"Captain, there's a fire on the beacon!" May Evening Report, who was in charge of observation.

Bei Wei looked up and saw that a bonfire had been lit on the beacon tower, and a thick puff of smoke rose into the sky under the twilight sky.

Although this was expected, he was still a little frustrated - if only he could pull out the guard post silently. But his plan was shot by Xi Yaya - the preparation of the special operation took too much time. The traversers are to launch a landing operation as soon as possible and gain a foothold on the shore before the news spreads. The Qiongzhou Strait was the main sea communication route and fishing ground in ancient times, and at dawn, such a fleet beyond the times could not hide from anyone, and it would take less than one or two hours to pull out the beacon tower and not pull it out.

"Leave him alone and continue to measure the water." Bei Wei ordered, now it is really necessary to let the ship enter the port as soon as possible.

But the people on the boat were still a little nervous, Mei Wan recorded the depth of the water, and whispered to Bei Wei:

"Will the Ming army come for reinforcements?" Reinforcements from all walks of life came in the same way - a common plot in movies and novels.

"No, it won't." In fact, Beiwei himself has no bottom in his heart. Yu Eshui swore that there was no garrison in Lingao City, and the beacon tower played the role of early warning. Although he was not afraid of small Ming troops or any local forces, the less bloodshed the better.

The dinghy paddled all the way to test the depth of the water and launch the buoy, and to mark the channel for the boat to enter. The tide was rising, the waves poured into the river, and the boat was carried to the pier in front of the beacon tower almost without paddling, and under the stage was a low tiled house with a flagpole in front of the door—this was probably the Bopu Inspection Department mentioned in the intelligence.

There was no one in front of the inspection department, and there were lanterns with the words "inspection department" hanging on the high flagpole.

Bei Wei waved his hand: "All bayonets!" Scout team, the house in front of the target, one group, two groups, three groups, follow me! With the sound of the password, Bei Wei closed the insurance, and was the first to jump out of the dinghy and jump onto the dock.

Although everyone did a very standard assault, the first Ming official office occupied by the traversers was empty. On the beds in the left and right wings, the residual temperature of the straw mats is still there, and a pot of water has been seated in the room, and the fire has not been extinguished. It hasn't been a few minutes since the building was empty.

The Inspection Division is responsible for inventory and early warning, and of course there is no need to fight with the vicious pirates. They are familiar with the terrain and walk away. Anyway, the pirates didn't stay long after they left, and they came back to clean up - except for the tables, chairs and benches in the inspection department, there were some guys in the room, and they couldn't lose a few dollars. The pirates also knew that there was nothing of value in this yamen, so they simply did not enter the door.

Not only did these 21st-century time-travelers search everywhere, they had to look through everything with gusto—in their minds, it was all antiques. Do you want to occupy the dove's nest - the house, the beacon tower on the commanding heights against the coast, and the dock, which is simply a ready-made landing headquarters?

Bei Wei ordered a team to go up to the beacon tower to search for and extinguish the fire and then act as a guard, while a team climbed to the top of the inspection department and was responsible for suppressing the perimeter. He reported the successful landing to the flagship through the walkie-talkie, occupied the Bopu Inspection Division, and there were no casualties in the operation.

After the report, he called two team members: "You go back to the dinghy and throw smoke beacons along the route." Guide subsequent vessels into port. ”

In the building of the Fengcheng ship, the people who had been watching the smoke column nervously after hearing the news breathed a sigh of relief. Bopu Port - the gate of Lingao has been opened to the crossers.

Ma Qianzhuo suppressed his excitement and pretended to be calm and said to Mondstadt, "Let's start!" ”

The order was then transmitted to all the ships. The same command was repeated on every ship: "Raise anchor!" ”

Two fishing boats are avant-garde, two are behind, the Fengcheng ship and the self-propelled barge sail side by side, and the North American rudder sailing ship spreads its snow-white sails. The fleet rolled the white waves, sailing mightily towards the harbor. Behind them, a burst of red sun stained the sky red, the surface of the South China Sea glittered with gold, and the dawn of a new shijie shone on the travelers for the first time. The traversers on the deck involuntarily stood up, and the excitement in their hearts was incomparable:

I am witnessing history and I am making history!

This feeling made them fascinated, and someone sang "Singing the Motherland":

The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and how loud the victory song is,

Sing about our dear motherland, from now on to prosperity and strength.

……

At first one person, then many, zuihou is all people. The high-pitched and loud singing voice soared into the sky, resounding in the new shijie.

"Honk!" At the moment when it was about to enter the harbor, the Executive Committee ordered.

"Woo-" The whistle sounded, it was a whistle from another time and space civilization, it announced the advent of a new era, history, about to be changed.

While everyone is eagerly preparing to embark on the new shijie, for the time being they will have to endure on board until the dock works are over. Specialized engineering personnel and unspecialized basic labour, the latter in groups of five, are disembarked into dinghys and transported ashore,

The engineers should first plan and build a port area as a starting point for advancing inland.

