Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 372 Hot Air Balloon Machine, Hunting Bison and Weight Loss

Crowder’s heart-to-hearted return to the theater headquarters in Lanhu Town only felt that he had a bad year, and even a simple grenade production would have such a big flaw. Even if things can be solved, the time and production costs will increase greatly. This makes Claude always have an imminent sense of crisis.

The information from the Kingdom of the Army on the previous issue of the Hicks Kingdom is that the Hicks Kingdom has transported two formed standing regiments to the port of Vibator two months ago, said Hicks Kingdom There are also three standing army groups in the country that are being formed and trained. At present, the Hicks Kingdom has reached four in the Vibator Colony of the Nubian Islands. In addition to the two standing regiments, there is also a volunteer field army composed of retired soldiers of the Nasri Kingdom and a Kanner. Volunteer Light Horse Corps consisting of retired soldiers from the Principality of the Principality...

At the same time, it was uncomfortable for Claude to find that the secret agent who had been placed in the port of Vibato suddenly lost contact and never sent back any information. The intelligence staff report said that such a situation is very likely to be arrested or something unexpected. He sent several secret agents in the past, and no information and information came back.

It is worth noting that the secret agents who were lurking in the port of Vibator and the secret agents who sent them in the past were all Nikkan people, because only the Nepalese people wandering around would not cause the enemy to be alert. At the same time, they can find the Nikkan people who work hard in the port of Vibator, and get a lot of information from the mouths of those who are in Nikkan.

Although the Nikkan people are directly discriminated against in the overseas jurisdiction because the nature of this nation is too poor, they have to admit that they also have advantages. For example, the interior is very united and has a sense of responsibility to the family. The family members of the Nikkan Cubs who sent the past were directly under the jurisdiction of the country, and monthly benefits and subsidies were distributed to their families. Under such circumstances, those Nikkan people are unlikely to be rebellious, and they are very disgusted with the Hicks Kingdom.

The intelligence adviser was prepared to continue to send requests to the Nikkan people to the Viktor County. Claude carefully read all the information about the Hicks Kingdom sent by the Royal Army in the past six months. In fact, the information sent from the Royal Army Department to the hand of Claude has basically been delayed for more than 20 days, no way, the road is far away...

The intelligence said that the Hicks Kingdom shipped the two standing regiments to the port of Vibator two months ago, and the delay in sending intelligence to the theater meant that the two standing regiments of the Hicks Kingdom were already in Vibator. The port stayed for three months. Claude is not worried that the enemy has increased the strength of the two legions, but is worried about the three months of the time they do not understand the enemy's movements.

It wasn’t until the latest issue of information that Crowder’s eyes brightened, because the intelligence said that the Hicks-led joint fleet rushed to the mainland of Nubsia in the past two months, and its escorted ocean transportation. The fleet is full of grain, and the food prices in the Hicks Kingdom have fluctuated, rising by an average of 10%...

Reminiscent of the smuggling merchant who came from the port of Vibato six months ago and wanted to buy food but was given to the Hicks kingdom by General Fansnik, Crowd sighed and he doubted the colonial food of the Hicks Kingdom. The tense situation has still not been alleviated. Then the Hicks Kingdom transported two standing army regiments to the port of Vibator, which was to add fuel to the fire. Otherwise, the joint fleet will not transport food in such a hurry. In general, it will take at least a month to rest at the end of the trip, instead of rushing to put food on the sea.

Invited to the adjutant Major Anders, questioned the trip of the Thunder Division. Major Anders reported that according to the news sent by Yingying, about two days later, the Thunder Division returned.

This time, Berklin and Murray Ed and others not only led the majority of the Thunder Division to glory in the borders of Cromwell and the colonial county of Vibator, but also annihilated several in-depth white-directed Ghanaian territories. The light-riding squad of the Scran Principality of the Scouts killed more than 30 people and captured more than 20 prisoners. They only paid the price of three minor injuries and more than ten people. No soldiers of the Thunder Army were killed.

These guys are doing pretty well, which is probably the only good news that Claude has heard recently. Hey, they were free these two days before they came back, and Claude decided to ponder the problem of that power.

In fact, Claude always thought that the black iron shell of the throwing bomb does not need to be processed, and the crack can be directly cast by the mold. But after asking Mr. Wiebern, Claude regretted that the mold making technician hired by the iron ore workshop was not so elaborate, and it was very simple to cast a smooth drum-shaped black iron shell outside, but wanted to cast With a cracked black iron casing, the technology is not something that these foundry and mold technicians can master.

