On the East River between Long Island and Manhattan Island, a small boat tried to cross the river from Manhattan Island to Long Island.
As a result, halfway through, there was a sudden violent splash in the water ahead.
Continuous small-caliber machine gun shells hit the water.
The helmsman of the boat was startled and immediately changed the course from crossing the river to going down the river.
At the same time, together with the passengers on the boat, they raised their heads in the direction of the cannonball.
It was a patrol gunboat of about 500 tons. There were two twin 40mm cannons installed on the bow, as well as several 20mm small-caliber cannons.
The patrol boat quickly approached the boat and sailed forward basically parallel to the boat.
A man wearing a new Ming-style formal suit stood out from the cabin of the boat and shouted to the patrol boat in Ming dialect:
"Dear Ming Dynasty soldiers, I am also from Lin County now. I have already registered. Please let me go!"
The patrol boat was quiet for a while, then a traffic boat was lowered, carrying a soldier and a translator and approached the boat.
The Ming soldiers carrying guns shouted to the boat:
“Those who have registered their household registration in Lin County can follow us across the river, but no one else is allowed to pass.
"Take out your household registration certificate. I hope you are really registered, otherwise I will throw you into the sea to feed the fish."
After the soldier finished speaking, the man who had just shouted immediately cheered in surprise:
"Thank you Daming, thank you Master Jun. I will go back home to Lin County now and never go to Manhattan again."
He cheered and began to dig into his pocket, took out a red booklet, jumped onto the soldier's boat and handed it over.
The soldier took it over and checked it. It was indeed an official household registration book issued recently by Lin County.
The above customs clearance information shows that he left Lin County and went to Manhattan on the days after the imperial examination ended.
After a moment's thought, the soldier put the man in his boat and prepared to take him across the river.
At the same time, the translator translated the words of the Ming soldiers, and the boat on the opposite side immediately became a mess.
The passenger on the boat was not just the man, but a large group of dozens of people.
Their purpose was obviously to seek refuge on Long Island.
In the past two months, battles between the British and French forces and the United States and Canada have begun, and panic has begun to spread in Maryland and New Jersey, which are closest to the battlefield.
It's just that Changdao has always been in a peaceful and stable state, so the people on the island don't feel much.
When the British and French fleets formally attacked Staten Island and formally threatened New York and New Jersey, panic completely broke out.
No ordinary person likes war. In the eyes of ordinary people there, the safest place is the Dongyi Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.
So in the past two days, people have been trying to cross the river by boat.
But Ming's patrol team has been patrolling at high intensity, prohibiting anyone from crossing the East River at will.
Only those who have registered their household registration in Lin County can pass.
Everyone else who comes to try their luck will be driven back directly, or sent directly to the bottom of the sea with people and boats.
This time, there were only three people on the boat who were really from Lin County, and they were picked up by Daming's patrol boat and taken to the other side.
This kind of thing has been happening one after another these days.
The situation is even worse in Youchangshi Mansion, Dongyi Peninsula.
The Dongyi Peninsula is connected to the American mainland, and the border is relatively long and closer to the battlefield.
Before the war started again, people were sneaking across the border from time to time.
Now that the war has resumed, more Americans from the Maryland area are running to the Dongyi Peninsula.
Even though the Youchang Shifu garrison deployed a barbed wire fence on the border, people still tried to climb over it every day.
Mu Yongfu had to dispatch new militiamen and deploy manned cordons along the border wire fence.
Li Qingsong, the newly formed militia flag general in Wei County, led his men to leave Wei County and go to the western border of Cecil to support the security.
The western boundary of Maryland in Cecil County is a river whose mouth is deep enough to have a port.
But as the river extends upward for ten kilometers, it becomes similar to many other rivers in Beiyinzhou.
The width of the water surface is about one kilometer, but the water depth in most areas is only more than one meter, and even less than one meter in many places. There are many sandbars in the middle of the river.
It's August now, and the weather is not too cold yet. Taixi people who really want to go here can even go straight across the river without a boat, or by swimming or swimming.
Therefore, the defense and warning of this river bank have become a relatively important task.
Since they may encounter people at any time, it is difficult for Ming officers and local people to communicate, and it is even difficult to communicate within the new militia.
Therefore, Erica, the female translator who worked as a translator for Li Qingsong during the training, is still with Li Qingsong, serving as the flag general translator and also serving as a civilian record-keeper in the team.
Erica has passed the exam and became an official translator and civil servant of Dongyi Kingdom. Although she prefers to stay in Changshi Mansion, she is equally satisfied with the job in front of her.
Now I am sitting on the river bank with Li Qingsong, blowing the cool autumn wind, and admiring the peaceful scenery around me.
It would be better if no one bothers me from time to time.
Erica was thinking this in her mind, and an inappropriate scene appeared in front of her eyes.
