When Du Yande walked out of the airport gate, there were many people picking up the plane at the airport exit. They held various signs, most of which were written in English, some in Chinese, and many in crooked Burmese. After watching it for a while, he was dazzled and simply looked at people directly, in his impression, this netizen who intends to become a new world Krupp must be a big man with five big and three thick muscles. He glanced around the crowd a few times, and suddenly heard someone in the crowd shouting, "Down with Eight Feet!" Down with eight feet! ”

He couldn't help but be stunned, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, he fixed his eyes on a "young man" standing there, holding a sign with the words "Crossing Trade" written crookedly on it. He walked over and took a closer look, this young man was only twenty-five or sixteen years old, one meter seven or six tall, at first glance he looked oily and powdery, and his body was relatively solid, but it was far from what he had expected.

"Give me back the picture!" Du Yande made the incision. The young man nodded and smiled, threw the sign into the trash can on the side, stretched out his right hand and said, "I'm Lin Shenhe, and I'll be with you when I arrived here as the advance staff of the North American branch." ”

Du Yande reached over and shook his hand, "I'm Du Yande, it's a pleasure to meet you." Are you familiar with the situation here? Let's take a look at the market now. ”

Lin Shenhe smiled, "You're really in a hurry, okay, I rented a car and it's outside." ”

"The car you rented? Is it easy to use a driver's license in the United States? Du Yande was a little curious.

"That's right, the driver's license in the United States is basically used all over the world, and renting a car is not expensive, so it's better to drive yourself in this foreign country!"

Du Yande smiled and patted him on the shoulder, although this guy looks slim, but his muscles are very solid. "Yes, I came out this time to take the plane in a hurry, and I plan to take the car back when I go back."

"Why?" Lin Shenhe questioned Du Yande's choice of return trip.

"Flying in the sky always makes me a little uneasy, and I feel a lot safer running on the ground."

"Oh! Understandable. Shall we go to the arms dealer or the gun shop first? Lin Shenhe sat in the driver's seat and asked Du Yande behind him.

"What's the difference between the two?" Du Yande was a little shocked, is there an alternative to buying a gun?

"Of course, there is a difference, the gun shop is retail, similar to a vegetable stall, and the arms dealer will directly buy a large number of weapons, but the disadvantage is that the types of weapons that can be obtained from the arms dealer are relatively small, and they need to be pre-ordered."

"Reservations? It's not going to happen if you want to abscond with money, right? "Du Yande is still used to living a poor life, and he is still cautious about money.

"No, it won't." Lin Shenhe drove into the uncrowded traffic and said with a smile. "These arms dealers have not been selling arms in Myanmar for a year or two, and they have even opened factories directly in some states of Myanmar, you know? The various odd-shaped Bayi rifles purchased by the local armed forces in Kokang were all made by them. They didn't know where they bought the production authorization of Bayi, so they produced it directly in Myanmar. ”

"Bayi can be produced directly in Myanmar?" Du Yande had a feeling of thunder rolling in the sky, and suddenly his eyes caught a glimpse of two military policemen on duty on the side of the road patrolling the road with their hats crooked and riding a motorcycle, and a 97 automatic rifle was suddenly hanging on their chests. "Isn't it? They all use ninety-seven now? ”

"Yes, the 5.56 Jiuqi is now everywhere in Southeast Asia, the government army and the ** army, and the guerrillas are all using it, and now there is also a 5.56 mm bullet with a modified barrel, but the effect is not good, so a few are produced." Lin Shenhe glanced at the two military policemen who had absolutely no military momentum and said casually.

"Do you think we're going to the gun shop or the arms dealer first? Also, aren't arms dealers being interfered with by Interpol? Can you also open a store with a swagger? Du Yande felt a lot of affection for the rampant interpol in "Lord of War" who intruded and searched Nicolas Cage's arms company at will, even if even the Russian military base was armed with a gun.

"No, the arms dealers are all agents here, in fact, our north is also a little here, do you want to go and have a look?" Lin Shenhe seems to know a lot about these.

"NORINCO's?" Du Yande laughed. "Don't they like to sell five or six and a half? Don't know what the price is? ”

"What price? Speaking out scares you to death. Around $600, the Yugoslav SKS can be obtained for about $400. By the way, did you agree on what weapons you need? ”

"We negotiated a batch of M-14s and M-16s, and another part of five or six halves or SKS for the militia, and then we had to purchase nearly a thousand bolt-action rifles for the indigenous army."

