Gongsun Hao finished reading this book very attentively, this book is not very thick, just like twenty or thirty pages, introducing the structure and principle of bicycles, how to learn to ride bicycles, how to keep bicycles, how to maintain bicycles, and the application of bicycles in the army, and finally there are a few small stories about bicycles.

After reading the book, he longed for himself to own a bicycle.

When he put down his book, he looked at the endless sea, and he couldn't help but feel melancholy, now he was in Europe, and was sailing to the Americas on the warship, the direction they were traveling now was getting farther and farther away from China, when he would come back to China, and whether he could return to China, he himself did not know.

Homesickness is common to everyone, and no matter who you are, in the face of the boundless sea, it is inevitable that there will be such emotional waves.

It was only a brief mood swing, and the smell of rice wafting from the restaurant immediately pulled him back into belief.

Due to the fog, the waiter turned on the lights and people walked to the restaurant in twos and threes.

Gongsun Hao came to the restaurant, found an empty seat in front of a round table and sat down, there were already three or four soldiers sitting at the table, because everyone knew each other, Gongsun Hao greeted them, took his own meal, and ate it with relish.

Today's lunch was sausages, eggs, and a plate of vegetables, because it had only been a short time since the port had been left, and there were still fresh vegetables on the battleship, and after a day or two, the vegetables would have to be replaced with bean sprouts.

After dinner, he received a meal for An Yunfei and returned to the rest cabin.

Back in the rest cabin, An Yunfei hadn't gotten up yet, but he hadn't read a book. When he saw Gongsun Hao coming back, he asked anxiously, "What are you going to have lunch today?" ”

"You slacker won't get out of bed yet." Gongsun Hao put the lunch box on the table, "Come on, there are sausages and eggs you like to eat." ”

An Yunfei got up in a hurry, he opened the lunch box and sniffed: "Hmm...... It smells so good! And greens, that's great! ”

Gongsun Hao said: "You can eat it quickly, the nagging is endless, the food will not taste good if it is cold." ”

An Yunfei sat at the table and ate, he didn't speak.

Seeing that he was only concerned about eating, Gongsun Hao couldn't help but ask, "Do you know bicycles?" ”

"I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." An Yunfei replied while chewing his rice.

Gongsun Hao said: "I read in the newspaper that bicycles will be equipped to the troops, and I don't know if our navy can get bicycles." ”

"Our Navy? Forget it, people's bikes are ridden on land. An Yunfei glanced at Gongsun Hao.

Gongsun Hao said: "You don't allow me to design a bicycle for walking on water in the future?" ”

The two talked and laughed for a while, and then the hatch was pushed open, and it was Deputy Chief of Staff Lin Zhenggang who had just returned from lunch.

"Deputy Chief of Staff Lin, do you think our navy can be equipped with bicycles?" Gongsun Hao stood up and asked.

Lin Zhenggang said with a straight face: "These problems are not what we consider, you have this spare time, why don't you go to the cockpit to help." ”

Gongsun Hao saluted Lin Zhenggang and said, "I am very happy to go, please give an order to Deputy Chief of Staff Lin." ”

Lin Zhenggang said: "Gongsun Hao listens to the order, I now order you to go to the cockpit to assist the work of the navigation group." ”

"Obey!" Gongsun Hao agreed, and then turned around and walked out of the rest cabin.

Walking out of the door of the rest cabin, which was the cockpit, he saw that the first mate was busy with several staff officers of the navigation group on the drawings, he walked over and said: "Report to the first mate, Deputy Chief of Staff Lin asked me to come over to assist the navigation group." ”

The first mate said happily: "Gongsun Staff Officer, you came just in time, you take over the work of Staff Officer Hu and let him go down for a meal first." ”

Staff Officer Hu was observing the speedometer, and Gongsun Hao, as an operational staff officer, of course knew the importance of this speedometer, and the navigation group was able to calculate the approximate position of the battleship through the direction of navigation and the speed of the ship, and then combined with the sextant to calculate, it was able to accurately determine the direction of the fleet, but the sextant must be used under sunny conditions, and at night and on rainy days, it could only rely on the speedometer to calculate the direction of the fleet.

Gongsun Hao is no stranger to this speedometer at all, because the speedometer is installed on the left side of the bridge, and he can often see it, but today he is responsible for observing the numbers displayed by the speedometer for the first time.

The speedometer is an instrument composed of an assembled disk, which has a carved disc marked with numbers, and a pointer points to the number on the engraved disk, and the number pointed by the pointer is the current speed of the battleship.

"Staff Officer Hu, wait for me to come, you can eat!" Gongsun Hao said to Staff Officer Hu, who was sitting in the corner observing the data.

Staff Officer Hu stood up from his observation position: "Staff Officer Gongsun, you must keep an eye on this dial at all times, and if there is any change, report it to our team leader immediately." ”

"Don't worry, go to dinner, I'm here, and there won't be any chaos." Gongsun Hao sat in the position where Staff Officer Hu had sat just now.

It's easy to say that it's a very easy thing, after really sitting down, Gongsun Hao knew that the errand of observing the speedometer is really not easy to do, his eyes can't leave the speedometer, he can bear it for a short time, after a long time, Gongsun Hao began to be impatient, he was a little uncertain, although his eyes were staring at the dial, his mind was no longer here.

Fortunately, the speed of the ship has been very smooth, the speed has not changed much, and the pointer is motionless pointing to the number "10", which means that the current speed of the ship is 10 knots.

He wished the speed of the ship could change, and he stared at the motionless pointer, feeling like something was wrong with his eyes.

After the numbness, his mind began to wander, and his thoughts flew back to the book about bicycles that he had just read.

"Gongsun Counselor, thank you very much!"

Gongsun Hao seemed to have just woken up from his sleep, he quickly stood up and gave up his position to Staff Officer Hu, who had just finished eating.

He came to the first mate and saw that the first mate had drawn some arrows on the drawing, which he couldn't read, so he just stood beside the first mate.

The first mate raised his head and said to him, "Gongsun Staff, you can go back, thank you for your assistance." ”

Gongsun Hao finally relaxed, he thought, if he asked him to look at the speedometer next time, he really had to consider whether to say yes or not.

The next day it rained heavily, and the speed of the fleet's sailing was forced to slow down, and Makin was very anxious, and it would be very bad for them if there was such ghost weather all the way.

In the evening, when the rain had not stopped, Ma Jin came to the newspaper office, and he wanted to report the situation here to Gao Junshan.

The transmitter in the newspaper room has been replaced with a high-power tube, and these high-power tube transmitters are all equipped with the American Legion, Gao Junshan said, the Americas and China are separated by half a world, and without a high-power transmitter, I am afraid that they will not be able to contact.

The antenna of this kind of transmitter is much longer than that of the miniature transmitter, and its antenna extends from the newspaper room to the top of the battleship, and the antenna was installed by the electronic engineer of Chongwen College at that time.

When Makin came to the newspaper office, he sent a telegram to Gao Junshan, who quickly telegraphed him back, telling him that it was normal for him to encounter fog and rain when sailing in the Atlantic, and that he should be confident that as long as he followed the navigation chart, he would definitely be able to reach his destination.

Ma Jin saw Gao Junshan's call, and his confidence in overcoming difficulties increased a hundredfold.