Faced with this unexpected situation, not only Gao Jue frowned, but the two ship owners who often used the Red River waterway were also quite surprised.
After thinking for a while, Boss Hu shook his head slightly and said: "This is really strange. Even if the Annan people are so powerful that they have a detailed operation in Qinzhou, they also definitely judge that our departure from the port this time is to embarrass them.
, but even so, they didn’t have time to notify Shenglong to arrange these ‘River Chuns’!”
"Yes, what Old Hu said makes sense." Boss Li also frowned and said, "Even if the Annan people are really unexpectedly smart this time. But from Qinzhou to Shenglong, and then from Shenglong to the mouth of the Honghe River...
How could this news spread so quickly? How can the people of Thang Long Annan be so efficient?"
"Your opinions are all reasonable." Gao Jue also frowned and said: "Qinzhou is the Qinzhou of our Ming Dynasty. Even if the Annan people work carefully in Qinzhou, it is impossible for them to rush for 600 miles or 800 miles.
Riga is urgent. If the other party carefully prepares and sends the news back to Annan when we leave the port, the land route cannot be so fast. And the sea route... Qinzhou is Jinghua's private port. We don't know which ship leaves the port? All the ships that have gone out to sea in Qinzhou Port recently
How can we notify Shenglong in our fleet?"
He rejected Annan's possibility of passing on the information, but he couldn't figure out how the information was leaked. At this time, Boss Li intervened and said: "Perhaps, these 'He Chun's' have nothing to do with us? Maybe...
...Maybe it’s used to deal with pirates? It doesn’t seem to be that far from the pirates’ lair, right?”
"Not far from the pirate lair is the mouth of the Gang River, not the mouth of the Hong River." Boss Hu shook his head and said: "There is still some distance between the mouth of the Red River and the mouth of the Gang River."
"Besides..." Boss Hu paused and added: "It is normal for pirates to loot along the coast. It is not that the area around the Red River Estuary has not been harassed by pirates, but I have never heard of any.
The pirates dare to go up the Red River and grab Thang Long? That would be too arrogant. Thang Long also has Mo's regular navy in normal times! Is it possible that those pirates still want to fight head-on to steal Mo's navy?
The army picked him? This is outrageous."
Gao Jue looked at those Hechun, pondered for a moment, shook his head decisively, and said: "No, these 'Hechun' are not used to deal with pirates! Look..."
He stretched out his hand and pointed, and said, "When Gao Da was the admiral of Cao Jiang (Gao Jie), I fought with the Japanese pirates, and I still have some understanding of the 'He Chun'. The 'He Chun' in front of me only winds along a line in the middle of the river.
, the distance between the two rows of 'He Chun' at the front and back is ten feet, and they are very sparsely arranged, so a small boat cannot be stopped, and a sampan can even pass between the two 'He Chun' at will. The slightly larger ones are
The ships can also slowly go around the 'Hechun', or avoid the central river channel and go to both sides. Even your two ships may go around it. Only real large ships, such as these armed ships in Jinghua,
Transport ships are the ones that really have trouble getting through."
After hearing this, the two bosses hurriedly took a look, and after another look, it was indeed the case. Because the "He Chun" was arranged in an S shape, when the big ship went around the first row of "He Chun", because the hull was longer, it was definitely
There is no way to avoid the second row of "river springs". Moreover, the river is no better than the sea. The water level is deeper in the center and shallower on both sides. It is the dry season right now. If the big ship does not take the central waterway but goes around both sides, then in some sections of the river, it will be
There may be a risk of stranding.
Therefore, the layout of this "River Chun", as Gao Jue said, is designed to block big ships but not small ones. Those pirate ships are generally smaller because they are smaller and more flexible, so they can still escape if they are not beaten. Therefore, this
"He Chun" is obviously not used to deal with pirates.
So whose ship is bigger? After thinking about it now, it seems that these armed transport ships in Jinghua are considered big ships. Although compared with the big treasure ships when the Ming Dynasty was the most majestic, they are just a small thing, but at least for now, they are still big ships.
