Chapter 1811
Port Engineering
Chapter 1811 Port Engineering
Located in the northwest of the Korean Peninsula, the Daedong River has numerous tributaries and a basin area of [-] square kilometers. It is the fifth largest river on the Korean Peninsula. Because of its deep riverbed and the influence of the tide of the Yellow Sea, it is very conducive to river navigation.Large ships with a displacement of about [-] tons can pass through the hundreds of miles of waterway near its estuary.Wang Tom chose this place as the navy's base port in North Korea, partly because of the hydrological conditions here.
However, in this era, there are no large population settlements near the mouth of the Datong River that can supply a large amount of labor required for port projects. The nearest city, Pyongyang, is more than 80 miles away in a straight line. There are also reservations about using North Korean civilian husbands. After all, this is a military base. It is impossible for the North Koreans not to take the opportunity to mix sand into it and send spies.Therefore, the construction of some key facilities, Wang Tom and others still hope to let their own people do it-for example, the Han people brought back from Liaodong.
Although these laborers may not be able to be loyal to Haihan at this stage, they can be relocated to other places after the project is completed, and there is no need to worry too much about leaking military secrets. Be reliable.However, the current population source is limited, and we can only rely on the Portuguese looting operations in Haihan, Liaodong to collect Arhat refugees. Therefore, although the local area has started work in name, in fact there are only about a thousand people, far from reaching to the engineering program requirements.Fortunately, the generals of Haihan had considered this point and specially transferred an expert from the army to act as a supervisor.
Gao Qiaonan never thought that one day he would return to the construction site as a supervisor. Even though he knew very well that this was just a temporary errand, it still gave him the illusion of dreaming back to ten years ago. The days when he was a foreman in the Haihan hard labor camp.
Gao Qiaonan was able to become famous in Haihan as a prisoner of war because he met two nobles one after another, one was Qian Tiandun who made him willingly serve his whole life, and the other was because he was given a chance to make his mark in the hard labor camp. Ren Liang.And it was precisely because of his excellent performance as a foreman in the hard labor camp that he was recommended by Ren Liang to join the army, and he got better opportunities in the army.
However, for Gao Qiaonan, those not-so-good days in the hard labor camp were really not pleasant memories. If he hadn't received the task of supervisor again this time, he would almost have forgotten that period of time.Of course, since the current job is a task entrusted to him by Qian Tiandun, he will definitely not slack off in the slightest because of these personal reasons.
Regarding the knowledge of construction engineering, Gao Qiaonan actually doesn't know much, but the relevant knowledge he has is almost all in the military field, such as the construction of military ports, castles, trenches, walled walls, etc., basically he can make do with commanding related projects engineering construction.However, he has not systematically studied the theoretical knowledge of architecture, so he still does not understand engineering drawings. He is mainly responsible for personnel deployment and construction site order, and technical problems still have to be resolved by professionals.
Gao Qiaonan has been in the army for almost ten years, and now the independent regiment under his command has far more troops than the civilian workers on this construction site, and he can still be able to give orders on the battlefield in various environments. We must arrange these civilian workers Labor is naturally out of the question.
Originally, if this kind of port project followed the normal development process, the time required from site selection to design proposal and then to construction plan would not be too short, and it would be considered very fast to start construction within a few months up.However, Haihan has detailed satellite images of future generations in his hands. Regarding the site selection and construction scale of the Datong River Estuary, the Ministry of Construction has given a clear plan early on. start.
Fortunately, there is a stone-based hill near the construction site, which can be quarried nearby. Otherwise, even if all the more than a thousand people are currently devoted to quarrying and transporting the stone materials needed for the construction of the military port, it will still be difficult. Still not enough.
Under the efforts of Kim Sang-heon, the North Korean side sent over 80 construction craftsmen and more than 500 civilian husbands in the first batch. According to the instructions, Gao Qiaonan did not let them participate in the construction of port facilities, but arranged for them to go to Build barracks and other infrastructure needed to house troops.
