Chapter 74: Trouble is coming
The bridge of a transport ship is far less complicated than that of a warship, and the command room, wheelhouse, navigation room, and radio room are often concentrated in a single interconnected space.
Coming to the cabin from the bridge above the cargo hold, Weiss led the soldiers up the stairs, and as soon as he appeared, he was almost blown in the head by an enemy bullet, and he didn't know whether it was a bullet or a sputtered fragment, and he made a cut in his head, which hurt a little, but it was not in the way. Since the enemy has chosen to resist as always, you won't be polite to them! Directly threw a pineapple and bounced it - this is a loss for the Normans, although the ship is equipped with a variety of individual weapons, but for safety reasons, the crew is usually equipped with guns at most, and will not walk around with explosives. The incident happened suddenly, and the attackers could touch the thunder at will, and the Norman crew had to go to the weapons room to have it.
As the most frequently used melee weapon by warring parties, the Spinball Bullet usually has a range of about ten feet, powerful enough to destroy a truck or kill a group of infantry in a concentrated position. After the explosion, Weiss quickly climbed up, the gunpowder embers and the smell of blood were mixed together, which was particularly disgusting, he held his breath, squinted his eyes and swept around, this layer is either hanging or blood, there is no need to spend more energy, and then look up, there are still living Normans on the upper layer. Spinach bombs are enough, but if you kill all these Normans, who will be at the helm? Weiss himself did not possess this skill, nor did the soldiers accompanying him, and even the elite of the Special Forces might not be able to control the Norman ships.
In order to keep his mouth alive, Weiss had to take another risk, he took advantage of the fact that the smoke of the explosion was still very strong, walked up the stairs, and said "help me" in Norman language as he went, and there were several Normans above, even if they were not stunned, they could not understand the situation below, and when they heard someone calling for help, they thought it was their own, so they hesitated. As soon as Weiss went up, he opened fire on those enemies with weapons, that is, those with high combat values in the special vision. Ask for your life directly, without mercy.
This "crazy two-gun thug", one person with two guns and one spinball bullet, washed the double bridge of the Norman transport ship in blood, killing 9 people and seriously wounding 3 on the spot, leaving only 2 Norman crew members who did not carry guns...... Another example that cannot be replicated!
From being accidentally discovered by enemy crews to successfully storming the bridge, in just a few minutes, the situation has changed dramatically: a group of sneaky and uninvited guests, Huo Ran has become the new owner here. Having seized control of the Norman transport so quickly, even Weiss himself was briefly confused: was it necessary to continue the adventurous plan of raiding the fortress? Wouldn't it be nice to have enough food supplies for the guerrilla advance team to eat for several months, let it fly to the area where the secret camp is located to quickly unload its cargo, and then fly to the mountains near Baoseer to disguise itself as a crash? Sooner or later, the Normans will find out the truth, but by that time, the guerrilla advance team will have another strategic shift, or cooperate with the Federation Army to launch a new round of offensive, and the Normans will not be able to subdue themselves?
Weiss's beautiful longing did not make him fall into a state of self-absorption, but quickly returned to reality and calmly considered the most urgent problem: the huge transport ship, in addition to the cargo hold and bridge, the boiler room, the power room, the gun emplacement, the crew's living room and the crew, especially the power cabin, once they realized that the situation was not good, drove the battleship to change course or force landing, all the previous efforts could be in vain!
In the bridge command room, which had been blown up by a spinach bomb, Weiss found a metal nameplate on the wall that marked the ship's construction, and the Norman transport's structure was clear at a glance - even without this instruction map, it was possible to obtain information from the captured Norman crew, but that was naturally less efficient and reliable.
When the bridge was stormed, there was still gunfire below, but after the bridge was captured, it was quiet below. Figuring out the structure of the transport, Weiss quickly ran down the bridge, only to see that the soldiers who remained at the hatch were still holding their posts, and when they asked, they learned that the enemy crew tried to attack through the corridor above the cargo hold, but after being blocked, there was no movement, and in the battle, they killed and wounded three or four Norman sailors.
Weiss tried to detect the enemy with a special vision, and although he still couldn't get the individual situation behind the closed metal compartment, a similar bug existed was that the transport ship as a whole could be read the combat values: it was slightly damaged at this time, and there was a large gap between the upper limit and the actual value of the two readings of biological function and mental vitality, the former was caused by injuries or deaths, and a very important factor in the latter was the loss of morale. From current readings, there are at least fifty or sixty living people on board.
A diagram of the ship's structure on the bridge shows that the corridor is the only access to the cargo holds, but not the only access to the bow and stern. In addition to the open deck, it is also possible to pass through the boiler room, power room, and access access to floating power equipment at the bottom of the ship. Although he could not intuitively grasp the position and movement of the Normans on the ship, the instinct of battle made Weiss make a fresh inference: finding that the corridor above the cargo hold was guarded by the raiders, the Norman crew had changed to the deck or bottom of the ship. So, he left two fighters to stay here, and let one go to the bridge to alert his companions to the situation on the deck, and he brought three helpers and moved along the stairs under the bridge to the bottom of the ship.
