Soon, the sailors on the small sampan reacted. They angrily took out the harpoon and plunged it into the water. In order to prevent being electrocuted, they wrapped the metal part of the fork with cowhide.
Soon a huge eel more than two meters long was speared out.
The electric eel is slender, about 2.5 meters long, and surfaces every ten minutes to inhale oxygen. The electricity it generates is enough to kill prey and light up a Christmas tree.
"Master, is this thing very powerful?" Xiao Niangpi asked with some fear. The two-meter-long electric eel that was harpooned was still twisting and emitting a blue arc of electricity.
Girls are originally afraid of things similar to snakes, and they are snake-like creatures with thunder and lightning.
Electric eels are notable for their powerful current of 860 volts. The average voltage of a car battery is about 12 or 13 volts, while most electric fences have a minimum voltage of 2000 volts. Household appliances only have 220 volts, which is enough to cause electrocution accidents.
"It is still very dangerous. If you are stunned, you will drown." Yang Fan said. "However, the electric eel meat is delicious and nutritious. You are in for a treat today. I can make eel rice for you."
The meat of electric eels is a delicious ingredient that is considered to have a unique flavor and texture.
Since electric eels consume a lot of energy during the discharge process, their meat is usually firm and delicious. In addition, the meat of electric eels is also rich in a variety of nutrients, such as protein, vitamins and minerals, which are beneficial to the human body.
There are benefits.
Yang Fan has never had eel rice since he came to Ming Dynasty. Today this one was delivered to his door.
"Master, is the eel rice delicious?" Xiao Niangpi heard that it was delicious and immediately took Yang Fan's arm and asked.
"It's delicious. I haven't eaten it in a long time. My mouth is watering just thinking about it." Yang Fan said with a longing look on his face. Braised eel and grilled eel are both super delicious.
"Master, look, Captain Wei has been electrocuted." Chen Xi shouted.
In the distance, Wei Qinhu saw that he could not control the electric eel that had been inserted into the harpoon. Wei Qinhu got mad and grabbed the head of the electric eel with his bare hands and twisted it off. As a result, he himself was foaming at the mouth from the electric shock.
Fainted.
"Hey, Wei Dahu is really fierce." Xiao Niangpi said in amazement. Wei Qinhu only has muscles but no brains, so his nickname is Wei Dahu. He is indeed a bit of a tiger sometimes.
However, at least lunch has been arranged. The master has promised to cook a braised eel and a grilled eel himself. It can be placed on a plate filled with rice and poured with red soup. According to the master, they will
Drooling.
As for Wei Dahu, he was naturally sent back to the ship, and a doctor would wake him up. The ladies unanimously decided that in view of his hard work, they would reward him with a piece of eel rice when it was ready.
The master said that this eel weighs at least fifty kilograms. Excluding the inedible parts, there is still thirty kilograms of meat. When it is ready, it will weigh at least twenty kilograms. It will be enough to last for several days.
"Let them be safe. There may be snakes and scorpions on the island." Yang Fan said to the first mate. "By the way, when we get to the island, we will catch a few rabbits and bring them back for the ladies to play with."
The Ryukyu rabbit is a unique breed here. It is cute and cute. The Ryukyu rabbit, also known as the Amami short-eared rabbit, is one of the rarest rabbits and is listed as "endangered" (
EN) level. Their distribution range is limited to the Ryukyu Islands in southern Japan.
A team of thirty people had already landed and divided into six groups, searching forward. Judging from the position of the flags they were flying, they had already penetrated deep into the island. The reason why they were flying the flags was to prevent them from getting separated. These islands are uninhabited.
The island has dense vegetation and complex terrain.
The flag raised high can indicate the direction and facilitate gathering. This island, like all volcanic islands, has a mountain in the middle and slopes on both sides. Dense plants grow there.
"It seems there is no danger. Let's go to the island to hunt for treasure." Yang Fan said with a smile.
He carried the metal detector and walked down the bridge first. The girls followed him and ran down with joy. They climbed down from the rope net on the side of the ship and entered the sampan.
The sailors rowed the boat towards the coastline. The water here is very clear. You can see the bottom of the sea three to four meters deep. Many colorful fish are swimming around.
This is already deep in the sea. The water is very clean, unlike the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, which are full of yellow mud and turbid.
Yang Fan and his party got off the boat, and the three sampans went back to pick up others.
