Chapter 496: Ascending to the North of the Empire
Zhu Cong piloted the "Black Hawk" helicopter to hover over a relatively open area of the dock, and then two rappelling ropes were dropped. Then soldiers in dark gray oxford cloth combat uniforms slid down the rappelling rope.
The paratroopers, carrying the British Lee-Metford LMC MK I Carbine and the Traverser's own copy of the M3 "Grease Gun", quickly deployed after landing and formed a defensive line around the landing site.
After the paratroopers who were descending made a gesture that they could land, Zhu Cong stopped the "Black Hawk" helicopter firmly on the ground.
After the helicopter stopped, Yuan Jie, who was carrying an M4, also walked out of the cabin, while a door machine gunner who was also an ambulance rushed to Huo Yuanjia, who was being carried by several agents with a door panel, with a first-aid kit.
"You have to stay to deal with the aftermath, and the Interim Executive Committee will withdraw all agents in Tianjin who may have their identities exposed." Yuan Jie said after giving a military salute to Huang Xiaolei.
"All by agents who may have their identities exposed? It's going to be hundreds, and your plan is to grab a ship to retreat? And do you expect Lord Manchu to let us occupy the harbor and wait for us all the time, and then leave slowly? Huang Xiaolei asked.
"Hmph, it's their own business to let it or not, and it's our business to do it or not. BB63 has already left the waters of Yantai and is on its way here. If you want to hinder our evacuation plan, you can go to the sea and have a heart-to-heart conversation with our cute BB63! Yuan Jie said coldly.
"Hey! Let him board the plane! Well, it's better to give him another vomit bag. Huang Xiaolei turned around and said to the paratroopers who stopped Chen Zhen from getting on the helicopter.
"Yo, why didn't I see that the Executive Committee valued me so much, this will even be transferred to the battleship, I can't imagine it!" Hearing that BB63 was already on her way to Tianjin, Huang Xiaolei did not forget to put some gold on her face.
"Hehe, you're thinking too much! This is part of a secret agreement with Maozi that we are going to draw the attention of the British to the Far East, well, or Asia. Yuan Jie said nonchalantly.
Tian Buzi, who was originally better at treating gunshot wounds, was on standby at the hospital on BB63, and the Interim Executive Committee simply killed three birds with one stone, and the "Black Hawk" helicopter took the injured Huo Yuanjia to BB63 to perform surgery on BB63, which could save more time; BB63's proximity to Tianjin Wei is more conducive to the implementation of the plan to withdraw and expose the agents, and finally expresses to Mao Zi that the next crossing is very "sincere" to fulfill the secret agreement.
"It's okay for BB63 to lean over, it's time to give the ignorant mother and son a little color, it's too long to beat them up and uncover the tiles." Huang Xiaolei said.
"Do you suspect that this ambush was the work of the Lords?" Yuan Jie asked.
"To be exact, it should have been done by the Imperial Party, if the Hou Party has such a big move, Rong Lu really doesn't have the courage to suppress the news and not report it." Huang Xiaolei said.
"I'm afraid that some of the reformers fooled the little emperor into doing such a stupid thing, aren't they afraid that we will have another 'one-day trip to the capital'?" Yuan Jie asked.
"Maybe you want to use the British as a gun, and I guess we are counting on the British to fight over the Weihaiwei issue. I guess the British originally just wanted to release water on the ambush plan of the Manchurians in order to knock and knock us, but I didn't expect that the little emperor's staff directly hired some white skins, planning to kill me with a dead hand and then push it on the British after the job was over. "Miss Litigator is worthy of being the master who has been on Wall Street all day, and it didn't take half a day to roughly guess the mastermind behind this ambush.
"Alright, let your men deal with the retreat plan, we have already delivered a message to the old fox, there will be no Beiyang troops with heavy equipment to attack the port." Yuan Jie said.
"Hey, Master Li, are you going to repair the windows for Lafayette anymore?" Huang Xiaolei said.
"BB63 has gone north, the old fox can say, the rain is too big to make up for it, it can't be done, and he can only resign himself to fate when he is old. This is said as if our Boss Zhao is in a hurry to go north to sit in the Dragon Court, which is really ridiculous! Yuan Jie said.
