The next morning, the situation was similar to the previous day. Lin Mo got up after he had enough rest. At this time, the ship had set sail and headed to Suzhou to replenish coal and change the place to anchor.

Taihu is not a good place. The bandits are rampant. Reports of the suppression of Taihu bandits almost ran across the entire Republic of China. In the 18th year of the Republic of China, the Jiaxing Branch of the Bank of China was plundered by bandits and robbed nearly 100,000 yuan. This sensation occurred, and the bandits were still rampant. It can be seen that the problem of bandits in Taihu Lake is really small.

After the liberation of bandit suppression in East China, it is as famous as the bandits at the junction of many mountainous provinces such as Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Border Region. Moreover, the water networks are densely populated here, so bandits can roam everywhere. The bandits themselves also roam around. Without the control over the grassroots after liberation, it is difficult to suppress them all, otherwise the State Government would not allow bandits to rage in the center of its core area!

This morning, I saw a suspicious ship swaying around the big ship. After setting sail, I followed him for some reason. After leaving for some reason, and after berthing in Suzhou, Zhang Guangjia also came to report to someone to remind him of this matter.

While fishing and covering the boat, this guy chatted with someone on a Jifan cruise. The other party was a local official businessman in Suzhou and also came to escape the summer vacation on the boat. Obviously, it was not just about them who were covering up.

But their boat was smaller, but there were fewer people, and they were only wandering around the city. Zhang Guangjia bragged to them how to catch big big fish, which almost made these people want to run to their boat.

However, after hearing that there were already a group of people on the boat, they were all good babies who were traveling to the boat to escape the summer and study. They were not allowed to take women on the boat, and they were also doing some reading thousands of books and running around thousands of miles. They immediately gave up their thoughts and told Zhang Guangjia not to make these things noises.

Zhang Guangjia immediately beat his chest and stamped his feet, and followed the other party's words and complained, saying that he was forced to drive him to the boat by his elders. He was so uncomfortable and envious of them for listening to music on the boat. Finally, he gave each person on the boat a pair of fishing rod. The other party reminded Zhang Guangjia about the bandits and asked them to be more careful.

Lin Mo is not a stubborn person or a superstitious person who believes in the information. Moreover, the information collected and recorded in the information is relatively limited, so Lin Mo immediately arranged for someone to go to the city to inquire.

Some people let them understand well-informed places like docks and teahouses, while others give them an address to take tokens and letters of introduction, so naturally someone will provide them with the information they need.

When the news came back one after another, Lin Mo and Zheng Junshan frowned. The situation was a bit beyond their expectations. When they were not yet admitted to the military academy, they had heard about the bandits in Taihu Lake, but Hangzhou was a little far away from Taihu Lake. In addition, it was still a student, so they did not have a clear understanding of this matter.

Moreover, during that period, the National Government arranged for troops to suppress Taihu bandits, but in recent years, the National Government has spent all its efforts on our party. Yes, it has no energy to take care of these bandits anymore. At most, only local police and security groups have "suppressed bandits" from time to time.

However, when the bandits robbed Jiaxing Bank, they first took the water police and robbed the other party's gunboats directly. Even guarding the towns could have problems. Let them suppress the bandits, which was purely a loneliness, so they made a show to calm the public anger. Sometimes, even the results of the battle may be falsely reported, so the bandits in Taihu Lake have arisen again in recent years.

The water police may be in a better situation, and local security groups are even worse. Many of them can be regarded as bandits wearing skin. The bullets in the bandits may flow from their hands. Some even collude with bandits or even pretend to be bandits. Do you still hope to let them suppress bandits?

Based on the summary, there are at least hundreds of bandit gangs active in Taihu Lake and around, ranging from three to five small thieves, as well as ten or even hundreds of people, and dozens of water bandits of a dozen or dozens of boats. It is estimated that there are thousands of bandits, and there are probably one or two thousand guns in their hands.

"Look at this, during the day, fishing, scavenging and selling goods, wandering around and exploring the way, waiting for an opportunity to commit crimes when it gets dark, there are many small bandits, and sometimes a small boat is robbed several times.

In this case, if our ship wanders around this area for a long time, it will definitely be inevitable to run into these people. It is either afraid of them, it is simply a bit disgusting. We must be low-key and hidden. It is impossible to identify ourselves and have no time to cast other flags, but this will not scare the other party..."

Zheng Junshan was a little worried and helpless in his words, and Lin Mo nodded, saying, "I'm not afraid. If you really want to do it, we are fully capable of destroying them, but in this way, the situations of this ship and our location will most likely be directly exposed to the eyes of the Japanese.

Our important task now is the Shanghai operation, not these bandits, but as you said, if we do not shock or scare these people, it will definitely cause trouble and trouble to us, so we still have to think of a way."

After saying that, Lin Mo pondered for a moment and said, "I remember that in these information, the other party mentioned robbing the other party with a small wooden boat. It seems that there is no iron-shelled boat, right?"

