This was the first time the travelers had fought at sea, and the captured pirate ship gave them a chance to get a glimpse of the specific equipment of the Chinese pirates who once crisscrossed the southeast coast in the late Ming Dynasty and spread their fame in Southeast Asia. Not long after the ship was towed into the port, a survey team composed of military, intelligence, industrial, and agricultural ministries and commissions came to Bopu by car to inspect the entire ship on the spot.

The firing group once again confirmed that the ship was indeed a type of "Guangzhou ship", which showed that the pirates should have come from Guangdong, not Fujian, the main area of activity of Yiguan, so Liu Xiang's gang was very suspicious.

The hull of the ship is made of very hard wood, which at first no one recognizes, but later the agricultural team identified it as lychee wood, which is very hard. In 1927, the Red Army on Hainan Island used lychee wood to build an all-wood breech gun. If it weren't for the combination of SKS+M43 shells that transcended time and space, it would be difficult to penetrate the small artillery and muskets common at sea in this era.

There were a total of 16 guns on board, which were difficult to identify the specific type. According to European standards, it can be regarded as a 4~8-pound gun. The artillery was crudely cast, most of them were made of various cast iron and miscellaneous iron, and one of them was even simply made of iron-bore wood. It can be seen that the people who cast the cannon basically don't understand the casting of the cannon jishu: the rough casting of the cannon, the simple structure, not to mention the boring of the cannon breech, just the countless air holes on the cannon body make the people of the mechanical group stunned - using this thing to fight a war and blow yourself up is more likely than killing the enemy.

The cannon was simply mounted on a wooden frame, with a muzzle in the bulwark and tied to a rope. There were no means of moving and adjusting the position of the guns, and there were no aiming devices, and the only way to get the guns to aim was to constantly move the hull and bring the ship close enough. This is also the fact that the weishenme is equipped with more than 8 oars - in addition to being used as additional power, it also plays a role in quickly adjusting the ship's position.

After field test launches, in the case of using the Traveler's modified fine-particle fire, the largest 8-pounder gun can shoot iron bullets 500 meters away, and it should be able to go farther if you increase the elevation angle, but the poor structure of this gun makes it unable to load too much fire, and no shot in battle is more than 200 meters, indicating that the pirates are very clear about the quality of their artillery. Inferior ammunition further reduced the effective range: in addition to a small amount of lead bullets for muskets, the main shells on the ship turned out to be stones, there were also some small iron bullets, in 1840~1842 when the Qing army battery bombarded the British battleship at the mouth of the Pearl River, although "the bullets rained down", but no amount of stone shells could not bring much damage to the oak hull of the British battleship.

The quality of the fire yao on the ship is even worse, it is completely powdered fire yao, the sulfur content is on the high side, and a large amount of smoke is emitted when the fire yao is tested with this kind of fire, and the explosive power is very weak. In contrast, the quality of the fire yao captured in the first anti-encirclement battle was the best, apparently because it came out of the official treasury, and the quality of the fire yao seized from the Gou family was slightly inferior. It seems that the fire of this group of pirates was privately made by the underground workshop, and the lack of saltpeter probably indicates this.

In addition to the artillery, there were more than a dozen different arquebuses, apparently from the Portuguese or Dutch, some from local knockoffs, and bird guns and one- to three-eyed muskets, presumably from the Ming army. These guns are rarely maintained, they don't look very good, and weapon enthusiasts who have always been known for their fearlessness are afraid to test them out. According to its estimates, the original arquebus, which is of the highest quality haode made in Portugal or the Netherlands, will not have an effective firing range of more than 50 meters in the case of good haode ammunition.

The cold weapons seized from the ship were very rich and varied, and there were some things that everyone had never seen before, and the intelligence and information department organized various historians to come and identify them, so they could roughly distinguish what these huge and complicated things were.

The most common is the bamboo spear, which is equipped with a bladed spear tip at the top of the bamboo pole, with a length of 5~6 meters, and the number of such spears is very large, greatly exceeding the number of corpses found on the ship.

The other spear was made of wood with spear heads at both ends and was used for hand-to-hand combat. One of the most common cold weapons used by pirates is a short-waisted knife that resembles a chai knife, with a total length of no more than 50 cm and a very strong blade.

There are also a large number of pear darts and small darts used to cast on the ship, which are used to fix the hook and sickle and hook of the enemy ship...... There are all kinds of things. Zuihou also found a large number of fishing nets and raw cowhides - which were used to mount on bulwarks to withstand the blows of the enemy's light projectile weapons, and to defend them against gang jumping, which were dismantled this time in order to disguise themselves as fishing boats.

