Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 387

"The survivors will not die!" Amidst the shouts of the sailors, many people came out of the pile of cargo from below the deck, and knelt down on the deck one by one, waiting for their release.Ruan Xiaowu ordered everyone to be tied up, sent off the boat one by one, and escorted back to Lingao to await trial.

Then, many people who were tied up were found from below the deck, they were all sailors, merchants and the like on the ship.Ruan Xiaowu didn't bother to screen them one by one, and the caretaker also sent them back to Lingao.These unlucky ones were trembling, not knowing which hero they had fallen into again.

Ruan Xiaowu led people to search one floor below. The cargo hold below the deck was full of goods. It seemed that the pirates hadn’t had time to snatch too many things—in addition, their main target was soft goods, such as porcelain. There is no interest in heavy goods, although the inside has been turned into a mess, most of the things are still there.

"So many good things." A few sailors were whispering - from the first day of enlistment, "All seized must be returned to the public, no possession of loot is allowed, no looting of people's money" is the discipline repeatedly instilled by the Traversing Group, and they also Knowing what happens when you get banned is scary.But even so, when a large amount of wealth is in front of you, you can't help but be alert.But the little non-commissioned officer in front of him looked invulnerable and selfless, and the soldiers didn't dare to think about it anymore-this is the role of an officer.

"Seal all the access hatches." Ruan Xiaowu ordered, and arranged for people to pack up the corpses and scattered goods.Wait for the support personnel to take over.

Chen Haiyang was very happy to receive the report.The recent raids on sea bandits have been a poor charity, with little more than a few battered boats and a bunch of ragged captives.Now I heard that I picked up such a big ocean - a four- to five-hundred-ton Daguang ship, which was full of cargo, and even the Type 67 landing craft that I was reluctant to use at ordinary times were dispatched. The navy company and three cannons are in case someone comes to snatch this spoil.

When Wen Desi heard that he had acquired a big ship, he didn't care about a lot of administrative affairs, so he organized a work team under the pretext of going to help the ship out of trouble, and set off with the ship.Of course, people from the Planning Commission are also indispensable on the landing craft--those who go to register to receive the spoils--people from the Planning Commission are now called "ubiquitous vultures."This "vulture" is a young man named Sun Xiao.He was wearing a black homespun overalls, with red cuffs on his arms, on which was written "ji" in seal script.Carrying a homemade satchel specially designed for the personnel of the Planning Commission, this kind of schoolbag is much larger than the satchels used by the army and navy, and can be stuffed with more account books and loose-leaf papers.There are also four large red characters embroidered on it: "Special for the Planning Commission".

"Five-masted ship!" When the large ship appeared in Wen Desi's sight, he couldn't help but patted the handrail. This was the first time he had seen such a large Chinese sea-going ship.Where can there be such a ship on Lingao Ocean!This gain is too great.

Zhan Wuya was surprised when he saw such a big wooden boat: "At least three hundred tons!"

"Too much, the displacement of this ship is [-] to [-] tons." Wen Desi has a lot of research on this.

"Can a traditional Chinese wooden boat be built so big?"

"The [-]-ton wooden boat boasted by some people cannot be built. Among the common sea ships in China, the Spaniards recorded that there were [-]-ton sailboats that came to Manila for trade. This kind of [-]-[-]-ton ship is not a rare thing. .”

The landing craft met Boat 101 by the sandbar.Le Lin has been waiting for her for a long time.Seeing that Mr. Wen also came in person, he hurried to report the situation.

"I'm not busy, let me tell you what's wrong with the patrol boat first." This was the first time his patrol boat participated in actual combat, and Wen Desi wanted to know the direct feelings of the frontline personnel.

"very good."

"Very good?" Wen Desi thought the feedback was too simple, but at least it showed that the whole was okay.

"Any questions?"

"This—" Le Lin couldn't think of any specific questions for a while, and the battle summary meeting hadn't been held yet.

