Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1258 Fallen
On the trail below the hillside, a 7.62mm bullet fired from a Mosin Nagan rifle pierced Zheng Zhilong's chest. Before Tongtaro and his party could react, two M77B1 NATO bullets had swept over, and several Japanese mercenaries were about to Knocked down to the ground, Tong Tailang was eager to help Zheng Zhilong lie on the ground, but luckily escaped the first round of shooting.

Tong Tailang didn't care about the bullets flying around him, and the people around him fell down one after another. He reached Zheng Zhilong's armpit with his hand, and crawled over the big rock next to the grass next to him while kneeling, half dragging and half dragging.After finally hiding behind the stone, Zheng Zhilong was shot not only in the chest, but also in the leg.Blood gushed out, and blood foam came out from the corners of his mouth. Seeing that he was dying, he couldn't help feeling sad, and couldn't help but shed tears.

Although Zheng Zhilong was seriously injured, he had a clear mind and knew that he would not survive. He struggled and said: "Life is like dew, and it will fade away...you don't have to be too sad... I was born in a storm when I was young. But it's worthwhile to earn this career right now..." He said with blood welling up in his throat, coughing and coughing several times before he could speak.Totaro quickly wiped it off for him, he took a rest, and continued reluctantly, "I can only worry about Fusong..."

Tong Tailang held back his tears and said: "The villain will definitely follow the young master to the death and protect him!"

Zheng Zhilong reluctantly nodded: "I can trust you. In case something can't be done...you try to take him back to Hirado and find..." He lowered his voice and said a few words.

"Little man understands!"

"I'm really not reconciled..." Zheng Zhilong withdrew his gaze, and died before finishing his sentence.

Tong Tailang's eyes were filled with tears, but he was not allowed to be sad at this time. The accompanying soldiers and mercenaries were dead or wounded. "The general's head must never be taken away by the enemy", this is the consistent motto of the warriors, immediately pulled out his wakizawa, cut off Zheng Zhilong's head, wrapped it in his clothes and carried it on his back, and burrowed into the grass to escape.

When Qian Shuixie rushed to the No. 6 sentry post, the gunfire had completely stopped. The team leader who set up an ambush here gave him a brief report on the ambush situation. "People", Qian Shuixie's heart skipped a beat—could Zheng Zhilong really be here?
He led the men down to the side of the small road at the foot of the hill, and there were a dozen corpses lying beside a big rock. The weapons and equipment they carried were obviously relatively elite troops, especially a few of them were obviously Japanese. The Japanese mercenaries are only found in Zheng Zhilong's guard, and this group of people is undoubtedly Zheng Zhilong's guard.The team members checked, and although some of them were still panting, they obviously couldn't live anymore, and they couldn't tell if they were Chou Yinmao.

"Which one is similar to Zheng Zhilong?" Qian Shuixie asked.

The problem is that none of the corpses on the ground matched Zheng Zhilong's photo.The sniper watched for a long time, but didn't recognize anyone he had seen before.The team members searched all the way, turned behind the big rock and found a headless corpse.Judging from the wounds on the chest and legs, it was indeed the Mosin Nagant rifle.

Qian Shuixie walked over and took a closer look. Although he lost his head and was dressed in the homespun trousers and coats that soldiers of Zheng Jun often wear, but the fact that his head was cut off is very telling—he never cut himself off for no reason. The practice of killing the head of a person in battle, unless the person is an important person, the other party has no time to bury the body and does not want the head of the general to be taken down by the enemy.

From this point of view, this person is probably Zheng Zhilong!Qian Shuixie carefully observed the surrounding area and found traces of dragging on the ground.Apparently, the man was shot and dragged behind the boulder.So many people have not been rescued, only this person was rescued, obviously his status is higher than others...

If not, this person is also likely to be an important figure in Zheng Zhilong's group, possibly a member of Shibazhi.

"Search the bodies."

Almost everyone brought some gold and silver, but nothing to identify them.The body of the person whose head was cut off was clean and there was nothing, which made people suspicious.However, during the search, we found a second evidence that this person might be Zheng Zhilong or other important people. This person was wearing underwear made of high-quality poplin—it didn't match the coarse trousers and jacket he wore outside.

Qian Shuixie took out the Casio card camera that he carried with him, took pictures of the whole scene, and then ordered the headless body to be buried separately next to the big rock and marked.Since the head has been chopped off, the possibility of identity verification has been lost, so there is no need to transport it away.

Although he subsequently reported to the Lichun that he "suspectedly killed Zheng Zhilong", he continued to implement the blockade in the direction of Wulaofeng to avoid other fish that slipped through the net.