"Oh my God!" Lin Shenhe sighed. "Are you going to be Indians? The M-14 has a 7.62mm NATO bullet, the M-16 has a 5.56mm small-caliber bullet, and the SKS has a 7.62mm Warsaw Pact bullet. Just buying bullets is going to buy you crazy. I said that it is not possible to unify the specifications of weapons? ”

"What do you mean by that? This is still a procurement list compromised from more than 40 weapons. Those guys even want to buy global eagles and predators. ”

"It's not that drones can't be bought, it's just that the fuel used and the weapons attached to them are not produced so quickly, and it is necessary to get some high-power wireless transmission cameras. Didn't you say that one of you had an enthusiast with a solar-powered electric airplane? It can be used as a long-range reconnaissance aircraft after modification. But I have to talk to them about this weapon, you can't buy such a miscellaneous, at least the caliber must be unified, otherwise when it's time to fight, the gun can't find the bullet, the bullet can't find the gun, and the situation of the gun can't be found will definitely happen in large numbers, and that's how India Ah San was defeated. ”

That night, instead of going to the arms procurement, they held a video conference with the country. Because I was afraid that the chat history would be monitored, I would definitely be invited to tea if I talked about purchasing weapons in the group, so I directly used video conferencing.

"Didn't we already agree on this? Veterans use automatic weapons, militias use semi-automatic, what else is there to say? Li Jieqi expressed his disapproval of the video conference initiated by Du Yande.

"That's a mistake!" After Lin Shenhe finished speaking, he chuckled with an unfathomable expression. The expression is like Zhuge Liang played by Tang Guoqiang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, just a feather fan and a playful sentence next to him, "Why is the military advisor laughing?" ”

"You're not familiar with the arms market, are you?" Lin Shenhe's voice was not loud, but it did quiet everyone who had opinions. "Let's just say that the military version of the M-14 that you want to procure, if you had been able to get a lot of it when the US military withdrew from Vietnam decades earlier, the current M-14 is mainly converted into M-21 and EBR. There are many kinds of civilian versions, by the way, the M-1A mentioned by Mr. Li Jieqi, which is produced by the famous Springfield Factory, has good accuracy and good quality, but its casing is precision-cast, and the casing supplied to the military orders back then was hammer forged. In contrast, our NORINCO M-14 is a forging hammer casing, but the quality is not very good. ”

"Speaking of the M-16, everyone probably knows that the M-16 is derived from the AR-15, right? There are many brands of AR-15 on the American market, all of which are civilian versions and cannot be fired in series. There are a lot of AR-15s on the market in Myanmar that can be fired in bursts, but the manufacturers are very cunning, and the quality of these weapons is completely incomparable to the M-16 or M-4 in the hands of American GIs. Let's just talk about a barrel, many AR-15s don't even have chrome plating. ”

"Damn! Such a chicken thief! Relying on the US side to advertise them, and then producing fake and shoddy products to deceive consumers, there is no place to complain. Gu Fulin was quite angry at this thunderbolt blow on a sunny day.

"That's not deception. The market for civilian firearms is huge, and in the case of Myanmar, guns are basically open and in demand from all walks of life. This is completely different from the needs of the military, so there are companies that simplify the process to reduce the price by reducing the quality, and there are also high-quality products. For example, I was going to see the LRBARMS dealer today, and their M-14 receiver is hammer forged, and the quality is quite high, but the price is higher than that of the original Springfield. ”

"Do you have any suggestions?" Li Jieqi and the rest of the sports team were immediately confused about the choice of guns, which they didn't understand at all.

"It depends on what we have requirements for weapons, but I agree with the idea of using a large number of semi-automatic weapons, and in the environment we will face, the best choice is indeed semi-automatic, and having two or three hundred is almost enough to deal with any situation."

"And what do you think about semi-automatic?"

"Semi-automatic, I think I can agree with your choice of SKS, this kind of gun is quite in stock, and although the price of North Industry is about 600 US dollars a piece, it is better than good quality. The gun is well stocked, and such a large-scale purchase is easy to come by. The M43 bullet production line is available in many countries, so the price is also quite cheap, and even a bullet production line can be introduced if needed. ”

This sentence made everyone's hearts flutter. They had been working on how to make their own bullets after the crossing, but no matter how much they looked at it, the only options for mass production were to use a breech charge or a more advanced paper-shell bullet that was stuffed into it with its own powder bag. They didn't have any hope for the introduction of a metal shell production line, and they had no place to buy it. You can't just go straight to the gate of the military factory and find someone to buy a bullet production line. But now Lin Shenhe suddenly gave them such a wide road, which made them can't help but burst into cheers.