"The machine gun is too hot to touch. After firing less than ten rounds of bullets, the wooden stock is almost on fire."

"It stands to reason not." Wen Desi thought to himself that the army's Mini rifles would burn if they didn't see more than a dozen or twenty rounds in a row, and a barrel would overheat after firing ten rounds?

"It's absolutely true, and the vibration is too big, the accuracy is inaccurate, the trajectory is chaotic, and the power is not bad."

"It's possible." Zhan Wuya looked at the "typewriter", two shooters were dismantling the cooled barrels one by one, and wiping them one by one.A big problem with paper-wrapped bombs is that there is a lot of residue in the barrel.

"The cluster barrels have no heat dissipation device, and they are directly fixed together, making it even more difficult to dissipate heat."

"Go back and submit a report to the Weapons Team of the Industrial Energy Commission to see if you can add a heat sink or something." Wen Desi is not very interested in this kind of multi-barreled gun. In his opinion, using the spring parts in stock to make a mark The Qin machine gun came out with little effort, and it was because the problem of mass production of metal bullets was not easy to solve that this retro-style thing came out.

"How about the rigging?"

"The steering is flexible. You have designed this ship very well." Le Lin has also learned to compliment the leader now.

The overall performance of the 101 boat in the battle was good, the hull and deck facilities did not suffer any major damage, and the casualties were minimal.Of course, the intensity of the battle itself was not great, after all, the pirates did not have the determination to fight them to the death.But this is also in line with its original design intention.

As for the booty, Le Lin said that the entire ship has been searched, and both the living and the dead have been cleared out.

"...The captives have all been transported away, and the bodies have been thrown into the sea. There are still a lot of cargo on this ship, and there is no ship to unload it for a while, or just wait for the big ship to float up and drive away."

"The cargo needs to be unloaded, otherwise the ship won't be able to float." Wen Desi looked at his watch and then at the sea surface. It was already high tide and the sandbar was completely submerged under the water surface, but the ship was still stranded, motionless. Obviously, it is impossible to count on the power of the tide without unloading.

"Let's look around the boat."

A few people paddled a sampan and walked around the big ship. The bow of the ship ran aground on the sandbar, and the bow was sunk deeply. It seemed that the steering person directly hit the bow of the ship in a panic.

"It seems that the sinking is very deep, and it cannot float up without external force." Wen Desi evaluated it.

Mond said: "It's not that simple. The bow of the ship must be damaged after being hit by such an external force. You can see that it shows signs of sinking. It must be drained to repair the bulkhead."

He glanced at the sea, then looked at the slightly tilted hull, and said: "At present, we have two ways to escape: one is to wait for the next highest tide to come out, and pull it out of the shoal by boat traction; The other is to float it with buoys."

"There are a lot of iron cylinders, but now they are all occupied by various units. We have to ask everyone to vacate them." Zhan Wuya hesitated for a while, but in fact, the main occupations were the various departments under the Work Energy Committee.

"It's still the first plan. Put it here for long nights and dreams." Wen Desi was a little worried when he saw this property.

"How is the damage to the ship?" Sun said with a smile.The people sent by the planning commission always care about the cost and output, which may be related to the fact that most of them were born in accounting.

"I don't think it will be damaged too much. Although the sail rope is completely damaged, the mast is still there, and the sail is repaired—it doesn't have to be completely repaired, but it can be run. Although it is slower, it can still be started. It is too slow. Let boat 67 tow."

"It's a lot of work." Zhan Wuya looked at the huge hull.

"It's okay, call me Tong Chen Haiyang."

Chen Haiyang heard that there were a lot of spoils on the big ship, so he immediately agreed to send more ships and sailors to transport the goods.There are also some necessary equipment and technical personnel brought along with the ship.

The climax will wait until nightfall, and Wen Desi decided to make preparations now.The sailors brought by the landing craft first climbed onto the deck, quickly assembled a set of lifting booms on the deck, and then hoisted the brought artillery, ammunition and related materials onto the deck.Wen Desi and others also boarded the big ship.

