Yuan Zhenli and Xue Ziliang were stunned when they saw the land, this must not have flown a distance of more than three hundred kilometers, but the land had already appeared in front of them...... It's a sandy beach, and there are a few people on the beach who are catching the sea, all of them looking down to pick up whatever they can eat on the beach after the tide goes out. Their planes, powered by electric motors, were almost silent and were not discovered by anyone below.

Yuan Zhenli checked the locator, the location is not wrong, it is indeed the 270 direction of the fishing boat, this location should be the legendary Fushuizhou Island, but now it is a continent.

"What should we do?" Yuan Zhenli looked down at the printed satellite map and asked rather depressedly.

"What else can I do? Hainan Island is gone, and it's not too much of a surprise that there is an extra mainland here. Xue Ziliang quickly used a compass and a laser rangefinder to determine his bearing on the map board, and then skillfully used a pencil to draw a simple map on white paper. The terrain is good. ”

"What's good?" Yuan Zhenli looked at the map drawn by Xue Ziliang with a pencil and compared the terrain a little, which was indeed very similar. "Brother Xue, I'm convinced, it's absolutely impossible for me to draw a map like yours."

"Oh?" Xue Ziliang raised the rangefinder again and measured it, and drew a few strokes on the map. "What's wrong? Are you not trained in surveying and mapping? ”

"I used to be a ground crewman, and I didn't have any contact with maps or anything." He watched almost greedily as Xue Ziliang drew a map close to the contour line on the drawing.

"Hehe, no wonder, but it's not bad, as a ground crew, you can fly an airplane, and dare to catapult and take off on the guide rail, and your skills are still quite good!" Xue Ziliang smiled and comforted. "At that time, I had at most a few times to jump high and low open ground, and the reconnaissance missions of Forcerecon's troops were mainly ground operations, and to be honest, this was my first time mapping in the air, and it was not necessarily accurate."

That's when a voice came over the radio. "This is the Dongfeng, please reply to the reconnaissance plane. Complete. ”

"The reconnaissance plane reported that we had just found land. Complete. ”

"Did you find land? In what direction? Complete. ”

"On the Dongfeng 270 course. Complete. ”

"What?" The people on the Dongfeng who were looking at the charts were stunned. On the chart, the Dongfeng 270 direction is a bend inland, if it encounters land, it is at least 350 kilometers, according to the speed of this aircraft's flight, it has now flown more than 200 kilometers at most, how can it be possible to find land in the 270 course? There is a floating island there, but how could Yuan Zhenli regard a small island of several square kilometers as a mainland? "Reconnaissance aircraft please repeat, the location of the land and the estimated size of the area. Complete. ”

"The land position is in the direction of the Dongfeng 270 course, the area is incalculable, this is a jungle, there is human activity. Complete. ”

"Oh?" The people in the tail building were a little surprised. Liu Yeqiang flipped through the record book, "No, this time is the period of the war between the North and South Koreas in Vietnam, although the population has not yet reached the time of the first sharp decline, but it is not to the point where there are people on every coast." You ask them to look for Vietnamese villages? ”

Yuan Zhenli, who heard the order, exchanged views with Xue Ziliang. Xue Ziliang has already drawn a sketch map of the terrain and coast for several kilometers around, and it is not bad to go deeper inland now. Let's see if there is a river that flows into the sea here.

"Why do you have to look for a river? Isn't it okay to find a random place to climb it and say no? ”

Xue Ziliang laughed a few times and explained to Yuan Zhenli. "Rivers are needed, and the amount of water has to be on a certain scale."

Looking at Yuan Zhenli's puzzled expression, he continued: "Do you think you are going to a place where you can turn on the faucet and come out of the tap water?" We all have to drink water, but the human body has high requirements for water, otherwise it is easy to get sick, and we all come from places with very good sanitary conditions, and suddenly come into contact with poor sanitary conditions or polluted water, it is easy to get sick, lose production capacity and combat effectiveness, and everything is over. Even if there is a river, it must have special equipment to treat the river water before it can be drunk, and the US military has a water treatment unit to treat drinking water after arriving in every place, and it is not allowed to drink the river water directly unless the conditions are restricted. ”

"Huh? I remember when I was a kid, I used to drink water straight from the pond and boil it. Yuan Zhenli couldn't help but retort.

"It's a matter of adaptability to the environment, and I'm sure you'll have diarrhea if you drink like that now." Xue Ziliang replied with a smile.

