Now the thick file of the A incident has been taken to the conference table. Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the matter at the time, coughed and began to introduce the story of the matter. The eight-member meeting heard a detailed account of the shipwreck.

After Zhou Weisen and others finished their inspection, the executive committee passed the decision to salvage the sunken ship. A clandestine salvage team was formed, consisting mainly of naval and long-range exploration team personnel, as well as those who had been involved in the exploration of shipwrecks.

In addition to salvaging items, the salvage team also has the task of establishing a temporary support base on Dongsha Island to prepare for subsequent salvage. Of course, in the public mission bulletin, the purpose of this mission is: "to study the feasibility of excavating struvite and establishing a base for the relay test of navigation to Taiwan"

After the salvage team consisting of a sailboat, a galleon, and several rowing boats arrived at Dongsha Island, Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the salvage work, announced the true purpose of the trip to the participants. Some of the traversers who were still in the dark were speechless in shock. Everyone unanimously agreed: this group of people is a major threat to the crossing group, if they can't "abandon the darkness and turn to the light" in time, they will be resolutely eliminated!

But there is also antiquity for the task to be carried out - a ship is a treasure trove for the Crossing Group. A sea boat is a small flowing shijie, and even a fishing boat has many very useful tools and supplies on it.

And the mystery of this ship has caused everyone to speculate. According to Lin Chuanqing, this ship is a smuggling ship doing black work, and the smuggled goods are either drugs or munitions.

This speculation has made everyone's emotions high, if it is an arms smuggling ship, it will make a fortune! The SKS rifle is too ugly in the minds of many people, not to mention semi-automatic shooting. Everyone was expecting to find plenty of automatic rifles like AK47s or more haode machine guns in the boat.

Although Lin Chuanqing said that the boat could also be loaded with drugs, everyone still agreed that it was loaded with arms.

The spirited "chiefs" bewildered the carefully selected indigenous naval personnel in the fleet, wondering what could be so good about this deserted island that would make them so happy.

In the frenzy of being able to get a weapon, the work proceeded quickly. A standardized, lightweight trestle was soon built on the shore, and a platoon of sailors searched the island to make sure that no one was there, and then set up a makeshift camp in the island's sheltered coconut grove, and then sent people to take control of the well.

Fresh water is needed for salvage work and for more than 100 people to live and work on the island, and the water in the island's wells is not completely fresh. Therefore, a temporary distillation station was set up next to the well for desalination.

The salvage work is going very smoothly, although there is a lack of professional salvage equipment, there is not enough diving equipment, there are only two qualified divers, but under the stimulation of everyone's efforts and fanaticism, the salvage activities of more than ten days have gradually fished up all kinds of items, tools and equipment on the ship, and even the scrapped car tires on the side of the ship have been removed.

The salvaged items are first soaked in fresh water to remove the salt, and then air-dried in a special shade shed. The items are inspected and registered by a special person and then put into a box for storage.

There were all sorts of items that were fished out of the boat, but the most wanted thing - munitions - was still not found.

"Those cabins haven't been opened yet," Mr. Zhou said, "and there's something going on in there." ”

Although it was difficult to use simple tools to open the locked hatch underwater, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing, who were in charge of diving and salvage, managed to use tools to open a cabin. There was a large green canvas stacked in the small cabin, and Zhou Weisen opened the canvas, and below it was a long iron box, which was neatly stacked.

It took a lot of effort for Zhou Weisen to drag out a small box from inside, and the box was very heavy. It took a lot of effort for the two men to bring the box out of the cabin and surface with a floating bag.

As soon as the case was opened, everyone cheered: inside were pistols in a separate box, a total of 12 pistols, each containing 4 magazines. The box didn't get any water in, and the guns were very well preserved.

"Yes SIGP226!" Someone in the crowd shouted.

"It's Z99," Zhou Weisen shot countless shots in the United States, and immediately recognized it, "Yugoslav goods!" He picked one up, pulled the sleeve, and double-confirmed.

"Yugoslavia?" There is no concept of weapons produced in this non-existent country.

"This gun is good," Zhou Weisen skillfully loaded the magazine, "15 rounds of magazine, the firepower is very strong." ”

The weapon was found, but it was not the automatic weapon that everyone hoped for, and everyone couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Lin Chuanqing said: "Don't be discouraged! , since there are pistols, there will be other weapons, and at least a lot of 9mm Perabellum bullets can be fished. ”

But it was difficult to get the weapon case out of the cabin. Wreck diving requires a lot of diving skills, and ordinary people can't do it. Even a person like Lin Chuanqing with a little diving experience can only be regarded as making up the numbers. Not to mention the need to carry heavy weapons cases out through narrow corridors and hatches.

Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing completely exhausted their physical strength after diving several times in a row, and reluctantly picked up a few other boxes, which contained some military supplies and bullets. One of the boxes contained NATO 7.62mm shells. This was a great encouragement to everyone - most of the cargo contained rifles that used this ammunition. Zhou Weisen believes that it is likely that there is a FAL automatic rifle or an M14.

After discussion, it was decided that it was too inefficient to rely on diving to retrieve the cargo - the light and space in the wreck were dim, and it was dangerous not only to not be able to do a thorough search - it was better to fish up the ship as a whole and then search it.

Lin Chuanqing particularly advocated that the boat be salvaged as soon as possible. He had been the captain of a fishing boat and knew a lot about the equipment on board. Some of the ship's professional equipment has been damaged, and if they can be fished out as soon as possible, they will be able to recover a large part of the damage. Especially for the equipment in the engine room, the longer the seawater is immersed, the more serious the damage will be, and then it can only be used as scrap steel for refurnace.

"The erosion of the hull material by the sea water is also quite serious, especially the hull has begun to attach all kinds of sea creatures, and the boat will be scrapped after soaking for a few months!" Lin Chuanqing warned.

Gao Xiaosong communicated with the Executive Committee through wireless telegraph, demanding that the ship be salvaged as soon as possible. The Executive Committee held urgent consultations on this issue, and Zuihou decided to salvage the wreck. For this reason, an 8154 fishing boat was specially sent to assist.

The easiest way to salvage a ship with a water depth of less than 10 meters and a displacement of less than 100 tons is to use a crane, which unfortunately does not have such a large crane in the crossing group. Although the heavy-duty gantry crane and lifting rod for the ship are suitable, they are installed on the Fengcheng ship and cannot be used.

Lin Chuanqing suggested plugging the leak and then pumping the water out of the hull and blowing compressed air into it. When there is more air in the hull, the buoyancy increases, and the boat can be floated directly. This salvage method requires underwater plugging jishu, of course, there is no such jishu in the crossing group, but this ship is open to the sea valve, the hull and various watertight hatches are intact, and the tonnage of the ship itself is small, so this method can be used

Zuihou decided to use this simpler method of salvage. Equipment and spare diving equipment were urgently transported from Lingao. Lin Chuanqing and Zhou Weisen ventured into the depths of the ship's hold several times and found and closed the sea valves one by one -- thanks to Lin Chuanqing's experience working on American fishing boats, he knew all the valve positions and closing methods well.

After almost a month of intense labor, the American fishing boat finally surfaced amid the rolling waves. It drew cheers from onlookers.

After the boat surfaced, the pumping slowed down. There are small boats leaning to the side, always pay attention to the changes in the draft conditions on the sides of the hull and the bow and tail, so as not to pump too fast and cause the center of gravity to be unstable and capsize. After the hull was fully straightened and then towed to the galleon, Lin Chuanqing boarded the wreck and lowered the anchor chain by hand.

Everyone wanted to get a glimpse of the mysterious shipwreck, but Gao Xiaosong ordered that no one except the searchers should board the ship, lest anyone damage the objects on it. The crowd had no choice but to continue watching from the shore.

Under the leadership of Lin Chuanqing, several traversers conducted a carpet search of the whole ship. A lot of supplies and equipment that were not found during the dive were recovered, and the iron boxes in several locked cabins were unloaded.

Several boxes were opened in succession, and they were filled with all kinds of things, in addition to the pistols just found, there were also bullets, magazines, and the like. It's just that there is no familiar AK. Not only did there be no AK, not even a rifle was seen. When I was disappointed, I heard someone shouting:

"There it is!"

Everyone gathered around to take a look and found a rifle in a newly opened box.

"Is this AK?" Someone asked.

This gun looks quite odd, with an AK47-like gun with a straight magazine inserted into the body. It's a bit out of proportion.

Although Gao Xiaosong is a soldier, his actual knowledge of weapons is far less than that of an amateur. It is very foreign to any automatic rifle of the non-AK and M16 families. What's more, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing are both firearms enthusiasts in the United States, the largest market for light weapons, and they are well-informed about light weapons.

"This is the M77B1 automatic rifle." Lin Chuanqing said, "It's actually an AKM automatic rifle that uses NATO 7.62mm rounds. "It was also made in Yugoslavia." ”

"It's a strange choice to say that the arms dealers are actually selling Yugoslav weapons."