The deck had already been cleaned by Ruan Xiaowu, and the sailors set up artillery on the poop.A tent was also built on the deck for Wen Desi and the others as a temporary command post.

After the reinforcement fleet arrived, more than 100 sailors were busy for five hours before unloading the contents of the cargo hold and hoisting them from the deck to the sailboat below in order to reduce the weight of the hull.There are not only a large number of common export trade products in the ship, such as porcelain, silk, and medicinal materials, but also many low-priced cold goods such as stoneware, ironware, and tinware.It took several rounds for the transport fleet to unload two-thirds of the cargo.Some of the remaining cargo of Wendasi is ready to be used in the floating operation.

When Mond inspected the hull, he found that there were two seams cracked on the left side of the waistboard.Fortunately, the ship was tilted slightly to the right, and the opening was above the waterline. There were spare ship materials on board, and Mond asked the workers of the shipyard to process and close the gap on site.

Inspecting the hull and hold, Mond found that it had not suffered much damage from the grounding.There is water in the bottom of the boat, but the water is not deep.It's just that the bow of the ship is deeply embedded in the sand, and it can only be removed at the highest tide.

After inspecting the interior, Mond swam to the bottom of the boat, wanting to feel the specific location of the gap and whether the keel was damaged.

"There is a gap below, not too big." Mond poked his head out of the stagnant water in the bilge, gasping for breath, "The water has to be pumped out and filled. We will pump it out as soon as the tide starts to fall."

So the water pump was hoisted from the sailboat. This kind of water pump is manpower. The sailors took turns pumping water, and quickly drained the accumulated water. Drain patching is done before high tide.

At last all the gaps in the ship were patched, and the work began again on clearing the rigging.The five masts were unharmed, but the upper sails were damaged in the fierce battle of the pirates jumping on board.Barely cleared out a usable side, and repaired it with other remaining sail surfaces and sail materials.

All that was left to do was to figure out how to get the boat out.It's a pity that the tide in the strait is not too high...

Wen Desi also instructed the sailors to move the remaining goods: ironware, rough pottery, and the spare grain on the ship to the rear of the ship, so as to hold the stern and help the bow out of the bunker.

Finally, a steel wire rope was tied to the boat, and the other end was fixed to the Type 67 landing craft. When the tide was high, the boat was pulled out of the shoal with the help of the buoyancy of the seawater.

After finishing these things, it was already midnight, and everyone was exhausted.The wind was weakening. Several ex-soldiers observed the color and arrangement of the clouds and found that the wind was tending to increase.

"This is a good thing. When we hang up the sails, we can still take advantage of part of the wind." Mond said, "Let's rest first, there will be more work to do later."

It is not enough to sleep directly on the deck, the wind started to increase, and it started to rain for fun.Everyone had to spend the night in the messy poop - because it was the residence of the top people on the ship, it was turned upside down by the pirates.Everyone was lying on the floor of the cabin with all their clothes on.The watch on duty at night is arranged by Lelin's fleet.

In the middle of the night, Wen Desi, who was dozing off, suddenly felt the ship shake.

"The climax is coming! Get up!"

Everyone watched the long small waves on the sea rolling up one after another, the sandbar gradually disappeared, and the time for the floating operation was approaching. Everyone felt impatient, and everyone was overly nervous. waiting for orders.

Wen Desi had already disembarked on the landing craft at this time, and was concentrating on observing the tide. He glanced worriedly at the two stretched and tightly stretched steel wire ropes.

"Sail!" Wen Desi called Mond on the deck of the big ship through the walkie-talkie, "Pay attention to the windward side!"

The hastily repaired sail was raised on the topmast—"The up and down of a hard sail is fast", Wen Desi hadn't changed his mind. At four o'clock, the tide had risen to its maximum height. the moment.Hurry up, before it's too late!

"Full speed!" Wen Desi shouted.

