Chapter 437: Three Mortars
After a long silence, Lawrence told Cheng Yu that he needed to think again.
Of course, Cheng Yu didn't care, he didn't care whether Lawrence agreed or not, and if it was possible, Cheng Yu wanted to kill Lawrence.
In any case, avenging Vincent's father can be regarded as Cheng Yu's promise to Vincent, even if Cheng Yu has never really said this promise.
Cheng Yu didn't know that his indifferent performance, in Lawrence's eyes, he was more and more considered to be the force represented by Cheng Yu, and it was indeed a multi-headed performance, and he did not bet on him alone.
All in all, the two of them had their own ghosts and finished this tasteless supper.
After returning to the room, of course Cheng Yu didn't think about going out again, first of all, there was already a human life in the laboratory on the top of the mountain, even if that life was committed in front of Andre, but because Feyenoord's suicide was too inexplicable, even if those people were not too vigilant, at least they would be more nervous than usual.
At this time, if you run up again, Cheng Yu is really uncomfortable.
Lying down on the bed, Cheng Yu forced himself to fall asleep quickly, and the next morning, Cheng Yu had already woken up.
In places like this, which are already very close to the Antarctic Circle, the days are longer in the summer than at lower latitudes.
The morning will dawn earlier, and the evening will naturally get darker later.
Basically, more than eighteen or nineteen hours a day is daytime, and it is normal in the summer in this location.
Although the sky was already a little bright, but in fact the time was only about four o'clock, Cheng Yu actually didn't sleep enough, but thinking that there would be nothing to do during the day, but at this time, everyone should still be asleep, even if they woke up, they were relatively relaxed, Cheng Yu decided to go out for a walk alone.
After getting up, Cheng Yu went out directly and didn't hide anything, at this time, he didn't need to care about being photographed by the monitoring probe.
Although it is summer, the small island on the sea early in the morning is still a little cool. As soon as Cheng Yu went out, he retreated back, went to the activity room, took a bottle of whiskey, took two sips, thought about it, and still carried it in his hand.
Along the mountain road, Cheng Yu's goal is not the top of the mountain, but after passing the two houses with monitoring functions a little up, there is a fork in the road, and Cheng Yu's goal is there.
On the first day, when he followed Cindy up the mountain, Cheng Yu noticed this fork in the road, and he also asked Cindy, who told him that it was the only way to the other side of the mountain.
At the time, Cindy said, "Remember when we came in from the north side of the port of Argentina on a yacht? I changed the flag on the yacht as we approached the island, and then you should have seen some figures swaying on the hill, and they were all mortar-mounted security guards." As soon as they find people who are trying to come to shore and do not have the special flag I have hoisted, they will warn them that this is a private island and that they are not allowed to land. If anyone dares to force a landing, they will definitely hit them with a single shell. β
For the existence of mortars, Cheng Yu certainly needs to figure out what is going on.
According to Cindy, the main mortars on the island are left on this side, and there should be this side where they live and live, but no one usually stays there to guard, so she doesn't know the specific location.
Cheng Yu has observed that this side of their life is actually not suitable for mortar attacks, the bushes are too dense, and it is not easy to shoot the shells smoothly, after all, most of the individual mortars are directly filled from the barrel, and then the shells are fired upwards, bypassing the obstacles in a parabolic line to hit the target.
There are a lot of trees here, and not to mention that aiming has become a problem, and it is easy to get in the way of trying to get the shells out smoothly.
There is only the other side of the mountain, facing the vast northern sea, and the foot is mainly rocky, which is more suitable for mortars.
Of course, this does not become a reason for Cheng Yu to believe that there are no mortars that can constitute an effective attack on this side of life, if he can, he still hopes to figure out the location of those mortars, and if he can do it a little more, it would be the best.
Cheng Yu had already used firearms once under Lawrence's persecution last night, and he had completely confirmed his thoughts on firearms.
Although it was only less than a minute, Cheng Yu had already determined that what the firearms technique gave him was not just as simple as turning into a sharpshooter who controlled a gun with a caliber of less than five centimeters and turned it into a sharpshooter with a hit rate of more than 95 percent.
What firearms gives Cheng Yu is a complete understanding of firearms.
It's not a mechanical cognition, but a sense of gunfire.
It's like meeting someone you know very well.
When you don't see that person, you really imagine his or her appearance and body and other details, you may not be able to think of it.
But when that person stands in front of you, you will have a lot of familiar feelings, even if there is a mole in the slightest place, you will remember.
Even if there's a little bump somewhere on his or her bones, you'll know it.
That's what it feels like.
Muscles and tactile nerves precede the sensation of brain memory.
Cheng Yu got the pistol at that time, and he only felt heavy and cold in his hand, and he didn't feel anything anymore, even if he stuffed the gun into Peng Bo's mouth, there was only a feeling of diaphragm.
But when he used the firearms, the gun in his hand seemed to have life immediately, even if he just held it in his hand, Cheng Yu could feel all the subtle structures inside the gun body, even a tension spring, a shrapnel, Cheng Yu knew very well what they looked like.
