Chapter 370: Negotiating Mission
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"Okay, the midfielders must go up, go up, stick, stick, can't let them get the ball so easily. ”
"Pull the edge, prepare to pull the edge, the outflanking in the middle must be timely. ”
"Hit behind, play behind, and the ball behind you must be played a little bit more resolutely. ”
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Wang Hailong, dressed in a casual sports suit, wearing a peaked cap and sneakers, stood in the middle of the field and loudly commanded the players who were in the ongoing detachment to fight against the players. The players are all wearing short-sleeved shorts, rushing back and forth on the field, you fight for each other, attack and defense alternately, and the scene is also very lively. And on the sidelines, there is also a video camera, which is taking pictures of the athletes in the field, if you don't know, I'm afraid you think it's a professional team training.
During Li Hongzhang's visit to Tianjin, an agreement was reached between the crossers and the British representatives in the observation group, and during the negotiations in Shanghai, the two sides played a football match. This matter has spread in Tianjin, whether it is the travelers, locals, or consuls of various countries, they all know, and this naturally arouses people's curiosity and conducts extensive discussions.
Because it is the traveler is more interested in this game, although the level of Chinese football in the old time and space is not very good, but the Chinese's enthusiasm for football is no worse than other countries, most of the travelers like to watch football games, I can't imagine that in this time and space, there will be a football match with the British, this has also ignited the emotions of many travelers, because it is through the soy sauce public, originally usually idle, now there is a rare hot topic, so they are all active, some people offer suggestions, design tactics for the football team, for the 451 or 442 big tear; some people advocate the establishment of a watch group, to Shanghai to cheer for the teamOthers volunteered to join the football team and go to Shanghai to overthrow the British Empire.
Even if the traveler is interested, the newspaper naturally cannot miss it, so the visit to the football team has also become an important target of this visit to the barracks. Yesterday, Lin Mu and He Wenjing had already completed their interview with the team, and today they are mainly taking some training pictures and photos.
The Executive Committee also attaches great importance to this match, and if it can win the game, it will also be very helpful to improve the reputation of the crossers. Therefore, Wang Hailong, the captain of the Yueyang ship, was specially ordered to be the coach of the football team, responsible for selecting players, training the team, etc., because Wang Hailong can be said to be one of the initiators of this game, and Wang Hailong is also a relatively senior football lover and an excellent amateur athlete, and is the most suitable candidate.
After getting the appointment, Wang Hailong immediately took the football team of the Yueyang ship as the team, and selected several soldiers from other ships who played well to form the football team of the traversers, instead of widely selecting players from all the traversers.
This is mainly because Wang Hailong understands that in order to form an excellent team, it is not enough to combine a group of good players, but also need good tacit understanding and overall cooperation, so that everyone can play their own abilities in the team. This requires enough time to train. But now the traverser is facing a lack of time, only more than ten days before and after, which is not enough to knead a group of excellent players into shape.
With Yueyang's football team as the team, this group of people has lived on a warship for a long time, and trained and played football together under the command of Wang Hailong, and the tacit understanding and cooperation between each other, as well as the tactical habits formulated by Wang Hailong, are reassuring. Moreover, several warships often compete with each other, and they are also familiar with the abilities and characteristics of the fighters who kick football with each other, so they can select a few fighters who can kick the ball well on several other warships to make up for their shortcomings, so that their own strength can be raised to a higher level, and it does not affect the cooperation of the whole team. In the end, Wang Hailong formed a team with a total of 22 people, 16 people from Yueyang Ship, 6 people from other warships, and 2 assistant coaches, a total of 25 people.
After a few days of training, the whole team is basically formed, Wang Hailong believes that with the level of this team, it is definitely not enough to play the Super League in the old time and space, and it is more than enough to play in the second division. And Wang Hailong believes that the football team against the British Navy is at least sixty percent sure, because Wang Hailong has checked the information, and the football level in this era is very low-end, so Wang Hailong is also quite confident.
When Lin Mu was filming, he saw He Wenjing rushing over with a few people, and shouted from afar: "Da Mu, they are here." ”
It turned out that the newspaper sent follow-up personnel, and together with them formed a press corps, to Shanghai for an interview, just now He Wenjing was at the gate of the barracks to pick up people, and after Lin Mu heard this, he immediately looked up, only to see He Wenjing brought four people, three men and one woman, two of whom were foreigners.