It can be called a big ship.
"It seems they are really targeting us." Boss Li said with a somewhat depressed tone: "Since these 'Hechun's' can only deal with big ships, they must be targeting us, but I still don't understand how they guessed us.
Will they come to Shenglong and block the mouth of the Red River with the 'He Chun'?"
As he spoke, he sighed and added: "Anyway, the arrangement of the 'River Chun' does not affect the navigation of small boats. In other words, while blocking Jinghua's gunboats, it does not have any impact on the Annan people themselves.
Too big an impact.”
"The impact is still there." Boss Hu was experienced and observed carefully. He pointed to a river spring and said: "Gaotuanzuo, Lao Li, you see, this 'hechun' is equivalent to a simple sluice.
When passing through the 'He Chun', the amount of water will decrease, and the amount of water flowing between the 'He Chun' and next to the 'He Chun' will increase accordingly. The water flow will therefore speed up, and for the small boat, the resistance will be great.
Increased."
When he said this, he reminded himself again and added again: "Also, the flow rate of the water flowing through the 'Hechun' and the water flowing between the 'Hechun' and even next to the 'Hechun' are different.
, this will easily form a whirlpool, which will cause further danger to the passage of small boats... Well, look, a whirlpool has formed over there!"
Gao Jue and Boss Li looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, as he said, the water flow here became very disordered due to the river spring, and a whirlpool was formed.
Boss Li stroked his beard and said: "It looks like the Annan people really killed a thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses to themselves with this move. Let's not forget that in addition to affecting their boats, these things
Our navy has now gone south to fight against the Li clan. When they come back, won’t they also have to face these obstacles? The Annan people are really not afraid of trouble!"
"Wait a minute!" Gao Jue suddenly remembered something Boss Hu said before and said: "Boss Hu said before that the Li family is now in cahoots with Fo Langji. Not only did they buy artillery from Fo Langji, they also
They also bought two warships, intending to use them to fight against the Mo family navy? Do you think the Annan people set up these river rafts to block the two Folangji warships? "
When Boss Hu and Boss Li were reminded by Gao Jue, they slapped their thighs at the same time and said in unison: "Yes! It's very possible!"
Especially Boss Hu, who added: "No, it's not possible, it's inevitable! Only in this way can we explain what Mo's did! With these river springs, although they may not be able to stop the two Franco warships,
But at least it can delay them for some time."
Gao Jue breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved: "In that case, we just need to use a little effort to pull out these river tombs. I have experience in this area. These river tombs... we can clean them up in one day at most."
"
In one day, even if Shenglong gets the news and makes preparations, the preparations are limited, and they can basically achieve the effect of a sneak attack.
In particular, this place may not be an area that the Mo Dynasty officials care about now. There are only poor fishermen around, and these fishermen don't seem to have any hostility towards their fleet, which does not look like the "Li Ni Water Division". Maybe they don't have any hostility at all.
It will not be reported to the government.
In this case, Shenglong may not be able to give much advance warning.
Gao Jue's method of dealing with these river springs was a little time-consuming, but not laborious. He just ordered people to tie the prepared cables to the anchor position at the bow of the ship, and sent a small boat to tie up the river springs at the other end, and then ordered the whole ship to set sail.
The huge kinetic energy pulled out the wooden piles driven into the river bottom at once.
This is because the sandy soil at the bottom of the river is soft, and the roots of the "River Chun" cannot be very strong. Of course he knew very well that he had deployed such a thing to deter Japanese pirates.
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Thank you to the book friend for the reward "One thought is eternal", thank you! By the way, these two chapters mentioned the transaction between Li Chao and Fo Langji, the purchase of ships, etc., which are to pave the way for the subsequent plot. What is the number of water words? I said that I can't
Accept it--besides, this is a plot story, and I didn't explain the reason.
