"Zhizhi~zhizhi~"
The multipurpose dagger pulled at the base of the trunk, wood chips falling to the ground with each pull.
After sawing most of the wood, Li Siming stood up, kicked over the tree, and then dragged the tree, which was less than the thickness of an arm, to an open space outside the woods.
Here, several soldiers are working on a tree trunk.
The branches are removed, the trunk is hit with rocks to loosen the bark, and then a long strip of bark is torn off by pulling with your hands.
The bark will be the raw material for making rope.
In the shelter, Zhu Xianxue used his special skills, and the peeled tree trunk gradually turned into a small bench in his hands.
At this time, a soldier came back struggling to drag something.
"Your Highness the Snow Prince, the parachutes we discarded on the sea that night were washed over by the waves, but there were only two of them."
As he spoke, he unfolded the parachute, revealing a thin cloth coated with seawater and sand.
…
Jinling.
At dawn in the early morning, the number of people on the streets gradually increased.
A group of children were walking through the streets carrying canvas satchels, shaking a copy of the Ming Dynasty newspaper in their hands.
"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers!"
"The Pioneer crashed, His Royal Highness Prince Snow and 12 air force soldiers are missing!"
"The Australian Coast Guard received a distress call from the Pioneer a few days ago!"
On rest days, some children worked as newsboys and peddled on the streets to earn some extra money for their own coffers.
Their cries soon attracted the surrounding people who got up early to look for food.
"What the hell? Pioneer crash?"
"Kid, give me one!"
"This is 13 pennies. The extra pennies will buy you candy."
Wang Yuan held the thermos cup, grabbed thirteen copper plates from his pocket and stuffed them into the child's hands.
The child counted the copper coins and handed the newspaper to Wang Yuan after confirming that it was correct. Then he sweetly shouted "Thank you, grandpa".
Then he ran away in a hurry.
"Hey, little brat!"
Wang Yuan stretched out his two hands to the child's head and froze in mid-air.
He took back his hand and shook his head, unfolded the newspaper and read it.
After reading for a while, Wang Yuan put away the newspaper with a shocked expression on his face.
He murmured: "Dear me, things are serious."
The news of the Pioneer's crash was like a gust of wind blowing through Jinling and sweeping through the entire Ming Dynasty.
A dull atmosphere enveloped Daming.
In the teahouse, these teagoers had no intention of listening to books. They read the newspapers over and over again.
In the end, everyone got a fact from between the lines of the newspaper.
A distress signal was sent out on the day of the Pioneer crash. After the Australian Coast Guard received the signal, the rescue fleet headed east into the Pacific Ocean.
But in the following days, the rescue team never received any further calls for help.
Huagai Palace.
The Ming Dynasty cabinet held an emergency meeting, and while dispatching additional rescue fleets, they discussed possible situations.
"Your Majesty, according to calculations by officials from the Biological Department of the Ministry of Industry, on the premise that the Snow Prince successfully parachuted and landed on the sea, the supplies carried by the individual were only enough for 14 days.
But the most critical source of water is a problem.
Soaking in water, hypothermia, dehydration... The best result is that Snow Prince and others can last for 14 days, and the worst result can only last for 5 days! "
After Xu Qi finished speaking, he sat back on the chair, with a sad face and fell silent.
When the ministers learned of this situation, they also sighed.
At this time, Shen Lian, the commander of Jinyiwei, came in with a telegram and brought back another piece of bad news.
Shen Lian handed the telegram to Zhu Zaiming, who looked ugly, and said.
"Your Majesty, a telegram came from the Panama Guards Division. They searched along the beach and found no trace of the wreckage of the Pioneer.
On the endless route from Australia to Panama, the rescue team found nothing. "
The Australian Coast Guard conducts high-intensity search and rescue operations 24 hours a day, and the radio station is also on 24 hours a day.
Coupled with the self-organized search and rescue teams, no one found any clues on the Pioneer's route.
Not even a torn piece of clothing.
"The search cannot stop. At least during this 14-day survival period, we cannot relax for a moment."
Perhaps the atmosphere was too dull, Dong Zhiwei stood up, pointed to the map on the table and expressed his guess.
“If they land on the sea, they should not transmit on the sea to prevent water from entering the radio.
And once they send the report, it is very likely that they will swim to an island.
Therefore, Weichen believed that before receiving the telegram, focus on searching and rescuing the sea.
If a telegram is received later, our search and rescue focus will be to search for various islands in the Pacific based on the contents of the telegram. "
The ministers nodded.
Although this assumes that Snow Prince and others successfully parachuted and brought the radio with them.
But it is also a good search and rescue strategy.
Zhu Zaiming looked at the map and asked Shen Yulong beside him.
"Where is the Navy's search and rescue fleet currently?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the search and rescue fleet has just passed Luzon and is still far away from the estimated search and rescue sea area."
The implication is that the current search and rescue operations cannot rely on the navy.
At this time, Shen Lian spoke quietly on the side.
"Your Majesty, do you want to expand the search and rescue scope?"
"Expanding the scope of search and rescue? Wouldn't that increase the workload of the search and rescue fleet? The Australian Coast Guard can no longer spare more ships for rescue!"
Some ministers retorted that rashly expanding the scope of search and rescue would very likely reduce the probability of the victims being rescued.
Shen Lian shook his head. He always had an intuition that the sea areas searched by these search and rescue fleets were far off.
He took the baton from Zhu Zaiming and drew a large circle on a sea area.
"Look, everyone, where did the Australian Coast Guard receive the telegram? Here!"
With that said, Shen Lian stepped a little deeper into the empty sea and continued.
"You may have overlooked a premise. The newspaper "Gewu Zhi Zhi" once published a paper about the impact of a quiet electromagnetic environment and the absence of earth and stone obstructions on telegraph transmission distance."
Speaking of this, most of the ministers looked confused and started whispering among themselves. They couldn't understand this thing and what it had to do with search and rescue.
Instead, Xu Qi and Zhu Zaiming suddenly grasped the key point.
Zhu Zaiming signaled the ministers to be quiet and asked Shen Lian to continue.
"The rescue telegram said that the Pioneer's air bag had ruptured and its altitude was falling rapidly.
This shows what?
This illustrates that the only barrier between the Pioneer and the Australian Coast Guard is endless air.
Under this premise, the horizontal distance between the Pioneer and the Australian Coast Guard should be very far. You need to ask the Ministry of Industry for the specific distance..."
At this time, the door of the Huagai Hall was pushed open again, and a young official from the Ministry of Works rushed in holding a roll of paper.
"I think I know the exact search and rescue range!
The distress telegram contained an important message, 6 a.m. Jinling time, combined with the location where the Australian Coast Guard received the signal.
The Pioneer crash site would be in the same time zone as the Hawaiian Islands.
And because the earth is a sphere and the sea surface has a curvature, it is assumed that the Snow Prince survived and tried to send a telegram but we did not receive it.
Then, taking the signal received by the Australian Coast Guard as the starting point, 50 kilometers north to the Hawaiian Islands is the accurate search and rescue range!
As for why it is heading north instead of south, this is thanks to the farewell poem of the Signal Corps. "
"When I was young, I didn't recognize the moon, and it looked like a white jade plate."
In summer, the moon rises in the southeast and moves toward the northwest.
At that time, when the signalman lamented the size of the moon, it showed that the Pioneer airship was in the north.