The team led by Matos was chased by Shi Zhiqi all the way, and finally completely collapsed. Matos and some of them managed to escape to the pier, snatched two boats and escaped. The establishment is scattered in the mountains and forests.

The follow-up fleet arrived one after another, and the heavy artillery unit, army and logistics column landed one after another. Although there were no targets worth fighting on the island, there were still many stragglers of the Zheng army scattered on the entire Xiamen Island. The fortress was not occupied, and the follow-up troops arrived just in time to carry out the subsequent security warfare tasks.

Gulangyu fell later in the day, and the First Expeditionary Team waited until follow-up troops landed before crossing, and took Gulangyu without resistance.The defenders on this tiny island have fled.

Permission was the first to land on Gulangyu Island as a member of the Intelligence Bureau after the battle.This piano island is just a barren island at this time, with no literary and artistic temperament except for a few fishing villages.

This small island on the southwest sea of ​​Xiamen Island is almost entirely formed of rocks, with a radius of only four square kilometers.Permission to climb up to the highest point here, Sunlight Rock.

The surface of the rock is dyed a faint golden yellow, and it is strange that the sunlight does not reflect on it, as if it is completely absorbed by it.

"No wonder people call it Sunlight Rock!" Xu Xu said, looking up at the strange rock on the hill.Not far from this slightly angular rock, there are densely packed round rocks.

Overlooking the whole island from here, it can be seen that the Zheng family also has considerable business operations on this small island, not only building a fortress, but also setting up a large-scale weapons workshop and shipyard.The shipyard has nothing to say, and it still builds large Fuchuan and Guangzhou Ships according to traditional Chinese shipbuilding methods.On the beach of the shipyard are several unfinished Dafu ships, which seem to have a displacement of more than 1000 tons-it seems that Zheng Zhilong also knows that small-tonnage ships are useless in the current sea.

"There is not much oil and water in the shipyard, and those ships have not been completed. But there is a lot of oil and water in the ordnance workshop." A naturalized citizen from a special search team of the Planning Academy who accompanied him on the tour said excitedly, "It is full of pig iron and Copper, lead—especially copper, it is estimated to weigh tens of thousands of catties! There are also many iron guns and bronze guns..."

He thought that this chief was also from the Planning Institute, because this Chief Xu had been patrolling the yard and warehouse where the trophies were piled up since he landed.

Xu Xu smiled slightly. What he cared about was not the same as that of the Planning Council: it was not how much property could be seized, but whether there were any clues that threatened the rule of the Senate from the booty.

At the Zhongzuo Institute just now, he had seen two 24-pound cannons made by Lingao.Although the gun mounts of these two guns have been damaged, they are so special that after the sailors occupied the city, they immediately recognized that this was one of the standard naval guns of the navy.

License then checked the emblem and serial number on the guns, and confirmed that the two guns were the guns on the missing Gang Hai Xun No. 64 patrol boat.He then ordered the soldiers to collect shells and other accessories for the two cannons.The damaged gun carriage, some accessories on the artillery, some shells that had not been fired and several grenade timing fuzes were quickly found.

These two cannons fell into the hands of Zheng Zhilong, and it was obvious that the Hong Kong Haixun No. 64 also fell into their hands.This is not beyond Li's expectations - after all, there are not many companies that have the motivation and courage to do this.However, Li Xu is more concerned about - what is the purpose of the Zheng Group in getting this ship?Is it just to get these two artillery pieces?Now that the artillery is there, where is the typewriter?
Xu thought about it and said, "Go to the shipyard first."

Just looking at the shipyard itself, there is nothing special about it, no matter the equipment, raw materials or traditional Chinese shipbuilding techniques, but Lian found something different when he inspected the unfinished Dafu ships.

First of all, the aspect ratio of these two Fuchuan is close to 4, while the aspect ratio of traditional Fuchuan generally does not exceed 3.Such a ship is very stable, at the cost of a slow speed.The rib installation adopts a European-style design, and on a near-completed Fuchuan, it can be seen that half of the upper deck has been laid.

These changes are of course invisible to ordinary people, but Li is a naval intelligence officer who is very sensitive to shipbuilding technology-he has made up for various navigation and naval knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries.

These improvements all show that Zheng's Group has begun to try to introduce some European ship manufacturing technologies.Increasing the density and strength of the ship's ribs and laying the upper deck seems to be a preparation for the installation of more artillery. Traditional Chinese ship types such as Fuchuan and Guangzhou Ship cannot install a large number of artillery due to structural problems.

However, these technologies were mature at that time, and there was no trace of borrowing from the Hong Kong Haixun No. 64 boat.The whereabouts of the missing patrol boat are still unknown.

(End of this chapter)