Strictly speaking, the Navy Department is not an organization officially recognized by the Executive Committee. It is listed as the Fishery Production Group and the Bobu Port Area on the official organizational list. [Read the latest chapter] It is under the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs respectively. According to the official division of labor, one is mainly engaged in fishery production and maritime transportation, while the other is responsible for managing various affairs in the Bobu camp, including regular maintenance of ships anchored in the port.
However, after private lobbying activities by some former naval personnel and some naval enthusiasts, the two departments have recently tended to merge. Although the Executive Committee currently has a non-commentary attitude towards this, as long as it is within the Executive Committee Everyone in the position knew that the merger was inevitable.
Unlike various departments that have been enclosing land to build houses, people in the navy look down on red brick buildings with brick and wood structures. What they prefer is a baroque naval building. Before such a house could not be built, Fengchenglun became this Unofficially the office of the Admiralty.
The Fengcheng Ship completed its historical mission from the day it anchored on D-Day. It can only stay anchored in the harbor until the time traveler re-establishes the oil industry. The ship is carefully taken care of - it has modern navigation equipment: radar, compass, navigation clock... which will play a vital role in the future maritime power of the traveler. In the most dangerous situations, you can still use it to escape.
Various furniture, equipment, materials and tools available on the ship were successively dismantled for use on the ground. Unused cabins are sealed and locked. A large ship is a complex world. Without enough manpower to take care of it, many blind spots cannot be left behind.
For the Admiralty, the comfort and convenience on board this ship were unparalleled on earth. Although motors have been limited to meeting the most basic energy needs, they are still more than enough to supply office and daily electricity. Marine high-power radios can easily contact all ships at sea. There are comfortable bedrooms, separate bathrooms, and well-equipped kitchens on the ship. It is very different from the majority of people who eat salted fish, smoked fish, and dried fish all day long. There is a cold storage on the ship, and you can eat fresh fish in the kitchen on the ship. It's even more than enough to make sashimi. It can also continuously make ice cubes. Various fruit shaved ices are not worth mentioning. You can also make ice cream with the milk powder you brought. It is said that Mr. Wen, who prefers the navy, has inspected Fengcheng Ship many times and praised the ice cream and sashimi.
The main task currently undertaken by the informal navy is still fishing. There used to be some fishermen living in Bopu. After the time travelers took over here, they fled one after another. However, this is a traditional fishing ground in Lingao after all. The fishermen who lost the fishery fell into a state of near bankruptcy. In the end, the fishermen had to come forward and cross over. They negotiated and were willing to pay part of the fishery products in exchange for fishing convenience here. The thru-hikers agreed to this request: they could use less fishing boats and consume less diesel and motorcycle hours. The two parties reached a fishing agreement. The catch of the fishing boats in the area around Bopu will be divided at a ratio of 2:8. The catch owned by the fishermen has the right to be purchased first according to the purchase price of the fishing pen. The passer-by has the right to use more Payment can be made by any means: materials, food, commodities, or money. At the same time, the traverser's fishing boat can still fish on its own.
Soon, this fishing hegemony extended to all fishing boats fishing in this area. Any fishing boat willing to follow this rule must go to Bopu to get a red pennant as a mark. In order to ensure the implementation of this policy, the Navy dispatches a fishing boat to patrol the fishing area every day, fishing while supervising the fishing. The first is to ensure that no fishing boat conceals its catch and receives shipments at sea, and the second is to expel vessels without flags.
"We have become the fishing tyrants now." Chen Haiyang stood on the slipway of the "Yu 1" ship, scanning the fishing boats operating in the surrounding waters, and remembered the image of the fishing tyrants in the comic books he read when he was a child. At that time, my young mind was aroused with extreme disgust and hatred for this unfair system, and I also vaguely planted the seeds of admiration for the People's Liberation Army. This was probably his original motivation for becoming a naval officer.
At this time, he is maintaining this unfair system, and he is also one of the instigators of this system. The world is so wonderful sometimes.
"What's wrong with the fishing tyrant? The catch output keeps rising, and Wu Nanhai has shut up! If this continues, it's only a matter of time before our navy is recognized." Li Di stood beside him happily, without any sense of guilt - this After a fat man who was an electronic engineer worked his way into the Navy Department, he called himself a naval engineer and spent every day banging away in a shed without showing it to anyone. In fact, everyone knew that there was a small machine inside. The steam engine - a steam engine kit purchased from abroad, but this machine has not been operating normally since it came ashore.
Chen Haiyang did not continue this topic. Since D-Day, no matter what political leanings the time-travelers have, utilitarianism has basically prevailed, and what is good for the time-travelers is good - originally, right and wrong, good and evil, are largely determined by where you sit.
