"What's the odd thing?" Wu De was puzzled.

"It's really strange to transport people to death." A voice came from the front.

Wu De was nibbling on the crab, and found that there were more feet in front of him, and when he looked up, a white fat man stood in front of him, with an empty lunch box in his left hand and a king-size stainless steel spoon in his right hand, staring directly at the crab on the grill.

"It's so fragrant!!!!" Seeing him look up, the fat man came out with a word.

"What? Some? "Although I don't know who is coming, but they are also traversers, and they are brothers.

"Okay, good, good!!" The fat man was not polite, sat down with his ass, and stretched out the lunch box.

Hit the fat man with half a crab, and the fat man took the lunch box, didn't speak, and worked hard.

"You're here to join in the fun?" Ma Qianzhu seems to know someone who came, "Zhucai Lao is very ignorant." ”

The fat man smiled and licked his lips: "Duke, you are saying that it is strange, and you still cover me with this, it is too outward." ”

"But this time I did pay a lot of old things, so it's a bit weird."

"Old-fashioned. Fang Yi and the little county lord took Wu Sangui's sword and went to break into the palace. ”

"That's what I thought too." Ma Qianzhuo took out an interrogation record from his bag, "Most of these captives were found temporarily, not old bandits. Zhu Cai Lao has suffered losses, and he knows how much we are doing, he really wants to fight, and he will never engage in these rookie cannon fodder. ”

"Pirates are not officers and soldiers, and they are not used to carving numbers on swords and guns." The fat man said.

"Someone wants to sow discord." Wude said.

"That's right." The fat man continued to gnaw on the crab, "Who wants to stir up the relationship between the Crossing Group and Zhucai Lao?" Liu Xiang and Zheng Yiguan are both possible, Zhu Cai Lao and the Crossing Group have a big fight, and they are the beneficiaries. ”

"Who could that be?" Ma Qianzhu seems to be very superstitious about this fat man.

"I know that?" The fat man spread his hands, "If you want me to say, it's Liu Xiang." ”

“weishenme？”

"I guess."

Ma Qianzhu almost fainted. The fat man snorted a few more times, swallowed an oyster, and took a few sips before continuing:

"Actually, it doesn't matter which one you have. I guess: the real offense is coming soon. ”

Ma Qianzhu was shocked, the enemy would not send 400 people to death so simply, just to send such a false message to them, there must be a backhand. Thinking of the fleet on the radar just now, he immediately went to touch his phone.

Before I could touch my phone, a crisp gunshot rang out in the night sky.

Ma Qianzhuo and Wu De suddenly stood up, nervously watching the direction of the gunshot.

"Hey, what's your name?" Wude turned his head and asked, he was very curious about the visitor.

"Si Lou...... Slou Mourning Bayer. The fat man nibbled on the little half of the crab and said inarticulately.

"Si Lou. Mourning Bayer? I don't think I've seen this person before? He was confused.

After thinking about it again, he suddenly said, "Oh, it turned out to be a famous one...... I have admired it for a long time......"

"Don't look up for a long time, you're tired of fame." The fat man sighed hypocritically, and quickly caught another oyster, swallowed it with a huge tongue, and then stood up slowly, patted his stomach, and said: "Xiexie hospitality, you are busy, I won't bother." ”

"That'...... I do not send it. Wu De was indeed not in a polite mood at the moment, and hurried to the house to get his 56 and a half.

The fat man knocked on the lunch box and hummed a crooked song in his mouth: "Old bear is lucky today, old wolf please eat chicken ......", and went all the way.

SHIT, Xue Ziliang couldn't help but curse in English. In the eerie white night of the infrared telescope, six ships are clearly visible. One of them is clearly not of the Chinese ship type.

A few hours earlier, he had received a call from Bei Wei asking him to lead a reconnaissance detachment on a foot patrol along the beach in Bopu Harbor, where intelligence had indicated that there might be an enemy infiltrating the sea at night.

Xue Ziliang didn't dare to slack off, especially Bei Wei's direct order - he knew very well that if he hadn't gotten Bei Wei's favor, he would still be a "black man" who had "not been organized". After being in this group for a long time, he deeply understood the difference between "regular workers" and "temporary workers", since he has now become a regular worker, he has to work hard, and Xue Ziliang now understands what it means to be a "birth problem".

The headquarters of the long-range reconnaissance team -- now each department is trying to elevate its rank, just as the health team recently changed its wooden sign to the Ministry of Health, and the reconnaissance team is not exempt from vulgarity -- in Bairencheng, but Bei Wei has stationed a four-person detachment in Bopu, Damei Village, and Yanchang Village to conduct daily patrols and training at the same time, and he and Xue Ziliang take turns to guide each team.

None of the four-person squad had any military experience except for Xue Ziliang - in fact, Bei Wei thought that the veterans were too old, and if they were not engaged in reconnaissance majors, their plasticity would be very poor, and he would rather choose volunteers from among the young men in their twenties. After a few months of training, these young men were not enough to meet the standards of scouts, but they were much better than rookies from another plane's recruit company.

