Chapter 129 The trumpet sounds and Hu Tianxiao moves
An hour later, in the cockpit of the Thor.
The twelve voluntary and forced time-travelers all arrived. They stood in front of the navigation chart table and began to listen to the situation reports from Zhao Xin and Deng Fei.
"Based on the distance of 15 kilometers, if you refer to the modern map, it is this location." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he pointed to another bay fifteen kilometers away from Beihai Town.
"From the radar point of view, these ships are coming from the west, and they should have entered the radar observation range this morning."
"Where have you been this morning?" Veterinarian Liu Zheng suddenly asked Deng Fei.
"Today it's Deng Fei's turn to lead the team for exercise in the morning." Wang Yuanfang explained.
Deng Fei continued: "In this era, China's large wooden ships basically have a speed of about four knots. As a result, I saw it when I came back around one o'clock at noon."
"Jie?" Liu Siting asked curiously.
"It's in the sea." Doctor Hong reminded her softly in her ear.
Zhao Xin and others glanced at the navigation clock behind them. It was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
Deng Fei stood opposite the crowd and pointed to the navigation radar behind him and explained: "I roughly counted them and estimated that there are dozens of ships. But these are big ships and small ships cannot be seen."
"Could it be a fishing boat?" Doctor Hong asked, holding his eyes.
Deng Fei said hesitantly: "It's possible."
"Absolutely impossible! Otherwise I wouldn't have called you all here!" Zhao Xin said loudly without hesitation. "You must understand that in this era, apart from the Qing troops, there will be no other large fleets in the outer Northeast!
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"Ah?! Qing, Qing soldiers! What should we do?" Chen Qingsong and other modern people panicked.
"What are you afraid of? Didn't we already have a plan?" Liu Sheng said.
Chen Qingsong, Hong Tao, Liu Siting, Liu Zheng, and Zhang Bo looked at Zhao Xin and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Activate the emergency plan immediately! Sound the alarm!"
A minute later, the piercing and long sound of the hand-cranked air defense siren sounded on the Thor. Soon, alarms were also sounded on the outposts on the east bank of the Xila River and on the camp watchtowers.
Zhao Xin, who had made enemies all over the island country, was afraid that the Tokugawa shogunate would come to visit him one day after he returned from Nagasaki. So he worked with the security team, Chen Qingsong and others to formulate an emergency war plan for Beihai Town.
In the plan, the current more than 10,000 residents of Beihai Town, excluding military groups, security police, and sailors, are divided into 200 groups based on families; each group has between 50 and 60 people, and there are more than a dozen households.
and appoint a team leader.
All residents of Beihai Town, whether they are working, farming, logging, or doing infrastructure construction, must return to the camp within half an hour and gather outside their tents.
Katayama Kanbei was responsible for leading the security police and assisting in evacuating all the elderly, women, and children to the mountains on the east bank of the Sira River to hide.
Chen Qingsong led Wan Zao, Shigesuke and other male refugees to dig trenches and build fortifications at designated locations.
As hunters who are familiar with the characteristics of the local mountains and forests, Serdan and his son and Hengji will put on camouflage clothes, bring bows and arrows, and go out with Ding Guofeng to conduct reconnaissance.
Liu Sheng and others need to rush to the military camp and issue orders to the assembled company commanders to open the ammunition depot. Wang Yuanfang is responsible for opening the ammunition depot and allowing soldiers to receive ammunition. After that, each company will enter the first level of combat readiness and be ready to set off at any time.
This kind of drill has been held twice before. Even though it took several days to repeatedly preach, during the first drill, some refugees didn't take it seriously at all and were still working hard to open up 30 acres of land from their homes.
In response to this situation, Zhao Xin decided afterwards to withhold three-day rations from those refugee families who were late. Don't say that they will be punished without teaching. If the enemy really attacks, at a critical moment of life and death, what is more important, rations or lives?!
So when the second drill was held, all the refugees arrived within the stipulated time and followed the drill obediently. However, Zhao Xin later announced that anyone who did not pay attention to the drill and delayed gathering beyond the stipulated time would be punished by his family.
The issuance of land certificates is suspended.