In addition, even if the black iron shell with cracks is successfully cast, it is necessary to modify the black iron casing by the lathe machine to achieve the standard uniformity. At the same time, the bottom of the throwing bomb needs to be threaded to fit the bottom of the rear fuse, which also requires machining...

Crowder had to paint on the drawing in a depressed way. He didn't paint the steam engine because he had never seen the steam captain. He painted a hot air balloon machine. When he was a child, he grew up in the country. The people in the village called the hot air balloon machine a fire machine. This is the only kind of power that Claude remembers in his mind.

The reason why the villagers call the hot air balloon machine a fire head machine is very simple. This thing is fired, firewood, coal, gasoline, kerosene, twig wood, rice straw newspaper or something, can be burned and thrown in, As long as the fire can be maintained, this stuff will continue to run.

This is not a steam engine, no boiler, it is heated by the hot air in the cylinder to push the piston to make the connecting rod run. Claude had read the information piece on the Internet before. It seems that it was just liberated. The bus trucks on the road are all equipped with such a hot air balloon machine. The fire is burning on the road like a turtle. It is said that at that time, the motherland had just been liberated, and could not buy gasoline and diesel. The large trucks seized were modified with this kind of hot air balloon machine, and half of the coal was loaded with long-distance cargo.

The reason why Claude was impressed with this kind of hot air balloon machine was that he had a home in his hometown, and his grandfather used it as a treasure. Grandpa once told him that there was no electricity in the village. Every time he harvested the harvest, he carried it to the drying ground, burned it with rice straw, and connected it to the threshing machine to get the rice gluten. It is not necessary to put a bag on the town and save a lot of effort and effort.

When I was a child, I used the grandfather to wash and wash the gadget several times. The structure of the hot air balloon is very simple. The five big three are very resistant. Grandpa said that this thing was created in the last few years of liberation, and it took 30 or 40 years to be intact. Of course, Claude later learned that this hot air balloon machine is actually a lot of problems. This problem does not mean that this thing is not easy to use, but the conversion rate of heat energy is low and the fuel is wasted. The noise was loud, the pollution was serious, and it was quickly eliminated.

Later, Grandpa died, and the uncle in the village sold the hot air balloon machine to a broken price at a high price of five yuan. After Crowd, he went back and forth to visit his relatives and never saw this thing again.

Wiping the corner of the eye, Crowder painted the hot air balloon machine that was impressed by childhood on paper, furnace, fire, and then the snorkel connected to a circular cylinder. Above the cylinder is a piston connecting rod and a steel tube chimney next to it.

The fire is generated in the furnace, the hot gas enters the circular cylinder along the vent pipe, and when the hot gas begins to expand, the piston connecting rod is pushed up, and the iron pipe chimney passage is opened to a certain height, and the hot gas is discharged therefrom, the piston connecting rod It fell and blocked the passage of the iron pipe chimney. Then the hot air expands in the cylinder again, pushes the piston connecting rod again, rises, opens the iron pipe chimney passage, discharges the hot air, the piston connecting rod falls... so it is repeated... This is the hot air balloon machine......

Looking at the hot air balloon machine on the drawing and the impression in the mind is no different, Claude thought, I am directly skipping the steam engine stage? Forget it, take it for three seven twenty-one, you can use it. As long as it can solve the mechanical power problems, create a throwing bomb, and hold a trump card in your hand, you don't have to worry about how much force the enemy has added.

The war has promoted the development of human history and the advancement of science and technology. This sentence is not wrong. If it is not facing a strong enemy, Claude may not be able to kill the same thing he had seen in his childhood. At this time, he did not realize how much the hot air balloon he had drawn brought to the world.

Grabbing the drawings, Claude went out of the theater command and got on the carriage. He said to the driver: "Go to my sister..."

Two days later, the Thunder Division returned to Lanhu Town. Senior officers from several divisions such as Berklin, Murray and Diavid came to Claude to report. I finished the inspections of the two direct inspections of Cromwell and Beringer, and the process of ambushing the enemy’s squad reconnaissance squads in Beringer Ghana.

Crowder is very strange, why is the light riding squad that found the enemy in Bailing Ghana? According to the truth, it should be under the direct supervision of Cromwell, because it is connected to the Vibaista colony of the Hicks Kingdom. Claude couldn’t figure out why the light cavalry of the Cannes Principality had to go so far to the White Ghana governor.

Murray Ed reported that the enemy's detective squad was not actually investigating the enemy's situation, they were exploring the hunting wild bison's site in advance.