Because the geographical environment of Bopu Port as a seaport is not advantageous - although there is a deep-water channel with a depth of 10 meters in the bay, and the sandbar of Red Rock Island and the siltation of the estuary also acts as a natural breakwater, the shelter conditions here are not all-weather, and the northwest side is almost completely unsheltered, and once the northwest wind blows, the wind and waves in the harbor will be very strong - the crossers cannot use it as the main base, and the storm surge caused by the typhoon every year also makes it unsuitable for living and working.

The modern port of Bopu is at the southern end of the bay, where the water depth conditions are the best, and the same site was chosen by the engineers as the landing site and the unloading dumping site. As a rule, such a port requires the construction of breakwaters, various forms of wharves and trestles, unloading machinery and large areas of stockpiling warehouses and yards. All of this is a fantasy for the traverser.

Of course, ship-to-shore barges can also be carried out using landing craft, but the speed is too slow. If the trestle is built manually, the whole construction period is very long, and some professional equipment must be made to work effectively. Therefore, Yan Quezhi, who was in charge of the planning and design of the port, and several engineering personnel discussed the adoption of the simplest method - a floating wharf before the crossing.

The most common use of floating docks in modern times is the berthing of small boats, and is rarely used as an unloading dock. However, those who know a little about military history know that the Norman landings in China and Britain and the United States made large-scale use of floating docks, which enabled the Allies to send 100,000 tons of supplies and 50,000 vehicles of various kinds ashore without capturing the port. Although the floating dock suffered heavy losses in the ensuing hurricane, it quickly lost its effectiveness. But its effectiveness has been fully demonstrated.

The traversers didn't have the luxury of being a floating dock and a breakwater in Normanland, and they didn't need to be of such a huge size. As long as they can transfer the supplies and personnel on board to the shore as soon as possible. Therefore, the floating dock adopts a closed 200L iron drum row, and then welds into a small unit with angle steel connection, and the part connected by each unit is also suspended with buffer waste tires, and the top is welded with corrugated steel plates, according to the calculation of the engineering team, the buoyancy of each unit can carry 40 tons. Ordinary vehicles, machinery and supplies can be passed.

The problem with this type of drum floating dock unit is the difficulty of connection. If it is a standard boat bridge, there are special connecting bolts, which can be connected very accurately, although these iron barrel piers are welded with angle steel to weld the outer frame, and also welded the exposed steel lugs for connection in advance, but no one dares to guarantee the error level here.

The floating docks towed by the fishing boats were dragged into the bay one by one, and the traversers did not have the high-horsepower motorized boats of the bridge soldiers, and the small motorized boats on the Fengcheng ship had limited horsepower, and they relied on several small boats to drag and tow them, and finally put the units roughly in place - the berths of the Fengcheng ship anchored were almost 150 meters away from the nearest part of the shore, and the number of units was sufficient, but the combination was much more laborious than imagined, and the undulating waves made it difficult to connect the bolts in place, and the engineers had no experience in this area. From time to time, some people fell into the water because they were too focused on their work, but fortunately they had life jackets and whistles, and the landing headquarters organized a group of people who were good at sea swimming to take rowboats to patrol and rescue in the bay, and the engineering department finally did not become the first department to produce martyrs.

In the manufacture of the pontoon dock, the anchors installed in reference to the pontoon bridge played a decisive role, and the four small anchors on each unit successfully slowed down the bumps of the pontoon. By the end of the morning, a floating trestle 150 meters long and 8 meters wide had taken shape, although the units would occasionally reveal cracks that could break people's ankles in the undulations of the waves, and a terrible pulling sound would follow.

The members of the executive committee watched the completion of the first project of the traverser on the Fengcheng ship, and they couldn't help but be excited, Ma Qianzhuo said loudly: "I suggest that this trestle bridge be named 'No. 1 Project', and the monument should be erected by the bridge to immortalize the history of the crossing country!" ”

"It's okay to erect a monument." "But this thing has to be replaced with a permanent facility before the typhoon next year, and when the typhoon comes, we will lose a lot of money if it blows it away – so many iron drums and steel!" ”

Ma Qianzhu was about to speak, and suddenly a foreign girl came in the cab, holding a camera and snapping a snap, everyone was stunned, this is the memory of Ding Ding's Yanma girlfriend Pan Pan, and then Ding Ding also came in, holding an interview machine in his hand, and directly asked Ma Qianzhu to talk about the feelings of landing - this media reporter who is not willing to be lonely has already recruited a few people who know how to print and are ready to produce the first newspaper of the traverser, he even allocated the shares, and gave his future newspaper an uncreative name " Lingao Times.

"I don't think much of it." Ma Qianzhuan looked uncooperative. In fact, he is very excited today, he just doesn't like interviews and other things, he prefers to quietly write his memoirs before mentioning his feelings, rather than being poked and asked by someone.

"What about Mr. Wen? Tell us what you think. Ding Ding immediately changed objects, and Pan Pan came over and slapped Wen Desi again.

"A historic day." Wen Desi said.