Chapter 26 Two-masted schooner cruiser 1
Qin Long sat on the beach and wore diving boots, gossiping with Li Junnan in his mouth.
Li Junnan helped Qin Long carry the compressed air bottle to his back, and asked cautiously, "Brother Long, who are you?"
Qin Long picked up an empty net pocket, gestured at Li Junnan, hung it on his waist and said with a smile: "My wife is going to eat at home in the evening, and I will give her two hard dishes." ”
Li Junnan suddenly realized and said: "Brother Long is really good to my sister-in-law, you are right to come here, there are few people who usually come to catch fish in this sea, and when the tide is low a few days ago, Xiao Liuzi pulled out a lobster in the crack of the reef, which is enough for two catties and six taels, and this goods were sold for three hundred before they left the beach." Those tourists who come to play have money, they just look fresh, and dare to shoot any amount of money. ”
Qin Long smiled and stood up: "There is still this matter, I will catch two and give you one later." ”
Two catties and six taels of lobster is a fart, the lobster head that is helping the buddies work below weighs at least seven or eight catties, and the two or three catties weigh a handful, and no matter how small they are, they are embarrassed to come forward, so they can only do some coolies on the periphery.
Qin Long had a net pin in his waist just to hide his true purpose, the first time he went into the water empty-handed, it was one thing to not have enough time, and he was also a little embarrassed to attack these little brothers who devoured gold worms.
The little brother of the gold eater is his little brother, and he can't open his mouth when he eats it.
But this time, I have to catch two disobedient lazy Yuanyuanchang, otherwise our Brother Long will go into the water twice with his might, and each time he will return empty-handed, and he won't be able to talk about face, right?
Li Junnan didn't know that Qin Long was not too simple to catch lobsters, but he thought that Qin Long was bragging, and he laughed and stammered on the side: "Brother Long's shot is naturally full of loads, Nacheng, I will wait to eat Brother Long's lobster tonight." ”
Ahh
Bragging with Li Junnan, Qin Long went into the water again, Li Junnan sent Qin Long to the water's edge until Qin Long dived into the sea again before returning to his job, the first thing was to take out the phone and call his brother, and his eyebrows fluttered and his brother said that Qin Long wanted to invite the two of them to drink, and said that Qin Long gave him a lobster, which was more than three catties, and Li Junjie on the other end of the phone was stunned when he heard it, it was really fake, why wouldn't you be beaten by the tyrannosaurus and confused?
Launching into the water again, Qin Long went straight to the trench, and this time he was familiar with the road and directly found the wreck found by the shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
The overwhelming crowd tactics were indeed effective, and when Qin Long came back again, half of the shipwreck buried by the sea sand had already been revealed.
Seeing the exposed half-section of the shipwreck, the broken mast and the huge paddle wheel that was very eye-catching, Qin Long's eyes widened.
"Hold the grass, it's actually a two-masted schooner, is it really fake?"
Qin Long quickly swam to the half-wrecked ship, and the gold-devouring insect in the cabin sensed Qin Long's arrival, and beckoned to Qin Long outside the cabin: "Boss, come in and take a look, there are a lot of strange things here."
Qin Long stretched out his hand to touch the ruined hull, and his heart was about to jump out.
That's right, that's right.
The white oak hull, riveted with thick white iron on the surface, the brass bottom of the ship, the broken mast and the very eye-catching paddle wheel, this is definitely the two-masted schooner cruiser of the British fleet that once dominated the seas.
During the Opium War, the British Royal Fleet's warship classification standards were mainly based on the number of guns, and only warships with more than 74 guns were qualified to be listed as the main battleships, so they were also known as 74-gun battleships.
However, it was this kind of small minion that relied on the small movements of the hull to pose a great threat to the coastal fortifications of the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, the cannonball shot out by the coastal defense cannon of the Qing Dynasty was an iron lump, even if it hit the enemy ship, it could not cause much damage, unlike the current flowering shell, a shell can blow out a big hole in the hull, like this old antique two-masted schooner cruiser Although the surface is wrapped with a layer of iron armor, it looks quite bluffing, as long as it is hit by a modern cannon, it will fall apart.
Seeing this shipwreck, Qin Long naturally thought of the first and second Opium Wars, a hundred years ago, foreign devils relied on such broken copper and iron to open the door of China.
Isn't it just what you do, everyone has a head, who is afraid of whom?
Thinking of the scenic spot in the Prince Tower Scenic Area, Qin Long realized that it was probably not simple for this two-masted schooner to sink here, and nine times out of ten this cruiser was sunk by the Qing army artillery stationed in the city during the Opium War.
In the first and second Opium Wars, the flames of war burned almost all the coastal areas of China, and Nanao Island, as an important military stronghold holding the Baodao Strait, naturally inevitably participated in the war to block the British fleet going north through the strait.
A few days ago, Qin Long was still a soldier, but now he can only be called a former soldier, seeing the wreckage of the invaders, the blood of a soldier in Qin Long's bones has begun to boil.
If Lao Tzu was born in that era, a special foreign devil would also want to pass through the sea area where Nanao Island was stationed, and if he wanted to go north, he could step on Lao Tzu's corpse and walk over.
After a burst of indignation, Qin Long finally couldn't resist the urging of the gold devouring insect and swam into the cabin.
The sea current in the small strait is turbulent, and after a hundred years, this two-masted schooner has long been buried by the sea sand, and if it were not so, the place where it sank so close to the coast would not have been undiscovered for so many years.
Or the little brothers of the gold eater, now the half of the hull has been basically cleaned up, the main body of the hull made of white oak is still strong after a hundred years of soaking and scouring of seawater, many facilities and objects in the hull are chaotic but fortunately kept intact, if the hull can not withstand the pressure of sediment, I am afraid that the wreck will have long since disintegrated, and the things in the cabin will naturally not survive.
As far as Qin Long knew, the number of cannons equipped with two-masted sailing cruisers like this in the British fleet back then was not very large, and in large-scale naval battles, this kind of cruiser was generally only used to transmit information and transport supplies to the wounded.
Qin Long stretched out his hand and fiddled with the crooked cannon, which had already rusted into iron lumps, and its surface was covered with limestone composed of polyp remains and excrement.
Find out if there are any valuable cultural relics in the cabin, how to say that this cruiser is also more than 100 years old, and the things on board can be regarded as cultural relics, and it is also ironclad evidence of the invasion of China by foreign devils, which is still very meaningful.
Qin Long was rummaging in the cabin, and the gold-devouring insects in the bottom cabin finally couldn't stand Qin Long's dragging, and swam up in a flying posture, and were dissatisfied with Qin Long: Why are you so slow, there are so many delicious foods in the cabin below......
Delicious?
Qin Long raised his eyebrows, what the gold devouring insect said was delicious must be gold, there are a lot of delicious things...... Hold the grass ...... Is it that simple to get rich?