Soon, Bekai also saw something happening on the sea: a large towing fishing boat was escaping on the sea. [Read the full text] There were several ships chasing after them, shooting lighted rockets from time to time, and making wild shouts and beating of gongs and drums from time to time. On the towing fishing boat in front, part of the sail had been burned and one of the masts had fallen down. Someone was rowing desperately.
"They are robbing fishing boats," Zhang Dascara said. "They are just local people who are half fishermen and half bandits. They don't even have cannons. They can't hinder our business."
Yan Maoda also went up to the stern to watch the fun - he was holding a telescope. At this time, the escaping ship probably saw them, and turned its bow and rushed towards them, and a flag suddenly rose on the mast.
Before Zhang Dasca could open his mouth, Yan Maoda suddenly shouted:
"Bekai, look at the flag on the fishing boat."
Bekai quickly took the telescope, and sure enough, rising on the mast of the towing boat was a triangular fishing flag - this is the sailing flag awarded by the Navy to fishing boats registered in Lingao. In the past, the effectiveness of this flag was only near Lingao, but now it has been extended to the entire Qiongzhou Strait. Fishing boats without fishing flags are subject to deportation by the Coast Guard.
"That's right." Bekai became nervous, "You must have seen the Lingao flag hanging on our mast..."
At present, Lingao has not designed a merchant ship flag, so the merchant ships of major shipping companies also fly the Lingao naval flag.
"It's just the right time." Zhang Dascara was born as a pirate, and the scene of fighting and killing was originally tempting to him, and now he has such a good ship - as the saying goes, armed with sharp weapons, he has a murderous intention. Quite eager to try.
However, he still remembered that his mission was to escort the captains to Hongji, so he glanced at Yan Maoda.
"Chief, look--"
"Save, of course we have to save it," Yan Maoda said righteously, "This ship has paid taxes to us, so it must be protected."
"Okay." Zhang Dascara was ready to fight. He didn't understand the logic, but he knew it was time to start fighting. He immediately shouted loudly, "Everyone is ready to fight."
The sailors were armed with live ammunition and occupied the commanding heights on the side of the ship and on the stern, alerting the fishing boats that were escaping towards them. Although they decided to rescue each other, they did not rule out the possibility of a bitter plot. Pirates in the South China Sea often use the method of pretending to be in distress to lure ships that are larger in speed and tonnage than theirs to release their alert, and then launch a sudden attack when the two ships are close to each other.
The fishing boat did not approach directly, but fled to the side of Zhennan. Zhang Dascara howled loudly: "Left rudder 15", the Zhennan's hull began to slowly turn around, and aimed the side of the ship towards the pursuer. Coming ships.
Several small boats that were chasing saw Cheng Yaojin coming out of the way. There was a large ship between them and their prey. The ship suddenly slowed down. It seemed that the pirates did not expect that the big ship would suddenly intervene. After a few minutes, several small boats immediately dispersed, seemingly preparing to attack the big ship from multiple directions.
"Fire!" Zhang Dasra gave the order, and the typewriter suddenly made a loud noise, and the poop was filled with smoke. Sharp tongues of fire spit out from the square directional frame, and the sharp roar of the typewriter overwhelmed all other sounds. Wood chips mixed with flesh and blood were flying everywhere on the pirate ship.
"Load the bullet," the machine gunner shouted. A hot bullet was pulled out and dropped into a basket filled with sand. The two sailors quickly lifted the second bullet and inserted it into the gun base, helping the machine gunner to push it together. Lock it up - this behemoth weighs a lot.
The muzzle of the typewriter mounted on the universal joint bracket turned, and a second pirate ship dumped bullets. In the first actual combat, the machine gunner could not control the shooting rhythm. Each time, he dumped all the bullets on one ship before stopping. . It wasn't until all eight bullet trays were empty that everything returned to silence, with white smoke rising from the heated barrel.
Four pirate boats chasing fishing boats lay motionless on the sea. Zhang Dascara looked carefully at the pirate ship that had become quiet, and the sailors around him were also looking around - this was their first time using typewriters to fight, and no one knew what was going on up there? Do you want to continue attacking?
Zhang Dascara looked at Yan Maoda. Yan Maoda looked at the ship on the other side with a telescope and ordered: "Organize a gang jumper. The enemy is finished."
Seeing the big ship approaching, people on the small boat began to jump into the sea.
"Don't let anyone go," Yan Maoda ordered.
The sailors immediately began a precision shooting competition, shooting at the swimmers in the sea, killing them one by one. Until there are no more heads on the sea.
