Chapter 10 Circumstances
"Damn it! What a thing..." Finally, Hong Tao realized, he got stuck in the horns and looked at the drawings on the table and floor. He hated him! He hated himself for being a stupid person and drawing waste all over the floor, which was simply self-harm and self-harm.
"Karl! Where is Bo Jiao?" But he can't bear the mistake by himself. He must find a reason to comfort himself. What reason? Bo Jiao! If he hadn't come in and ask his own questions, there would be no satellites, and there would be nothing that happened later. He wouldn't have been in vain for several days, but he wouldn't have endured anything. If he couldn't, the culprit must be severely punished!
"He is sleeping in the cabin..." Carl looked at Hong Tao, whose eyes were red with vicissitudes, and instinctively felt a storm was coming.
"Go and grab him up, wipe the deck and the mast for him to choose, right away!" Hong Papi was so angry that the consequences were very serious, especially on the boat.
"Then why should I tell him? He has been very disciplined these two days and has not made any mistakes..." Carl also wanted to get a chance to deal with Bo Jiao with leniency.
"......Last year due to his command error, the main sail of the Predator was torn apart by the storm. Is this reason enough?" Hong Tao turned his eyes and quickly found a very powerful reason. The charge was already very large on the ship.
"Bang bang...bang bang...bang bang...bang bang..." Carl had already surrendered, and he could now punish people for all the mistakes of last year. He had no courage to distinguish Bo Jiao. If he calculated this way, he would have carried a lot of sins on his back. This adult obviously started to be mentally ill again, so it would be better to talk less and do more. However, Bo Jiao was lucky. Before Carl brought people into the cabin, a bell sound came from the top of the mast. This time the sound was obviously different from discovering the mainland. It was because of discovering the ship. An alarm! According to Hong Tao's regulations, discovering a ship on the sea is an alarm. Before confirming the other party's accurate identity, he went directly to the combat state.
"Fuck! This is intentionally making me unhappy! Don't worry about that cowardly child of Bojiao for now. Carl, tell me, where are we? Where are my telescopes! Where is my combat hat!" Hong Tao was holding his stomach with evil fire and had no place to scatter. He originally said that it would be fine to torture Bojiao for a while, but he didn't expect that a ship would appear at this time. It's you!
"North latitude 28 degrees, east longitude 128 degrees, just past Ryukyu Islands." Karl accurately reported the latitude and latitude. He didn't know where the Ryukyu Islands were. He didn't know why he had to use number 1, 2, 3, and 4 to mark the islands. Anyway, he would learn how to write it on the chart. Why can only be asked when Hong Tao is in a good mood, otherwise the fate would be the same as Bo Jiao.
"Ryukyu Island? Be warned first!" Hong Tao suddenly confused the name of the island he named. The Ryukyu Islands were the Okinawa Islands in later generations. He could not remember the name of each island, so he used the number one, two, three, and four. The specific number one island was, and he had to look at the chart to know.
Ryukyu Island is actually the Amami Island in later generations. It has the largest area in the Ryukyu Islands. Hong Tao named it as Island No. 1. In fact, it doesn’t matter what name it is. Even if it is called Dog Shit Egg. As long as it can be recognized by most people, it will be called Dog Shit Egg.
"Ring the battle clock, hang the battle flag, raise the sail! Full speed!" Before a minute had passed, Hong Tao, who had returned to the captain's room to look at the charts, rushed out again, shouting at the top of his throat, with a ferocious smirk on his face. Even the trainee officers who followed him for the first time could see that the ship coming from the opposite side would definitely be unlucky. Even if the ship was a ship, the battle flag was raised without even seeing the few ships clearly. This is really a move.
"All armor-piercing... Ammunition preparation... Ten left rudders! Starboard-side reception!" Carl had already run to the stern building, holding up a telescope and looking forward. When he heard Hong Tao issued a battle order, he immediately carried out his first mate's work and began to command everyone on the battleship to take their place.
With the rapid sound of the bronze bell, all the sailors and officers in the cabin ran out, and the deck was full of chaos. Everyone wore a leather armor sewn from crocodile leather. What's interesting is that there were several short wooden sticks on the chest and back of the leather armor. This thing was also made by Hong Tao. It was more of a life jacket than a helmet. Those short wooden sticks were a kind of vine on Luzon Island. After drying, they had a very strong buoyancy. After so many on their backs, people would not sink even if they didn't swim. As for the protection ability, they basically did not.
