Chapter II: Reconnaissance
Several people on the boat listened dumbfounded as the travelers explained to them the wormhole crossing and the fact that they had reached a new time and space, and Zeng Zhigang listened and sat on the deck of the anti-smuggling ship. "We can't go back according to what you mean?"
"I'm sorry." Du Yande shook his head, "We're also curious about why you didn't reach this plane through the wormhole, but one thing is for sure, none of us can go back. ”
Xue Ziliang smiled awkwardly, "I didn't expect that I would actually become an American in the Arthurian dynasty!" (Note: Mark Twain's work, the Americans returned to medieval England and defeated medieval English warriors with barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas.) Perhaps the originator of modern time-traveling novels)
It's the turn of the people on the lifeboat to be embarrassed. "Well, in order not to clash with China, we also call ourselves Americans directly...... "someone explained to them.
"Well, what's the point of you saying that now?" Tang Xunliang was also a little depressed, although there were still so many worries in the old time and space, but at this time he had reached the new world and could not go back. "What do you need us to do?"
"Are you crazy?" Zeng Zhigang on the side jumped up and quietly pulled Tang Xunliang aside, "Do we believe their statements now just because we can't see Hainan Island?" If they create a new world, we will end up as enemies. ”
"Fiction?" Tang Xunliang shook his head, "First, if you look at the Leizhou Peninsula on the starboard side, the mangrove forest can't be planted overnight, and it can't reach this scale without decades of growth; Second, if we want to create a new world, then even the most advanced jamming equipment cannot carry out full-channel jamming, but we are now truly losing contact with all channels; Third, the foreigner also said......"
"Foreigner? Which foreigner? "Zeng Zhigang is a little strange. Turning his head, he saw Xue Ziliang looking at him with slanted eyes on the side. "Brother Xue, you said?"
"Please call me Pooh." Xue Ziliang smiled. "I believe what these guys say, at least now we're trapped here."
"I've been killed by you!" Zeng Zhigang was a little angry, "Originally, I had a good life, but you came to us with the materials for smuggling weapons, and you were transferred to the ministry, but now it's good, we are all trapped here, what should we do?" ”
"We should be glad." Xue Ziliang said with a smile, "At least there are so many people with us after we cross over, if there are only a few of us, we will be weak." ”
"Since you say cooperation, is there anything we can work with?" Tang Xunliang smiled helplessly and asked the traverser on the dinghy.
"I think since we're talking about cooperation, let's get on the boat. It's tiring to talk with your neck tilted up like this. Du Yande replied to him. As he spoke, he said a few words over the walkie-talkie, and the lifeboat in the distance that was in charge of covering turned back to the freighter.
This expression of goodwill was understood by everyone, Tang Xunliang smiled and stretched out his hand and waved, and the two soldiers lowered the gangway and let several people on the lifeboat get on the anti-smuggling boat.
"Hello, my name is Du Yande, and I am one of the members of the Executive Committee; This is Li Jieqi, the head of the military department; This is Lin Shenhe, from the industrial sector; This is He Yayun, the security department. A few of us are here to discuss cooperation with you. Du Yande introduced the people on the anti-smuggling ship to everyone on the smuggling boat one by one.
"Lin Shenhe?" Zeng Zhigang couldn't help but look at this person carefully, "Hehe, we are here for him." As he spoke, he shook hands with Lin Shenhe. I'm Zeng Zhigang, a national stability maintenance official. Yesterday morning, I received information that you had smuggled a shipload of weapons that were about to reach China's territorial waters, so you came to arrest you. But now it seems. Hehe. ”
"Hahaha," Lin Shenhe laughed, "It doesn't matter, there are no stability maintenance officials in the current Wu Dynasty, and everyone is now comrades." ”
Tang Xunliang and Du Yande shook hands with a smile. "I'm the captain of this ship. My name is Tang Xunliang. ”
"Oh!" Du Yande's eyes lit up, "Captain Tang doesn't know if he is familiar with nautical charts and surveying and mapping?" ”
"Sorry, I'm not familiar with it. I have special chartplotters and communicators, and our ship does not go into the deep sea, so we have no professional training. Tang Xunliang replied embarrassedly.
Xue Ziliang on the side laughed. "I don't know what you're going to do with the people who need to map these things? Is it looking for a landing site? ”
Du Yande turned his head and looked at this strong man who was one meter eight tall. "Yes, you are?"
"I'm Shevigny. This is my partner Sarina. We are field staff from the United States, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. I used to serve in the armed reconnaissance team in the USMC, and I have some training in mapping and intelligence gathering, so I don't know if I can help you. Xue Ziliang smiled and stretched out his hand, revealing a mouthful of white and neat teeth.