"I want to ask what agreement you signed with Maozi, why are you so anxious to let BB63 go north to attract Maozi's attention?" Huang Xiaolei didn't say a few words and went back to the business she was in charge of.
"Mao Zi promised to withdraw his troops on the Qing-Qing border and, if conditions permitted, to abolish the treaty with the Manchus on the cession of territory, but for now only agreed that the two sides had disputes over the demarcation of the border." Yuan Jie replied.
"Ho, it turns out that Boss Zhao wants to play this routine, the poor will put aside the controversy, and the rich will be since ancient times! Not bad, not bad! Well, it depends on whether future generations will fight or not, and we can only do this with our current family background. ”
Although Zhu Cong had driven the UN-60 utility helicopter codenamed "Big Rich" smoothly enough, Chen Zhen, who had taken off for the first time in his life, still vomited upside down.
When the horizon was still in the helicopter's line of sight, the crew had to provide Chen Zhen with a vomit bag again, this was already the third vomit bag he had used, well, it looked like this half-grown man had really eaten a lot of things when he was waiting for someone at the small tea stall just now.
Just as Chen Zhen used the sixth vomit bag, a small black dot on the sea surface entered his field of vision. As the "Black Hawk" helicopter flew closer and closer, Chen Zhen finally saw the black spot on the sea, and it was a slender ship.
However, when the "Big Rich" really approached the "Iowa"-class battleship, Chen Zhen realized that the steamer he saw in the port just now could only be called a toy at most!
The few words that Huo Yuanjia had taught him were simply not enough to describe the majesty of the steel beast that sailed on the sea less than fifty meters away from him. When the "Black Hawk" helicopter was hovering and waiting for the landing signal, all that flashed in Chen Zhen's mind were countless "big" words, like a barrage swiping the screen.
Finally, when the helicopter landed on the tarmac on the rear deck of the Iowa-class battleship, the chill emitted by the steel stacked like a fortress in the C main turret and the rear bridge tower gave Chen Zhen the illusion that he was about to be devoured by the steel beast.
The medical staff who were already on standby near the rear deck apron quickly transferred Huo Yuanjia, who had fallen into a coma, and Chen Zhen, who was still stunned, was also pushed off the helicopter by the crew.
Chen Zhen, who was asked to bathe and change into a white sailor uniform, was finally arranged by Luo Can in an officer's cabin that was easier to control him, and due to the lack of BB63, some of them were vacant officers' cabins.
When Huang Xiaolei was ambushed at the Tianjin wharf, BB63 happened to cross the sea off Longkou in Houshi, Shandong, and prepared to enter the large bay of the Bohai Sea on the first line of Dongying in Laizhou, to deter ships intending to support the Qing army on the front line of Dongying, Qingzhou, and Weifang by sea.
At this time, the BB63 suddenly advanced towards the northwest depths of the Bohai Sea, which shocked the merchant ships of various countries along the way, and the BB63 also had a large range of activities before, and there was also a move to shell Yingkou in the north, but it was the first time to see the situation of crossing the mouth of the Yellow River in the northwest direction.
All countries knew that the Great Song Dynasty and the British had an agreement that they would not use their fleet to attack the Dagu Fort, but because of the strong stance of the Great Song people not allowing foreigners to interfere in Weihaiwei, the outside world was not optimistic about whether this agreement could be implemented.
In addition, there have been many recent rumors that the vanguard of the Great Song people has entered the area near Jinan Mansion in Shandong, which makes BB63's move north to cross the mouth of the Yellow River in the Bohai Sea even more confusing.
After discovering the location of BB63, some merchant ships immediately turned around and wanted to return to Tianjin before the giant battleship arrived at its destination, and everyone knew that once the Great Song people used force against the largest port in northern China, even if it was just a blockade, then the prices in the entire northern China would definitely fluctuate greatly!
Some people want to rush back to stop the loss, and some people want to rush back to make a big profit, but compared with the speed of BB63, which is also in a hurry to evacuate their trapped personnel, these coal-burning merchant ships are still too taken for granted, even if they only use the most economical sailing speed in order to save fuel, the "Iowa"-class battleships are also impossible for those merchant ships to catch up.