Chapter 37 Emergency

No matter what kind of dissatisfaction the crew members on the Haicang ship have in their hearts, they still have to continue doing what they have to do. After all, from the moment they arrive in this time and space, everyone has no way out. Today's training course for the rookie crew members

It is a two-way sailing between the east and west ends of the bay. The whole journey is only about 20 nautical miles. However, while constantly raising and lowering the sails to adjust the direction according to the captain's requirements, the course and speed must be reported at any time.

The training content was enough to make them exhausted in half a day.

There are not a few people who dream of being captains because of "The Age of Discovery" and "Pirates of the Caribbean", and then choose to join the shipping department because of this, but such naive ideas have long been abandoned by them after several days of brutal training.

In the back of their minds, these future captains have now clearly realized that becoming a man who conquers the ocean is not as easy as it seems in the game movies.

Although they often have unpleasant experiences with Yankees at sea, privately, many people still go to Yankees to ask for advice on sailing skills. After all, the worst of the North American gang can sail a sailboat for more than half of the time.

Compared to these rookies, they are like gods. Especially Wang Tom, who has rich sailing experience, even gave a special lecture on the forum, and every night he waited for his post and then angrily grabbed the fans on the sofa.

There are quite a few. Even Xie Chun, who has the least dealings with the North American gang, actually goes to the forum to read Tom Wang’s teaching posts, but he always adheres to the purpose of "reading the posts but not replying".

At five o'clock in the afternoon, after sailing past Yulin Point for the last time, Sun Changmi finally ordered the end of today's training and turned the ship back to Victory Port.

After commanding at the top of his voice for most of the day, Sun Changmi felt that his throat was a little hoarse. Fortunately, it was time for Yue Zhiyun to go to sea as the captain tomorrow, so he had a day's buffer period to rest.

Of course, there is definitely no vacation to speak of at the moment. The members of the executive committee are all working on the front line, and no one below has the shame to ask for leave. Even if Sun Changmi doesn't have to go to sea, he still has to keep an eye on the wood.

Over there in the drying room. As a pre-processing step for future shipbuilding wood, this work must not be sloppy at all.

In any case, it is much easier to manage the wood drying room than to take the rookies out to practice. Sun Changmi estimates that he even has enough free time to refine the sailing design plan of the Shipping Department on his laptop - currently he

Due to some detailed issues, Yue Zhiyun has not yet reached an agreement on the final design plan.

When Sun Changmi was thinking about the future, the walkie-talkie hanging on his waist suddenly rang: "Training ship, training ship, reply received!"

"The training ship has been received! I am the captain Sun Changmi!"

"This is the Yulinjiao post. We have observed ships coming and going five nautical miles to the southeast."

"It should just be fishermen." This thought flashed through Sun Changmi's mind. This kind of thing had happened several times in the past few days, and it was later confirmed that it was fishermen from far away who came to the nearby fishing ground to catch fish.

Chang Mi just thought about it, but did not say it directly. Instead, he continued to ask: "Can the size and number of the ships be determined?"

If it was just a small boat that appeared alone, it was probably still a fisherman. Sun Changmi did not want to let his exhausted crew sail the boat for another round of the open sea just because of such uncertain news.

"There are only two seen so far, but the size of the boats seems to be larger than the small fishing boats that appeared a few days ago. The masts and sails on the boats can be seen."

Sun Changyun frowned. With masts and sails, the possibility of it being a nearby fishing boat was very slim. He hesitated and asked, "Where are the current positions of our other two boats?"

"We have all returned to port." The voice on the other intercom was also helpless. If the two clippers were still patrolling the bay, it would obviously be much more convenient for them to go over and take a look at the situation.

If the Haicang ship continues to move forward, it will have to pass through the narrowest pass outside the port. Although the water there is four hundred meters wide, the novices on the ship cannot turn the ship around in such a narrow water area. They can only

Sail straight into the Victory Harbor and then slowly turn around and sail out. It will take a while to come and go. Sun Changmi hesitated, gave the order to stop the ship, and then said to the intercom: "Let's stop the ship now."

Stop and observe for another half hour. If the two boats still don't leave, we will turn around and go have a look."

Ten minutes later, the intercom rang again: "The two ships were heading east and have disappeared from sight."

Everyone on the Haicang boat breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't want to miss the hot dinner because of a few fishermen who happened to appear in the open sea. It is said that Chef Fan from the cooking class returned from the No. 2 base today and is expected to be there today.

After eating Fan's special seafood rice so late that it has disappeared for a week, the foodies are holding back their motivation to eat a few more bowls.

Sun Changmi ordered the anchor to be raised and the sails to be returned to port. The crew members, who were hungry after an afternoon of training, also became energetic and shouted loudly and pulled the cables together. It seemed that they could smell the aroma of the food in the canteen across a large area of ​​​​the sea.

The Haicang ship docked slowly at the temporary pier, and a dozen meters away were two catamaran sailboats docked one behind the other. Eighty percent of the various materials and equipment they carried when crossing had now been unloaded on land.