They brought a total of three SKS rifles, Xue Ziliang brought a Remington 870 shotgun, he felt that the SKS was too long, and it was difficult for the scouts, as a former American army, he now felt the most painful is the lack of weapons and equipment. There were quite a few of them, but almost all of them were equipment he wasn't familiar with, with the exception of the Glock pistol and the Remington shotgun, the most infantry weapons the Traveler had, the SKS and the 56, were all unfamiliar to him - even an AK47, which he used a lot.

Let's talk about this night vision device, when he was in the U.S. Marine Corps Armed Forces Reconnaissance Team, this was a very small pediatric thing, even if he had more night vision equipment in his garage than here. Fortunately, the whole team had only a pair of low-light night vision goggles and a Russian-made infrared telescope - he was not used to Russian goods. However, this is already a very haode configuration, although the night vision equipment is brought a lot, but there is no way to replenish it, and it cannot be repaired if it is broken, and the Planning Commission controls it very strictly.

Searching along the coast is a tiring method, but it is also the most effective, the sky is cloudy, there is not a trace of moon or starlight, and the water-sky lineline is barely visible. Although the radar gave the ship an approximate coordinates, he had to stop and search the surface of the sea with a telescope every kilometer he walked.

After a two-hour trek along the coast, the search party came to the end of Long Ho Bay, and if the coordinates were correct, the fleet should be nearby, and when the telescope searched again, it found the ship on the opposite side of the strait.

He really knew how to hide, he subconsciously chewed it, only to realize that there was no chewing gum. These six ships were hiding in the shadow of the reef, and it was such a starless and moonless night, if it weren't for the radar on the Fengcheng ship, it would be impossible for the observation post to see it with the naked eye alone, let alone locate it.

The speed of the ship was extremely slow, Xue Ziliang looked at his watch and began to calculate the speed of movement - less than 2 knots. The foreign sail was clearly not fully hoisted, and that was what was suspicious.

"Brother Xue, is there a ghost here?" One of the team members asked quietly. Xue Ziliang is straightforward and capable, and he is very favored by the young people in the team. Although he has repeatedly said that it is good to call him "Pooh", everyone still likes to use the Chinese style of "Brother ×".

"It's not weird." Xue Ziliang muttered. He called Bopu's radio station and began to report:

Six unidentified ships were found, and from the preliminary judgment of the ship type, five smaller ships were Chinese ships, one was a Western warship, three masts, and a displacement of 400 tons. Chinese warships have no side gun doors, and 4~6 guns are placed on the bow and deck. There are 12~16 gun emplacements on the open-air deck of Western warships.

"There's a sampan!" Xue Ziliang found a small boat in his binoculars

There were eight men in the sampan, and through the binoculars they were known to be armed with swords and arquebuses. One man at the helm, four with the oars, two with arquebuses in the bow of the ship - this is really primitive. Xue Ziliang thought.

A man in Zuihou has a roll in his hand. The little rowboat moved cautiously, rowing only once every long time, and now he could clearly see that the sailor with a roll in his hand was actually carrying a plumb line, and he was constantly measuring the depth of the water near the shore. This indicates that the enemy intends to bring the fleet close enough to support the landing with artillery fire, and if only the troops are transported by sampans, there is no need to measure the depth of the water at all.

Judging from the path of the boat, it is obvious that the pirates intend to land from this side of Lingaojiao, which is not the entrance to the channel of Bopu, and the relative fortification is not too tight. As for the beacon tower, apparently the pirates didn't pay attention to it, let alone know that there was a 12-pounder cannon on it.

On a breezy night, the surroundings are very quiet. Only the waves crashed against the shore, making a rattling sound.

A ghostly galleon approached on the surface of the sea, a Spanish galleon named the Countess of Scarborough. It was followed by five smaller Chinese schooners.

The moon emerges from the clouds, and the moonlight is very light.

"This ghost moon!" The Spanish captain Aragonés, who was standing on the stern floor, complained. He had been cruising slowly on the opposite shore for half the night, and it was not until near midnight that he approached the center of the strait. The moonlight would reveal the shadow of the ship, and according to rumors, those strange orientals had many strange muskets that could shoot very far, and Sidonia did not want to risk it.

"Are the Orientals asleep?" Aragonés muttered to himself, the harbor in the telescope still calm, with nothing unusual except for a few lights.

"Captain. Captain Liu in the rear signaled to our ship to ask if to start an attack? ”

"Got it." A contemptuous smile tugged at the corner of Aragonés' mouth. These stupid Easterners will only fight on land, they are not worthy of being called sailors at all. At sea, he was confident that the Countess Scarborough could clean up all of Liu Xiang's warships with just one ship. If it weren't for the fact that after the arrival of the Dutch, the Spanish Shili off the coast of China was getting worse and worse, how could he cooperate with such a second-rate pirate Liu Xiang.

He kept an eye on the dinghy with his binoculars, and so far it had not given any signal that the water was not deep enough, and in a moment he could safely and boldly sail the boat very close to the shore and support the landing pirates with heavy artillery fire. No matter how powerful the legendary strange musket is, it will not be an opponent for a salvo of 16 cannons. There are a total of 32 cannons on board the Countess Scarborough, which is quite impressive even in European waters.