Crowder understood it all at once, and soon again in July, the bison migration on the Albatro savannah in the summer of the Nobiya continent began again, and nearly a million bison will migrate from the northern plateau of the Albatro savannah. Going to the southern plains, I will return to the northern plateau again in November, nearly half a year.

Some experts have said that this is likely to be a long-distance trekking behavior in which the wild bovine population is too large for food and self-elimination. Because between the round and the back, nearly 10,000 old weak bison are being hunted every year by predators around the herd. Since the colonists joined the ranks of the hunts, the number of bison hunts has soared to five or six thousand heads each year...

Several towns under the jurisdiction of Beringer Ghana used the hunting of bison as the biggest pillar income industry before the colonial war broke out. The leather products, horn crafts and wild beef jerky are the specialties of these towns. Businessman's favorite.

After the outbreak of the war, in addition to some daring hunters also teamed up to hunt the bison, basically the young and blue-collared overseas leaders were recruited into two overseas field corps, and there was no way to organize the action of hunting bison on a large scale. . Coupled with the command of the strong-cut wilderness set by Marshal Michelle, the bison has been interrupted for several years.

Last year, the squadron was retired, and then it was notified of the return of the country. Next, it was necessary to set up five intensive divisions, and everyone was too busy. After the majority of the unqualified soldiers recruited by the two overseas field corps were laid down, some people organized themselves to prepare for the livelihood of the hunting bison, and the result was followed by the Albatro savannah under the direct control of the Beringer Ghana. The Canary Principal Light Cavalry of the Bison Group was killed and wounded by many people, and fled back in confusion.

Murray Ed reported that from the captives of the Cannes Principal light cavalry captured by the captives, they found that the volunteers of the Cannes Principality took part in the division’s strength to hunt the bison in the Albatro savanna last year. Killed more than 30,000 heads and earned 70,000 gold kronor. Therefore, they still want to continue to earn this extra money this year. They sent these squad squads to go deep into the squad of Ghana. They want to pre-select hunting places and camps...

"General, I think we can kill them." Berklin asked: "They are all defensive positions in the Vibatato colony. Now, in order to hunt the buffalo, they are willing to get out of the tortoise shell. We can't Let go of this opportunity."

Crowder laughed: "The Thunder Division has just been formed. It has only been trained for more than half a year. Do you have the confidence to eat this light squad of the Cannes?"

Berklin, Murray Ed and other senior officers of the division have stood up together: "Reporting the general, we have this confidence."

Claude nodded. "Oh, I know. You should go back and wait for the notice. This time you just patrolled back and took a few days off to let the soldiers recover their spirit and body."

"Yes." The officers salute and are ready to leave.

"Maud, you stay." Claude stopped Meridian.

"Boss, what's the matter?" Without anyone else, Murray Ed regained his old name.

Crowder touched his chin and asked: "My old classmate is the major who asked you to help lose weight. How is his situation now?"

"Oh..." Murray was hesitating: "Sorry, boss, I didn't finish your instructions. He hasn't lost a hundred pounds yet..."

"Well?" Claude stunned. For more than half a year, Bokal had not lost a pound of fat. How is this possible? Claude knows the daily training of the troops: "What happened?"

"It is like this, boss, he has only lost 80 pounds until now. It is not that we don't try to help him lose weight. The key is that he will eat too much. One person can eat three or four people. If it is a soldier, we may He can be forced to eat less. But he is a major, enjoy the school's extreme treatment, we can't stop him. Sometimes I force him to do a lot of physical exercise, but one night he can give back all the sweat. ""

Murray Ed is also very distressed: "I also helped him to lose 90 pounds when he first came, thinking that he could complete your instructions and let him lose one hundred pounds. As a result, he was The division has been familiar with it, and found that his rank of major is also able to enjoy the treatment of school-level officers in the division, and he began to eat and drink. Like this time, I asked him to participate in long-distance inspections, thinking that the two directly-administered patrols The long journey can make him lose some weight. As a result, he did not lose it. His two horses were reduced by four or fifty pounds..."

Claude couldn’t smile. Well, Bokeer’s guy went to the Thunder Division to eat white and drink. He could only wave his hand: “Forget it, don’t lose it if you can’t reduce it. You bring him over. I have important things to do for him."

When Murray Ed didn't have to help the fat man to lose weight, it was a relief. Can you hear that Claude said that there is something important to do to the fat man to do, he is not happy: "Boss, the fat man will eat, in addition to what important things he can do? You still give me to do it. ""

Claude shook his head: "If you can't do it, you will have a life-threatening situation. This can only be done if he is in shape and will eat it..."