1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 10 Final preparations before crossing

A few days later, the news from the European side made the Executive Committee excited but also a little dissatisfied. The contact between the North American gang and the underground arms dealer was very smooth. It is said that the other party showed a sufficient supply of goods, and the delivery can be delivered only after payment here.But because of this, the procurement team requested to increase the purchase of some special ordnance, such as MG4 machine guns, RPG rockets and small-caliber mortars.

The executive committee has always had great doubts about whether the group needs to be equipped with such heavy firepower weapons, because purchasing large quantities of arms itself is an unreasonable behavior in the eyes of the executive committee, and the main purpose of everyone traveling to the Ming Dynasty is not If you want to kill a lot, use advanced weapons 400 years later to flatten the world, even if these hundreds of people are fully armed to the teeth, how many people can they kill?Besides, whether it is a machine gun chain or a mortar shell, these are not things that can be produced in a short period of time after crossing. These heavy weapons must be very cool to use. Once the ammunition is exhausted, it will be a pile of scrap iron.

After discussions, the executive committee urgently dispatched Yan Chujie and Schneider as representatives to personally fly over to participate in the last military purchase plan. After all, this is the last important project in the preparatory work, and the organization should also show enough attention.But the committee members who stayed in Guangzhou soon regretted the decision - after the two guys went, not only did they not veto the plan of the North American Gang, but instead added more content, so they finally saved the ship project. The funds were all filled back.

In fact, the additional expenses proposed by Yan Chujie and Schneider are not without reason. In addition to the automatic rifles and pistols that the North American gang ordered in Europe, there are almost all kinds of firearms and military equipment that can be purchased in small quantities. Samples were procured for future imitations when production levels were reached in another time and space.After all, modern firearms are not low-level equipment such as arquebuses that can be made by knowing the principle. Having a physical comparison can make future imitations less detours.As a result, the content of the purchase list has naturally greatly increased, and the cost is definitely not controllable.In addition, the guns and ammunition have weighed several tons. How to transport this batch of arms from Europe to Asia has become another problem.Fortunately, Schneider has a lot of contacts in Europe, and it only took a short time to have a solution - buy a boat.

The Executive Committee has already begun to have some stretched procurement funds and can no longer meet the procurement plans outside the plan, so in the end, the North American Gang raised funds and purchased two large and small Polish-made sailing yachts with their own power. The two ships will also participate in the crossing program as their personal belongings.One of them is 25 meters long and 11 meters wide, with two 330-horsepower diesel engines and a displacement of 75 tons; the other is 21 meters long and 10 meters wide, with two 240-horsepower diesel engines.It is worth noting that both boats are single-masted catamarans. The huge and wide hull makes their load capacity and sea seaworthiness much better than ordinary sailing yachts of the same tonnage.As long as the living facilities on the ship are complete, it can easily reach a speed of more than 10 knots even without the use of engine propulsion, and the sails and rigging on the ship are extremely easy to operate, and only two to three crew members can drive.As long as enough materials are stored, the two ships can maintain their self-sustainability at sea for more than half a month. Even in another time and space, they can continue to be used as a tool for rapid maritime transportation and crew technical training.

Of course, with these two ships, the personal luggage weight limit announced by the Executive Committee will not work for this group of people in North America. They can bring as much as they want as long as the ship can fit.After completing the procurement plan, Yan Chujie and Schneider will return to Guangzhou first, and the North American gang will not only stay and be responsible for the final receiving and loading, but will also drive these two ships southward through the Mediterranean Sea, passing through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden all the way. Sail into the Indian Ocean, enter the South China Sea after passing through the Strait of Malacca, and finally meet with the main force in Sanya, Hainan.

It's definitely going to be a very grueling voyage that could last up to a few months.But the North American gang is very interested in this and insists on completing this special journey before crossing.In the words of Tom Wang, a sailing expert from the North American Gang, the hydrological route data that can be accumulated after this trip will definitely play an extremely important role in opening up the Asia-Europe waterway by yourself after going to another time and space.Of course, for the sake of safety, these two ships will not go deep into the ocean, and the travel route along the way will not be too far from the coastline. After all, their main task is to transport this batch of arms to Hainan before April, otherwise the whole crossing plans will be greatly affected.

After the time entered March, the executive committee announced that all members had entered the final preparation stage. All the personnel who finally participated in the plan will be assembled in Sanya and Guangzhou respectively, and at the same time, the absorption of new members and the purchase of bulk materials will be completely stopped.At the beginning of April, during the annual "Haitian Banquet" held in Sanya, all members will complete the final crossing together.

The Executive Committee set the final action at this time. First, considering that there will be a large number of tourists pouring into Sanya from all over the country during the event, the hundreds of people who cross the crowd will not attract too much attention; With the idea of ​​finally experiencing a modern social life before crossing the road, it is not regrettable to go on the road after eating and playing.