In the distance, a large fishing boat is unfurling its sails and heading west. This is "Deng Yingzhou", which is performing its third shipping mission. Since its first trip to Guangzhou, the ship has almost never stopped, transporting back a large amount of supplies urgently needed by the industrial sector from Guangzhou. Yu 1 is responsible for protecting Bopu in the waters near it, but beyond that it is up to them. Chen Haiyang sighed: No matter how modernized the navy is without material foundation, its effect will be limited.
"Attention! There are three large fishing boats 3 nautical miles ahead, without flags!" Lelin, the lookout post, suddenly shouted. He is a Hong Kong native and an avid military enthusiast, especially the navy. After entering the navy, he wore a civilian version of the US Navy uniform every day.
"Turn the rudder, heading 12o. Go forward two, get closer." Chen Haiyang issued the order, and Yu No. 1, which was originally traveling at slow speed, deflected the bow and drove towards the fishing boat.
Such inspections happened almost every day in the past. As fishing boats continued to have their catches confiscated, there were fewer and fewer fishing boats without flags, almost extinct. This time, three boats appeared at once. Chen Haiyang was a little confused. :
"Sound the battle alarm and prepare to join the gang for inspection!"
As the alarm bell on the ship rang, more than 30 people on the fishing boat quickly took their places, put on helmets and fire-proof combat uniforms - in this era, arson was a common attack method in naval battles along China's coast. Weapons at the ready. Yu No. 1 does not have heavy weapons such as artillery. The most basic firepower equipment is to rely on sailors to fire volleys with SKS rifles. However, there has been a slight improvement recently. Although the Ministry of Industry lacks metal materials, there is still a lot of wood, bamboo, rattan, animal skins and the like. With the addition of Lin Shenhe, who claims to have played with all kinds of weapons except atomic bombs, several ba11istas were quickly copied based on the information.
The so-called ba11ista is the most successful large-scale mechanical crossbow in the ancient Roman era and the most famous mechanical crossbow in the world. Strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as a crossbow. Its shooting mechanism is different from that of a crossbow. The shooting potential energy is no longer mainly accumulated in the bow body, but in the bow body. Twisted strips accumulated on both sides. The ba11ista has a nickname: shie1dpiercer (shield piercer). The giant arrows it shoots can easily penetrate any known shield and armor. A qualified ba11ista has a killing range of up to 500 meters and can penetrate about two inches thick within 200 meters. Homogeneous wooden boards. And it can shoot a wide variety of weapons, including arrows, javelins, stone bullets, incendiary bombs, etc. In the heyday of the ancient Roman army, each legion was equipped with more than 5o ba11istas.
The mechanical crossbows used by the Crossing Navy are structurally the same as the ba11istas of the ancient Roman era, and are even a little inferior - the best ba11istas of ancient Rome used a large number of steel and bronze components, which are not as stingy as those of the Crossing Navy, so This time-travel version of ba11ista is a bit bulkier than the real original. The slightly more advanced thing is that it has a 36o-degree rotating turntable. There is also a low gun profile on the turntable, which can give the shooter some basic protection.
Yu 1 is equipped with two such mechanical crossbows, one on the front and rear decks. Several experimental shootings by the Navy on the sea have proved that if you fire at 5oo meters, whether you can hit the target depends entirely on luck. The hit rate is much better when you get closer to about 2oo meters.
Fortunately, in this era, the armaments of ships from various countries on China's coastal waters are not much better. As long as the navy is not too enthusiastic and prepared to dominate the sea area with mechanical crossbows, it can defeat small groups of pirates near the coast, scare merchant ships and fishing vessels, or OK. After all, they had better ammunition than the Romans.
"Prepare No. 2 bomb!" the gunman commanded.
"Bullet No. 2 is ready!" A large firecracker-like object was loaded onto the mechanical crossbow.
Seeing Fishing 1 approaching, the three fishing boats turned their sails in a panic, as if preparing to escape. The loudspeakers on the fishing boats began to play a pre-recorded recording in multiple dialects and Mandarin: ordering them to lower the sails immediately and accept examine.
After the recording was played, the sails on the fishing boat had indeed come down, and some people were running around in panic between the decks and cabins.
"Get ready to join the boat."
This is something they are already familiar with. The jump gang members put on life jackets, each had a pistol and a machete, and stood on the side of the ship, waiting for orders.
"Jump." Following the order, the five team members jumped over the side of the ship and landed on the opposite deck. Before they could stand firm, the rumble of cannons was heard in their ears.