Regarding the instructions of his superiors, Takahashi Minami understood the instructions and knew why the North Koreans were arranged to build barracks. Therefore, he also politely kept a distance from the North Korean officials who took the initiative to apply for the task, and did not get too warm with them.Although North Korea is currently seeking Haihan as an ally, spying on the military situation does not only happen between the enemy and us, but also between allies. I don't plan to show the North Koreans all my family background.Takahashi South sent a company of troops to guard the military port wharf and the weapon depot with the highest level of secrecy to prevent idlers from mixing into the construction site.
In addition to the labor force, the living supplies of so many people are also a problem that needs to be properly resolved.As a landlord, North Korea had to undertake most of the material supply tasks.Especially for food, more than [-]% of it has to rely on North Korea for the time being.
According to the combat plan conceived by Wang Tom, before the Qing army goes south, Haihan needs to complete the preliminary supporting projects required for the troops stationed here, including military docks that can dock Majestic-class warships, barracks and military camps for independent regiments and naval troops. Supporting facilities, and the most critical part - build a reliable line of defense north of the garrison, perhaps the Haihan army entering North Korea will have to rely on this line of defense to block the Qing army going south.
The land selected by Haihan has a river flowing southward into the Datong River on the east and west sides, and the narrowest part between the two rivers on the north side is only five or six miles wide. The terrain is similar to the Jinzhou Isthmus of the Liaodong Peninsula. wonderful.The difference is that the Jinzhou Isthmus is flanked by the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, while the place selected by Haihan is surrounded by two rivers.When Wang Tom first chose this place, he had envisioned copying the defense method of the Jinzhou Isthmus and establishing a defense line on the north side of the garrison, and the rivers surrounded by the east and west sides would become a natural moat that was difficult for the enemy to cross.
Of course, it is not an easy task for the army to defend such a wide front and resist the tens of thousands of Qing troops going south with the independent regiment as the main force.Whether this battle can be fought or not will probably depend on how far the fortifications can be built in the early stage.It is not enough to rely only on fortifications such as trenches, iron nets and city walls. After visiting the site when Wang Tom went north, he decided to dig another canal outside the defense line to introduce river water from the east and west sides, making full use of the special features here. Terrain to enhance defense.
However, there is not so much time left for Haihan's construction, so the moat in the traditional sense should not be considered.Wang Tom's idea is to rely on this canal to build multiple bastions in sections on this line of defense, supplemented by other fortifications.However, his idea still hit a snag with the professionals of the Ministry of Construction. To build the kind of bastion line of defense requested by Wang Tom, at least three to 4000 people will need to work for more than a year, and there may be some problems during the period. For various reasons, the amount of additional work will be added, and the completion date will be delayed more than expected.In desperation, Tom Wang had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, asking to dig out the canal first.
The matter of digging the canal is naturally not very technical, so when Gao Qiaonan found that the current labor force was far from enough to start construction on multiple construction sites at the same time, he asked the North Korean officials to send more civilians to the north to dig the canal , and asked for 3000 people as soon as he opened his mouth, which caused a headache for the North Korean officials who were in charge of contacting him.
Three thousand peasants can get it together, but if so much labor is taken from the local area, many big landlords and dignitaries will also be affected. After all, most of the cultivated land is concentrated in the hands of these people. After the labor is taken away, the degree of impact The biggest are also these people.As for the pressure on the officials in charge of handling this matter, one can imagine that even if they bite the bullet and do it, it will not be done in a short time.To solve this problem, the only way is to put pressure on the local government from the central government to force the local government to obey the arrangement through the way of Kim Sang-heon.As for those who are still unwilling to cooperate, it just so happens that Kim Sang-heon is cleaning up dissidents in the officialdom recently, so he can just fill in his name on the list of punishments for this month.
But even though all the necessary methods have been thought of, and all the available relationships have been used, the progress of the project here is still unable to meet Haihan's expected requirements due to the low operating efficiency of each link.If this progress is made, Wang Tom's fleet will have to hold the Qing army on the banks of the Yalu River for at least six to eight months before this new base can really play a role.
