Chapter 954: Upper mast

After the meeting was over, Tang Mingtong left Yan Kun and Jian Wenyue, and gave them a tutorial each, explaining that it was an assignment for them to "turn regular" as a second lieutenant officer.

The tutorial is printed and marked with the words 1646, "There are a total of eighteen assignments," Tang Mingtong said: "Complete the first assignment by nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and then turn over the assignments to my desk. Later, the warship will be in the harbor. Just complete one item every day, and complete one item in three days at sea!"

Yan Kun opened it and looked at the first task: Draw a sketch of the navy cruise ship 181 on the starboard and the starboard, draw each cabin and explain its purpose, and draw a schematic diagram of all the sails and main auxiliary facilities.

This is not a small project. Ship 181 is a three-masted warship, and it is also a new ship, with numerous and complete sails. Past experience may not be sufficient.

If it were ordinary candidates, Tang Mingtong waved them and told them to start walking, letting them do it by themselves, with plenty of food and clothing.

However, in response to the captain's attitude just now, Tang Mingtong called an old non-commissioned officer named "Lao Pan" to take the young man to observe the battleship, and to see everywhere.

"Hey!" Old Pan said: "Two boys, I will take you to the mainmast platform. The view from there is the best. You can see the entire deck of the ship. You are not afraid to go to a high place, right?"

Due to the department head’s instructions, Old Pan asked in advance, otherwise he would not even ask. This is a good way to make fun of the newcomers on the warship. Let them make a fool of themselves and know how powerful they are. If the newcomers are afraid High disease, that's even better!

"No! No!" The two queens responded quickly.

They went out to the open deck and found that the warship had set sail and left the port.

The action was so fast, I caught the wind outside of Hong Kong and headed east.

The sailors on the ship were busy, following the instructions of the officer.

"Come on!" Old Pan said at the rope ladder next to the mainmast, and pointed the two newbies to put a little talcum powder on their hands. He took the lead, and Yan Kun and Jian Wenyue followed along.

The rope ladder was very solid. The three of them filed up. Yan Kun felt a little flustered as his body continued to climb higher. Speaking of it, the mainmast was more than ten meters long on the ground as soon as he rushed to the ground, but under his feet was a soft rope ladder that swayed back and forth. So I feel very high, feel very suspended, and feel insecure.

I used to have a mast in the military academy, but the mast was not high, and there were people guarding him on the left and right. He went up and down like a flat ground.

Now that he is on this mast, there is only his comrade Jian Wenyue below, and no one else is watching. Everyone performs their duties and there is no extra manpower. This is the navy career!

When he climbed to three-quarters of the height, the deck shouted "fasten", which indicated that the bracing sail had been fixed and the sail had been tilted toward the stern, so the hull was tilted downwind, and Yan Kun turned towards Looking down, I saw that the ship's side guardrail was slowly moving, and behind it was the sea-----the sparkling, endless sea seemed to be under my feet.

A gust of wind blew the sails into a crackle, and the hull tilted sharply, as if the warship was about to fall on its side!

On the rope ladder, Yan Kun felt panicked, feeling like he was leaping towards the sea!

He grasped the rope ladder tightly as if he had ankylosing disease and stopped climbing up. He just stood on the rope ladder in a "big font" shape. Under the influence of the earth's gravity and centrifugal force, his whole body The person froze there, unable to move a single movement, and there was an unknown panic and rational worry in his heart.

The lattice of the rope ladder and the crossed rope pedals stuck to him for a while, and then pushed him back like a shirt in the sun.

As a result, the southeast king prince Yan Kun was so inferior, and his performance was not brilliant.

His old man Yan Changwu has become the leader of Taiwanese pirates at his age. He personally waved his sword and cut off the head of the enemy in public!

And Yan Kun grew up after a woman in the deep palace, even if he grew up in a military academy since he was a child, who would dare not give him face, it can be described as a flower in a greenhouse.

Therefore, Yan Changwu rushed him to the westernmost part of the current Chinese forces to join the army, allowing him to understand the true meaning of life from his military career.

A figure went down to his left along a rope. It turned out that it was Old Pan sliding down from above. He gently held Yan Kun's wrist with his hand and encouraged him: "Come on, boy, you can do it, follow me. Go up together, eyes up, and go!"

Watching him climb the rope with his hands and feet on the ground, rubbing upwards, while Yan Kun is climbing a ladder, how can he fall behind!

Yan Kun's right foot steadily went up a step, stepped on a ladder above, and then followed up with his left foot, but as the sail was stressed, his body shook back abruptly, and he closed quickly. Close your eyes and hold your breath.

Opened his eyes, climbed up again, and Old Pan quickly climbed onto the platform from the side brace of the mast, pulled Yan Kun up, and motioned: "Hey, boy, take your brother up too! "

So Yan Kun stretched out his hand and pulled Jian Wenyue up from behind. The two of them felt a little stiff when they touched each other with their hands!

Can't help but smile at each other, eldest brother Mo said second elder brother.

The three people crowded on the platform of the main mast. The platform space was not large and crowded.

"Here is the mainmast on the platform, young man!" Old Pan said, he consciously ignored the embarrassment of the two new mates, and would taunt the new mate before changing. "The one in the distance is naturally the foremast platform!"

"Old Pan, I am very grateful to you for helping me come up just now." Yan Kun said, "Thank you, call me Xiao Yang and Yang Zi!"

Yan Kun dare not be arrogant!

"You are welcome! Xiao Yang!" Old Pan said enthusiastically, "Look, this is a rope sail!"

He pointed to some triangular sails, and Yan Kun realized that they were hanging on the cables, swinging on the ropes like curtains.

"I understand that the bracing is used to unfold these sails." Yan Kun said.

"Well, that's right, Xiao Yang, they did unfold the sails, but their real function is to fix the masts and pull the masts forward so that the masts do not fall backward when the ship shakes back and forth." Old Pan instructed him Look at the role of side sails.

In fact, Yan Kun has learned it all in books, but when he was immersed in the scene, he had an intuitive impression that he really understood it.

"That means ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ does the mast need to be supported?" Yan Kun patted the mast. It was thick and solid, but the crew were afraid that it would fall?

"The wind on the sea is very big! The sails have a large force area, and the stress acts on the mast..." Old Pan said: "If it weren't for the side sails pulling them from both sides, and the back cables, these are the ones that face the back. , I pulled the mast into the sea long ago!"

"Not to mention the mast, even the ship can be overturned!" Old Pan said.

"However, the direction of the wind is uncertain, so we have to constantly adjust the side sails and rear cables, otherwise we won't benefit from it, but will instead take advantage of it!" Old Pan said with emotion: "It's very bitter to be a sailor. The wind Time changes, when there is no rest!"

"Yeah!" The two young men nodded again and again, and began to appreciate the difficulty of soldiers.

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