Chapter 671: Frustration
The Haihan soldiers who boarded the ship carefully searched the two Dutch sailing ships, and confiscated all the weapons on board, including the kitchen knives of the cooks, the axes of the carpenters accompanying the ship, and the sabers of several high-ranking officers, and sent them all to the Haihan sailing boat. Although Van Longen and others were very dissatisfied, they still chose to obey rationally and did not try to resist this "humiliation" of the Haihan people. After all, they also knew that if they had a conflict with the other party in this place, it would be one thing whether they could run away or not, and the negotiations with the Haihan people would definitely come to naught.
"If they ask for anything else, I probably won't be able to take it anymore. Watching the Haihan soldiers take away their beloved sabers, Fan Longen was so angry that his teeth itched. This saber was brought by him from the Netherlands, although it is not a valuable treasure, but it is also a family heirloom, and carrying it with him is also a kind of ideological sustenance for his hometown. Last time he was in such a wolf situation on Natuna Island, he didn't lose this saber, but now he has to compromise for the sake of the overall situation and hand over this saber to the Haihan people. Although the Haihan claimed that they would return the weapons when they left in the future, Van Longen did not believe in their promises.
"You three are the heads of the mission, aren't you?" After the weapons were scavenged, the officer who led the group quickly came up to them again and asked again.
After receiving Su Keyi's affirmative reply, the officer made a new request: "Please come to our ship and take our boat to Sanya, and you two ships will follow behind." ”
There was no doubt that this was an attempt to completely dismantle the command system on the Dutch galleon, and to temporarily hold the three of them hostage. However, the Haihan people had already searched for their weapons just now, and now even if they wanted to refuse or resist, they had no choice. No matter how unwilling the three of them were, they could only reluctantly accept each other's arrangement.
However, Vanderwegen was not particularly resistant to this request, as the only senior officer in the team, his responsibility was to try his best to find out the military strength of the Haihan people, which naturally included weapons and equipment. After the battle of Nanri Island, Van der Wegen never forgot this unique and powerful Haihan warship, and now he has the opportunity to board the ship to observe the real thing, how could he miss such a good opportunity. Therefore, before Fan Longgen could express his position, he motioned to Su Keyi to immediately agree to this request.
No6666, m.∧.co↗mstyle_tt; When they stepped on the side of the ship to the deck of the Haihan warship, before Vanderwegen could carefully observe the layout of the ship, someone brought them a few black cloth bags containing dry goods and put them on their heads, and asked them to sit down and not move or talk to each other, and did not give them a chance to spy on the military situation at all.
After receiving the warning from the Shengli Harbor, in order to prevent accidents, the navy immediately dispatched two more "Expedition-class" warships to the southern waters to respond.
Of course, the executive committee also received the warning at the first time, and Wang Tom originally planned to go to sea to deal with the matter himself, but Tao Donglai stopped him: "There are two ships here, it doesn't look like they are here to make trouble, counting the time, I think it is possible that they sent an envoy to negotiate with us." Since the Dutch came to the door by themselves, it is better to take it when it is time to take the shelf, let the people below deal with it first, and by the way, see if we can't do it without us. ”
"Lao Tao has a point, first frustrate their spirit, and then the contact will have more psychological advantages. Ning Qi also agreed: "If the Dutch want to talk to us, then they must first correct their mentality, and stop coming to us with the idea of a conqueror." ”
"But you have to say hello to the people below, and don't hurt these Dutchmen, and don't try to humiliate them. When the ship returned, they were first detained at the army barracks. Tao Donglai admonished.
Wang Tom nodded and said, "I'll just go over and stare at it, so as not to have an accident." ”
"I'd better go for a run. With the words came Yan Chujie, the number one leader of the military. Today, he was supposed to go to Tian Du's arsenal to inspect the work and hold a meeting with the technicians of the Haihan Ordnance Industry to discuss the development of new weapons, but as soon as he got out of Shengli Fort and before he got on the train to Tian Du, the people sent by Tao Donglai stopped him at the train station and informed him of the news of the discovery of the Dutch fleet off the coast of Sanya. When Yan Chujie heard the news, he immediately canceled the arrangement to go to Tian Du and rushed back, and when he arrived at the door, he just heard their conversation, so he took it in passing.
Wang Tom didn't have the idea of arguing with him for this errand, and said: "It's okay, Brother Yan, it's safer for you to go in person, I, a person from the navy, used to point fingers, and it is hard to guarantee that your brothers will not have ideas." ”
Although this situation of Wang Tom is not obvious now, in fact, there are already faint signs of land and sea rivalry in the army. Since the separation of the Haihan militia by land and sea, the military expenditure has to be divided in half for distribution, and the distribution of personnel has to take into account the needs of the two families, so it is naturally not as harmonious as before. In the past two years, the navy has expanded its fleet with great fanfare, which has taken up a lot of military budget, and the army will certainly have some influence to a greater or lesser extent, at least the number of live-fire training will be reduced by more than 30 percent compared with before, and this kind of change will certainly make some military personnel dissatisfied.
Of course, these people did not dare to clearly express this attitude in front of Wang Tom, but Wang Tom was also the core task of the army, the commander of the navy, and the ordinary naturalized civilian officers could not afford to provoke him as a big Buddha. But when Wang Tom went to give orders to the people of the army, it must have been useless.
"Old Yan, don't be in a hurry to have direct contact with the Dutch. Tao Donglai repeated what he had said to Wang Tom to Yan Chujie again.
Yan Chujie responded: "Don't worry, I still understand this diplomatic strategy." I'll go over and set it up first, and I'll call later. ”
At this time, Van Longen and the others were sitting on the deck with their backs against the side of the ship, and they didn't know where the ship was heading because they were covered with black cloth bags. Although their hands and feet were not tied, they had been warned by the Haihan people before, so they did not dare to move at will.
