Chapter 19 Sailing
The west wind was blowing, and Chengshan Port Wharf was busy, with 3,250 coast guards lined up to board the ship. The civilians seized the time and used simple lifting equipment to send the last batch of supplies onto the ship.
The main supplies were loaded yesterday, but those fresh vegetables, fruits and meat can last more than one day at sea one day later, right?
Jin Ke, who was in charge of the security area, and Zhu Jue, who was going back to Xingang, sent Gongzi, Wang Rulong and others to board the ship in front of the huge ship 101. Large ships with more than a thousand materials can no longer be used to board the ship board, and a special wooden gangway must be erected.
However, in this way, Mr. Zhao finally didn't have to worry about falling into the water from the boat board. He walked on the wooden gangway and was in a mood to turn around and waved to the two of them, feeling like he was on the 'Navy No. 1'.
Watching the young master get on the boat, Jin Ke quickly turned back. He took 750 coast guards to stay at the base, and the task was also very heavy. He had to be vigilant, supervise the workers, and prepare for the next batch of supplies, which could not be delayed for a moment.
In this punishment battle against Japan, the Danluo garrison area was dispatched in full swing. In addition to the ten thousand-hu black-tailed ships and twenty thousand-number Dafu ships, there were also ten medium-sized black-tailed ships, fifteen fast ships, five supply ships, a total of fifty-one large and small ships.
With so many ships alone, it would be very troublesome to leave the port. If it hadn't been practiced in advance, it would have bumped into it when it was out of the port.
According to the exercise routine, ten medium-sized black-tailed ships will take the lead in leaving the port, set up alerts outside the port, and protect large ships that are slow to move offshore from the port.
The First Blood, where Chu Liuxiang is located, is the command ship of a small ship squadron, so he has to be the first to sail out of the port... In the ship classification in the security area, the Qianli Dafu ship is defined as a medium-sized ship. The medium-sized black-tailed ship falls into the category of small ships. Even ships smaller than it are not even considered ships, so they can only be called boats.
Time was tight, so as soon as he got on the boat, he quickly called the members of the artillery team to put down their backpacks and immediately changed into training uniforms.
The police took off their hats and helmets, took off their robes from outside, revealing the blue and white striped cotton sea soul shirts inside. Then they sat on the stool, put aside the expensive black cowhide military boots, unbuttoned the cowhide belt, took off their straight dark blue pine cloth trousers, and threw them on their hammock.
Then they changed into dark blue linen trousers and long-sleeved double-breasted pairs, and put on black cloth boots. The mighty and capable temperament disappeared immediately. It seemed that the words "people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles" were correct.
Chu Liuxiang and others changed into their training uniforms, took off their wicker helmets from the wall, and wore them on their heads, rushed out of the cabin, untied their cannon suits, loaded shells, and prepared to fire at suspicious targets at any time!
The reserve police officers in the gun team quickly packed up the seniors' uniforms and belts and hung them one by one into the wardrobe fixed in the bulkhead. They also had to oil the boots, but they didn't have time to start the boat, so they could only place them neatly at the bottom of the cabinet and wait for the evening to rest.
Today is a west wind, which is suitable for large ships to leave the port.
After a little more than an hour, all the ships in the fleet left the post and re-formed the finished character formation on the south side of Niudao, hanging sails toward the east.
This is a voyage that you don't have to worry too much, because the current will send them directly to Kitakyushu. The whole journey is less than 500 miles, and there is a good wind to send them to Hirado in two days.
Seeing that the crew had finished the boat driving, began to wipe the deck and maintain the artillery, Zhao Hao finally couldn't help but inspect the Wanhu Wuwei Ship, which was used as a flagship.
Wang Rulong quickly called Haierge, who was the captain, to the stern of the ship, and accompanied the young master to visit with him. First, Haierge knew the situation of the ship best, and second, if there was any mistake, he could also blame him for his wit!
"Your name is Haier Ge?" Zhao Hao stood on the stern of the top floor and smiled at the captain who was trotting up, "Is his hair yellow either?"
"Yes!" Haiergo first responded, then was stunned. "Ah?"
Obviously I can't understand Mr. Zhao's meme.
"Who gave you this name?" Mr. Zhao smiled and asked in a different way.
"It's the captain of the general, and he likes to name people the most." Haierge glanced at Wang Rulong and said, "My original name was Haigou'er, and my brother was Haidan'er. The captain thought it was too unpleasant, so he changed it to Erge, Erdi."
"Why, not satisfied?" Wang Rulong glared at him as if warning: "You are you, yours, Er Ge is 'your brother', and the second brother is 'your brother', and he is also wise and knowledgeable. You can't afford to pay for a sir!"
"Satisfied." Haierge quickly laughed. How dare he provoke his immediate boss?
"Hahaha, Captain Wang is really a naming expert." Zhao Hao laughed and pointed at Wang Rulong, and asked while following Haier Ge down the stairs, "Do you have the parameters of this ship?"
"It has been measured." Haiergo hurriedly used a scientific unit to tell the truth: "The 101 stern stern building has three floors, four floors under the deck, the hull is 47.71 meters long, 10.26 meters wide, 4.17 meters draft, and 454 tons of water displacement!"