Lin Shenhe couldn't fully understand the joy on the faces of the people on the opposite side and Du Yande beside him, he was stunned for a while, and then continued: "SKS also has the advantage of SKS-D, which can directly use AK's magazine, so that you don't need to use a bridge clamp to press the bullet inside the magazine, you can use a relatively long aiming telescope, and you can also maintain a long firepower continuity when firing." ”

"But wouldn't it be better if all bolt-action rifles were equipped?" Someone came up with such a sentence later. "I heard that in the North American market, Mosin Nagant is only **ten dollars a piece, and a northern SKS can buy six or seven."

"That's the price, but which of you has ever used a bolt-action rifle?" Lin Shenhe's smile carried an omniscient confidence. "Mosin Nagant is the most difficult bolt to open in bolt-action rifles, commonly known as kicking with feet, bolt-action rifles mostly require a lot of practice to form combat effectiveness. What's more, bolt-action rifles are all pulled and shot, which is a natural disadvantage compared with semi-automatic rifles. ”

"No, you know Lee's crazy minute, right? Thirty rounds were fired in one minute, and the madness of a British infantry squad against the Germans for a minute made the Germans think they had been fired at by two machine guns. ”

"Of course, I know that Lee's bolt is relatively easy to pull apart, but it still takes a lot of practice to be proficient enough to reach the standard of a crazy minute." Lin Shenhe said with a smile. "Bolt-action rifles can be considered as weapons for natives, but many of us who have traveled through the past must not have received professional shooting training, do you think a group of ordinary people with bolt-action rifles can withstand the influx of enemies? I think it's better for us to procure better weapons. ”

"However, considering the requirements of the operation, regardless of the range, the M43 projectile has a certain penetration power for old houses, and it has a great advantage against the bushes and the enemy hidden behind trees. The place we are going to should still be a world of dense vegetation. So SKSM43 is a good combination. ”

"So how do you solve the problem of sniping?" Beiwei asked.

"If you snipe, you can purchase a dozen bolt-action sniper rifles according to the situation, which is enough to meet the general needs of combat and hunting."

"Bolted?" There is a clear lack of confidence in bolt-action weapons. "Why not a semi-automatic sniper rifle like an SVD?"

"The accuracy of the bolt-action rifle is high, because all the gas burned by the propellant is used to propel the warhead to fly, its range is relatively long, and the trajectory is relatively straight, if you like semi-automatic sniper rifles so much, you can also install a sight directly on the SKS with higher accuracy! Anyway, both have relatively similar ranges, and the SVD is strictly a precision rifle rather than a sniper rifle. Lin Shenhe explained seriously.

"So can the problem of machine guns be solved? And submachine guns. Whatever weapon could come in handy in that world, a silencer would also be needed. Li Jieqi immediately asked a series of questions.

"The problem of machine guns can be solved, submachine guns can also be bought, you just need to discuss and draw conclusions. You can't buy a silencer, but the principle is not difficult, you can make it yourself after the crossing, at most it's just a little louder. Also, are you sure you don't want to use weapons for self-defense? For example, pistols and PDW? There was a hint of temptation in Lin Shenhe's words, which made Du Yande worry about whether the next step would be to encourage them to buy tanks, armored vehicles, and even rocket artillery.

Originally, the executive committee did not have the heart to discuss pistols when discussing weapons, and was going to issue a dagger to each person as a self-defense weapon, but now that there is such a strong "golden finger", it is a bit sorry not to equip everyone with a pistol.

The discussion was quickly finalized, and 15 M24 sniper rifles with 7.62 mm NATO ammunition were purchased for sniper rifles, 20 FNMAG general-purpose machine guns with the same caliber ammunition were purchased for machine guns, 50 MP5A4 submachine guns with 9 mm Parabem rounds were purchased for submachine guns, 150 SKS semi-automatic rifles and 50 Burmese-made Bayi automatic rifles. A production line for M43 rounds, a production line for 9mm pistol rounds, and a line for 7.62NATO rounds were procured through Philippine arms dealers. In addition, 300 9mm Glock 17 pistols and 200 0.45-inch M1911 pistols were procured as self-defense weapons for the Crossing Crowd.

The list caused an uproar among Myanmar's arms dealers. Orders for thousands of spears are not unusual, and they are often available in many military factions in Burma, but it is not uncommon to see such a list of all kinds of weapons, especially if they have to be bought together with the bullet production line. The ammunition used for these weapons ranged from 7.62 Warsaw Pact rounds, NATO rounds, 9mm Pyrabem rounds, and 0.45-inch pistol rounds. In order to reload the fired ammunition, the traverser also bought several sets of bullet reloading equipment.

