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Hot air balloons are now the standard configuration of the Senate fleet, and this kind of dynamic aircraft that can rise to hundreds of meters has an unparalleled field of vision, plus binoculars and wired telephones, the fleet's grasp of the surrounding situation is far higher than the previous lookout posts relying on mast watchtowers to improve several times, whether it is the weather, sea conditions or enemy conditions, it is simply a scientific and technological tree for the Senate Navy to light up reconnaissance.

Especially now that there are steam engines and boilers, it has become easier and easier to lift off hot air balloons, first heating the balloon with steam, and then igniting the fuel in the combustion chamber, and the lift-off speed is much faster than it used to start from scratch, basically in ten minutes. However, the soldier dragging the steam pipe looked rather embarrassed, because after he opened the steam pipe, there was no steam coming out of it, except for some condensate flowing out.

"Of course there's no steam in there!" Hong Jie was a little speechless and said, "Didn't you see that there was no smoke in the chimney?" The steam engine must make a fire to boil water to work, the water is not boiled, of course there is no steam! ”

Unlike internal combustion engine ships, steam ships do not need to be operated immediately, especially when they are usually in port, the boiler does not need to be continuously burned to maintain the steam supply, and only when it needs to be driven does it start to burn. Now, since both steamers are in a state of scarcity, the boilers are not working, and even if the fire starts immediately, it will take at least half an hour for steam to be released.

A thick cloud of smoke rose from the chimney, shooting straight into the sky, and it seemed that the power compartment below had been ordered to start up. A similar cloud of smoke rose from the chimney of the Iron Fist not far away, and then it turned into a continuous column of smoke, and the sailors on the deck were running around, rushing to their respective battle positions, preparing for battle.

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Hou Yuanke is not cool, the enemy is not the enemy, and the sun does not form a ball, "Go quickly!" He Lin saw several sailors looking at each other, and hurriedly urged again, and only then did a few sailors run out to find fuel.

"Here, get some fuel!" He Lin was in the engine compartment of the Dongfang Port, watching the coal in the coal bunker burning weakly, he was so anxious that he couldn't wait to blow a few breaths inside to help the fire come up quickly, and reached out to touch the outside of the boiler, feeling that it was all ice. The sailor next to him couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, the Vostochny Port was a wooden ship, and in order to install this boiler and steam engine, it had to lay a special engine room with steel plates in the middle and rear of the hull, just to prevent a possible fire. But now He Lin suddenly shouted to get fuel, and he could think with his feet that he must be directly injecting fuel into the combustion chamber for rapid ignition and heating, and the liquid fuel will inevitably flow out when injected, and the ship's plank, which is shaking because of the fluctuations of the waves, will definitely flow everywhere, and once it encounters the fire source, the flammable fuel oil will definitely catch fire immediately.

"Let's go!" He Lin saw several sailors looking at each other, and hurriedly urged again, and only then did a few sailors run out to find fuel.

A short time later, a sailor came running in with a galvanized tin bucket containing a small half-barrel of brown fuel oil, which contained diesel fuel. Whether it is diesel or gasoline, there is only one place in the world that can produce it at the moment, because the oil that gushes out of the Glory Ridge because of the pressure in the earth's crust has been processed by the small refinery of the Oriental Port refinery, which is as crude as the old world's unenvironmentally friendly, and finally becomes various petroleum products, such as diesel fuel in the current tin drum.

Of course, these diesels are not used to burn boilers, they are used to fuel a high-power diesel generator on board. Because of the ship's stoppage, it is a waste of fuel and soft water to continue to keep the boiler burning, and there are still many places in the hull at the moment that there are still water leaks, so the pumping machine has to be kept working. Since it is not a big problem for the industrial system of the Senate to produce industrial motors at this stage, the prime mover of the pumping machine is an electric motor, so when the ship is stopped, the diesel generator is directly used to turn on the power supply, and the steam engine is used to drive the generator after the boiler can provide steam output.

He Lin directly closed the air intake, so that the combustion inside was quickly extinguished because there was no oxygen, and then he poured the whole barrel of diesel directly into the combustion chamber, and then lit the match and threw it directly inside. "Whew-" There was a bang, and the raging fire quickly ignited, and even the air inside expanded, causing a tongue of fire up to a meter long to erupt from the coal inlet for more than two seconds. The burning black smoke mixed with gas soared up from the chimney, rising out of the chimney, and flames came out of the mouth of the chimney more than ten meters high.

