To the northeast of the city is the Taijiang Inland Sea, a distance of six kilometers in a straight line, and there is a ship repair yard on the shore of the inland sea.

This information was originally vague in the diary of Geranza until it was occasionally seen in a photograph of an oil painting of the city of Geranza in the early preparations. The traversers are grateful to the unknown author.

The shipyard was originally large enough to repair the Dutch's plywood ships, based on the tonnage of the East India Company's merchant ships captured at the Battle of Geranza, which they called plywood ships in the range of about 500 to 1,000 tons.

At that time, the tonnage of European ships, expressed in terms of the carrying capacity of the ships engaged in the Bordeaux wine trade, was a very arbitrary numerical measure. It was a 252-gallon cask for two barrels of wine, and in 1626 it was estimated to be 60 cubic feet, taking into account the space wasted due to the shape of the barrel. However, these are only vague figures. The tonnage of modern ships is counted by several standards, not to mention that era.

In the beginning, the traversers wanted to digitize and make everything accurate when they were cleaning up the results. As a result, people are going crazy. We understand the difference between stone and burden, but your sister's, the weight of your load of salt and a load of rice is not the same! The deerskin is also expressed in a weight, and the personnel of the financial department began to find it interesting and fresh when counting, and the skin can also be calculated by weight. Later, I figured out that one load here refers to a hundred! served.

The Dutch are born with a careful eye. The customs in the North Sea region of Europe charged customs fees according to the deck area, and the Dutch merchants were stunned to change the deck of the merchant ship to a smaller size, and the belly of the ship became larger and O-shaped, which really saved a lot of costs, so this type of ship became popular in the Netherlands, so that it affected their shipbuilding ideas, and even the design of warships followed this point.

In the 17th century, all European countries adopted the Galen branch technique, which had developed from the time of the Clark ship, with more sails, more firepower, and faster speeds. It was represented by the British "Great Caliphate" and later the "King of the Seas". However, the Dutch-style Galen ship was more freight-oriented, and although the firepower was still relatively strong, and there were usually 21 to 23 heavy cannons on board, the speed was sadly slow.

No wonder in Zheng Zhilong's era, they couldn't even win against the leader of the pirate group. In the Battle of Liuluo Bay in 1633, two large 1,000-ton Dutch Galen ships were burned by 100 small fireships, although there are reasons for Zheng Zhilong's raid and the Dutch have never seen this tactic in Europe, and I personally think that slow speed is the key issue.

It was not until later in the first Anglo-Dutch naval battle that the Dutch warships were cordially and seriously "guided and helped" by the British warships, and after paying the tuition fees for several warships, that they were improved. Let's not mention this later.

Another advantage of a small deck and a large belly is that its unique ship type enhances the ship's ability to resist wind and waves, and compared with other ship types, it has better stability, which lays the foundation for the Dutch to become the hegemon of maritime trade in a short period of time. The disadvantages are also very obvious. Due to its large loading capacity, it has a deep waterline and a slower speed. That's why the British and French pirates often sit in the English Channel and wait for them to pass by, and it feels good to hunt fat sheep. The Dutch also call it a clipper, which means that there are professional-grade pulley lifting equipment on board, and the cargo loading and unloading speed is relatively fast.

In the past, the Taijiang Inland Sea could repair fully loaded merchant ships, which means that its water depth was at least more than five meters, but now, only unladen merchant ships can be repaired, and it is necessary to take advantage of the high tide.

This shows that in the past ten years, the inland sea of the Taijiang River has been severely silted. It also indirectly shows that the runoff of the main river in this vicinity, Bazhang Creek, is quite large.

As a result, the shipyard slowly sank until its name and entity were lost to history, and its image could only remain in oil paintings.

But the security guards are here, intending to carry out the traverser's natural duty to personally rejuvenate and reinvigorate it. However, the way of the traverser was rather rude, and on the morning of this day, the two landing craft swooped directly into the ship repair yard naked, without even saying hello.

This time, there were a total of 100 security guards on the two boats, and Wu Jianqiang personally led the team.

Wu Jianqiang had been making a mobilization order in advance, saying: "This operation is not to attack the city of Gelanza, light the action, take it easy, after sinking those few warships, the gang of directors grinned in distress. It's said that it's a lot less than a lot of things......"

"Don't worry, you!" Security guards assure.

Wu Jianqiang thought to himself: "Fuck, the more the army fights, the more it looks like the army, these people, the more they fight, the more lax they become, and when everything is done, they will pay close attention to military discipline and military posture, and they will soon look bad." ”

They didn't play beach landing because there were ready-made docks available. The facilities are quite complete.

To the naked eye, a not-so-large ship was parked in the dockyard of the shipyard. There are also simple scaffolding around the boat. Several herringbone cranes were standing lonely in the sun.

After graduating from high school, he responded to the call and joined the army. He's a man with a story, and it's still a long story, we'll tell it later.

