The expansion of the refinery cannot be rushed and takes time. Even if the purchase order for the equipment has been issued, the production and transportation of the equipment will take time.
If all goes well, the refinery expansion will take at least three months to complete the preliminary construction and equipment installation and commissioning. At that time, it will only be a small trial production. To reach the design capacity, an additional period of debugging will be required.
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Prior to this, the large amount of oil extracted from Well No. 5 could only be reserved first, or simply actively reduce production.
After handling the loans and several relatively large equipment purchase orders, Lin Ziran basically did not interfere in other affairs of Qingshan Petroleum Company.
However, after all the major matters have been dealt with, there is not much left at the headquarters of Qingshan Petroleum Company, because the three major branches are all independently operated and managed. The oil fields are oil fields, the refineries are refineries, and the trading houses are trading banks. Even the financial affairs of the three
All are calculated independently.
Under this situation, there are actually not many affairs at the headquarters of Qingshan Petroleum Company.
Lin Ziran still spent more time on the training of the troops, working on his Qingshan patrol camp every day.
This kind of life is simple and monotonous, but it is full of hope.
The training of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion has gradually become more formal, especially the first company, which was the earliest to form an army and has the highest overall quality of soldiers. After being trained according to the new light infantry tactics, the progress is quite rapid.
Sometimes when watching the first company conducting drills and training, Lin Ziran would have the illusion that he was seeing the troops before and after World War I on Earth.
The reason why I say it is an illusion rather than a true belief is because although this first company is very similar to the infantry units on earth that use breech-loading guns in many situations during marching and even combat, the difference is still huge.
For example, when the first company is engaged in combat, they never lie down and shoot.
Because it is impossible to reload after lying down!
But if you conduct defensive operations behind the fortifications, or use ambush tactics on a predetermined battlefield, then it will look decent.
I just don’t know how effective Wu Guanlin’s new light infantry tactics will be in actual combat!
And soon Lin Ziran had a chance to verify it!
In early February, the military order from the Third Division arrived at Qingshan Town again. This time, the order asked Lin Ziran to lead a group of people to escort a batch of supplies northward. He also said that this time the transportation of supplies was crucial, and he was asked to ensure safety along the way.
Lin Ziran was very familiar with this kind of task.
In the past six months, Qingshan Patrol Battalion has escorted supplies more than a dozen times. As short as seven or eight days, and as long as ten days and a half, there will be one task of escorting supplies.
It has only been more than a month since the first month of this year, but the Qingshan Patrol Battalion has already escorted three batches of supplies to the north. However, these three batches of supplies were not transported to Chongguang City like the two at the end of last year, but were transported to Chongguang City in the same way as the two at the end of last year.
In the early days, the materials were transported halfway, and then the troops sent by Jian Liangzhi were picked up.
At the end of last year, two consecutive supplies convoys were attacked by the Guang'an rebels, and the losses were considerable. This has completely disappointed the militia groups such as Qingshan Patrol Battalion in the Third Division. Even if the troops are tight, they still dare not
Let the militia take risks and escort them.
It doesn't matter if all the militiamen die, but the loss of supplies is a big deal.
In this way, Lin Ziran naturally saves a lot of money. Anyway, he still gets a lot of money. Every month, he gets several thousand yuan in military expenses and supplies such as ordnance and ammunition. Although he is owed a lot at first, he can still get more than half of it.
It is naturally a good thing that you can get so many benefits without doing much, and the training of the troops will not be affected by long-term combat missions.
At first, Lin Ziran thought it was another regular material escort, but he didn't expect that although it was still a material escort this time, the materials being transported were different.
When Lin Ziran saw the huge queue of supplies outside Qingshan Town, he was stunned.
The supplies they escorted this time were nothing special, they were just guns, ammunition, and food, but the quantity was really quite large!
In the past, there were only dozens of cars, no more than a hundred, and most of them were consumable supplies, mainly food and ammunition.
But how big is the fleet he sees now?
There are more than a hundred carriages just for transporting artillery shells. These are four-wheeled heavy-duty carriages used by the military, and their load capacity generally reaches about one ton.
This means that the shells alone weigh more than one hundred tons!
Lin Ziran stepped forward and took a look in person. They were all large-caliber artillery shells. The common five-pound, seven-pound, and nine-pound field artillery shells were more than 80 millimeters, 100 millimeters, and 115 millimeters in diameter.
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They were all medium- and large-caliber shells weighing more than 14 kilograms, and he even saw many shells weighing 48 kilograms or even hundreds of kilograms.
These shells are not the shells used by ordinary army field artillery at all, but the shells of large-caliber siege artillery!
In addition to artillery shells, he also saw a lot of heavy artillery!
There are more than a dozen 14-pound heavy guns that are used by the main long-range heavy artillery units in many vassal towns. This 14-pound heavy gun usually fires 132 mm round shells, and its effective range can reach 1,500 meters.
above, and the maximum range can reach more than six thousand meters.
But that was nothing, he also saw several mortars weighing 24 kilograms or even 48 kilograms!
However, what surprised him most was that he also saw a real giant. It was a short-barreled mortar with a caliber of three hundred millimeters. Although it was a short-barreled mortar, it was extremely heavy.
, the main entrance artillery was placed on a huge transport frame composed of multiple sets of wheels, and dozens of horses pulled the artillery forward slowly.
Seeing so many heavy artillery and heavy artillery shells, Lin Ziran's first reaction was that the senior generals of Luo An's army had gone crazy.
They actually transported these heavy artillery to the front line through the Qingshan Town area. This is not crazy.
You must know that Qingshan Town is not the only transportation route to the front line of Chongguang City, it is just one of them. And because the terrain is relatively complex, transportation is destined to be troublesome, so the materials transported are very few, and they are all ordinary materials.
Luo An's army transports baggage to the front line, mostly through Sanyang Town, that is, transporting it northward along the Luo River. Even if some river sections are blocked, in most cases they will go northward by land along the coast.
Especially things like heavy artillery. Instead of being transported by river, such heavy things come to Qingshan Town. This is not crazy.
You must know that the road leading north from Qingshan Town to Chongguang City is not very easy, with many ups and downs.