Faced with this unexpected situation, not only Gao Jue frowned, but the two ship owners who often used the Red River waterway were also quite surprised.
After thinking for a while, Boss Hu shook his head slightly and said: "This is really strange. Even if the Annan people are so powerful that they have a detailed operation in Qinzhou, they have also definitely judged that our departure from the port this time is to embarrass them. , but even so, they didn’t have time to notify Shenglong to arrange these ‘River Chuns’!”
"Yes, what Old Hu said makes sense." Boss Li also frowned and said: "Even if the Annan people are really unexpectedly smart this time. But from Qinzhou to Shenglong, and then from Shenglong to the mouth of the Red River... How could this news spread so quickly? How can the people of Thang Long Annan be so efficient?"
"Your opinions are all reasonable." Gao Jue also frowned and said: "Qinzhou is the Qinzhou of our Ming Dynasty. Even if the Annan people work carefully in Qinzhou, it is impossible for them to have a six-hundred-mile express or an eight-hundred-mile express." Lijia is urgent. If the other party carefully prepares and sends the news back to Annan when we leave the port, the land route cannot be so fast. And the sea route... Qinzhou is Jinghua's private port. We don't know which ship leaves the port? All the ships that have left Qinzhou Port recently. How can we inform Shenglong in our fleet?"
He rejected the possibility of Annan passing on information, but he couldn't figure out how the information was leaked. At this time, Boss Li intervened and said: "Perhaps these 'He Chun' have nothing to do with us? Maybe... maybe they are used to deal with pirates? It doesn't seem to be that far away from the pirates' lair. Isn’t it?”
"The mouth of the Gang River not far from the pirate lair is not the mouth of the Hong River." Boss Hu shook his head and said: "There is still some distance between the mouth of the Red River and the mouth of the Gang River."
"Besides..." Boss Hu paused and added: "It is normal for pirates to loot along the coast. It is not that the area around the Red River Estuary has not been harassed by pirates, but I have never heard of any. The pirates dare to go up the Red River and grab Thang Long? That would be too arrogant. Thang Long also has Mo's regular navy in normal times! Is it possible that those pirates still want to fight head-on to steal Mo's navy? The army picked him? This is outrageous."
Gao Jue looked at the river rafts, pondered for a moment, shook his head decisively, and said: "No, these river rafts are not used to deal with pirates! Look..."
He stretched out his hand and pointed, and said, "When Mr. Gao was the admiral of Caojiang, I fought with the Japanese pirates, and I still know a little about the 'hechun'. The 'hechun' in front of me only winds in a line in the middle of the river, with two rows in front and back. The distance between the river rafts is ten feet, and they are arranged very sparsely. Therefore, a small boat cannot stop it. A sampan can even pass between two river rafts at will. And a slightly larger boat can also pass through the two river rafts at will. You can slowly go around the 'He Chun', or avoid the central river channel and go to both sides. Even your boats may go around it. Only real large-scale ships, such as our armed transport ships in Jinghua, can It’s really hard to get through.”
After hearing this, the two bosses hurriedly took a look and looked again, and it turned out that it was indeed the case. Because the "He Chun" are arranged in an S shape, when a large ship goes around the first row of "He Chun", it will definitely not be able to avoid the second row of "He Chun" because of its longer hull. Moreover, the river is no different from the sea. The water level is deeper in the center and shallower on both sides. It is the dry season right now. If a large ship does not take the central waterway but goes around both sides, there may be a risk of running aground in certain sections of the river.
Therefore, the layout of this "River Chun", as Gao Jue said, is designed to block large ships but not small ones. Those pirate ships are generally smaller, because small people are more flexible and can escape if they can't be beaten. Therefore, this "He Chun" is obviously not used to deal with pirates.
So whose boat is bigger? After thinking about it now, it seems that these armed transport ships in Jinghua can be considered big ships. Although compared with the big treasure ships when the Ming Dynasty was the most majestic, they are just a small thing, but at least for now, they can still be called big ships.
