Maybe it's an hour, maybe it's two hours, Cheng Hong's voice is hoarse. Finally, the storm turned into a drizzle, the waves had tossed enough, and the sun appeared on the right side of the ship.

Cold! Cheng Hong has a feeling now, that is, it is cold, and his fingers are a little numb from the cold! Cheng Hong called out the people in the cabin and asked Hou Jie to count the number of people!

By the way, I put away the boat and went back to change my clothes. After drying his body and changing into dry clothes, Cheng An brought a bowl of ginger soup here.

Cheng An said: "Shaolangjun, let's drink a bowl of ginger soup to go to the cold first!" Don't worry, I've seen our ship for a long time, and nothing happened.

It's just that a few stupid people in the bilge didn't catch the rope net, and they were thrown up and fell! The rest is nothing! ”

Cheng Hong nodded, took the ginger soup, blew and poured it, and a bowl of ginger soup warmed his heart from his stomach! Cheng Hong suddenly felt a lot more comfortable!

Dressed in a coat to the deck, the misty drizzle fell silently on the coat, and the surrounding boats began to move closer to the big ship of Cheng Hong and Niu Jianhu.

Thirty-eight Mao-class battleships, one is not less! There was a mainmast that seemed to have been struck by lightning, and it was charred and black, and it was smoky and smoky!

The dense Chen-class battleships also leaned over and began to count, until the red lantern was lit in the dark sky, and the lights and stars on the sea reflected each other.

Hou Jie also came back after counting, and tiredly handed the paper in his hand to Cheng Hong, who opened it and began to count.

A Mao-class battleship was struck by lightning fire, and the sailors near the mainmast were killed, plus the ...... who were thrown away without securing themselves and were wrapped around their necks with rope nets

According to statistics, a total of 141 people died, most of them were on the Chen-class battleship, and most of them were pushed by the water wheel as a power when the storm first came, although the result was jammed, but the inertia thrown by the wind and waves not only made the water wheel turn backwards, but also made the water wheel turn forward at a high speed!

The water wheel that rotates at great speed drives the push rod inside to rotate at high speed, and then a slam pause, and the force of turning backward is held up by the check baffle and cannot rotate, and the push rod that stops at an emergency stop throws people away or injures them.

This is not the end, the water wheel was plucked by the sea water for a while forward and backward, and when it was backward, the stop baffle was rigidly against the wooden barrier on the water wheel shaft, and the water wheel competed with the baffle in the huge waves, and the wooden shaft was screwed "creaking" straight sound.

Everyone saw that if it went on like this, maybe the wooden shaft could be broken, so they hurriedly knocked off the baffle and locked the door of the putter house.

And most of the dead and wounded were killed and injured by the putter in the putter house, which is not the biggest loss, Hou Jie counted until dark, and found that there were nine fewer Chen-class battleships!

Nine ships, even people and ships are gone! That's the big head! Whether these nine warships sink or break, they are adrift at sea, and the chances of survival are close to none!

Cheng Hong ordered: "Tie all the cables, connect them to the flagship, and have a good rest tonight except for the personnel on duty!"

After speaking, Cheng Hong turned around and went back to the cabin, and met Li Chunfeng and Niu Jianhu who came from another flagship halfway, Cheng Hong said: "Daochang Li, I'll trouble you to locate it tonight, let's go tomorrow!" I'm tired, I want to go sleep for a while, I'm out of company! ”

After finishing speaking, he left, Niu Jianhu wanted to hold Cheng Hong, but was stopped by Li Chunfeng, and after Cheng Hong left, Niu Jianhu asked: "Why did Daochang Li ...... just now?"

Li Chunfeng sighed and said, "Don't bother Cheng Dudu, don't you see it?" Cheng Dudu spared his life again, and the nine ships that were lost were probably more than lucky!

Cheng Dudu is superior in both talent and martial arts, but it is only a pity for people, which makes people feel strangled, if it is a good thing to spare his life from the world of culture, but it is indeed ...... to be in charge of the army."

After Cheng Hong returned to his cabin, he collapsed and covered his head and began to think nonsense: the entire nine ships were all good sons of the Tang Dynasty, and they were buried in the sea.

Although he knew that he needed dead people to open up the sea, Cheng Hong asked himself more than once, are you ready to die?

Cheng Hong thought he was ready, but when death befell the team he led, Cheng Hong found that he was not ready at all!