Yuan Zhenli smiled, turned the plane around, and flew in the direction of due north. At the same time, turn on the intercom to inform the Dongfeng of the flight situation.

It didn't take long for them to find a river that flowed into the sea in a large delta from west to east, and the water looked clear from the heights. They flew west along the river for about ten kilometers, and the width of the river has been kept at **ten meters, and it seems that the flow is quite good. What's even more interesting is that there is a small village about a kilometer west of the river estuary, which looks like about 40 houses, but for some reason, many of the rice fields on the edge of the village are not planted, and there are people in the village, but the details are not visible under visual conditions, and it is not clear how many people there are.

"Okay, we know, the survival of people means that the local environment should still be bearable. Come back quickly, how long can the plane's battery keep flying? Complete. Du Yande pressed the microphone and gave an order to the reconnaissance plane.

"Okay, we'll go back now, there's 10% of battery pack 1 left, we're going to switch to battery pack 2. There should be no problem with returning the Dongfeng. Complete. Yuan Zhenli said and switched the power supply directly to the No. 2 battery pack, and sure enough, the fuel gauge was in a full state. Then he turned on the charging switch of the solar cell, and the battery pack No. 1 began to show that it was charging.

Xue Ziliang looked at this operation and asked in surprise: "You actually keep the solar cells in a state of no power generation?" ”

"Of course......," Yuan Zhenli carefully checked the charging status, "If you keep the battery charged, it will overcharge, and if it suddenly explodes in the air, we will always sit on the battery." ”

At this moment, some people poured out of the village below, pointing together at the plane in the sky. After a few minutes, suddenly many people knelt down and kowtowed directly to the plane.

Wu Wenfan is one of them, he has just re-added the "sea fish porridge" that has been boiled to the smell of roast and put it on the stove to boil, when he heard his wife shouting outside. "Xianggong! Come on! Look in the sky! ”

There were also many people in the village who found the plane, and with the loud voices of the villagers, soon the people in the village found this strange flying object in the air. No one had ever seen anything like it, it could fly freely in the air without flapping its wings, and it didn't make a sound. The only remaining old man in the village was also helped out by a few young students, squinting at the faint old eyes and looking carefully for a while, shaking his head and saying: "This thing has never been seen by the old man, it must be auspicious!" Bye! ”

The young people on the side hurriedly threw themselves on their knees and bowed in the direction of the plane.

"This thing comes from the east, and goes to the east, and at this time it is the time, it must be auspicious, it must be auspicious." In fact, the old man didn't even know what Xiangrui was, but he did know that although the current imperial court had been established for more than 30 years, the Emperor Li of Thang Long (now Hanoi) had not been able to hold power, and the emperor had issued a document asking all parts of the country to look for Xiang Rui to prove that the Emperor Li was in charge of the power of Annam in accordance with the mandate of heaven, so this auspicious report would inevitably be rewarded by Thang Long. Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked someone to go west along the river to the county seat to report "auspiciousness" to the county officials. The appearance of auspicious in the feudal dynasty "heralds" the prosperity of the empire, this auspicious report will inevitably get the emperor's reward, although this reward must be stripped down by the officials, but in any case there is still some small money will come to their hands, in this poor harvest disaster year, to be able to get a little money is already a great favor. For this reason, there was a lot of dispute among the people who competed for the place to go to the county seat to report auspiciousness, and two of them got into a fight, and finally they were stopped by the old man on crutches. Although the clan power in this village was greatly affected by the plague, the respect for the old man remained unchanged, so in the end, the old man made a final decision and let his nephew take over this "glorious and arduous" task. His nephew naturally knew that this was a big bargain, so he hurriedly packed his clothes, packed dry food, and set off towards the county seat under the envious eyes of a group of red-eyed villagers.

"It's broken......" Yuan Zhenli suddenly said. Xue Ziliang, who was checking the map on the side, was taken aback. "What's wrong?"

"Damn, it's against the wind." Yuan Zhenli pointed to the airspeed counter. "Flying against the wind has a direct impact on the speed of the aircraft."

"And will our fuel be able to fly us back to the mothership?" Xue Ziliang was in a hurry. This is around the 17th century, and if you fall into the sea and wait for rescue, it is really no different from looking for a needle in the bottom of the sea.

Yuan Zhenli tilted his head and looked at Xue Ziliang, "We are an electric plane, and we don't need fuel." However, our power will definitely not be able to successfully fly back to the Dongfeng. ”

"What then?" Xue Ziliang was even more anxious, and pulled out the previous satellite image again and began to estimate his position.

