Chapter 60: Someone Comes
However, some people can see that this kind of car has high requirements for the ground, and the Chinese have laid thick iron plates on the ground to ensure that the wheels will not sink into the mud and sand. www.biquge.info If you look closely, the wheels of these cars are very low, about two fingers above the ground, if they are on ordinary muddy ground, I am afraid that the wheels will have already fallen into the mud and sand, and the wheels of this car are small, only about the size of a tea bowl, I don't know if it will be more tiring to push.
"Look, look!" Someone exclaimed, "The bow of that ship can be lowered!" ”
Many natives have turned their eyes to the landing craft on the side, and the electric door on the bow of the landing craft is slowly rising at this time, and they are dumbfounded one by one, how can the bow of the boat be lowered? If you accidentally fall off while driving on the sea, won't you sink immediately? After the hatch of the landing craft was raised, the natives were even more amazed, and they were shocked to find that the bow of the landing craft was actually stranded on the beach! At this time, the landing craft was already loaded with food, and it was lying on the beach with a heavy load, only the stern of the boat was still in the water. Such a heavy ship was stranded on the beach, and without a hundred and ten men and several large boats towing it, it would certainly not be able to go to the surface of the water now, unless it was possible until the tide rose at night.
But today was destined to be the time to break their worldview, and as a puff of smoke came out of the stern chimney of the landing craft, and the stern of the boat splashed, they saw that the bow of the ship began to drag itself heavily on the beach and move backwards, and in only five breaths, the large square-headed boat had already left the beach and floated on the sea not far away. The landing craft waited until the other barges were loaded with food, then they were towed one by one with cables, and then pulled the barges towards the Dongfeng, which was mooring.
Yang Feng was still waiting next to the crane, the landing craft approached quickly, close to the side of the ship, he carefully operated the crane to slowly put the hook down, and the naturalized people below gestured to him, directing the rhythm of the hook.
"Good!" The naturalized people shouted loudly while Chaoyang Feng gestured, Yang Feng stopped his movements, exhaled, his head shook, he stood in this position all day, either teaching the naturalized workers to operate, or he stepped forward to operate it himself. Of course, there is more chance of him operating it himself, Yang Feng is an anxious person, he stayed by and watched those naturalized migrant workers carefully operate the crane and slowly put hooks there, he was so anxious that he was about to smoke, and in the end it was more comfortable to operate it himself.
The workers below hung the rope on the hook, carefully checked that it would not fall off, and then shouted to Yang Feng, who was waiting above, "Chief! Rise! ”
The land is not alone, and the ship hates the war and the sun
Yang Feng skillfully operated the crane to lift the warehouse with a ton of grain, put it into the open cargo hold, and placed it according to the pre-arranged area, and there were also naturalized people wearing hard hats in the cargo hold to direct the placement. This time, 7,200 tons of grain would have been crushed if it had not been stacked directly into the cargo hold without control. Once crushed, the transfer of grain to the grain depot must have been a nightmare, so it was necessary to separate the grain with silos. Therefore, before this departure, the lumber mill specially prepared thousands of silos for use, and all of them came in handy at this time.
Zhang Zefeng watched with interest as the people on the deck were busy operating the machines, one after another the barns were hoisted up and placed in the cargo hold, looking completely orderly, and the StarCraft that he had played in the old time and space came to his mind, and the miners in it were busy wandering between the crystal ore and the main base.
At this time, the walkie-talkie on his waist rang, "Attention, attention! Men and horses are approaching, at a bearing of 350, a distance of about seven kilometers. ”
This is a warning from the observation post in the hot air balloon, they monitor the situation on all sides in two shifts from six o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock in the evening every day, although the Dongfeng is a big iron ship that is not afraid of the local natives, but after all, there are still many people on the ground, if a hostile force comes to a surprise attack, to take away some people, it is not easy to find it back, so from before they anchored, they have been flying hot air balloons on the deck.
