It snows in the winter in the north, and the offensive on the grasslands can indeed stop.

But it doesn't mean that the actions of the People's Revolutionary Federation will stop elsewhere. On the contrary, winter is a good time to go to the South China Sea.

Fan Qinghui, who was dying, almost wiped out the top martial arts masters in the north, which made the northern martial arts that might have threatened the People's Revolutionary Federation quickly decline.

Hao Jian received information from Borneo, saying that there were several vicious incidents there, and that three reclamation fortresses were threatened by giant pythons. He took Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan, who were willing to serve as advisors to the black-clothed guards, and went south on a steam battleship.

However, from Bohai Bay to Borneo in the south, even if it is smooth sailing and steam power, it will take 12 to 15 days, and the whole journey is about 6,800 kilometers.

The reason why the distance is so far is mainly to reduce the risk of navigation, and choose to sail close to the coastline.

Whether it is the mainland route or the first island chain route, it is not the closest route. In fact, the closest route is to go straight to Borneo from the waters on the east side of the South China Sea after crossing the Liuqiu Strait.

The problem is that this way of sailing is too dangerous. Once the bad sea conditions are encountered, the ship will be destroyed in minutes.

Therefore, they can only go a little far, but they are close to the coastline and islands all the way. Even if they encounter a reef, or a huge wave, a storm, a typhoon, etc., they can quickly find the coast to moor.

Coupled with the weather stations that have been deployed in various parts of Nanyang at this time, the weather problems during the navigation process are already in a clearly controllable state.

The ships that went south with Hao Jian, and more than a dozen large immigrant transport ships.

In fact, there is another big advantage of taking the coastal route, that is, you can resupply along the way, and you don't need to bring too many supplies, which greatly improves the comfort and payload.

For example, the coal supply of steam ships, currently from south to north, North Sea Port, East Sea Port, Keelung Port, Hongji Port, Dingnan Port, Borneo.

This greatly extended the voyage mileage of the steamship.

Even the three major shipbuilding companies are already discussing whether to cancel part of the sail design of the steam fleet.

For example, for inland water transport ships, the shipyard has reached an agreement, that is, to cancel the sails of steam-powered inland water transport ships.

With fewer hard sails and masts, the vessel's payload will gain a certain amount of lift.

However, this is only limited to inland steamboats in the territory. If it is an exploration-type inland steamboat, the sails will still be reserved as spares.

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Liaodong City.

In order to ensure the stability here, Song Que moved all the 13,000 local people here, plus the surrounding 29,000 people, to Qilu Prefecture before the Liaohe River was frozen.

When spring starts next year, another 100,000 people will be relocated from Jizhou, gradually diluting the aborigines here, so as not to become a hidden danger.

at the same time.

After the Liaoshui was frozen, Song Que sent people to monitor the ice thickness of the river every day.

Until December 25, 4th year of the new calendar.

The thickness of the ice layer has finally reached the expected value.

From the newly established Yingkou Port near the estuary of the Liaoshui River, the steam icebreaker pushed away the thick ice floes, clearing a channel sufficient for entry and exit.

In fact, thanks to the global small warm period in the early Sui and Tang Dynasties, the thickness of sea ice in the Bohai Sea in winter is not thick.

Moreover, the location of Yingkou Port is obviously near the estuary of the Liaoshui River, but a special location has been specially chosen. The seawater near the port has a relatively high salinity and is not easy to freeze in winter.

Yingkou Port is actually a temporary port. On the north side of the port, a temporary wooden track has been laid for the penitentiary camp composed of some prisoners. The track is 8 kilometers long and connects to the Yingkou Inland Port on the north side.

Yingkou Inland River Port is located upstream of the Liaoshui estuary, about 5 kilometers away from the estuary.

The reason why such a strange dual-port system is adopted is mainly because the seaport does not freeze in winter, while the inland freshwater port in the north is easily frozen.

The location of the estuary, due to the intersection of seawater and freshwater, is prone to unstable river surface ice, so the freshwater port retreated 5 kilometers upstream.

Lu Porridge from Zhoushan Steam Machinery Factory showed up at Yingkou Port with 20 500-horsepower steam locomotives.

These steam locomotives are very strangely designed, and are pulled to the inland port of Yingkou through wooden tracks.

Then Lu Porridge took the technicians and quickly assembled these steam engines and some other parts.

The entire steam engine was hoisted to a frame by a hoisting platform, and the frame was composed of four peculiar large cylindrical wheels with anti-skid hinges wound around the wheels.

The overall weight of the steam engine is not too heavy, even because some parts are made of aluminum alloy, the overall weight is only about 2.3 tons.

When all the parts were assembled, the whole picture of this locomotive was finally shown in front of everyone.

Aluminum alloy wheels, rubber pneumatic tires, and high-strength steel structure frame form a large car with a width of 6 meters and a length of 8 meters. The large and wide tires are different from the common narrow and thin tires.

Then a series of carriages are connected to the back of the main body.