He looked at the dock's ancillary equipment and thought to himself, well, it could dock a 300-ton ship.

Wu Jianqiang has been observing with a telescope, and saw that there were many people in the houses who fled in an organized manner, looking at their appearance, and shouting something, running fast in large bags and small bags. Great, run, if these civilians really come to fight to the death, Wu Jianqiang will not be able to make the right choice.

The different reactions of Captain E Yuxi and Captain Sun Yu in the face of confrontation are now known to everyone, fueled by modern communication conditions. Surprisingly, no one made an evaluation and did not spray as much as the cafeteria.

Either way, perhaps by hearing terrible legends, or perhaps by seeing with your own eyes the ferocity of the traversers, this nameless shipyard is now an unmanned shipyard.

But that's just what the security guards thought they were, and now there were two pairs of eyes secretly watching them.

The security team members swaggered up to the dock one after another, and everyone deliberately stomped their feet, as if their feet were numb after more than ten kilometers of sea transportation. But in reality, the sound of heavy military boots proclaimed a kind of conquest and occupation.

"The first group, go in the direction of nine o'clock; the second group, going in the direction of twelve o'clock; The third group, go in the direction of three o'clock! Start searching! Shoot before you determine what the anomaly is. Remember, now you're all millionaires! ”

"Yes!" Everyone shouted in unison.

The three groups flowed away like mercury.

Hao Gang, a member of the first team, whispered to his friend Wang Hongli: "Is it so exaggerated? ”

"Captain Wu is calculated according to the price of RMB, almost."

"Damn, I know better than you about foreign exchange. I mean, you need to be so regular! And with a bayonet? ”

Wang Hongli said: "It's right to be careful. Look at your bayonet, I didn't wipe it last night. ”

"Forget it, when I didn't say it."

The fog on the seashore always disperses more slowly, and when the sun is fully overhead, everything becomes clear. The security team members also relaxed their muscles, and pushed flat, this is the rhythm.

An hour later, Cluyt and Ronnie decided they were going to run. If you don't run away, you will be caught by these pirates, and you will ask your family for ransom, and you may not be able to save your life. They sped through the weeds taller than them, like two freshly grown sambar deer.

Cruyt is fifteen years old, and Ronnie is sixteen. One of them was the son of the owner of the ship repair yard and the other was the son of a ship repair technician.

The two ran up the hill like a race. The hill is not far north of the shipyard, and it is so small that it doesn't even have a name, and it doesn't even grow grass except for trees and stones. But now it is the most haode retreat, and there are more than 30 people in the factory and their families, all here.

Cruyt and Ronnie volunteered to stay and observe. When the city of Geranza was attacked by pirates, they quickly learned about it. Pirates don't matter, they appear more often than friends, the key is the pirates who dare to directly attack the city of Geranza, they have not been Yujian, and the pirates who dare to enter the inner sea of the Taijiang River, they have not encountered it.

Kluyt and Ronnie's father is feeling bad. Everything that the two young warriors said made them feel that these people would not leave when they came. They prepared for the worst, the pirates robbed everything, then burned everything and left them to start from scratch. What else can it be? But it's not fun for them to want to take possession of it.

Kluyt's father asked his son solemnly: "Are you sure they have inventoried our timber?" ”

"Yes, they took out their pens and laughed and jolted, even some of the tools."

Ronnie interjected, "Yes, they don't use quills or ink, they keep writing, writing." ”

"They burst into our house, didn't destroy anything, and even picked up what had fallen on the ground and put it away as if they were in their own home," Kruyt added. ”

Ronnie interjected again, "Also, they fiddle with our wheel saws and pulley hangers as if they were their own. ”

They are not devils, but they are more terrible than devils! They are here to take all the fruits of our labor!

"What weapons did they use? Can we ......?" asked Ronnie's father.

Kruyt's father said, "Don't be impulsive, Root. Mr. Ronnie. I suggest we go, like everyone else, go to Tamsui or Keelung, these people are not easy to deal with. ”

“weishenme？ Believe those rumors? ”

"No, that's not a rumor! I saw them slaughtering the brave chargers! You know? Sooner or later, God will punish them...... Now let's go, we can't resist. ”

Dozens of people carried large and small packages, as well as a four-wheeled carriage. At first, the two horses were taken by them to the mountain, and the four-wheeled cart was hidden by them at the bottom of the mountain. Thankfully, when the city of Geranza was attacked, they made simple preparations.

They meander in a northeasterly direction. Along the way, they passed the place where the Ming people lived, and in the past, they would never have come to this place easily, but now they all bowed their heads and silently passed through this place. I don't have the heart to cover my nose and complain about the stench anymore.

The place where the Ming people live has no name, but there are countless flies. The dilapidated roads are littered with garbage; The stench emanating from the tattered bamboo hut can be smelled from a distance.

This is a labor dormitory.

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