Xia Bohai looked at Luo Yue and said, "I remember the platoon leader of the third company and the third company of the 1st Brigade, the second battalion, wasn't Wang Runfeng?"

Luo Yue said: "Report to the commander, Platoon Commander Wang has been transferred to the company headquarters. Now we are our deputy company commander. I used to be a squad leader in the first row. Before this mission, I just took over the platoon leader of the platoon."

Qin Zheng smiled and said, "Old Xia, do you still remember it! He was the Sharp Knife squad leader of the Sharp Knife platoon who won the first place in the total score in the Sharp Knife platoon last year. Now he should be the Sharp Knife platoon leader."

Xia Bohai then remembered and laughed: "The Sharp Knife Squad Leader of the Sharp Knife Row, I said why does it sound so familiar!"

It turns out that the third company and the first platoon of the Second Marine Battalion of the 1st Marine Brigade of the Marine Corps is quite famous among the navy. It has won the first place in the total team score in the army competition for three consecutive years. In addition, it has performed very well in escort, military exercises, peacekeeping, rescue and other tasks in recent years. It has won awards many times and is a famous sharp knife platoon of the Marine Corps.

Luo Yue is 23 years old this year. He has been in the army for four years and is now on the rank of second lieutenant. In last year's general competition, he won the first place in his personal total score as the first squad leader, and the first squad leader of the first squad leader, so he also won the title of Sharp Knife Squad leader of the Sharp Knife Squad leader. After the former platoon leader Wang Runfeng was promoted to deputy company commander, he took over as the platoon leader. Therefore, even Xia Bohai was a little familiar with him, and Qin Zheng was responsible for political work, which was more clear than Xia Bohai.

This time, the Third Company originally carried out an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden with the Sanya ship, Huaihua ship and Xiangyang ships. After receiving the order to protect the overseas Chinese, they first rushed to the evacuation site to protect the Chinese residents. Because the Third Company is a Marine Corps, the shore guard mission is mainly handled by the Third Company. While protecting the overseas Chinese, several small-scale wars occurred with the terrorist organizations. The First Row also performed very well in this mission, defeating the terrorist organization's attack on the port twice, allowing the Chinese residents to wait safely until the evacuation fleet arrives. If the evacuation fleet can return safely, it will definitely add another round to the honor list.

Xia Bohai said: "Plane Leader Luo, did you platoon rescue the person who fell into the water?"

Luo Yue nodded and said, "Yes."

Xia Bohai said: "Tell me about the details."

In fact, the whole process is not complicated. Just now, the situation that happened in the Changbai Mountain ship was like the Kunming ship. All the power system failed, the lights went out, the computer was turned off, and the hull was shut down, and the hull was shocked. However, after returning to normal, Captain Lu Kai ordered the Marines to warn the entire ship. At this time, someone found a tilted wooden boat on the sea several miles away on the side of the ship. Someone fell into the water and called for help. There was a mechanical boat sailing far away, and only a little shadow could be seen.

After receiving the report, Lu Kai immediately ordered the rescue of the people who fell into the water. So Luo Yue led a squad of soldiers to take two lifeboats to rescue people, saving five men, two women and seven women.

But after saving the person, I found that something was wrong, because the men and women who were rescued were obviously not modern people. Moreover, the five men had bare foreheads and long braids, which were obviously the same as those of the Qing Dynasty. At first, the soldiers didn't care much, thinking that someone was engaged in retro activities.

But after asking, I found that the problem was quite big. Among the rescued people, one of them claimed to be Zhao Weizhong, who was the clerk of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau. He also said that he was Li Hongzhang's fellow villager. Because the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tianjin, Zhao Weizhong led his family to escape to the village. Later, he heard that Li Hongzhang had arrived in Shanghai, so Zhao Weizhong found a fishing boat, took his daughter and several family members, a total of 12 people on the boat and went to sea to cross the sea to Shanghai to join Li Hongzhang. As a result, the fishing boat had just passed the Bohai mouth, and an iron-hulled boat suddenly appeared, knocking the fishing boat overturned, and all the people fell into the water. There were originally eighteen people on the boat, but only seven were rescued by Luo Yue and others, and the rest were buried in the sea.

