Section 133 Chinese and Western United Pirate Fleet
Chapter 133 The Chinese and Western United Pirate Fleet
"What's weird?" Wu De was puzzled.
"It's really strange to transport someone all the way here to die." A voice came from the front.
Wu De was nibbling on a crab when he noticed that there were two more legs in front of him. He looked up and saw a fat, white man standing in front of him. He had an empty lunch box in his left hand and an extra-large stainless steel spoon in his right hand, staring straight at the crabs on the grill.
"It smells so good!!!!" Seeing him raise his head, the fat man said something.
"What? Want some?" Although I don't know who is coming, but we are all time travellers, so we are brothers.
"Okay, okay!!!" The fat man was not polite, sat down and stretched out his lunch box.
I gave the fat man half a crab. The fat man took the lunch box and started working hard without saying anything.
"Are you here to join in the fun?" Ma Qianzhu seemed to know the person coming, "Mr. Zhu Cai doesn't know how to show appreciation."
The fat man chuckled and licked his lips: "Duke, you said it was weird, but you still use this to cover me. It's too outrageous."
"But this time I did turn in a lot of Zhu Cai Lao's things, so it's a bit strange."
"The same old story. Fang Yi and the little princess took Wu Sangui's sword and broke into the palace."
"I think so too." Ma Qianzhu took out an interrogation record from his bag, "Most of these prisoners were found temporarily and are not old bandits. Zhu Cai has suffered a lot and knows our details to some extent.
, if he really wants to fight, he will never bring in these rookie cannon fodder."
"Pirates are not officers and soldiers, so they are not used to engraving numbers on their swords and guns," the fat man said.
"Someone wants to sow discord," Wu De said.
"That's right." Fatty continued to nibble on the crab, "Who wants to sow discord between the Time Travel Group and Zhu Cai Lao? Both Liu Xiang and Zheng Yiguan are possible. Zhu Cai Lao and the Time Travel Group are fighting, and they are the beneficiaries."
"Who could that be?" Ma Qianzhu seemed to be superstitious about this fat man.
"How do I know this?" The fat man spread his hands, "If you ask me, it's Liu Xiang."
"Why?"
"I guess."
Ma Qianzhu almost fainted. The fat man heyed a few more times, swallowed an oyster, and after a few mouthfuls, he continued:
"Actually, it doesn't matter which one. I guess: the real attack will come soon."
Ma Qianzhu was shocked. The enemy would not simply send 400 people to die. Just to send them such a false message, there must be some back-up plan. Thinking of the fleet on the radar just now, he immediately touched his cell phone.
Before I even touched my phone, there was a crisp gunshot in the night sky.
Ma Qianju and Wu De suddenly stood up, nervously watching the direction of the gunfire.
"Hey, what's your name?" Wu De turned around and asked, he was very curious about the person coming.
"Si Lou...Si Lou Moning Bayer." The fat man chewed half of a crab and said inarticulately.
"Silou Mourning Bayer? It seems you have never seen this person before?" He was confused for a moment.
Thinking about it again, I suddenly thought, "Oh, it turns out he is famous...I have admired him for a long time..."
"Don't look up to me for a long time. I'm tired of my false reputation." The fat man sighed falsely, and with quick eyesight he caught another oyster, swallowed it with a roll of his tongue, then slowly stood up, patted his belly, and said
Voice: "Thank you for the hospitality. You are busy, so I won't disturb you."
"Then... I won't give it away." Wu De was indeed in no polite mood at the moment and hurried to the house to get his 56 and a half.
The fat man knocked on his lunch box and hummed a crooked song: "Old bear is lucky today, old wolf treats me to chicken..." and walked away.
Shit, Xue Ziliang couldn't help but cursed in English. In the strange white night in the infrared telescope, six ships were clearly distinguishable. One of them was obviously not a Chinese ship.
A few hours ago, he received a call from Bei Wei, asking him to lead a reconnaissance team to conduct a foot patrol on the beach along Bobu Port. According to intelligence, there may be enemy sea infiltration at night.
Xue Ziliang did not dare to neglect, especially Bei Wei's direct order - he knew very well that if he had not gained Bei Wei's favor, he would still be a "black man" with "no organization". After being in this group for a long time, he had a profound understanding
When it comes to the difference between "regular workers" and "temporary workers", now that you have become a formal worker, you have to work hard. Xue Ziliang now also understands what "original issues" mean.
Long-range reconnaissance team headquarters - now every department is trying to improve its level. Just as the health team recently changed its wooden sign to the Ministry of Health, the reconnaissance team is not immune - in Bairen City, but Beiwei
In Bopu, Damei Village and Yanchang Village, a four-person team was each stationed to conduct daily patrols and training. He and Xue Ziliang took turns to provide guidance to each team.
Except for Xue Ziliang, no one in this four-person team has military experience. In fact, Bei Wei believes that veterans are too old. If they are not majoring in reconnaissance, their plasticity is very poor. He would rather start from young guys in their twenties.
Volunteers are selected from among them. After several months of training, these young people, although they are not yet good enough to be scouts, are much better than the rookies from another time and space recruit company.
They brought a total of three SKS rifles. Xue Ziliang brought a Remington 870 shotgun. He felt that the SKS was a bit too long and was difficult for the scouts to use. As a former US military, what he feels most painful about now is the weapon.
