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Thursday, August 12, 1621, morning.

About a hundred nautical miles east of the Manhattan neighborhood, a snow-white flying clipper warship is sailing north at a cruising speed of eight knots.

"The bow cannon is ready!"

The naval artillery group located in the bow of the ship raised its flag, and Zhang Chunrui, the gunnery officer and captain of the Navy of the Enterprise light cruiser, hurriedly turned around and reported to Lieutenant Commander Wang Tiezhuan beside him.

"It took 13 seconds, go on!" Wang Tiehammer stared at the watch on his wrist, his brows furrowed slightly, "Without the artillery projector, we can only make up for the hit problem from rapid fire, and it stands to reason that this kind of rear-loading cannon should be able to reach a loading speed of less than 10 seconds." ”

"Although it was rear-loaded, the installation of the Westworth hexagonal rifled gun was already very troublesome. If it's actual combat, then this speed is estimated to be slower. ”

Zhang Chunrui, who was transferred from the artillery command of the fortress to the first gunnery officer of the cruiser Enterprise, knew very well that the current training results were already very good.

"Now there are more than 60 people on board, which is the seed of our future army expansion, they don't require strictness, it is difficult for us to control the current warship equipment." Wang Tiezhu sighed slightly, and turned his eyes to the direction of the stern of the ship, only to see that the acting first mate and chief sailor Meng Ti was training a group of officers and soldiers in the morning to unwind and put on the sails.

"When Lin Youde's steam engine power is solid, it will liberate a lot of manpower if it can realize the power to lift the sail." Watching a group of soldiers tugging and climbing around the mast, Wang Tiehammer was eager to get those diesel engines from the Brooklyn industrial area on the ship immediately.

"Eight nautical miles to the east, a fleet of ships was found, at least five! Speed 4 knots! Suddenly, the mast lookout shouted.

A fleet of more than 5 ships ?! Ren Changle: Will they develop to such a large scale in Europe? Wang Tiehammer was startled, quickly turned around, and raised the telescope on his chest. Half a ring, highlighting the sentence: "All first-level combat readiness!" Head northeast. ”

"Level 1 Combat Readiness!" Zhang Chunrui's whole body shook, and a second later, the ship's deck bell rang a rapid alarm.

The deck hatch was lifted, and groups of soldiers in white sailor uniforms rushed to their respective combat positions, and the four 90mm naval guns began to rotate, and Qi Qi turned the muzzles of the guns to starboard.

The bolt opened, and an 8-kilogram high-explosive shell was stuffed into the chamber, followed by a brass cartridge. The bolt was closed, and the gun commander raised the signal flag that was ready for firing. Although there was still at least half an hour before the actual contact, the soldiers who had fired countless training rounds were all sweating in their palms, waiting for instructions to open fire.

The light cruiser Enterprise, fully loaded with almost 1,000 tons, drew a small arc on the surface of the sea and accelerated in a northeasterly direction.

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The seven galleons remained in a straight line, more than 500 yards apart from each other, and instead of the Mayflower, the flagship was changed to the Shepherd, the largest of tonnage, purchased from the Netherlands.

Dragged down by the Mayflower, which is the slowest speed, Su Zining and the others have left the Azores for 23 days. Calculating the remaining voyage, there is still one day to reach Manhattan, which has been absent for almost seven months, and the little nurse Xia Qiuyu rarely hummed a little song on the deck, which caused several Danish indentured slave sailors on the side to look sideways.

"There are about 100 nautical miles left, and we will be there tomorrow afternoon." Ren Changle, who had already run back and forth several times, walked to the bow of the boat with a smug expression, and showed to Su Zining and the others who were in a daze, "Isn't Yuan Xinyi sick, are you still enjoying the scenery at the bow of the boat?" ”

"She kicked all of us out, saying that she was afraid of contagion......" Su Zining shrugged her shoulders and looked helpless, "Lao Zhao has checked it out, it's just a cold and low-grade fever, but she is still suspicious, and she always feels that she has some 17th-century infectious disease." ”

Hearing Su Zining's explanation, Ren Changle could only hehe twice.

"Maritime traffic in the age of sails is really life-consuming, and it is often measured in months, and the pace of social activities is so slow." Lao Zhao, the ship doctor, looked at the sea and still sighed, "I have been running the sea with the shipping company for many years, and I have never gone through such a slow speed. ”

"Maybe it's precisely because of this that the comings and goings on the sea pay more attention to the rhythm and judgment of the amount of advance, so we can read the so-called 'magnificence' from the slow motion of this history......" Su Zining summed it up appropriately, but Ren Changle heard it with an indifferent look in his ears.

"We must build a faster-paced transatlantic messaging that will give us an unparalleled political and military response advantage, even if it's only twice as efficient as our adversary!" Su Zining said his final plan, "I hope the community can do their best to solve these problems." ”

Suddenly, there was the scream of a European sailor's Kiri from the mast watchtower, and in a few moments, Captain Adelaide came over.

