An hour later, in the cockpit of the Thor.
The twelve voluntary and forced time-travelers all arrived. They stood in front of the navigation chart table and began to listen to the situation reports from Zhao Xin and Deng Fei.
"Based on the distance of 15 kilometers, if you refer to the modern map, it is this location." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he pointed to another bay fifteen kilometers away from Beihai Town.
"From the radar, these ships are coming from the west, and they should have entered the radar observation range this morning."
"Where have you been?" Veterinarian Liu Zheng suddenly asked.
"Today it's Deng Fei's turn to lead the team for exercise in the morning." Wang Yuanfang explained.
Deng Fei continued: "In this era, China's large wooden ships basically have a speed of about four knots. As a result, I saw it when I came back around one o'clock at noon."
"Festival?" Liu Siting asked curiously.
"It's in the sea." Doctor Hong reminded her softly in her ear.
Zhao Xin and others glanced at the navigation clock behind them. It was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
Deng Fei stood opposite the crowd and pointed to the navigation radar behind him and explained: "I roughly counted them and estimated that there are dozens of ships. But these are big ships and small ships cannot be seen."
"Could it be a fishing boat?" Doctor Hong asked, holding his eyes.
Deng Fei said hesitantly: "It's possible."
"Absolutely impossible! Otherwise I wouldn't have called you all here!" Zhao Xin said loudly without hesitation. "You have to understand that in this era, apart from the Qing soldiers, there will be no other large fleets in the outer Northeast!"
"Ah?! Qing, Qing soldiers! What should we do?" Chen Qingsong and other modern people panicked.
"What are you afraid of! Didn't we already have a plan?" Liu Sheng said.
Chen Qingsong, Hong Tao, Liu Siting, Liu Zheng, and Zhang Bo looked at Zhao Xin and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Activate the emergency plan immediately! Sound the alarm!"
A minute later, the piercing and long sound of the hand-cranked air raid siren sounded on the Thor. Soon, the alarm sounded almost simultaneously from the outpost on the east bank of the Xila River and the camp watchtower where the alarm sounded.
Zhao Xin, who has made enemies everywhere in the island country, has been afraid that the Tokugawa shogunate will come to visit him one day since he returned from Nagasaki. So he worked with the security team, Chen Qingsong and others to formulate an emergency plan for Beihai Town.
In the plan, the current more than 10,000 residents of Beihai Town, excluding military groups, security police, and sailors, are divided into 200 groups based on families; each group has between 50 and 60 people, and there are more than a dozen households. and appoint a team leader.
All residents of Beihai Town, whether they are working, farming, logging, or building infrastructure, must return to the camp within half an hour and gather outside their tents.
Katayama Kanbei was responsible for leading the security police to help evacuate all the elderly, women, and children to the mountains on the east bank of the Sira River to hide.
Chen Qingsong led Wan Zao, Shiosuke and other male refugees to dig trenches and build fortifications at designated locations.
As hunters familiar with the characteristics of the local mountains and forests, Serdan and his son and Hengji would put on camouflage clothes, bring bows and arrows, and go out with Ding Guofeng to conduct reconnaissance.
Liu Sheng and others need to rush to the military camp and issue orders to the assembled company commanders to open the ammunition depot. Wang Yuanfang is responsible for opening the ammunition depot and allowing soldiers to receive ammunition. After that, each company will enter the first level of combat readiness and be ready to go at any time.
Such exercises have been held twice before. Even though they had spent several days preaching repeatedly before, during the first exercise, some refugees didn't take it seriously at all and were still working hard to open up wasteland.
In response to this situation, Zhao Xin decided afterwards to withhold three days of food rations from those refugee families who were late. Don't talk about being punished without teaching. When it comes to life and death, what is more important, food or life? !
So when the second drill was held, all the refugees arrived within the specified time and followed the drill obediently. However, Zhao Xin later announced that the issuance of land certificates for that person’s family would be suspended for those who did not pay attention to the drill and delayed gathering beyond the prescribed time.