There is a lack of equipment. There is a lot of it, but almost all of it is equipment that he is not familiar with. Except for Glock pistols and Remington shotguns, the SKS and 56 Half, the most popular infantry weapons owned by travelers, are all unfamiliar to him - even if
It would be nice to have an AK47, he uses it often.
Let's just talk about this night vision equipment. When he was in the US Marine Corps Forced Reconnaissance and Search Team, this was a child's play. Even the night vision equipment in his garage at home was much better than this. Now it's better, the entire team only has
A pair of low-light night vision goggles and a Russian-made infrared telescope - he is not used to Russian products. But this is already a good configuration. Although he brought a lot of night vision equipment, there is no way to replenish it, and it will not work if it breaks.
It cannot be repaired, and the Planning Commission has extremely strict control.
Although searching along the coast is a tiring method, it is also the most effective. The sky is covered with dark clouds, there is no moon or starlight, and the line between water and sky is almost invisible. Although the radar gives the approximate coordinates of the ship, every time we go
Within one kilometer, he would stop and search the sea surface with his telescope.
After two hours of trekking along the coast, the search team arrived at the end of Longhao Bay. If the coordinates were correct, the fleet should be nearby. When the telescope searched again, they found traces of the ship on the other side of the strait.
He was really good at hiding. He chewed it subconsciously and realized that there was no chewing gum. These six ships were hiding in the shadow of the fringing reef. It was such a starless and moonless night. If it weren't for the radar on the Fengcheng ship, he could only see it with the naked eye.
Otherwise it would be impossible for the observation post to see it, let alone locate it.
The ship was sailing extremely slowly. Xue Ziliang looked at his watch and began to calculate the moving speed - less than 2 knots. The foreign ship's sails were obviously not fully hung, which was suspicious.
"Brother Xue, is there a ghost here?" a team member asked quietly. Xue Ziliang was straightforward and capable, and was very popular among the young people in the team. Although he repeatedly said that just call him "Pooh", everyone still liked him
Use the Chinese style of "brother x".
"It would be strange if it doesn't happen." Xue Ziliang muttered. He called Bopu's radio station and began to report:
Six unidentified ships were discovered. Based on the ship type, it was initially determined that five were smaller Chinese ships and one was a Western warship with three masts and a displacement of 400 tons. The Chinese warships had no side gun ports and were placed on the bow and deck.
There are 4 to 6 artillery pieces. There are 12 to 16 gun emplacements on the open deck of the Western warship.
"There is a sampan!" Xue Ziliang found a small boat in his telescope
There were eight people in the small sampan, and it could be seen from the telescope that they were carrying swords and matchlock guns. One person was at the helm, four people were operating the oars, and two people set up the matchlock forks on the bow - this was really enough.
Original. Xue Ziliang thought.
The last person was holding a roll in his hand. The rowing boat moved forward cautiously, rowing the oars every long time. Now he could clearly see that the sailor holding a roll in his hand was actually a man with a roll in his hand.
With a plumb line, he was constantly measuring the water depth near the coast. This showed that the enemy planned to bring the fleet close enough to support the landing with artillery fire. If only sampans were used to transport troops, there was no need to measure the water depth at all.
Judging from the track of the small boat, the pirates obviously planned to land from the Lingaojiao side. This is not the entrance to the channel in Bopu, so it would not be too tightly fortified. As for the obstructive beacon tower, it was obvious that the pirates did not put it there.
In my eyes, I didn't even know there was a 12-pound cannon on it.
On a breezy night, the surroundings were extremely quiet. There was only the sound of waves lapping at the coast.
A ghostly sailing ship was slowly approaching on the sea - a Spanish galleon named the Countess of Scarborough. Behind it were five smaller Chinese hard sailing ships.
The moon emerged from the clouds, and the moonlight was very pale.
"This ghost moon!" complained the Spanish captain Aragones standing on the poop. He had been slowly cruising on the other side for half the night, and it was not until nearly midnight that the ship approached the center line of the strait. The moonlight would reveal the shadow of the ship. According to rumors,
, those strange orientals had many strange muskets that could shoot very far, and Sidonia didn't want to take any chances.
"Are all those Easterners asleep?" Aragones murmured to himself. The port in the telescope was still very calm, with nothing unusual except for a small amount of lights.
"Captain. Captain Liu in the rear sent a signal to our ship to ask if we should start an attack?"
"I know." Aragones said with a contemptuous smile on his lips. These stupid Easterners can only fight on land, and they are not worthy of being called sailors at all. On the sea, he was confident that he only had the Countess of Scarborough.
The ship can clean up all Liu Xiang's warships. If it weren't for the Spanish power on the coast of China deteriorating after the Dutch came, how could he cooperate with such a second-rate pirate Liu Xiang.
He watched the small boat with his binoculars. So far, it has not sent out any signal indicating that the water depth is not enough. Later, he can safely and boldly sail the boat very close to the shore and use intensive artillery fire to support the landing.
No matter how powerful the legendary strange muskets of pirates are, they cannot be defeated by a salvo of 16 cannons. There are a total of 32 cannons on the Countess of Scarborough. Even in European waters, this equipment is quite impressive.