It's almost dawn, but the night is still thick. [No pop-up novel website] The light from oil lamps and torches in the shops and homes along the street cast faint light on the gravel road. There are still lights in hotels, small restaurants and restaurants, and there are bursts of noise from time to time. The merchants, stewards and sailors on the ship who missed the weather and rested here for the winter waiting for the monsoon were trapped in this remote place "at the end of the world", with nothing to do all day long but to spend their energy and time on wine and women.
Hu Xun was wearing a long robe and a cloak. Regardless of the early morning chill, he walked proudly in the middle of the only street in Anyu Market, followed by a strange procession. A handsome boy servant was holding a teapot with only a brocade-covered cotton cover. Next to him was a man who looked like a master in a long gown and a beard. Behind him, there was a servant holding a high chair. The other held a piece of bamboo - a torture device. Then there was a group of strong men armed with sticks, swords and guns.
Hu Xun is fulfilling his duty as the local security guard - night watch. Question any suspicious persons. Although Anya Amusement Park is not big, the security problem is very prominent. Large groups of people seeking a living at sea often gather here. They get away from the tiring and boring life at sea and relax on the land. Stealing, quarreling, fighting and even hand-to-hand combat are common things. At its peak, several people would die in fights every day.
Hu Xun did not report the matter of the dead person to the county - he was just asking for trouble, and the county could not solve it. This place is surrounded by barren mountains and ridges outside the city, and is the territory of the Li people dozens of miles away from the city. Where can we go to hunt down the murderer.
But as a prominent figure on the ground, at least order must be guaranteed. Hu Xun personally led people to patrol the streets every night. If he saw anyone who was drunk and noisy or carrying a knife or stick, he would detain them first. By the way, there are also some expenses - the captain must spend money to provide insurance if he wants to release the crew. It doesn't matter if you are a pauper without insurance. You can just wait until the next wave of ships arrives before selling them off - there are many people dead on the ship, and one-third of the people dying on one voyage is nothing. The steward is happy to prepare more. human.
An Amusement Park is very quiet today, but quiet does not mean peace. As the last stop before sailing to Nanyang, Anyu Market is also very popular in the eyes of some people. The most important thing for Hu Xun to prevent theft on weekdays is to track down suspicious persons - pirates are likely to send spies in to look for opportunities to "open the door".
Especially at dawn, when it is dark and the night watchers are sleepy, they are most vulnerable to sneak attacks. So every time this happens, Hu Xun always goes out to patrol the night in person.
Walking from the end of the street to the street, he boarded the west gate tower facing the bay. Several villagers stood sleepy-eyed, watching the surface of the Dadonghai. A few angry wind lanterns swayed in the sea breeze. Hu Xun leaned on the wooden wall and looked out. The lights on the pier under the wall were on, and the wind lanterns on the ships were also on. The ships were rising and falling with the sea water. The only sounds he could hear were the sound of the sea water hitting the rocks and the ships. The sound of waves.
A few lights can be seen on the opposite side of the bay, which were built by Lingao merchants who came here last year. Although the two parties bought and sold items, interacted with each other, greeted each other with smiles, and got along well, secretly he was very wary, fearing that the other party had ulterior motives.
However, for many days, there were never more than thirty people in the village. Every day I go out early and come back late, either growing vegetables, raising chickens, fishing, or going to collect coconuts or cut trees. Their activities brought vitality to Anyu Market, where many poor villagers were employed by them to cut trees and collect coconuts, selling their labor and getting paid on a daily basis. The village opposite also comes to Anyu Market from time to time to purchase items and hire craftsmen.
However, one thing Hu Xun was sure of was that Shopkeeper Wang was lying when he said they were businessmen specializing in Southeast Asian trade. Almost every week, ships moor to the trestle in front of "Lingao Village", transporting coconuts, logs and other local products, as well as boxes of the same size.
Hu Xun had never been to Nanyang, but he had seen countless merchants passing by, and he knew a little about the situation in Nanyang. Logs and coconuts are even less valuable in that place. Obviously, they cannot be shipped to Nanyang if packed.
He was almost certain that this group of people was engaged in illegal business. As for what it was, he didn't care - as long as everyone lives in peace, what are you doing meddling in other people's business?
"What's wrong?" Hu Xun asked the leader on the gate.
"Nothing unusual, everything is fine."
The sea breeze at night was a bit bit harsh, and Hu Xun couldn't help but tuck in his cloak. The moon was about to set, and the sea fire appeared and disappeared on the sea, and there seemed to be nothing unusual about it.
"Tell everyone to be careful, don't doze off again!" Hu Xun said as he came down from the gate and went to hug his little wife to sleep.
