Thousands of sparks

Chapter 50 Landing in Bosenk

When the snow that began to cover the land of New Salle gradually began to stop, Polina's experimental vehicle No. [-] was finally ready to board the landing ship of the Navy Commando.

Along with Experimental Vehicle No. [-], there were fifty bales of compressed and bundled raw cotton, five thousand pounds of coal, four doctors on relief missions, and twelve naval commandos.

The "crew" of Experimental Vehicle No. [-] consisted of three people.Inventor and Chief Technician Paulina, Driver and Chief Investor Dusand, and Coal and Cotton Contractor Lorraine.

Duchamp, along with three captains from Orin and a commodore, joined as an observation group.

In order to carry 23 people and tens of thousands of pounds of supplies, the Admiralty specially deployed a battle-class landing ship from Olin's Royal Guard Navy Fleet.Compared with the Newsail Garrison Navy, this battle-class landing ship has more space, and it can also provide the Commodore of the Armament Department with a room that suits his status.

As a comparison, the experimental vehicle No. [-] needs to operate together with the mule transport convoy on another landing ship.The location of the operation was chosen to be near the equator in Newsail, a floodplain area called Boysenk.The poor in this region depend mainly on fishing for their livelihoods.The winter in Newsail is very cold, only the sea in the equatorial area does not freeze.

And their fishing methods are completely different from other areas.

In the waters near Bosenk, there is a scaleless fish called turtle, which is extremely tender and delicious. Except for a main spine and fish head, the turtle has almost no bones or small spines.But they are the most ferocious pack hunters in the entire Newsea ocean.

This kind of fish is just like their name, and they usually move in the form of "fish balls" in the ocean.Other fishes gather together to resist the attacks of predators and increase their chances of survival.The turtles gather together to eat larger prey.

These fish, which are no longer than twelve inches in length, are like a pack of crazy wolves. After being attacked by fish balls, the big fish with a body length of more than three yolks will turn into a pair of wolves and land in Haiti in just half an hour. bones.Bigger fish can't get any cheap in front of the turtle, and only a small part of them can escape.

But such ferocious predators are nothing more than a group of delicious food with teeth in front of human wisdom.

The free folk of Bosenk like to use ground cages to catch turtles, but the efficiency is not high.Fishing companies that have access to large-scale fishing boats cannot catch turtles with gillnets—they have scaleless bodies and sharp teeth.Ordinary rope nets will be directly crushed by them, while fishing nets mixed with steel wires that cannot be crushed will directly turn these delicate fish into meat paste.

The poor people in Bosenk are the main force for catching turtles.

Before catching turtle fish, poor people need to find a beach and use stones to build a small platform in the shape of "匚" in the shallows.The opening faces the ocean.Then when the tide is high, cut your own arm with a sharp stone or knife, and just drop blood into the sea.

Turtle fish in the ocean have an unparalleled sense of smell, and they can detect the smell of blood miles away in the water.

After the group of turtles rushed into the narrow water area in the middle of the platform like crazy, the poor people blocked the opening with stones or straw mats prepared in advance.When the tide ebbs, the water in the platform will also flow away quickly with the ebb tide of the ocean.The majestic turtles have become random fish that can be "picked up" by poor people from the beach.

In order to ensure that these turtles can be sent to Upper Albin or other large cities on the colonial planet in the freshest state, Bosenk has a small interstellar landing site.These fish will be purchased by the fishing company at a price of one penny, then chilled with ice cubes, and sent directly to the restaurant through an interstellar leap.

In the end, it was sold to gourmets at a price of two gold pounds.

Although the poor people living in Bosenk have very good natural conditions, and the cost of catching turtle fish is so low that it is almost negligible, they still live very poorly.

All industrial products in Bosenck are more expensive than in Oberalbin.The average selling price of coal is as high as 65 pence a pound, and the prices of cotton cloth, sugar, and even shoes are at least double that of Upper Albyn.

It is worth mentioning that Bosenk's fishing company is also the contractor, operator and owner of the landing site.The entire Boysenk Plain and the adjacent sea area belong to the fishing company.

This fishing company is also the owner of almost all the shops in Bosenk.

The Royal Navy chose Bosenk as the location for this experimental operation, mainly because of the multiple terrains of Bosenk, which is close to the coast on the edge of the flood plain, and the relatively rich resource supply capacity of Bosenk City.

Horses are active in winter and need additional water and feed supplies.And after heavy physical activity, they also need a warm and sheltered stable to rest-otherwise, the sweaty horse will get sick.

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Before departure, Dusand prepared a secret weapon for the experimental vehicle No. [-] in advance—two sets of brand new pneumatic rubber tires and two tracks.

No matter what terrain it may encounter in Bosenck, with its two crawler tracks on metal off-road wheels and inflatable rubber tires, the No. [-] car powered by a four-cylinder gas engine is bound to make all the navies involved in the experiment The commandos were shocked.

After excitedly boarding the assault ship at the upper Newsail interstellar landing site, Dusand landed at the Bosenk interstellar landing site amid three consecutive violent shocks.It took only three quarters of an hour before and after this assault ship brought a whole boat of people and supplies to Bosenk, which is [-] miles away from Upper Newsail.

The landing hatch of the assault ship slowly opened, and a strong and sea-smelling cold wind blew into the cabin.

"Move everything down first." The navy captain in charge of commanding the operation issued an order to his team members, "Establish a temporary cargo station at the landing site!"

After receiving the order, the navy soldiers began to move the cotton out of the car by hand a little bit.Dusande looked at the hard work of the soldiers, and suggested to the navy captain who gave the order just now, "Mr. Captain, in order to speed up the progress, let the soldiers carry the things to my car."

"Mr. Lord, the experiment hasn't started yet." The captain of the navy replied with a half-smile, "It doesn't make sense for your product to start showing now—the officers who are observing are not present now."

"I just want to speed up the progress." Du Sande was taken aback for a moment, and then replied in a very natural manner, "I have to report to the Heraldry Management Office at night, so I don't have the time to spend time with you. My car No need to pre-boost the ignition, it will be ready for use immediately - it will not delay your work."

At Dusand's insistence, Experimental Vehicle No. [-] joined the moving operation.After running back and forth five times, with the help of the dump truck, he successfully completed the entire loading and unloading process.At the same time, I also fulfilled my childhood dream of becoming a truck driver.

Mr. Navy Captain looked at Dusand and the experimental vehicle No. [-] beside him, with a hint of surprise on his face.

　happy new year~~
　　
　
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