Chirp - smack!

As a ball of fire with a distinct flame reaction rises into the sky and explodes.

On the shore of the sea.

A fleet of forty sailing ships was immediately informed by the lookouts.

"Report ——!"

"Flare raised at Beacon Three!"

"Report ——!"

“.”

This fleet is naturally the logistics team responsible for supplying the new army.

By sea, they arrived at the bay several times ahead of the new army by land.

And also left beacon points along the shore, marking the area with a coordinate system.

Now, as soon as the Forces nouvelles released the flares, their lookouts immediately discovered the source of the flares and speculated on the area in which they were located.

"Drop the sails and dock!"

"Beacon Area Three, forward!"

"No!"

At the command of the fleet commander, the main ship raised two flags and lowered its sails.

Seeing the movements of the main general's ship, the other ships naturally moved as well.

In fact, attacking North Korea by sea is the fastest.

But coincidentally, both the Maritime Affairs Division and the Navy received Zhang Qi's new orders, and there was a gap in the number of sailing ships.

No, Hu Luqi could only transfer forty sailboats to load supplies, and the new troops could only rely on two pairs of legs to go to the Korean border.

Coastside.

The two soldiers and twelve soldiers were all relieved when they saw the bright red flares rise into the air.

At their feet, there were as many as seven or eight cracked paper tubes, but without exception, the mouth of the paper tube was slightly black, but the main body of the paper tube was still intact.

This is a flare that failed to fire.

Although the research on gunpowder in the world has continued, in order to give priority to the progress of the steam engine, Zhang Qi has transferred a large number of scientific researchers to the steam unit, and there are only a dozen people in the gunpowder team.

So now the fineness of the gunpowder in Zhang Qi's hand is not good, and there is a large amount of black smoke after ignition, and there is no obvious deflagration.

For these, Zhang Qi actually doesn't know much about himself, and they all say one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal, but it is not so simple to really synthesize gunpowder that can be used.

At present, they are not even proficient in the use of signal flares, that is, fireworks, and often only five or six of the ten signal flares can be used normally.

At present, the army under Zhang Qi's command is all produced in the world of horse slashing, and there is no gunpowder workshop established in the outside world.

This thing is too dangerous, and if it is leaked, it can be regarded as a big harm to Zhang Qi.

Therefore, regarding gunpowder, it is better to put it in the world of riding and slashing that no one can reach, Zhang Qi can rest assured.

"It's a lift-off, phew."

Looking at the bright red fire that burst into the air, the two soldiers below breathed a sigh of relief.

If all ten failed to fire, they would have to travel another ten miles to get back to the barracks.

You can be tired and half dead when you go back and forth.

They all breathed a sigh of relief, and a man with a scruffy beard even wiped the sweat from his forehead, took out a beige rod from his waist and bit it hard.

"Third child, you still eat this thing, you've been eating it for a month, and you're not tired? This supply ship is coming, don't run out of anything else later, haha,"

Seeing the man who was called the third child, he teased loudly when he saw the man who was called the third man eating the dry food for the march.

The old man grinned.

"You guys are just starving, can you still get tired of eating this baby?"

didn't care about the ridicule of his colleagues, and the third child continued to bite the marching dry food.

This thing is the emergency food produced by Zhang Qi in Changchun, Liaoning.

It belongs to the category of high-energy food.

Made from starch, syrup, oats, meat floss, etc.

One weighs about half a catty, tightly wrapped in kraft paper, and one can ensure the consumption of a soldier for two days.

This time the new army marched, without baggage or supplies, and each person brought his own equipment and weapons and dry rations for the march.

Twenty per person, ten pounds, usually take out one and insert it in the belt buckle, and the rest are stored in the rucksack with the equipment.

The new army is also the first batch of troops to try out the backpacks, and the carrying capacity of these backpacks made of linen with leather stitching is thirty or forty catties.

It does play a great role in the march, and the chest and abdomen buckle can also save a lot of effort.

However, the commanders of the new army found through the data collected during this period of marching that this backpack was a burden when fighting.

Soldiers could not fight flexibly with their backpacks and had to be removed before the battle.

Now, even the two soldiers and commanders of the new army who were sent out to release the flares have asked them to unload their backpacks before setting off.

There are pros and cons, but it's also a good piece of equipment.

This is the evaluation of the new army commanders on the backpacks.

"It's coming!"

A soldier staring at the surface of the sea was the first to spot the supply ship and reminded loudly.

Two soldiers lit a bonfire that had been prepared, and then smoked black smoke from a pile of wet firewood.

"First mate! The collision angle was 40 degrees to the left, and black smoke and 12 soldiers were found! ”

On the lookout pole, the lookout hand promptly informed the first mate at the helm below.

"Is it your own?"

"It's too far away to confirm!"

"The flag bearer gives a signal, tell the ships behind to slow down, let's lean over and see!"

"No!"

As the first sailboat got closer to the shore, the lookout also saw through the binoculars the equipment of the soldiers on the shore.

"First mate! Confirm your own people! ”

"Good!"

"Flag-bearer give the light, dock!"

"No!"

The flagbearer, who is responsible for transmitting information between ships, comes to the stern.

Inside, a candle enclosed in glass was lit.

There are also polished metal plates all around.

Short-point signal for opening and closing by opening and closing.

The light and dark, the light and dark signal gave the ships that followed the first ship a signal that they could dock.

The speed of the ship slowly slowed down.

The helmsman controlled the rudder and brought the sailboat to a halt on the shore.

Unfortunately, there are not enough deep water here, and only two ships can be docked at a time, and the other ships are docked in the surrounding waters, waiting to be unloaded.

"Password!"

"The sun and the moon are in the sky!"

"Order!"

"Coke chicken wings!"

The secret language was correct, and everyone on the boat breathed a sigh of relief.

The captain disembarked first and came to the two soldiers.

Hammered his chest with his left hand.

"Li Qing, captain of the first battalion of the Maritime Logistics Regiment of the Materials Division!"

The two captains on the shore returned the salute.

"The new commander of the army, Mu Dan!"

"The new army commander Lou Shu!"

"Good work."

"I've been waiting."

A simple greeting between the two sides.

Seeing the two captains looking at the ship's saliva behind them, Li Qing hurriedly turned around and ordered.

"Unload the ship first, load the car, don't let the brothers of the new army go hungry!"

"No!"

After receiving the captain's order, the 200 or so crew members on board immediately went into action.

Li Qing looked around and asked the two Wu Commanders.

"The transporter hasn't arrived yet?"

"The military camp has just been stationed, and the commander ordered us to confirm it first, and we will go back to pass it on."

(End of chapter)