readx;?“ Captain! There's something in the water! The shouts of sailors came from the bow of the ship, and several sailors on duty hurriedly leaned forward with rifles, and Zhong Bin also ran quickly to the bow of the ship and looked in the direction of the sailor's finger. Sure enough www.biquge.info there was something sinking and floating in the water, and it seemed to be a piece of wood from a distance.

Zhong Bin hurriedly raised his binoculars and took a closer look, there was a log on the sea in the distance, there were a lot of cables and huge things like mats on the wood, and the soldier next to him said, "Captain, it feels like a sail." ”

"Well, it's very similar." Zhong Bin yelled at the stern, "Time! "Although they were already captains, only the senators could be issued quartz watches, and they could only rely on large clocks assembled from the parts they had brought with them. Since they don't need to cross time zones now, they don't need marine clocks now, otherwise they won't be enough.

Soon the shouts of the sailors behind were heard, "Eight twenty in the morning!" Zhong Bin nodded and thought for a moment, "Measure the current!" Drive towards the mast! ”

"Yes! Captain! The sailor who measured the ocean current hurriedly began to take his tools to determine the direction of the sea current, and the helmsman began to turn in the direction of the mast according to Zhong Bin's instructions.

"Captain, what about us going to Navigation Point One?" The first mate next to him asked tentatively. Zhong Bin glanced at him, "Do you know what the sail represents?" The power of a boat, if a boat has no sails, then the boat basically has to stay where it is and wait to die. ”

"I know this, but our order is ......" The first mate was interrupted before he finished speaking, Zhong Bin waved his hand, "Don't tell me that these are useless, if the mast is broken, then it must be dangerous, we are now the Senate Navy, and we have to take care of the situation in the surrounding waters!" The first mate hurriedly stopped squeaking, but just held his telescope and searched in all directions.

The Chunxiao approached the mast, and more than a dozen sailors stepped forward to salvage the mast along with the cables on it.

"This is a hard sail, and our previous ships also used hard sails." Zhong Bin seemed to be talking to himself while watching. "This kind of sail is troublesome, and it is not easy to repair if it is broken, so it is not as good as a soft sail."

"Look like this, it should be the sail of an ordinary fishing boat, right?" The gunner on the side pointed to the mast and said, "I remember when I used to see small fishing boats when I was on a big container boat, the mast was probably that big. ”

"Well, it should be." Zhong Bin said, "But this ......" Before the words fell, someone next to him said, "It should have been cut off by a torrential rain." ”

Everyone hurriedly looked over, and it turned out to be Lin Bei who was navigating. "You know a ball! What are you doing here if you don't have good navigation? Hurry back to your post! The first mate hurriedly scolded.

Zhong Bin was stunned for a moment, and stretched out his hand to stop the first mate's words, "Lin Bei, come here, what do you think?" ”

"Yes!" Limbey hurriedly walked over and saluted first, "Report to the captain, we have reached two nautical miles south of the No. 1 navigation point," and then turned to the mast on the deck and said, "This is the mast on the fishing boat, you see where the mast is broken, it was cut with an axe, this axe has obviously not been sharpened for a long time, you see the hole cut on it is pitted." ”

Zhong Bin nodded, "It seems to be true," he said with a pouting at Lin Bennu, "Do you have any other opinions?" ”

"Yes!" Limbe continued, "The cables are all pulled and broken, and you see, the broken ones are not the same as the broken cables. There was a torrential rain last night, and it was supposed that the fishing boat could not return in the torrential rain, so it had to cut the mast to protect itself. ”

"That's right, you're right!" Usually Zhong Bin often listened to the patriarch encourage himself so much, and he finally seized the opportunity to learn and use it now, and he patted Lin Bei on the shoulder encouragingly, "What else do you think?" ”

"Hmm." "yes, it should be." Several officers and sailors next to him were echoing, but the gunners frowned and asked, "Captain, what should we do?" Do you want to write this down in your logbook? ”

"Of course we have to record," Zhong Bin looked left and right as he spoke, "How to measure the ocean current, haven't finished measuring it?" ”

A sailor hurriedly shouted from the side of the ship, "It's been measured, it's coming from that side to that side!" As he spoke, he danced and pointed left and right on the deck, Zhong Bin almost had a crooked nose when he saw this situation, "Over there to that side, where is it going?" ”

The sailor muttered, he couldn't remember where it was for a while, but now he saw Zhong Bin's face full of fire, and his legs were a little trembling. Although it is said that officers in the Senate army are not allowed to beat junior soldiers at will, officers can give demerits to soldiers, and soldiers with demerits can be sent to the disciplinary team.

