Chapter 174: The situation is critical
In the evening, when the main force of the fleet finally arrived, Li Ming hurriedly asked everyone to call all the homeless people to drink a bowl of hot porridge, and then began to desperately drive these homeless people onto the ship, even the smaller sailboat was crammed with two or three hundred people, and the No. 2 landing ship even squeezed nearly three thousand people. ―. {2} {3} {w} {x}]. finally swept away the Liao people of Ocean Island.
Regardless of fatigue, the main force of the fleet pulled all the Liao people on the island out of Ocean Island overnight and sailed to Jeju Island as fast as possible, diverting these Liao people as much as possible and reducing the pressure on Ocean Island.
Li Ming and the others are busy again, everyone hasn't closed their eyes for two days, and they are all stiff. However, wooden boats from all over the world still came to Ocean Island in a steady stream. These Liao people were so hungry that they only had half their lives left, and they looked hopefully at the island ahead.
All kinds of sea ships continued to converge on the ocean island, almost enclosing the island, and the sea was full of corpses of Liao people, all of whom had not survived on the boat, and they were thrown into the sea casually.
The ship coming here may be dying all the time, and there are also dead people every day on the ocean island, and several large pits have been dug, but they are still digging.
Wang Bo didn't close his eyes for a few days, he took nearly 100 military boats, and transported a total of thousands of Ming army families in Dongjiang Town, most of them were the wives, daughters, and grandchildren of low-level generals like Wang Bo and Qianzong, and now even they are starving, how can there be food for their families to eat.
Li Ming didn't say anything, anyway, whoever he saved was saved, if the families of these low-level generals of the Ming army went to Vladivostok, Yuan Chonghuan would kill Mao Wenlong three months later. Dongjiang Town will inevitably be in turmoil, and these low-level generals in Dongjiang Town may be able to be won over by the Far East Company, and when the time comes, they will be trained and then sent to Manila, where there will be no worries about the army.
These low-level Ming army soldiers in Dongjiang Town are all men who have seen blood with the Tartars. Although the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is low, and the combat effectiveness is far from the Tartars, the reasons for this are complicated. Why did they later surrender to the Manchus, but their combat effectiveness increased geometrically?
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the Wufu reigned in power, and the impact on later generations was disastrous. The Song and Ming dynasties became very mean to the military. has no status, the soldier has become the lowest level of society, he is cannon fodder in front of the war, and he is a slave when he is used up. It's simply not for anyone to look at. Once a soldier loses his sense of honor and mission. This army has become a profit-driven bandit.
The Admiralty officers and men of the emigrant fleet are also exhausted these days. But seeing tens of thousands of hungry Liao people gathered on Ocean Island to be fed, they had no choice but to take turns driving in shifts during the voyage, regardless of their hard work. Day and night, I went to Jeju Island to pick up immigrants.
During this period, there was a large Korean naval division, a total of dozens of warships carrying a large number of troops, sailed out of the Korean coast, all the way to the murderous preparation for the recovery of Jeju Island, which was occupied by the Japanese invaders.
However, this North Korean sailor was unlucky, and happened to encounter three landing ships that were departing from Jeju Island. Zhou Cheng was furious when he saw it. If you are paralyzed, we will occupy your small broken island, and you dare to get such a large fleet to come over, isn't this causing chaos for us?
He roared into the microphone: "Sink these North Korean wrecked ships for me, and save them from causing trouble for us in the future." ”
As a result, the North Korean sailors were saddened, and before they had even reached Jeju Island, they saw three extremely huge iron ships rushing towards them, with amazing speed, and without sails or oars, but still sailing like flying on the sea.
All the Korean sailors were stupid, not to mention their small wrecked ships in this era, even the Western colonists would think it was a miracle when they saw such a huge iron ship.
The battle is too simple to describe, anyway, a dozen North Korean warships were captured, and the rest were all sunk. Among the captured Korean warships, there are several Korean turtle ships that have been boasted about countless times by later generations of South Koreans, who believe that they were invincible in the world at that time.
Although these boats were a little smaller, Zhou Cheng also stayed. As a result, these dozen North Korean wooden boats also joined the migrant fleet, and were carried by several modern ships to and from Jeju Island and Ocean Island. With these dozen or so North Korean wooden boats, how can you pull more than 1,000 people each time, and grasshoppers are also meat, so it's better than nothing.
Although Li Ming and the immigrant fleet were busy day and night, the Liao people from Dongjiang Town still sent them over in a steady stream. In less than a month, Ocean Island and Jeju Island have gathered nearly 100,000 Liao people.
Their grain has already bottomed out, and if it weren't for Wang Yaowu and Fujii stealing hundreds of thousands of catties of grain from the hands of the major wealthy families on Jeju Island, they would have been unable to hold on to it.
It's just that it still can't go on like this, and these grains won't last for a few days, and so many extremely weak Liao people can no longer withstand the toss, and now many people are dying every day.
