Chapter 53: Departure
Just after lunch time the next day, martial law was already under wraps around Kuching Harbour, the sun was hanging high overhead, and Kuching Harbour was almost empty. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info【Latest chapter reading】
After a while, a group of neatly dressed soldiers in four horizontal rows approached, and they did not talk much. As soon as the soldiers arrived at Kuching Harbor, they were directed by Cheng Lok, who was here, to go to two different ships.
One is a traditional Western-style sailing boat, and the other is Wang Kun's ocean-going fishing boat, and the whole process is fast and orderly.
I saw Cheng Luo standing on the side of the boat, standing sideways and pointing to the boat with his right hand, and then his left hand was constantly swinging back and forth towards the soldiers who were preparing to board the ship, urging the soldiers to board the ship quickly.
The soldiers were now dressed neatly, and although the clothes were still varied, they had done their best to wear them neatly!
Under the command of Cheng Luo, the soldiers with bags and weapons quickly got on Wang Kun's fishing boat and bought those without muskets on the sailboat.
Since the muskets were originally captured by the British, the number was less than two people, even if a small number were later bought. However, it is still not possible to make two people share one hand, so only some soldiers can be distributed first, and some can only use broadswords and spears now.
This is based on the results of the soldiers' usual training, and if the overall performance of the class is good, then the group can be equipped with muskets, and then these squads equipped with muskets can be combined into a company. In this way, combat effectiveness can be quickly formed.
It didn't take long for the soldiers to board the ship, and Wang Kun, Zhang Lei, and Zhao Shichang kept going back and forth between the two ships to check the situation. After all of them had boarded the boat, Wang Kun and the three returned to the fishing boat. Zhao Shichang finally returned to the role of his driver, and it has been three months since he returned to the cab again!
Zhao Shichang has been training soldiers in Shilongmen for the past three months, so he can't help but feel a little excited when he returns to the ship again.
Everything was ready, and at Wang Kun's order, the boat slowly drove out of Kuching Port, and as the silhouette of the ship slowly disappeared into the horizon, a human head appeared in a bush not far from Kuching Port. The man looked at the two vanished ships, a faint smile on his lips, and then got up and hurried in the direction of landing.
None of this was discovered, so Wang Kun, who was on the ship now, didn't know that he had been remembered.
Now Wang Kun is pretending to be on the boat with his soldiers!
"How? How do you feel? Wang Kun came to a cabin, which was crowded with about a company of soldiers.
"This boat is cool to sit on, or the captain's boat is cool to sit on, and it runs fast, you don't have to look at the wind direction!" Hearing Wang Kun's words, a soldier below replied.
In fact, in private, the three of them are relatively easy-going people, so whenever they are in private, they always like to chat with some soldiers, which can not only deepen the relationship between them and the soldiers, understand their ideas, but more importantly, slowly instill some of their own ideas into them.
In the formation of a kind of superiors to understand more, experience the life of subordinate officers and soldiers, because the concept of hierarchy in this era is still very strong, and it is not popular to share joys and sorrows, and it is still okay to share joys and sorrows occasionally!
As for talking and chatting with them often, this is like political education in later generations, as well as ideological education and humanistic care!
It's because they often talk to the soldiers, so now the soldiers don't feel abrupt and follow me.
"You're knowledgeable, oh! I remember, your name is Little Black, right? I used to train with Instructor Zhang, and last time I used this boat to take you to Shilongmen. I remember last time you were the poorest, and I asked you everything! ”
Wang Kun smiled helplessly when he said this, and then nodded at the little black man with his hand.
"Huh! Isn't that just curiosity? Let me tell you, sir, when I first saw this ship, I was wondering how this thing runs, but no matter what I think, I just can't figure it out! Kuroko scratched his head embarrassedly and said with a smile.
"Hmmm! Your habit of pondering is very good, but you won't ponder in the future, you can't figure it out, it only contains scientific knowledge, so I will popularize more scientific knowledge to you in the future. ”
When Heizi heard Wang Kun's praise, he couldn't mention how happy he was, this is a chief! I usually have a black face when I train, but I'm scared to death! Today, I actually praised myself, and such a capable person as the chief praised myself, it seems that I must be right to do this!
"Sir, don't praise him again, or his tail may reach the sky again!" A soldier next to him couldn't help but hit when he saw Kuroko's appearance!