The Zhennan carefully approached one of the pirate ships. These ships were all very small, and the largest one only weighed fifty or sixty tons. From a high position, one could see that the deck of the pirate ship was already a mess of blood and flesh. The ground was littered with mutilated torsos, limbs, and fragments of flesh and blood. The gang jumped onto the enemy ship and searched around, only catching a few stunned prisoners below the deck. There were simply no people alive on the two smaller sampans. Finally, five prisoners were collected, and they were all slumped on the deck shivering. Judging from their appearance, they were all wearing black trousers and jackets commonly worn by fishermen in this area. They were in rags and had dark faces. They really couldn't tell what they were about.
Zhang Dascara ordered the sailors to throw the corpses on the pirate ship into the sea and wash the bloody deck with water. A sampan was seriously damaged in the strafing fire and was simply scuttled. Apart from the boat, there was no trophy worth mentioning, only a dozen baskets of fish and shrimp. The weapons are mainly low-quality cold weapons, not even the matchlock guns that are quite common in Southeast Asia. This confirms Zhang Dascara's statement that this should be a group of amateur pirates who are half fishermen and half bandits. It's possible that he just wanted to make money and robbed at sea.
"What to do with these prisoners?"
"Keep them. Wash them well and take them below the deck." Yan Maoda thought these people could serve as the first batch of miners.
As he was talking, the towing fishing boat came closer.
"Where are you from? What happened?" Zhang Dascara leaned out and asked loudly.
"Chang——" As soon as the people on the towing boat opened their mouths, it was obvious that they had been to Lingao.
"I'm not the elder, you can just call me Lao Zhang."
"The villain is a fisherman from Haikang who came to this area to fish. I didn't expect to encounter this group of pirates." The people on the boat said loudly, "Shopkeeper Zhang, you are so kind and kind..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Zhang Dascara was not interested in this, "If you hadn't been flying the flag of Lingao, I wouldn't have bothered to save you."
"Yes Yes……"
Zhang Dascula waved his hand: "Bring out the sign." Boat owners who come to Lingao to apply for a fishing license will not only receive a sailing flag, but also a special hardwood sign with a special number and anti-counterfeiting pattern, which can be used as a check during inspection. For inspection purposes.
The brand was sent on the ship - Yan Maoda took a look and realized that yes, this brand was specially processed in a wood processing factory. The anti-counterfeiting marks and digital fonts on it were not something that indigenous craftsmen could copy at will. Now ask Zhang Dascara to copy down the number. After returning to Lingao, write a report and submit it to the Coast Guard for record.
"Let them go. Why don't they come here to fish in groups?" Yan Maoda said, "The security in this area is very poor."
"Master, they are alone this time," Zhang Dascara said with a smile, "If there are many people, there is no guarantee who will rob whom."
"That's right." Yan Maoda nodded. Everything in the South China Sea was chaotic and disorderly. "But since they paid taxes to us and flew our flag, we should stand up for them. We can't just accept money and ignore it." People live or die.”
"That's right." Zhang Dasc nodded in agreement. In his opinion, as long as I have the strength, I can earn money by doing land work. As for whether he had to protect the safety of others after receiving the money, he never thought about it - he had no concept of "serving taxpayers". Zhang Dascara couldn't quite understand the elders' thinking mode. He only knew one thing: the elders were smarter than him. He felt that knowing this was enough.
Yan Maoda got new ideas from this matter. Since fishermen from Hainan Island and western Guangdong often fish in Beibu Gulf in addition to fishing in the Qiongzhou Strait - this source of income should not be given up. Beibu Gulf is also a good fishing ground in the 21st century. Fishing is now the main source of protein for the Crossing Group. In addition to the fishing fleet directly controlled by the navy, the fishery May Day tax collected from fishermen is also an important source of catches.
Currently, the scope of fishery May Day tax is limited to the Qiongzhou Strait. If the system of collecting fishery May Day tax is expanded to the entire Beibu Gulf, the benefits obtained from fishery will be ten times or a hundred times. You can also organize fishery production cooperatives and organize Lingao fishing boats to team up to fish in the Beibu Gulf. Not only can it easily create a scale effect, but the navy can also organize escorts - it doesn't even matter if you don't organize escorts. It can teach some tactics of fishermen in the old time and space. , and still tortured the monkey until it bled. There are no large pirates in the Beibu Gulf, so it is basically a blank slate. It is relatively easy for the navy to get its hands in - if necessary, organized fishermen can also be a auxiliary force. For the crossing regime that desperately needs Vietnam's rice, timber and coal, sea control of the Tonkin Gulf must be controlled.
Yan Maoda was fascinated by his thoughts - this proposal must be submitted to the Executive Committee back home.
"Chang——" Zhang Dasra saw that he was lost in thought and mentioned to him.
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"What to do with those ships?" After the pirates were wiped out, two sampans and a fishing boat were left behind.
"Take it with you, we need a boat when we get to Hongji." Someone and a boat came to my door without logging in. It was a good start.
Zhang Dascara immediately asked a few sailors to drive the fishing boat, and the sampan was pulled directly behind the big boat.
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