"It seems they are really targeting us." Boss Li said with a somewhat depressed tone: "Since these 'He Chun' can only deal with big ships, they must be targeting us, but I still don't understand how they guessed us. Will they come to Shenglong and block the mouth of the Red River with the 'He Chun'?"
As he spoke, he sighed and added: "Anyway, the arrangement of the 'Hechun' in this way does not affect the navigation of the boat. In other words, while blocking Jinghua's gunboat, it does not have any impact on the Annan people themselves. Too big an impact.”
"The influence is still there." Boss Hu was experienced and observed carefully. He pointed to a river spring and said: "Gao Tuanzuo, Lao Li, you see, this 'hechun' is equivalent to a simple sluice. When passing through the 'He Chun', the amount of water will decrease, and the amount of water flowing between the 'He Chun' and next to the 'He Chun' will increase accordingly, and the water flow will speed up. For small boats, the resistance will be great. Increased."
When he said this, he reminded himself and added again: "Also, the water flowing through the 'He Chun' and the water flowing between the 'He Chun' or even next to the 'He Chun' have different flow rates. , this will easily form a whirlpool, which will cause further danger to the passage of small boats... Well, look, a whirlpool has formed over there!"
Gao Jue and Boss Li looked in the direction of his finger. Sure enough, as he said, the water flow here became very disordered due to the river spring, and a whirlpool was formed.
Boss Li stroked his beard and said: "It looks like the Annan people really killed a thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses to themselves with this move. Let's not forget that in addition to affecting their boats, these things Our navy has now gone south to fight against the Li clan. When they come back, won’t they also have to face these obstacles? The Annan people are really not afraid of trouble!"
"Wait a minute!" Gao Jue suddenly remembered something Boss Hu said before and said, "Boss Hu said before that the Li family has hooked up with Fo Langji. Not only did they buy artillery from Fo Langji, You also bought two warships and planned to use them to fight against the Mo family navy? Do you think the Annan people set up these river rafts to block the two Folangji warships?"
Boss Hu and Boss Li were reminded by Gao Jue. They slapped their thighs at the same time and said in unison: "Yes! It's very possible!"
Especially Boss Hu, who added: "No, it's not possible, it's inevitable! Only in this way can we explain what Mo's family did! With these river springs, although they may not be able to stop the two Franco warships, But at least it can delay them for some time.”
Gao Jue breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved: "In that case, we just need to use a little effort to pull out these river tombs. I have experience in this area. These river ton... we can clean them up in one day at most." "
In one day, even if Shenglong gets the news and makes preparations, the preparations are limited, and they can basically achieve the effect of a sneak attack.
In particular, this place may not be an area that the Mo Dynasty officials care about now. There are only poor fishermen around, and these fishermen don't seem to have any hostility towards their fleet, which is not the "Li Ni Water Division" at first glance. Maybe they don't have any hostility at all. It will not be reported to the government.
In this case, Shenglong may not be able to give much advance warning.
Gao Jue's method of dealing with these He Chun was a little time-consuming, but not laborious. He just ordered people to tie the prepared cables where the anchor was hung at the bow of the ship, and sent a small boat to tie up the river raft at the other end. Then he ordered the whole ship to set sail, and the huge kinetic energy pulled out the wooden piles rammed into the river bottom in one fell swoop. .
This is because the sandy soil at the bottom of the river is soft, and the roots of the "River Chun" cannot be very strong. Of course he knew very well that he had arranged such a thing to stop Japanese pirates.
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Thank you to the book friend for the reward of "One thought lasts forever", thank you! By the way, these two chapters mention the transaction between Li Chao and Fo Langji, the purchase of ships, etc., which are to pave the way for the subsequent plot. I cannot accept the word "water" - besides, this is a plot story in the first place, and I have no explanation. What's the point?
