Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 176 Combined Chinese and Western Pirate Fleet

"What's wrong?" Wu De was puzzled.

"It's really strange to transport people here to die." A voice came from the front.

Wu De was gnawing on the crab, and found that there were more feet in front of him. He looked up and saw a white fat man standing in front of him, with an empty lunch box in his left hand and an extra-large stainless steel spoon in his right hand, staring straight at the crab on the grill.

"It smells so good!!!!" Seeing him looking up, the fat man said something.

"What? Would you like some?" Although I don't know who is coming, but they are brothers who are both timetravelers.

"Okay, okay!!!" The fat man was not polite, he sat down and stretched out the lunch box.

Give the fat man half a crab, and the fat man took the lunch box without saying a word, and started to work hard.

"Are you here to join in the fun?" Ma Qianju seemed to know the person, "Mr. Zhu Cai is very ignorant."

The fat man chuckled, and licked his lower lip: "Mr. Du, you've said it's weird, and you still use this to cover me up, it's too weird."

"However, it is true that a lot of Zhucai's old things have been handed over this time, so it is a bit strange."

"It's the same old thing. Fang Yi and Xiaojun took Wu Sangui's sword and went to the palace."

"I think so too." Ma Qianju took out a copy of the interrogation record from his bag, "Most of these captives were recruited on a short-term basis, not old bandits. Zhucai has suffered a lot, so he knows more or less about us. , He really wants to fight, and he will never engage in these rookie cannon fodder."

"Pirates are not officers and soldiers, and they are not used to engraving letters on their swords and guns." The fat man said.

"Someone wants to sow discord." Wu De said.

"That's right." The fat man continued to gnaw at the crab, "Who wants to provoke the relationship between the Time Traveling Group and Zhu Cailao? Liu Xiang and Zheng Yiguan are both possible. Zhu Cailao and the Time Traveling Group will fight, and they will be the beneficiaries."

"Who could it be?" Ma Qianju seemed superstitious about this fat man.

"How do I know this?" The fat man spread his hands, "If you want me to say, it's Liu Xiang."

"why?"

"I guess."

Ma Qianzhu almost fainted.The fat man hecked a few more times, swallowed an oyster, and continued after a few mouthfuls:

"It doesn't really matter which one. My guess: the real attack is coming soon."

Ma Qianzhu was startled, the enemy would not send 400 people to die so simply, just to send them such a false message, there must be a backup.Reminiscent of the fleet on the radar just now, he immediately touched his phone.

Before he could touch the phone, there was a clear gunshot in the night sky.

Ma Qianju and Wu De suddenly stood up, nervously watching the direction of the gunshots.

"Hey, what's your name?" Wu De turned his head and asked, he was very curious about the visitor.

"Silou...Silou Mo Ning Bayer." The fat man gnawed on a small half of the crab and said inarticulately.

"Slou Mourning Bayer? I don't seem to have seen such a person before?" He was confused for a moment.

After thinking about it again, it suddenly dawned on me, "Oh, it turns out to be a famous... long-awaited..."

"Don't look up to me for so long, you're tired of your fame." Fatty sighed hypocritically, caught another oyster quickly with sharp eyesight, swallowed it with a huge tongue, then stood up slowly, patted his stomach, and said Voice: "Thank you for entertaining, you are busy, I won't bother you."

"Then... I won't give it away." Wu De was indeed not in a polite mood right now, and hurried to the house to get his 56 and a half.

The fat man knocked on the lunch box, humming: "Old bear is lucky today, old wolf please eat chicken..." The crooked song went all the way.

SHIT, Xue Ziliang couldn't help cursing in English.In the eerie white night through the infrared telescope, the six ships were clearly discernible.One of them was clearly not a Chinese ship type.

A few hours ago, he received a call from Beiwei, asking him to lead a reconnaissance team to carry out a foot patrol along the beach in Bopu Port. According to intelligence, there may be enemy sea infiltration at night.

Xue Ziliang didn't dare to neglect, especially Bei Wei's direct orders - he knew very well that if he hadn't gained Bei Wei's favor, he would still be a "black man" with "no establishment".After being in this group for a long time, he has deeply understood the difference between "regular workers" and "temporary workers".

The headquarters of the long-distance reconnaissance team - now every department is trying to raise its level, just like the health team recently changed its wooden sign to the Ministry of Health, the reconnaissance team is not immune - in Bairen City, but Beiwei Each of Bopu, Damei Village and Yanchang Village has a four-member team stationed there, conducting daily patrols and training while he and Xue Ziliang take turns to guide each team.

Except for Xue Ziliang, none of the four members of this team had military experience—in fact, Bei Wei believed that veterans were too old, and if they were not majors in reconnaissance, their plasticity would be very poor. He would rather start from boys in their twenties. Choose volunteers.After several months of training, although these young people are not up to the standards of scouts, they are much better than the rookies who came from another space-time recruit company.

