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Chapter 3: The Roaring Sea (6)

Taking advantage of this interest, he then ran to the upper deck with a cheeky, and applied to the second officer on duty for target shooting permission."We have guns!" Suo Zhongwu already regarded the soldiers in the back building as his own, and he used "us" without any ambiguity:

"There are fishes in the track, they are all thumping. It's just time to exercise, so as not to slack off!"

The second deck was long and short, but his legs were sturdy like iron pillars, and his personality was like iron bumps.He stiffly stated that although "Heavenly Weapon Festival" is a distinguished guest, the rules cannot be accommodated.The guns and guns of the army are not allowed to go out of the box unless they are in battle. As for shooting practice, don't even think about it."I have my duty, let me down." The battle commander looked up at Suo Zhongwu. The salted turban was able to ring hard. With a wave of his stout right arm, the waves curled up by the web broke into pieces:

"With the authority I have, I can only open the armory of the deck warhead to you."

This is already pretty good.Suo Zhongwu no longer stubbornly insisted on his own opinions, he held a fist to the group of brothers in the bow tower, apologized to them very regretfully, and then ate alone.

The deck warhead is a special department of the Zhenyang Army Navy’s naval vessels. In the "Mingwei Xianxin", this department has a total of 86 officers and soldiers, which is equivalent to two dissatisfied army fifty-man squads. Be stronger.

Suo Zhongwu had seen the breech switch electric quick guns arranged on the gangway, the bridge, and the masts.These fast guns keep a blunderbuss in the chamber at all times, and can be fired immediately in danger.One-third of the ammunition allocated to the quick guns is flower shells, one-third is shotguns in thin iron barrels, and another third is grape shells with middle shafts full of projectiles, all of which are efficient deck sweepers; The mounts on which these artillery are installed can also rotate 360 ​​degrees in all directions. Even if the evil spirit climbs out of the top of the chimney, it will never be able to escape a severe beating.

Seventy rods of flintlocks are stored in four long iron boxes, firmly nailed to the cypress deck.There are a total of thirty long guns in it. The blunderbuss and bolts are oiled every day, the four-sided bayonet flashes blue lightly, and there are thirty flintlock pistols. Some are just shortened versions of flintlock rifles, but others are guns. The barrel is sturdy and the muzzle opens like a horn.Suo Zhongwu caught this kind of big spray at a glance, preferring to exchange his flintlock with a gun, and he was very stubborn with the battle.

Cold weapons are also indispensable.However, the ship was not equipped with the curved-blade sailor's knife with guards that is common in pirate movies.The swords of the deck combat team are round-headed, pointed horizontal swords of the same style as the army, and they are all pressed on the bottom of the iron box.Compared with swords, they are more popular among deck combat teams. Instead, they are ship spears that are more than eight feet long. The front third is made of steel. The counterweight cone at the tail is thick and long with a sharp edge. , It seems that even sharks can be killed in one shot.

According to the battle commander, these anchors are all improved on the basis of whaling lances. The tips of the guns are all good steel, aiming at the eyes of sperm whales, and can plunge into the warm and moist brain oiler.Suo Zhongwu is very longing for this. After all, he is a man. He is naturally interested in hunting. Hunting Leviathan in the vast ocean is exciting to think about.However, for the safety of the voyage, he secretly did not want to run into whales, especially the mutant mad whale swallowed by the Black Plague.

The deck battle commander has the same idea as the army on the bow.However, Leviathan has no reason to accommodate mortals.

Since entering the deep sea, "Mingwei Xianxin" has been sailing on ocean currents.The rich and deep-colored Beiming warm current not only nourishes a large number of life in the water, but also greatly increases the speed of the ship. Even if the entire fleet turns off the boiler and lowers the sails, it can still have a speed of two knots (about seven miles) up.

In May, this ocean current is usually calm, and the wind at best puts some pressure on the face.But "usually" does not mean "forever", there will always be accidents over time.On the afternoon of the fourth day of sailing, Suo Zhongwu unfortunately caught up with such an accident.

When the storm showed his minions, he was standing on the open-air podium, oiling and maintaining the flint clips of the horns.So Kui was busy muttering beside him, dipped in cinnabar with a writing brush, and randomly crossed the paper that his nephew had just handed in.He took the exam questions of the Suiship Training Camp and had to test the skills learned by Suo Zhongwu in the past two days. This kind of deliberately tossing people is obviously the style of the local boss in the past.

However, that paper will never be revised.The southwest wind blew up suddenly, as sharp as a dagger, and immediately patted Lao Kui's face with a full table of pen, ink and paper.

"Top you a lung!"

So Kui jumped up like burning ass, scolding and scratching his face.Suo Zhongwu suppressed his smile, walked to his uncle's side against the strong wind, and pulled off the ink-drenched test paper.The paper shattered in the wind, the goddess flew to the sea like flowers, and the "Lord of Fubo" coughed again and again with a face of cinnabar, like a clown in embarrassment.

This scene was so interesting that Suo Zhongwu suffocated his smile until his stomach hurts.But the wind didn't stop gradually as before. Instead, it blew more and more fiercely, and in a few blinks, the whole thing became no longer funny.

The strong wind roared toward the ship's side, crackling the cables everywhere.The hard sail was swelling and cracking, and I couldn't wait to fly away from the mast. The auxiliary sails on the leftmost side even cracked the stringers.In order to resist the wind, Suo Zhongwu was forced to bend over and grab the guardrail, but the water immediately flew like hail, not only hurting his cheeks, but also quickly getting half of his body wet.

The air rushed through the gaps in the cannon windows, screaming like a police whistle.Hariata, who was on duty, issued orders one after another from the driver's cab under her feet, and quickly drove the crew back to their positions:

The sailors of the sailing department shouted high-pitched chants and completely retracted the hard sails through the pulley block, which quickly reduced the wind-receiving area of ​​the giant ship; the guns and the deck warheads rushed to the artillery, and they were already reliable. The ropes and rigging were reinforced, reinforced, and then reinforced; the Marine Engineering Department first reported through the sound tube, but was completely covered by the roaring waves, but they immediately figured out a way and directly sent a marine engineer to rush up to the bridge with the first officer. Hoarsely discussing countermeasures......

The concerted efforts of hundreds of people were not in vain.Blowed by the wind to the lateral hull, it returned to the normal position bit by bit; the boiler pressure dropped all the way to a quarter of its cruising state, and the two smoke plumes became slender as pens, and they were blown by the storm as soon as they exited the chimney. Scattered.