1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 38 Quick Response

At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, the construction site of the hydropower station in the upper reaches of Tiandu River.With a tape measure in hand, Tao Donglai, together with Liu Shanxia and Xiang Chinan, confirmed whether the size of the pressure front pool was consistent with the design.The pressure forehearth is a key facility for regulating the influent flow of the hydropower station. If the design requirements are not met during the construction, it will definitely leave a lot of hidden dangers for the future operation.

At present, more than 200 Ming and Li laborers from nearby areas have gathered to work together here. In addition, the crossing people themselves have also mobilized more than 300 people to participate in the construction of the hydropower station. It can be said that the construction manpower of the hydropower station has been fully guaranteed.In addition to the construction site of the hydropower station, the Executive Committee even had enough energy to dispatch the logging team to continue the unfinished land passage project from the No. [-] base to Shengli Port.

In addition, there is also good news about the mining site of Tiandu Iron Mine, where the Ming army prisoners in charge of quarrying finally dug out the long-awaited iron ore the day before.The main project of the hydropower station has not yet been completed, and the plan for large-scale steel smelting has already begun to be put on the agenda of the Executive Committee.

After a few people took the tape measure around the pressure front pool and repeated the measurement several times, Tao Donglai stood up and clapped the dust on his hands, nodded approvingly and said, "Old Liu and Lao Xiang have done a good job! I won't say more. The engineering team will add vegetables in the evening!"

As the first and second leaders of the hydropower project, Liu Shanxia and Xiang Zhinan are really tired these days. Workers can work in three shifts, but they almost work in two shifts to ensure that the construction site can run 24 hours a day.Judging from the current project progress and construction speed, it is very possible to realize the completion before the flood season that Liu Shanxia said.

Liu Shanxia grinned and said, "Mr. Tao, my old Liu patted your chest, never did it happen!"

"Don't be too complacent, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, complete the project construction as soon as possible, and when the overall acceptance of the project is passed, I will ask the executive committee to give you credit!" Tao Donglai warned him, but also did not hesitate to give his old subordinates give encouragement.

Several people were discussing the next project plan. Yan Chujie hurriedly ran to the river and shouted to Tao Donglai who was standing in the pond with high spirits and pointed Jiangshan: "Old Tao, come up quickly, there is something urgent!"

Tao Donglai said stunned: "Those Li people are clamoring to exchange fruit for liquor again? Didn't they tell them that liquor can only be exchanged with cattle?"

"It's not the Li people's business!" Yan Chujie looked anxious and didn't care to hide anything: "There is a situation at Victory Harbor, and the military team is ready to dispatch fishing boats."

Speaking of which, Tao Donglai, who is also part-time in the military team, still doesn't understand what's going on - if a fishing boat is dispatched, it means that there may be trouble.Tao Donglai hurriedly handed the tape measure and drawings to Liu Shanxia to signal them to continue, and climbed up the river bank from the construction site with his hands and feet.

"How is the situation now?" Tao Donglai asked anxiously as he followed Yan Chujie to the base.

"Sun Changmi contacted this side just now and said that the Yulinjiao post found a fleet of six sailboats heading towards Shengli Port. The people from the Shipping Department have already boarded the fishing boat and are waiting for the military and police department. While gathering people to board the ship. Sun Changmi means that we hope that we will also prepare reinforcements, just in case." Yan Chujie quickly informed Tao Donglai of the known situation.

"Don't prepare, get your guns together and set off immediately! Base No. [-] is full of old people, women and children, and the military and police department may not be able to take care of it if there is anything wrong. Besides, there are so many important things in Base No. [-]. We can't afford to lose the supplies!" Tao Donglai made a decision on the spot.The Executive Committee has already made a conclusion on the geographical location of this place. Victory Harbor has been abandoned for a long time. There is no Ming Dynasty garrison, and it is not on the route from Guangzhou to Manila and other South Asian ports. It is basically impossible for the fleet to come here. It is a merchant ship, and [-]% of it is a pirate.

"Sun Changmi also mentioned one thing." Yan Chujie continued: "Tom Wang thinks that if the comers are really pirates, then there might be pirate spies on our construction site, so it's better to get the outsiders first. Get it all under control!"

Tao Donglai couldn't help shaking when he heard the words. These days, they were suffering from a shortage of manpower. They didn't do any identification or identity registration for the locals who came to work. Then, five to ten migrant workers will be led by a chuanzhong to work, and they will show their bamboo chips to receive one day's pay when they leave work.No matter who comes, as long as they are willing to work on the construction site, they are all managed in this way.