So when the siren sounded again for the third time this month, although some refugees complained in their hearts, they did not dare not to participate.
"I said, lord, what are you doing? It's only been a few days, here we go again?!"
"Yes, the field is about to be finished, and the seeds haven't been sown yet. I thought I could sow some seeds today."
"What nonsense are you two talking about! Let's go quickly! Your whole family will be starved for three days before the allotted time!"
"Yeah, you don't want to take the thirty acres of land?"
"Who said no!"
Yaichiro's company, which returned to the military camp, had just delivered the polished guns to the gun store at noon, and was about to take a rest after lunch when the alarm sounded.
Fortunately it's not night, otherwise we would have tortured these people to death. When Lian Jiuzang stood on the playground and counted to "fifty," Yaichiro's company had already completed its assembly.
"I was notified by the commander that unknown enemies are attacking! Remember! This is not a drill!" Jiuzang said loudly to the 110 soldiers in front of him.
"Forget it! I say that every time, and in the end I just go back to the camp in a circle." Yaichiro said secretly in his heart.
The army has conducted similar exercises more than a dozen times, sometimes at noon, sometimes at night, and the words are the same every time; so the expressions on the faces of many soldiers are disapproval.
It doesn't matter~~Instructors, you can do whatever you like. Who said that the salary of a soldier is so high? With three stones of grain a month, the whole family is well fed and has plenty to spare.
"My order now! All companies are here, turn right~~! Direction, armory! Run~~walk!"
In a tent in the military camp. Serdan, his son, and Henji were changing their camouflage clothes and preparing to set off.
"Amma, it won't be that drill again this time, right?"
"No!" Serdan didn't talk nonsense to his son at all.
Erlu lost his temper. Serdan said the same thing last time, but he was happy in vain.
He has always wanted to follow Zhao Xin as a soldier, but Zhao Xin told Elu that you are actually best suited to be a scout, rather than following him all day long.
"Master, what is a scout?" Erlu asked at that time.
Zhao Xin thought for a while and said: "Be the strongest soldier like Mr. Liu and others!"
The three of them changed their clothes, took out the military compound bows issued to them by Zhao Xin from the box, packed their quivers, and walked outside the tent to meet Ding Guofeng and prepare to set off.
Among the six-person security team, only Wu Siyu had used a military crossbow when he was in the army. Seeing the excellent archery skills of Serdan and his son, he suggested that Zhao Xin get some compound bows.
Zhao Xin doesn't know anything about bows and arrows. But he knew that the more expensive ones were almost always good. So he went directly to the local outdoor goods store in Bulung Port and bought some of the most expensive compound bows; then he gave them to Wu Siyu for adjustment.
After the Serdans figured out how to use modern compound bows, they fell in love with these two fifty-pound bows. The jade arrow made of stainless steel can shoot through two layers of Qing army cotton armor with iron plates inside.
When Ding Guofeng, whose face was covered with camouflage camouflage, saw the three people of Serdan, he took out the camouflage pen and began to apply it on the three people's faces.
Ten minutes later, the four figures gradually disappeared into the forest on the west side of the camp.
On the dock, the Thor has begun to enter the "prepare vehicle" procedure. Preparation of power supply for the whole ship, clock adjustment, clock setting, rudder adjustment, main engine cylinder warming; preparation of each power system, cranking, running and test running. This set takes nearly three hours to complete.
On the main deck, Zhao Xin and a dozen sailors set up four "ZU-23" double-barreled anti-aircraft guns on the bow and cargo compartment cover. Then he began to disassemble the ammunition boxes one by one and load the 23×152 mm high-explosive tracer bullets onto the ammunition chains.
After the 50-round ammunition chain was filled and put into the ammunition box, Zhao Xin inserted the ammunition box into the magazine on the side of the anti-aircraft gun. After the two ammunition boxes on an anti-aircraft gun were inserted, he continued to get the next one. vehicle.