"Report!" Seeing the soldier's nervous appearance, Lin Bei couldn't help but feel a trace of pity in his heart, remembering his earliest days in the pirate gang, if he hadn't had the old ghost to help him, he was afraid that he would have died in the previous days. Thinking of this, he hurriedly shouted, attracting Zhong Bin's gaze, "What he said just now was from the southeast to the northwest. ”

"Hmm." Zhong Bin replied noncommittally, stood in place, took his index finger in his mouth, and then poked it upwards into the air, and after a while, he walked straight to the tail building, and said loudly as he walked, "The navigator comes with me!" Everyone else is in place! As he spoke, he shouted at a herald, "Inform the telegraph operator and send a report to Dongfang Port that there should be a shipwreck in the southeast, and the Chunxiao will search to the southeast!" ”

Lin Bei hurriedly took a few steps to chase after him, he quietly glanced at the people next to him, several officers were looking left and right inexplicably, and the soldiers hurried back to their posts, and the sailor who measured the ocean current before hurriedly folded his hands to him to express his gratitude.

"Come here," Zhong Bin was already standing at the chart table, beckoning to Lin Bei who was walking by, "where do you think the ship should be?" ”

"Huh?" Lin Bei was stunned for a moment, "I ...... this I can't say ......."

"It's okay, just where do you think it's going to be?" Zhong Bin's head was already sweating, "Although this situation may be life and death, it is not your responsibility!" ”

"Hmm!" Limbey nodded, removed the pencil and ruler from the map, and looked at the map. After a moment, he pointed to an area and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be here." ”

Zhong Bin frowned and looked over, it turned out to be next to a reef, "Why are you here?" There are so many reefs here! ”

"Yes," Limbey continued, "old fishermen often know the location of reefs well, and it is indeed dangerous for boats to get close to reef areas during storms, but once a ship is wrecked, here and here ...... here," he said, and he nodded above, "There are small islands in these two places, and the area of the islands should be quite small from the appearance on the map, and as old fishermen, you should be very familiar with the sea area." ”

"Why do you think so?" Zhong Bin was interested and asked curiously, Lin Bei hurriedly straightened up, "Don't be so formal, you just say your opinion." ”

"Yes," Lin Bei nodded, but still didn't dare to relax, and said in an upright position, "I heard from the patriarch when I was learning map navigation from the patriarch that cruisers often fish in this area," he said sideways and pointed to the area he pointed to a little north, "There are a lot of fish in this area, and the taste is very delicious." They also said that indigenous fishermen are often seen fishing in this area, and if there is one that is likely to be the largest, it should be here. ”

"Captain! Call from the command of the Navy! The herald ran up with a document in his hand and handed over the telegram with both hands. Zhong Bin took the document and looked at it, "The Navy Command Zhi Chunxiao, the request for your ship's request for search and rescue shipwrecks has been approved, and it will start immediately, if you need reinforcements, you can ask for it at any time, and the Navy Command will be Bu Zhongfu." ”

"Good!" Zhong Bin nodded on the telegram with satisfaction, then looked at it on the chart, and said to Lin Bei, "Okay, where do you set a route now?" ”

Lin Bei hurriedly stood up and saluted, "Yes!" Captain, mission is guaranteed! ”

Zhong Bin nodded, walked down from the tail tower, and shouted under the lookout post of the main mast, "The eyes above are staring!" Report the situation immediately if there is a situation in the surrounding area! Especially a damaged ship without a mast! ”

"Yes! Captain! "There was the sound of a lookout post at the top of the mast.

"Loading ...... It's a good outfit! The first mate couldn't help but curse secretly, "I was born as a pirate, and there are not a thousand but eight hundred people who died in your hands, what kind of living bodhisattva are you running here now?" But he didn't show it on his face at all, just poked at his post and looked out, pretending to ignore Zhong Bin, who walked behind him from time to time.

