Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1059

The Ming army set up camp by the sea, and built simple wooden houses with canvas and cut trees from the ships. Several small boats ran back and forth, transporting food, medicine, ammunition, explosives, quilts, etc. All kinds of materials were unloaded one by one.As the flagship of the Warsong Horn, the weapon configuration is of course not bad. It has several powerful new 130mm caliber long-barreled naval guns. It has a long range, a straight trajectory, and great power. It was a one-shot kill, and it was the best self-defense weapon for the entire crew of the Warsong Horn, who was trapped on the island of Ceylon and was ineffective every day.It's a pity that this kind of naval gun is too heavy. The big guy weighing several tons can't move it at all, and it's useless no matter how powerful it is.Everyone had to retreat and unload the shells on the ship one by one.The naval guns of the Ming Dynasty were extremely powerful, and most of the mystery lies in the shells. These shells must never fall into the hands of outsiders. It is better to unload them, and they can be used for mines when necessary.The Horn of Warsong also has two 120mm thunderbolt cannons, which are used as firefighting teams. When the naval guns fail, they can be used to push them up, and they can also be unloaded for infantry when landing. Now these two lightning cannons have become The most powerful weapon in Yang Menglong's hands is unloaded, and all the shells are moved over to set up artillery positions. I want to see who dares to provoke us!
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.The strict and almost harsh training of the Daming Navy allows the sailors who have served for several years to calmly deal with many complicated and dangerous situations. What's more, compared with their training, the current situation seems to be a little bit worse, and it has not yet made them panic. the point.In just one day, a temporary camp has begun to take shape, complete with fences, ditches, minefields, sentry towers, warehouses, and water sources.This kind of work ability really made Catherine speechless.The food is still sufficient. The biggest advantage of canned food is that it can be stored for a long time. There is a lot of food unloaded from the ship. If a strict rationing system is implemented, it will not be a problem to persist for more than half a month.Fresh water is not a problem, because their camp is at the mouth of a big river. The biggest problem now is to figure out their location and get in touch with the lost fleet.The former is easy to handle, but it is troublesome to contact the fleet... Only the devil knows where the fleet was blown by the strong wind.Yang Menglong ordered the soldiers to collect wet firewood, sprinkle it with kerosene, and light a fire by the sea. The wet firewood was smoldering and billowing black smoke rose into the air, which was very conspicuous, whether it was a ship at sea or a settlement by the sea. People, when they see such a big column of smoke, they will realize that there are people here. It's okay to say that the people who come are their own people. If the people who come are not good...the only one is Kai Bian.

The first thing Catherine did after landing was to take a bath, change into a clean set of clothes, and then sleep in the dark. The storm really tormented her.After waking up, it was already the afternoon of the third day. She felt better and got up to look for Yang Menglong.Yang Menglong was checking the terrain outside the camp, and was a little surprised to see her running over: "Why don't you sleep for a while? You didn't recover so quickly, did you?"

Catherine shook her head: "If you don't sleep anymore, your bones will be sore." Looking at the dense rainforest not far away, feeling the discomfort caused by the thick water vapor in her breath, she sighed: "We can be washed away." To a corner where no one lives is really a lot of luck."

Yang Menglong said: "We are lucky to survive. I don't know how the fleet is doing now. I hope they are okay."

Catherine smiled: "It will be fine for sure. The warships you make are all world-class, and their anti-sinking ability is far superior to similar warships. They are not so easily defeated by a storm." She glanced at Yang Menglong, a little gloating: " I just don't know what kind of expression they will have when they find out that their flagship is missing?"

Yang Menglong scratched his head and said, "They will probably breathe a sigh of relief, because no one will take care of them for the time being."

Catherine half-smiled: "Have you ever taken care of them?"

Yang Menglong uttered an "uh" and stopped talking... It seems that he hasn't managed the navy much in the past two years, and he has been lazy. The equipment, training, and personnel changes of the army are all controlled by Shen Tingyang, and he just goes to inspect occasionally. , or go to Beijing to help the navy grab some military budget, that's all, it's really thorough enough to let go of the shopkeeper.However, this does not mean that the navy can ignore his existence. In fact, every officer in the navy knows that the navy can develop so smoothly, and it is absolutely inseparable from his support. Without his support, the navy's military expenditure At least half of it will be cut off, and the status will plummet!
It is said that those who work hard will govern others, and those who work hard will govern others. This guy neither works hard nor works hard. Being the boss can be regarded as a state.

Yang Menglong wandered around, pointed out a few small loopholes in the defense line, and the engineers immediately started to fill them up. After doing this, he started to be lazy again, stepping on the white sandy beach with Catherine, and walking among the coconut trees.The coconut trees in this area are frighteningly high, as high as 30 meters. The leaf canopy is huge and luxuriant, covered with huge coconuts. When walking under the trees, you must be careful. If a coconut happens to fall from the tree and hits you The head will definitely die on the spot.Some female soldiers are picking up coconuts. For these girls, the luscious coconut juice is their favorite drink. The coconut meat is also delicious, and coconut oil can be squeezed out, which can be applied on the face for sun protection.No, when Yang Menglong and Catherine came over, two female soldiers were rubbing oily coconuts on their faces.Catherine said with a smile: "Our European girls like to go to the beach to bask in the sun, to tan themselves and make themselves look healthier, but Chinese girls are very afraid of tanning, which really makes me laugh." not understand."