After not the ghost ship of the land, the Yang is cold
"Who are those centaurs? Can you make out the difference? Yang Feng patted the operator next to him, signaling him to continue the operation first, and at the same time picked up the walkie-talkie on his waist and shouted, and a response soon came from the walkie-talkie, "I can't see clearly, but they seem to have a guard of honor, if I am not mistaken, it should be from the government." ”
"Okay, notify the guards and let them deal with it." Yang Feng said twice, pinned the walkie-talkie back to his belt, and then ran quickly to the control room in the tail building.
The Guards consisted of two platoons of Marines and a company of the Foreign Legion, and the main task of the Marines was to protect the grain collection area from attack, and to establish a ring position where the natives could not see it, after all, it would cause some speculation for the natives to see the troops nearby to the south. The Foreign Legion established a ring of defense on the perimeter of the Marine Corps, and in the event of a battle, it would inevitably be the first encounter between the Foreign Legion and the enemy, which was also the original intention of the Foreign Legion.
Chen Li's boat at this time followed the small hair boat in front of him and came to the vicinity of the mooring, and the people on the small hair boat waved their hands at them, holding a horn and shouting, "You anchor here first, rest for a day, and unload tomorrow." ”
"Huh? Do you need a day off? "That's not included in this salary, is it?" "What do you eat for a day off? I'm still waiting to go back to Xin'an for dinner. Immediately, there was an uproar among the crew and porters, but the people on the small hair boat over there seemed to know what they were talking about, and continued to shout at them, "Your food is from the Senate, you can get off the ship now, go over there," he said, and pointed to the canteen in the distance, "Everyone's dinner is prepared there, you can eat there, but don't wander around, this place is not particularly safe, to prevent encounters with bandits and pirates." ”
"There is food! That's great! The words that this man blurted out also shouted out everyone's hearts, but Chen Li didn't feel that way, his cabin was not only filled with food, but also the woman received by the northbound detachment in Zhaoqing.
In view of the fact that these women have just been bought from the human market, nutrition ** is a common phenomenon, not to mention that there are a large number of bandit activities along the way, it is definitely not advisable to let these women walk from Zhaoqing to Dongfang Port through the official road. But it is absolutely impossible for the northbound detachment to take so many women to the north, and they will eat themselves poor just by eating, so they must be sent back to Dongfang Port first. Originally, Liu Yeqiang was helpless, but this trip to Hong Kong made him find a solution, which was to send these women to the Dongfeng by grain ship, so that he could absolutely guarantee safety. After consideration, Liu Yeqiang specially chose Chen Li, who had the possibility of cooperation with the Senate, and asked Chen Lishun to take these women to the unloading place.
On paper, this method is indeed safe, but it can be described as absolute torture for these women, many of whom have never even seen the sea, and have to stay in the cabin for more than ten hours on the ship, eating, drinking, and lazing must be solved in the cabin. At the beginning, there was a gong bucket, but it couldn't hold up many people, and it was less than half a day before the boat came out, and the gong bucket had already overflowed. None of these seasick women who were so dizzy that they couldn't stand up on their feet could not take out the gong bucket, so they had to choose a corner to solve these problems. They spent almost two days in the stinking cabin before they arrived in Hong Kong, and now most of the women are lying on the floor and unable to get up.
After hearing the news, it took almost two hours for the naturalized civilians to move the dozens of women ashore and let them rest on the laid mats to recuperate. The women had been rocking in the boat for almost two days, when they suddenly landed on the land that was not shaking at all, and for a while they vomited and fell into the dark, but fortunately they didn't eat much in the first place, but just lay on the ground and retched.
Buckets of boiling water and porridge had already been brought nearby, and naturalized doctors had come over to examine the women's bodies -- in order to keep the women from resisting the physical examinations, these doctors were all female doctors -- in fact, they were all newly trained nurses who could check whether they were in good health. These women are still in good health, but their main problem now is that they vomit for a long time on the boat and have not eaten, so they are somewhat dehydrated, and many women obviously have to have a lot of energy after drinking water.
