Replenish the underwater gun

Lin Fei saw the surprised expressions of the two of them and then thought, the word "frogman" is well known in my time, but not too many people know it in this era, and it is very normal that Liu Daming and Wei Zelong have not heard of it, so Lin Fei explained: "Frogman is a person who is good at diving, and they can sneak in secretly by diving and swimming." ”

Liu Daming thought for a while and said, "Then we need people who are good at holding their breath and swimming, where can we find such people?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and pointed at Wei Zelong and said, "Isn't Old Wei a master in the water?" ”

Wei Zelong smiled modestly and said, "I do know how to swim, and it's not bad to dive breathlessly, but I can't fight the Spaniards alone." ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Of course I won't let you go alone, you used to be a bandit, swimming is just a sideline for you, in our army, there is a master who takes swimming as his main business." ”

Liu Daming and Wei Zelong were both taken aback and asked, "Is there such a person?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Of course, Tang Yinchun, the commander of the communications company, turned out to be a pearl diver in Heilongjiang, and often had to dive into dozens of meters of water to find pearl-producing mussels, and diving and swimming were not his main business?" ”

Both of them were shocked and said, "Yes, how did you forget him." ”

Lin Fei said: "I asked Tang Yinchun and Lao Wei to form a frogman commando together, Lao Liu, you immediately find a way to find the anchorage of the mysterious Spanish warship, is there a problem?" ”

Liu Daming thought for a while and said: "There should be no problem, as long as the weather is fine during the day tomorrow, you should be able to see the anchorage of the Spanish fleet with a telescope." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said to Liu Daming: "Okay, you can go to scout tomorrow." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he called in a staff officer and said, "Go and invite Company Commander Tang Yinchun of the communications company." ”

The staff officer agreed, turned around and went out, and took Tang Yinchun to Lin Fei's handsome tent in a short time, without waiting for Tang Yinchun to salute and say hello, Lin Fei pointed to the chair in front of him with his hand and said, "Company Commander Tang, don't be polite, please take a seat." ”

Tang Yinchun said "um", then sat on the chair in front of Lin Fei and asked, "What do you have to tell you to come to me?" ”

Lin Fei didn't answer directly, but asked, "How long can you hold your breath underwater?" ”

Tang Yinchun was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why are you asking this?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Hurry up and answer me." ”

Tang Yinchun thought for a while and said: "It's hard to say at the current hour, I haven't tried it, and I don't need to dive after following His Majesty." ”

Tang Yinchun was originally under the rule of the Qing court, and there was no need for "hours, minutes, and seconds", so Lin Fei shouted outside: "Fetch me a basin of water." ”

When the attendant brought in a basin of water and put it on the table respectfully, Lin Fei pointed to the basin on the table with his hand, and said with a smile: "Come, try." ”

Tang Yinchun hesitated for a moment and asked, "What is this going to do?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "You try to hold your breath underwater first, I'll see how long you can hold your breath, and I'll give you time." ”

Tang Yinchun nodded, took a deep breath, buried his head in the water, Lin Fei looked at it with his watch on the side, and it took a while for Tang Yinchun to take his head out of the basin, Lin Fei smiled: "Three minutes and fifteen seconds, it's really good... Old Wei, can you hold your breath for so long? ”

Wei Zelong shook his head and smiled: "I can hold my breath for two minutes at most, which is incomparable to Company Commander Tang." ”

Tang Yinchun smiled modestly and said: "It's useless to hold your breath like this, because my whole body doesn't move, I don't need to breathe, if I go into the water, my whole body moves, and I have more energy." ”

Lin Fei smiled and asked, "Then will you use a snorkel to swim underwater?" ”

Tang Yinchun smiled lightly and said, "What's not going to be like this?" Anyone who understands water will do this. ”

Lin Fei said yes, and then said, "I have a very important and dangerous task for you now, do you dare to do it?" ”

Tang Yinchun smiled and said: "When we were pearl diving in Heilongjiang, the river water 'swished' to sweep people away, and we all explained the matter before we went into the water, I was not afraid of such danger at that time, and now there can be something that makes me afraid?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Today, the Spaniards dispatched a mysterious warship and injured many of us, so I decided to let you and Battalion Commander Wei form a frogman commando team that is good at diving, sneak attack their mooring, and kill all their mysterious warships." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he explained what a frogman was, Tang Yinchun thought for a while and said, "I took people to dive over and there was no problem, but we don't know the situation of the Spanish mooring, is it tightly guarded?" How many sentinels are there at night? In the unlikely event that the enemy is heavily fortified and we are spotted halfway through the swim, we will be a live target for the enemy. ”

Lin Fei smiled and said, "I also thought of this, Lao Liu, you go back today to tell Bi Fang, the captain of the Pangu ship, and ask him to prepare to arrive at the anchorage to transport frogmen, after all, the Pangu ship is a fishing boat, and it will not be suspected when it approaches the anchorage of the Spaniards." ”

Liu Daming nodded in agreement, and Lin Fei said to Tang Yinchun and Wei Zelong: "You two should immediately go to the whole army to recruit frogmen now, many people in the first regiment are fishermen, it should not be a big problem to pick out people with good water quality, and after picking out people, a frogman commando team will be formed, with Wei Zelong as the captain and Tang Yinchun as the deputy captain." ”

The two agreed to come down and said goodbye, Liu Daming also went out to reconnoitre, Lin Fei thought for a while, and decided to get some diving equipment for the frogman commando, the first thing to solve is the snorkel, there are many reeds on the island that are more than one person high, and the grass stems are hollow and strong, which can be used as a snorkel.

