Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 557 The Last Night of Anyou City

It was almost dawn, and the night was still dark.The light from the oil lamps and torches of the shops and houses along the street is faintly projected on the gravel road.There were still lights in the hotels, small restaurants, and brothels, and there were bursts of noise from time to time.The merchants, stewards, and sailors on the ships who missed the wind signal and rested here to wait for the monsoon were trapped in this remote "end of the earth" place, with nothing to do all day long, only to spend their energy and time on wine and women.

Hu Xun was wearing a robe and a cloak. Regardless of the early morning chill, he walked proudly in the middle of the only street in Anyou City, followed by a strange procession.A handsome boy servant was holding a teapot with a brocade cotton cover, next to him was a man in a long gown with a beard, and behind him was a servant holding a high chair.The other holds a piece of moso bamboo -- this is a torture tool.Then there was a group of young men armed with sticks, knives and guns.

Hu Xun is performing his duties as a local security guard - night watch.Question any suspicious personnel.Although Anyoule City is not big, the problem of public security is very prominent.There are often a large group of seafarers gathering here to get rid of the tiring and boring life at sea, and when they relax on land, theft, quarrels, fights and even hand-to-hand encounters are common things.At its height, several people were killed in brawls every day.

Hu Xun didn't report the matter of the dead to the county—it was purely asking for trouble, and the county couldn't solve it.This place is barren mountains and mountains outside the city, and dozens of miles away from the city is the territory of the Li people, where to go to hunt down the murderer.

But as the leading figure on the ground, the minimum order must be guaranteed.Hu Xun would personally lead people to patrol the streets every night, and if he saw anyone who was drunk or noisy or carrying a knife and stick, he would be detained first.By the way, there will be some expenses-the captain must spend money to protect the crew.It doesn’t matter if you are a poor man with no insurance, you just sell them after the next wave of sea ships arrives—there are so many dead people on board, it’s nothing to lose one-third of the people in one voyage, the steward is happy to prepare more human.

Today's Anyou City is very quiet, but quiet does not mean peace.As the last berth before going to Nanyang, Anyoule City is also very luscious in the eyes of some people.One of the most important things for Hu Xun to prevent theft is to track down suspicious people-the pirates are likely to send spies in, looking for opportunities to "open the door".

Especially when the sky is about to dawn, the sky is dark, and the night watchmen are sleepy, so they are most likely to be taken advantage of by sneak attacks.So every time this meeting happened, Hu Xun always came out to watch the night in person.

Walking from the end of the street to the street, he boarded the gate tower of the west gate facing the bay. A few villagers stood sleepily, watching the surface of the Great East China Sea, and a few wind lanterns swayed in the sea breeze.Hu Xun leaned on the wall of the wooden village and looked out. The lights on the pier under the wall were on, and so were the wind lamps on the ships. The boats were rising and falling with the sea, and the only thing he could hear was the crash of the sea against the rocks and the sound of the ships. The sound of the waves.

A few lights can be seen on the opposite side of the bay, which are the stockades built by Lingao maritime merchants who came here last year.Although the two parties bought and sold items and interacted with each other, greeted each other with smiles, and got along well, but secretly he was very wary, for fear that the other party had ulterior motives.

However, over the past many days, there have never been more than thirty people in the village.He leaves early and returns late every day, either growing vegetables, raising chickens and fishing for self-sufficiency, or picking coconuts and logging.Their activities have brought vitality to Anyoule City. Many poor villagers in Anyoule City are employed by them to cut trees and pick coconuts to sell their labor and get paid on a daily basis.And the village on the opposite side also comes to Anyoule City to purchase items and hire craftsmen from time to time.

However, Hu Xun can be sure of one thing. The shopkeeper Wang said that they were businessmen specializing in Nanyang trade was a lie.Almost every week, ships berthed on the trestle in front of "Lingao Village", carrying away coconuts, logs and other local products, and bringing in some boxes of the same size.

Hu Xun has never been to Nanyang, but he has seen countless merchants passing by, and he knows a little about the situation in Nanyang.Logs and coconuts in that place are even less valuable, and obviously they are not shipped to Southeast Asia.

He was almost certain that this group of people was engaged in a prohibited business. As for what it was, he didn't care--as long as everyone lives in peace, why meddle in other people's business?
"What's unusual?" Hu Xun asked the leader above the gate.

"No abnormalities, nothing happened."

The sea breeze at night was a bit bitter, and Hu Xun couldn't help but tucked up his cloak.The moon was about to go down, and the sea fire appeared and disappeared on the sea surface, and there seemed to be no abnormalities.

"Tell everyone to be careful, don't doze off again!" Hu Xun said as he came down from the gate, and went to sleep with his little wife.