But such a large number of things cannot be given out in stock, especially when there are a large number of bullet production lines to purchase together. As a result, it was agreed that the weapons and production lines would be delivered in Hawaii and then transported to the places where they were needed. Since the weight of this batch of things is not too heavy, it is estimated that a yacht of about 200 tons can be transported, and when the time comes, I will directly buy a boat in Hawaii, and then load it and sail across the Pacific Ocean. As for the problem of piloting, the American rudder had a smuggling captain named Lin Chuanqing in the traversal of the American rudder, and I heard that he often traveled back and forth between the United States and Southeast Asia to smuggle things in the South China Sea, and he was very familiar with the route. So the comrades of the American rudder can join the South China Sea on yachts and weapons.

In fact, the traversers have already decided where they need to cross, and since they are crossing by large freighters, they must be at sea, but they must not be too far from the coast. Until now, although there are several former navies in the sports group, these former navies are either submarine forces, ordinary torpedo boats, and the largest is only destroyers. You can fool around if you open a fishing boat or something, but if you open a 10,000-ton freighter, you don't have to count on it at all. It's almost no different from an aircraft carrier. The crossing group is in deep trouble at this time, they lack seafarers, and they can't charter a 10,000-ton freighter to kidnap the crew to cross, right?

The solution to this problem was very good, so good that the traversers couldn't even believe their good luck, and Yang Minghuan soon found two dazzling new stars among the traversers who signed up.

Zhang Zefeng and Yang Feng immediately received a notice to rush to the base to report. The two have always been good friends since childhood, after graduating from Maritime University, they worked on a 30,000-ton freighter for six years, Yang Feng was promoted to third officer, and Zhang Zefeng was assigned to the marine engineering department as a marine engineer because he liked to sleep. Zhang Zefeng, who likes to surf the Internet, stumbled upon the post in BBS, and decided to participate in the crossing after seeing that a group of netizens had already started to register. Yang Feng, an old friend, was also dragged over to the base by him in the name of coming to see it.

"It's not easy to do!" Yang Feng is not tall and has a very strong figure, because he has been exposed to the sun at sea for a long time, and his complexion is relatively dark. "We don't have a crew!"

"Crew? Isn't it all about automation now? Aren't the requirements for the crew so high? ”

"If you don't have any requirements, you still need a crew." Yang Feng had a sighing expression. "For old ships, ships under 5,000 tons need about 40 people, and ships with tens of thousands of tons need more than 50 people."

"So many people? What about the new ship? ”

"Even the newest drone pod has at least 20 people." He spread his hands, "This is a skilled job, and it is impossible for the traversal to be competent." ”

"And if we want to use the boat for a long time, then we have to have at least half of the people on it, and almost no one in the marine department is missing." Zhang Zefeng on the side sat on the sofa and said. Because he has been working in the engine room for many years, which he calls "darkness does not see the light of day", he has not been exposed to the sun at all, and compared to Yang Feng, he is simply a white man like a European ghost.

"The freighter is divided into two parts, the deck department has the captain, the first mate, the second and third officers, the chief operator, the operator, the freight clerk, the tally clerk, the boatswain, the deputy boatswain, the first water and two waters, the chef, the second chef and the third chef, etc. The words of the engineer...... "Yang Feng looked at Zhang Zefeng on the side.

"In the case of the engine, there is a chief engineer, a sophomore or three engineer, an electrician, a chief mechanic, a fire chief, a mechanic, a co-engineer, a coppersmith, an electrician, a refueling, a fire, ......."

Seeing Zhang Zefeng talking endlessly about the positions inside, Du Yande and the several executive committee members who arrived couldn't help but look at each other. How can a boat be so complicated? What about playing hair? These two maritime professionals are already full of luck, do you still have to count on a shipload of sailors?

"So what if it's just a trip into the past? As the third officer, you should still have experience in boating, right? To be honest, Du Yande couldn't tell the difference between the first officer, the second officer, and the third officer, but he could only ask stubbornly.