The main engine of the 67 boat immediately increased the power output to the maximum, and rows of various colored indicators on the console were flickering frantically.

The sails on the big ship were trembling under the strong wind, and there was a tearing sound. Mond found that there had been cracks in the place he had just repaired, and hoped that it would be able to support the ship until it floated.

The force of the wind, the effect of the tide, plus the traction of the landing craft.The hull of the big ship seemed to move and creaked.

"The boat is moving," Mond yelled, wearing his raincoat and tucking the walkie-talkie over his chest.

"Okay, take care everyone." Wen Desi's voice and the huge roar of the engine came from the walkie-talkie.Mond couldn't help looking at the lights of the landing craft on the sea in the distance—they were undulating in the waves.

The water swelled harder, swelling the belly and pushing the boat out.People felt the hull vibrate several times, as if it was about to float.

The wind picked up, and Mond heard the creak of the mast and the scream of the ropes.The rain blinded him.

"The boat is floating, give it more power!" he yelled into the intercom.

"It's already overloaded—"

Suddenly a gust of wind hit, the hull shook violently, and the sail suddenly let out a sharp scream.

"Broken!" Mond thought the sail was torn.Sure enough, a huge black shadow slammed down on him overwhelmingly, knocking him unconscious immediately.

But at this moment, the boat had already floated up with this force, shaking violently on the sea surface, and the straight steel wire rope made a terrible whistling sound, and Wen Desi's legs on the landing craft went limp for a moment.

The ship finally stabilized in the wind and rain, and then left the sandbar under the tow of the landing craft.At dawn, the fleet returned to Bopu. When this unprecedented Chinese five-masted galleon was pulled into the port, there was a commotion among the passers-by on the shore, and many people came to watch.

Mond was sent to Bopu's clinic.Because he was suspected of having a fracture, they hurriedly sent a car to take him to Bairen General Hospital for an X-ray machine.After a consultation, Hippo announced that Mond's life was fine: two broken ribs + a slight concussion - the hard hat saved his life, otherwise his head would not be safe.After the examination, Zhang Ziyi injected him with a sedative to make him fall asleep.

"Now I have lost a major captain and instructor." Chen Haiyang shouted that the loss was heavy, and Mond would not be able to work for at least a few months.

"It's okay, you got a big ship." Wen Desi said, "After repairing it, it can be transformed into a battleship with sails."

It took 48 hours to complete the inventory of all the cargo on board. Seeing the thick ledger brought by Sun Xiao, Ma Qianju felt like he had made a fortune. In terms of daily necessities, it is very beneficial to solve the current shortage of daily necessities in Lingao.

However, these goods are very strange. They are not packaged and stacked according to type, but many different goods are mixed and stacked together, with different bamboo sticks and names written on them.It appears to be the goods of different merchants.

"In addition to the owner himself, there are probably several merchants renting space on this ship." Ma Qian looked at the name tags piled up on the table.

"If they are still alive, we can't justify confiscating these goods." Sun Xiao said.

Ma Qianju didn't take it seriously: "It is estimated that they are all dead. What has no owner belongs to the discoverer."

But it turns out that Ma Qianzhu's wishful thinking was too early.When he was calculating the distribution plan with the calculator and the mountain of application forms from various departments, Ran Yao slipped in.

"Duke, things are a little troublesome."

"what's up?"

"During the process of interrogating the prisoners, it was discovered that many merchants on board were still alive."

"That's it!" Ma Qianju paused his pen involuntarily, and a thought suddenly flashed into his mind. He slowly put the pen on a jade pen holder and said, "It's hard to say, nine out of ten are pirates pretending to be merchants." ..."

"No, I found a passenger list on the ship, which has the name of the guest and the number and type of goods. It is correct after checking."

According to the inspection results of the Political and Security Administration, the ship was built by a gentleman named Hai in Qiongshan County. In addition to his own goods, the ship also carried 38 merchants, each with their own goods.

(End of this chapter)