Zheng Junshan nodded and said, "It seems that they are plundering with sampans and black tents. There may be iron-hulled ships in large ships, but there are definitely not many. Moreover, the function may be similar to our ship. They are the other party's mobile old suppression. After all, the other party's plundering is concealed and flexible. The big ship is too conspicuous and eye-catching, and it is not suitable for this job."

"...That's all..." Lin Mo nodded. He also had this idea. He did not immediately answer the curious Zheng Junshan's doubts, but instead asked someone to call Zhang Guangjia over.

"Do it! There are tasks for you." After letting Zhang Guangjia sit down, Lin Mo said: "In a while, you can go out and find the young masters of officials and businesses I communicated with before, and ask where is the brave factory in Suzhou that can be used for machining. It is best to find a way to build private guns.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Don't worry, as long as you don't show any flaws in your words, you can definitely ask something from them. If you ask, please help me introduce it and ask the factory or gun dealer to help you process a few weapons."

"Weapon?" Zhang Guangjia was stunned for a moment and said in confusion: "Captain Lin, it's okay to just let the weapon repair shop be done? What these people can do is definitely not a problem. Moreover, when we go there, the repair shop is probably faster than theirs."

Lin Mo waved his hand and said, "It's not these reasons. It's because our current situation is not suitable for the repair shop to participate, so as not to expose the ship and our identities.

Moreover, our goal is to avoid cross-blocking and cross fire as much as possible, so as to avoid being overly watched and reduce the chance of exposure. If you ask them to do this, some situations should be spread. At that time, those bandits find it difficult to mess with us, and they will not easily make things happen. This is what we really need."

After Zhang Guangjia nodded, Lin Mo drew a rough and simple picture with his pen and introduced: "The things are similar to the large gun lifted in the Qing Dynasty. You can also understand it as a shotgun with no number. Add an additional rotatable gun rack. Remember that the rack should be able to adapt to the fixed bayonet reserved on our ship or be fixed on the ship's string railing."

"...Wonderful..." Zheng Junshan couldn't help but speak, saying, "The small wooden boats they used basically have no protective power. They hit one after another. If those small boats dare to approach, they will probably be able to directly reimburse a ship of people by being shot by this thing. Moreover, this thing does not have much technical content, and it is only an enlarged shotgun. Even if it is used, it is impossible to suspect us. However, on the safe side, you still have to find some rhetoric for it."

"This thing is called a ship gun. There is a prototype in the United States for killing wild ducks. Flying wild ducks can kill a lot at a time. I have designed this a new design. It doesn't need to be carried by people. The recoil can also be borne by the boat. It is just right to put it on the boat to beat the bandits.

The bandits definitely didn't have much accurate shooting skills. Even if the shooting skills were good, they couldn't hit it in the shaking boat. Moreover, their purpose was to rob, so they must get close. Even if the gun didn't have much long range, it would not affect his deterrence.

There is no need to carve rifle in the gun, and it does not have much technical content. However, if you want to find a way to speed up the loading speed, you can find a way to make a loading structure of a mid-fold shotgun with a diameter of between 30 and 40 mm, so you can find out if there is a copper shell that can be used, and there is no cardboard shell or iron shell.

There should be materials in such factories or workshops, at most, pipes are a little troublesome. If they can’t find them for a while, you can use the pipes from the boat-topped tent for them. That thing is high-quality pipes imported from abroad, and there should be no problem making this thing."

After listening to it, Zhang Guangjia repeated it. The three of them summarized the words and words after the past, and even made some sense of designing their expressions, expressions and tone. Many of these officials and businessmen are wise men. After a chance meeting, the other party may not be too concerned about it, but now they ask for such things as the other party, and the other party will definitely be alert, so they cannot act at all.

After some preparation, Zhang Guangjia took the Li family's small steamer and searched in the direction of the other party's departure. Fortunately, the other party did not run too far. After a while, he saw the people fishing at the bend of a spacious lake.

"Brother Li, I'm asking you to bother you again. I just saw you catch a big fish from afar! Congratulations..." Zhang Guangjia bowed his hand and jumped onto the other party's boat.

The young man who was called Brother Li said with a depressed look on his face, "Just one big palm, you are a big fish? You catch all the small fish and shrimps. You guys won't fool us, right?"

"...It's definitely not..." Zhang Guangjia hurriedly comforted him and said, "The time is wrong. Fish like to bite fish in the morning or evening. It's too hot during the day. We are all hot enough. How can the fish still have an appetite? Believe it or not, what I said is true, but it's not all that I caught..."

"...I'm afraid it's not all, but nothing is not..." Brother Li joked at Zhang Guangjia who was a little vague.

"...I...I...I...Anyway...I've caught big fish anyway..." Zhang Guangjia looked guilty and lacked confidence.
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