Van Longen was 120,000 uneasy at this time, and he didn't know what these Haihan people would do with him and his companions. If these Haihan soldiers didn't want their three to meet with their high-level at all, the consequences would indeed be unpredictable. In this way, he also faintly regretted his decision just now, and he shouldn't have accepted the other party's request so obediently, at least he had to bargain, such as removing the cloth bag on this set.
Vanderwegen was also very annoyed, he had originally bought the ship with the idea of spying on the military, and he never thought that he would be treated like this as soon as he got on board. Now I can't do anything but touch the plank under my ass with both hands. However, he noticed that the command process of Haihan's ship was orderly, although he could not understand the content of these instructions at all, but he could feel the difference between superiors and subordinates from the tone of the dialogue, and these conversations were often short and powerful, and after one party gave the order, the party receiving the order would repeat the content. The neat sound of the horns of the crew as they push the cable winch is not much different from that of a Dutch sailing boat.
Su Keyi's thoughts were more complicated than those of the two Dutchmen, he was originally a very clever person, otherwise he would not have been favored by Cohen and entrusted with important tasks. After getting on the boat, the Haihan people used black cloth bags to cover their heads, but Su Keyi relaxed instead, because he knew that if the other party wanted to kill his three people, he didn't need to make it so complicated at all, he just didn't want the three of them to see something. And what the other party doesn't want to see is obviously not the course or the like, because there are hundreds of crew members on their two sailing ships, and covering the heads of the three of them is actually not very good for secrecy. This can only make one thing clear, and that is that the other party does not want them to see the specific situation on this ship.
After figuring out the reason why the other party did this, Su Keyi had nothing to fear. Despite not being able to see the outside world, Su Keyi had a distinct advantage over the two next to him, in that he could understand the language of the people on the ship without barriers. Although most of them are not in the Liangguang vernacular, but similar to the northern accent, Su Keyi can still understand seven or eight points in a blind guess. Judging from the orders given by the ship's commander to the crew, their course was still continuing northward, apparently continuing towards Qiongzhou Island, which showed that the other side was indeed taking them into the Sanya region under the jurisdiction of Haihan.
After sailing for a while, Su Keyi heard a shouting from the ship, and then an officer ordered the flag to be raised. Although he could not hear what the flag order was given by the Haihan officer to the heralds, Su Keyi speculated that he must have met their companion at sea, perhaps leaving the port to meet them.
Su Keyi was not bad, the two "Expedition-class" warships that had been driven out of Victory Harbor had just sailed out of the bay when they had already seen the fleet. After the two sides exchanged flags, two "expedition-class" warships also joined the fleet, and according to the latest orders received, they sailed together to the Luhuitou Peninsula west of Shengli Harbor.
The port of the army base is located on the west side of the Luhuitou Peninsula, where the future International Yacht Club is located, where the two catamarans sailing from Europe took their last maintenance break before the crossing. However, the scale of the army port is not as large as the yacht dock in the previous life, and it can only accommodate about ten large warships to dock at the same time. Only when there is a large-scale troop movement, a large number of ships will enter the place to load soldiers, and in normal times, the ships of the navy are stationed at the naval base in the port of victory, and it is rare to dock here for a long time.
Before the fleet arrived, Yan Chujie had already arrived at the camp on the Luhuitou Peninsula, where two companies of armed forces had been assembled in advance to wait for his dispatch. After Yan Chujie gave the order, he went to the camp headquarters to sit and drink cold drinks.
With the noise in his ears, Su Keyi knew that the ship he was on had entered the harbor and docked, and the sailors were throwing cables to the shore, and from time to time there were some foul mouths, which seemed to be no different from the port of Batavia. It's just that the port here doesn't seem to have a strong fishy smell, and it's obviously not a fishery-based wharf.
When the boat came to a standstill, someone came to help the three of them get up, lay down on the stretcher, and then the stretcher was lifted and disembarked from the boat to the shore. After a while, they heard the sound of the door opening, and then soon a voice told them to take off their hoods. Su Keyi took off his hood first, and then took off the other two's. At this time, the three of them found themselves in a room somewhere, and there was nothing in this room that was only one foot square, except for a square table and a few stools. Except for the entrance door, there was only one wall with a one-foot-square window, and there was an iron fence embedded in it. The door was also very narrow, only two feet wide, and it was covered with iron sheets, and there was a sliding window on the top and bottom, but after Su Keyi went up and tried it, he found that it could not be opened from the inside. In addition to the window, there are many bright tiles on the head, so it doesn't look gloomy.
"It looks like we've become prisoners of the Haihan people. Su Keyi made a conclusion after briefly observing the situation around him. His window was so high that he was at least three feet away and couldn't see the outside at all.
But the two Dutchmen, apparently doers, immediately lifted the table under the window, and then stood on the table and looked out. But the sight outside the window made them feel deep disappointment again—three feet away, there was a high wall that completely blocked the view.
"What should we do now?" Vanderwegen was caught off guard for the first time in such a situation.
"Just wait. Maybe the Haihan people are also having a headache about what to do with us. "After realizing his situation, Van Longen calmed down. Since the Haihan people have locked them up here, they shouldn't just ignore it, there will always be a law. But this kind of treatment did make him feel a deep sense of frustration.
In fact, it was one of Yan Chujie's orders to detain them and treat them coldly, and the three men were locked up in a confinement room that the barracks usually used for soldiers to reflect, while their two sailing boats were being searched very carefully by the Haihan soldiers—even all the people on board. Several doctors who arrived on order were conducting a preliminary health check on the crew to make sure they were not carrying the infectious diseases with obvious symptoms. After that, the crew will also be grounded and detained, with at least a week's observation period before being resettled.