"What else can I do?" Yuan Zhenli also turned his head and looked at the map, "Let's fly towards course 90, let the Dongfeng head towards course 270, and we can meet it halfway." ”

"But don't they have to wait for our data before they can decide where to land?"

"Yes, but if we can't fly back and crash, they will not only lose one reconnaissance plane, but also two skilled veterans, and then the gains outweigh the losses." Saying that, Yuan Zhenli turned on the intercom and reported the current situation to Dongfeng.

Soon this situation also caused an argument in the Dongfeng command platform.

"We don't have a lot of fuel, unless we choose to land in the area they have scouted, otherwise it will be a waste of fuel." Zhang Yuan depressedly checked the amount of fuel on the 10,000-ton ship. "Although our fuel can now last for almost a month, in fact, we need to use fuel for a long time after landing to directly drive auxiliary engines to generate electricity, otherwise many construction will not be carried out."

"You're right, but have you thought about it?" Li Jieqi opposed Zhang Yuan's view. "The most important thing in the choice of landing site is to have enough fresh water, the estimated width of the river they found is **ten meters, then the water flow is considerable, and it is winter, winter is often a dry period, and the dry season can reach such a water volume, then it can only show that the water volume of the river is more considerable during the wet season. As long as there are rivers, then both landing operations and landing development will be enough to ensure our own survival needs. ”

"I don't know if you've thought about it? What are our advantages over the ancients? We definitely can't beat the ancients in a fight, their armies are almost face-to-face with swords, and we, even trained soldiers, may not be able to defeat the ancients when fighting with cold weapons. In addition to physical strength, physical fitness, weapon range, and communication tools, the only key things that we have to do are reconnaissance means. We have only one reconnaissance plane, and it is almost impossible to replicate it, and if we want to build our own planes, we must wait until there are trees harvested and timber processed after landing; before that, we must not only rely on reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the landing sites, but also monitor the enemy's situation through reconnaissance planes, and at the same time conduct long-range reconnaissance of the surrounding environment. In short, without reconnaissance planes, we may encounter great resistance in our subsequent battles and work. ”

"But Napoleon also swept through Europe without planes." Someone said unconvinced.

"It's not just the problem of the plane, we can also build the plane ourselves, but what about the two patriarchs on the plane?" Xiao Jing retorted on the side. "The patriarchs cannot be made in this world, what they know is extremely professional knowledge, the aircraft piloting process and experience have been exchanged for their lives through many years of pioneers in the aviation industry, and Xue Ziliang's military knowledge is also what we urgently need."

"But we have the northern latitude! Beiwei is also a special soldier! ”

"It's true that Beiwei is a special soldier, but he has not participated in many overseas operations like Xue Ziliang and has rich combat experience." When Xiao Jing said this, he couldn't help but glance at the north latitude on the side.

Beiwei knew what he was thinking, and took over the conversation. "I agree with this, combat experience can't be bought with money, and I think the most important point is that the patriarch must not be abandoned, if we can abandon the two patriarchs who can't fly back today, what will our remaining patriarchs think?"

He looked around at everyone who didn't speak, "If I don't even have the courage to rescue my own people who can't fly back, I will definitely not support such an executive committee." His words made Zhang Yuan's face a little unbearable, but he was supported by everyone.

At this time, Yang Minghuan looked around, "Then comrades who agree to drive west to meet the reconnaissance plane, please raise your hand." ”

At this moment everyone raised their hands. He smiled and nodded, turning to Yang Feng, who was holding the steering wheel. "Then let's go meet them."

Yang Feng nodded with a smile, and said loudly: "Understood, direction 270, full speed ahead." ”

The huge freighter slowly turned west in the east wind and began to accelerate on the surface of the sea. The ships behind also hurriedly followed, in a reconnaissance formation, an 8154 fishing boat in front, the remaining three fishing boats two on the outermost, one at the end, protecting the barge and landing craft, and the anti-smuggling boat also quickly followed the freighter to split the waves and move westward.

"What are you going to do?" An armed police soldier asked curiously about a traverser standing next to him.

"I don't know, anyway, the order is to the west, and we'll set off." This guy is Yang Muqin, who is carrying an SKS at this time, leaning against the bulkhead and looking at the armed police at the helm.

"Little brother hasn't been a soldier, has he?" The armed police looked at him with a smile.