Jiuchuan people, how can you let me accept it calmly! This storm undoubtedly gave Cheng Hong a basin of cold water, drenched from head to toe, and made Cheng Hong reflect on whether he had done something wrong!

Should I wait for Datang to go to sea when it has the strength to sail at sea, is it a little bit of a seedling now! The tuition fee of Jiuchuanren is really difficult for Cheng Hong to accept!

Cheng Hong fell asleep in this kind of self-blame and doubt, I don't know how long Cheng Hong felt that his eyelids were a little heavy, opened his eyes, and saw Cheng An sleeping next to him: "Cheng An!"

Cheng Hong's voice was hoarse, Cheng An woke up immediately when he heard the movement, saw Cheng Hong staggering to get up, and hurriedly said: "Shaolangjun don't want to move, are you hungry?" I'll have someone bring you porridge!" ”

Then Cheng An pulled his neck and shouted: "Most of the governors have woken up, hurry up and bring a bowl of porridge!" By the way, tell Deputy Governor Niu! ”

Cheng Hong shook his head: "What's wrong?"

Cheng An said: "Shaolangjun, you lie down first, after you fell asleep the night before yesterday, you couldn't wake up, Li Daochang came to say that you are in a maze, just see through it!"

This is not a day and two nights, that night, Li Daochang and they calculated the position, pointed out the direction, this fleet stopped here is not the world and the ground is not a way.

So Zhang Guards suggests following the direction you set! I'll wait until I get to land, and in order to get to land as soon as possible, I didn't stop last night and kept going at full speed! ”

"Big brother, big brother, are you awake?"

"Let me let me go, let me bring the porridge in! I haven't eaten a grain of rice for two days, no matter how anxious I am, I will eat first and then talk about it! ”

The fat chef personally came over with a large bowl of preserved egg and beef porridge, put it on the table next to Cheng Hong, and by the way, took out a green orange from the big pocket in front of the apron and put it on the table.

Looking at the concerned eyes of a room, forget it, let's eat first and then say, "sucking and snoring" like a whirlwind, pouring a bowl of hot and cold porridge into the stomach, and Cheng An next to him has already peeled the green oranges.

The sour orange immediately refreshed a lot after taking a bite, and at this time Cheng Hong said in a good time: "I have worried you in the past two days, but I can't figure it out a little, but now I have figured it out!"

It's okay, is there anything going on on this day? , where is the fleet now? You didn't run into anything on the boat at night, did you? ”

Niu Jianhu replied: "Big brother, it's nothing, yesterday was the full moon, the moon shone very brightly, and we avoided the places where there were islands, and we didn't touch any reefs!"

After you had fallen asleep the night before, four more ships had returned, and they had been five boats, but one of them had ridden on the reef and its keel broke!

The four ships carried the men and goods and food on that ship to the other four ships, and the time was delayed, and by the time we had to catch up with us, it was already midnight!

When I came back, I scolded them severely, a bunch of people who sacrificed their lives and money! Why don't you know that human life is worth more than those broken copper and iron!

As for our current position, if Daoist Li is not mistaken, we will be able to see the land tonight!

This storm has allowed us to travel for at least three days! The real thief, I was patronizing and competing with the waves at that time, but I didn't expect to run so fast! ”

Zhang Yuanli looked at Cheng Hong for a while: "The governor of the capital has told us about the heart disease of Daochang Li!" In fact, you don't have to worry about it at all, expanding the territory is originally about adding human lives!

What's more, no one knows what is going on in the sea, so we can only grope for it, and if we explore it one day earlier, it will be better than one day later!

In your words, working hard today, no matter what, is one step closer to success than working hard tomorrow, we can beat others one step ahead, don't let others beat our children and grandchildren one step ahead of us! ”

Looking at the concerned eyes around him, Cheng Hong's mood suddenly brightened, if he didn't have himself, the Tang Dynasty would not have gone to sea, and he was still fighting on land.

Then it was invaded by people from the sea, and a large amount of gold and silver flowed out, feeding foreign ships and cannons, and then they used strong ships and cannons to knock on the door of the country and take away more gold and silver......

Cheng Hong got up suddenly, he can't fight them in his next life, so he has to teach them a lesson! Thinking of this, he nodded: "I know, if you have nothing to do, please accompany me to the deck!"

Cheng Hong walked to the deck, looked at the sea area behind him, and silently thought in his heart: I will remember you, you shed the first drop of blood for the navigation of the Tang Dynasty! You deserve to be remembered! When I go back, I must engrave your names on the Quanzhou Lighthouse for people to pay respects!