Luo Yue and others became more and more wrong as they listened. Aren’t the “Eight-Nation Alliance” and “Li Hongzhang” all the things that only happened in the Qing Dynasty? But judging from the expression Zhao Weizhong said, it didn’t look like a joke, so Luo Yue hurriedly reported to Captain Lu Kai. After hearing this, Lu Kai did not dare to neglect it, so he asked in person, but the result was the same set of words, so he immediately sent a report to the Kunming ship.

After listening to Luo Yue’s speech, Xia Bohai pondered for a moment and said, “Okay, platoon leader Luo, don’t rush back to the Changbai Mountain ship. Wait for a while on the Kunming ship first and wait for the order.”

Luo Yue hurriedly saluted another time and said, "Yes." Then he left the office.

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After Luo Yue left, there were only three people left in the office. No one spoke for a moment, but they were thinking and digesting what Luo Yue had just said.

Because this time the evacuation of the overseas Chinese team was temporarily formed, the three people in command were temporarily transferred to form the formation headquarters. However, the three of them were middle-level officers trained by the state, and they were all young and strong, so they were entrusted with important tasks. If the task of evacuation of the overseas Chinese can be successfully completed this time, the three people will all get different promotions after returning to the country.

The formation commander Xia Bohai, forty-five years old this year, is in the division level and has the rank of colonel. Before this mission, he served as deputy commander of the Second Destroyer Detachment of the South China Sea Fleet. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be promoted to major general this year. He will face two choices next, one is to serve as the commander of the Second Destroyer Detachment; the other is to serve as the captain of the first domestic aircraft carrier, and may serve as the commander of the aircraft carrier formation in the future.

Political Commissar Qin Zheng is 46 years old this year, and is also at the level of a division, with the rank of colonel. Before this mission, he served as the political commissar of the Fifth Amphibious Detachment of the South China Sea Fleet. After this mission, he may be transferred to the Political Department of the South China Sea Fleet.

Deputy Commander Xiao Jianjun is the youngest, only forty-two years old, and is at the deputy division level and has the rank of colonel. He was previously the deputy chief of staff of the Fourth Wheel Protection Detachment of the South China Sea Fleet and is very likely to be promoted to chief of staff.

However, although the three of them were temporary teams, it was not the first time they worked together. In fact, when they were in the military academy, the three were alumni. However, Xia Bohai and Qin Zheng were in the same class, while Xiao Jianjun was three years younger than them. However, the three of them had been in the same school for a year, but on campus, the three of them had no intersection.

The first time the three of them actually worked together was more than 20 years ago, on the frigate Xiangtan ship. At that time, Xiao Jianjun had just graduated from the military academy and was assigned to be a member of the Xiangtan ship. Xia Bohai and Qin Zhengji served on the Xiangtan ship for two years, and they were both team leaders. This time, the three of them worked together for more than three years. Because they graduated from the same military academy, they had a good relationship with each other.

The second time we worked together was about ten years ago, when the three of us gathered on the destroyer Guangzhou ship. At that time, Xia Bohai had already served as the deputy captain of the Guangzhou ship, while Qin Zheng was the deputy political commissar, and Xiao Jianjun was the chief of navigation. This time, the three of us worked together for about two years, and then they were transferred to their respective positions. Therefore, this time, this evacuation mission was the third time that the three of us had worked together.

After a long silence, Xia Bohai first said: "What is Tianjin Machinery Bureau?"

