Chapter 1462: Infernal Affairs (Third update, please subscribe)
As usual, after arriving at the company, Meredith spent most of the day studying the company's train schedule and how to improve the efficiency of the railway. He is an expert in this area. After the outbreak of the war, his work increased the efficiency of the Pacific Railway by 30%. Because of his outstanding work, the western and central regions received more troops and more weapons. "It should be possible to use other branch lines to further improve efficiency, but the key is still the section through the Rocky Mountains..."
While talking to himself, he picked up the photo on the table. The photo showed a destroyed railway bridge.
"Two more bridges have been blown up, Mr. Meredy."
Jack said as he walked into the office.
"Although we repaired it quickly, the bombing by the Imperial airships has seriously affected railway transportation."
Over the past few months, whenever the weather permitted, the Empire's airship forces would bomb the railways, especially the railway bridges - wooden railway bridges were easy to repair, but just as easy to destroy.
"My suggestion is to build the railway bridge with steel, but as you know, the railway company does not agree to support it."
"Of course, Mr. MacReady. After all, the raw materials for wooden bridges are everywhere on both sides of the railway. If it were steel, it would not only cost a lot of money, but once it was damaged, it would take longer to repair. Wooden bridges have their own advantages, at least in the eyes of the company."
In response to the assistant's answer, MacReady shrugged his shoulders and asked.
“Are there any products that need to be shipped first?”
"Tanks. United Motors has a shipment of tanks to the West. You know that's a top priority."
"Tanks..."
Meredy responded, then said.
"The situation in the west is so serious right now. Let's see if we can squeeze out some transportation capacity from the plan for the next two days and send the tanks to the west as soon as possible."
When the war was going on, both sides would implement some kind of plan without realizing it, and this was especially true in the allocation of railway capacity. It took almost half an hour for Meridi and his team to squeeze out a few trains to transport tanks, but even so, they still had to wait for three days.
After a busy day, MacReady left the company with a somewhat tired body. After leaving the company, he drove home and when he passed by a telephone booth, he got out of the car and made a call to Richmond.
It was normal to call the South from the North. After all, they were once one country, and many people had relatives on the other side. Meridi was no exception. After chatting with his long-lost relatives in the phone booth for half an hour, Meridi left the phone booth. When he drove away, he saw a train loaded with goods roaring towards the west.
This scene is played out every day. Every day, thousands of tons of supplies are transported to the West by rail. After all, that is the front line of the war and the most tense area.
“It’s snowing again…”
Looking at the falling snow outside the window, Meredith muttered to himself, and as he looked at the train going away, he couldn't help but sigh.
Soon, the Empire's air force will bomb certain sections of the Pacific Railway. Their bombing will not only target the railway, but also some specific trains.
"After so many years..."
Sitting in the car, Meredith closed his eyes and seemed to be back in his hometown in his dreams again.
In the past few years, that hometown only existed in the unknown corner in the deepest part of his memory. At this moment, his heart returned there again...
…
Although the situation in the west is tense, the scenery here is indeed beautiful.
Observing the vast land from the air, everything feels somewhat familiar, with the snow-covered Rocky Mountains on one side and the vast plains on the other.
“It looks like home.”
Xu Shiqin, who was driving the airship, said to the deputy captain beside him.
"Yeah, it's similar to the Nanhua Prairie. There are mountains on one side and grassland on the other..."
However, they came here not to enjoy the scenery, but to destroy the railway.
"The train is coming! Our intelligence was so accurate! It said this time, and it is this time."
At an altitude of 4,000 meters, Xu Shiqin and his comrades watched the train slowly crawling in the distance. The train was surprisingly long, and the things pushed on the flatbed carriage were covered with waterproof cloth.
"What's on the train? Are they cars?"
"Could it be a tank?"
"Tanks? Americans actually have tanks too..."
Xu Shiqin ordered.
"Descend altitude..."
In order to more clearly observe the cargo on the train, under Xu Shiqin's order, the airship lowered its flying altitude, which also allowed them to see the situation on the train more clearly.
The locomotive, which was climbing the hill, was breathing heavily and unsatisfiedly, spewing out large clouds of smoke, like a draft horse pulling a heavy load, moving forward tenaciously and slowly.
"The goods are covered with cloth and it's hard to see clearly,"
"Who cares? Once the train gets on the railway bridge, blow up both the train and the bridge!"
The train towing dozens of flatbed freight cars quickly drove onto the railway bridge. Almost at the same time as it drove onto the wooden railway bridge, four airships in the sky began to drop bombs. Along with the whistling sound of bombs, dozens of bombs weighing 200 kilograms fell on the railway bridge one after another. In the violent explosion, the railway bridge collapsed. When the Pacific Railway was built, the railway company built a large number of wooden railway bridges on site to save costs. Now these wooden bridges have become the weak point of the Pacific Railway. Only a few bombs are enough to destroy a railway bridge. Even the shock wave generated by the bombs that fall near the railway bridge is enough to destroy the wooden bridge piers.
As the railway bridge collapsed, the train fell directly into the canyon, and the cargo on the train was thrown out and scattered in the canyon.
“It’s really a tank!”
Dozens of tanks that fell off the train were scattered in the canyon.
“The Americans actually have tanks!”
As people looked at the scattered tanks on the ground in surprise, Xu Shiqin sneered.
"Even if there are tanks, they will still be blown up by us..."
After that, he gave another loud order.
"Return immediately and be careful of encountering American aircraft!"
airplane!
As American planes appeared in the West, there was less and less space left for airships. Although they could still bomb the Pacific Railway as they had done in the past, they could not bomb as wantonly as before.
And now, the American tanks...
As the airship returned from high altitude, Xu Shiqin once again turned his gaze towards the smoking canyon and the tanks scattered in the canyon.
"Captain, what are you thinking about?"
Deputy Captain Liu Dongsheng asked.
"tank……"
Xu Shiqin said.
"Now the Americans have airplanes and tanks. If you think about it, they learned all of these from us. If we hadn't deployed these advanced weapons on the battlefield, how could they have learned them?"
In fact, this is an inevitable consequence of the Ming Dynasty's use of advanced technology - it has led to the acceleration of global technological iteration. Under the promotion of the Ming Dynasty's advanced technology, the world has made great progress compared to history. This acceleration is affecting the world in all directions...
(End of this chapter)
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