"Come on! There's no negotiation for anti-aircraft guns hitting wooden boats!" Zhao Xin muttered while inserting the ammunition box into the magazine.
"Master Zhao!"
Zhao Xin looked up and saw that it was Shen Jingdan who brought Lu Yun, Shen Xuan, and Lao Huang to the deck.
"Boss Shen, why haven't you disembarked yet?"
With a habitual businessman's smile on his face, Lao Huang handed over to Zhao Xinyi and said with a complaint: "Sir Zhao, including this time, you have done that drill three times this month! We are not from Beihai Town. People, there’s no need to go.”
Shen Jingdan also continued: "Yes. My Luyun is pregnant, so it is really inconvenient to go through such trouble."
Zhao Xin said with a cold face: "Who told you this was a drill? The Qing soldiers are coming!"
"Ah?!" Businessman Lao Huang was so frightened that he immediately collapsed on the deck. "This is bad!"
Zhao Xin sneered "hehe", looked at Lao Huang and said: "I killed tens of thousands of people in the Saga Domain and their blood flowed like rivers. You dare to follow me. Are you afraid of a single Qing soldier?"
Old Huang, who was about to howl in mourning, suddenly reacted when he heard this. The man in front of me killed everyone in Nagasaki. If they can't fight, they can all escape by boat. The Thunder God is faster than a fierce horse, so how can the Qing army's wooden boat catch up.
"Boss Shen, hurry up and gather on the river bank. Take a boat to hide in the mountains on the west bank."
"No! I want to stay on the ship!" A soft but decisive voice suddenly sounded, and when they saw it, it turned out to be Shen Xuan.
"Nonsense! When life and death are at stake, why are you, a girl, interrupting?" Shen Jingdan said angrily.
Shen Xuan listened, but her face was very calm. She slowly knelt down on the deck towards Shen Jingdan and said, "Dad, my daughter knows that you have been scared for me all these years, and even separated from your mother and two sisters because of me..."
Several people were very surprised when they saw Shen Xuan suddenly kneeling down. Shen Jingdan interrupted Shen Xuan at this time and sighed: "It's already this time, Ah Quan, please stop talking."
"My daughter wants to say something. My daughter is responsible for the blood feud between twenty-five members of the Shen family in Dongtai. She will either die or live with the emperor and Liu Yong! Today I will stay on this ship and watch Master Zhao kill the Tatars!"
"Miss Ah Quan... No~ Miss Shen, it's not certain whether this... is a Tatar. And once a fight breaks out, the bullets don't have long eyes. If, if, it hurts you... it won't be good. .”
Zhao Xin, who stammered, originally wanted to say, if I hurt such a beautiful woman like you, I would regret it for the rest of my life.
But what he didn't notice was that Shen Jingdan and Lu Yun on the side were stunned for a moment after hearing this; the two then looked at each other again.
Could this Zhao Xin be interested in Ah Quan...? But you haven’t seen anything these days? This Zhao Xin usually didn't see anyone for several days, so the two of them only met a few times. Moreover, Ah Quan is very talented, can it be done?
Zhao Xin felt so ashamed, the beauty was so close in front of him that he couldn't even speak smoothly. He said "hmm" twice, sorted out his thoughts, and said to Shen Xuan with a serious face: "Miss Shen, this place will soon become a battlefield. The sound of cannon fire on this ship is too loud, and Miss Luyun is pregnant." You can't be frightened, and you need someone to take care of you. Fighting is our men's business, so just go with Boss Shen."
"Yes, Ah Quan. With you by my side, I will feel at ease." Lu Yun reached out to help Shen Xuan up and said to her.
"Ah Quan, listen to Mr. Zhao! Let's get off the boat right away!" After Shen Jingdan finished speaking, he and Lu Yun pulled Shen Xuan away without any explanation, with Lao Huang following closely behind.
Shen Xuan turned back to look at Zhao Xin, her watery eyes making Zhao Xin's heart flutter.
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