If according to the combat rhythm of the previous two years, both sides stopped fighting after the winter, then it would be enough to delay until winter comes, but this kind of tacit understanding may not be able to continue on the Korean peninsula.According to historical records, it was in the deep winter that the Qing army invaded North Korea. During the first lunar month, they went all the way south to the banks of the Han River, forcing the North Korean court to surrender.This means that the weather will not prevent the Qing army from invading. The reason why the truce with Haihan on the Liaodong Peninsula was probably just because they did not want to send troops to the Haihan defense line to die.
For the time being, Haihan can rely on the natural moat of the Yalu River to stop the Qing army's offensive momentum, but if Wang Tom wants to take the initiative to let the Qing army cross the border, the historical scene is likely to really appear, and there is a risk of being burned.
But Wang Tom was unwilling to give up this plan that could maximize Haihan's profits. After repeated communication with Qian Tiandun many times, Qian Tiandun was finally persuaded by him and decided to gamble on the banks of the Yalu River.
At the beginning of June, the Annan Fleet, which had rested for many days on Ganghwa Island, was assigned a new task. They went to the coast of Liaodong to join the Portuguese fleet, and then carried out raids on the Liaodong Peninsula. The targets were still mainly small villages and towns. priority tasks.
The Manchus who have been plundering people from the border of Ming Dynasty in the past few years probably never imagined that the feng shui has changed, and now they have become the target of robbing people from other countries.Moreover, the opponent launched an attack from the sea, and it was more difficult to predict its origin than on land. If there were not enough troops in the area, they might be eaten by the opponent, which was indeed a bit impossible to defend against.
And the confrontation situation in Jiulian City has also undergone new changes. With the continuous increase of the Qing army's concentration of troops in the area, there are finally some signs of imminent movement.Just as Wang Tom originally predicted, when the main forces of the Qing army assembled by the Yalu River, they were unlikely to stay here for too long. Every extra day would consume a lot of supplies, which was very important for the Qing Dynasty. Bad deal.
There were only two options before Huang Taiji, one was to take the initiative to withdraw troops to dispel the idea of invading North Korea, and the other was to try to force back Haihan and seize this river crossing point.The possibility of the former is very small. This is the first foreign war after the founding of the Qing Dynasty. It took at least half a year to prepare for the war. It is completely unacceptable to retreat without a fight. The material consumption of the Wan army and the inclination of the entire country's strategic center of gravity also require a lucrative victory in return.
The latter is not hopeless, but it is very likely that Haihan's retreat will be exchanged for the tragic number of casualties. The commander-in-chief of the Qing army has never made up his mind.After all, the defeat of Liaodong is still vivid in my mind. If it comes again on the banks of the Yalu River, it will be a great setback to the national strength of the Qing Dynasty.
However, a secret letter sent to Jiulian City through a secret channel one day made the Qing army see the dawn of a change in the situation.
This secret letter came from an official bought by the Qing Dynasty in North Korea. The content was very explosive. It said that because Haihan asked too much for the war to aid North Korea, the king of North Korea was unwilling to obey, and the cooperative relationship between the two countries had cracked.Haihan forcibly occupied a piece of land on the banks of the Datong River and planned to build a military base on its own. However, North Korea believed that this move had exceeded the relationship between the two countries and interrupted the supply of materials to Haihan. The military cooperation between the two countries has also fallen into a crisis. deadlock.
The secret letter finally reported a piece of news that moved the commander of the Qing army. The Haihan people were determined to show some color to the disobedient North Korean court, so they might withdraw from the Yalu River in the near future and let North Korea fight the Qing army alone.
If the situation mentioned in the secret letter really happens, it will undoubtedly be a great relief for the Qing army. As long as the Haihan people voluntarily withdraw from this battlefield, North Korea’s weak armed forces will not be placed on the battlefield by the Qing army at all. in the eyes.
However, the Qing army did not fully believe in this. After all, the plan of conquest cannot be completely placed on this kind of unconfirmed news, and the battles that should be fought still have to be fought one by one.So after getting the news, the Qing army instead began to take the initiative to attack Haihan's armed stronghold on the banks of the Yalu River.
