Chapter 155: Zheng Zhihu
The sailors on Xu Wei's ship all stood on the spot, and no one could understand how these seemingly inconspicuous weapons could exert such great power. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info made them even more frightened, a piercing siren sounded in the harbor, another iron clipper that was slightly longer than the iron clipper last night was sailing out of the port, the short-haired soldiers in white military uniforms were busy on the deck, there was a thin tube cannon in front of the deck that they had just seen the power of, and there were two rapid-fire firearms on the command platform that were also heading in their direction. No one dared to imagine what would have happened if these shorthairs had fired at themselves.
Xu Wei almost jumped up, just now he clearly saw a clash between his sailors and the Chinese sailors who were inspecting, but he did not squeak, and he also wanted to test the bottom line of the Chinese. Who knew that this gang of people would be so hot, and they would directly warn and shoot if they didn't agree with each other. Everyone knows that after the warning shot, they must really eat the gun, and just looking at the warning of the Chinese just now, they know that these lucky ships, which were originally only used as transport ships, will definitely not be able to withstand the blow of this strength.
He hurriedly said to Du Yande: "Please forgive the shopkeeper Du, these sailors have been adrift at sea all the year round and lack discipline, so I am here to accompany them, please forgive me!" ”
Du Yande shrugged his shoulders, "Presumably, the noble people also know what songs to sing on what mountain, and blindly reckless will often suffer a big loss." ”
Xu Wei hurriedly nodded yes, seeing that the other party's tone was relatively relaxed, he knew that this conflict would definitely not be able to start.
In the distance, the 8154 cruiser made a circle around the flotilla, with the muzzles of one gun on the foredeck and two on the aft deck always pointing in the direction of the fleet.
Xu Wei was stunned at this time, most of the guns installed on the Fu ship were fixed, and the direction of the muzzle was towards the two sides, if you want to aim, you have to use four or five sailors to push the gun body to rotate, if your own ship speed is too fast, you will have to sweat just for the aiming action, and the hit rate is extremely low, and you will miss one out of ten. However, if you slow down your speed in naval warfare, you can easily be targeted and hit by the enemy, and compared with the ships of the Medeno Navy, the board of the Fubune is weak, and it is often necessary to swim in the sea with two solid bullets. However, he had just stared at the gun port on the iron clipper, no matter how fast the iron clipper was moving, this gun port was facing the direction of his own fleet, and he could see the two soldiers turning the two wheels under the gun from time to time, which should be adjusting the direction. He couldn't help but think, if he had such artillery on his ship, wouldn't he be invincible in naval battles?
Since the maritime merchants of this era are generally half-merchants and half-bandits, those who meet stronger than themselves are poor merchants, and those who meet weaker than themselves are pirates, so Xu Wei, who is also half-merchant and half-bandit, looked at these strong ships at this time, but now the first thing to solve this problem is not to directly find the Chinese to buy ship guns, but to solve this conflict that may break out at any time. You must know that although the shopkeeper Du in front of him is full of smiles, this heavily armed iron clipper is still roaming around the periphery of his fleet, and when both sides have weapons, the closer the distance, the easier it is to clash.
Du Yande turned to Yang Junbo beside him and said a few words, but Xu Wei recognized at a glance the young Chinese who spoke to him last night, such a tall figure and glasses on the bridge of his nose made him stand out from the crowd also wearing white uniforms.
Yang Junbo nodded at Du Yande, and immediately turned around and ordered his sailors to go.
A short time later, a sailor carrying a small red and yellow flag immediately ran to the foredeck and began to dance at the iron clipper in the distance. Soon, the iron clipper changed direction and sailed back to port.
"Is this the banner of China?" Xu Wei has been adrift at sea for a long time, and he recognized at a glance that this must be a flag for the two sides to communicate at sea, but he just couldn't understand it.
"Yes, this is ......" Yang Junbo suddenly remembered that there are no world powers such as Britain, France and the United States, and only himself uses this kind of flag language. Moreover, the use of signal flags on this Chunxiao is purely helpless, and this Fu ship has neither the main engine auxiliary nor the installation of solar power generation equipment, so it is impossible to install and use a radio station at all. Sometimes if you go farther, the walkie-talkie can't be contacted at all, and the battery life of the walkie-talkie is gradually becoming slag, and it is often up to 40 minutes to declaring it dead after a charge. Fortunately, although the high-power radio in the navy of the old time and space was extremely mature, the flag language has always been a skill that the navy crew must master, so the sailors on the Chunxiao are also instilled in the movement and interpretation of the signal flag.