Hong Tao's theory is to ask for a fart armor at sea, but he does not intend to fight with hand-to-hand combat. Instead of defending against arrows that will never fly over, it is better to think about what to do if it falls into the sea. For this reason, he also prefabricated safety buckles and safety ropes on this leather armor, and stipulated that whenever he enters a combat state, everyone on the deck, mast, and lookout must fix the safety ropes on the iron rings around him, and they must not be untied without special needs. How to quickly tie a special rope buckle is also the basic knowledge that every sailor must learn, and you are not allowed to board the ship if you can't play this.
"After the battle, all the first-level sailors went to the side of the ship to get a bucket of water. A quarter of an hour passed, and there were still people who had not put on armor, had not tied up, and had not prepared ammunition? What are you doing in normal times?" Hong Tao held a small hourglass in his hand, which leaked for exactly a quarter of an hour. When the last grain of sand fell, Hong Tao was very dissatisfied. The deck was still messy, the cables were not well-plated, and there were still buckets for firefighting that were not loaded with water, and the pump was not taken from the cabin. The two watch hands on the watchtower tied the safety rope, but you continued to look at the bottom and looked at the hair!
"I let you forget! Let you forget! Wait, don't think about it if I'm punished!" When I heard a bucket of water, the first-level sailors on the deck's eyes were red, which means there was no whip in their hands. If there was a guarantee to suck the second-level sailors and third-level sailors they commanded, a bucket of water! Whoever tasted that tasted...
A bucket of water was a criminal law invented by Hong Tao. Hong Tao has a deep understanding of the profession of sailors and must not be rude to them, just like he tortured the Paris sisters on a sailboat. A large group of men gathered on a boat all day long. If they don’t know what fear is, they will not be able to manage it. Persuasion and education are useful to them, but not the main thing, the most effective one is criminal law.
What is a bucket of water? It means tying a person to the side of the boat, covering a wet cloth on his face, and then pouring a bucket of water slowly, making the person feel uncomfortable if he wants to breathe. If he breathes in, he will be choked by the water, but he can't die of holding it in. It is said that it is quite uncomfortable. This method is what Hong Tao saw from the movie, but when he tried it, hey, it works. Anyone who has suffered once will never dare to try it again, so this rule was settled. It is impossible to do something like whip, it is difficult to treat if it is broken and it is irritated. It is better to torture people with this method of not seeing blood or injury, which is more in line with Hong Tao's compassionate personality.
Actually, it’s time to have more than a quarter of an hour. The distances found on the sea surface are very far away. There is a formula that can be calculated by yourself: d≈412(√h+√n).d is the visible distance, h is the height of your sea level, and n is the height of the target from the sea surface. This is the theoretical calculation formula for deducting vision and weather factors. If you say that you are myopia and have heavy fog, then forget it. If you drink too much, you might even fall into the sea and drown. You can see a hair!
Since the earth is round, the range of observation targets in a straight line on the sea is limited. Even if you stand on a mast watchtower worth more than ten meters high and with a telescope, the weather is very good. In theory, you can only see a small boat more than 30 kilometers away, but in fact it is only about 20 kilometers. Observing with a telescope on the top of the shaking mast is a very uncomfortable job. If you look at it for a while, you will be dizzy.
Is it 20 kilometers long? It's not far for modern warships, and it can start war directly, but for the 13th century sailing ships, it's a bit far. The two ships are driving face to face, and it takes about an hour to meet, and they have to be a fast ship like the Seabo. When all the sailors are ready to stop, the ships on the opposite side can't be seen on the deck. The sailors who are in the first armor are blind, and they can only listen to the commander on the stern. In fact, the commander on the stern is also blind, and he has to listen to the mast lookout hand.
"Two sloops, about 15 meters, with a course of 280! The speed is unknown!" The lookout hand was observing with a telescope, and told the deputy next to him, and then pulled his neck and shouted to the deck. This work is very demanding. You not only need to be familiar with the angle and coordinates, but also have a pair of good eyes and a good mouth. You must be able to see and shout clearly, so that the captain can understand it.
"Left Ruler 5..." Hong Tao held a plate-sized thing in his hand, looked down at it for a while, and issued an order. This thing is also his other great contribution to this era, a simple compass! It was improved based on the compass. It has to be said that the skill of Guangzhou goldsmith is stronger than that of Zhenzhou, and the silver box is extremely exquisite. With this thing, you can roughly understand the direction of your ship and the direction of the other ship on the sea at any time.
Chapter completed!