In the special forces of Lin Fei's time, frogmen had special equipment, including diving suits made of rubber, diving goggles made of special glass, fins made of silicone and oxygen cylinders made of alloy steel, and of course, specially designed underwater guns, which used high-pressure gas as firing power and used slender arrow-shaped steel drills, but at this time Lin Fei did not have these things, and the only thing he could do was fins to improve the efficiency of strokes.

Lin Fei simply designed the fins and then gave them to the engineer company, which was not only miners, but also some skilled craftsmen, who bought hard leather from nearby cities and sewed them onto the soldiers' boots to make simple fins.

At this time, Lin Fei also realized that whether it was attacking Manila or defending Taiwan in the future, the sea-crossing and landing operations were indispensable, and the frogmen were very important, so Lin Fei decided to regard the frogman commando as a permanent special force with the same status as the sniper team, one was the "land tiger", and the other was the "underwater dragon", so he drew up the frogman equipment design plan.

In the next day, Liu Daming led the Nuwa ship, Bi Fang led the Pangu ship, and set off for Cebu Island to find the anchorage of the mysterious Spanish warship, while Wei Zelong and Tang Yinchun trained the frogman commandos in the barracks.

At noon on March 13, when Liu Daming and Bi Fang returned, Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "How is the reconnaissance?" Found the anchorage of the Spaniards? ”

Bi Fang replied: "We found out, not only did we find out, but we also conducted reconnaissance of the anchorage, and it turned out that their garrison was very lax, and it was entirely possible for us to sneak attack in the dark night." ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Great..."

Bi Fang frowned and said, "But there is a problem with the sneak attack that needs to be solved urgently..."

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What's the question?" ”

Bi Fang said: "That's the problem of our frogmen's swimming distance, our frogmen must not swim too far, then they will not have the body when they board the ship to fight, so we have to find a way to use the boat to send the frogmen to a place very close to the enemy warship, but the enemy has searchlights on the shore, and I am worried that the arrow warship will be discovered in the past." ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "Then we'll use the Pangu ship to send the frogmen off..."

Bi Fang was taken aback and asked, "Won't the Pangu ship arouse the enemy's vigilance?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said, "How come? After all, the Pangu is the appearance of a fishing boat. ”

Bi Fang thought about it, nodded, and turned the day, on March 14th, the frogman commando team was almost formed, Wei Zelong and Tang Yinchun selected a total of 50 people, they could have chosen more, but the engineer company couldn't make so many flippers, so they could only recruit so many people.

Lin Fei arranged the battle plan, at 9 o'clock in the evening of March 15th, dark clouds covered the moon, and a breeze rose on the sea, blowing the waves "whooshing", Lin Fei was very happy to see this weather, because this kind of weather is conducive to frogman sneak attacks.

Lin Fei didn't have to worry about the wind rolling up big waves, because Cebu Island was surrounded by islands, and such a terrain would not cause big waves, Wei Zelong and Tang Yinchun took fifty frogmen to board the Pangu ship and approached Cebu Island, the draft of the Pangu ship was only three meters, and it could advance and retreat freely in shallow water.

According to Lin Fei's plan, the Pangu ship will lay down the frogmen when it is about a thousand meters close to Cebu Island, this distance is neither long nor short, and the frogmen will neither be too tired nor be discovered prematurely by the enemy.

The Pangu ship drove for a while, Bi Fang looked at the land in the distance, and roughly estimated the distance, about a thousand meters, so Bi Fang said: "Slow down to three knots, let the frogman get off the boat." ”

The Pangu ship adjusted the speed of the steam engine to slow down the propeller, and some sailors lowered the rope ladder and let the frog people go down from the rope ladder into the water, but at this moment, a little fire suddenly appeared on the sea in the distance, and the fire gradually approached, and the outline of a small boat appeared, Wei Zelong couldn't help but be surprised when he saw this small boat, and pointed at it and said: "It is the mysterious warship of the Spaniards." ”

Bi Fang was also surprised when he heard Wei Zelong's words, although the mysterious warship was much smaller than the Pangu ship, and it could not be the opponent of the Pangu ship, but the mysterious warship could find the frogmen in the water, which made Lin Fei's plan fail.

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