Three young Thais carried a small boat and trotted all the way from the other side to the water's edge. They put down the boat and paddled this way.
The soldiers on duty sounded the alert, and Li Qingsong and several resting officers jumped up at the same time.
"Shoot and intercept immediately! Warn the other party not to cross the river!"
Erica also jumped up and went to translate the orders to the Taixi soldiers.
A Yin soldier had already controlled the machine gun set up on the shore and fired more than a dozen rounds at the water.
The original intention was to warn and dissuade.
But when the gunfire rang out, the three young Thais over there seemed frightened and jumped off the boat and got into the water.
Li Qingsong frowned and continued to issue orders:
"Everyone spreads out along the river bank. If you find suspicious people coming ashore and disobeying orders, you can open fire directly."
Erica translated the order and asked Tessie's soldiers to go to work separately.
Li Qingsong held his rifle and observed the situation on the water.
Soon after, a man's head emerged from the shore near him, seemingly taking a breath.
Li Qingsong kept a straight face and waited for the other party to climb ashore. When he tried to run inland, he pulled the trigger and hit the ground in front of the other party with a bullet.
The young Thai boy stopped immediately and shouted in English in horror:
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I don't mean any harm..."
Li Qingsong couldn't understand what the other party was yelling at. While Erica was translating, two soldiers had already stepped forward to greet her.
A Yin soldier swung his rifle butt and hit the Taixi young man on the side of his face, knocking him to the ground.
The two Thai soldiers behind immediately followed and tied the opponent's hands and feet with the prepared ropes.
Two other young Thais who were trying to cross the border had also been caught by other soldiers, their hands tied and escorted over.
Li Qingsong had their hands and feet tied up, and the three of them were thrown to the ground together, asking the soldiers to continue to be on guard.
Erica picked up her notebook and followed the regulations to interrogate and record the situation of the three Thai youths.
Before speaking, he immediately mocked:
"You Thai and Western men are really useless and cowards. Instead of fighting for your country, you fled to Ming Dynasty."
When a young Thai boy heard Erica's taunt, he immediately twisted his body excitedly and said loudly:
"We are not cowards, we just don't want to fight our own people. Virginia and Maryland are both English."
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Another one immediately continued:
"We don't even know which country is ours. What's the difference between England, Scotland and the United States?"
The last one also loudly said:
"My parents are both Dutch! Why should I follow the British and fight against the British?"
While Erica was recording the situation, she continued to ask with a look of disgust:
"You are unwilling to fight, so why support American independence? Why join the North?"
A young Thai-Spanish man immediately said loudly:
"We have not joined the North, we have not joined any party, and we are not thinking of independence!"
Erica continued to ask:
“You don’t want independence, so why didn’t you oppose it when Adams wanted independence?
“You are unwilling to fight for independence, so why don’t you fight for non-independence?
"Why didn't you resist Adams and Napoleon? Did you wait until the British and French troops arrived before you thought about escaping?
"You are always like this anyway and never dare to take responsibility."
The three young Thai-Spanish people all had big heads, and they asked confused questions and doubts:
"Why are you so unreasonable, woman? Why don't we go against Adams? Do we have a chance to go against Adams?"
"Whether we are independent or not is not up to us. We are just three ordinary people."
"What does that Frenchman Napoleon have to do with us?"
Erica felt even more disgusted when she heard their doubts:
"Emperor Shizu of the Ming Dynasty once said that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, but you have no such awareness at all.
"You are born ignorant, but you don't know how to learn. You can only follow the trend. How can you achieve good results?"
In a mocking tone, Erica communicated with the three Thai youths for a while and recorded some key points.
After sorting out his thoughts, he returned to Li Qingsong and reported:
"General Banner, these three Thais are of English descent, one of Scottish descent, and one of Dutch descent.
“They are all fighting against ordinary people who are ignorant, ignorant and numb, who don’t know why they are fighting and don’t want to fight.
"They all want to escape the war and flee to the safest place in Ming Dynasty. How should we deal with them?"
Li Qingsong looked back and saw that the three Thai and Western youths were still struggling from time to time:
"Since they are all ordinary people, if they are left to starve on the ground for a day with their hands and feet tied, it will be treated as a slight punishment, and they will be sent back to the other side tomorrow."
After listening to this, Erica took a step forward, less than half a meter away from Li Qingsong, and said with exaggerated praise:
"Mr. Qi, you are so kind..."
Li Qingsong's expression was a little strange. Obviously the same thing had happened several times, and he basically handled it this way.
As a result, this woman behaved very exaggeratedly every time, and every time she moved closer to her so hard that she wanted to cling to her.
If I were not a soldier, if military regulations were not there, I would have executed this slut dozens of times on the spot.
When will this life end...
