Chapter 264 The Combined Fleet Returning From Overseas
Thank you Comrade Li Kun for donating 400 taels of silver to Wei Erdai Charity Foundation!
My father-in-law said that he should have been doing charity for a long time, otherwise he would not have the money to buy Huazi, so he would not be able to embezzle military pay.
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Dengzhou Water Camp sends ships to sea cruise every year. In the early years, due to Japanese pirates, Dengzhou Water Camp sent ships to sea every five or six days. Later, there was no Japanese attack. Over time, the number of times Dengzhou Water Camp went to sea was significantly less, and now it is still maintained that it is about once a month.
However, each ship that goes to sea will at most have one sentry and five ships.
In the Ministry of War, Dengzhou has a total of five naval battalions, namely the Shuituying, the Shuituying, the Shuituying, the Shuituying, the Shuituying, and the Shuituying. Each battalion has one leader, two posts per battalion, and one poster, each post is equipped with two blessed ships, one Haicang, and two ships.
In this way, the Dengzhou Water Camp had a total of five battalions and ten posts, with fifty warships of all sizes and three officers and soldiers. In this way, the water patrol and safety of the Dengzhou Water Camp were enough to take charge of the Denglai to the southern Haizhou. However, each time you go to sea, there are at least one post and five ships, and the Dengzhou Water Camp was too fooled by the court. You should know that during the Jiajing period, the water camp had at least four posts and twenty ships each time you went to sea!
However, even if the Ministry of War comes to the nuclear water camp every year, and there are many problems with the water camp, the water camp can still receive sufficient salary from the Ministry of War every year, and the contributions made by the water camp in and outside Dengzhou to maintain local stability are praised.
This is why you can be a person and an official.
The Land Sent Officer of the Shuihou Camp is the kind of official who knows how to be a human being. He has been working in the Shuihou Camp for almost twenty years, which shows how hard this person is to be an official.
But he can't be an official, but he will lead troops.
The entire Dengzhou Water Camp's 5th and 10th ships belonging to the Land Sent Officer's ship is the best maintenance, and he never participates in selling goods to North Korea, nor does he allow his subordinates to sail the ship out for fishing.
Perhaps the senior management of the Water Camp also felt that one or two people who could fight water would need to support the situation. In this way, if something happened one day, the entire Water Camp would not be disgraced. Therefore, the land sentry officer was considered to be taking care of him and he would give him whatever he should give, but he would not be promoted.
As for Lu Shuai Guan, he may be really a fool, and he doesn't feel wronged about this. How can I say that this person is a kind of person who accepts things in the same way or is the kind of person who ignores everything else and just do the things at hand well.
The water camp patrols the sea are actually two purposes. One is to patrol the water camp to see if there are any water pirates or Japanese pirates; the other is to practice warships and train sailors, so as not to make the water camp's secret masters unfamiliar.
Every time you go out to sea, it takes seven days. Today is the last day for the five ships of the Land Post Officer to patrol the post.
During these seven days, the farthest place where Lu Shunguan and his team arrived was Haizhou in the south. There was no enemy situation along the way. They had seen nothing except the fishermen's fishing boats and some merchant ships, and their lives could be said to be very boring.
What kind of official leads what kind of soldiers?
The 300 sailors under the Land Sent Officer can be said to be the elite of the Dengzhou Water Camp. Although they would not bring any benefits to them, under the guidance of the sentry officer, these soldiers still worked hard to fulfill their responsibilities as sailors.
Several cannons on the Fu Ship had just been fired, and the gunner was cleaning the barrel with a cloth. The land sentry officer was watching. It was very important for the gunner to clean the barrel. If the barrel was not cleaned up, something might happen next time the gun was fired.
"Whistle, do you want some meat from the above when you reach the shore and let your brothers slaughter the teeth? The brothers eat dried salted fish every day, and their stomachs will be vomited."
An old gunner has been following the Lu Shun Officer for thirteen years, so he dares to joke with the Lu Shun Officer.
"I'll ask for it, but they won't give it to me, I'll cut it myself."
The lady Lu Shuaiguan died of dying from childbirth and never married again. She is still alone and hangs with these brothers every day, and almost all the money she paid for it.
"How can I call the whistle cut? After the docking, everyone will get a little together."
The old gunner's words attracted the consent of the sailors around him. The soldiers were the most realistic, and they all saw whether the officials were good to them.
The Lu Shun Officer laughed and was about to say that he would go and ask for meat from the superiors first after the dock. If he really couldn't get it, a soldier suddenly shouted: "What is that?"
