Chapter Seventy-Six: The Complete Annihilation of the British Convoy The Chinese character terminal succeeds

Although the British were very familiar with this area, they still did not dare to act in the fog at night. The British, who communicated with each other by the sound of drums, all dropped anchor in the fog.

Zheng Zhilong judged the intention of the British according to the sound of drums he heard, and said to everyone: "I estimate that the British will anchor overnight, and I think we will also anchor!" Otherwise, it would be dangerous for us to move on our own in this fog, and it would be easy for the British to discover us. If the British find out about us, they will probably flee, and it will be difficult for us to annihilate them all! ”

Mu Yi agreed: "What Lao Zheng said makes sense. Let's see if we break down! Actually, even if the British left tonight, we will have no problem catching up with them tomorrow! ”

"Good! Anchor here today," Fan Chengkun said, "today we will all sleep well, and tomorrow we will clean up these Britons!" ”

The generals of the Yaogang Water Army, who have been nervous for a long time, can really relax and sleep well. This sneak attack by the British was like a few slaps in the face, which really made them unacceptable, especially this time Fan Chengkun personally led the team out, and made such a low-level mistake, Fan Chengkun found it difficult to forgive himself in his heart. Now that he has caught up with the British fleet, Fan Chengkun knows that he can completely annihilate these British warships, and he can finally breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, his tense nerves are relaxed, and he has a good sleep.

At dawn, the fog had not yet cleared, and the fleet of the kiln began to move separately.

The Canton and Fuzhou, with the radio detectors on board, were the first to act, and they made a half-circle and blocked them on the way of the British fleet fleeing in the direction of the Mughal Empire.

The five flat-bottomed warships in Yaogang, two Fufune-style warships, and four Fufune-style steamships are still on standby, waiting for the fog to dissipate before acting.

Waiting until the sun rose high and the fog lifted, the sentry on the lookout of the Taiping reported: "The British ship is out of sight!" ”

Fan Chengkun felt a little strange to them, because when the Guangzhou and Fuzhou were dispatched, they used radio detectors to find that the British ships were still in place, so how could they suddenly be gone?

In fact, the British heard a "boom" sound in the dense fog last night, and they felt as if the kiln gang people had chased after them, but in the fog, their fleet had no way to communicate in detail, and they did not dare to sail in the dense fog night, and they also knew that no matter what kind of ship the opponent was, they would not dare to trespass in the thick fog. Therefore, the commander of the Yaogang people's fleet still ordered the fleet to anchor on the spot with the sound of drums, but also informed the fleet that the pursuers had arrived, and they should be extremely careful and ready to fight at any time.

At dawn, the fog on the sea had not yet cleared, but the sound of the Canton and Fuzhou starting was still transmitted from the silent sea to the ears of the British, who had been vigilant all along.

The fog almost dissipated, and the Yaogang found that the British ship was gone, but Fan Chengkun and they were not in a hurry, because when the Fuzhou and Guangzhou were launched, they also used radio to detect the British ship, so they would not go too far, and the Yaogang fleet would soon catch up with them with steam power.

Fan Chengkun commanded the flotilla, lined up five flat-bottomed boats in front of the front, and began a full-speed pursuit, and at the same time informed the British that the ships had moved to intercept the Guangzhou and Fuzhou.

As the sun rose and the fog gradually lifted, the observers on the Taihu Lake had already seen the British warship from a distance from the observation system.

Fan Chengkun, Mu Yi, and Zheng Zhilong were all in the wheelhouse of the Taihu Lake, and when they heard the report of the observers, the smiles on their faces were very bright. Being able to catch so many British warships at sea seemed to be worth the surprise.

Fan Chengkun ordered to prepare for war.