"How do you know?" Yang Muqin was a little surprised that he was seen. Beiwei is his master, because this guy has a strong sense of direction, and he also has a strong sense of space in terms of terrain, so he taught him a lot of skills in identifying directions, drawing and mapping, and surviving in the wild, and also trained him for a period of time before crossing, in addition to weapon shooting. Although he doesn't necessarily look like a soldier, he was surprised to see it at a glance.

"Hehe, it's easy to see." The armed policeman pointed to the SKS at his feet. "If you hold a gun like this in the army, you will be punished directly. And the oil on your gun has not been wiped off, if you pull the bolt, it will definitely kill you. ”

Yang Muqin curiously picked up the rifle, and the armed police took the rifle very skillfully, and before he could look at it, he asked, "You don't even have bullets?" ”

"How do you know?"

"Five and a half of ten bullets are a lot heavier. You're obviously not loaded. As he spoke, the armed police pointed the shell window at the window, pulled the bolt, and with a "snap" sound, a small piece of butter flew out of the shell window. "Anyone who has been a soldier has this experience, and he was directly buttered. If you have a bullet, it's hot and sticky. ”

Yang Muqin took the rifle with a smile, and the armed policeman said again: "The gun can't be handed over to others casually, what if I am an enemy?" Now you're hanging. ”

"Oh!" Yang Muqin smiled embarrassedly. I'm glad that Beiwei is not next to me, otherwise I will definitely have a chestnut on my head.

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"How far are we from you now?" Yuan Zhenli no longer looks at the charts. Now that both sides are on the move, it is of little practical significance to look at the charts in a relatively moving state. It is better to look directly at radio ranging and radar on cargo ships.

They specially replaced the ship's radar when they purchased the ship, and also purchased several separate radar systems for future defense. Although these radars are civilian and have poor accuracy, in the seventeenth century, this was already a technology only available to visitors from outside the world.

Gu Fulin on the side carefully looked at the data on the radio navigator and calculated it slightly, "There are still about fifty-five nautical miles, please pay attention to it, you should see us at any time." ”

"I said it would be nice if you burned coal, and if you burned coal, the pillar of smoke could be seen dozens of kilometers away. By the way, how far did you just say? "Yuan Zhenli was not familiar with the units of the navy, and he hated anything other than the metric unit.

"Fifty-five nautical miles, it should be 101 kilometers."

"Brother! You can't fool us like that! 101 km! I don't have radio binoculars, how can I see you? It is said that more than ten kilometers can be seen, and it is almost the same. Yuan Zhenli was thundered by Gu Fulin's words.

"Your position is higher, our position is low, and you can see much farther than us. And our number is large, and it is more conspicuous. ”

"Huh! Look left! Xue Ziliang suddenly pointed to the left.

Yuan Zhenli hurriedly tilted his head to the left, and a fleet of ships was moving on the sea in the distance, these ships were obviously not the Medeno ships that appeared in the identification atlas, but similar to the Chinese Fu ships, among which there was a five-masted galleon in the middle of the fleet.

"The Dongfeng, the discovery fleet, six fortune ships, a large five-masted galleon, looks like a trading fleet." Yuan Zhenli reported the situation and then observed. "The ship travels from east to west."

"That's not right! The ship was robbed. Xue Ziliang suddenly pointed to the five-masted sailboat and said.

Yuan Zhenli looked in the direction pointed by Xue Ziliang, and sure enough, the sails on the five-masted sailing ship were tattered, and they looked like they had been repaired, and they could see with a telescope that there were many places on the ship that had been damaged by cannonballs, and several sailors were pointed up and down with whips by people wearing blue homespun clothes on the side, some were mending sails, and some were pulling cables. A richly dressed man was kneeling in the bow of the ship, and a man who looked like a pirate leader was holding a knife to his neck. The costumed man kowtowed, but the pirate leader shook his head and kicked the man over the deck, swinging his long knife in his hand, and then cutting off the head of the richly dressed man.

This scene directly stunned the two modern people, and this direct beheading with a knife can only appear in the Arab world.

"These pirates aren't Arab, are they? How did they come to the South China Sea? Xue Ziliang took out his mobile phone, looked at the battery, and then turned on the camera and clicked to shoot.

"There are blacks in this group of pirates!" Yuan Zhenli suddenly saw a black sailor on a fortune boat behind him wrenching the rudder. As if telepathically, the black sailor suddenly raised his head and watched in amazement at a strange "big bird" flying in the air dozens of feet high.

He hurriedly stretched out his hand and shouted at the "big bird", and everyone on the ship looked up, and then a leader-like man gave orders, and many sailors began to run around the ship.