Chapter 6 Black Wind Reef

With large coconut groves, there is no need to worry about fresh water. What's more, coconut is extremely rich in moisture and nutrition, which is known as "natural glucose water". I don't know how much better it is than groundwater such as mineral water.

There are also three kinds of coconuts. The green one is green coconut, the yellow one is the yellow coconut, and the red one is the red one. Among them, red coconut has the best moisture and nutrition. Until now, there are still people in the south who use red coconut water for dripping.

It's far away. Back to the point. After hearing that there was no problem of fresh water on Causeway Island, everyone carefully inspected its terrain and environment, but found that the island was undoubtedly the most likely to become one of the other's maritime bases.

The reason is that except for the beach in the east, the other three sides of this island are surrounded by high mountains. If you come from the mainland or the Cape Island at the southern end, you must first climb over a winding Panlong Mountain Range, which accounts for almost three-quarters of the island.

The remaining quarter is the beach and coconut grove in the east. If the Japanese pirates land from here, it is extremely convenient to replenish fresh water immediately or set up sentries on the top of the other three high mountains.

Everyone looked at each other, and their faces were a little heavy. If the Japanese pirates choose here, it's not easy to attack. Yang Yihu sighed.

With all the geographical analysis, this island undoubtedly has advantages that many other islands do not have. People are almost sure that if the other party has a maritime base, most of them will choose here.

But Yang Yihu has been living on the South Line in the past few years. After all, he is familiar with the environment here. What he said is naturally very reasonable: "Now near the Mid-Autumn Festival, most of the wind is blowing to the southwest on the sea. It is no wonder that the Japanese pirates came from the ocean so quickly. But if we go from the southwest, it will be against the wind. It is extremely slow. On such a complex sea route, it is extremely difficult to bypass both ends and land from the east. If you go over the Panlong Mountains, you will definitely be found by the other party early in the morning.

There are only two ways to go when it is found. One is that the other party sees that he has fewer people and occupies the advantage of the terrain; the other is that there are many people who come, and the other party takes advantage of it when he crosses the mountains and takes advantage of it.

Yanlong's warship has always used an old-fashioned flat-bottomed oval open-top boat. It is difficult to fight against the Japanese pirates at sea, regardless of the degree of wind and wave resistance or speed. Now it is very rare to go out to fight against the mainland, let alone hundreds of nautical miles of eastern islands?

Therefore, it is impossible to send a large number of troops. That is death. But if a small army goes to sneak attack, isn't it going to die?

Everyone looked at each other and fell silent again.

At this time, an iron lion general came in and reported, "The local military equipment department has repaired a dragon boat warship with reference to the drawings. Do you want to go and have a look?"

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The completed warship of the Military Department is still in one of the large canals introduced by the port. I have seen that the dragon boat warship modified according to the information provided by Taro Yamamoto is as dense as a big shuttle, and everyone is quite satisfied.

I have to say that this dwarf is much ahead of Yanlong in precision manufacturing.

"How long will it take for the government to investigate those outsiders and upstarts?" Su Yongwen has been following the clerical officer beside them.

"It will be at least three days. This is still a rough list, which is incomplete. The clerk replied. This is not a presluence. In fact, the government in the south is more pragmatic and effective in doing things. In three days, it takes three days to find out the details of countless outsiders and hundreds of thousands of business people's bills. The local government also doesn't know how many officials and officials are going to find to do things. This is a time that can't be compressed.

Su Yong nodded and was quite satisfied with his reply. But in these days, do you just wait first? Thinking of how long it would take for the emperor in Kyoto to ask him, he couldn't answer, but he vaguely thought that the emperor seemed to have something important waiting for this to end as soon as possible, and he couldn't sit still.

At this time, the clerk took a file from a local official who was in a hurry and handed it to him, "This is a Solomon file from the government. Please have a look, Lord Su."

After reading it carefully, he was shocked and asked, "What day is it today?"

Xiao Changfeng smiled and said, "It's the tenth day of September when we set out from Kyoto. We have been on the road for three days, and it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in the evening."