"It's sir, don't you know that Instructor Zhao said last time, you are very good at talking! As a result, he was stunned for many days, and he was still showing off in the dormitory yesterday! Another soldier also struck at the side.
"Huh! It seems that you have handled the relationship between your comrades-in-arms very well in private! Well! You're right, in fact, there are some of the most relevant experiences in the world. Speaking of this, Wang Kun deliberately paused and glanced at their reactions.
Everyone was waiting for him to say curiously, but he deliberately stopped here, and immediately adjusted everyone's appetite.
"The difference is that the relationship between comrades-in-arms and comrades-in-arms who have carried guns together is always the best, even if they retire in the future, everyone will still be like brothers when they see each other again. Then there is the same window, this refers to the relationship between classmates, and this is only ranked after comrades-in-arms. Then there is a prostitution together, which generally refers to fox friends and dog friends. ”
The last sentence amused everyone, and a little fun at this tense moment will be put on a lot.
In fact, the last sentence was deliberately said by him in the form of a joke, because they are soldiers after all, so this not only serves the purpose of enlivening the atmosphere, but also prevents them from really going to the brothel in the future.
"Sir, can you tell us how this ship runs?"
"That's it, you have told you all about the people who followed Instructor Zhang, and we don't know yet?"
"It's just that sir, you can't be so partial! We want to know too! ”
"Sir, tell us about it!"
"Good! Then I'll tell you about it today! Wang Kun saw that so many people were interested in this ship, and he couldn't help but want to pretend to be a little forced.
"Actually, I didn't tell them much before, and they still don't understand. But since you're all so interested, I'm going to tell you about it today. First of all, I ask you to remember one word today – science. This science is very important, it can make you understand a lot of things, and you can create a lot of incredible things. ”
The people around looked at Wang Kun with a bewildered expression, we know what is science in TMD?
"Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't understand what science is, so I'll simply explain to you the principle of this ship. First of all, you're all wondering how the ship got going, right? ”
The soldiers around them all nodded with admiration, the commander really knew too much.
"It's very simple, it's to make a bunch of iron gada into all kinds of shapes you want, and then assemble these shapes, and let them move themselves according to a certain principle, under the action of something."
Although the people around me still don't understand, they all feel very powerful.
"Actually, take this ship as an example, it is fueled by diesel, so it is called a diesel engine, and then this diesel engine is powering the ship. And this power is not comparable to the strength of manpower and oxen, so this boat can run so fast! ”
After hearing this, although the soldiers still didn't understand, they still nodded very cooperatively.
Wang Kun knew that they didn't understand, and then explained to them: "You guys from Temasek should have seen the three big guys in the port, right?" ”
Hearing Wang Kun ask, the group of soldiers boiled over, and there were probably dozens of them who had been trained in Temasek before, and the three steamers were parked in the port. Such a large freighter can be seen from afar, and previously they were just shocked and just curious.
But today, when Wang Kun asked, the curiosity in his heart was hung up again, and those who had never been to Temasek next to him asked, and they couldn't help but gesture with their hands while telling them about the situation they saw about the three ships.
In fact, it is also very painful to mention these three ships, Wang Kun is obviously a person in the 21st century, and those three ships are Japanese military transport ships during World War II. How could both have come to this era inexplicably?
However, Wang Kun has never figured it out, as if someone had deliberately arranged it.
However, something like this is not something that can be explained by human beings, since he can't figure it out, Wang Kun didn't think about it anymore.
"Uh-huh!" Wang Kun coughed deliberately to calm everyone down. Then he continued: "Actually, those three ships are not the same as this ship, I said that this ship is powered by diesel, you may not understand what diesel is, but those three ships are powered by coal, in fact, you may still not understand." But it doesn't matter, after we succeed in this operation, I will ask your instructor Zhang to make a small engine for you, and you will understand when the time comes! ”
It's still impossible for them to understand, but they already know that this thing can be crafted subsequently, so they don't have any fear of it.
To be honest, many people in this era are very superstitious, and when they first saw this kind of big iron ship that could run on its own without sails, they were not more curious but afraid!
Then Wang Kun began to explain to them what engines are and what the principles of these engines are, but the more they explained, the more confused they became.
So in the end, Wang Kun found that he was forced to become a popular science explainer!