So when the siren sounded again for the third time this month, although some refugees complained in their hearts, they did not dare not to participate.
"I said, lord, what are you doing? It's only been a few days, here we go again?!"
"Yes, the field is about to be planted, and the seeds haven't been sown yet. I thought I could sow some seeds today."
"What nonsense are you two talking about! Let's go quickly! Your whole family will be starved for three days before the allotted time!"
"Yes, you don't want to take the thirty acres of land?"
"Who said no!"
Yachiro's company, which returned to the military camp, had just delivered the polished guns to the gun store at noon, and was about to take a rest after lunch when the alarm sounded.
Fortunately it wasn't night, otherwise I would have tormented these people to death. When Ren Jiuzang stood on the playground and counted to "fifty," Yaichiro's company had already completed its assembly.
"I was notified by the commander that unknown enemies are attacking! Remember! This is not a drill!" Jiuzang said loudly to the 110 soldiers in front of him.
"Forget it! I say that every time, and in the end I just turn around and go back to the camp." Yaichiro said secretly in his heart.
The army has conducted similar exercises more than a dozen times, sometimes at noon, sometimes at night, and the words are the same every time; so the expressions on the faces of many soldiers are disapproval.
It doesn't matter~~ Instructors, you can do whatever you like. Who wants the salary of a soldier to be so high? With three stones of food a month, the whole family will have enough to eat and still have plenty.
"My order now! All companies are here, turn right~~! Direction, armory! Run~~walk!"
In a tent in the military camp, Serdan and his son, Henji, were changing their camouflage clothes and preparing to set off.
"Amma, this won't be the same drill again, will it?"
"No!" Serdan didn't talk nonsense to his son at all.
Erlu lost his temper. Serdan said the same thing last time, but he was happy in vain.
He has always wanted to follow Zhao Xin as a soldier, but Zhao Xin told Elu that you are actually best suited to be a scout, rather than following him behind him all day long.
"Master, what is a scout?" Erlu asked at that time.
Zhao Xin thought for a while and said: "Be the same as Lord Liu and others, and be the strongest soldier!"
The three of them changed their clothes, took out the military compound bows issued to them by Zhao Xin from the box, packed their quivers, and walked outside the tent to meet Ding Guofeng and prepare to set off.
Among the six-member team of the Security Department, only Wu Siyu had ever used a military crossbow when he was in the army. Seeing the excellent archery skills of Serdan and his son, he suggested that Zhao Xin get some compound bows.
Zhao Xin didn’t know anything about bows and arrows. But he knew that the more expensive ones were almost always good. So he went directly to the local outdoor supplies store in Bulong Port and bought a few of the most expensive compound bows; then he threw them to Wu Siyu
Go for a tune-up.
After the Serdans figured out how to use modern compound bows, they fell in love with these two fifty-pound bows. The stainless steel emerald arrowheads could shoot through two layers of Qing army cotton armor with iron plates inside.
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When Ding Guofeng, whose face was covered with camouflage camouflage, saw Serdan and the others, he took out the camouflage pen and began to paint the three people's faces.
Ten minutes later, the four figures gradually disappeared into the forest on the west side of the camp.
On the dock, the Thor has begun to enter the "preparation" procedure. In addition to the power supply preparation, there is no need to do anything, such as calibrating the clock, turning down the clock, setting the rudder, and warming the main engine cylinder; preparation of each power system, cranking , the driving and test driving must also start in sequence. It takes nearly three hours to complete this set.
On the main deck, Zhao Xin led a dozen sailors and set up four "ZU-23" double-barreled anti-aircraft guns on the bow and cargo compartment cover. Then he began to open the ammunition boxes one by one and put the 23×152 mm The high-explosive tracer bullet is attached to the belt.
After the 50-round ammunition chain was filled and put into the ammunition box, Zhao Xin inserted the ammunition box into the magazine on the side of the anti-aircraft gun. After the two ammunition boxes on an anti-aircraft gun were inserted, he continued to get the next one. vehicle.
"Come on! There's no negotiation for anti-aircraft guns hitting wooden boats!" Zhao Xin muttered while inserting the ammunition box into the magazine.
"Master Zhao!"
