Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1199 Disinfection
"Why did he attack the poop?"

"Lieutenant Alvarado isn't willing to surrender to you. He thinks he can beat you in gang fights and pay a ransom to drive the St. Louis away. All the while this villain has been inciting sailors and soldiers to mutiny. "The captain said angrily, "He knows that the ship contains the subsidy from the royal family to the Governor of the Philippines—this despicable and shameless gambler and villain! It took me a lot of effort to maintain order on the ship." The captain's face showed He looked regretful, obviously regretting that his painstaking voyage had failed only a day away from the destination.

This lieutenant doesn't want to be a pirate, does he?Zhou Weisen thought.

"How much royal grant is there on board?"

The captain shook his head: "I don't know, the numbers are confidential, and I only care about shipping."

"Where is the San Raimundo?" Zhou Weisen then asked.

The captain was taken aback, thinking that they knew everything, and they seemed to have followed them all the way from New Spain.

"We were separated by a storm six days away from here."

"Is the San Raimundo carrying royal grants?"

"Yes," added the captain, "I don't know the exact amount."

Zhou Weisen had nothing to ask, he understood all the key questions, as for Lieutenant Alvarado's ambition, he was not interested at all.However, it seems a pity to lose more than 300 labor force in vain.

"Take it away." Zhou Weisen ordered.

"Please send someone to send a message to His Excellency the Governor of the Philippines. I have friends in Manila who can pay the ransom..." The captain hurriedly expressed his opinion when he saw someone coming to drag him, fearing that the gang of Chinese pirates would kill them directly.

Zhou Weisen waved his hand, and the captain waited for the prisoners to be taken away.At this time, the steel cylinders, matching leather tubes and protective equipment have been carefully lifted from the boarding bridge.

The marines began to suppress the hatch. Under the continuous suppression of the shotgun, the Spaniards who were guarding the hatch were quickly pushed out of the vicinity of the hatch. Two sailors threw a pressure pipe into it.

"Open the valve!" Following Zhou Weisen's order, a naturalized technician from the Ministry of Chemical Industry wearing a full set of protective equipment carefully opened the valve.

A puff of yellow-green gas rose from the grate—though the heavier chlorine gas soon sank.Zhou Weisen watched nervously. He looked at his watch and calculated the effective time.

Chlorine gas is heavier than air, and when it is released on the upper deck, it will automatically diffuse down the access hatch, and soon the entire middle and lower decks will be completely flooded.However, according to their simulation calculations, the middle and lower decks of the Galen ship are not completely sealed—those gun ports should still be open, and many holes were made in the battle just now, and it is difficult for the chlorine gas to reach a sufficient concentration, thus killing The effect is limited.

However, even if there is only a small amount of chlorine in the air, it is enough to cause human disability-chlorine is extremely irritating to the human mucous membranes, and inhaling a very small amount of chlorine will cause severe coughing and shortness of breath.According to the calculation of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, this bottle of chlorine gas is enough to make the Spaniards on the whole ship lose their resistance.

Sure enough, in less than 5 minutes, there were howlings like dying animals, violent coughing and chaotic shouting, and someone was screaming: "Quickly let us out, we surrender!"

Then there were a few musket shots from below, screams of dying people, and chaotic footsteps. Suddenly, an access hatch was slammed open, and several people rushed out desperately, holding their hands high, out of breath. "Surrender, surrender!"

"Close the valve! Ask the prisoner to come out and raise his hands above his head and kneel on the deck!" Zhou Weisen shouted loudly.

The captives scrambled out from below, choking and coughing chaotically, and at one point caused the access hatch to be blocked, and the marines had to go up to help them maintain order with punches and kicks.

The climbed captives knelt all over the entire deck, some of them were tearing their throats in pain, and some were panting on the deck.Those who are in better condition are coughing constantly, and some can't get up at all.

Seeing that no one came out of the hatch anymore, Zhou Weisen ordered a search of the whole ship.He himself put on a gas mask and went down to inspect it himself.

The marine unit wearing masks and goggles began to search floor by floor from the hatch.The chlorine gas injected was only about half of what was stored in the steel cylinders, but it had already caused heavy casualties on the second artillery deck. More than 30 people were poisoned to death on the second artillery deck alone—a large number of soldiers and sailors gathered in this area. Layers are ready to fight.Bear the brunt of it.Although there were far fewer people on the third deck and the bottom cabin, the chlorine gas deposited quickly, which made some people below who had no time to escape were poisoned to death by the poisonous gas.

Looking at the strange death of the poisoned people, Zhou Weisen couldn't help but feel very entangled in his heart. Although this method is fast and effective, it was still used by emperors, kings and presidents without any scruples in the 20th century.And when he was advocating poison gas, he was also one of the enthusiastic supporters, but after all, he is a modern person who once lived in the 21st century.

