Jiang Beiming stood in front of the 500 recruits: "Soldiers, from today onwards, you will be a glorious soldier. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info。。。。。 ”

Ye Zhan, who was behind Jiang Beiming, secretly said to Captain Zhou Lei, the commander of the recruit battalion beside him: "Sir, do these recruits also have to give braised pork to eat, and I will ask you for reimbursement when the time comes." ”

Zhou Lei glared at Ye Zhan fiercely: "Just the braised pork you had last time, and I ate Lao Tzu's salary for a month." That's 500 recruits, you want to eat Lao Tzu to death. ”

Jiang Beiming retreated to the side after speaking, and Zhou Lei then walked up to the 500 recruits and began to plagiarize "Band of Brothers" again.

A herald ran over quickly, leaned on Jiang Beiming's ear, and whispered a few words. Jiang Beiming looked up left and right, and beckoned Ye Zhan over: "Second Lieutenant, the Military Committee has something to do with us going back, and Chief Han and I will go back first." After a while, your battalion commander will finish speaking, and you will talk to him, and we will not say hello. ”

Ye Zhan's "horn" stood upright: "Yes, sir." ”

Jiang Beiming walked to Han Wantao's side, lowered his voice and said, "Zhang Guodong asked us to go back, saying that there was an emergency. ”

The two men returned to the front of the building of the Military Commission and found that two sentry posts had been added in front of the building. Seeing the two people walking into the office, Zhang Guodong hurriedly greeted him: "The flying pigeon has arrived, the latest situation." ”

After a while, Wang Hua also arrived in the office. The four committee members gathered around and opened the oil slip taken from the pigeon's feet, with only a few short lines on it: "I arrived at my mother's house in the middle of the month, 400 catties in the car, 28 gifts, 2 yellow croaker, 5 steamed buns, the stars have gone to pearl picking, and the family can set off." ”

Zhang Guodong raised his head and looked around: "It seems that Captain Fan didn't lie to us, the Queen did arrive in Manila in the middle of the month, a 400-ton ship, 28 cannons." Wang Zhaoxing has already set off. ”

Wang Hua nodded: "Go and inform Sun Dalei and call Zeng Guangxian back." If Sun Dalei and their side have no new opinions, let Zeng Guangxian also set off, there is only more than a month left before the middle of the month. ”

"Wait." Jiang Beiming suddenly stopped everyone.

"What's wrong? What's the problem? ”

"You don't need to inform the committee, just tell Sun Dalei alone. There is no need to call Zeng Guangxian back, ask someone to find a small boat to send Van Basten and Xinyou Saemon to Zeng Guangxian's ship, inform Liu Jun, and cooperate with Zeng Guangxian to go to Yazhou to find a hidden place to replenish and set off directly. There are many people, and we must keep it a secret. ”

"This?" Zhang Guodong hesitated, "If you don't notify the committee, it doesn't seem to be in accordance with the rules to do this." ”

"I'm not a committee of distrust." "But it's better to prevent it from happening. This is a military operation. Besides, the committee has long known about this operation and authorized us to take full responsibility, so we have the right to keep the details secret from them, and I don't think Sun Dalei will have any opinions. Also, remove the new sentry in front of the building. ”

Zhang Guodong thought for a while: "If you don't have any opinions, just do what Jiang Beiming said." ”

Half a month later, the Yazhou and Wanzhou anchored on a small unnamed island about 50 nautical miles from Manila. Zeng Guangxian stood anxiously on the bow of the ship and looked into the distance.