These carriages are also different from ordinary train carriages. They are very flat, with a width of 3 meters and a length of 6 meters. However, there are no wheels under the carriages, but smooth steel plates made of high-manganese steel.

Lu Porridge immediately let people fill enough coal to heat the steam engine, and he personally drove a steam locomotive.

Quickly rushed into the Liaoshui River.

The frozen river did not collapse because of this. The wide wheels and skateboard design of the steam locomotive made the weight of the locomotive not concentrated at one point, but spread out.

This steam locomotive is called a glacial locomotive, which, as the name suggests, is a locomotive running on a glacier.

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Lu Porridge increases the speed of the locomotive to the highest level. The Glacier locomotive with a total weight of 35 tons has a payload of 20 tons and the fastest speed reaches about 60 kilometers per hour, but the cruising speed is generally about 40 kilometers per hour.

The glacier locomotive ran for several hours on the icy river, and it was not stopped for inspection until it was dark.

Obviously, this glacial steam locomotive is the masterpiece of Zheng Sen and others.

There are many rivers in eastern Liaoning, but the navigable time is usually only about 6 months each year, and there is still nearly half a year in the freezing period.

And the further north this situation goes, the more serious it becomes.

Then we have to think about how to enter the northern region in winter.

Building cement roads and railways can indeed achieve transportation upgrades.

But this is only limited to the plains in southeastern Liaoning. Once you enter the higher latitude area, the existence of semi-permafrost is definitely a nightmare for roads and railways.

Therefore, Zheng Sen thought of inland water transportation, and inland water transportation in the north is an unavoidable problem in winter.

After discussing with Longsha and Tang Feilin, he commissioned Longsha to design the Glacier locomotive, which can drive on the frozen river.

However, the problem is not the power, but the unit pressure generated by the wheels and skateboards, which must be within the bearing range of the river ice surface.

Otherwise, the glacier locomotive could easily fract the ice, causing the locomotive to sink into the river bottom.

Therefore, the design of the wheel and the skateboard is very wide, which reduces the pressure per unit area by increasing the contact area.

That's why, a very large transport carriage will be very flat in height.

In order to ensure safety, normalized ice thickness detection stations must be set up at various locations on the river to ensure that the thickness of the ice layer can allow glacial locomotives to travel.

Judging from the initial operation, the Glacier locomotive works very well.

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As for why there are no similar motor transport vehicles in later generations, there are mainly railways, roads, and high-power internal combustion engines.

This kind of big guy who can only transport dozens of tons of materials is not only inefficient, but also has a big problem, that is, it can only be used in winter.

Maozi has large railways and relatively perfect roads, so there is no need to use this inefficient way.

But for the People's Revolutionary Federation in the pioneering period, transporting 20 tons of materials to the icy northern Liaoning and East Xianbelia at one time is no less than a railway.

In other words, the glacial channels in the north are just ice roads, and they are even smoother than railways.

After all, rivers are liquid before they freeze, and they level themselves, while railways can only be leveled manually.

For more than half a month, Lu Porridge took technicians to assemble the remaining 19 Glacier locomotives while training drivers.

In fact, the Glacier locomotive also has an extreme operating mode.

That is to hang more carriages, which can increase the payload by 40 tons, but the consequence of this is that the speed of the locomotive will drop to 25 kilometers per hour.

For those things that do not consider the timeliness, it is possible to increase the transportation volume by adding carriages.

In fact, this speed is not bad. After all, the fastest steam-powered inland transport ship is about 15 knots.

Liaodong Prefecture established the Glacier Transportation Company with these Glacier locomotives.

The 20 Glacier locomotives could not meet the needs of the entire Liaodong Prefecture. Chen Xin, the supervisor of Liaodong Prefecture, hurriedly placed an order for 200 Glacier locomotives from the Steam Machinery Factory.

Chen Xin even drew inferences from one fact and planned to use these glacial locomotives to transform into bulldozers and road rollers next year to build an artificial ice road.

The artificial ice road does not need to be as deep as the canal. It only needs to have water surface, and then divert the water to freeze when winter comes.

On the contrary, the shallow water surface can combine the ice layer with the soil layer and enhance the pressure bearing capacity of the ice road.

Chen Xin also thought that although Liaodong Prefecture has a long winter, if you choose this one-season rice, it can also be planted.

Simply choose suitable low-lying areas on both sides of these rivers and transform them into continuous rice fields. After the rice is harvested, water is diverted to seal the rice fields and become large ice roads.

The artificial ice road after the rice fields are frozen can be equipped with large glacial locomotives to temporarily replace some of the functions of the railway.

You must know that the People's Revolutionary Federation now has a large steam engine with a 5,000-horsepower level, and a 5,000-horsepower steam locomotive can completely drive a weight of about 500 tons.

In this way, the communication conditions in Liaodong Prefecture in winter can be higher than those in summer.

