The crew of the Chunxiao didn't wait for Zheng Zhihu to come up with anything, they ran to the berth of the Chunxiao at a fast speed, and then boarded the ship from the gangplank. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info [Dance Ruo Debut]

The last sailor rushed to the front and rear of the boat, untied the cables, and then boarded the boat from the gangplank, which was put away by several sailors who were waiting. Zheng Zhihu looked at the group of sailors dumbfounded, although he didn't understand why these sailors were wearing white uniforms, but these sailors wearing mushroom-like caps were too smooth, from boarding the ship to retracting the springboard, everything was as smooth as a performance that had been rehearsed for an unknown number of times.

He turned his head, looked past the three captains who were still stunned behind him, and saw the direction of the bow, more than a dozen sailors were untying the cable from under the mast, shouting slogans together and starting to raise the sail, the canvas soft sail gradually rose in the neat sound of the trumpet, the canvas of this sail did not take long to be installed, but there were already some patches, in fact, there was no problem with the sail itself, but Yang Junbo wanted to reflect the new tradition of the navy, and use the patched sail to reflect the historical vicissitudes of the Senate Navy.

Above the sail is a blue flag, and on the flag is a four-sided star, which in the old time and space, I am afraid that not many people know that this is the symbol of NATO. In this time and space, it is directly used as a new national flag by the senators of the Senate who are familiar with all kinds of plagiarism, although it will not be decided until the plenary meeting on January 20, but most of the senators have begun to default to this as the national flag. At this time, this Polaris flag was hunting and fluttering in the sea breeze, which filled the hearts of the veterans of both the Ministry of Commerce and the Navy with a sense of pride! The marines who were on guard on the dock saw that the Chunxiao was sailing, and they all stood up and saluted the Chunxiao.

On the Chunxiao, Zhong Bin continued to issue instructions, "Right rudder fifteen, target, departure waterway." ”

The helmsman on the tail floor immediately replied loudly, "Right helm fifteen, target, departure waterway." ”

The sailors were still busy with their posts, some tying up cables, some clearing the deck from a slight mess, and a few lookouts climbing up the mast to the top.

Zheng Zhihu couldn't help but look up at the top of the mast, the top of the mast was like a warship of the Medeno Navy, there was a large basket that people could stand in and look around.

The lookout post quickly shouted loudly, "There is a boat in the front five degrees of the right, the distance is one chain, pay attention to avoidance." ”

Zheng Zhihu and his captains looked to starboard, and sure enough, a Wu Dynasty ship was entering the port, and the pilot was standing at the front of the ship waving two small flags in this direction.

"Approach with the wind, pay attention, and avoid to the right." Soon there was a loud shout from the foredeck.

"Right rudder five, avoidance to the right." Zhong Bin calmly shouted the command, and then the helmsman immediately began to gently turn the rudder, and began to repeat his command in the same tone.

Zheng Zhihu is now beginning to be impressed by Zhong Bin, who was quite familiar with Zhong Bin as a member of Eighteen Zhi. When Zhong Bin used to be a pirate, although he could also command ships to fight, it was nothing more than shouting orders to the ship to move forward, left and right, etc., as for the guns on the ship, Zhong Bin especially liked to command indiscriminately, and often there was a "bang" fight two miles away from the enemy ship. Zhong Bin used to be best at letting the sailors rush up as fast as they could, and then board the ship to slash and kill, let him go ashore to command a loot or something, and it was a bit of a chicken and duck to command a war or something at sea.

He still clearly remembered that when the Zhong brothers went to sea, they were all under the command of the captain, and only when it was time for the naval battle did they start shouting and shouting to command the battle. But the Zhong Bin in front of him is obviously still the same Zhong Bin, why is he so handy in commanding this lucky boat? Could it be that these Chinese still have the secret of command at sea? After this Zhong Bin defected to the Chinese, he got this secret, and then he was able to command the ship handily?

Zhong Bin himself was actually secretly proud in his heart, he was really not a qualified pirate before, and he didn't even dare to try such a thing as directing the ship out of the port, for fear of damaging his ship. However, the training in the past few months, especially the appearance of the veterans lining up ships on land and simulating ship command according to his orders, has increased his confidence a lot, and he gradually feels that this command of ships is not so terrifying.