(End of this chapter)
Located in the northwest of the Korean Peninsula, the Daedong River has numerous tributaries and a basin area of [-] square kilometers. It is the fifth largest river on the Korean Peninsula. Because of its deep riverbed and the influence of the tide of the Yellow Sea, it is very conducive to river navigation.Large ships with a displacement of about [-] tons can pass through the hundreds of miles of waterway near its estuary.Wang Tom chose this place as the navy's base port in North Korea, partly because of the hydrological conditions here.
However, in this era, there are no large population settlements near the mouth of the Datong River that can supply a large amount of labor required for port projects. The nearest city, Pyongyang, is more than 80 miles away in a straight line. There are also reservations about using North Korean civilian husbands. After all, this is a military base. It is impossible for the North Koreans not to take the opportunity to mix sand into it and send spies.Therefore, the construction of some key facilities, Wang Tom and others still hope to let their own people do it-for example, the Han people brought back from Liaodong.
Although these laborers may not be able to be loyal to Haihan at this stage, they can be relocated to other places after the project is completed, and there is no need to worry too much about leaking military secrets. Be reliable.However, the current population source is limited, and we can only rely on the Portuguese looting operations in Haihan, Liaodong to collect Arhat refugees. Therefore, although the local area has started work in name, in fact there are only about a thousand people, far from reaching to the engineering program requirements.Fortunately, the generals of Haihan had considered this point and specially transferred an expert from the army to act as a supervisor.
Gao Qiaonan never thought that one day he would return to the construction site as a supervisor. Even though he knew very well that this was just a temporary errand, it still gave him the illusion of dreaming back to ten years ago. The days when he was a foreman in the Haihan hard labor camp.
Gao Qiaonan was able to become famous in Haihan as a prisoner of war because he met two nobles one after another, one was Qian Tiandun who made him willingly serve his whole life, and the other was because he was given a chance to make his mark in the hard labor camp. Ren Liang.And it was precisely because of his excellent performance as a foreman in the hard labor camp that he was recommended by Ren Liang to join the army, and he got better opportunities in the army.
However, for Gao Qiaonan, those not-so-good days in the hard labor camp were really not pleasant memories. If he hadn't received the task of supervisor again this time, he would almost have forgotten that period of time.Of course, since the current job is a task entrusted to him by Qian Tiandun, he will definitely not slack off in the slightest because of these personal reasons.
Regarding the knowledge of construction engineering, Gao Qiaonan actually doesn't know much, but the relevant knowledge he has is almost all in the military field, such as the construction of military ports, castles, trenches, walled walls, etc., basically he can make do with commanding related projects engineering construction.However, he has not systematically studied the theoretical knowledge of architecture, so he still does not understand engineering drawings. He is mainly responsible for personnel deployment and construction site order, and technical problems still have to be resolved by professionals.
Gao Qiaonan has been in the army for almost ten years, and now the independent regiment under his command has far more troops than the civilian workers on this construction site, and he can still be able to give orders on the battlefield in various environments. We must arrange these civilian workers Labor is naturally out of the question.
Originally, if this kind of port project followed the normal development process, the time required from site selection to design proposal and then to construction plan would not be too short, and it would be considered very fast to start construction within a few months up.However, Haihan has detailed satellite images of future generations in his hands. Regarding the site selection and construction scale of the Datong River Estuary, the Ministry of Construction has given a clear plan early on. start.
Fortunately, there is a stone-based hill near the construction site, which can be quarried nearby. Otherwise, even if all the more than a thousand people are currently devoted to quarrying and transporting the stone materials needed for the construction of the military port, it will still be difficult. Still not enough.
Under the efforts of Kim Sang-heon, the North Korean side sent over 80 construction craftsmen and more than 500 civilian husbands in the first batch. According to the instructions, Gao Qiaonan did not let them participate in the construction of port facilities, but arranged for them to go to Build barracks and other infrastructure needed to house troops.