The remaining small amount of supplies and equipment are either temporarily unavailable or cannot be stored on land, so they are all temporarily installed on the "New World". Most of the other ships that have been basically emptied no longer dock at the dock, but

It landed directly on the shore.

Considering that some ships may still be dispatched, the Ministry of Shipping only pushed a few flat-bottomed barges to the coast and stranded them, and then used these barges as barges to dock other fishing boats, tugboats and landing craft at the periphery. The temporary dock

On weekdays, only the "New World", which will not move again, and three sailboats that go out to sea every day are docked.

The arrival of the ship at the dock does not mean that today's training is over. According to the provisions of the "Basic Crew Operation Manual" compiled by the Ministry of Shipping, the crew must wash the deck with water and tidy up the rigging, sails and various tools on the ship.

, and then gather on the deck to count the number of people, and then the captain will give the order to disband.

But today everything seemed to be against them. The crew had just finished their work and returned to the dock when Sun Changmi's intercom rang again: "Training ship, training ship, this is Yulin Point. Please return to sail immediately after receiving it."

, there is a fleet appearing on the southern sea, heading for the Port of Victory! Repeat, there is a fleet appearing on the southern sea, heading for the Port of Victory!"

Sun Changmi's expression changed, he picked up the intercom and said: "The training ship has docked at the port. I will arrange for the ship to go to sea as soon as possible. Please confirm the situation at Yulinjiao!"

After Sun Changmi finished speaking, he patted Xie Chun who was already stunned next to him: "Hurry to the base and call out all the Americans!"

The crew members who heard Sun Changmi's shout stopped in shock. Although they still didn't know what happened, the usually calm Sun Changmi suddenly changed his appearance. It was obvious that some special situation had arisen.

"Just now, Yulinjiao Post reported that a fleet is heading for Victory Port. Please don't go back to the base yet." Sun Changmi quickly regained his composure and began to command according to the emergency plan formulated in advance by the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Military and Police.

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The main content of this emergency plan is to "clear responsibilities and each perform their duties." When an external threat occurs, the Military Police Department and the Maritime Department will each defend the assigned military tasks, so that the defense process will not be rushed due to unclear division of labor.

To put it simply, when encountering enemies at sea, the responsibility of the Maritime Department is to drive the few iron-hulled fishing boats in the port out to sea, and the Military Police Department also has to send people on board to be responsible for fire strikes on the ships. The Military Police Department originally formulated

The principle of defense is to "defend the enemy outside the territory". Enemies that can be dealt with at sea will never be allowed to land. Of course, using iron-shelled fishing boats to go to sea will inevitably consume some precious oil, but from a safety perspective, such consumption is actually very high.

It's worth it. As for the bastion defenses built outside Base No. 1, they are only the last retreat in case the enemy cannot be driven off the sea.

Currently, the Maritime Transport Department only has about 20 people left in Victory Port and Base No. 1. A total of 18 people participated in the Haicang ship training today, two people stayed on land to look after the wood drying room, and four others

Originally stationed on the "New World", he was responsible for daily equipment maintenance.

There are only a few more people in the Military and Police Department left in Base 1 than in the Maritime Department. Currently, more than half of the personnel in Base 1 are women, the elderly and children, followed by the military, police, shipping and a small number of personnel.

Logistics department personnel, in addition to six or seven fishermen workers led by foreman Yu Dashan in the charcoal kiln and wood drying room.

When the friends from the North American Gang ran all the way to the pier, Yulinjiao Post had sent further observation reports: there were six sailboats in total, two large and four small. The displacement of the two large ships was estimated to be similar to that of the captured Haicang ship.

.The ship did not hoist any flags. The current heading is still Victory Port, the speed is about four knots, and it is still about three nautical miles away from the Yulinjiao outpost.

"We will go to sea immediately, Sun. You and your people will get on the ship immediately, send weapons to them, and keep in contact with the ship at all times!" Wang Tom made a decision quickly after hearing the situation. Yan Chujie of the Military Police Department is currently

, Gu Wei and others all went to the No. 2 Base. The Executive Committee has given full military command of the Victory Port and No. 1 Base areas to the six-person North American Gang. They will be responsible for all personnel in emergencies.

Directly command and mobilize.

Wang Tom said that these were also arrangements in the emergency plan, and they had done several drills beforehand, so everyone was not particularly panicked. Sun Changmi nodded and was about to leave, when Wang Tom stopped him again: "After you get on the boat,

Contact the executive committee immediately and ask them to prepare to send someone back..."

"Is this necessary?" Sun Changmi asked in astonishment.

"Just in case. It takes about an hour to get back by boat from Base 2, so we need to be prepared in advance."

"Okay!" Sun Changmi also felt that what Wang Tom said was reasonable, so he agreed and planned to leave.

"etc!"

"What else?"

Tom Wang pondered for a moment before speaking: "Let them try to monitor the people near Base No. 2 and on the construction site. If those who came are really pirates, then there might have been spies who have sneaked into our territory."
Chapter completed!