He Zhong Bin has been rampant in the South China Sea for so many years, and the characteristic of not being able to command ships has always tormented him like a pillar of shame. Who knew that this group of Chinese elders who appeared inexplicably actually brought down his pillar of shame in just a few months, not to mention that Yang Junbo saw Zheng Zhihu was his acquaintance just now, and he directly handed over the command of the ship to himself, giving himself the opportunity to raise his eyebrows in front of the former second master of the python, which is simply a great grace.

The ship left the harbor in the wind, and sailed into the open sea to the south. When he arrived, Zhong Bin began to give orders to drop a barrel every 100 meters. Although these barrels are not very qualified products of the lumber mill, they do not sink when they fall into the water, but carry them on the surface of the water along the waves.

After dropping five empty barrels, the Chunxiao stopped the ship a hundred meters below and began to turn its bow to the west.

"Starboard loading!" Zhong Bin shouted loudly, and then the sailors of the artillery and machine gun crews began to rush to their firing positions, and then quickly and smoothly ripped off the gun jackets covering the guns. In order to prevent the corrosion of weapons caused by seawater splashing on the deck, all weapons on the deck must be covered with gun jackets when there is no fighting.

Zheng Zhihu saw the spring cannon from close range for the first time this time, because there was not enough anti-rust paint, these guns were not painted, but coated with a layer of grease, different from the ordinary barrel, there are two grooves on the barrel of this spring cannon, and the spring inside the barrel can be seen from the groove - he doesn't know what the spring is for, he just thinks that these things thinner than the little finger curl up in the barrel like climbing vines look very interesting.

The two sailors immediately began to pull the handles on both sides of the barrel and began to press the springs back. The loader on the side took out a shell from the ammo box placed next to it.

Zheng Zhihu was stunned again, why is this cannonball not round, but spindle-shaped? And there were several more tail fins at the rear end of the spindle of the shell. However, he had seen the situation of the imperial court sailors launching the "Fire Dragon Out of the Water", which was the world's earliest anti-ship missile, and it was also a second-stage rocket. The fire dragon is propelled by four small rockets similar to the monkeys, which are sprayed backwards like the dragon's four claws, and when launched, they are not only impressive, but also filled with gunsmoke, which can act as a smoke screen to a certain extent, reducing the chance of being hit. However, Zheng Zhihu had never seen the successful launch of the fire dragon out of the water. Because the craftsmen of the Wu Dynasty were always unable to achieve the simultaneous ignition of four rockets, often one ignited first, and the flight attitude completely changed when the remaining few ignited. And what's worse is that because the fire dragon doesn't have wings to stabilize the flight attitude when it comes out of the water, this kind of missile is resigned to fate after flying out, if the flight attitude changes, it is possible to fall into the sea or do irregular movements in the air, and even fly back to hit itself. Therefore, most of the time, the Wu Dynasty sailors would rather jump with the enemy and fight than use the fire dragon out of the water in battle.

Will these Chinese be able to solve this problem? Why is the fire dragon they use so small, and they also use cast iron projectiles? How do you fly out so heavy? You must know that the fire dragon uses bamboo to produce water, so light materials can ensure a range of about four miles. So how far can these so-called spring cannons of the Chinese hit?

Only a clatter was heard, and the reloading sailor immediately stepped aside and shouted: "Loading is complete!" ”

The loader immediately stepped forward and stuffed the shell into the shell compartment in front of the muzzle. Zheng Zhihu saw that the shape of the cannonball magazine was almost the same as that of the cannonball, and the cannonball was placed in it impartially, and it was almost perfectly embedded in it.

"Reload complete!" The loader carefully ripped a thread from the shell, which made Zheng Zhihu feel that Yunshan Fog didn't know what this line was for, so he heard the loader shout loudly: "The insurance is lifted, wait for the launch!" ”

"Target, fourth barrel, aim!" Zhong Bin said and raised the telescope. This telescope immediately attracted Zheng Zhihu's attention, as the number two person in the Zheng family, he has seen a lot of telescopes, often a long tube, which can be televised to see distant targets according to telescopic. But the telescope that Zhong Bin is holding up now is binocular, and it is also hung around his neck with a rope. Before he could get up to Zhong Bin to borrow it, he suddenly saw a sailor on the side holding up a three-foot-long cylinder, and then holding it horizontally and leaning his eyes to the middle to look forward.

