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Chapter 1242 The More Manpower Shortages, The Better ([-])

As soon as the picture was turned, the previous wartime video was changed to real-time. The front and rear decks were densely packed with people, all of them with bruised noses and swollen faces, their hands tied behind their backs, their bodies stripped to only a trousers, and they were sunburned by the strong sun on the sea. His head was drooping, and there was no visible trauma, but considering the strength of the boxing of the deputies, it is estimated that many people had internal injuries.

"Their height and appearance do not look like the natives in tropical areas, but their skin color is like the color of the wind and sun all year round." Qi Ke looked at the crowd in the picture, combined with the knowledge he had learned, couldn't help but start to analyze .

"Looking at the skeleton alone, it has the characteristics of high-latitude cold regions." Zhao Lin added that, based on the principle of relative surface area, people in tropical regions are short, and the sailors on the boat are all tall, which is completely inconsistent with the dark-skinned indigenous people in the southern coastal countries. feature.

"Our neighbors in the north don't have such strong shipbuilding and navigation capabilities, otherwise they would have gone south along the coast to invade the inland." The tribes in the north are not good at settling and farming. If they have the ability to dominate the ocean, the surrounding international situation will soon be It's just another look.

"So this ship came from far away." Eliminate impossible answers, and the only thing left is.

"Cut the screen back to the moment before the battle." Qi Ke suddenly had a flash of inspiration and came up with an uncertain idea.

He did as he said, and quickly switched back to Qi Keyao's screen, and saw that the foreign ship really appeared suddenly in the monitoring screen of the nine ships of the Ocean No. [-] fleet observing the sea.

"Remember the coordinates. Search along the coastline. There must be an entrance to the sea. The ship doesn't hang any flags to hide its identity. It's just trying to pretend to be a pirate and attack passing ships to protect their secrets."

"The fleet has traveled back and forth on this channel so many times, why did it encounter an attack just this time?"

"Who knows, it may involve the struggle of the other party's high-level officials. They used to ignore the low-key pursuit of stability, but now they have changed their style. They have changed their previous style and become active attacks to scare passing ships to divert. They are all means to protect secrets." Qi Ke made irresponsible guesses based on his common sense, "We have to get closer to see the actual situation to know what they think. We can't rule out the possibility that this is an outpost of the invading army."

"If you search for the mouth of the sea, let this ship go straight back? It happens to be a ready-made one."

"Well, that's fine, just go back and set up a Trojan Horse plan. If there is an outpost, the people who just lure them will show up."

Qi Ke's combat strategy is simple and straight forward. Whoever is afraid of others, a gunboat without any identity mark fires at random at the passing cargo ships at sea, and the consequences are at your own risk.

The Ocean No. [-] fleet approached the coastline and found a place suitable for anchoring to stop the ship to inspect and repair the damaged ship. If the situation was not good, Qi Ke had to go to bring the ship back to Qianhe. At the same time, the foreign ship was in the Under the driving of the deputies, they returned to the place where they appeared, looking for the entrance to the sea.

The search didn't take much time, because the clues were found in the captain's room. Although the written language was not clear, and the suspected logbook was incomprehensible, there were hand-painted marks on the nautical chart, and compared with the nautical charts of the lieutenants. The approximate range of Haikou was determined.

The next development process is a matter of course.

(End of this chapter)