"Can you see that in the sky? Can I compare the satellite map with the difference between the specific terrain? Li Jieqi asked.
"That's what the armed scouts are all about. Hehe! Xue Ziliang replied with a smile still on his face.
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"That's how you used this to launch seaplanes?" Xue Ziliang pointed to the ugly launch frame on the 10,000-ton ship and asked curiously. "What do you use to power catapult planes?"
Yuan Zhenli on the side was wearing a blue ground service uniform and a motorcycle helmet on his head, he hit the glass of the helmet and pointed to the two high-power winches on the side. "Just pull it up with a winch."
Xue Ziliang, who was wearing a suit, smiled unnaturally. "I remember that the seaplane catapults of the Second World War were all steam-based, can this winch meet the requirements?" As he spoke, he patted the left side of his suit, and last night he was nervous and hugged Sarina on the deck to stain his suit a lot.
"Ours is a light aircraft, although it is equipped with pontoons, the weight is still quite light, and when it is turned to the wind, it can take off directly with a winch, which we have tested in the base before." Yuan Zhenli happily introduced his masterpiece.
"So......" Xue Ziliang pointed to the suit on his body, "I came out in a hurry this time, I don't have any clothes, do you have any extra here?" ”
Yuan Zhenli was a little dumbfounded, and finally remembered the place that always felt a little discordant in his eyes. Hurriedly ran to several executive committee members in the crowd of onlookers, "You won't let this guy fly in a suit, right?" Let's change his clothes too, otherwise it will always feel a little unpleasant to look at. ”
The two girls in charge of logistics hurriedly ran to the cabin to find clothes for Xue Ziliang, joking, when this strong and handsome man boarded the boat, the onlookers next to him hurriedly arranged their clothes and hair, and a few quietly took out cosmetics from their pockets, either drawing eyeliner in a small mirror or quietly spraying themselves with perfume. As for the size, they had already estimated the size of his underwear in their hearts.
As for Sarina, she also received special attention, Zhang Yuan, who used to think that the Latin girl on the sailboat was not enough for a big Yanma, saw a really staggered body with a convex and backward blonde and blue-eyed Yanma, and couldn't help but straighten his eyes, and he came to Sarina without saying a word. He is a member of the executive committee, and he has long learned that this foreign girl is an American, thanks to the perverted education of China, and the people present here, no matter who they are, can come up with a few words of English, and this university engineering student is even more so, and he greets Sarina who is still flustered with a hint of panic in her eyes in English, who is not very fluent. After listening to Zhang Yuan's English, Sarina did not reply, but was slightly entangled, and answered Zhang Yuan with a slight frown: "Sir, you can use Chinese, I can understand." ”
"Hahaha......" The people on the deck suddenly burst into laughter, and even a few armed policemen who had just boarded the ship also laughed together. Zhang Yuan's face suddenly turned red, and he couldn't wait to find a hole in the deck where the steel plate was welded to get into.
The woman is very efficient in doing things, and sure enough, five minutes later, the two girls in charge of logistics found the box containing the clothes from the piled up of containers, and easily found a training uniform from it that made Xue Ziliang marvel at why it fit so well.
"Don't you have clothes other than your training uniforms?" Xue Ziliang patted the white marks left on the training uniform, and pulled the creases that had been pressed out by being stacked for a long time. "How did I find out that almost all of you on board are wearing training uniforms, some are wearing dark green, some are wearing light green, some are wearing camouflage, and for the time being, I only see you wearing this black." As he spoke, he pointed to Yuan Zhenli's work clothes.
"Is this navy blue?" After speaking, Yuan Zhenli stepped on the shelf, and got into the cabin like a monkey, and then opened the cabin door on the other side. "Come on, wait for you to take off!"
Rao is a veteran of Xue Ziliang, who has vigorous movements, and it took half a minute to climb to the door of the cabin. He shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Now I finally know why bears can't live in the tropics." Then he grabbed Yuan Zhenli's outstretched hand and laboriously got into the cabin.
"Why can't bears survive in the tropics?" Yuan Zhenli asked a little curiously.
"If the bear goes to the tropics, it has to compete with the monkeys for food, and it will definitely starve to death."
"Hehehe......" Yuan Zhenli laughed twice, raised his right hand and looked at his watch, then turned on the on-board radio and connected to the cabin intercom system. At 7:17 a.m., the equipment in the cabin will be checked. ”
He pushed the joystick. An outside voice came from the headphones, "The flaps are normal, the tail rudder is normal, the tail is normal." ”
"The reconnaissance plane understands." He spoke, closing the glass window on the hatch.