Regarding the instructions of his superiors, Takahashi Minami understood the instructions and knew why the North Koreans were arranged to build barracks. Therefore, he also politely kept a distance from the North Korean officials who took the initiative to apply for the task, and did not get too warm with them.Although North Korea is currently seeking Haihan as an ally, spying on the military situation does not only happen between the enemy and us, but also between allies. I don't plan to show the North Koreans all my family background.Takahashi South sent a company of troops to guard the military port wharf and the weapon depot with the highest level of secrecy to prevent idlers from mixing into the construction site.
In addition to the labor force, the living supplies of so many people are also a problem that needs to be properly resolved.As a landlord, North Korea had to undertake most of the material supply tasks.Especially for food, more than [-]% of it has to rely on North Korea for the time being.
According to the combat plan conceived by Wang Tom, before the Qing army goes south, Haihan needs to complete the preliminary supporting projects required for the troops stationed here, including military docks that can dock Majestic-class warships, barracks and military camps for independent regiments and naval troops. Supporting facilities, and the most critical part - build a reliable line of defense north of the garrison, perhaps the Haihan army entering North Korea will have to rely on this line of defense to block the Qing army going south.
The land selected by Haihan has a river flowing southward into the Datong River on the east and west sides, and the narrowest part between the two rivers on the north side is only five or six miles wide. The terrain is similar to the Jinzhou Isthmus of the Liaodong Peninsula. wonderful.The difference is that the Jinzhou Isthmus is flanked by the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, while the place selected by Haihan is surrounded by two rivers.When Wang Tom first chose this place, he had envisioned copying the defense method of the Jinzhou Isthmus and establishing a defense line on the north side of the garrison, and the rivers surrounded by the east and west sides would become a natural moat that was difficult for the enemy to cross.
Of course, it is not an easy task for the army to defend such a wide front and resist the tens of thousands of Qing troops going south with the independent regiment as the main force.Whether this battle can be fought or not will probably depend on how far the fortifications can be built in the early stage.It is not enough to rely only on fortifications such as trenches, iron nets and city walls. After visiting the site when Wang Tom went north, he decided to dig another canal outside the defense line to introduce river water from the east and west sides, making full use of the special features here. Terrain to enhance defense.
However, there is not so much time left for Haihan's construction, so the moat in the traditional sense should not be considered.Wang Tom's idea is to rely on this canal to build multiple bastions in sections on this line of defense, supplemented by other fortifications.However, his idea still hit a snag with the professionals of the Ministry of Construction. To build the kind of bastion line of defense requested by Wang Tom, at least three to 4000 people will need to work for more than a year, and there may be some problems during the period. For various reasons, the amount of additional work will be added, and the completion date will be delayed more than expected.In desperation, Tom Wang had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, asking to dig out the canal first.
The matter of digging the canal is naturally not very technical, so when Gao Qiaonan found that the current labor force was far from enough to start construction on multiple construction sites at the same time, he asked the North Korean officials to send more civilians to the north to dig the canal , and asked for 3000 people as soon as he opened his mouth, which caused a headache for the North Korean officials who were in charge of contacting him.
Three thousand peasants can get it together, but if so much labor is taken from the local area, many big landlords and dignitaries will also be affected. After all, most of the cultivated land is concentrated in the hands of these people. After the labor is taken away, the degree of impact The biggest are also these people.As for the pressure on the officials in charge of handling this matter, one can imagine that even if they bite the bullet and do it, it will not be done in a short time.To solve this problem, the only way is to put pressure on the local government from the central government to force the local government to obey the arrangement through the way of Kim Sang-heon.As for those who are still unwilling to cooperate, it just so happens that Kim Sang-heon is cleaning up dissidents in the officialdom recently, so he can just fill in his name on the list of punishments for this month.
But even though all the necessary methods have been thought of, and all the available relationships have been used, the progress of the project here is still unable to meet Haihan's expected requirements due to the low operating efficiency of each link.If this progress is made, Wang Tom's fleet will have to hold the Qing army on the banks of the Yalu River for at least six to eight months before this new base can really play a role.
