No matter what kind of dissatisfaction the crew on the Haicang ship had, they still had to continue to do what they had to do, after all, from the moment they came to this time and space, everyone had no way back. Today's training course for the rookie crew is to sail two round trips between the east and west ends of the bay, and the whole journey is only about 20 nautical miles, but while constantly raising and lowering the sails to adjust the direction according to the captain's requirements, they also have to report the course speed, wind direction and wind speed at any time, which is enough to make them tired and exhausted in half a day.

There are not a few people who have dreamed of captaining because of the "Age of Discovery" and "Pirates of the Caribbean", and then choose to join the shipping department because of this, but such naïve ideas have long been forgotten by them after days of brutal training. These future captains are now clearly aware that becoming the man who conquers the seas is not as easy as it seems in the game movies.

Although I often have a bad time with the Yankees at sea, there are actually many people who will go to the Yankees to ask the Yankees about their sailing skills, after all, the worst group of people in North America also drove sailboats halfway around the world. In particular, Tom Wang, who has rich sailing experience, even gave a special lecture on the forum, and there are not a few fans who wait for him to post every night and then grab the sofa angrily. Even Xie Chun, who is the most disagreeable with the North American Gang, actually goes to the forum to read Wang Tom's teaching posts, but he has always adhered to the tenet of "seeing the post and not replying".

At five o'clock in the afternoon, after passing Yulin Point for the last time, Sun Changmi finally ordered that today's training be over, and turned the bow of the ship back to Shengli Harbor.

After commanding with his throat for most of the day, Sun Changmi felt that his throat was a little hoarse, but fortunately, tomorrow it was time to change to Yue Zhiyun to go to sea to be the captain, and he had a buffer period to rest and recuperate.

Of course, there is definitely no holiday at present, and the members of the executive committee are also working on the front line, and no one below can be cheeky to ask for leave to rest. Even if Sun Changmi didn't have to go to sea, he had to keep an eye on the wood drying room. As a pre-treatment link for future shipbuilding timber, this work must not be sloppy at all.

In any case, it is much easier to manage the wood drying room than to take the rookies out to sea to practice, Sun Changmi estimates that he even has enough free time to improve the sailing design plan of the shipping department on his laptop, and he and Yue Zhiyun have not yet reached an agreement on the final design plan due to some details problems.

When Sun Changmi was thinking about the future, the walkie-talkie hanging on his waist suddenly rang: "Training ship, training ship, receive a reply!"

"The training ship received! I'm Captain Sun Changmi!"

"This is the Yulinjiao outpost, and ships have been observed five nautical miles to the southeast. ”

"I guess it's just fishermen. This thought flashed through Sun Changmi's mind, this kind of thing had happened several times in the past few days, and it was later confirmed that fishermen from afar had come to the nearby fishing grounds to fish. Sun Changmi just thought about it, but he didn't say it directly, but continued to ask: "Can the size and number of ships be determined?"

If it was just a small boat that appeared alone, most of them were still fishermen, and Sun Changmi didn't want to let his tired crew sail around the open sea again for the sake of such uncertain news.

"At the moment, there are only two of them, but the size of the boat seems to be larger than the small fishing boat that appeared a few days ago, and you can see the mast and sails on the boat. ”

Sun Changyun frowned, there is a mast and a sail, and the possibility of a nearby fishing boat is very small. He hesitated and asked, "Where are our other two ships now?"

"It's all back to Hong Kong. The voice of the other walkie-talkie was also helpless. If those two fast sailing boats were still patrolling the bay, it would obviously be much more convenient to let them go over and see what was going on.

If the ship continued to move forward, it would have to pass through the narrowest pass outside the port, where the water was 400 meters wide, and the novices on board could not turn the bow of the ship in such narrow waters, so they could only sail straight into the harbor of Shengli Harbor and then slowly turn around, so it would take a while to come and go. Sun Changmi hesitated, gave the order to stop the boat, and then said into the walkie-talkie: "Let's stop the boat now, you can observe for another half an hour, if the two small boats still don't leave, we will turn around and have a look." ”

Ten minutes later, the walkie-talkie rang again: "The two boats are heading east and have disappeared from view." ”

Everyone on the boat breathed a sigh of relief, they didn't want to miss the hot dinner because of a few fishermen who happened to be in the open sea. It is said that Chef Fan of the cooking class has returned from Base 2 today, and is expected to eat Fan's special seafood rice that has disappeared for a week tonight, and the foodies are holding back their strength to eliminate a few more bowls.

Sun Changmi ordered to lift the anchor and raise the sails to return to the port, and the crew, who had been tossed by an afternoon of training, also came to the strength, shouting loudly and pulling the rope together, as if they had already smelled the aroma of the canteen food across a large area of sea.