The freighter slowly began to turn, and the sea breeze slowly began to blow the reconnaissance plane head-on, making the plane sway from side to side a little.
Yuan Zhenli turned his head to look at Xue Ziliang, whose expression was a little unnatural, smiled apologetically and explained: "This was temporarily installed last night, and it is always a little unstable. ”
When Xue Ziliang heard this, he immediately rushed over 10,000 grass and mud horses in his heart. "Are you kidding your life? What will happen if we fail to launch? ”
"Huh this?" Yuan Zhenli hesitated slightly, "I'm afraid my shoes are going to get wet." ”
"Then why can't you hoist the plane into the water and take off?"
Yuan Zhenli turned on the power switch, switched the battery power supply group, turned his head and said to Xue Ziliang: "The power of the plane is a little insufficient, and if you add a pontoon, you may not be able to fly." As he spoke, he pressed and held the communication switch into the microphone and said, "The battery power supply is normal, and the switch is normal." ”
Then he turned on the solar cell switch again, saw that there was an electric current input, and then turned on the two electric motors.
Outside the window, a traverser is holding a wind cone to measure the wind direction, showing the wind direction for Yuan Zhenli. The other traverser was holding a three-cup tachymeter to check the wind speed.
Soon there was a sound from outside in the headphones. "The wind is northwesterly and the wind speed is 5 meters per second."
"The reconnaissance plane is ready, waiting for the take-off order."
"It's 7:20 a.m., and the command center wishes you all the best and is allowed to take off!"
"You're still doing a decent job!" Xue Ziliang smiled and pointed to the traversers who were squatting on the ground next to the plane and making a "walk you" shape.
"Of course, we're the most powerful group in the world now." As he spoke, Yuan Zhenli opened the glass window, stretched out his left hand and gave a thumbs up.
The man next to the winch nodded and turned on the switch of the winch. The winch made a screeching noise, the drum accelerated by the gearbox spun rapidly, the wire rope was quickly retracted, and the hook tightly pulled the iron ring under the plane, accelerating the plane to 70 km/h in three seconds. When the plane was pulled by the hook to the end of the launch stand, the hook automatically turned downward, and the hook at the bottom of the plane was released, and the reconnaissance plane jumped lightly upwards into the sky.
However, the people on the freighter were in trouble, the guy who was in charge of opening the winch just now pressed too hard, and pressed the key to it and couldn't bounce out, so the winch did not stop after pulling the plane into the sky, but continued to run violently, pulling the launch rack that had been welded in a hurry last night to one side, and then the track bent downward, followed by a scream from a bystander, and the pylon was pulled down on the deck and smashed into a pit.
Xiao Jing, who was originally watching the excitement on the side, hurriedly rushed up in three steps and two steps, snatched the control switch of the winch, and directly pried open the shell of the switch box with a knife he carried with him, and cut off the switch directly inside, which did not lead to the next disaster.
Because there were too many onlookers before, the debris splashed on the deck of the launch track hit a lot of people, but fortunately, they were all wearing relatively thick training uniforms, and basically they were not injured, but the only one who was injured was hit in the eye by a flying debris, and blood immediately oozed. The hurried bystanders hurriedly carried the wounded down to the medical cabin.
When Yuan Zhenli, who was driving the plane into the air, circled around the freighter, he and Xue Ziliang were stunned to see the guide rail that had just launched himself into the sky falling down, and they couldn't help but glance at each other.
"This must be the first mechanical accident in the New World, right?" Xue Ziliang smiled and quipped.
"Possibly." Yuan Zhenli checked the direction and power situation a little depressed, and turned the course to 270, "Those guys are a little breathless, you see ......" he said and pointed to a small screen next to the bridge. "This is a locator we have designed, with a freighter and two balloons emitting wireless guidance signals, ready to determine the relative orientation using the three-point positioning method. But now it looks like the guys must have forgotten to release the balloons. ”
As he spoke, he turned on the intercom and shouted inside: "Dongfeng wheel, this is a reconnaissance plane, you didn't have anything there just now, right?" Complete. ”
"This is the Dongfeng Steamer, there is a guy who hurt his eye, nothing else, over."
"Did you forget something? Complete. ”
"What did we forget? Complete. ”
"I just turned on the positioning system, why haven't I received a signal yet? Complete. ”
"Oh, I see, I'm going to ask, I guess it was too chaotic on the deck just now to forget. Wait a minute, we'll take care of this, is there anything else? Complete. ”
"It's alright, we're heading to 270 now, please wait. Complete. ”
"Watch the birds in the sky, over."