If you want to talk about the bad things Zhong Bin did when he was a pirate leader in the past, it can be regarded as a long line. At that time, when he was just captured by the Chinese, he was almost frightened, especially the "political movements" of the Chinese played too much, and the momentum of mobilizing all the little pirates under his command to fight the shipowner made him feel that he was going to die in minutes. At that time, he swore to Mazu Niangniang in the prisoner camp that if he could or go out, he would definitely find a good livelihood in the future, and would never be such a smoky pirate who lacked virtue and smoked, and he also swore that if he encountered someone shipwrecked at sea, he would definitely go to the rescue. Later, he really became the captain of the ship, and the oath he made must be fulfilled, otherwise, if Mazu Niangniang blames it, this ship may have to suffer, and now there is a possible shipwreck, of course, you must go to the rescue, even if you can't find it, at least you have to search for it.

What's more, now the naval command has also sent a telegram, not only approving its own search and rescue request, but also assuring itself that reinforcements can be received at any time. For him, it is enough to be approved, reinforcements or anything is completely unnecessary, with Chunxiao's current level of equipment, can anyone else deal with him?

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Lu Dan's boat had been floating at sea for most of the night, and last night's strong winds mixed with torrential rain swept through this sea area - he is a Tan household, he came here from Xu Wen in Guangdong Province half a month ago to follow his father to fish, and he just arrived in this sea area last night.

This sea area is a well-known sardine gathering area, there are a lot of sea fish in it, every time their family follows a large group of fishermen can catch a full boat of fish here, if you rush to Mingzhou or Morning Star can sell it for seven or eight taels of silver, it can top the appearance of half a year. But this year their boat was smashed, and by the time the boatsmith had repaired his boat, they had missed the best day of fishing in the south. They are not like farmers, if they don't go fishing, they have no income at all, and the Tan people like to gamble, often do not have much money, if they do not come out to fish, they are likely to starve to death, even if someone helps, it is also a very shameless thing. So his father decided that it would be better to wait for the day than to hit the day, and after repairing the boat that day, he took him and his brother Lu Yu to the south together.

As a result, I had just arrived in this sea area last night, and before I could start fishing, I was directly encountered by a terrible storm of scale. Their small fishing boat nearly capsized in a storm, and they had no choice but to cut off the mast. You must know that they use hard sails on their ships, and it is basically impossible to put away the hard sails in the storm, rather than playing with the sails, it is better to cut the mast directly, otherwise it is not uncommon for the storm to blow the ship into two pieces.

He still remembers when his father had the two brothers tie themselves to the mast and then cut it off with an axe in his own hands, but the axe was completely blunt due to lack of maintenance, and it took him a long time to cut the mast, and the mast smashed into the sea with the cable and the sail, and the waving cable happened to hang on his father's feet, dragging him into the dark sea. The two brothers only had time to hear their father shout not to move, and they could no longer hear his father's movements. After a night of torrential rain, the sun rose at dawn, and the two brothers had already lost consciousness in the cold rain, and their skin was wrinkled by the rain.

It was only after dawn that the two of them were weak and untied themselves from the broken mast, and where was the shadow of their father as far as the eye could see? The two of them couldn't help but feel sad from their hearts, hugged each other and cried bitterly, until they were tired, hungry and thirsty. After rummaging in the boat, the previous bucket of fresh water had capsized in yesterday's rainstorm, and the fresh water was gone, and the rice brought with him had been soaked in the seawater, and the things that made the fire had been lost, and there was nothing to eat on the whole boat except for the two of them.

Lu Dan is only fourteen years old this year, his younger brother is thirteen years old, his mother died when she gave birth to her sister, and her sister is still waiting for the whole family to go back together at Xu Wen's house, but now it has become like this...... The whereabouts of the father are unknown, if his two brothers can't go back, then the sister will directly become an orphan, although now it is entrusted to the uncle's house for a few days, but if it becomes an orphan, it is difficult to guarantee that his uncle will not sell his sister. When he thought of this, his stomach was hungry, and his throat was so dry that it was about to burn, so he couldn't help but sit on the deck and cry with Lu Yu.

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