After all, there are a lot of swamps in the three major plains in Liaodong at this time. These swamps will be frozen hard in winter. It can be completely transformed into an ice road transportation network.

In summer, these swamps are not easy to pass through. Boats are afraid of hitting the rocks, water and grass will be entangled, and carriages are afraid of falling into the quagmire.

Chen Xin quickly formulated a transportation plan for Liaodong Prefecture.

In this plan, he proposed the ambitious Liaodong Canal Project and the Liaodong Ice Road Project.

It is necessary to dig through the Liaoshui and Songhua Rivers, dredge the Blackwater and Yalushui, and at the same time build an ice road traffic network covering the South Liaoning Plain, Songnen Plain, Sanjiang Plain, and Jiangbei Plain.

It seems that the amount of engineering is very large. In fact, the construction of the ice road will kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand, it will be developed as a paddy field in summer, and the water will be frozen in winter.

As long as you plan the route in advance when reclaiming the paddy fields, there will be no major problems.

Even Chen Xin used a road roller to press out a simple road along the Liaoshui River, and then used a steam pump to pump water under the Liaoshui ice layer, forming an experimental ice road.

Then we arranged horse-drawn sleigh wagons, dog sleds, and reindeer sleighs to run on this simple ice road.

The running effect is very good. Among them, horses and reindeer have the best pulling force, especially the northeastern reindeer. Two reindeer can pull a total weight of 800 kilograms. They are also very suitable for cold climates.

In this era, the range of activities of reindeer in Northeast China has not completely withdrawn from the southern Liaoning Plain.

In addition, in the vicinity of Central Xianbelia, among the tribes in the forest, there are also deer tribes, who use reindeer sleigh cars.

In order to prevent these reindeer from being hunted, Chen Xin immediately set up the Northeast Reindeer Farm and raised more than 100 reindeer found nearby.

In addition, the North China Plain also has the conditions to build artificial ice roads.

However, Northeast reindeer are not suitable for the climate of North China, so it is best to use elk.

Elk is a species unique to East Asia, and it is also a very helpless reality that it will be reintroduced from abroad in later generations.

At present, the research and protection of various species by the Human Revolutionary Federation has become more and more comprehensive. At this time, there are about 6,000 to 7,000 elk in the Huaihe and Yangtze River basins, which is a very dangerous number.

If some elk can be transformed into means of transportation, it will be very beneficial to the development of this population.

It is a very effective supplement especially for mountainous areas where transportation capacity is very necessary.

The People's Revolutionary Federation quickly gained a firm foothold in Liaodong.

And this winter is a very difficult day for all tribes in Liaodong.

In the past, the reason why they were able to repel the Central Plains Dynasty was mainly due to the harsh climate here. The bitter cold was Liaodong, Monan, and Mobei.

However, the people of the People's Revolutionary Federation seem to be more adapted to the climate of Liaodong than they are, which makes them doubt their life.

In fact, the climate of Eastern Liaoning is similar to that of the Hetao Plain.

Moreover, the People's Revolutionary Federation, who was well prepared, naturally studied how to deal with the severe weather in the north.

Down jackets, leather jackets, cotton armor, heating stoves, and high-calorie food ensured the personnel of Liaodong Prefecture.

Even the prisoners who were incorporated into the penitentiary camp, they all had a set of thick cotton-padded coats.

In addition, there are open-pit coal mines in Liaodong Prefecture, UU reading www.uukanshu. com Among them, 3,000 prisoners were digging coal mines to supply the entire Liaodong Prefecture.

Especially with the extensive use of sleds and ice locomotives, the transportation capacity of Liaodong Prefecture has achieved a qualitative leap.

White sugar from Liuqiu and Guangnan, canned fish from Jiangdong, cotton and down jackets from Xuzhou, as well as some transport-resistant vegetables and fruits, all supply Liaodong, Lelang and Monan.

Many prisoners even have a feeling of reluctance.

In fact, this is also very normal. There are no ordinary herdsmen in the grassland tribes. They only have two classes: nobles and slaves. The daily food of herdsmen and slaves is edible herbs and some grains and dairy products.

Eating meat is the patent of the nobility.

As for the prisoners in the Atonement Camp, if it was a working day, they usually had three meals a day.

The three meals a day are not pig food, but rice, dried salted fish, wild vegetables or winter melon, and occasionally fresh fish and grilled buns.

After all, this is heavy physical work, and the food can't keep up. That is, the lifespan of these prisoners will be shortened rapidly, which is more than the loss for the People's Revolutionary Federation.

The prisoners who can be incorporated into the redemption camp are actually qualified for reform, but they themselves have not serious criminal records.

And the prisoner who was full of evil was already stabbed with a knife, so as not to waste rice.

With such a good meal, along with commutation of sentences and some daily rewards, these prisoners worked very hard, and were even very eager to join the People's Revolutionary Federation.

As for the original tribe, as shepherd slaves or ordinary soldiers, there is basically no sense of belonging. After all, many tribes **** them all day long.