It was as if the gun had grown in his hand and had become a part of his body.
There is also a kind of childhood for their favorite toy, children will always have a special ability to disassemble it in a scattered but neat and seamless piece.
Cheng Yu had that feeling when he was holding the gun at the time, and he felt that he was absolutely sure that he could disassemble the gun into a pile of parts in a matter of seconds, and he also had the ability to restore it quickly.
Because of this, Cheng Yu is absolutely sure that as long as the caliber of the mortars on this mountain is less than or equal to 50 mm, he can easily destroy these mortars, and it can not be seen on the surface of the destruction.
Of course, the vast majority of mortars in this world are now more than 50 mm caliber, even if they are small mortars, portable mortars, they are also measured by 60 mm caliber, and those below 60 are collectively called lightweight.
Take the whole armament of our army as an example, it is equipped with 60 mm caliber mortars.
It can be said that in today's world military structure, it is rare to see mortars with a caliber of less than five centimeters, but this is all about the equipment of the national army, not the equipment of some mercenaries or small warlords.
For example, in South America and Africa, where there are still frequent wars, many miscellaneous armies are still equipped with mortars with a caliber of less than 50 mm, which are light and light, and one person can run with them, and not only the artillery carriage is light, but also the shells are light. Especially in this kind of jungle area of South America, if you get an 80-millimeter mortar, it is not a small power, but who can move it? You can't enter the rainforest, and it's not a real war between armies.
Cheng Yu estimated that even if the island was equipped with a lot of mortars, they should have been retiring from the army in the early years, and then resold by some arms dealers and fell into the hands of Lawrence's mercenaries.
This is further confirmed by the fact that the financiers behind Lawrence are only rich people in the United States, and not people related to the US government military.
Of course, what exactly it is, this needs to be further confirmed by Cheng Yu.
This is the main task that Cheng Yu wants to run out early this morning.
After all, mortars are such a thing, although the shooting accuracy is not high, but the key is fast, and it can fire at least a dozen shells per minute.
After wandering around for a while, Cheng Yu had already rounded the hill, and judging from the direction, this was already the direction he and Cindy had come by boat yesterday.
At that time, Cindy was waving not far ahead, and Cheng Yu estimated that the person on duty should also be here.
In fact, Cheng Yu hopes that he can not meet anyone, but this small mountain road, walking and walking, seems to be getting wider and wider, after completely bypassing, there is a platform in front of it that seems to have been flattened, and it is surrounded by rocks, unobstructed, unless there is no one on duty here, it is almost impossible not to be discovered.
It has been more than half an hour since Cheng Yu came out, and the sky is already very bright at this moment, and at the end of the sea level in the distance, there is also a faint red light that the sun is about to rise.
Not far ahead, Cheng Yu could clearly see three mortars falling to the ground, with an A2 paper-sized bottom bracket at the bottom and a rather pocket-sized barrel on top.
It's really small!
Cheng Yu pretended to be idle and walked around, and then, the figure in the grass swayed, and a security guard walked out with sleepy eyes.
"What are you doing?" the man pointed at Cheng Yu, not knowing Cheng Yu's appearance at all.
In fact, at this time, even if the people on the island didn't see Cheng Yu, there weren't many people who didn't know Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu's image is already very clear, with an Asian face, fair skin, and a long and polite style. And there can't be a completely new face on the island, as long as you see someone who meets this characteristic, it can obviously only be Cheng Yu.
But this person actually asked who Cheng Yu was after seeing Cheng Yu's appearance clearly.
"I'm Ms. Cindy's assistant......"
"Cindy, you mean Miss Cindy, is she on the island? She hasn't been here in a long time!"
"I arrived yesterday afternoon, and I came with her, don't you know?"
The other party was holding a gun in his hand, and he didn't seem too vigilant, holding a gun was just a habit of his.
He suddenly remembered something, and said, "Yesterday afternoon, the yacht that changed its flag when it came to this neighborhood was right?"
Cheng Yu nodded again and again: "That's it." β
"It's so early in the morning, you don't sleep, why are you running here to wander around?" The other party put down the gun, and seemed to agree with Cheng Yu's identity, "Ma Dan, Lao Tzu has been guarding here for two days, and someone was supposed to come to change shifts last night, but no one came." Do you know what's going on?"
Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that this guy was really unlucky, it was estimated that it was because someone "committed suicide" last night, which made everyone nervous, and as a result, they forgot about changing shifts.
However, they don't have intercom equipment to communicate with each other?
Cheng Yu scratched his head and said, "Mr. Bill also arrived last night......"
"Well, I know that Mr. Bill arrived so late that it was impossible for everyone to have a drink. I don't understand why no one came to change shifts, and if the boss hadn't told me to be more careful these days, even Mr. Bill would have had an accident, and I would have gone back a long time ago. β
Cheng Yu said again: "Before Mr. Bill came, a man named Feyenoord committed suicide, in front of a man named Andre......"