Since the loading of the Dongfeng's grain was less than a sixth of the way, it was inevitable that they would have to stay in this place for a few more days, and it was certainly not suitable to carry these women directly onto the ship and then get seasick, so they built a temporary living area near the canteen to allow all the members to rest, and since these women had not been purified, their living quarters were far from the sea, and for their convenience, a toilet with ten squatting positions was even dug for them to use.
Although these crew members took care of them along the way, there were still two fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls who did not survive and died in the cabin, which made Tian Yani, who was in charge of coming to receive them, feel distressed.
"Doctor Tian," Tian Yani, who heard the voice, realized that someone was approaching, and hurriedly turned her head to see that it was Zeng Zhigang. Zeng Zhigang was the supreme military commander of the convoy this time, and he decided the military operations of the entire trip to Hong Kong.
"What's the matter?" Tian Yani nodded at him, "Captain Zeng, is something wrong?" She saw that Zeng Zhigang's body was already fully draped, and he was still carrying one in his hand. Zeng Zhigang nodded, "Yes, there are a large number of natives coming over on the periphery of the defensive circle, and we don't know the situation yet, so all non-combatants must be ready to evacuate and be ready to board the Dongfeng to retreat at any time." ”
"Well, I'll go to the rendezvous." Tian Yani stood up, patted the sand on her body, and walked towards the meeting point not far away. Zeng Zhigang smiled helplessly, and was about to turn around, when the walkie-talkie on his waist shouted, "Commander, the other party has approached about six kilometers." ”
"Okay, I got it!" Zeng Zhigang picked up the walkie-talkie and said, and at the same time ran towards the defensive circle of the Marine Corps, not far away was the defensive circle of the outer Foreign Legion, and Niu Jinxing was walking over. Niu Jinxing was still wearing a bright red military uniform, with a high hat on his head, and in order to distinguish officers from soldiers, the top of the hat was pinned with the tail feathers of a wild goose. Niu Jinxing walked up to Zeng Zhigang and saluted, "Report to the chief!" We've heard that an enemy is approaching, do you meet it? Zeng Zhigang was stunned for a while when he heard his Mandarin, and Niu Jinxing's Mandarin with an Annan accent was spoken twice before Zeng Zhigang understood, "I'll go!" Now that the situation of the enemy and the enemy is unknown, how can we meet it? In addition, the opposite side may not be the enemy, so don't expose our power too early. ”
"Yes, Chief." Niu Jinxing hurriedly continued to speak his Annan Mandarin and said, "Then what is our order?" ”
Zeng Zhigang waved his hand impatiently, "You continue to maintain your current position, just don't act until the other party shows hostility." ”
Zeng Zhigang was originally in the army, but with the new formation of the Foreign Legion, the presence of the army itself is decreasing, and it has almost been reduced to the general function of the National Guard, and now it is only responsible for the task of defending important units. After all, the original intention of forming the Foreign Legion was to replace the army to fight outside and reduce the losses of the army units in battle. Although this saved the Senate a lot of money and manpower, it made the army begin to do nothing, and because the tasks began to decrease, the pace of the army's expansion began to slow down, and it still maintains the size of about three companies, and the plan to expand the army to a regiment at the beginning of the year has been snatched away by the Foreign Legion.
Zeng Zhigang felt that there were too few prospects for development in such an army, and the highest rank in the army was only a brigadier colonel. You must know that the navy has now begun to have naturalized lieutenants, and if it continues to develop like this, I will have to salute myself next time I see naturalized civilians from other branches of the military. After much thought, he decided to change jobs -- from the Army to the Marine Corps, which was relatively growing in size and had many more opportunities to face combat than the Army, and if he continued to develop in the Marine Corps, his chances of promotion would certainly be much higher than in the "National Guard."
The capital ship of the Victory accompanied by this trip to Hong Kong carried two platoons of marines and a company of foreign legion soldiers, but due to the information given by the Great Picture Museum, Hong Kong at this time was still called Xin'an County, under the jurisdiction of Mingzhou Prefecture, and the county government was located in the south of Shenzhen in later generations. But since the Dongfeng arrived at anchor in Hong Kong Bay, it has been observed in a hot air balloon every day, and no hostile movements have been found for several days.
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