Less than ten nautical miles away from here, Ruan Xiaowu, the captain of the "Yute O4" spy team, looked through his telescope at the long line of ships plowing through the waves behind him. There are as many as fifty ships.
In front of him was a fast sloop. The light hull tilted almost close to the water under the influence of wind and waves. Ruan Xiaowu even thought that the ship was going to capsize a few times, but at every critical moment, the bow of the ship would always Even the rotation. It makes people sweat all the time.
The sloops are driven by the most daring and skilled among the cadets and sailors. They operate this fast and flexible boat at the front and on both sides of the fleet. Always detect anomalies. Behind the sloop was a long formation of secret service boats composed of various types of ships. In addition to weapons and sailors, the cabins on board were filled with various supplies.
Then there is the spectacular five-masted sailing ship Sanya No. 1. Its five big masts are filled with huge sails, which is particularly conspicuous in the fleet. Together with other less spectacular sailing ships around it, it carries dozens of ships. Thousands of laborers, soldiers, building materials, tools, vehicles and food.
But it is not the core yet. The real core lies behind: those boats that are mysterious and unusual among ordinary indigenous people and do not use sails or oars. Xunwhale self-propelled barge, Great Whale flat-deck barge, Type 67 boarding boat and two 8154 fishing boats. The vast deck of the Swift Whale was filled with large, grotesque objects tightly wrapped in oilcloth. The boarding headquarters is located on one of the fishing boats.
On the starboard side of all these ships was another formation, headed by the two ships Zhenhai and Fubo, with six three-masted sail gunboats sailing in a column, with the gun doors closed tightly.
Ruan Xiaowu is proud to sail in such a magnificent fleet - yes, there are many sea owners with more ships than Australian longships, but what do their ships count? There are very few tattered and dirty decks, patchwork sails, and crude cannons, and they are tied to the ship with ropes. When the cannons are fired, they will even jump up and do a roll in the air! Gunpowder was piled messily below the deck, scrap copper and iron used as cannonballs were packed in baskets, and there were even stones and broken porcelain shards inside! The pirate ship that the naval cadets visited to surrender looked like this, and every cadet showed a contemptuous smile - they were a bunch of bumpkins.
On the flagship, the main leaders of the future Sanya Special Economic Zone were crowded in the command room converted from the original refrigeration cabin. The displacement of 8154 was not large, and the hull looked very bumpy in the wind and waves. Zhuo Tianmin was so seasick that he simply lay down on the bench for the meeting.
These people crowded around a small table. In two hours it would be daybreak, 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 the shore, it was still a difficult task to coordinate a team of this size to land on an unfamiliar coast. The fleet is loaded with all kinds of materials, equipment and personnel, and just sending them safely to the land is a complicated and delicate task.
In order to prepare for this important landing, which required all-out efforts, detailed planning took almost a month. A joint team composed of the General Staff and the Planning Academy, under the direct leadership of Wang Luobin, formulated detailed steps for the landing 6 plan.
The problems they faced were extremely complex - there were many military precedents for this kind of landing, but the crossing group carried out the landing in the 17th century with extremely limited modern support capabilities. Even more complex than D-Day. They only had 500 people on the d day, and now they want 3000 people to board 6!
They have a lot of questions to answer. Where should I log in? When is it appropriate? How many people should be in the first batch of Login 6? How many laborers, how many soldiers? How many vehicles will be needed to carry these people? How many days' worth of dry food needs to be prepared to support the mobile kitchen to fully supply hot food? How many people boarded the island in small boats, how many people passed through the trestle, and how to organize them to go ashore in batches? A rope net ladder is required to get from the ship to the trestle or boat. How many boats are needed? How should these boats be transported?
These are just a few of the many questions that the person developing the plan must answer. There are many more problems. In the end, their plan had become a thick book when it was finalized. Every detail of the Giant Plan was specified in detail, and corresponding plans were made for possible problems that might be encountered.
"When making a plan, don't think about what to do if you win, first think about how to clean up the mess if you fail." Wang Luobin asked at the group meeting.
"Who can defeat us?" Those who participated in the formulation of the plan felt puzzled, "Is it the villagers from An Amusement City?"
"We must consider various possible situations," Wang Luobin said, "For example, the fleet encountered strong winds and half of the ship sank; or we were boarding 6 and Zheng Zhilong's fleet attacked... We must consider how to deal with it."
"It's so frustrating. I thought about this before I even started..."
“We must take the worst possibility into consideration in everything we do,” Dongmen Chuiyu expressed his support for Wang Gong’s view. “How to deal with emergencies is an important part of our plan. The more thoughtful everyone is, the more careful they are. The better." v! ~!
