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Chapter 1652 Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo

A few hours after the offensive and defense of the Dardanelles fortress ended, all the soldiers who went ashore were lying down to rest, chatting, or wolfing down their meals.The fortress battle consumed a lot of their physical strength.

The troops of Cao Bianjiao and Prince Rupert were stationed on the hills and plains not far away, and the dragon flag and Mizi flag were planted in the Balkan Peninsula.

The crew of the Zheng Chenggong took biscuits from their rucksacks and swallowed them with boiling water.The luggage made of this kind of rough canvas is the basic configuration of the standing soldiers of the Kyushu Army, and it is used to hold bullets, dry food, and daily necessities.This waterproof canvas did not suffer in the muddy mud, where the soil cracked and fell off after drying.

Zheng Chenggong searched for his backpack around, but couldn't find it.

"Oops, my backpack fell into the quagmire..." Zheng Chenggong searched for a while before he found this rather embarrassing thing.

"Here, biscuit, just find a spare backpack when we get back to the boat. There shouldn't be anything important in it, right?" Hannah handed over a bag of biscuits.

"Important things were placed in the captain's cabin, but nothing was lost. This is really unlucky. My father often told me that luck is very important to an individual, and it even affects the outcome of a war." Zheng Chenggong He took the biscuit and leaned against the stone wall of the fort.

"As the son of the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, isn't it a lot of pressure?" Hannah asked sitting next to him.

"It is impossible to say that the pressure is not too great. My father did business with the Netherlands and Japan when he was young. His achievement is not only difficult, even if he can barely keep up with his pace, it is not bad." Zheng Chenggong said.

At this time, a crew member came over and said to Zheng Chenggong: "Captain, those people captured the fort first!"

Zheng Chenggong followed the crew's instructions and saw a group of soldiers also wearing naval uniforms gathered in a corner chatting, and some even threw stones to pass the time.

Because the costumes of the four fleets of the Ministry of the Navy are exactly the same, Zheng Chenggong cannot tell which fleet and which ship the opponent is a soldier from through the costumes.

"Let's go, let's go and see which ship the other party is from." Zheng Chenggong was curious about the commando that first attacked the Shanghai Defense Fort.

Zheng Chenggong walked over with a dozen commandos from the Zheng He, and when the other party found Zheng Chenggong and the others coming, they also got up.

"I know you all. You are students of the Navy Lecture Hall. All of you have won the Iron Anchor Medal. It is really enviable." Li Dingguo, Second Lieutenant of General Fubo of the Fourth Fleet, nice to meet you."

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Zheng Chenggong clasped his fists together.

He was secretly surprised that the captain of the iron-clad ship General Fubo was Zheng Zhibao.

"I'm really envious of you being able to study in the Navy's lecture hall. Your future will definitely be limitless." Li Dingguo said with emotion.

"There is no such thing. Everyone is a soldier of the Ministry of the Navy, serving the empire." Zheng Chenggong said.

It was the first time for the two of them to meet in this way. The two of them were about the same age. Li Dingguo was three years older than Zheng Chenggong, but there was not much difference between them, so they could chat with each other.

They exchanged information and acquaintances for a while. Li Dingguo knew that Zheng Chenggong's third uncle Zheng Zhibao was his immediate boss, so he was naturally willing to make more friends with Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong then returned to his small place with the crew on the same ship.

"People in the Navy Lecture Hall are born to be officers. They can become officers after serving on a warship for two years. Unlike us big soldiers, we may be only non-commissioned officers at most." A veteran muttered after Zheng Chenggong and the others left. .

"It takes five years of cultural lessons and one year of internship in the navy lecture hall. No one can reach the sky in one step, and you may not be willing to face the boring knowledge in books." Li Dingguo's attitude is very good. , I am not very jealous of the students in the Navy Lecture Hall.

He was the first group of sailors to serve on the iron-clad ship General Fubo as an ordinary trainee soldier. Sergeant was promoted to lieutenant of the Navy.

Although the second lieutenant is a low-level officer, he is still young and may have the opportunity to climb to a higher position.

It’s not entirely true that they don’t envy Zheng Chenggong, who will be promoted more easily in the future. It’s just that Li Dingguo knows that Zheng Chenggong and his officers who came out of the naval lecture hall have a very different vision and knowledge reserve from ordinary sailors. The knowledge of geography, surveying and mapping, ballistics, and steam machinery, these are the experiences accumulated by countless predecessors, which cannot be compared with the experience of personal exploration.

Boom! ! !
A group of naval soldiers were resting and eating, when suddenly there was a terrible explosion sound inside the fort, and the gravel and many soldiers were blown up to the sky!
Tens of thousands of people on the beach, the fort, the mountains, and the sea watched the sudden explosion at the same time, and couldn't help but clenched the muskets around them, thinking it was an enemy attack.

"Pooh!"

Zheng Chenggong and others were under the stone wall of the fort, and the dust splashed by the explosion fell on them, covering Zheng Chenggong and his biscuit with dust. It is estimated that the biscuit was useless.

"Are you all right?" The team members confirmed each other's life and death.

Thanks to Zheng Chenggong and the others who were not inside the fort, otherwise they would have been affected by the explosion inside the fort.

"That's where Venetian sailors rest!"

Allied forces soon began investigating the cause of the horrific explosion in which thirty or forty Venetian and Greek sailors were killed.

However, the Venetian sailors and Greek sailors present were killed by the explosion, so the cause of the explosion was not finally found out.

"Probably the tobacco or the sparks in the fire ignited the scattered gunpowder thrown by the Turks, which caused the explosion of the ammunition depot inside the fort." A not necessarily accurate investigation result came out.

"Temporary rest tonight, and we will fight again tomorrow." Chu Yun could only express a little regret about this matter, and the war will continue.

After such a terrible thing happened, everyone felt a little heavy, and they were more careful to stay away from gunpowder.

Thirty or forty sailors were killed by gunpowder due to negligence, which did not affect the coalition fleet to continue fighting with other fortresses. The coalition fleet dismantled many forts along the Dardanelles and marched steadily towards Constantinople.

(End of this chapter)