"Well, it's really pretty." Mr. Zhao nodded in approval, stroked the gangway handrail made of ironwood, and said to Wang Rulong: "It seems that the workmanship of this ship is much thinner than that of those medium-sized black-tailed ships."
"No, it's simply from heaven and earth." When talking about this, Wang Rulong said without any angrily: "Those ten black-tailed boats are obviously bullying us... they are from other places, deliberately cutting corners and making shoddy products!"
Fortunately, he swallowed the four words "silly people and more money" back, and did not let the bad mouth ruin his future.
"Well, I understand. I made it for that book I once made a human version, and the one sold it to us was a monkey version." Mr. Zhao nodded in a clear way and said, "No wonder Guangdong people love to eat Hu Jianren."
"Uh..." The two of them couldn't understand it again. Fortunately, Wang Rulong was used to the young master's new words, so he continued without asking for any understanding: "Zeng Yiben must have liked this boat very much, but he spent a lot of money. Except for the elm used in keel bones and the fir used in masts, the rest of the water was iron wood."
Tielli wood grows very slowly. After years of cutting down, large wood is already rare. It is estimated that several forests will be cut down on such a ship that has been built with a ship of ten thousand hu.
"This thing is too strong." Wang Rulong also stroked the ship railing with a slutty look on his face, and repeated the first time: "When the shell is shot, it is just a shallow mark, and even the wood chips cannot be splashed. Although the materials used by Dafu ships in Longjiang Factory are also good, they can still be smashed!"
Obviously, Lao Wang had mastered the killer moves of the iron wooden boat and was happy. Mr. Zhao suddenly understood why Wang Rulong didn't want to let him follow the boat. I'm afraid that if he was on the boat, he wouldn't be able to play bumper boats with this big guy...
"Speaking of this, ironwood is not the hardest." Mr. Zhao took back his hand and smiled: "In our northeast, there is a kind of iron birch wood, which is three times the hardness of oak, and is known as the Wood King."
"Is that so? Then when you go back, please go to Nurkandus to look for it!" Wang Rulong was excited when he heard it. "If this is used to shoot a boat, you don't even need to fire the cannon, and it's over!"
"No need to be so troublesome, there are also on Ainu Island." Mr. Zhao smiled and showed a longing expression. But what he thought was not to use this thing to build a ship, that would be too luxurious.
Such precious wood, it would be a pity not to have car beads!
Don't laugh, really. Iron birch wood is twice as hard as ordinary steel. In the Soviet Union, this thing was used to make balls, bearings, etc. to replace steel for machines and cars, which did not affect them at all.
This is a mechanical material given to Mr. Zhao by God!
The three of them chatted and came to the main deck. A group of police officers were washing the deck under the guidance of the duty officer. Seeing the three of them coming down, the duty officer immediately stood at attention and shouted: "Salute!"
The police officers holding rags, mops and buckets immediately stood up straight, with their legs together, without squinting.
"Go a little rest." Zhao Hao looked at the group of smurfs in blue clothes and blue trousers, feeling very happy, as if he was appreciating his own works. The police's training uniforms, including their arrogant police robe, were written by him.
In June, Zhao Hao came to visit the soldiers after the Naval Battle of Kabo Island and found that they were still wearing the village man's uniform, but the pulp was dyed blue, and with a modern military rank, it was as awkward as it would be.
So he decided to change his clothes for the soldiers, and the group also wanted to distribute autumn clothes for the coastal security team. On the way back to Beijing, Mr. Zhao asked Sister Ma, who was a proficient in Danqing, to draw down his design ideas.
Regarding the police robe that demonstrates the temperament of the coast guard and improves the image and pride of the coast guard, Mr. Zhao first planned to wear modern naval clothing. However, considering that although the Ming Dynasty is liberating and freely dressing, aesthetics is one step ahead of the trend, two steps ahead is a pioneer art, and three steps ahead is a joke. So after thinking about it, he still based on the Jinyiwei, the most handsome uniform unit of the Ming Dynasty, and referred to the magic-revised costume design in Donnie Yen's version of "Jinyiwei", and produced such a very pleasing police robe.
As soon as he returned to the capital, Zhao Hao found a few tailors, cut the layout according to the design drawings, and sent it to Jiangnan Textile Corporation in a hurry.
Although he is dressed like this, he can reflect the strength of Jiangnan Group. After receiving the order from Mr. Zhao, Liu Zhengqi immediately assigned the task.
The main task was the Jiangnan Cotton Spinning Company led by Weng Fan. Now he has mastered half of the cotton spinning in Songjiang. Songjiang Mansion is known as the world's clothing and quilts, so it is naturally no problem to make a few clothes for thousands of police officers.
In addition, dozens of tailor shops, dozens of leather shops, dozens of shoe shops and jewelry stores in Suzhou City also took action together after receiving the order. In two months, a full set of 6,000 people was completed, and Chen Huaixiu's fleet was sent to Danluo Island.
Including each person's autumn outfit, winter outfit, a hat and helmet, a cowhide belt, a pair of long-tube cowhide boots, and two pairs of ship cotton boots.
Not to mention anything else, just talking about the full cowhide tendon hand-sewn, the three-layer boot soles are also long boots with cowhide. Only elite cavalrymen of the Ming Dynasty, generals of the Han Dynasty, and Dongchang men can afford it.
Chapter completed!