regiment of the Principality of Karnas?"
Belklin, Murray Ed and other senior officers of the division stood up together: "Report to the general, we have this confidence."
Claude nodded: "Okay, I understand. You go back and wait for the notification. You have just returned from inspection this time. Let's take a good rest for a few days to allow the soldiers to recover mentally and physically."
"Yes." The officers saluted and prepared to leave.
"Merde, please stay for a moment." Claude stopped Meredith.
"Boss, what's the matter?" There was no one else around, and Murray Ed returned to his old title.
Claude touched his chin and asked: "My old classmate, the major who asked you to help him lose weight, how is he doing now?"
"Uh..." Muriel hesitated for a moment: "Sorry, boss, I didn't fulfill your instructions. He hasn't lost a hundred pounds yet..."
"Huh?" Claude was stunned. In more than half a year, Bockar has not lost a hundred pounds of fat. How is this possible? Claude knows the daily training volume of the army: "What's going on?"
"It's like this, boss, he has only lost about 80 pounds so far. It's not that we don't work hard to help him lose weight, the key is that he is very good at eating, and one person can eat the same amount as three or four people. If he were a soldier, we might
We can force him to eat less. But since he is a major and enjoys the privilege of being the leader of the school, we can't make him stop talking. Sometimes I force him to do heavy physical exercise, but he can eat back all the sweat he sheds in one night.
."
Murray Ed was also very distressed: "When I first came here, I helped him lose about ninety kilograms. I thought that if I work harder, I can complete your instructions and let him lose a hundred kilograms of weight. As a result, he lost 100 kilograms.
He had already become familiar with the division, and found that his rank of major could also enjoy the treatment of a school-level officer in the division, so he started eating and drinking heavily. Like this time, I asked him to participate in a long-distance inspection, thinking that he was inspecting two directly-administered commanders.
Traveling long distances allowed him to lose some weight, but he didn't lose any weight. Instead, his two war horses each lost forty or fifty kilograms..."
Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Well, this guy Bock Al came to the Thunder Division to eat and drink for free. He could only wave his hand: "Forget it, if you can't reduce it, don't reduce it. You bring him here.
I have important things for him to handle."
Muriel was relieved when he heard that he didn't have to help the fat man lose weight. But when he heard that Claude said that he had important things to do with the fat man, he was not happy again: "Boss, that fat man can't do anything but know how to do it."
Eat, what important things can he do? You'd better leave it to me."
Claude shook his head: "You won't be able to do it, but your life will be in danger. Only his size and ability to eat can accomplish this..."