Just when Fan Chengkun and the others were excitedly rubbing their hands, there was a faint sound of "dong dong" cannon in front, and Zheng Zhilong shouted: "It's our cannon sound!" The war is already going on ahead! ”

The Canton and the Fuzhou, the two most advanced warships of Yaogang, were instructed by radio detectors to speed up until they could block the retreat of the British to the west, and their two ships, one south and one north, were waiting for them on both sides of the retreat of the British ships. After receiving a telegram from Fan Chengkun informing them that the British ship was missing, the captains of the two ships were happy, and they knew that the British were about to arrive.

Sure enough, the British sailing ships soon appeared on the sea in the east, because the British used sailboats, and the observation soldiers on the Guangzhou and Fuzhou also had observation equipment, the Yaogang warships were much shorter than the sails, and they could see the British ships, but the British could not see them.

When both sides were within visual range, the British were frightened and immediately turned around to go in both directions. However, it is not easy for a sailboat to complete such a maneuver, and it will take some time. However, such a time, the kiln gang people will not give it to them.

On the Guangzhou and Fuzhou, there were two 203-mm heavy guns and three 130-caliber cannons on the foredeck, and three 130-caliber cannons on the aft deck. Since both ships had already crossed over, all the guns could be aimed at the British ships. However, neither the Guangzhou nor the Fuzhou used 230 mm guns, because 130 caliber guns were enough to deal with the British warships, and it was too wasteful to use 230 caliber cannons against wooden ships.

At the head of the front were the three three-masted galleons of the British, and the lookout on the sailing ship in front of them saw the black smoke coming from the kiln gang people ship in front of them, and immediately informed the captain. The captain of the British ship thought that they had set sail from the fog early, and had sailed downwind for so long that they had left the warships of the Yaogang people behind, and they were very happy to see the fog disperse and the sky was clear, and they knew that the warships of the Yaogang people were very powerful, and they had heard that they had sunk a lot of Dutch ships, and later several of their British ships were also sunk on the Burmese side. This time, they came out to attack the warships of the Kiln Gang people were all frightened, and finally the sneak attack was successful, they wanted to quickly flee back to the port of the Wolmore Empire, and set sail back to England as soon as they loaded their goods, away from these terrible Kiln Gang people. But they never expected that the warships of the Yaogang people were waiting for them in front. The captain of the ship hurriedly ordered the rudder to be turned and the sail was turned, and at the same time the flag was hoisted to inform the other ships that they had encountered an enemy ship in front.

But before the ship could turn the bow, two 130-caliber shells from the Yaogang people fell on the ship, and the big ship, which the British did not know how many ports they had visited, immediately became a pile of garbage floating on the sea.

The two ships behind heard the sound of cannons in front of them before they could see the signal from the ship in front of them, and then they saw that the ship in front of them was blown apart and flew into the sky. Only then did they know that there was an interception ahead, and before they could turn, the shells also landed on their two ships. One was the same as the previous one, and the other main mast was blown off, and the warship fell directly into the sea, and many of the crew members on board had already fallen into the sea.

Seeing that three ships had been blown up and sunk in front of them, some of the British people who did not particularly believe that the Yaogang warship would be as powerful as the legend had to believe that they had indeed encountered a nemesis. They did not bother to obey the command of the fleet, and immediately turned to the north and south and fled. However, the five warships of the Yaogang people behind them formed a big straight line and chased after them. The ones in front of them also pulled away from both sides, blocking their way back.

At this time, Fan Chengkun said to Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong: "The following things are yours, you are experts in fighting on the water, and my task is to watch you hunt and play!" ”

Zheng Zhilong was even more excited, and said to Mu Yi: "Old Mu, the credit is yours, leave this job to me!" ”

"Oops! I said Lao Zheng, you're not interesting enough! You rush to do all the good things! I give you all the credit, and I will do it? Mu Yi said deliberately dissatisfied.

"Oops! My Lao Zheng is a newcomer, just let me order it! Isn't it Commander Fan? Zheng Zhilong saw Mu Yi sitting next to Fan Chengkun drinking tea, knowing that this good thing was his, and he deliberately said so.

