After the meeting of the Military Commission, Gao Jianguo, Li Ming, and Qiao Haipeng went to the shipyard together to study the situation of the barge on the river deck with Li Qicong. If the waterway transportation in Liaodong and the outer northeast is utilized, the demand for inland river deck barges in the future will be huge.

Today's shipyards are no longer what they used to be, and there are docks along the western coast of the Golden Horn, each of which has a wooden shed because it is winter. All the shipyards were not idle, and despite the cold weather, the entire shipyard was still in full swing.

They have already fulfilled orders for eighteen slupp sloops, six clippers. The Admiralty was so pleased with these two types of vessels that they submitted an application to the Board of Directors for the two additional types of vessels, which were already approved. The second order will build 24 Slupp sloops and 10 clippers to replace the wooden seagoing vessels of the coast guards of the overseas territories.

They went to Li Qicong's office and found Li Qicong staying with a group of expert technicians. Seeing Gao Jianguo and Li Ming coming, Li Qicong smiled and said, "Eh...... Several members of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission visited our shipyard and everyone was welcomed. ”

He took the lead in applauding, Qiao Haipeng waved his hand, and scolded with a smile: "You don't come to this set, we have something to do with you." ”

Li Qicong let the people in the house go out first, and then asked with a smile: "You are going to buy a battleship again, we just happened to design a first-class sailing ship, with a displacement of 1480 tons and a length of ......."

Before he could finish speaking, Qiao Haipeng interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said, "Now the warships of the Admiralty are temporarily enough, and we are discussing other things with you today." ”

So he told Li Qicong about the need for the Military Commission to build a large number of inland river deck barges.

Li Qicong nodded and said, "What should I do." They came together, and they looked like something. The kind of ship you are talking about has no technical content, as long as the hydrological conditions are reported, we will design it according to the situation. In order to save costs. Try to choose wooden hulls, iron attachments, all modular standard components.

He produced several ships for launching tests, and once the various numbers met the design standards, he immediately placed an order for the various components, and finally assembled them at the shipyard. Rest assured. As long as all kinds of standardized components are in place, this kind of inland barge is like a dumpling. ”

Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "This kind of inland river barge needs to go deep behind enemy lines, and the distance traveled is very long, even reaching about 1,500 kilometers at most. There was no coal replenishment along the way. In case of emergency, it is necessary to have a certain defensive ability. It is also necessary to provide a certain range of fire support for the landing troops. ”

Li Qicong thought for a while and said: "Then design the deck tug as a fire support tugboat, which does not carry cargo when sailing, and is only responsible for towing or pushing a few flatbed barges." The ship is loaded with weapons, ammunition and coal supplies, and can also be used as an inland river patrol boat in normal times to guard both sides of the inland river. Equipped with two twin water-cooled heavy machine guns, it is possible to mount a 70mm infantry gun on board, or a naval version of a 75mm long-barreled rifled gun or two 60mm mortars if the firepower is not enough.

In order to ensure sufficient power to tow or push the barge. Two high-power steam units were installed to ensure a cruising speed of 6-8 knots when towing ten barges on inland waterways. The barge is also designed to be modular, depending on the conditions of the river channel. It can be mounted arbitrarily. When encountering a river with a complex environment, you can even unload several barges on the water surface and drag the barges through the complex river section one by one several times. ”

Li Ming nodded and said, "Well, this idea is good, if there is no coal replenishment point along the way, you can also tow a deck barge specially loaded with coal." Provide ships with the coal they need for long voyages. Is it possible to design a barge hull that can land on any complex riverbank? ”

Li Qicong nodded and said, "Of course you can, the deck barge itself belongs to a flat-bottomed vessel." It is best suited for sailing in shallow narrow waters. We can add a folding landing board to the side of the barge deck, or even design several folding support rods. After laying some steel plates, even cars can land from any river bank and quickly enter the battle. ”

After hearing Li Qicong's introduction to the design ideas of the core deck barge, everyone was relieved.

They said goodbye to Li Qicong and went to the recruit training center in the town of Biquge www.biquge.info together. The recruits of various units are about to end their basic training and usher in their first assessment since joining the army. The recruits already have some of the appearance of soldiers, and everyone is very happy.

Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "After the first snow falls, we will lead the troops to conduct long-range training exercises." I found that training remotely in such a snowy and freezing environment in the Outer Northeast was definitely a severe test of the soldiers' will. Mess with him a few more times throughout the winter, and this group of soldiers will be almost the same. ”

Li Ming smiled and said: "If the musket militia of the East Road Theater is also going to participate in the war, will they be trained in this year's winter training?" ”

Gao Jianguo smiled and said, "Well, we will take them to conduct a few long-distance training, and we will also conduct some basic tactical training in the operation of companies and platoons and battalions." In fact, they are not the first-line troops, and we hope that the musket militia will take the company and platoon as a unit, with a large group of laborers, to collect the Liao people who have been enslaved by the Tartars in the rear of the large army, and establish armed villages in the areas we occupy.