"What? Feyenoord committed suicide? What's going on?"
"I don't know the specifics, but Ms. Cindy and I heard gunshots and came out to see what was going on. As a result, someone came down from the top of the hill and said that Feyenoord had committed suicide by swallowing a gun in Andrei's office, and Andrei said that he had always been weird and suspicious. Then we learned that Mr. Bill had arrived, and we went down the mountain together to meet Mr. Bill. So, we don't know exactly what happened at the top of the mountain. β
The man scratched his head and said, "What a, this place, I want to kill myself! That guy Feyenoord is usually a little nervous, but he commits suicide? I really don't understand what he thinks." By the way, you didn't say what you were doing here early in the morning without sleeping?"
Cheng Yu hurriedly explained: "Isn't it like I can't sleep? I woke up early, and then I saw that it was dawn, and I didn't think much about it, so I ran out. As I walked, I found that there was a fork in the road, and I didn't know where it led, so I walked casually. At first, I thought it was because the weather was bad, so there was no sun, but who knew that the sun hadn't come out when I walked here. It's so bad that I can't even tell what time it is......"
The other party looked at Cheng Yu with some suspicion, but he didn't have much suspicion, after all, the person who followed Cindy shouldn't have an accident. Moreover, I saw Lawrence Beale last night, so there should be no problem.
Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Cheng Yu added: "This is not a forbidden area, right? β
"It's not a no-go zone, but it's not a place to come casually. If it's coming, it's coming, it's nothing anyway. Is it wine in your hand?"
Cheng Yu hurriedly walked over, handed the wine bottle to the man, and said with a smile: "I'm a person, I like to drink a little, I took it back to the room last night and drank it and fell asleep, and when I woke up today, the wine bottle was still in my hand, and I didn't think much about it, so I went out with it." β
The man unscrewed the bottle, took a big sip, burped, and said with a satisfied expression, "Uh...... I finally came back to my senses. Come on, come on, let's sit down and talk. I'm glad you're here, otherwise I'd have to suffocate here. β
Cheng Yu sat down and asked pretendly: "You should have changed shifts last night, but no one came, why didn't you ask?"
"Who do I ask to ask? Before dinner, the other two people left, and I should normally stay on watch until about ten o'clock in the evening, and someone should come to take over. Who knows no one will come. β
"Isn't there an intercom device?"
"The intercom equipment is not easy to use here. It works on the other side of the mountain, but when you get to the top of the mountain, all the signals are blocked, and it's not that you don't know what is going on in the laboratory building on the top of the mountain. As soon as this signal is shielded, it is an indiscriminate shield, and it can't even be used with us. I want to use the walkie-talkie to contact the other side of the mountain, unless I jump off......" The man took another sip of wine and pointed to the surging waters below.
Cheng Yu smiled, tried his best to pretend to be harmless to humans and animals, pointed to the three mortars and said, "That's a mortar?"
The man nodded and said, "It's useless, it's a faΓ§ade." β
"I look pretty awesome, this caliber has to be eighty?"
"How can it be that big, this is the smallest mortar, only forty-three millimeters caliber. I don't know how many years I haven't used it, but the last time I used it was seven or eight years ago. And then I told you, we had just come to this island, and we had taken it by force, you know? And then the government of the Falklands sent some men to expel us. However, we all beat it back with this thing. β
"Have you ever fought with the government army? On a small island like this, isn't that looking for death?"
"Of course, it must have been Mr. Beale who went to negotiate with the government, and someone gave money, and the broken government in the Falklands was not pursued.
It's been seven or eight years, and it's been quiet around here, and this thing has been staying here.
I even doubt that if I throw a cannonball in it now, this thing will still be able to fire. Even if it fires, the shell has been in the wind and rain for so long, and it is on the sea, and the devil knows if it will explode.
Anyway, this thing is a faΓ§ade now, and if something really happens, it's up to this guy in our hands......"
As he spoke, he patted the AK47 he was carrying cross-body on his chest.
The caliber is forty-three, which has not been used for a long time, and Cheng Yu has obtained general information.
However, for the sake of insurance, Cheng Yu still wanted to waste a few points to personally investigate and see if these mortars were still useful.
"How many mortars are there on our island?"
"That's not all. This is what has been left here all along, and the rest is in the basement of the laboratory building on the top of the mountain. I don't think these three are of much use, but the ones on the top of the mountain must be very well maintained, and they can definitely be used for war. β
Cheng Yu was shocked when he heard this, the man poured himself another sip of wine, and then said with a little vigilance: "Why are you asking about this?"
"Haven't I ever seen a mortar, curious, and I didn't inquire, so I asked this, and the rest is your own words. β
The man thought about it, it seemed to be about the same, he smiled, and said, "You will listen to this, anyway, the people brought by Miss Cindy should not have any problems." But don't tell anyone about it, or it will affect me. β
"Don't worry. Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Can I take a look at those cannons?"
"Look at it casually. The man waved his hand.
Cheng Yu stood up......