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Chapter 1032 Daming's Secret Weapon (First update, please subscribe)
It was just dawn, and the light of the rising sun pierced through the misty mist of the eastern sky and reflected on the sea of ​​East Australia.On the calm sea, sparkling.The eyes of the captain of a small fishing boat were bloodshot, and his hands were burnt from pulling the rope.He sat on the gunnel at the stern, smoking quietly with a pipe in his hand, and looked out to sea in contentment.

Hank glanced over the cockpit, where his brother Tom was pushing the gas lever forward to speed up, while another crew member checked the nets a meter or two away.They seemed to be talking about something funny, the two of them laughed out loud from time to time, looking at their smiles, one could tell without guessing that they must be talking about the prostitutes in the tavern.It's not a good thing, people will always waste money on liquor in taverns and whores.

But what was life for sailors without strong drink and whores?

In fact, Hank, as the captain, was like this in the past.

Only three years ago, after he bought this 100-ton trawler, he began to have new expectations for life.As the captain, he needs to consider many things every day-considering how much fish to catch to pay off the bank loan and pay the crew salaries, and also consider the cost of repairing the ship.

"Hank, you're tired too!"

His brother called him and smiled at him,
"Go down and sleep!"

"Ah."

As Hank answered, he knocked the ash in his pipe overboard.

"It's time to sleep."

As usual, Wentz spent another afternoon in the tavern, with a bottle of whiskey and a glass on the table in front of him.The wine glass is already empty, and there is still half a bottle of wine left.Looking at the wine glass and bottle, Hua Si felt somewhat complacent.better.In the past, not only the wine glasses but also the wine bottles were empty at this time.

"Is there really such a weapon?"

"Be gentle! Use a net to catch it, and then gently pull..."

"Of course that's my guess,"

"As for whether it is accurate, it seems that I have no way to judge, but what is certain is that this is a military weapon, and a military weapon that we do not know."

Therefore, the "Daming Secret Weapon" has always been a very widespread legend among the military forces of various countries in the world. Although no one has seen it, no one has ever doubted it...

His thick black brows frowned, and Colonel Forex showed a look of surprise.

"You mean, it's a weapon that sails under its own power and explodes near the waterline to attack warships?"

He was very grateful for the interest in what the sailor said about the fish with the propeller.

Tom yelled suddenly, letting Hank know he was going to sleep now.

Spotting the guy through a newspaper report, he immediately paid £1000 out of professional sensibility for this fisherman's eccentric salvage, who would have guessed it was a bomb.

"It's just a big fish..."

Just as he was about to leave, the bragging of the sailor on the bar counter caught Wentz's attention. As a reporter, he was keenly aware that this was news.

"Yes, through the previous disassembly, I found that its head is filled with sand. I speculate that it may actually be an explosive counterweight. In actual use, the sand should be an explosive."

"Sir, may I buy you a drink?"

Despite what he said, Hank took over and grabbed the steering wheel, and slowly moved the hull to the right side of the drifting object in the sea.

"If it's a military weapon, then it must have a manufacturer."

Phil said.

asked Colonel Forex, staring at it.

The captain shouted to his brother and crew,

The intermittent blowing of the steamer's whistle, mixed with the incessant high-pitched cries of the seagulls, sounded incongruous.The two sounds are intertwined to form a symphony unique to the seaside.

While talking, Phil pointed to the internal structure and introduced it.

"A secret weapon made by the Ming Empire? It actually exists!"

A cylindrical object with a length of nearly twenty feet on the bracket appeared in front of everyone. Several officers in white navy uniforms were all staring at it with great interest, and their eyes were full of curiosity.

"You mean, it's a bomb?"

he asked loudly.

"But it's not an ordinary bomb, sir. Look, this is its propeller. After unscrewing this special "cross" screw, you can see that its internal structure is extremely delicate..."

In the past few years, there have been various rumors about Ming's secret weapons. After all, they will release some new weapons in almost every war. Those weapons are unheard of and unseen.

"Do you know which country it is made in?"

"Sir, look..."

"Look! Look over there!"

Pointing to the words engraved on the cylinder, Phil said.

"Is it a big fish?"

"It has a propeller at the end, have you ever seen a fish with a propeller?"

Seeing this gadget they had never seen before, of course they thought of the so-called "secret weapon".

"what?"

Colonel Forex asked curiously when he saw this strange thing in front of him.

"Trap it in a fishnet!"

"What do you mean? A self-propelled bomb?"

Phil, who was an ordnance officer, replied.

Looking at the things floating and sinking in the sea, Hank told his brother to turn off the engine, and then said.

……

"I guess this should be a gas cylinder. This is its inflation joint. It uses compressed air to drive the propeller, pushing it to sail on or under the sea surface. This should be a self-propelled bomb used to attack ships. "

Colonel Forex stared at this strange-looking guy and asked.

"I think this is a Chinese character. If it's correct, it should be a secret weapon made by the Ming Empire!"

The hull undulates slowly with the waves, and the sea water on the deck flows around.Just when Hank closed his eyes on the bed and thought about it for a while, he heard his brother's shout.

It was almost dusk at this time, however, in the western sky, the sun was still like a ball of fire.There was not a breath of wind, and the air was stagnant and humid and unbearably hot.Behind the pier is a stone-paved street facing the Port of Brisbane.On both sides of the street are brick and stone buildings built in the past 30 to 1859 years. After Brisbane became the capital of Queensland in [-], the city developed rapidly due to the development of fish and animal husbandry.

Like all port cities, there are pubs and brothels everywhere near the port. These cheap pubs and brothels not only attract sailors on board, but also ordinary people.

"This... isn't a fish?"

"Left bow! There's something in the water. It looks like a big fish, twenty or thirty feet long."

"...we fished up a very mysterious thing, it was about two feet thick and twenty feet long,"

Wentz, holding a bottle of whiskey, said to the bragging sailor.

Staring at this blue-green secret weapon with a length of almost twenty feet, Colonel Forex didn't speak for a long time.

After the legend suddenly became a reality, it is really hard to believe.

Then he turned his head back again, his blue eyes fixed on Phil and said.

"Since that's the case, let's report this matter to London. In addition, we must keep it secret. We must not let the people of Ming Dynasty know that we have obtained their secret weapon."

(End of this chapter)