Industrial civilization developed into the electric age, and for a long time, the ancient steam engine coexisted with the emerging internal combustion engine. This Norman transport ship is powered by coal-fired boilers and steam engines, and its most striking feature is the scorched smell of coal-burning in the tunnels at the bottom of the ship, filled with the rumbling roar of machinery. In this noisy environment, even if someone is coming from the front, it is difficult to hear the footsteps, and it is not good to put your ear to the floor unless the other person has already walked very close......
In front of an ordinary hatch, Weiss and his party were not surprised to encounter the Normans, who were much more numerous than them, and all had weapons in their hands - pistols, rifles, wrenches, hammers, and so on. As soon as he saw him, Weiss shot four or five opponents, but the opponents were outnumbered, and he failed to take the opportunity to break through, and was immediately blocked by the opponent's bullets on the side of the hatch.
Spinrice bombs don't always solve the problem, and there are a lot of machinery and equipment in the cabin over there, and throwing a mine over there may have gotten the transport ship to the ground. When the attack failed, Weiss took the route of persuasion, telling the people on the other side of the hatch in Norman that the bridge of the transport ship had been occupied, that the surviving officers and crew had given up resistance, and that if they insisted on resisting, the result would probably be that everyone would die together, and no one would want to see their long-lost relatives at the end of the war.
Influenced by the martial spirit, the Norman army surrendered at a lower rate on the battlefield than the Federation and Wessex, but it was not incredibly low. In fact, the high popularity of national education made the Norman soldiers of this era more independent than their predecessors, and the significant effect of this was that the tenacity of the troops to fight to the death was weakened. The Norman crew on the other side of the hatch did not refuse to talk with bullets or spinax rounds, but posed a very sharp question to Weiss: what were they going to do with the transport?
How to deal with this transport ship is naturally closely related to how to deal with the captured personnel. Weiss pondered for a moment and replied, "As long as you lay down your arms, I promise...... Those who are willing to surrender to the federal army will be treated as prisoners of war as listed in international conventions, and will be able to return home safely when the two sides exchange prisoners of war or the war is over; If you do not wish to be prisoners of war, we can guarantee that you will be released within two hours, and that you will be given enough food and water to return to your army. In addition, if you want to get rid of the shackles of war and return home from the front line, we can provide you with additional travel expenses, gold, cash, pocket watches, you can do it. ”
This categorical arrangement corresponded to the various ideas of the Normans, and also took into account the possibility that there might be forcibly recruited laborers on the enemy's side, who usually did the dirty and tiring work of porters and stokers, and did not dare to resist, and did not mind the soles of their feet if they had the opportunity to escape......
Weiss's experience led him to give an impeccable answer, but the Normans on the other side were more difficult to deal with than expected, and the leader immediately retorted loudly: "Don't try to fool us, Ulster, we need to know what you are going to do with this flying ship!" If you're going to drive it back, you're going to be stopped on the way, and we're all going to have to do! ”
This reasoning was very logical, and in this dilemma, Weiss replied decisively: "To tell you the truth, we didn't plan to let it fly to the territory controlled by the Federal Army, but we were going to go to your original destination, Forther. We weren't going to snatch the transport, but to take a ride to Forther. ”
The Normans on the opposite side did not respond immediately, but several people gathered together to discuss in a low voice. Today's Weiss can be regarded as crawling out of the pile of dead people, and he has never seen any battles, so how can he pin his hopes on the enemy. He asked the soldiers behind him to pull out the pineapple bullets, and while the enemy was distracted, he rushed in without saying hello, holding a pistol in one hand and a grenade in the other, shouting "surrender or kill".
Weiss envisioned a scenario in which the Normans, at least the majority, were overwhelmed by their fate, as long as they did not resist for a moment, and the battle of wills was divided, and then they could only honestly lay down their arms. However, many of the Normans in front of them were clearly unwilling to give in, and they immediately opened fire, and as soon as the shots rang out, the scene went out of control. When a bullet flies past its cheeks, the old bird will also panic, and if it is hit by a bullet, it will explode even more instinctively...... The fighters of the guerrilla advance team threw spinach bombs at Norman fever, and the Normans fled in all directions when they saw the pineball bombs flying in smoke, and Weiss had to retreat behind a machine with his fighters to avoid the impending blast and shrapnel threat.
With two loud bangs, the small space was filled with the heat of death, and the ears were buzzing, and even worse, the air flow changed suddenly, and the scorching air was instantly pumped out, replaced by a cold and biting turbulence!