Fan Chengkun smiled and took the tea, blew a sip of the tea powder, and said, "I don't care about your official affairs!" ”

Mu Yi said: "Commander Fan, you don't know, this Lao Zheng is simply a scoundrel. I've been working with him for more than a year, and I've learned it! ”

Lao Mu is right in this sentence, when I was in Fujian, everyone knew that my Lao Zheng was the number one scoundrel in the world. Even foreigners know it! Zheng Zhilong looked into the distance with a telescope, teasing Mu Yi on his lips.

"Huh! It's hopeless! This Lao Zheng! Mu Yi also shook his head with a wry smile and said.

In fact, there was nothing left to do, that is, according to the situation, separate orders to each ship to deal with the British ship.

The British are all veterans of making ships, and they see that it is easier for the kiln people to beat their ships than to beat rabbits, and they know that it is difficult to escape today, but they know that the only hope of escaping is to disperse and escape, and take advantage of their own boats, so that the kiln people can take care of one thing and lose the other, so that they can have a chance to escape the net.

This trick is quite clever, it does take some time for the kiln people to sink one ship and then turn around and pursue another. But even so, just after noon, the British ship was left with only four ships with white flags and sails.

In this battle, the Yaogang people, like hunting, sank 25 British warships and captured 4 of them.

Seeing that it was almost over, Zheng Zhilong ordered all ships to catch the prisoners at sea.

As a result, the ships fished nearly a thousand prisoners from the sea.

Zheng Zhilong said to Fan Chengkun and Mu Yi: "We don't necessarily use these captives to work, we can return to Burma and let them come out to work on the docks." The British intelligence officers will inform the British. I think the British will definitely send someone to negotiate with us, to ransom their captain or something like that for money! ”

"No, it's okay to ransom people, we have to let them redeem the lowest crew first, and then we can ransom their captain!" Mu Yi said.

"Hey! Commander Zheng! Aren't the ships of the British worth a lot of money in England? Fan Chengkun looked at it, Zheng Zhilong asked.

Zheng Zhilong immediately understood, "That's right! Commander Fan, we can also get the British to redeem their ships with silver. These ships have been used at sea for a long time, and the British are very willing to use the boats that they have used. These ships are worth some silver. ”

Mu Yi said disapprovingly: "I don't think we should give them ships first, we still have to go to the Wolmore Empire to completely drive out the British, otherwise as long as the British are in the Wolmore Empire, it will still be a threat to our Burmese side." ”

"Hmm!" Fan Chengkun said, "Commander Mu is right, we must completely subdue the British." But let's go back to Myanmar first! By the way, send a telegram to your home. We must be waiting for news from us at home! ”

Zheng Zhilong watched Mu Yi finish drafting the telegram, and the staff officer went out with the telegram, muttering, "It's really boring!" These Englishmen are not beaten at all! It's not as interesting as we were in Japan and Wu Sangui and they used muskets to fight rabbits! ”

"Hey! I said Lao Zheng, this is too boring, you rush to do good things, and when it's over, you say it's boring, I think you're really boring! Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong pinched again.

Today, Zhang Zhimu was on their side in Yangchang, experimenting with them in the use of Chinese character terminals.

The use of Chinese characters on the display is definitely a major breakthrough for Yaogang this year, which means that computers can be used by ordinary people in the future.

Although the control circuit behind the current Chinese character terminal is still a large cabinet, Zhang Zhimu knows that with the improvement of integrated circuit integration, the circuit volume will soon come down.

Zhang Zhimu told Yang Chang and them: "Yang Chang, this Chinese character terminal, you can immediately transform it into a telegraph terminal." ”

Yang Chang patted his head and said, "That's right! We are on the terminal, the man to be sent into it, automatically into the telegram code, through the telegram line, into another terminal, and then replaced by the man to display it! ”

"Hmmm! That's what you mean. However, there is another problem here, before your telegram is sent, you need to detect whether there is someone on the line using it, and you can only send the telegram when no one is using it. That is, you detect that no one is using the line, and you start to send a telegram, and there is a possibility that at this time, someone else detects that no one is using the line, and at the same time sends a telegram, which is easy to cause conflicts. As a result, no one sent it, and I don't know yet, don't you say? ”

"That's right! What can I do? Yang Chang felt that things were really troublesome.

