Chapter 188: Dayuan Island Base (1)
"Brother Zhao, is this what you call the Five Peaks Cannon?" Wang Ying stood on the deck of the Fu Ship with a surprised face, looked at the Napoleon cannon in front of her, and couldn't help but reach out and stroke it a few times. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
If Wang Ying had never seen the Wufeng Gun before, she would definitely question the power of this kind of cannon cast from steel, but after following Yang Guang to Japan twice, Wang Ying was already surprised by many things beyond her common sense, since Yang Guang said that this thing was more powerful than the Franc cannon, it must be true.
"Good fellows! There are 54 guns, and even ordinary Franc ships don't have so many guns. Ye Zongman walked up from the cabin and couldn't help but say a word. The cannon window and artillery he saw inside just now made him a little excited, but he felt a little helpless in his heart, because Ye Zongman didn't have so many gunners at all now.
When Yang Guang returned to modern time and space, Ye Zongman, who stayed in the Zhuangzi outside Yangzhou City, was not idle, and he had secretly bought many Zhuangzi in the Jiangnan area before as a way out in the future. Now that there was an arms trade, Ye Zongman saw the hope of a resurgence, so he concentrated all the manpower scattered to the various Zhuangzi.
It's just that although the manpower on Ye Zongman's side has increased a little, Yang Guang directly got a large fortune ship, just fiddling with this requires at least 50 sailors, as for the 54 guns on the ship, how can each one take 3 people, and this ship alone will have more than 200 people, and the rest of the people can barely drive 4 fortune boats, which makes Ye Zongman fall into happy troubles.
Yang Guang obviously also thought of this, and he said to Ye Zongman: "Don't do too much things first, find a place to practice your hands well." My personal idea is to build a base on the island outside, after all, Heken Village is just a boat here, and nothing can be done. ”
"Can't you do it over Long Island?" Wang Ying heard Yang Guang say this, so she interjected and asked.
"It's somebody else's." Yang Guang replied and continued: "My idea is to build a dock on Dayuan Island and place artillery to enhance the defense capability, so that only a few dozen people are needed to defend it. ”
"Oyuan Island?" Ye Zongman pondered for a while, and said to Yang Guang: "The big boss had this idea at the beginning, where there is a wide space for land to move, unlike Shuangyu Port and Ligang, although they occupy a favorable location, as long as the officers and soldiers are dispatched, they can only flee in embarrassment. Unfortunately, there were too many miasma and too many epidemics, but dozens of brothers were lost in more than a month, so they had to give up. ”
"I've brought a lot of special medicines with me, which should be able to treat these diseases." Yang Guang explained to his partners: "The most important point is that the land is wide. With just a few hundred of us now, it's no problem to start, but if you want to grow, you have to have a place where you can operate. Otherwise, no matter how strong the power is, it will only be a grass without roots after all. ”
Ye Zongman admired Yang Guang's clear understanding very much, and naturally he would not object to anything. After the people below were ready, Ye Zongman gave an order, and the three lucky ships left the port in turn, first sailing towards the depths of the sea for two days, and then turned to the south.
Although Emperor Jiajing strictly forbade the sea, but this time, Yang Guang at least saw dozens of large and small lucky ships on the sea, and everyone kept a distance from other ships very tacitly, turning a blind eye to these colleagues involved in maritime trade.
This is the reason why Yang Guang must Fan Gong design the Fuchuan gunship, the guns on the deck can hide people's eyes and ears as long as they are covered with things, and the structure of the Fuchuan is not much different from other ships from a distance, unless you personally board the ship to check, or a battle breaks out at sea, otherwise who will know that there is something else in this Fuship?
Compared with the previous two trips were very smooth, this time the voyage had a little twists and turns, and encountered a storm when it was close to Dayuan Island, fortunately, the shipbuilding technology of modern time and space was quite good, a large and two small fortune ships were bumpy on the sea all night, but there was only no danger, but the route was blown a little crooked, and it took more time to circle back.
Ye Zongman was obviously quite familiar with Dayuan Island, and soon led the fleet to a place. The terrain here is flat and easy to build houses, the sea is deep enough to dock large ships, there are mountains and forests not far away, and there is no shortage of tree resources, so it is a very good place to stay.
Yang Guang beckoned the sailors to bring the things he had brought from modern time and space off the ship, instructed the sailors on how to use them, and it only took half a day to set up a dozen temporary shelters in the selected shelters.
Every part of this temporary housing is produced and bolted together on site, which is much more convenient than cutting down trees and slowly building a house. In the evening, Yang Guang looked at the plank houses illuminated by the swaying bonfire, and really felt like he was at a construction site in modern time and space.
The next day, Yang Guang instructed the sailors to dig pits around their homes, bury barbed wire fences deep into them, and poured them with mixed cement. After the barbed wire fence was erected, Yang Guang beckoned a few sailors to hang a circle of snake-bellied knife barbed nets on it, not to mention other sailors at this time, even Ye Zongman, who was very good at light skills, couldn't help but change color on his face.
After just two days of busyness, many sailors fell ill, but with the medicine brought by Yang Guang, they would not have to worry about their lives, at most they would be able to recover after lying down for a few days. With this incident, Yang Guang once again emphasized the problem of personal hygiene, urine and urine must be done in the designated place, drinking water and food must be heated and disinfected, and by the way, he also introduced the use of soap.
The construction of the barbed wire fence lasted two and a half days, and it was not like a temporary house, which could be dismantled and rebuilt at any time. After the barbed wire fence is buried deep in cement, even a dozen people will not want to shake it at will, so it is necessary to take precautions from the beginning and fence off all the locations required for the future base.
By the time the construction of the camp had come to an end, Yang Guang and his team had been at the nameless base on Dayuan Island for five days, and under Wang Ying's repeated urging, Yang Guang beckoned the sailors to transport the three Napoleonic guns from the ship to the pre-arranged fort in the base.
These guns themselves are not very heavy, plus Yang Guang ordered some gun mounts, wheels and other things from Feng Youhua, as long as they are lifted and loaded, they will change from sea ship guns to army artillery, and it only takes a few people to move it around the base.
"I'll come, I'll fire the first shot!" Wang Ying grabbed the torch and shouted excitedly, but found that there was no place to ignite the fire at all, and under the guidance of Yang Guang, she grabbed the fire rope and was about to pull it, but was forcibly hugged by Yang Guang, who was sick in his hand. (To be continued.) )