Xu Wei didn't know what Yang Junbo was thinking, his era was an era when communication was basically based on shouting, and when the ships were a little farther away and the shouts could not be transmitted, they could only hang the flag. Sometimes the flag cannot be seen clearly in the wind and waves, and it is easy to have a situation where the message cannot be conveyed or even the opposite message is conveyed. Usually, he has seen such flags in the Zheng family's fleet, but they are all secrets, and even his own level can't understand them, so he can only relay them according to the person who played the flag. Moreover, because their banners are all dictated, it is often easy to cause information errors due to a few very small deviations in action.
Xu Wei's mind immediately turned a few circles, not knowing these Chinese water army - it seems to be called the coast guard, right? Can you teach your own sailors this flag language? It is better to see with your eyes than with your ears at sea.
However, the Travelers did not bother to prepare for this, and the sailors they sent came on board one by one to inspect the cargo on each ship. The shipowners were originally very resistant to the sailors of the Beard people to come on board the ship for inspection, but then they saw the difference, these sailors were completely different from those sailors and military households of the Wu Dynasty, they neither rudely opened the boxes for inspection, nor did they ask the shipowner to extort the goods. All they do is really check, check whether the manifest and the type of cargo are correct, whether there is entrainment or smuggling, and then disembark. And what made them even more embarrassed was that these sailors, dressed in white uniforms, set off their boats dirty, and couldn't help but make up their minds to wait until the next time they went to sea to clean up the ship.
"Check...... Done," Yang Junbo held the binoculars and looked at the flag words that the people on the boat in the distance played against him, interest is always the best teacher, this former otaku who had done n jobs before crossing is far more fluent in reading the flag language than many veterans who were born in the navy, "Yes...... Intake. ”
He turned around and nodded at Du Yande, "The inspector said that there is no problem, you can enter the port." ”
"You have a say in this matter, I'm just here to greet my friends." Du Yande smiled and said, "Follow your process." ”
Yang Junbo nodded again and began to instruct the sailors to lower the dinghy and begin to tow the boat into the harbor.
Xu Wei couldn't help but forget to close his mouth, these Chinese sailors in front of him were working in their respective posts with extremely smooth movements, the same fortune boat, he didn't feel how the fortune boat he was sitting on before was good, but he stayed on this "Chunxiao" - the one written on the side of the ship must be the name of the ship, and the fortune boat he stayed in before was purely a garbage heap.
can pack up the ships into such a neat sailor, and the combat effectiveness is naturally extremely strong. In his philosophy, Chinese maritime merchants are purely a group of maritime merchants, who do nothing more than buy and sell goods like Wuguo merchants, bargain with others, and think that when they encounter them at sea, they should be more careful at most. Who knew that at this time he saw the Chinese warships, which were not only maneuverable and nimble, but also fully exposed their sharp teeth, and there was no problem for an iron clipper to clean up his fleet. Not to mention the steel giant with a bulwark wall higher than a mountain on the seashore in the distance.
The Chunxiao was the first to return to the port, Du Yande and Xu Wei got down from the ship to the trestle, and in the distance, the Zheng family's fleet had already made a sound of quarreling again on the moored ship.
"What? Sailors are not allowed to go ashore? Why? ”
"That's it, Lao Tzu has been floating at sea for half a month, why are we not allowed to go ashore?"
"If it wasn't Lao Tzu who drove the ship over, how could these goods be transported? Lao Tzu is going to get off the ship now, and you still want to kill me? A sturdy black man came straight behind the sailors, shouting, and shoved the marines who were on the board of the ship to prevent them from coming ashore.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that the marines in front of them immediately put on a defensive formation, he smiled triumphantly, "Just you waste, Lao Tzu will beat you ten by one." Lao Tzu is going to go ashore! What else can you do? ”
The Marines did not have rifles or bayonets, but only iron shields and batons, so the sailors did not pay any attention to them.
The black man rushed up directly and slapped an iron shield with a slap. At this moment, three or four shield-wielding men rushed over and directly separated him from the sailors behind him, while three or four marines with batons hit him with batons on his upper, middle and lower roads. The black man panicked, turned around and wanted to run backwards, but who knew that a hook that had not opened suddenly stretched out from the opposite side hooked his ankle, and put him over on the side of the trestle with a click, and several marines immediately rushed up and tied him with ropes and took him away.
Seeing this, Xu Wei panicked, and hurriedly grabbed Du Yande and said, "Shopkeeper Du, this person can't be caught!" I can't catch it! ”
"Can't catch it?" Du Yande was stunned for a moment, "This person flouted the laws and regulations of the Senate, openly attacked my law enforcement officers, and gathered a crowd to make noise, all of which are going to be sent to labor camps for re-education through labor, you say you can't be caught?" Why? ”
"This person is Zheng Zhihu! It's the eldest brother of Lord Zheng! Xu Wei's face immediately sweated.