"It's also quite difficult, although it can reduce the number of people a lot." Yang Feng touched his chin and continued: "We can do this, first set up a freight forwarding office in the port close to the intended landing point and rent a warehouse. Deliver all the necessary travel supplies there and wait for loading. Rent or buy a common bulk carrier along the coast, set the destination to a port close to the predetermined landing point, our crossing crowd can be disguised as backpackers to take a boat, this is a common phenomenon on coastal freighters, others take a fishing boat or other boats to the meeting point first, and when they reach the meeting point, cross the crowd to take over the ship, drive the crew off the ship, drive the boat through time and space, and then sit on the beach at the predetermined landing point. ”

"Why do you want to sit on the beach?" Xiao Jing asked on the side, "Once the boat sits on the beach, it will be difficult to float in the future!" Even if we don't have enough crew now, we can train ourselves in the future, and if we can't drive it now, we can still drive it in the future. ”

"That's it!" Zhang Yuan on the side began to fantasize, "A huge iron ship can play an absolute deterrent role in the hearts of the natives, whether it is psychologically or actually military deterrence, it is very considerable." Our freighters were not afraid of any artillery or arson of the era, and even if the enemy tried to fight us in a hand-to-hand battle, they had to climb the towering freeboard. Another freighter itself is a microcosm of modern industrial society, with various main and auxiliary engines, high and low pressure pipelines, water pumps, cables, electronic communication and observation equipment, seawater desalination systems, small machine shops, health centers, ...... It's almost a small town, and in the freighter we have access to power and processing equipment. Before our base was established, it was able to maintain the basic modern living conditions for a considerable period of time, lest the modern people who were accustomed to enjoying it suddenly feel that the living conditions were too difficult and collapsed. ”

"That's right!" Bu Zhongfu, the sports group on the side, continued: "The freighter doesn't even need to install any weapons, as long as it hits it directly with full horsepower, all the ships of that era can only lose their souls, and the smaller ones can only sink directly, even if they are as big as the Galen ship, they can't withstand the frontal impact, even the old ships can easily run at a speed of 11-14 knots, except for the fast sailing boats that can escape when the wind is downwind, the vast majority of ships can only wait for death." With such a ship, we can be the masters of that ocean! ”

"Impossible." Yang Feng said expressionlessly, the gorgeous fantasy of the two people just now failed to stir his passion. "A cargo ship is absolutely impractical as a warship."

He ignored the astonished glances cast at him by the two fantasists. "Large cargo ships have a deep draft and complex handling, and they don't necessarily turn around much faster than sailboats. No matter how powerful the ship is, will the opponent come to fight with you head-on if he suffers once? They have numerical superiority, and they can completely carry out naval raids and disturbance battles on the shipping routes and along the coast. Even if you go out to sea and kill a few of them, and the rest scatter and flee to shallow water, what can you do with him? Do you want to hang a lifeboat to chase it? What we want is sea dominance, and such a lonely, oil-consuming, and labor-intensive ship really can't exert much power. ”

Everyone else felt a pang of grief. However, Bu Zhongfu took the opportunity to put forward another point of view.

"When I was in Zhanjiang Port before, I saw that the navy used some 200 to 400-ton fishing boats, which have a large endurance and can withstand wind and waves.

"You can still fish!" Yang Feng added on the side, feeling as if it was Bu Zhongfu's trust.

"Yes, you can also fish, these boats use trawls, and they are very useful."

Zhang Yuan shook his head depressedly, "I have consulted, this kind of fishing boat is available, but the procedures for a fishing license are too cumbersome to do in a short time." ”

Xiao Jing smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Then don't declare it as a fishing boat, anyway, no one can control it after crossing over, you can do anything with this boat." ”

The Board then held a hearing at which it was suggested that the plan would complicate the crossing, but it was approved by 80 per cent. Yang Minghuan expressed his opinion, as a new base, it is inevitable that it will not be able to cultivate at the beginning, and even if it is cultivated for a short time, it will not be able to obtain a harvest. At this time, there are one or more modern fishing boats brought by the traverser, which can not only enrich the protein source of the traverser, but also solve the bottleneck of the traverser's food supply to a certain extent. In addition, modern fishing boats are lightweight, flexible, and easy to operate, which is enough to become an early coastal defense force for traversers. Together with the radio and the radar on the freighter, it is enough to ensure an early warning function at a range of 40 km.

After the vote was passed, Bu Zhongfu and Yangfeng were entrusted with the selection of cargo ships and fishing vessels, as well as the procurement of spare parts and materials. At the suggestion of the military group, Zhang Zefeng selected a group of people who were in good physical condition and had a certain interest in sailing to participate in the training -- he took advantage of the convenience of his work to find a friend whose family directly operated several coastal cargo ships, and sent these people to directly train them in relevant skills on a one-on-one basis.