5. When crossing, be sure to ensure that the banks are not swampy and have plenty of room to accommodate various carts; be careful not to install pontoons on shallow banks so that the pontoon does not rest on the ground due to heavy carts and therefore cannot be crushed; but in such cases, install trestles to the real depth and pave them with planks or other timber, etc. rush to the other shore, choosing methods so that no greedy destruction there could be no pontoons; and if he is careless in this! and the pontoons are crushed, then repair at the cost of those pontoon Officers who had that job; and for this purpose, do not use supplies for such pontoon repairs without a warrant from the Artillery commander.
6. If the width of the crossing bridge is no more distant than the number of pontoons, then make them the usual distance under great burdens, that is, close the beams, passing through the entire pontoon at the sides, on which there are large cannons, like 24-pounders, and 5-pound mortars by hand It is possible to transport it by cart (on such pontoons, as they are now being established), but if there are no such siege carts, then field artillery and horses on such bridges can be transported without a doubt, although it is not very easy to rely on the softness of the horses and carts, so that if they do not control it, they will get confused and fall completely off the bridge, in which case that bridge also they can freely force someone to drown; What does it mean to have a special leader for each horse and, without stagnating, quickly transfer it, and when time does not force it, then for the best safety, postponing the harnesses from great burdens, first transfer the horses and have them ready on the other side, and transport the guns on people; and when it is brought to the other side, then harness the horses and take it to the appointed places.
7. Other carts, such as boxes, furmans from carts can be transported across the bridge on horses, and for caution at the edges of the bridge, have people on either side of each pontoon with poles, holding their ends under their shoulders along the entire bridge, so that horses and carts can cross smoothly (and especially in bad weather).
8. When the width of the crossing exceeds the number of pontoons intersecting according to the above-mentioned arrangement, which follows for the crossing of large burdens, in this case the bridge beams are connected in the middle of each pontoon, which will take a long distance and for this reason transport 2-pound mortars, pound and half-pound howitzers, 8; bi 3-pound cannons and similar burdens, and leave the larger ones behind for which in 2 or three places, pull together pontoons of several sizes, transport them by ropes.
9. Although the distances between the above-mentioned two pontoon lines are subject to knowledge of those Oeitzers, it is necessary to tell everyone about this, and especially to the commanders of the army and artillery, that for large carts 10 pontoons take up 22 fathoms, and for those with a pontoon bridge in the floor, ten pontoons occupy 30 fathoms; for the longitudinal bars should be between the crypt wells with a length of 3 fathoms, which, looking at the commanders of the pontoon Oeitzers in the located areas, they can be transported.
10. Not only in foreign, but also in Rosoyan troops
Due to the needs, there were attempts to transport large cannons and mortars under water along the bottom, which it served harmlessly, for this reason, such crossings of large and small artillery are not prohibited in the future, although with no little consideration, that is: 1) a satisfactory test of the soil, so that it is not swampy, not viscous and not rocky, but strong and clean without any defects, 2) not too deep, 3) not very fast flow of water, 4) reliability of the strength of the ropes and similar considerations, and such a crossing should be examined in detail, repaired only from the headquarters of the Chief of the Army.
11. When the crossing happens to be very wide, as if in the case of the closest path and the need to quickly reach the enemy, I don’t mean to occupy it with pontoons, but below one longitudinal rope the shore will reach from the shore, in this case, rallying the pontoons three in a row and placing as many carts on them as possible, releasing all the longitudinal ropes and strengthening the ends on both shores, tug of war along many ropes, and if this method is not enough, then transport the butchers in boats and boats and through imported anchors, depending on convenience, to the best success and method. |
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