"Commander Zeng." Lin Zhaolong asked, Zeng Guangxian is now the commander of the Yulin Bay Navy, although he only has three gunboats under his command, "There won't be any problems on Lao Wang's side, we have been waiting here for almost 3 days, according to the agreement, he should have arrived a long time ago." ”

"Probably not." Zeng Guangxian said this, and he couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart, "Lao Wang has been floating on the sea for so many years, and he has also been in the navy, so there will be no problems." Besides, they also have 118 rubber boats on board, I'm worried about Van Basten and them, this guy won't suddenly turn back. ：

"No way, this is Manila, not Batavia, if he turns against the water, the Spaniards will not be the first to spare him. Besides, we Marines will follow, there will be no problem. “

"I hope so." Zeng Guangxian's words carried a sense of anxiety, "They have been going to Manila for almost 2 days, and at the speed of 118 rubber boats, it is time to come back." ”

The two men were talking, when suddenly there was a bell ringing from the lookout post. Zeng Guangxian looked up and saw that the lookout was lying on his stomach and shouted down: "Report to the chief, there are fireworks in the sky at 2 o'clock on the bow of the ship." ”

Zeng Guangxian and Lin Zhaolong looked up at the same time, and two more fireworks bombs rose on the distant horizon, exploding in mid-air.

"Lao Wang is here." Zeng Guangxian said excitedly, "Look at the lookout post and set off 3 fireworks bombs in response." ”

More than an hour later, Zeng Guangxian and Lin Zhaolong didn't care about Wang Zhaoxing, who had just landed on the deck, and hugged him tightly in their arms with open arms: "Old Wang, you are here, you are in a hurry to kill us, why are you so late." ”

"Damn, don't mention it." Wang Zhaoxing wiped the seawater from his face, "We went around in a circle. After coming out of Qiongzhou, I suddenly thought about what would happen if the Queen was advanced. So I discussed it with Zhao Dequan and decided to go to Macau first, along the route from Macau to Manila. The journey was basically at 13 or 4 knots, and you see, it was all wet with seawater. Hurry up, it's still a few days late, but fortunately, there is no trace of the Queen along the way, and it is estimated that it has not yet reached Manila. What about you? ”

"We're here for 3 days." Zeng Guangxian replied, "The Marines and Van Basten went to Manila to inquire about the news, and when they came back, we would know that the Queen had not arrived in Manila, and if not, we would follow the route together." ”

Another bell rang from the lookout post: "Report to the sir, our rubber boat is back." ”

After dinner, all the traversers gathered in the captain's quarters of the God, where a large hand-drawn map was placed on the table.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I now announce the joint order of the Yulin Bay Commission and the Yulin Bay Military Commission." Zeng Guangxian did not make the specific tasks and these traversers public until now: "The order is to form a task force consisting of three gunboats, the God, Yazhou, and Wanzhou, and the Yulin Bay Marine Platoon Special Operations Team, and Zeng Guangxian serves as the commander-in-chief of the task force. The task force was tasked with following the Manila-South American route to find the Portuguese gold carrier Queen, and capture the Empress as much as possible. During the operation, the fleet has the right to take the necessary attack on any ship. Speaking of this, Zeng Guangxian glanced up for a week, and added, "Including Ming Dynasty ships." The operation was codenamed Operation Pearl Harbor. ”

"The gold ship? How much gold was shipped? It's going to be a robbery. Although most of the traversers had already guessed that there might be a big operation, they were still a little surprised to hear that the target of the operation was actually a gold ship.

"Everyone, be quiet, please be quiet." Zeng Guangxian waved his hand and continued, "According to the information we have obtained so far, the Empress has not yet arrived in Manila, but it is estimated that it should be soon, and the distance is not far. Now I order all personnel to return to their respective posts, make all preparations for battle, and at the same time keep it strictly confidential, and not to divulge any information about this operation until the battle begins, and to train the crew on a long voyage as originally said. ”

"Commander Zeng, how big is the Queen, are our 3 gunboats sure?" A traverser asked.