Qin Zheng said: "Tianjin Machinery Bureau was an official military enterprise during the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. In the sixth year of Tongzhi, that is, in 1867, it was founded in Tianjin by Chonghou, the then Minister of Trade of Sankou. It was first called the "State Administration of Arms and Machinery" and was taken over by Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili in the ninth year of Tongzhi. It was renamed the "Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau". The 21st year of Guangcheng was 1895, and it was renamed the "Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau". Its main business was to manufacture gunpowder, guns, bullets, mines, ships for mine arrangements and river digging boats, and steelmaking. It also built China's first submarine, dredger, and boat bridge ship. It was one of the four earliest modern military industries established by the Westernization Movement, second only to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. Later, it was burned down when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded."

It turned out that Qin Zheng majored in military history when he was studying in the military academy. He usually studied modern Chinese history and was working on writing a book about modern Chinese history and collected a large amount of information. Therefore, he was very familiar with the situation of Tianjin Machinery Bureau and was well aware of it.

Xiao Jianjun was a little surprised and said, "It was possible to build a submarine at that time. Is it so powerful?"

Qin Zheng smiled and said, "Don't underestimate the wisdom of the Chinese people. In the Tianjin History Museum, there is also a model of this submarine. It was built in September 1880. Although it is just a submarine of general experimental nature, it is quite good. Unfortunately, this submarine was not officially used or continued to be researched and disappeared from now on."

Xia Bohai said: "It seems that everything can match the numbers. Could it be that we have really traveled to the Qing Dynasty, not the late Qing Dynasty."

At this time, Qin Zheng stood up and said, "Don't be busy drawing conclusions first, let me talk to them before talking."

Xia Bohai nodded and said, "Only Lao Qin can talk to them, we are waiting for your result."

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The helicopter platform at the tail of the Kunming ship.

The five soldiers who came with Luo Yue were waiting on the side of the ship. When they saw Luo Yue coming out, they immediately surrounded him. The first squad leader Liu Tiedao said: "Platform Commander, what did the commander say? I asked them if we did not, did we really travel to the Qing Dynasty."

Luo Yue shook his head and said, "Not yet, the commander asked us to wait here and wait for the order."

Because they rescued people from the sea, they all knew what the rescued people said, and in fact, a considerable number of people on the Changbai Mountain ship had heard of them, and they were talking about it. Although Captain Lu Kai knew that the entire ship was spreading, he didn't know what to say before receiving the new order issued by the headquarters, so he had to keep silent for the time being.

The other people heard that they had to wait now, so they started chatting on the side of the ship.

Wang Wenhao, a machine gunner of the first squad, said: "Have you ever thought about what to do if we really traveled to the Qing Dynasty? Are we unable to go back?"

Chen Tao, deputy machine gunner, said: "Why are you going back? It should be written in the time travel novel. Anyone who travels to ancient times is not a king, with a large number of wives and concubines. At the youngest, he can be a prince. What a promising profession!"

Liu Tie rolled his eyes and said, "Can these online novels be believed?"

Chen Tao said: "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway. Besides, if we really traveled through time, think about it, just rely on our bright warships." As he said that, he stomped his feet, emphasizing the Kunming ship being stepped on, and said: "In this era, it is a star destroyer, such as ironclad ship, dreadnought, Bismarck, and Yamato. If you don't want to destroy anyone you want."

Liu Tiedao: "I remember that in online novels, they traveled by one person, and there were all fleets like us."

Chen Tao obviously read some online novels and said, "Squad leader, you don't understand it now. Nowadays, one person's time travel has become less popular. What is popular is that everyone travels together. I remember that there is a book that describes hundreds of people traveling together to the Ming Dynasty and developing together. There is also a tank group, who travels with us to the Qing Dynasty. Maybe we can meet them here?"

Wang Wenhao said: "A tank regiment? That's not as many as us. We are a fleet! I guess there is no better person than us in the crossing army, right?"

Chen Tao said: "I don't know what a fleet is. Even aircraft carriers have crossed through it, which is much more awesome than us."

Liu Tiedao: "Don't brag, just say something useful, platoon leader, what are you looking at?"

It turned out that Luo Yue's eyes had seen on the sea at this time and said, "Captain Lu is here too."
Chapter completed!