Chapter 417: The Frogman and the Searchlight of the Fallen Bushido
The Japanese naval army general Takesaki Kicho is a legend at sea.
It is rumored that he can stay in the water for three days and three nights without coming out, and if he wants, he can swim two hundred miles at a time!
In addition to these rumors, he was also a man who was absolutely loyal to the Kamakura shogunate's ruling Hojo Tokimune.
When he heard that the Liuqiu navy had captured Kamakura Castle, he immediately organized a counterattack.
The navy he is leading now is almost all he can bring out!
Moreover, he also issued an order for all the sailors from other places to rush to Kamakura!
After setting off, he didn't rush to paddle, he planned to take advantage of the darkness to approach the Kamakura pier in the middle of the night.
It was the end of the month, and there was no moonlight at all in the middle of the night------ all the rowers were too familiar with the Kamakura pier, and they could paddle the sea route there with their eyes closed.
The sky was dark, the sea was dark------ except for the sound of paddling, they could only hear the sea breeze and the sound of the waves crashing against the beach.
The Japanese naval general, Takesaki Kicho, was still standing firmly on the bow of the ship, and his body naturally rose and fell with the ship.
He kept thinking about those rumors.
Liuqiu Navy can let its own sea ship wash straight onto the beach?!
They don't use bows and arrows, how can they kill people from a hundred paces away?!
He stroked the tight water under his clothes, and it seemed that he could only get close to them completely.
Soon, he seemed to smell something, and the rowers slowed down, and they seemed to be approaching the perimeter of Kamakura Pier.
The Japanese naval army general Takesaki Jichang gave an order, a sailor took out a bamboo tube from his arms, took out a fire fold from it, and after blowing it, he turned his back and shook it three times towards the back, which means that they are coming, be careful.
The Japanese naval army general Takesaki Jichang smiled in his heart, no matter how big the opponent's sea ship is, they will definitely dock at the dock at night, and it will be all the giant fish they are waiting to die!
The paddlers changed the pace of the paddling, gently, slowing down and not making too much of a hit.
At this time, something happened that the Japanese Navy General Takezaki Jichang didn't expect to be killed, and between the pitch-black sea and sky, a pillar of light suddenly lit up!
Suddenly, the pillar of light pierced the dark world like a sharp sword!!
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Oh Setano?!
What's going on?!
The rowers unconsciously stopped paddling, and they saw that the pillar of light seemed to have a hundred paces of light, and was sweeping around the sea, and if they rowed over, they would definitely be swept by the pillar of light, who knows what it was!
The Japanese Navy General Takesaki Kicho also hurriedly told the rowers to stop, and he visually measured that he could be a mile away from the place where the pillar of light was emitted.
Could it be that our actions have been exposed?!
In fact, he really overestimated the Liuqiu Navy.
None of the entire Liuqiu Navy can look at the level of the Japanese navy, they can't even compare with the level of the merchant ships that return, and they still have sails and oars, and the Japanese sea ships rely entirely on manpower to row, which is really stupid!
However, relying on the success of naval raids, the Liuqiu Navy will naturally prevent other people's raids, after all, this is someone's territory.
During the day, they sent two two-masted warships to patrol the area, and at night, they sent one------ they really didn't believe that there was anyone else in the world who could match their ability to sail at night.
There is a kerosene gas lamp searchlight at the bow and stern of the two-sail warship, which was carefully prepared by Zhang Island Master for the Liuqiu army, and its reflector surface is a disc-shaped concave mirror with a diameter of 30 centimeters, and the irradiation distance can reach up to 200 meters away!
It is placed on a movable tripod and can be operated by two team members, and the irradiation angle can reach 360 degrees without dead angles.
However, it does not have good heat dissipation conditions.
The ordinary kerosene gas lamp can not reach a distance of 200 meters, and can only use the enlarged version, so that the asbestos lamp network of the kerosene gas lamp puts forward higher requirements.
The problem of the vaporization of kerosene is very simple, the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty carry forward the spirit of knowing what it is and not knowing the reason, and can easily imitate it, but they can't solve the asbestos lamp net, they also use asbestos to weave a net, put it on as it is, and it can only be burned out after a while.
So they could only buy the kerosene gas lamps produced by the owner of Liuqiu Island, and were willing to let him earn their money.
Those craftsmen who are bent on copycat the products of the island and make money themselves do not know that the asbestos lamp net of the island owner is soaked in a thorium nitrate solution in a brown-yellow monazite mine.
Monazite is common in coastal placer deposits-------
However, the asbestos lamp nets needed to be more heat-resistant for the larger version of the kerosene gas lamp, but there was nothing Zhang could do about it, and he could not get a purer thorium nitrate solution.
Therefore, he can only stipulate that when the searchlight is turned on for 20 minutes, it needs to be turned off for 20 minutes, so that the phenomenon of always double dispensing will appear.
When the bow is opened, the stern is closed, and then the other way around.
But the two-sailing warships on patrol at night tonight were very unlucky, and both searchlights were broken!
Just as they were about to change the asbestos lamp nets in a hurry, the Japanese sailors who had come to sneak attack the Liuqiu Navy came to their vicinity, and if they were to change it another 20 minutes late, the two sides might collide together.
The Japanese Navy General Takezaki Jicho carefully observed for a while, and he found that the pillar of light was not terrifying, and it seemed to be emitted from a sea ship.
He thought about it, then took off his clothes and prepared to take two good hands and swim over to have a look.
There is a subordinate who wants to persuade him, before the war starts, how can the general in the naval army go to the unpredictable place?!
Takesaki Jicho, the general of the Japanese navy, said lightly: "Is there anyone in the army who is better than me?" โ
No one can pick up the words.
He smiled, turned around and plunged into the sea, not even a single splash of the waves.
The three of them swam silently and quickly towards the place where the pillar of light had occurred, and when they came closer, when the pillar of light swept towards them, they plunged headlong into the sea.
It was only when the pillar of light swept past that it was revealed.
At this time, the pillar of light suddenly stopped, and it lit up again in another place!
Taking advantage of the fact that the pillar of light did not sweep over, the three of them played their best and swam quickly and silently, and soon approached the bottom of the big ship.
They saw that the pillar of light could no longer shine on them, and rested against the boat.
The Japanese Navy General Takesaki Jichang touched the bottom of the boat, and through the afterglow of the pillar of light, he found that there was still a layer of copper skin there, and he took two people to dive deep, and the entire bottom of the boat was the same!
They came out from the other side, hateful, they didn't even want to gouge through the bottom of the ship!
Takesaki Kicho, the general of the Japanese navy, whispered: "Lose the hammer and chisel, we can only go up ------"
The other took the rope hook out of the sac and began to shake it slowly.
At this time, they heard someone on the boat shouting: "San Lang, San Lang, there is no situation in this area, open the anchor and turn around!" โ
The three of them could hear it in Da Song dialect, but none of them could understand what it was saying.
It seems that it is important to be able to speak a foreign language.