The Haicang boat slowly docked on the temporary pier, and more than ten meters away were two catamarans docked one after the other. Eighty percent of the materials and equipment carried during the crossing have now been unloaded on land, and the remaining small amount of materials and equipment are either temporarily useless or inconvenient to store on land, and all of them are temporarily installed on the "New World". Most of the other ships that have been largely vacated no longer dock, but have gone directly to the shore.

Considering that some of the vessels might still be dispatched, the Department of Shipping pushed only a few flat-bottomed barges to the shore and ran aground, and then used these barges as barges to dock other fishing boats, tugboats and landing craft on the periphery. On the temporary dock, the "New World", which will not be moved for the time being, and the three sailing ships that go to sea every day are usually docked.

According to the regulations in the "Basic Crew Operation Manual" prepared by the Ministry of Shipping, the crew also had to flush the deck, put away the rigging, sails and various tools on the ship, and then gather on the deck to count the number of people before the captain ordered the dismissal.

But today it seems that everything is against them, the crew has just returned to the dock after this busy pass, Sun Changmi's walkie-talkie rang again: "Training ship, training boat, this is Yulin Point, please return immediately after receiving it, there is a fleet on the southern sea, sailing to Shengli Harbor! Repeat, there is a fleet on the southern sea, sailing to Shengli Harbor!"

Sun Changmi's face changed, and he picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "The training ship has docked at the port, I will do my best to arrange for the ship to go to sea, please confirm the situation again in Yulinjiao!"

After Sun Changmi finished speaking, he patted Xie Chun, who was already stunned next to him: "Hurry up and go to the base and call the Yankees out!"

The crew members who heard Sun Changmi's shout stopped in shock, although they didn't know what was happening, but Sun Changmi, who had always been calm, suddenly changed his appearance, obviously there was something special about it.

"Just now, the Yulinjiao outpost reported that a fleet was heading for Shengli Harbor, so don't go back to the base yet. Sun Changmi quickly regained his composure and began to command in accordance with the emergency plan formulated by the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Military Police in advance.

The main content of this emergency plan is to "clearly define responsibilities and perform their own duties." In the event of an external threat, the Military Police Department and the Maritime Department will each defend the assigned military tasks, so that they will not be in a hurry in the defense process because of the unclear division of labor.

To put it simply, when encountering an enemy at sea, the duty of the shipping department is to drive the iron-hulled fishing boats in the harbor to the sea, and the military police department must also send people on board to be responsible for the fire strikes on board. The defense principle formulated by the Military Police Department at the beginning was to "defend against the enemy's extraterritorial territory" and never allow the enemy to land if it could be dealt with at sea. Of course, going to sea on an iron-hulled fishing boat will inevitably cost some valuable fuel, but from a safety point of view, such consumption is actually very worthwhile. As for the fortifications built on the periphery of Base 1, they were only the last retreat in case it was impossible to expel the enemy from the sea.

At present, there are only about 20 people left in Shengli Port and No. 1 base of the shipping department, and a total of 18 people participated in the training of the Haicang ship today, two people stayed on land to take care of the timber drying room, and four other people were originally stationed on the "New World" to be responsible for daily equipment maintenance.

At present, more than half of the personnel of the No. 1 base are women, the elderly, and children, and then there are military police, maritime transport, and a small number of logistics personnel, and there are also six or seven fishermen and workers led by foreman Yu Dashan in the charcoal kiln and wood drying room.

When the North American gang members ran all the way to the dock, the Yulinjiao outpost had already sent a further observation report: there were a total of six sailing ships, two large and four small, and the displacement of the two largest ships was estimated to be about the same as the captured Haicang ships. The ship did not have any flags, and the current course was still Shengli Harbor, with a speed of about four knots, and it was still about three nautical miles away from the location of the Yulinjiao outpost.

"We'll go to sea at once, Sun, you and your men will get on the ship at once, give them weapons, and keep in touch with each other at all times!" Tom Wang quickly made a decision after hearing the situation. At present, Yan Chujie, Gu Wei, and others from the Military Police Department have gone to the No. 2 base, and the executive committee has handed over full authority to the North American Gang of Six people in the military command of Shengli Port and the No. 1 base for the time being, and all personnel are under their direct command and transfer in case of emergency.

Tom Wang said that these were also arrangements in the emergency plan, and there had been several drills beforehand, so everyone was not particularly flustered. Sun Changmi nodded and was about to leave, but Wang Tom grabbed him again: "After you get on the boat, contact the executive committee immediately and ask them to prepare to send someone back......"

"Is this necessary?" asked Sun Changmi, stunned.

"Just in case. It takes about an hour to get back by boat from Base 2, so we have to prepare in advance. ”

"Okay!" Sun Changmi also felt that Tom Wang was right, so he answered and planned to leave.

"Wait!"

"What else?"

Wang Tom pondered for a moment before he spoke: "Let them try to monitor the people near the second base and on the construction site, if it is really a pirate, then it is possible that there will be spies on our territory long ago." ”