Yang Menglong said: "Because you can't get tan no matter how much you tan, naturally you won't idealize the mood of a person who tans as soon as you tan...Aha, Catherine don't move, I found a big guy!" He suddenly saw a dead tree. There was a huge pincer in the hollow of the coconut tree that quickly retracted. The foodie immediately realized what the big pincer meant, and cried out excitedly.It was also fortunate that he called out, otherwise Catherine would have stuck her finger into the tree hole now—it would have been easy for the pliers to snap off her finger.

Catherine quickly retracted her hand.Yang Menglong approached the tree hole, pulled out the dog-leg knife attached to the outside of his thigh and poked into the tree hole for a while. Under Catherine's curious eyes, an ugly, huge creature crawled out from the other end of the tree hole and fell into it. on the ground.This thing is brown in color, with slender and downy limbs. It looks somewhat similar to a large spider, but it has a pair of huge, terrifying pincers. It is a coconut crab, a coconut crab that feeds on coconut meat!

This hideous-looking coconut crab, which was the size of a plate, didn't run away after landing. Instead, it raised its pair of large pincers at Catherine as a provocation. Catherine jumped back in fright, screamed, and swished. Pull out the rapier and stab wildly at the ground!Yang Menglong found that this foreign girl was poking wildly with her eyes closed, so she couldn't help rolling her eyes.She is really convinced, she is not afraid of the battlefield of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but she is so scared by a coconut crab, I don't know how her brain grows!He called: "I say, Countess, I have no problem with stabbing it to death, but can you open your eyes and see it before stabbing?"

Catherine opened her eyes in embarrassment, and found even more embarrassing that she had stabbed twenty or thirty swords, poking a lot of small holes in the ground, but the coconut crab was unscathed and crawled in front of her!The countess was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she backed away desperately, screaming repeatedly: "The devil...the devil...the devil is coming!" Seeing how frightened she was, if it wasn't for Yang Menglong, she would have run wild by now up.

Yang Menglong shouted: "Don't just call someone a devil, okay? Although the coconut crab looks a little sorry, it's delicious!" He squatted down and raised the knife with his hand. With a click, the dog-leg knife made of high-carbon steel easily Pierced the body of the coconut crab.The coconut crab stretched its teeth and danced its claws and struggled desperately, but was picked on the tip of the knife, how could it struggle to escape?Yang Menglong picked it up, weighed it, and was amazed: "Good guy, it weighs a few catties. This body is enough for me to eat for two days!" He called to Catherine: "Do you want it? If you want it, I will share it with you." A pair of tongs, trust me, it's delicious, I guarantee you'll want to eat it again!"

Catherine screamed, "Stay away, it's the devil!"

Yang Menglong shrugged: "It seems that I have to enjoy this feast by myself..."

Bang bang bang!
The gunshot suddenly sounded, it was a revolver!The soldiers who were moving on the beach were slightly shaken, stopped all activities, and looked away, only to hear the clear screams of girls coming from the east: "Help...Help..."

Under attack!
Yang Menglong swung hard, and the coconut crab, which weighed several kilograms, was fat and meaty, was thrown far away. He didn't even wipe the knife and ran away in that direction!The dozen or twenty soldiers who were active on the beach, whether they were male soldiers or female soldiers, threw away all unnecessary things in their hands the moment the gunfire rang out, pulled out their pistols and daggers, and rushed over there. That reaction speed is really as fast as lightning!

Yang Menglong ran the fastest, and the soft sand didn't affect his running speed. Probably only cheetahs or gazelles could compete with him for speed.While running, he heard several more gunshots. He flashed past a dense coconut tree, and saw two female soldiers in black military uniforms with long hair holding revolvers, shooting wildly towards this side. , at the same time shouting for help, a large group of overskirts made of weeds and bark, almost naked, tattooed aborigines holding bows and arrows and spears screaming and chasing after each other fiercely, their strange screams are like wild beasts. Howl, daunting!
He immediately understood what was going on: the rising smoke column attracted the natives living in this area as he expected, and the two female soldiers probably had too much fun and ran too far away to leave My partner, I ran into this group of natives.Many aborigines have the custom of snatching relatives, and even launch wars to snatch young women from other tribes as spouses. When these aborigines saw two young and beautiful girls, they couldn't hold back immediately, and surrounded them with green eyes, trying to flower girl...

It's a pity that they found the wrong target. The girls from the navy are not easy to mess with. The two girls immediately pulled out their revolvers and fired at them, knocking down two of them on the spot.The lethal pistol startled the natives, and the two girls took the opportunity to escape, and they ran so fast!But the natives immediately realized that they were chasing after them. They only had two pistols and only a few bullets, but there were nearly a hundred people on the other side, so they couldn't fight at all. help!

(End of this chapter)