However, the harvest in materials was extremely rich. In addition to the one-pound small deck gun, there were 34 cannons on board.All cast in bronze.This copper income is very considerable.And this ship is full of cargo from America.They were packed in bundles, not only filled the warehouse, but even loaded a lot on the artillery deck-no wonder the draft of this ship is so heavy.Needless to say, there must be a lot of valuable stuff in it.

Zhou Weisen didn't open them one by one—this place is not suitable for opening and inspecting the goods, and the goods on long-distance voyages are often mixed with terrible bacteria and viruses, which is how the plague became popular back then.He told the soldiers to affix the seals of the Planning Institute on all of them.

The main loot, silver coins from New Spain, was in the hold.Iron-clad silver boxes with lead seals are lined up neatly one by one.Zhou Weisen checked the lead seal, and the emblem of the New Spain Royal Court of Inquisition on it was intact.

The body of the ambitious Lieutenant Alvarado was also found here, lying on top of the silver box, clutching it with one hand and tearing his own throat with the other.

Zhou Weisen glanced at the horrific corpse with mixed emotions, and ordered:

"Move all the silver boxes to the deck!"

Silver is the most important loot. Although they have decided to tow the St. Louis, one of the ship's masts has been broken, and the hull is relatively clumsy. In case of a big storm, they have to abandon the ship, and the silver will be moved back to 901 for comparison. Reassuring.

Sun Xiao counted and registered the silver boxes one by one on the deck, affixed the seal of the Planning Institute, and then transported them to the Nongchao to serve as ballast.Then Zhou Weisen ordered the corpses to be cleaned up, but he was not in a hurry to ventilate the chlorine gas to dissipate. Instead, he told the soldiers to close all the portholes and plug all the gaps. Chlorine gas has excellent disinfection and sterilization effects, and it can just clean the dirty air. Dirty sea boats are disinfected well.

"Did you find the ship's manifest, passenger list and logbook?" Sun Xiao asked.Since clean-up is not going to be in place, the loading list is a vital verification credential.

"The captain said that they are all in the stern cabin, and Mendoza is collecting relevant documents. I will hand them over to you at night."

After a careful search and cleanup from top to bottom, a 901 towed the St. Louis back to the waters of Samar Island, and joined the remaining Haifeng and Feiyun.

The soldiers transferred all the Spaniards who were still alive to the hold of the Haifeng.In the evening, all the veterans gathered on the Nongchao and began to listen to Zhou Weisen's report.

"...According to the captain, there were still 375 people on board the last roll call three days ago, and now we have captured 250 prisoners, cleaned up 109 bodies, and 16 people are missing. But I prefer these 16 people It was lost during the three-day voyage and fell into the sea during the battle. Of course, there may be errors in their roll call."

"Aren't you still hiding in the warehouse?" Sun Xiao asked.

"That means we have 16 corpses that have not been cleaned up—although the concentration of chlorine gas below the deck is not immediately fatal, it will still kill people if they hide in it." Zhou Weisen said, "I guess even the rats in Lingao They're all dead."

The 250 captives included most of the senior seamen including the captain and first mate, and only the second mate was killed in the battle.

"It is estimated that some people will die these days - many of them are seriously injured, and I am afraid they will not live long."

"Is there no problem with the poisoned person? Will there be any sequelae?" Sun Xiao is also very interested in manpower.

"It's not a big problem. As long as the chlorine poisoning is not deep, ventilate in time and wash the mucous membranes such as eyes and nostrils with clean water. The hygienists have helped them deal with it. As for the poisoning, you can't live."

"Actually, I think what are we going to do with the prisoners? Just ask them to walk on the springboard and we'll be done." Lin Chuanqing, who was used to being a snakehead, had no psychological pressure on this.

"This is not good, after all we promised to surrender and avoid death." Lu Yang's knight complex broke out.

"Who will say that we don't keep our promises when people are gone? Even if we are among ourselves, no one can understand what Mendoza said. They won't know that we have turned our backs."

"We have to consider the consequences: Ms. Mendoza broadcast the letter urging surrender. She will definitely protest if everyone is killed. Besides, killing captives at will is not a positive education for soldiers." Zhou Weisen said. Strictly speaking, in fact, in his heart, he didn't want to be nagged by Mendoza all the time on the Feiyun.

"Maintaining the unity of the veterans is the first priority. The life and death of the hundred and ten people is actually nothing. Besides, the mine in Sanya will not be too crowded." Sun Xiao expressed his support for this.

(End of this chapter)