"No problem, just set up camp in advance."

Ye Teh and Lin Yaohui had spoken and had been sailing in the Atlantic Ocean outside the strait for more than two hours. It wasn't because he lost contact because of too far away, but because he didn't turn on the phone at all. The old use of digital shortwave stations in communication equipment can cover 1,000 kilometers even in the 21st century.

"Hey, Lao Lin, you don't have to ask me anything in the future, you are in charge!"

"Okay! How's it going for you, have you found any trace of Carl? ”

"No, there are several whales. This place is like an alien planet everywhere, and the old boy has too many options to hide! ”

"Yes, the end of the world! Where are you now? ”

"The island of Estados, if it were still on earth, would be isla de los Estados."

Yete's mouth spoke, and his eyes did not leave the high-powered vertical telescope, observing a large island three kilometers away.

Estados, one of the southernmost islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located east of Tierra del Fuego, separated by a 28-kilometre-wide Le Maire Strait, and about 120 kilometres from Picton Island, which exits from the Beagle Strait. If Carl tried to shoot back the carbine, or carry out a surprise attack, the island would be a good base. Not far or near, you can advance or retreat. On the contrary, the fleet in the Beagle Strait was uncomfortable, like a fish in the throat.

At this time, Yat felt this way. It's a pity that there are few people in the bridge of the big warship who feel the same way as him.

"The chances of a ship being met are slim to none."

When he got out of the channel and arrived at Picton Island, Lao Ye got up, "It's very simple, this is the end of the world." The shipping lanes around Tierra del Fuego are not friendly at all. Whether it is the Strait of Magel, the Beagle Strait, or the Drake Strait, it is either meandering, or perennial high winds and waves, or the hydrological complexity is a huge challenge for ships. Not to mention the vicinity of Cape Horn, there are many shipwrecks and are known as the sea cemetery. Even in the twenty-first century, ships passing through Tierra del Fuego are quite limited. The so-called Age of Discovery refers to the fact that human beings dared to cross the ocean. And now, even if the world enters the Age of Discovery, there are not many ocean-going ships, and it is almost impossible for us to meet them. I understand everyone's feelings, worried that one guy will regress into a primitive society. Here, I'm sure to say, it's not that long since it went backwards. The other day, I flew by helicopter over most of Tierra del Fuego. Multiple indigenous tribes have been discovered, numbering in the thousands. What does it mean, it means that the age at this time should be after 1520, before the fifties of the 19th century. Why? Because it is recorded that the time when Magellan crossed the Strait of Magellan in 1520 and Darwin's expedition to Tierra del Fuego in 1836 was the time when the indigenous population of Tierra del Fuego was at its largest. ”

There are many seafarers who have been to Tierra del Fuego, and there are two on the warship, Qi Guoqiang and Luo Wangao. When passing by the "original site" of Port Williams on Navarino Island and seeing the uninhabited and primitive scene, the two were depressed, affecting everyone on board. Seeing that Picton Island and Nueva Island were as desolate as the surface of the moon, no one said a word for a long time. Dead atmosphere, into the Atlantic. After two hours of sailing, not to mention the naked eye, the radar did not detect a single ship. In the endless sea, cold icebergs float by, and the wailing waterfowl fly over their heads, as if they are alone between the sea and the sky. Unknown times and strange worlds magnify loneliness and bring unbearable pain. These veteran seafarers, who have sailed the world many times, have eyes full of despair.

Approaching the island of Estados, Yat himself said that it was like seeing an alien planet, let alone others.

Before Lao Ye spoke, Qi Guoqiang secretly wiped his tears, and the sentimental little Latin kid Shunzi sobbed quietly, frightened by the adult's bear-like appearance. Lao Ye's words were both appeasement and encouragement for everyone.

"Circle the island and get ready to sail back!"