Mid-Autumn Festival? Is it the Mid-Autumn Festival so soon? He shook his head and smiled bitterly. How long has it been since he had eaten moon cakes? I just don't know if Leizhou in the south is also made of egg yolk lotus moon?

It's just, who can you live with? He glanced at the men in the army in front of him. These people seem to be like themselves. They are strangers alone in a foreign country and are lazy to miss their relatives every festive season.

If you miss your relatives, your heart will be soft. If your heart is soft, your blood will be cold. Missing is an incurable disease. In the previous life, there was a "deprehence on all sides", and if you don't fight, you can bend people's soldiers. The soldiers have long been used to hardening their hearts.

The serum wind looked at him in a daze and couldn't help laughing and said, "General Su, the night after tomorrow, the local government will also hold a feast to enjoy the ends of the world. General Su might as well join in the fun. At that time, he will show his hands and give face to the military generals and soldiers."

Su Yong was stunned and said with a wry smile, "No, this Mid-Autumn Festival should be a festival for folk families, and there is no need to engage in these official activities. What's more, the local people are still worried about the harm of the Japanese pirates, and many people have even died because of their families. We soldiers take protecting the people as our responsibility, and we should be ashamed of our inability to protect ourselves. How can we have the mood to attach those masked events?

Although this speech was harsh, it was awe-inspiring to hear the generals.

"Blood leader, I want to borrow some soldiers from you." Su Yong suddenly said in awe after a wry smile.

All the generals were stunned. Normally, Su Xiao brought 5,000 people here, and the number of people was also quite large. At this moment, he is still borrowing troops from the commander. Is he really going to attack Tongluo Island?

The serum wind just frowned slightly and woke up. He quickly said, "General Su, please say it directly if you need it. You don't need to be polite to Xue."

"I heard that the Iron Lion Legion had trained a small team of sailors composed of southerners before. I want to borrow a hundred and ten soldiers who are familiar with water and know how to sail." Su Yong arched his hand.

"No problem." Serum Feng readily agreed. Although he had some doubts in his heart, he didn't say it after all.

"In addition, I also hope that the Military Department can make a few more dragon boat boats before dusk tomorrow... Er, there are about seven or eight, which is almost enough. Su Yong asked again. The military equipment department has transformed the dragon boat warship in less than two hours a day, and it can be seen that there are sufficient materials. As long as you put in more manpower, this is not a problem.

The enhanced version of such a large dragon boat can carry more than 100 people each, and seven or eight can attract nearly 1,000 people when they come up. The generals are even more suspicious. Although this thousand people are not a few, if you go to sea to attack Causeway Island, I'm afraid it's not enough to feed fish on the road. God knows that the extremely difficult waterway will encounter several enemy ships. How can this copy be enough for the original version? What's more, God knows whether it will lead to an accident on such a difficult route against the wind.

Of course, the serum wind is also a promise. However, he smiled bitterly and advised, "Does General Su really want to go to Tonggong Island?" Why don't you wait for three days and get some information before you decide?

Su Yong shook his head and whispered to him in a low voice, "This is not going to Causeway Island. On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, Solomon used to gather at the deserted Heifeng Reef mine. I want to see what they are doing. I hope the bloodline will keep the secret on your behalf.

So that's it. The serum wind said solemnly, "Brother Su, don't worry. Why don't you have more brothers?" He knew that the 5,000 people who followed them now came to call the "Black Cyclone Team" were almost all dry ducks in the north, and their water quality was not as good as the half ducks in his department.

"No, they don't start until later. By that time, the seasick soldiers have already recovered. I just need some sailors to take charge of the boat." Su Yong laughed.

So they called the officials of the military weapons department and ordered them to test the warship immediately. If there is no problem, they will hurry up.

Su Yong and Xiao Changfeng whispered, but followed Yang Yihu to pick up soldiers in the navy.

PS: The 10th anniversary of the return of Macao, happy holidays.