So when Zhou Cheng came over, Li Ming gave him an order, asking him to pull a boatload of Liaomin first, return to Vladivostok as soon as possible, report the situation here to the company, let the company come up with a practical solution, and then fill it with grain and come back to support Haiyang Island and Jeju Island.
They stuffed more than 2,000 Liao craftsmen onto the No. 1 landing ship, and then immediately left Ocean Island and sailed directly to Vladivostok.
Gao Jianguo, Wang and they all went to the dock to meet him when they heard that Zhou Cheng was back, but when they saw thousands of scrawny Liao people who looked like skeletons, they were completely shocked.
Zhou Cheng walked over, looked at the Liao people who were getting off the boat, and said heavily: "Dongjiang Town is very miserable this year, many people have not survived the winter, and now there are 100,000 such Liao people gathered on Ocean Island and Jeju Island, and they can only rely on two meals of gruel every day to deal with it."
We didn't do anything during this time, but kept transporting the Liao people from Ocean Island to Jeju Island to divert the pressure there. Now that there is no food, the physical condition of the Liao people is very weak, and our manpower is not sufficient, and now the Liao people are dying every moment, and the situation is very critical. ”
Zhou Cheng's words made everyone aware of the severity of the problem, and they immediately convened all the standing committees and members of the Military Commission and the People's Affairs Committee to convene a meeting of the board of directors.
Wang Ho told all the directors about the situation of Hayang Island and Jeju Island, and everyone was stunned when they heard it. More than 100,000 people, how much food is needed, maybe it can bring down Vladivostok. But you can't watch hundreds of thousands of Liao people starve to death like this.
Gao Jianguo glanced at everyone, and then said solemnly: "Li Ming is right, no matter what, we will take as much as we come, and save one by one." Seeing hundreds of thousands of Liao people starving to death is a crime. ”
Wang He thought for a while, and also nodded: "Then it's decided, now start mobilizing all the resources of the company, and save these hundreds of thousands of Liao people at any cost." ”
Next, we studied for a day and formulated an emergency resettlement plan for the Liaomin people. However, how to transport these hundreds of thousands of Liao people back, everyone has made a difficulty, with their current full capacity, even if it is transported 24 hours a day, it will take more than a month.
In addition, the area of Ocean Island is small, and the company has to send ships to Jeju Island to continuously divert traffic to reduce the pressure on Ocean Island. Such a toss back and forth not only wastes fuel and food, but also delays time. Liao Min's body is extremely weak now, and he can no longer withstand the bumps and tosses.
Just when everyone was at a loss, Chen Hong of the port office suddenly said: "Can we make use of those 10,000-ton ocean-going freighters, these freighters still have a lot of fuel, and their transportation volume should be not small." ”
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, but a committee member immediately poured a basin of cold water and said: "I have also thought about this, although these freighters can participate in this transportation plan, but don't have any hope, the reason why these 10,000-ton giant ships have a huge load is that they rely on the height of the warehouse to pile up goods, and the warehouse area is actually not large, if it is used to load people, it really can't be loaded much." And these big guys are very fuel-guzzling, if you only load a few thousand people, you will lose more than you can lose by moving once. ”
Ren Chaoxin next to him thought for a while and said: "Then if we use the space height of these warehouses to divide the warehouses into upper and lower layers, will it accommodate more people." I see that these warehouses are more than ten meters high, and they can be divided into at least 5 floors. ”
Gao Jianguo said anxiously: "Old Ren, if you have any specific ideas, tell me about ......"
Ren Chaoxin felt that everyone was looking at him eagerly, and began to say: "Actually, it's not complicated, it's the same as the woodcut flutes built by our company, find some logs of more than ten meters, simply build a simple and sturdy frame in the warehouse, and then use logs with a diameter of ten centimeters to pave the compartment, anyway, just use it a few times, and you don't need to be elaborate, and the logs can be recycled after you run out."
All kinds of logs in our forest farm are piled up, this kind of work is not a fine technical work, it is much simpler than building a woodcarved flute, last year thousands of Liao people who participated in the construction of the woodcarved flute can be qualified for this work, plus the employees of our construction committee, apprentices, overtime and day and night fighting, a few days can be almost completed. ”
Everyone listened to his words and discussed excitedly, Qiao Haipeng nodded and said: "I think this plan is feasible, and now we can use cargo ships, including 2 19,800-ton international CCS bulk carriers, and 1 12,000-ton container ship loaded with more than 700 containers."
, a 16,000-ton multipurpose bulk carrier.
If Lao Ren's plan can succeed, the four 10,000-ton freighters can be tossed and squeezed once, and tens of thousands of people can be brought back, plus our emigrant fleet, we can definitely pull more than 100,000 Liao people back to Vladivostok in the shortest possible time. Moreover, the family's more than 30 wooden boats can also be towed by other boats, and more than 1,000 people can be pulled at a time. ”
Gao Jianguo and Wang He glanced at each other and nodded. Gao Jianguo stood up, held the table with both hands, and said to everyone sternly: "Time is life now, every minute and second we fight, we will save a living life." The time has come to test us, we are now in a race against death, and we can save one more one. Alright, let's get moving! (To be continued......)
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