33 Chapter 33: Operating the Patrol Boat and the Gun

Driving the patrol boat, Razlov went east 5 kilometers away from the island in the direction of Sanloris. As the patrol boat travels, Razlov drove the patrol boat into many different directions and sometimes he would go into circles.

While the other people on board, after the initial shock they experience they are now excited that they keep roaming every part of the boat, trying to see how this thing moves on its own.

Razlov drove the patrol boat for about an hour then he called to the people on board.

"Alright, now that you've seen its capabilities it is now time for me to teach you how to operate it since from now onwards we will be using this patrol boat as our means of travel from the island to other destinations."

Hearing what their Commander had said that he will be teaching them how to operate it, they were all excited and couldn't wait to drive the patrol; especially the two helpers since they are the ones who would use the patrol boat often. The two helpers finally understood why their Commander brought the two of them even though they are not mercenary and only utility personnel.

Razlov taught each and every one of them on how to operate the patrol boat. Actually, driving the patrol boat is easy as pie, the real difficult part is on how to navigate the boat in the middle of the sea since there is no indicator '--> 20km away from Sanloris' like that in the middle of the sea that would point out direction and distance. Good thing though that there is a compass that is installed on the patrol boat and that he taught those cadets back then on how to use the compass making it easy for him to teach them on how to navigate the sea. But that's only in the surrounding seas since they have a shorter distance but if it's in the open waters like oceans, navigating through compass is already impossible. In open waters, you would need to use a compass for direction while through reading the longitude and latitude you would be able to know the coordinates and distance of a place for you to travel. That's why if the situation of this world is like that of his previous life, Razlov would need to hire astrologers and give them knowledge from his previous life through books and equipment to measure and set the longitude and latitude of this world.

But right now, he doesn't need to mind it instead what he should do right now is focus on making his Private force stronger and earn a large sum of money to buy all the necessary equipment they needed and teach them how to operate the patrol boat right at this moment.

For two hours, he had been teaching each and every one them on how to operate the patrol boat, giving them 10 minutes of driving the patrol boat per person as Razlov taught them how. When all of them have already finished their turn, Razlov drives the patrol boat back to the island and when they return it was exactly the time for lunch.

"Now that all of knows how to operate it. This afternoon I will be teaching all of you on how to use or operate its weaponry. But right now, we first need to eat cause it's already time for lunch"

"Now let's go back to the camp"

And so, they all went back to the camp and eat their meals.

When it was already in the afternoon they have already gathered at the Harbor. But before they gathered, on their way to the harbor Razlov have ordered some people to put the fishing boat that they have previously been using on the sea and let is sail adrift cause it will be their target during their target practice using the weaponry of the boat.

Arriving at a distance of 500 meters away from the drifting boat, he slowed the boat and let one of the helpers drive it then he went down and head to the front where the 40mm anti-air and surface gun is emplaced.

"This patrol boat's main gun is this single sit and single barrel 40mm gun or machine gun; call it whatever you want. This gun can be used as an anti-air gun to shoot down any monster or enemy that is flying up in the air and it could also be used as a surface gun when facing enemy ships, boat, or even fortresses. But different targets need different ammunition, for example, enemies that are flying up in the air what you need is time detonation shell rounds but we will not be discussing about right now cause we will not likely use it at the moment and we don't have that type of ammunition but maybe in the future we will."

[This gun: https://imgur.com/iHou9WY]

"What we have right now and we will use right now are the high explosive or HE shell rounds for short that explode upon impact and the armor penetration shell rounds that as its name suggest."

When Razlov picks up the two ammo for the gun, all of them were shocked to the extreme after seeing the size of the two which is as thick of a babies legs and as long as a babies arm.

"I know what you all are thinking, that's right when a person is hit by this kind of round he will either have a big hole on his body or be blasted to kingdom come that the only things will remain are dregs of his former self. But this is not used for anti-personnel cause it's waste instead it should be used on bigger targets"

As Razlov was talking, the rest of the people on board the boat keep nodding that they agree at his explanation regarding when it is used to target a human and how it should not be used on a human.

"This 40mm gun can be operated by exactly 3 crews, the gunner which select the target and where to point the gun, the loader which picks ammunition that is in clips from the ammunition can then load it into the gun, and the last is the person who carries the ammunition placing it into the ammunition can for the loader to pick it up."

"Now I will demonstrate to you on how to operate the gun"

And so Razlov started on how to demonstrate the gun. He first picks the clip with ammo attach to it and load it to the gun next he went and sit in the gunner's sit rotate the pointer handwheel to rotate the gun and pointed the barrel into the direction of the target which is the fishing boat then make some few adjustment base on the sight to hit the target, once the target was on sight he step on the firing paddle to fire the gun.

*BANG!!* *BANG!!* BANG!!* *BANG!!*

Loud explosions through the firing of the gun echoed in the surrounding space. You could see in the distance that the fishing boat has been decimated into pieces by four continues fire of the gun.

Looking back and forth in awe at the destruction of the fishing boat and the destructive power of the gun, they look at Razlov eager and excited to try the gun for themselves.

Seeing that look of their's, Razlov couldn't help but smile. Then he let each one them to operate the gun. He did first groups them into four with three members each group, then the group will keep interchanging between the gunner, the loader, and person who places the ammunition in the ammo can and the gunner can only fire four shell rounds; exactly one clip of ammunition.

Next, he taught them how to use the .50 caliber Browning machine gun and since the machine gun was much easy to operate it did not take long of him teaching how to use it and everything went smoothly as they each take their turn.