The main force still has to use the mountain brigade and the garrison brigade as the main attack force to attack the various tunpu towns in Tartar. Supplemented by the indigenous militia, the platoon was scattered all over the mountains and old forests in the mountains, all the way to the west. The mountain company and indigenous militia had infiltrated the city guards of Baldu Hewei and Helan west of Ningguta before the onset of winter this year.

If we can open up the waterways along the Huerha River, the Songhua River, and the Gray Pai River, then we will simply transport part of the main force directly to the west of Huifa City and establish an advance base there. Then the speed of our attack in the eastern theater will increase dramatically.

This year, on top of the 30 militia members in each indigenous village, we mobilized 20 temporary militiamen to participate in this year's winter training. Strengthen our attacking forces. Fifty natives were also mobilized from every ten indigenous villages to form artillery platoons, armed with two small furlong cannons and eight Huzun cannons, for which the military factory had developed a horse artillery carrying system. Even in the mountains, you can easily move through it. ”

Wang Haiyang was standing on the playground and urging the soldiers in the platoon to train. After he returned to Vladivostok from serving as a platoon commander in an overseas brigade for a year, he returned to the Army Command College of the Military Commission, where he studied while leading soldiers. During his year in the overseas brigade, he learned a lot from the veterans.

And with about a year of experience in leading troops, it is also a rare exercise for Wang Haiyang. The soldiers of the Far Eastern Field Division are far easier to lead than overseas brigades. Compared with those soldiers and ruffians in overseas brigades, most of these soldiers, who were mainly hungry and homeless, were peasants in the past, and before joining the army, they still retained their simple temperament, and then after several months of training and ideological and political work in the army. They have a deep Far Eastern imprint on them.

So now although Wang Haiyang is still in the internship period of students, he still takes this platoon decently. The non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers in the platoon are all veterans of their training team, and with their help, the training of the unit is also impressive.

Wang Haiyang turned around, and immediately saw several figures walking towards their training ground. He hurriedly shouted, "It's all there." Attention! ”

After he finished shouting, he ran to Gao Jianguo and Li Ming in a standard military posture, saluted a military salute, and then reported loudly. Gao Jianguo and Li Ming both returned the salute.

Gao Jianguo said solemnly: "Take a break!" ”

After Wang Haiyang's platoon resumed training, Li Ming shouted at Wang Haiyang: "Haiyang, come and walk with us." ”

Wang Haiyang hurriedly ran over and followed behind everyone. Gao Jianguo turned his head and said, "Wang Haiyang, you spent a year overseas before returning to the military academy." ”

"Report the chief. I've just been back for over a year and I'm still a student. ”

Gao Jianguo smiled: "Haha...... Those ruffians aren't that easy to bring. After this year's training, you students have accumulated a lot of experience. After studying through the military academy system, it will be easier to lead soldiers in the future. ”

Everyone walked around the units in the www.biquge.info town of Biquge, and they were very satisfied with the training of the troops. Now the backbone of the squad platoon of the Military Commission has grown, and they have supported the backbone of the Far Eastern Company at the grassroots level. With this group of backbones in the Far Eastern army, no matter how harsh the environment and how difficult the battle will be in the future. can also become an iron army that cannot be broken or dragged down.

The company's military committee carried out large-scale military training activities. It will last until next spring. The characteristic of this year's large-scale military training is that it proceeds from actual combat. After the completion of the basic training of recruits. They will also pull out of Vladivostok and brave the bitter cold of minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius to carry out a training march in a mountainous environment in the vast outer northeast. And climbed the ice and snow all the way, and conducted a number of live-fire exercises. The Central Military Commission will strive to use one year to enable the expanded units to form combat effectiveness.

At the same time, Jeju Island, Lushun, Donggang Island, Luzon Island, and other overseas territories in the Far East were all carrying out large-scale military training activities. The Admiralty also conducted large-scale military training in the waters off Jeju Island and Luzon Island.

The Air Department has recruited another 200 recruits this year, and after completing basic training, they will return to the Air Department for further professional training. After several years of construction, the Ministry of the Air Force has trained a number of qualified ground crews. All thirty recruit pilots are already able to fly delta-wing aircraft on combat missions on their own.

This year, on the basis of continuing to train ground staff and logistics maintenance personnel, they will focus on the training of airship pilots. With the continuous breakthrough of technical difficulties in the large airship R&D center, the second wooden-framed semi-rigid airship has been successfully developed, and is undergoing active test flights, collecting various real numbers, and this airship will enter the Ministry of the Air Force next spring.

This year's company's winter training has also been vigorously carried out, in addition to the company's major enterprises of formal labor and apprenticeship, the rest of the new and old Liaomin will all participate in this year's labor winter training. It's just that the instructors of this year's labor winter training are all the militiamen of the musket militia company.

During the winter training, the number of musket militia companies will also be expanded to 200, and the number of musket militia will reach 30,000, all carefully selected from among the company's consistently good labor activists. They have already undergone two winter trainings, and their basic training is relatively solid, and this year they will further increase the training subjects and in the coming months, strive to become a qualified musket grassroots militia. (To be continued) R580