The coast of Estados Island is steep, but there are not many landing sites, and the place to be a safe haven is clear at a glance, so there is not much to see. There was no choice but to leave the telescope with his eyes, and beckoned to a young man with red eyes and said, "Wang Xinxin, you stare at the telescope, report immediately if you find anything!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Wang Xinxin is the youngest of the seafarer veterans, under the age of 22.

"You go too, take turns with Wang Xinxin!"

Yat slapped the tears again. At the end, he picked up a pot of coffee that had just been brewed, called Qi Guoqiang to him, pointed to the map, and said, "Here, here, here...... And here, put on a camera probe. "Beware of the Ten Thousand Year Ship, he is ready to monitor the wind and grass from the mouth of the strait to Ushuaia.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Qi Guoqiang agreed loudly, "Especially the 'bottleneck' of Williams Port, it takes one day to block the waterway, and I am afraid it will be difficult to dredge it in half a year." Oh, and the return ship will be loaded immediately with possible time......"

Ye Te shook his hand and said, "Don't worry, you can pretend tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." ”

The old submariner loves to cry nose, but he is quite professional in emotional management. After receiving the command, he looked at the map with great devotion and sighed: "Alas, it would be nice if the probe could be connected to the Internet!" ”

This is asking if there is a device for this? Ye Tedang didn't understand and poured him a cup of coffee.

The heart of defense is indispensable, and the communication equipment is caught by the old leaves. The radio of each ship is forbidden to turn on, and the seal is locked with the straight in person. Carl floated outside, and the appearance of the "inner ghost" was a disaster. Equipped the walkie-talkie for the principal and deputy squad leader and the three responsible persons, Ye Te also spent a lot of words.

"Manually extract probe footage. After that, small warships were arranged to patrol the strait every day, circle Picton Island and then sail back three times in the morning, noon and evening. ”

What must be done to avoid being "blocked" in the strait? Blocking shipping lanes is more terrible than being attacked by a sneak attack. There is no need for Lao Ye to remind him, after entering the Atlantic, Ye Te has been pondering this matter. Patrolling and monitoring may seem clumsy, but in fact they are active defense. But there is no way to win reaction time and reduce the risk of being passively beaten. At the moment, only his Lin Yaohui can fight, and the four squad leaders can protect themselves at most. If you really want to encounter Karl today, you can only bombard it with naval guns, destroy and sink the ships. Capture the ship or land and annihilate, I dare not think of it.

"Well, it's a lot safer!" Qi Guoqiang agreed to take the initiative to defend, "It is before 1870, and the construction capacity of large wooden ships can support 5,000 tons. Sunk in the bottleneck, barely able to block the channel. But it's not difficult to clean up just a wooden boat, and it takes ten days and a half to clean up. If we really want to block us in the strait for a year and a half, we will need at least three or five 5,000-ton wooden ships. During this period, the ship's steam engine horsepower was pitiful, and it could not push a thousand-ton ship at all, but could only be a sailboat. The wind direction in the strait is unpredictable, and the sailboat enters slowly like a snail. I can't avoid the daily patrols and surveillance, and if I come in, I will be killed. "The old submariners are targeted and think wider.

Blocking the waterway, the most convenient and fastest, is to sink the ship on the "bottleneck". Karl "recruited" a few large sail ships in a short time, and the possibility was zero.

"Carl has more than 400 containers in his hands. If these containers are emptied, stuffed with stones, sediment or something, and thrown on the bottleneck, will they be able to block it for a year and a half? Yete raised his doubts.

Qi Guoqiang was "lucky" to witness the whole process of trading with Carl, and knew best where the threat came from. Drinking coffee thought about it and replied, "Theoretically, it is possible, but it is difficult to operate." Moreover, it will take quite a long time. Aside from the technical difficulties, it seems easy to lift more than 400 containers and throw them off the ship, but it takes seven or eight hours to do them. The bottleneck from Ushuaia to Port Williams, more than 30 kilometers, and the high speed of 28 knots of small warships, can be reached casually in an hour. I don't believe it, with just a few hundred containers, who has the ability to block the channel overnight? ”

Tierra del Fuego's night was only four hours long, and after the patrol was activated, the night was the only gap. In four hours, Carl can really not do much, except to cut the meat painfully and directly sink the 20,000-ton container ship to the "bottleneck". It makes no sense to do that, and it hurts others and is not good for yourself.