"That's the need for a strict communication protocol to guarantee reliable communication on the line. In the future, we will develop many different communication protocols according to different situations, but this telegram, we can use the 'carrier listening collision detection protocol'. This thing sounds scary, but in fact, you can judge whether there is a signal on the line to see if there is a signal on the line, which is carrier listening. Collision detection is actually very simple, that is, after you send a signal on the line, and then accept the detection at the same time to see if it is sent by yourself, if there are other signals on the line at the same time, then the signal you receive is different from what you send, if there is no signal sent by others, then the signal you receive is exactly the same as what you send. If a collision is found, send it again with an appropriate delay until it is successful. By the way, you send a signal, you want to know whether the acceptance is right or wrong, and you have to add the check digit. In this way, communication can be reliably achieved. ”

"That's right! Mr. Zhang, as soon as you say this, our hearts will be clear. But there's still a lot to do! Yang Chang said.

"Of course! In the future, the simpler it is for users to use, the more complex the work you will have to do. Zhang Zhimu said, "After this thing is finished, it can still be used militarily." When the shortwave signal is not good, voice communication is not good, but the telegraph can, if we use the shortwave telegraph to connect the two Chinese character terminals, is it possible to have an interactive dialogue? ”

"Yes, yes!" Yang Chang said, "In this way, the two terminals can talk to each other like people!" ”

"If, using address encoding, is it possible to have multiple people talking?" Zhang Zhimu continued to prompt Yang Chang to say.

"Oh! Of course, but isn't the screen messy? ”

"You can open multiple windows, and you can distinguish them with different addresses and names!" At this time, Zhang Zhimu sounded the QQ of his previous life, and he couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart.

Then, Zhang Zhimu said: "In the future, every family will have such a Chinese character terminal, and they can have on-screen conversations through the telephone line!" ”

However, Zhang Zhimu's suggestion did not get a response from everyone, and some people said, "Mr. Zhang, if there is a telephone, why bother to enter Chinese characters for communication!" ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that he couldn't explain this to them clearly, and now he could only use pinyin and telegram codes, area codes, and he was not familiar with entering Chinese characters, and it was still very difficult to enter Chinese characters.

"Huh! I won't say much to you today, it won't be long before your Chinese character printers and disk drives are successful, and your work and life will be inseparable from computer terminals. Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to say so.

Yang Chang said: "Although I still can't understand Mr. Zhang's words, I believe that what Mr. Zhang said will come true soon." However, both Chinese typewriters and disks will take a long time to use. I'm afraid that the control circuit of the disk drive is larger than this terminal, and so is the typewriter. Even harder is the typewriter's print head. The head they made, either some of the needles didn't come out, or some of the needles broke quickly, and this print head was really difficult to get. Their control circuitry is also a big bunch. However, there is good news! ”

"You guy, tell me some good news!"

Before Yang Chang could speak, someone shouted: "Mr. Zhang's phone!" ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that there would be no urgent call here, and Yang Yulin would have been in the way a long time ago.

The call was made directly by Ouyang He, "Good news from Mr. Zhang!" Commander Fan and the British fought a battle at sea today, sinking twenty-five British ships, taking four prisoners, and more than a thousand British. ”

"Huh! Great, this time our Commander Fan has a better look on his face. Zhang Zhimu said happily, "Immediately inform Editor-in-Chief Fan that they will broadcast the battle report." By the way, you still have to report to the emperor first. I'm on their side in Yangchang, and there's something going on! ”

"What's a good thing that Mr. Zhang can't take care of reporting the war report to the emperor?" Ouyang He knew that there must be something important on Zhang Zhimu's side, and deliberately teased him.

"That's a good thing, I'll talk about it later!"

Putting down the phone, Zhang Zhimu said to Yang Chang: "Tell me your good news!" ”