This kind of extensive management is completely riddled with holes from the perspective of the security of the control area, but no one has ever been vigilant about it before.It was not until the situation happened in Victory Harbor that someone finally brought up the biggest drawback of this system - the lack of effective monitoring of the identity of employees.Moreover, Tom Wang’s guess is not without reason. If there are really big pirates planning to attack Victory Port, it is normal to send spies to sneak around in the vicinity before that. In recent days, the large troops of Transcendence have already moved from Victory Port. Base No. [-] moved to Base No. [-] deep inland, and the defenses near the coast became extremely limited, which was undoubtedly an excellent time for potential attackers.

As for why the imaginary enemy chose to launch at this time before dark, Tao Donglai believes that this is also the opponent's genius - after nightfall, both the attacker and the defender will face a lot of trouble, so the opponent decided to launch before dark. Offensive, solve the defense force as soon as possible, and use the arrival of the night to delay the rescue time, so that the traversers far in the inland will at least be able to return to the next day.

If the other party really intends to play this kind of trick, in front of the Transcendents who have mastered Zentraedi technology, it is simply a trick.The convenient means of communication, efficient command system, speed and firmness far exceed the ships of this time and space level. The North American gang soldiers stationed in Victory Harbor are even equipped with PVS15 infrared night vision devices. Taking one out is enough to crush your opponent.

But the advantage of a head-to-head confrontation does not mean that the other party has no way to do harm. If a spy really sneaks into the construction site to take advantage of the opportunity, even if only a few generators are damaged, it will be a loss that Transcendence can't bear.So the reminder from Victory Harbor is really timely, it can be said to wake up the dreamer in one sentence.

Back at the headquarters, Tao Donglai immediately convened an emergency meeting with several members, and quickly took countermeasures.First, Tao Donglai and Yan Chujie led the team, leading [-] members of the military and police department to immediately return to Base No. [-] by boat.Second, Ning Qi was seated at Base No. [-], and Gu Wei, as a representative of the Military and Police Department, cooperated with the operation, organized a group of reservists, controlled all the foreigners currently working here as soon as possible, and conducted identification overnight.Third, strengthen the guarding of the hydropower station construction site and material warehouse to prevent people from making trouble.At the same time, the Executive Committee sold the military and police department temporary privileges, which means that in special circumstances, the military and police department can shoot directly without warning.

After 10 minutes, the support troops who had assembled and led the guns began to board the ship at the dock to prepare for departure.Most of these people have never participated in the first battle after crossing, so apart from excitement, there is inevitably a trace of nervousness on their faces.Yan Chujie was full of confidence, and patted every soldier on the back to encourage him.

This rescue team is not a mob that was temporarily organized, but an upright "Quick Response Unit" under the Military Police Department, organized as a reinforced platoon. long job.The Military and Police Department organized such a special team to quickly respond to various emergencies. After the last attack on the fishing village, Tao Donglai led the team to rush to reinforce these people. Today is the second time they have come in handy.

The soldiers were each issued a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, two magazines and 88 rounds of ammunition, wearing an imitation American M23 helmet, a Yangjiang imitation Italian extreme force tactical dagger hanging around their waist, and wearing a domestic jungle camouflage for training. He also wore an assault tactical backpack with water bags, flashlights, emergency medicines, military dry rations and other things on his back.The military walkie-talkie was distributed to the squad commander, and the two senior officers were also distributed with a MK[-] automatic pistol uniformly purchased by the North American Gang.

The whole set of American equipment that Yan Chujie corrupted from Tom Wang naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction from everyone again, and almost everyone including Tao Donglai expressed contempt for him.Of course, more than half of this contempt is not because Yan Chujie's behavior is suspected of "favoring foreigners", but because this guy just eats meat himself, and he doesn't even give his friends a bowl of soup to drink. It belongs to the proper category. Not being polite.

Yan Chujie couldn't explain it. Even if he wanted to give it, Tom Wang didn't have so much stock to distribute to so many people one by one.You must know that these personal equipment are not the armament materials purchased by the Preparatory Committee at the expense of the original, but bought by others in North America for themselves.

However, although the rain and dew cannot be covered, at least some people are given special care. For example, Tao Donglai, who is actually the leader of the executive committee, has several jobs.Yan Chujie quietly told him that Tom Wang still had a set of the same equipment, but there was no "right time" to send it out. Tao Donglai, who understood it, resolutely quit the team that despised Yan Chujie.

Although the motor on the boat has been running at full power, the speed of advance is still extremely limited, which makes Tao Donglai even more determined to open up the land passage between the two bases as soon as possible.The twenty mountain bikes in New World's stockpile could be used as soon as the overland roads were opened up, and the travel time between the two places could be cut by at least half.Tao Donglai stood at the bow of the boat, looking anxiously at the river in front of him, secretly praying that everything would go well in Victory Harbor and that nothing would go wrong.

(End of this chapter)