"I just talked to the island and said that the lunch was delicious."

After discussing the business with Qi Guoqiang, Ye Te raised his voice and spoke to everyone on the bridge: "They reported the dinner menu, grilled salmon with lemon juice, sweet and sour pork ribs, fried chicken wings and chicken thighs, fruit salad and borscht. The main dishes are bread, pasta, and rice. Hehe, I'm leaking saliva. He is not a picky eater, and he is also afraid of eating pig and dog food that is coated whole, and he has a choice who does not want to eat delicious.

"Get out of the way! Rush back for dinner. ”

"It's nice to have women, I love women!"

"Tu is that king eight lambs, he should have kicked into the sea to feed the fish."

"No, I'll ask him to eat tortillas for every meal in the future."

Attention shifted, and everyone at the post gradually resumed laughter. The day is long, so you don't have to worry about night sailing, and you don't feel too late to get back to the fleet before dark at twelve o'clock, and you don't feel too late for dinner.

"What's wrong with Xiaolin?" Lao Ye didn't believe that Lin Yaohui specially reported the recipe.

Ye Te drank coffee and smiled bitterly: "I found traces of the natives, just near the peninsula where the camp was built. Lao Lin was worried about the impact of the natives and wanted to build a fortification. Lao Ye nodded and didn't say anything.

"Second uncle, do you think Carl will leave and go to Europe or North America to open up the world?" Yat is not worried about the natives at all, Carl is the threat, not afraid of thieves and thieves. If it weren't for the overwhelming superiority in armaments, it would have been a rush long ago.

Lao Ye looked out the window at Estados Island, and asked rhetorically: "If it were you, with only a small number of light weapons, would you go to open up the world and hit a wooden ship with an iron ship?" Yat said with a toothache: "We don't have any heavy weapons, why don't we be satisfied with robbing a big warship?" Lao Ye said with white eyes: "In your eyes, the M2 machine gun and the 120 rocket are not heavy weapons?" Ye Te replied: "It doesn't count in the first place!" Oh, in the sea, fish . Ray barely counted. Ha, I see, this guy wants his fish back. Thunder. ”

"Pour me a cup of coffee!"

Despise the standard of weapons of his cheap nephew, Lao Ye put on a shelf. Take a sip of coffee and say, "He wants your life the most." Kill you, the supermarket at sea is all his. However, you have to patrol three times a day and monitor the entire strait. When he realizes it, it is really possible to open up the world! ”

Take the initiative to defend and kill two birds with one stone, beware of blocking the waterway, and beware of sneak attacks. Ye Te did not accept the cheap compliment, and said with disgust: "Second uncle, your position is too unfirm. Even if there is security on the east side of the strait, what about the west side? As the saying goes, the East is not bright and the West is bright! The latter sentence is a hand-tapped map. He was a bodyguard and didn't feel that the threat had been lifted.

"West? Alas, it seems that I am going to get you a governess. Lao Ye raised his coffee cup, "My consultation fee is very expensive, so I will not accompany you." With that, he turned and walked towards the exit.

"Haha......"

There was a burst of joyful laughter in the bridge, and the old man naturally brought his own fans. Communication in public is tantamount to non-secrecy, and almost every word spoken by the uncle and nephew was heard by the people on the bridge.

As soon as Lao Ye went out, Qi Guoqiang and Luo Wangao walked side by side cooperatively, and the two of them were like tutors. Laughter rang out again from the bridge, and some people applauded.

For the next hour, Yat was forced to take a geography lesson and a sailing lesson. To sum up, there is a "bottleneck" in the east of the strait, and there is a "natural risk" in the west of the strait.