They brought a total of three SKS rifles, and Xue Ziliang brought a Remington 870 shotgun. He felt that the SKS was too long, and it was difficult for scouts to use. As a former US military, what he feels most painful now is the weapon lack of equipment.There are a lot of them, but almost all of them are unfamiliar equipment. Except for Glock pistols and Remington shotguns, most of the infantry weapons SKS and 56 that the traverser owns are unfamiliar to him—even if there is an AK47 Well, he uses this thing a lot.

Let’s just talk about the night vision equipment. When he was in the armed forces reconnaissance team of the US Marine Corps, it was a very small thing. Even the night vision equipment in his garage at home is much better than here.Fortunately, the entire team only had a pair of low-light night-vision goggles and a Russian-made infrared telescope—he was not used to Russian products.But this is already a very good configuration. Although there are a lot of night vision equipment, there is no way to replenish it, and it cannot be repaired if it is broken. The planning committee has extremely strict control.

Searching along the coast is a tiring method, but it is also the most effective. The sky is overcast, there is no moon or starlight, and the water-sky line is almost invisible.Although the radar gave the approximate coordinates of the ship, every kilometer he traveled, he had to stop and search the sea with a telescope.

After trekking along the coast for two hours, the search team reached the end of Longhao Bay. If the coordinates were correct, the fleet should be nearby. When the telescope searched again, they found the ship on the opposite side of the strait.

Really able to hide, he chewed subconsciously before realizing that there was no chewing gum.These 6 ships were hiding in the shadow of the reef, and it was such a starless and moonless night. If it weren't for the radar on the Fengcheng ship, it would be impossible for the observation post to see it with the naked eye, let alone locate it.

The speed of the boat was extremely slow, Xue Ziliang looked at his watch and began to measure the speed of movement—less than 2 knots.The foreign ship's sails were obviously not fully rigged, and that was suspicious.

"Brother Xue, is there a ghost here?" A team member asked quietly.Xue Ziliang is straightforward and capable, and he is well liked by the young people in the team.Although he has repeatedly said that it is good to call him "Pooh", but everyone still likes to use the Chinese style "Brother X".

"It's strange if you don't." Xue Ziliang muttered.He called Bopu's radio station and began to report:

Six unidentified ships were found, and five of the smaller ships were preliminarily judged to be Chinese ships, and one was a Western warship with three masts and a displacement of 400 tons.Chinese warships have no side gun doors, and 4 to 6 guns are installed on the bow and deck.Western warships have 12 to 16 gun positions on the open deck.

"There is a sampan!" Xue Ziliang found a small boat in his telescope

There were eight men in the sampan, armed with swords and matchlocks, as could be seen through the glass.One man at the helm, four men at the oars, and two men set up the harpoon for the arquebus at the bow—this was primitive enough.Xue Ziliang thought.

The last one had a roll in his hand.The small rowboat moved forward cautiously, only rowing the oars at long intervals, and now he could clearly see that the sailor holding a roll in his hand was actually carrying a plumb line, and he was constantly Measure the water depth near the shore.This shows that the enemy intends to get the fleet close enough to support the landing with artillery fire. If the troops are only transported by sampan, there is no need for sounding at all.

Judging from the track of the small boat, the pirates obviously planned to land from the side of Lingaojiao. This is not the entrance to Bopu's channel, and the fortifications will not be too tight.As for the beacon tower that got in the way, apparently the pirates didn't pay attention to it, let alone a 12-pound cannon on it.

On a breezy night, the surroundings were extremely quiet.There is only the sound of the waves beating against the shore.

Slowly approaching a ghostly sailing ship on the sea—this is a Spanish galleon named the Countess of Scarborough.Behind it, followed by five smaller Chinese hard sailing ships.

The moon emerged from the clouds, and the moonlight was very pale.

"This ghost moon!" complained the Spanish captain Aragones standing on the poop.He had been cruising slowly on the other side in the middle of the night, and did not approach the center line of the strait until near midnight.The moonlight will reveal the shadow of the ship. According to rumors, those strange orientals have many strange muskets that can shoot very far. Sidonia does not want to take risks.

"Those Easterners are all asleep." Aragones murmured to himself, the port in the telescope was still very calm, except for a small amount of lights, there was no abnormality.

"Captain. Captain Liu at the rear signaled to our ship to ask whether to start attacking?"

"Understood." Aragones had a contemptuous smile on his lips.These stupid orientals only fight on land, they don't deserve to be called sailors at all.At sea, he was confident that all of Liu Xiang's warships could be taken away by the Countess of Scarborough alone.If it weren't for the fact that Spain's power in China's coast has been deteriorating after the Dutch came, how could he cooperate with such a second-rate pirate Liu Xiang.

He watched the boat with binoculars. So far, it has not given any signal that the water depth is not enough. After a while, he can safely and boldly sail the boat to a place very close to the shore, and use intensive artillery fire to support the landing. pirate.No matter how powerful the legendary strange musket is, it will not be the opponent of a volley of 16 cannons.There are a total of 32 cannons on the Countess of Scarborough. Even in European waters, this equipment is quite impressive.

(End of this chapter)