Zhao Xin looked up and saw that it was Shen Jingdan who came to the deck with Lu Yun, Shen Xuan, and Lao Huang.
"Boss Shen, why haven't you disembarked yet?"
With a habitual businessman smile on his face, Lao Huang held his hand to Zhao Xinyi and said with a complaint: "Sir Zhao, including this time, you have done that drill three times this month! We are not from Beihai Town. People, there’s no need to go.”
Shen Jingdan also continued: "Yes. My Luyun is pregnant, so it is really inconvenient to go through all this trouble."
Zhao Xin said with a cold face: "Who told you this is a drill? The Qing soldiers are coming!"
"Ah?!" Businessman Lao Huang was so frightened that he immediately collapsed on the deck. "This is terrible!"
Zhao Xin sneered "hehe", looked at Lao Huang and said: "I killed tens of thousands of people in Saga Domain and their blood flowed like rivers. You dare to follow me. Are you afraid of the slightest purge?"
When Lao Huang, who was about to howl in mourning, suddenly realized what he said, the man in front of him was the one who massacred everyone in Nagasaki. If he couldn't defeat him, he could just escape by boat. The Thor was faster than the horse, and the Qing army couldn't. How can a wooden boat catch up?
"Boss Shen, hurry up and gather on the river bank and take a boat to hide in the mountains on the west bank."
"Leader Zhao Zhao, can't we stay on the ship?" A soft voice suddenly sounded, and when they saw it, it turned out to be Shen Xuan.
"Nonsense! We are talking about business, why are you, a girl, interrupting?" Shen Jingdan scolded.
"Yes" Shen Xuan stopped talking, then lowered her head and said nothing.
"Ah Quan...that's not right~ Miss Shen, once a fight starts, the bullets don't have long eyes. If it hurts you...it won't be good."
Zhao Xin almost let it slip. He originally wanted to say that it would be a pity if he hurt such a beauty like you.
When Shen Xuan heard Zhao Xin open his mouth and call her by her nickname, she was so embarrassed that her face turned red to the roots of her ears. She said bitterly in her heart: "This man is so rude! Fortunately, his father said that he is a scholar a few days ago."
Zhao Xin and Shen Jingdan were chatting a few days ago, and Shen Jingdan mentioned "White Tiger Tongyi". Because Zhao Xin had read it, he showed off and disparaged the theories in the book. When Shen Jingdan returned, While chatting with Lu Yun on the boat, he sighed, he didn't expect that this tall and tall Zhao Xin actually read a lot of books.
Zhao Xin saw Shen Xuan's appearance at this time and knew that he shouldn't call people by their nicknames. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. So he rubbed his face with his hands to cover it up. Who would have thought that his hands would be stained after just tossing for a long time? The black engine oil was stained, and with just one wipe, it made a big stain on the face.
"Puch~" Shen Xuan raised her eyes and glanced at Zhao Xin. Seeing that the other person suddenly looked like a tabby cat, she couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing again.
The two of them didn't notice that Shen Jingdan and Lu Yun were stunned for a moment when they saw such a scene; they then looked at each other again.
Could it be that this Zhao Xin is interested in Ah Quan...? But I haven't seen anything these days? This Zhao Xin usually doesn't see anyone for several days, and the two of them have only met a few times. And Ah Quan is very talented. , can it be done?
Zhao Xin coughed twice, collected his thoughts, and said to Shen Xuan with a serious face: "Miss Shen, this place will soon become a battlefield. The sound of cannon fire on this ship is too loud, and Miss Luyun cannot bear it when she is pregnant." He is frightened, and he also needs someone to take care of him. Fighting is our men’s business, so you and Boss Shen should go and avoid it."
"Yes, Ah Quan. Let's go." Lu Yun whispered to Shen Xuan.
"Master Zhao, I'm sorry for you, let's get off the boat immediately!" After Shen Jingdan finished speaking, he turned around and Lu Yun pulled Shen Xuan away. Lao Huang bowed his hand to Zhao Xin and followed Shen Jingdan immediately.
When Shen Xuan walked to the gangway, she turned around and glanced at Zhao Xin. A pair of watery eyes made Zhao Xin's heart flutter.