"Dear gentlemen, a strange ship was spotted in the northwest direction, very fast, at least 10 knots." Adelaide shrugged, his expression a little nervous, "Although we have seven, I should go back to the cabin to rest." ”

Strange ship, at least 10 knots? Su Zining was stunned for a moment, turned his head in a certain direction, and although he could hardly see anything in his sight, he still stared at it for more than ten seconds.

"Hehe, it shouldn't be a bad thing." Su Zining roughly understood the identity of the boat, so he smiled and waved his hand.

"Haha, it's definitely our ship! By the time I'm gone, it's almost ready! Ren Changle also reacted, rubbing his hands excitedly, and said proudly to Adelaide: "Adelaide, it's our warship!" ”

Oh? Our battleships? Is that the weird-looking big guy at the shipyard dock? Adelaide was also stunned, and raised the telescope again with a puzzled expression.

Half an hour later, everyone in the bow could see with the naked eye that the snow-white flying shear battleship with a slender and elegant linear shape was now coming in the crosswind, and its speed had dropped to less than 6 knots.

By this time, on the light cruiser Enterprise, the battle alarm had been lifted, and all the officers and men left their combat posts with joyful expressions, because the lookout finally saw the special flag mark of the flotilla of seven sail galen ships to the east.

"She's so pretty......" Adelaide's eyes widened as if she had seen a beautiful young woman, staring intently at the approaching battleship.

The sharp triangular bow of the ship breaks through the waves, and the slender and slender hull glides on the surface of the sea like a beluga whale smeared with oil. On the deck of the ship, several strange naval guns with "aprons" were faintly visible, and dozens of sailors in snow-white uniforms were shaking their arms.

"Haha, it's our sea warriors! What's it called? Oh yes, the Enterprise number! Adelaide took off his captain's hat and shouted to the crew gathered behind him, "Cheers, boys, our ship has come to meet us!" ”

Except for a few old sailors who cheered, most of the indentured slave sailors who had only just been recruited from Europe huddled together in a restrained manner, staring with surprise and trepidation at the white warships that began to turn against the wind.

"The equipment is good, so confident, there are only 4 naval guns, and it seems that it is still rear-loaded." Su Zining stared at the weapons and equipment of the Enterprise at a glance, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Ren Changle, we can fight the Opium War in the future, have you considered your opponent?" ”

"Huh?" Ren Changle came back to his senses, and then looked at the European trade leader in front of him with a strange expression, "Su Zining, no wonder Yan Xiaosong said that he can only be regarded as a shit-stirring stick at most, and you are simply narcissistic and pretending to be crazy." ”

"Hehe, whatever you say...... Su Zining was in a good mood, and seemed to have forgotten about his girlfriend Yuan Xinyi, who was now sneezing with a cold in the cabin.

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On the evening of August 13, as the European trading fleet led by the Shepherd approached the docks, the Manhattan community was suddenly a sea of joy.

The old face of Liu Lao, the chairman of the committee who came to greet him, was about to burst into laughter, and the members seemed to have long forgotten the internal unhappiness caused by the legislative issue of the Provisional Election Law these days, and they were all in a happy mood. And this time, it was the size of seven sailboats, which made more ordinary residents even more excited.

In the midst of joy, only Vice Chairman Qi Jianjun just smiled faintly and didn't say a word. In my eyes, the young men and women standing on the deck waving to the crowd at the dock all looked so confident and calm.

Zheng Quan was not in the crowd at the dock at this time, because he had gone to West Point with a group of land garrison officers yesterday with the river transport ship to inspect the military fortifications there. As a representative of the military department, there is only one person who can be the captain of the enterprise, Wang Tiezhu.

More than 300 European immigrants were instructed to stay on the ship, and now they all stood cautiously on the deck, looking at the beautiful "city" in front of them, the elegant and fresh style of two-storey buildings that were different from the rough and bulky appearance of Europe, and formed several patchwork and neat neighborhoods surrounded by green trees and clear water.

"Oh God, it smells so good here!" One immigrant couldn't help but shrug his nose. There is no stinking excrement and garbage of European port cities, no ragged groups of beggars or ruffians, and all you can see is a rich landscape.

More immigrants began to whisper, women hugging their children and muttering something softly, while men looked wistful.

With the help of dock cranes, boxes of imported household goods are transported to the docks, where they are loaded into horse-drawn carts by Indian hired workers and sent to the dock's temporary warehouses in groups.

Yang Wenwen and Xia Qiuyu, who had been away from Manhattan for more than half a year, were the first to board the pier and hugged the little sisters who came to greet them, while Su Zining led Yuan Xinyi, who was wearing a mask, to follow behind.

A cheerful piece of music came out of the dock radio, which not only frightened the European immigrants who were still on the ship, but also made the entire dock people boil.

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