The others looked in the direction the soldier pointed and found that something seemed to be approaching the sea in the distance. But because they were far away, they could not recognize what it was.
There is no Mile Mile Mileage available at the level of the Sweeper. If you want to see far and clearly, you have to ask someone to climb up the whistle. The Sweeper immediately asked a soldier to climb up the mast to see what was in the distance.
The soldier who went up hugged the mast with one hand and placed the other on his right eyelid. He glanced for a while, and then screamed in surprise: "The whistle is a ship, a big ship, a lot of ships!"
The people below were shocked when they heard this.
"Check the flag, and all ships are alert!"
The Land Sentinel responded very quickly. No matter what ship it was coming, he would be prepared for the first time to be alert.
Soon, seeing the banner of the lucky ship on the Land Post Officer, the officers and soldiers on the other four warships immediately entered the state of fighting. The gunners all began to load medicine into the chamber.
The Land Post Officer ordered the five ships to move closer together, two lucky ships in the middle, and the other three were one in front, one on the left and one on the right, forming a triangular formation.
As the fleet in the distance got closer, the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Water Camp began to truly feel why the soldier who had climbed onto the mast screamed so much.
There were really many ships on the other side. From a distance, there were dark clouds pressing over the sea, and there were wind and masts, which made the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Water Camp, including the Land Sent Officer, frightened. Some soldiers were already thinking that if it was an enemy ship, they would have no power to fight back.
"The whistle came from the outside sea." The old gunner's face was solemn.
The Land Post Officer said "yes", and he also saw from the direction of the fleet that they were coming from the outer sea.
But no matter where the other party came from, he would not order a retreat. This sea area is the sea area of the Ming Dynasty, and the responsibility of him and his officers and soldiers is to protect this sea area and not allow any ship from the foreign enemy to act fiercely in this sea area.
Even if they die here in battle, they must protect this sea area.
Just when the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Water Camp were extremely nervous, three cigarette cartridges suddenly rose and exploded over the fleet in the distance.
"It's your own person!"
The smoke bombs fired by the other party were obviously only available in the Ming army, which made the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Water Camp breathe a sigh of relief. Although they were brave, facing such a huge fleet, who would not be afraid?
However, the land sentry officer did not order the warning to be lifted, but ordered the flag bearer to slap the flag to ask which side of the water camp the other party was.
The officers and soldiers were also whispering, saying that they had never seen such a large fleet. Some said that it was probably the Guangdong Water Camp in the south, because the Guangdong Water Camp had launched a large-scale north to aid Korea twenty years ago. Some said that it might be the Wusong Water Camp in the south, and they also had a lot of ships.
"Whistle, the other party said they were the joint fleet of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Army!" The flag bearer tried hard to recognize the other party's flag words and shouted loudly.
"Combined Fleet?"
The old gunner was confused and looked at the Land Sent Officer but found that he was also confused: When did the imperial court set up a joint fleet?
The distance is very close. The closest ship that claims to be the joint fleet of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Army is only more than one mile away from Dengzhou Water Camp.
There are probably hundreds of warships of all sizes, including blessing ships, tower ships, three-masted gun ships, and even iron-packed ships that look like turtle shells. Various warships surround a tall blessing ship and march forward in a mighty manner.
Compared with this fleet, the five ships in Dengzhou Water Camp are like ants at the feet of an elephant.
The Dengzhou Water Camp was lifted from the combat state, and they saw that the muzzle of the United Fleet did not point to them. The other party asked them with flags and whether they were Dengzhou Water Camp. After receiving a positive response, the United Fleet played a salute flag.
"salute?"
The Lu Shuai Officer became more and more confused. The Ming Shuai flag was customized since the beginning of the country, but he really didn't know what salute meant.
However, soon the Land Sent Officer and the officers and soldiers of the Water Camp knew the meaning of salute.
Because, the deck and two strings of each ship of the United Fleet were filled with officers and soldiers wearing white military uniforms. They stood straight, lifted their right hands, wearing white gloves, to the upper side of their right ears, and countless pairs of eyes were looking at Dengzhou Water Camp, which had only five boats.
Is this a salute?
The Lu Shun Officer subconsciously followed the other person's appearance and raised his right hand together.
One ship after another, half an hour passed, and the warships standing in white uniforms on the ship continued to sail past the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Water Camp.
How many ships do you need?
The Lu Shun Officer and his subordinates stood silently, with excitement and envy in their eyes.
Chapter completed!