Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

On the seventh day after the Datang Fleet landed at the Silla Wharf, the originally deserted wharf was crowded with people, and there were at least tens of thousands of people working here.

In such a huge area, they cleaned up all the weeds, branches, trees, etc. on the ground, and then used the large stones, stone mills, etc. they moved, tied them with ropes, and then began to tamp the ground hard.

On the pier, large ships are continuously docking to unload their cargo. For this mission goal, the Datang Navy is doing its best to provide transportation support.

This is not just a logistical support, but also a special training for the Navy's ultra-long-range support.

Not only transportation, but also cargo handling, logistics support, and even cargo transportation without docks under special conditions are a kind of training.

Even the loading, fixing, and preservation of cargo on ships is a science.The previous Datang Navy can be said to have only learned how to drive a sea ship and how to train to live at sea, but they have never practiced such a large-scale cargo delivery.

This time is an opportunity for actual combat.

A large number of steel pipes were first transported from Datang to Silla, and a special ship came with it. It was not the largest ship in Datang, but it was definitely the most special.

Because a steam engine was installed on this ship.

The steam engine on the ship is like a train, turning the ship's sails and human propeller into propeller power driven by the steam engine. Datang's engineers have already proposed it.

Although Lu Daqiang and the others did not invent the steam engine, their thinking was not bad. After Li Ke invented the train by improving the power of the steam engine, they had diverged their thinking about the various uses of the steam engine.

In particular, the use of combining with various means of transportation is the first thing that comes to mind. For example, the combination of a steam engine and a carriage. The steam engine replaces the horse to pull the carriage, and directly pushes the power to the wheels.

The other is ships. The size of the carriage is too small, and the size of the steam engine is very large. Although it is not difficult to connect it, the volume is too large, and the fuel transported by the burning steam engine is also a huge volume.

But ships are not part of this problem. Ships are very large. Even steam engines for trains are too small and need to be enlarged, and there is enough space on ships to pull the coal needed to start the steam engine.

Therefore, the research on steam engine boarding has been going on all the time, but there are still many difficulties at present.

Some technologies are difficult to make small, but it is still difficult to make them big.

But in the process of studying the steam engine on board, they accidentally discovered another way, which is not actually another use, but was discovered during the construction of the Weihe Bridge.

It is to place the steam engine on a large ship and drive the pulley block to hoist some large components, or to combine the steam engine and hydraulic system to drive some large forging hammers to carry out operations on the river.

Or power some machinery for concrete work in rivers.

And this kind of ship is called an engineering ship by them. The power of the ship has not changed. It is still sailed or even manually paddled, but the machinery driven by the steam engine installed on the deck can provide a lot of mechanical assistance.

This can also be regarded as a scientific and technological research and development and progress caused by Datang's bridge construction now.

Li Ke doesn't care about these aspects at all now. As long as you make trouble, the state-owned commercial bank will provide relevant funds for research.

This time, it was such an engineering ship that went to Silla, and the hammers on it were already usable steam hammers.

The steel pipes driven into the river are directly driven into the bottom of the river by the steam hammer on this ship to a depth of about five meters as foundation piles.

The distance between these steel pipes is very close, and then steel wires are used to wind them into a net, and then a large amount of gravel transported by these people is loaded into the net, and then sinks to the bottom of the river.

This is the wharf expansion work that has already started. These things have far exceeded the expectations of the Silla people. They are all ignorant, but they all know the power of Datang.

Therefore, it is normal for Datang to have any new machines. After the shock, it is much easier for them to accept it.

The huge ship, the heavy smoke, and the loud noise of the engineering ship are all their talking points.

And the construction speed of the pier has far exceeded everyone's expectations. Similarly, other military supplies are constantly being delivered to the pier, including cement.

Anyway, the military materials transported here are already enough for local use, so the remaining space is empty, and the huge Datang fleet is enough to transport enough materials to arrive here.

Baekje, next door, did not expand the pier and scale in this way. This is because such a pier is enough for the time being. The high-ranking officials of Baekje are also from Buyeo, and no one knows if there are any spies in it.

But the people at the bottom of Baekje are actually no different from the people of Silla, so Cheng Yaojin's implementation here is actually similar to that of Xue Rengui.

Find some excuses and reasons, use food to hire people, and then build camps.

There is no increase in other aspects, so there are not many transport ships here, which is far worse than here in Silla.

The army has arrived on the eighth day. When Li Daozong woke up early in the morning and saw the dark clouds rolling in the sky outside, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and the opportunity came.

In eight days, with the distance between here and Jincheng, various deeds of the Tang army had already spread throughout Jincheng, and many people living near Jincheng had already come here to work in the camp.

Soon, officials from the Taishi Bureau who accompanied the army arrived here.

"How?" Li Daozong asked.

"According to meteorological observations, the probability of rain tonight is as high as [-]%, but the problem is that it will either not rain, or if it will rain, the rain will be heavy." The Taishi Bureau official said.

"That's it. We will order the troops to assemble in a while. We are going to rush to the border between Silla and Goguryeo. The destination of the march on the first day is Jincheng." Li Daozong said with a serious face.

"Yes."

"Tell Xue Rengui that 500 soldiers are reserved here temporarily, and most of the literate soldiers can be left for him. This is our important logistics supply, and no mistakes are allowed." Li Daozong said solemnly.

"Yes!"

The barracks, which had been silent for seven days, suddenly became agitated. After leaving [-] soldiers behind, the remaining [-] soldiers gathered from all directions of the entire camp to the center at the speed of the tide.

The difference is that this time these soldiers are all wearing armor and equipped with all weapons and equipment, which can be described as fully armed.