As a common water weapon, two kinds of incendiary weapons have been found: torches for the placement of bamboo pipes, with greased wooden blocks inserted at the top of the bamboo pipes, which are lit and thrown out like grenades with wooden handles, and there are clay pots of different sizes, which contain fire and sulfur and other flare materials, the top of the jar is concave, used to hold charcoal fires, and when used, the rope on the mast is swung to the deck of the enemy ship and crushed.

"It's so rich." Yu Eshui didn't care that the blood stained on the weapon was condensing and stinking, and he kept looking at it excitedly, "I can write three or four papers on these things alone, and the core is a piece of cake." ”

"That's right, you can also interrogate real 17th-century Chinese pirates, which one can compare to you in history!"

"Yes, yes." Yu Eshui didn't hear the ridicule inside, and kept taking pictures and taking notes of the messy scrap copper and rotten iron.

Wu De sent a group of members from the commune to clean up the corpses, and washed the deck with seawater and fine sand, and by evening the ship had been washed clean, except for the gunwales, the dense bullet holes in the deck, and the battered cabin, there was no sign of the battle.

Wu De looked at this ship, and felt strange in his heart, he was also a naval soldier, and now he has become the secretary of the commune! I don't know how many times I have done this task of driving a fishing boat to protect fishing, but I actually snatched it from Chen Haiyang, a person who was born in a frigate. Jealousy, jealousy!

Jealousy to jealousy, what to do or what to do, he looked at what had been unloaded from the ship, which had been largely emptied, and even the sails had been removed—completely broken. The members were still squatting on the deck, intently holding iron skewers and picking at the lead bullets embedded in the wood.

"We're really poor." He couldn't help but sigh, this thing of lead is not very valuable in any way. Just look at the composition of the inferior money everywhere to know that lead is the standard base metal. The industrial sector is also forced to cut the door. The ancient mineral metallurgical industry was too small for the huge appetite of the travelers. Once the new army was formed, hundreds of muskets had to be put to blame......

"Chief Wu, the navy handed over eighteen prisoners, please advise on how to deal with it?" Fu Youdi reported to him respectfully.

Fu Youdi became a cadre again, Wu De took a fancy to him like to be powerful and powerful, and controlled the strict style, as soon as the Dongmen City Police Station's public security crackdown was over, Fu Youdi, who had been anxious because he was not mixed with the leadership position, was activated by Wu De and was appointed as the leader of the labor camp.

"All of them were assigned to the labor camp. Be watched! "The heads of the vigilante will be arraigned at any time, and don't send them too far when they are assigned." ”

"Yes."

After a sexual examination of the structure of the vessel, the joint survey team concluded that the ship was quite well built and could have been repaired for our use, whether as a fishing boat or as a transport vessel, and that it would be of great benefit.

The damage to the ship was not great, and the basic structure was intact, except that there were too many bullet holes in the ship's board, and the water poured into it as soon as the waves were bumpy. After the on-site inspection, the vessel is still of use and can be repaired and continued to be used.

To repair the ship, it involves the upper pier of the ship. This is quite a complicated matter, but it is inevitable for ship repair and shipbuilding. According to the Navy's idea, it would be better to be able to build a dry dock directly, and the Admiralty proposed a plan to dig a simple dock in a sheltered bay at Lingao Point, dig a 40-meter-long, 12-meter-wide, and 2.4-meter-deep water channel, build stone walls on all sides, and then drain the water, and the ship will be repaired in this dock without water, and then put the water in after repair, and the ship can sail away. Later, the locks will be built and installed, so that new ships can also be built.

This plan was rejected by the Planning Commission, which estimated that the investment was too large. The construction team came up with a simple alternative to the huge and expensive dry dock - the slipway.

The simple slipway is the use of wooden slipway and a large amount of grease to complete the boat from the water surface to the slipway between the pier and launch. The advantage is that the equipment is simple and easy to operate. The pressure resistance requirements of the shore and beach foundation soil layer are not high, and the ships below 500 tons, when they go up and down the pier, only need to level the original ground, add gravel and ballast appropriately, and roll it flat. And because of the simple structure, it is easy to disassemble and assemble. If you need to relocate, you can easily move it. In the past, many small and medium-sized civilian shipyards in China used this equipment.