If according to the combat rhythm of the previous two years, both sides stopped fighting after the winter, then it would be enough to delay until winter comes, but this kind of tacit understanding may not be able to continue on the Korean peninsula.According to historical records, it was in the deep winter that the Qing army invaded North Korea. During the first lunar month, they went all the way south to the banks of the Han River, forcing the North Korean court to surrender.This means that the weather will not prevent the Qing army from invading. The reason why the truce with Haihan on the Liaodong Peninsula was probably just because they did not want to send troops to the Haihan defense line to die.
For the time being, Haihan can rely on the natural moat of the Yalu River to stop the Qing army's offensive momentum, but if Wang Tom wants to take the initiative to let the Qing army cross the border, the historical scene is likely to really appear, and there is a risk of being burned.
But Wang Tom was unwilling to give up this plan that could maximize Haihan's profits. After repeated communication with Qian Tiandun many times, Qian Tiandun was finally persuaded by him and decided to gamble on the banks of the Yalu River.
At the beginning of June, the Annan Fleet, which had rested for many days on Ganghwa Island, was assigned a new task. They went to the coast of Liaodong to join the Portuguese fleet, and then carried out raids on the Liaodong Peninsula. The targets were still mainly small villages and towns. priority tasks.
The Manchus who have been plundering people from the border of Ming Dynasty in the past few years probably never imagined that the feng shui has changed, and now they have become the target of robbing people from other countries.Moreover, the opponent launched an attack from the sea, and it was more difficult to predict its origin than on land. If there were not enough troops in the area, they might be eaten by the opponent, which was indeed a bit impossible to defend against.
And the confrontation situation in Jiulian City has also undergone new changes. With the continuous increase of the Qing army's concentration of troops in the area, there are finally some signs of imminent movement.Just as Wang Tom originally predicted, when the main forces of the Qing army assembled by the Yalu River, they were unlikely to stay here for too long. Every extra day would consume a lot of supplies, which was very important for the Qing Dynasty. Bad deal.
There were only two options before Huang Taiji, one was to take the initiative to withdraw troops to dispel the idea of invading North Korea, and the other was to try to force back Haihan and seize this river crossing point.The possibility of the former is very small. This is the first foreign war after the founding of the Qing Dynasty. It took at least half a year to prepare for the war. It is completely unacceptable to retreat without a fight. The material consumption of the Wan army and the inclination of the entire country's strategic center of gravity also require a lucrative victory in return.
The latter is not hopeless, but it is very likely that Haihan's retreat will be exchanged for the tragic number of casualties. The commander-in-chief of the Qing army has never made up his mind.After all, the defeat of Liaodong is still vivid in my mind. If it comes again on the banks of the Yalu River, it will be a great setback to the national strength of the Qing Dynasty.
However, a secret letter sent to Jiulian City through a secret channel one day made the Qing army see the dawn of a change in the situation.
This secret letter came from an official bought by the Qing Dynasty in North Korea. The content was very explosive. It said that because Haihan asked too much for the war to aid North Korea, the king of North Korea was unwilling to obey, and the cooperative relationship between the two countries had cracked.Haihan forcibly occupied a piece of land on the banks of the Datong River and planned to build a military base on its own. However, North Korea believed that this move had exceeded the relationship between the two countries and interrupted the supply of materials to Haihan. The military cooperation between the two countries has also fallen into a crisis. deadlock.
The secret letter finally reported a piece of news that moved the commander of the Qing army. The Haihan people were determined to show some color to the disobedient North Korean court, so they might withdraw from the Yalu River in the near future and let North Korea fight the Qing army alone.
If the situation mentioned in the secret letter really happens, it will undoubtedly be a great relief for the Qing army. As long as the Haihan people voluntarily withdraw from this battlefield, North Korea’s weak armed forces will not be placed on the battlefield by the Qing army at all. in the eyes.
However, the Qing army did not fully believe in this. After all, the plan of conquest cannot be completely placed on this kind of unconfirmed news, and the battles that should be fought still have to be fought one by one.So after getting the news, the Qing army instead began to take the initiative to attack Haihan's armed stronghold on the banks of the Yalu River.
(End of this chapter)