After everyone met, they introduced themselves to each other, and it turned out that the four new people were Wen Xiaohua, a text reporter, Yang Zhichao, a photography assistant, and two foreigners, Mexican-American Davidotte, and French female journalist Chanistine. Wen Xiaohua and Yang Zhichao are not very old, less than 30 years old, and they have all just been recruited into the newspaper, while Davidot is the same as Lin Mu, with long hair, brown skin, and a beard on his face, and he looks not young, but he is actually only 33 years old, while Chanistine is younger, only 28 years old, and is a redhead, although her appearance can only be regarded as middle and upper, but her body is quite hot, convex and backward.
Now Da Wei Dot and Chanistine do not speak Chinese, but can speak English, Lin Mu's English is very good, and there is basically no problem in communicating with them, while the other three also have a certain English foundation, basic communication is still okay.
After everyone exchanged for a while, Lin Mu knew that the four of them came with the negotiation team, and they were going to set off tomorrow, first to Qingdao, and then to Shanghai with Qin Zheng, of course, the German consul in Tianjin, Qin Moman, also went to Qingdao with him to preside over the negotiation of the club project with the traveler.
In the past few days, in addition to visiting the army, they also visited the construction project of the Tianjin shipyard and the work results of the salvage team.
At present, all the wrecks at Dagukou have been salvaged, including the Russian ships Sisoy and the Russian, the British ship Alola, the German ship Hertha, the French ship Pascal, the American ship Newark, the Italian ship Abba and 3 small warships and 5 transport ships, in addition to the Russian ships Joseon and French ships Lyon, the British ships Orlando, the German ship Lufthansa, the Brandenburg, and the Japanese ship Akashi, a total of 20 ships. However, after the assessment of the salvage team, it was believed that the Sisoy, Newark, and Abba were seriously damaged and basically had no value for repair.
But after discussion, the traverser decided that regardless of whether it is maintained or not, all of them will be dragged to Qingdao to talk about it, because even if it is not repaired, there are many accessories and parts on the warship, such as naval guns, which can be dismantled and used on other warships, in addition, it can also be used as scrap steel, and these three warships can obtain at least 15,000 tons of scrap steel, which is a very useful material for the crossing group that is still very short of materials.
And the salvage team naturally went to Qingdao with them, because there are still warships to be salvaged in Qingdao, and the salvage team also has these two ships, which can also be used as tugboats.
After talking about the situation, Lin Mu also put away the camera and took them back to his and He Wenjing's residence together. The residences of the two were of course arranged in the barracks, and each of them had a single room. Because they were going to Qingdao tomorrow, they didn't ask the troops for a room anymore, He Wenjing and Chanistine lived in one room, while the four men squeezed into one room and endured one night.
The negotiation team was led by Li Sanjie, minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and two staff members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Li Liuyi and Peng Kai, and the three of them, together with Qin Zheng, formed negotiators who could go to the negotiating table. There are also 12 related staff, and the soldiers who protect them are 25 in addition to the 25 members of the football team, for a total of 50 soldiers.
Early the next morning, the negotiation team set off from Dagukou and rushed to Qingdao. And this time, it was the Longxing Island passenger ro-ro ship that sent them to Qingdao, and there were about 800 people crossing the ship, all of whom were soy sauce parties. Because Qingdao is now short of manpower, and the Executive Committee has also decided to take this opportunity to eliminate all the Crossing Soy Sauce Party and let everyone participate in the work.
The Longxing Island first left the Dagukou wharf, and then some of the other captured warships were towed by tugboats, and some of the warships still had their own power systems, so they sailed on their own power, and also left the wharf in turn, and set off behind the Longxing Island.
It took nearly two hours for all the ships to leave the dock, and by this time the Longxing Island had sailed more than 50 kilometers, and the shadow of the Longxing Island had long been invisible on the shore.
The maximum speed of the Longxing Island is 19 knots, and after sailing out of the port, it moves at a speed of 15-16 knots, which is quite a high speed among the civilian ships of this era, even among warships, it is not slow. The speed of other ships is not more than 10 knots, although the speed of some ships exceeds 10 knots, but because they have to drag other ships, the speed can not get up, so after sailing for 2 hours, Longxing Island will leave other ships far behind and move alone, and after sailing out of Bohai Bay, Longxing Island will increase the speed to 17-18 knots, which is basically sailing at full speed.
It turned out that the ship sent by Shanghai to receive the negotiation team had already arrived in Qingdao at this time, so Qin Zheng hoped that the Longxing Island would arrive in Qingdao in the early morning of the next day, and then set off on a ship sent by Shanghai.