Most of the people who arrived in Sanya in the early stage were members of several industrial departments, such as industry, agriculture, and construction.Of course, the military and police department in charge of Yan Chujie has already arrived in Sanya to start surveying the terrain. However, in order to avoid extracurricular problems, they did not focus on the Yulin Port area, but the road from Yacheng Town to Sanya City. They walked back and forth a few times, because the Yazhou government in the late Ming Dynasty was located in Yacheng Town, and this was also the first military target they needed to deal with after crossing.

On March [-], the Executive Committee closed its office in Guangzhou and destroyed all relevant documents.Crossover members are allowed to contact relatives and friends for the last time, and then they must stop using all communication tools, cut off social relations, and enter the "sleep" state before crossover.Then all the staff arrived in Sanya by plane in batches according to the arrangement of the Executive Committee, and checked into several hotels that had been booked.

On March 25, [-] sets of color-steel prefabricated houses, the last batch of supplies of the Executive Committee in the mainland, were hoisted onto the ship from Chiwan Wharf in Shenzhen, and sailed southward.

On March 26, two sailing catamarans departed from the port city of Budva in the Republic of Montenegro after 84 days, and finally arrived safely at the sailing port of the Banshan Peninsula in the Luhuitou Development Zone of Sanya.The main reason why it took such a long time is that after the ship was loaded with a large amount of munitions, the carrying of supplies became quite limited. As a result, it was necessary to modify part of the original sailing route and increase the number of stops along the way for supplies. frequency.It is worth mentioning that Johnson, the only surgeon in North America who has a family, actually let his wife and two daughters who are still in elementary school fly from North America to Europe to meet up, and the family completed this amazing journey together on the boat.The unexpected joy of doing so is that it saves a lot of trouble when docking at the port along the way. No one would have thought that there would be tons of contraband hidden on the two sailboats with children.

On March 29, the last batch of supplies from the Ministry of Agriculture was loaded on a fleet of barges heading south from Haikou in Yingzhou Town, east of Sanya.And this is also the last shipment of materials for the entire crossing plan.

On March 440th, the leaders of each action team called their teams. There should be 450 five people, but the actual number was [-]. One of the five extra people was a babe girlfriend who was tricked by Gu Kai to come to Hainan. The other four were children of single parents who participated in the time-traveling. They had been fostered by relatives, but they were finally brought to Hainan by their reluctant parents before the operation began.

On the afternoon of March 31, the Executive Committee announced a 24-hour holiday. Everyone can move freely in Sanya City. At the same time, they also distributed 5000 yuan of activity funds to each person—this is the last cash on hand of the Executive Committee. up.All members must return to their residences before [-]:[-] p.m. on April [-]st, and all members will board the ship at [-]:[-] p.m. Those who fail to return by then will be deemed to have given up their qualifications.Of course, all ship drivers, including the reserve team, are strictly prohibited from alcohol on this day.

As for whether to let the members go on this last madness, the executive committee actually went through a lot of controversy.Conservative opinions believe that since the members have been put into a "dormant" state, for safety reasons, they should not show their faces on a large scale at this last moment; while the other faction believes that since we are all about to bid farewell to this world, we should finally Be human and give all members a chance to freely choose how they say goodbye.Having said that, these members only received the 5000 yuan from the executive committee, so it is really difficult to do anything. You must know that local tyrants from all over the country flocked here in droves during the Haitian feast, and the price of goods in the whole of Sanya was very low. It has risen several times, especially entertainment venues and some adult entertainment items have reached an astonishing level.

The members went out and finally went crazy, but there was no way for the executive committee to relax.They have to go to each ship separately to check the availability of supplies for the last time, and then deduce a landing plan on paper.Although this kind of deduction has been done many times, everyone knows that each step above must be done well, so that in the later landing operations, the command can be measured, and the order of unloading and landing will not be wrong. .Sun Changmi and Yue Zhiyun from the Shipping Department, and Tom Wang, a young Chinese from North America, will serve as the interim chief of the team and jointly command the entire operation process from the departure of the fleet to the landing and landing after crossing.

After dinner time on April [-], the members returned to their respective resident hotels one after another, and then the leaders of each action team organized and assembled.The excess luggage has already been packed on the ship, and now the members only need to bring some belongings and set off.Although many people were drunk when they came back, they still haven't gotten lost.

At ten o'clock that night, all the personnel were counted and there were no omissions. As planned, they started separately and rushed to several berthing points on different piers to board the ship.The Military and Police Department has people on every boat to supervise, and every boarding person must show an identification number plate issued in advance, also in case of last-minute problems.

At [-]:[-], on the main ship "New World", Tao Donglai issued a departure order through the radio, marking the official start of the final crossing operation.Each ship slowly sailed out from different docks and sailed south to the predetermined sea meeting point.

(End of this chapter)