Less than ten nautical miles away from here, Ruan Xiaowu, the captain of the "Yute 04" special agent team, watched through the binoculars the long line of ships breaking through the waves behind him.There are as many as fifty ships.

In front of him was a fast sloop, the brisk hull tilted almost close to the water surface under the action of the wind and waves. Several times Ruan Xiaowu even thought that the ship was going to capsize, but at critical moments, the bow always Even the rotation.It makes people sweat all the time.

The sloops were piloted by the boldest and most skilful cadets and sailors, and they steered the swift and nimble little craft at the head and wings of the fleet.Always check for exceptions.Behind the sloop was a long line of special service boat formations of various miscellaneous ships. In addition to weapons and sailors on board, the cabins were filled with various supplies.

Then there is the magnificent five-masted galleon Sanya No. [-]. Its five masts are full of huge sails, which is particularly conspicuous in the fleet. Together with other less spectacular sailboats around, it carries countless Thousands of labourers, soldiers, building materials, tools, vehicles and provisions.

But it is not the core, the real core is behind: those ships that are mysterious and abnormal among ordinary aborigines, without sails or oars.Xunjing self-propelled barge, Big Whale flat-deck barge, Type 67 landing craft and two 2 fishing boats.The vast deck of the Xunwhale is full of large and strange-shaped objects tightly wrapped in oilcloth.The landing headquarters is located on one of the fishing vessels.

On the starboard side of all these ships, there was another formation, headed by Zhenhai and Fubo, and six three-masted gunships sailed in column, with the gun doors tightly closed.

Ruan Xiaowu was proud of sailing in such a magnificent fleet--it is true that there are many sea owners who have more ships than the captain of Australia, but what are their ships worth?Broken and dirty decks, patchwork sails, and rough cannons are pitifully rare, and they are tied to the ship with ropes. Once fired, the cannons will even jump up and roll in the air!The gunpowder was piled up under the deck in a mess, and the scrap copper and rotten iron used as shells were packed in baskets, and there were even stones and broken tiles inside!This is the appearance on the defected pirate ship that the naval cadets visited, and every cadet showed a contemptuous smile—a bunch of bumpkins.

On the flagship, the main leaders of the Sanya Special Zone in the future will be squeezed into the command room converted from the original freezer cabin. The displacement of 8154 is not large, and the hull is very bumpy in the wind and waves.Zhuo Tianmin was so seasick that he simply lay on the bench for the meeting

These few people huddled around a small table, and it would be dawn in two hours, and the landing operation would officially begin.

Although this was not a landing in front of the enemy, and there were no cannons, minefields, or machine guns on shore, coordinating a force of this size onto unfamiliar shores was still a daunting task.The fleet is full of various materials, equipment and personnel, and it is a complicated and delicate task to send them to land safely.

In order to prepare for this momentous landing that requires all-out efforts, meticulous planning has been carried out for almost a month.Under the direct leadership of Wang Luobin, a joint team composed of the General Staff and the Planning Institute formulated detailed steps for the landing plan.

The problems they faced were extremely complicated-there were many military precedents for this kind of landing, but the crossing group landed in the 17th century with extremely limited modern support capabilities.Even more complicated than D-Day. They only had 500 people on D-day, and now they want to let 3000 people land!
They have a ton of questions to answer.Where should I log in?When is the right time?How many people should be in the first batch of landing?How many laborers, how many soldiers?How much transportation is needed to carry these people?How many days of dry food needs to be prepared to support the mobile kitchen to fully supply hot food?How many people landed by small boat, how many people passed by the trestle, how to organize them to go ashore in batches?How many dinghies are needed to get down from the boat to the pier or to the dinghy?How should these boats be transported?

These are just a few of the vast number of questions that planners must answer.There are many more problems.In the end, when their plan was finalized, it had become a thick book. Every detail of the giant plan was specified in detail, and corresponding plans were made for possible problems.

"When making a plan, don't think about what to do if you win, but first think about how to clean up the mess if you fail." Wang Luobin asked in the group meeting.

"Who can defeat us?" The people involved in the plan felt unbelievable. "Could it be Zhai Ding from Anyou City?"

"We must consider all possible situations," Wang Luobin said. "For example, the fleet is hit by a strong wind and half of the ship sinks; or we are landing, and Zheng Zhilong's fleet comes to attack... we must take into account how to deal with it."

"It's frustrating, I thought about this before I started..."

"We must take the worst possibility into account in everything we do," Dongmen Chuiyu expressed his support for Wang Gong's views, "How to deal with emergencies is an important part of our plan. The more thoughtful everyone is The better."

(End of this chapter)