What is this cylinder? What is it for? Zheng Zhihu's heart was full of questions, and before he could think of asking, he heard the sailor who raised the cylinder shouting: "Two chains away!" ”

At this time, another sailor in a white sailor uniform with a big blue "V" armband embroidered on his right arm stepped forward, holding a strange semicircular ruler in his hand, raised it and looked at the wooden barrel outside the two chains, and there were words in his mouth, but all the words that Zheng Zhihu did not understand, and then he gently shook a few wheels under the barrel, and then the barrel fell up dexterously.

Zheng Zhihu and the captains had all seen the gunners open fire, and what these gunners aimed at was all based on experience, and what the way was kept secret. After all, there are only two or three cannons on a boat, and if someone learns the ability to eat by himself, his position in the gang will not be guaranteed in the future. But at the moment, these Chinese sailors were aimed completely differently from the gunners they knew, and the more they looked at them, the more confused they became, and they didn't know what to say. But they also felt that it was inconvenient to show their timidity, so they all remained silent, staring closely at the barrel a mile away.

They know that in the Zheng family fleet, the best gunners can hit targets about half a mile with the best Hongyi cannons, and although these Chinese cannons look novel, it is impossible to hit the target this mile away, and they can't help but hide a mind in their hearts waiting to see a good show.

"Fire!" With Zhong Bin's order, the gunner pulled the trigger of the spring cannon, and only heard a "bang", and the shells in the muzzle magazine disappeared in the blink of an eye. And what is surprising is that there is no smoke at all when this spring cannon is fired.

In the distance, between the third and fourth barrels, about ten feet away from the fourth barrel, an explosion suddenly occurred, and a loud "boom" was heard, and a column of water two feet high was stirred up on the sea.

"The Chinese's firearms are nothing more than that." A captain whispered from behind, Zheng Zhihu shook his head disapprerovingly, "It's already extremely rare to be able to fire a cannon on a swaying ship's plank, and to be able to get so close to the target." ”

"This is a calibration shot, and after the correction is completed, it will be able to hit the target very accurately." Zhong Bin didn't look at them, just held the telescope and muttered to himself, then put down the telescope and shouted, "Reload again!" ”

Since the spring cannon did not fire the shells through gunpowder, there was no need to clear the chamber, and the sailors practiced the loading maneuver many times, and they were already very proficient, and now it only took one minute to complete the second reloading. If this was the first time to reload quickly, Zheng Zhihu would have thought that they had already prepared the propellant, but this second reload was also so fast, which made them a little embarrassed.

"Fifty meters forward!" Zhong Bin raised the telescope again.

There was another "bang", and the position of the fourth bucket was hit, and the bucket was rushed into the air by the exploding water column, and was torn apart by the fragmented shrapnel, and soon sank into the water.

"Hit?" Zheng Zhihu and the four of them were really dumbfounded at this time, although this was hit when the two sides were still on the water, but this was only the second shot and it was completely hit! Such a hit rate is a fantasy for the gunners in their fleet who only know how to hit the water column in the sea with cannonballs.

This is just a wooden barrel, even if a ship is a sampan, it is dozens of times larger than this barrel, and a bucket from a mile away can easily hit, what if it is replaced by a warship? If the opponent can't hit you, you can easily hit the opponent, which is simply a hanging.

Before he could react, he heard Zhong Bin continue to give orders, "Target!" The fifth barrel! The machine gun is ready to fire! ”

Machine gun? Zheng Zhihu didn't know what a machine gun was at all, but he didn't need a gun at the moment, so it was naturally the one that could fire continuously. But will the firecracker be able to hit a target more than a mile away?

Several sailors quickly tore off the gun jackets on the machine guns, and a metal monster appeared in front of Zheng Zhihu and the others.

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