"That's it! It's burning, quick! Shovel coal! He Lin observed the burning of the flames, and immediately gave an order, and the coal shovelers hurriedly leaned over, opened the coal inlet closed in front of them, and began to shovel up the coal and send it inside.

Coincidentally, while He Lin ignited the fire with a simple and crude method, Hong Jie on the deck was not much different from him, because there was no steam to provide rapid heating, the hot air balloon could not be lifted up after the fuel in the combustion chamber burned weakly for a while, let alone lifted the air. Hong Jie was originally an anxious child, but now he was waiting so blindly, he was about to lose his patience, so he circled around the deck twice, turned his head to look at the hot air balloon that was still powerless and swaying lightly along the slight sea breeze, so he rushed directly to the fuel tank to carry a small half barrel of diesel.

When he came up, he was followed by two sailors, the sailors looked bitter, diesel fuel is an important material, the important level is the highest, and Hong Jie is a veteran, no one dares to stop him by the sailors guarding the supplies, it is not easy to say anything, so only two sailors can follow him up, try to prevent him from using diesel fuel, to avoid causing a fire on the ship.

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"What are you doing?" Zhang Zefeng saw the situation below in the command cabin, and hurriedly shouted at Hong Jie, who looked up a little impatiently and pointed to the hot air balloon not far away, "Heat!" ”

"You're crazy!" Zhang Zefeng was so frightened that his hairs stood on end, and he hurriedly shouted, "Don't use fuel on the deck, you two will snatch the oil drum for me!" ”

"He ......" a sailor muttered in embarrassment, Zhang Zefeng of course knew that he didn't dare to move the elders, and hurriedly shouted at them, "I'm the first mate, and I'm the biggest when the captain of this boat is away!" I'll let you grab it, and you'll grab it! Who's to blame for the fire on the ship at that time? ”

The sailor had the backbone, and hurriedly stepped forward to snatch the diesel fuel in Hong Jie's hand, Hong Jie was stunned, "You dare to rob me?" Is there any mistake? The sailor hurriedly bowed, "I'm sorry chief, it's the captain's meaning." As soon as he said that, he ran away, and the other sailor was also clever, and hurriedly obstructed Hong Jie in front of him, so that he could not chase his companion.

Before Zhang Zefeng's nervous heart could be put down, he heard a "boom" in the chimney, and looked up to see a long flame soaring into the air like a dragon's breath, and his legs were weak with fright, "What kind of crazy people are on this boat?" It's not over if you don't set the ship on fire, is it? As he spoke, he rushed to the microphone, turned on the microphone leading to the engine compartment, and shouted, "He Lin, is there a fire under you?" ”

"No, the boiler is burning, and the water temperature has reached twenty degrees Celsius!" He Lin's voice came from below.

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"Captain on the bridge!" With the voice of the sailor on duty, Yang Feng quickly ran into the command cabin, "How's the situation?" ”

"Oh!" Zhang Zefeng nodded at him, "The boiler is heating up, the water temperature is already twenty degrees Celsius, the reconnaissance hot air balloon on the deck is heating, Hong Jie plans to use diesel, but I asked someone to stop it." ”

"That madman," Yang Feng muttered, turning to the sailors beside him, "let them start searching the water nearby, and we'll head out to the open sea when the steam engine is working." ”

"Yes, Captain!" The sailor hurriedly agreed, turned around and ran out. Yang Feng turned to Zhang Zefeng, "You go and prepare to check the mechanical condition of the hull, we will start the ship later, tell them to start anchoring!" ”

Before the words fell, a shout could be heard coming from the microphone. "Captain! This is the observation post! Discover the new flares, two greens! The threat is lifted! ”

"All at once on full alert, and all at once the threat is lifted, what is this doing?" Yang Feng couldn't help muttering, walked to the window, raised the binoculars and took a closer look, it was indeed two green signal flares floating in the air and falling down.