Yang Fan distributed the spears carried by the guards to his wives. They all knew how to use muskets. Yang Fan often took them to target shooting. Even Mei Xiang was proficient in using handguns and flintlock rifles.
"Do you want a musket or an air gun?" Yang Fan asked.
"I want an air rifle," Xiao Niangpi said first. Lin Yueru and the others also wanted air rifles.
Yang Fan had no choice but to give them all four Kiranduni air rifles. The development history of air guns is as long as that of muskets. They have been around for a long time. These four Kiranduni air rifles were first given to them by the British special envoy Macartney.
The Qianlong kind.
According to historical records, the large-scale use of air guns in the military was in Austria in the late 18th century. At that time, the air guns equipped by the Austrian army were named "Windbuchse", which means "Wind Gun".
The gun was developed by Italian gunsmith Bartolomeus Chiranduani in 1779, and production began in 1780, so it is also called the "Chiranduani Air Rifle".
With Yang Fan's current technical ability, it is not difficult to do this. After all, this thing does not require gunpowder. It is especially suitable for use as a hunting rifle. In fact, it has great potential in the military. The performance of the Kiranduni air rifle is obviously better than that of the muzzle-loading smoothbore rifle.
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First of all, this kind of air rifle can be used in humid environments, such as rainy days. Secondly, the gun does not produce smoke when shooting, and has good concealment. The most important thing is that it has intensive firepower.
This kind of rifle can fire continuously when the gas bottle is full. A well-trained soldier can shoot a shuttle (20 rounds) of lead bullets in half a minute. Such a high rate of fire makes loading complicated, and it is beyond the reach of slow guns.
.One bottle of gas can fire up to thirty rounds.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The two air rifles Macartney brought were the most advanced murder weapons in Europe at the time. 500 air riflemen could continuously fire 45,000 rounds of lead bullets, or
After supplementation, 300,000 rounds of ammunition were fired within half an hour. Such intensive firepower was terrifying on the battlefield at that time.
The handle of this air gun is actually a gas cylinder, which looks like a big eggplant. However, using the high-pressure air in the gas cylinder, it can continuously fire 20 rounds of lead bullets within half a minute, and its killing range once reached 100
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It has been experimentally measured that lead bullets fired within 100 meters can penetrate a 1-inch-thick hardwood board. This power of an air gun was difficult to achieve even with pistols at the time.
Each air rifle soldier's standard equipment is a Kiranduni air rifle, 100 rounds of lead bullets (20 rounds are loaded on the gun, 80 rounds are packed in 4 tin tube shuttles), 3 compressed gas bottles (1 in
On the gun, the other 2 are carried with you), as well as a gun barrel wiper and a manual pump.
This thing is so satisfying to shoot, and it makes me scream when I pump it up. Use a pump to fill the cylinder. There was no electric air pump at that time, and filling a bottle of gas required about 1,500 manual blows with the pump. This workload was quite huge. It took two hours.
When the energy is full, people become paralyzed with fatigue.
Therefore, it is generally used for noble bird hunting sports. Of course, it can also be used on the battlefield. But it can only be used against unarmored targets. The effect against armor is very poor. If the opponent is wearing plate armor, even if he hits it against his head, he will not be able to penetrate it.
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But it’s really cool to be able to shoot twenty rounds in half a minute.
In addition to the 30 people from a general banner who came to the island in advance, there were also 30 people in Yang Fan's batch. After waiting on the beach for a while, two more groups of servants came to the island. A total of 120 people gathered together.
Start to disperse into groups of ten and start searching the entire island.
Each group has a metal detector that scans the ground. If there is metal within ten meters, an alarm will sound.
This island is not big, because they are afraid of snakes and hurting the ladies. Yang Fan took them directly to the flat land in the middle. Here there was a dead tree with a diameter of more than three meters, lying sideways on the ground. Over the long years, it has corroded
The weathered middle is empty, and in some places you can see the other side.
Yang Fan and his five servants were preparing to camp here and wait for news of the large-scale search. He planned to cook the eels first. Although this island is not big, it must be easy to find. The search would be endless in a short time.
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While Yang Fan and his wives were processing eels and making rice, a sailing warship with a red flag and three armed merchant ships anchored on the other side of the island.
This ship was a 74-gun sailing battleship. During this period, battleships were not yet perfected. It was not until after 1677 that the standards for sailing battleships were determined. But at this time, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands already had ships with basic sailing battleships.