"I'll answer that question." Wang Zhaoxing said, "According to the information we have received, the Empress is a 400-ton ship with 28 cannons. Everyone saw the St. Louis that we dragged back to Yulin Bay, not much bigger than it. I used a God to fight the St. Louis and I have no power to fight back, let's fight him with three ships now, it's a piece of cake, don't worry. ”

"Captain Wang is right, they are no opponent at all in terms of combat effectiveness." Zeng Guangxian took over again, "But we must not take it lightly." According to intelligence, there is also a Dutch ship that is currently looking for the Queen, so our opponents may have more than one ship. Moreover, I might as well tell you that the gold and silver on the Queen add up to almost 700,000 taels of silver. How about the finances of our Yulin Bay, I think everyone has some points in their hearts, so winning the queen, for us, the meaning is obvious, I won't say much, please. ”

"Yes, commander-in-chief, guarantee the completion of the mission." Zhao Dequan's loud answer caused a burst of laughter from the people around him.

Zeng Guangxian also smiled, and immediately put on a serious expression: "I order, everyone make all preparations tonight and leave on time at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning." As the flagship, the God took the lead, and the Yazhou and Wanzhou followed, and each ship maintained a distance of 1 nautical mile, and the speed was maintained at 13 knots as much as possible, searching all the way along the route, and the contact signal remained unchanged. Let's look at the map. ”

"We're going to sail south along this line." Zeng Guangxian pointed to a red line marked on the map and said, "If there are no special circumstances, we will encounter the Empress at this location in three or four days, and the battle will start here. “

There was a burst of laughter from the traversers around you, do you really think you're Yamamoto Fifty-six, this is going to attack Pearl Harbor?

It was just getting dark. At 6 o'clock in the lunar month, the sun in the northern hemisphere had not yet woken up, and the three warships had already spread their sails and sailed all the way along the route from Manila to South America.

Zeng Guangxian, Wang Zhaoxing and Lin Zhaolong stood on the deck and looked into the distance, and several people had an indescribable feeling in their hearts. It has been almost a year and a half since I came to the Ming Dynasty, and although the development of Yulin Bay has experienced many twists and turns, it is slowly thriving day by day. But these people always feel that they owe something in their hearts, and after thinking about it carefully, probably everyone feels that they have not had the opportunity to be able to take charge of themselves in the past year and a half. In this Pearl Harbor operation, under Zeng Guangxian's strong demand for secrecy, even unrelated personnel of the committee and the Military Commission did not participate, and several people felt at the same time that the time had come to show their abilities. Especially Zeng Guangxian, since the last time Wang Zhaoxing defeated the Dutch battleship St. Louis with his own strength, Zeng Guangxian felt a lot of pressure. With the appointment of the two commissions as commander-in-chief of the Pearl Harbor operation, it was time to show his hand.

Lin Zhaolong looked back at Flight 95, which was covered with a thick canvas and erected on the deck. On this expedition, Lin Zhaolong strongly requested that he should bring a machine gun as melee fire support no matter what. In the last battle to repel He Laoliu's sneak attack on Yulin Bay, Flight 95 fired about 500 rounds of ammunition, and there are still 1,500 rounds left, and Lin Zhaolong brought out 1,000 rounds of bullets at once this time. The elite of the elite, thinking of this, Lin Zhaolong himself smiled bitterly. It's been a year and a half since he landed in Yulin Bay, and he, Lin Zhaolong, has never done anything brilliant except for leading people to kill Cao Liang. Seeing that the army and navy are expanding vigorously, Han Wantao and Zeng Guangxian have already been promoted to the rank of major, and it is said that the next step will be to promote colonel and lieutenant colonel, he Lin Zhaolong is still a lieutenant, this time no matter what, he has to do something beautiful, and let the people in Yulin Bay see whether the marine platoon is the elite of the elite.

"Wang, where are we?" Zeng Guangxian turned his head and asked.

"We've been walking for 2 days, and we're still 280 nautical miles away from our destination, so we guess we'll have to walk for another day."

Wang Zhaoxing wanted to say something else, but suddenly, there was a hurried ringing bell from the lookout post: "Sir, the situation has been discovered at 11 o'clock ahead." ”