These flares were fired by a trimaran reconnaissance sailboat, and in order to ensure the reconnaissance work during the docking time, several fortune boats of the fleet carried assembled versions of the trimaran reconnaissance sailboats, although these sailboats can carry a small tonnage, but the hull is also very light, and can sweep the sea at a very fast speed under the breeze. According to the navigation requirements, when the fleet is stopped, they are lowered into the water, and then the sailors are piloted to patrol the area within a radius of three to five nautical miles, and if the enemy situation is found, the signal flare is used to inform the enemy of the situation and location. These sail patrol speedboats are not completely defenseless, and every day a Type 1628 ship-based machine gun is installed on board, this machine gun is not very popular with infantry because of its large weight, but it is very suitable for this kind of patrol speedboat, and each boat also carries about 400 rounds of machine gun ammunition to ensure low-intensity harassment combat.

The ship that fired the flares carried three sailors and two special investigators, one of whom was Lan Xiaoya. More than 10 minutes ago, when they were cruising five nautical miles south of the island, they suddenly noticed the shadow of a sail on the southern sea, and they approached some to make an observation—the mast on the sail patrol speedboat was relatively small, and the sail was relatively compact, so people could not climb up to observe, and if they wanted to observe the situation at sea level, they could not reconnoiter by climbing up, so they could only get closer.

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After driving about a nautical mile or so to the south, they suddenly found that hundreds of sail shadows suddenly appeared on the sea, and the direction was very clear, that is, towards Lanyu. This frightened Lan Xiaoya, at a cursory glance, the sail shadow in the distance was as dense as a wall, and the speed of sailing on the sea surface did not seem to be low, he immediately fired a signal flare of full alert into the air, and at the same time ordered the machine gunners on the patrol speedboat to get ready, and at the same time, he and another special investigator also opened the weapon safe, ready to start harassing shooting.

But as the distance between the two sides narrowed, he found something different, the other party's ships were indeed many, so many that I couldn't count how many there were at a glance, but the ships were not big, and those small catamaran trimarans that drove from Lanyu before, they were all two or three slender hulls moving quickly on the water, and at the same time, a wooden platform was built about half a meter above the hull, and a mast was inserted on it. The small ones are only about six or seven meters long, but the large ones are seventeen or eighteen meters, and the large hull platforms seem to be sixty or seventy square meters, and some even have a small house-like cabin on them. There were a lot of people on these boats, and they looked like they were overloaded, and the hull draft was quite deep, and some of the hulls themselves were almost completely pressed below the surface. They drove haphazardly across the surface of the sea, like a galloping horse, drawing wide and long waves on the surface of the sea.

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The people on the boat were all dressed as natives, the men were shirtless, there was not much hair on their heads, they had all kinds of tattoos on their bodies, and they wore a pair of shorts that didn't cover up or they wore a straw skirt; The women wore dresses woven from grass, with long hair coiled on the top of their heads, and some draped directly behind their heads, without exception, each woman had a few flowers in her hair. The sails of each boat were fully drawn, and the sails were blown up by the sea breeze, pushing the boat on the sea.

Friendship with Sun Qiu, cold Sun Jike: "Oh! Zhang Zefeng nodded at him, "The boiler is heating up, the water temperature is already twenty degrees Celsius, the reconnaissance hot air balloon on the deck is heating, Hong Jie plans to use diesel, but I asked someone to stop it." ”

They soon saw the approach of the patrol speedboat, and also saw the special reconnaissance team members wearing combat uniforms on the boat, and soon some people jumped up jubilantly, waved at the patrol boat again and again, and cheered some words that Lan Xiaoya couldn't understand at all. Immediately after that, more people heard the shouts and saw the patrol boat, and they all jumped and waved at the patrol boat, and many people began to sing rhythmically, and for a time the big fleet became like a concert.

Lan Xiaoya couldn't help but be stunned and didn't know what was going on, but in any case, these people in front of him were completely hostile, he and the people around him couldn't help but look at each other, and after a while, he made a gesture and asked everyone to turn off the weapon insurance. At this time, several natives on the pilot boat jumped and jumped to let people pull the sails, speed up and come closer, and when they approached the neighborhood, someone shouted loudly to Lan Xiaoya and them, "Are you Chinese?" Is this the direction to go to the Senate? ”

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