Yuan Zhenli looked left and right, and there were indeed many birds flying nearby, and they curiously flapped their wings and approached the plane, trying to carefully check whether this newly emerged flying thing was of the same kind.
Naturally, he wouldn't give the bird this chance, so he hurriedly took out the Glock pistol in the holster under his arm and handed it to Xue Ziliang, who was holding a map bag and a camera in his hand. "Brother Xue! Help me disperse the nearby birds, or we'll be in danger of hitting them. ”
Xue Ziliang took the pistol without saying a word, but he froze for a moment. "Why don't you buy the M1911? It felt better in my hand. ”
"Brother Xue! Don't pit me, disperse quickly, there are already signs of birds flying over to join in the fun. ”
As Xue Ziliang stretched his hand out of the cabin and fired three shots at the birds trying to get closer, the nearby birds really dispersed, and even those who were about to come over to see the excitement in the distance quickly turned their heads and fled in the distance.
"Brother Xue's marksmanship is not good...... Yuan Zhenli joked with a smile: "Three shots didn't hit a bird." ”
Xue Ziliang was an accurate shooter in the platoon when he was in the armed reconnaissance team, and in a huff, he closed Glock's safety and handed it to Yuan Zhenli. "Your gun is full of empty cartridges, how can you let me hit the bird?"
"Huh?" Yuan Zhenli was a little strange, he brought four pistol magazines, and in the pistol was a magazine full of empty cartridges. "How do you know it's empty?"
"Empty cartridges don't have warheads, and they weigh a lot more than bullets. We often use guns, and Glock knows how much it weighs. ”
"Alas...... I don't know. I didn't know how to open Glock's safety before I got my hands on the gun. ”
"This gun is not good......" Xue Ziliang smiled. I don't like it. ”
"You call the full man and the hungry man is hungry, we worked hard to cross just to have the right to hold our own guns, if it weren't for the country's gun ban too much, I wouldn't want to cross."
He looked at Xue Ziliang and looked at him dumbfounded. "I mean seriously, I've always liked to collect guns, and I used to have a few I-brand air guns at home, as well as two five-shot shotguns, but since I was born, people from the police station came to us to get a gun license, and then said that it is best to put the gun in the police station, and then come to the police station to get it if necessary. I cheated my family of more than 800 storage fees, and now I don't know when the gun was destroyed when I ran to the police station. Later, gun control became more and more stringent, and I thought it would be okay to play with BB guns and imitation guns. As a result, at the beginning of last year, I didn't know which of the well-fed goods called me to report that I had a large number of weapons, so more than 30 special police officers rushed to my house to search and confiscated more than 40 imitation guns that I had collected on weekdays. It's worth more than 100,000! In order to prevent it from being said to be a real gun, I didn't even remove the muzzle identification mark, and the power was less than 0.5 joules. In the end, they fined me more than 400,000 yuan, and imprisoned me for 15 days, saying that I had violated the gun law......"
Xue Ziliang listened to him complain in amazement, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. "It's not so casual to use guns in the United States, the United States is a federal country, and the laws of the fifty states are often very different, and it is illegal to go to other states to take a shower and sing a song at every turn. Didn't you say something about your country's celebrities smoking marijuana some time ago? The United States has an idiot soldier taking a selfie and smoking marijuana to provoke China? In fact, if he hadn't been in Washington, he would have been in prison with a popping chrysanthemum. ”
"I'll go, aren't you afraid that people will sue you for racism?"
"Why am I not afraid? But now there are no here, and the are all primitive people in Africa, so there should be no black slave trade at this time, right? ”
"The slave trade in history began in the 15th century, but the world doesn't know about it."
"By the way, I always hear you talk about the new world, is there any difference between the new world and our old plane?"
"It's a big difference. There is a maritime nation in this time and space, I heard that it was driven out of the Western Continent, called Meideno, and it is very rich, and there is a Yaning Kingdom in the Central Continent, I heard that it is a good hand in industry, but we are here now, and there is nothing to do with them. ”
"That's all?" Xue Ziliang has no impression of these, for him, as long as the new world is not full of dinosaurs. As he spoke, he began to look out the window.
The sea was empty, and there was seawater everywhere in front of and around, "I don't know how far I flew out?" He muttered to himself.
Yuan Zhenli looked down at the receiver, "We are now about a hundred kilometers away from the freighter. ”
Xue Ziliang opened the color map and measured it with the ruler he carried with him, "The distance from the freighter to Haiphong is about 350 kilometers, and we still have to fly for a while." ”