Needless to say, the name of the ship "Debang" is known as the work of the Crossing Public.

As a shadow of the crossing forces stationed in the Zhejiang Sea, the Debang has a simple mission: recruit and screen sailors, and at the same time accept the instructions of the traverser to travel around as a pirate ship to fight the ships of the hostile forces.

The message code of the Debang in the system is a "jungler" with a strong crossing style.

The pirate ship Debang pulled out the flag on the rivers and lakes is "covering the sky". Well, this brain-dead name was actually set up by a certain intelligence bureau through the crowd, and it was the same as a certain grass-headed king in the late Ming Dynasty.

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The big boss and the second boss of the "covering the sky" gang eliminated the iron plate grilled fish in the competition between you and me. After finishing the matter, Chen Erye shook the vial to see how little chili powder was left, muttered a few more words in pain, and then quickly put the two worn-out plastic bottles into his arms.

Ma Liu, who was guarded by the second master against thieves, was also an old man in the screen village back then. This person worked as a fisherman along the coast of Yueqing when he was a teenager, and when he became an adult, he lived in Pingfeng Village, similar to Chen Huoding, and took the rare upgrade route of Haimin turned bandits.

At the time of the initial diversion, the traversers considered that Chen Huoding and Ma Liu were the few people in the screen village who had added navigation skills, so they left the two to fight in the jungle along the coast of the Zhejiang Sea, and by the way, they took advantage of their ground familiarity to recruit people in the fishing villages of various health guards.

In this way, the Debang ran around Zhoushan every day, and from time to time it robbed, and every once in a while, a fleet of sand ships would pass by the joint, sending some people on board here, and leaving supplies for them there.

Supplies are usually salt. With the smooth refined salt, no matter where the Debang stops, there will always be nearby fishermen and guards who bring rice, vegetables and seafood.

Therefore, the life of Chen Ma and the others is still good.

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Once you've eaten the grilled fish, it's time to get down to business.

The first thing was, of course, to check the latest information, so the two entered the stern.

In the cockpit was a man under the age of 30, who was ticking and receiving messages in front of a push-button telegraph.

This man's surname is Han, and his name is Han Zude.

Han Zude is one of the earliest students in Moyunguan, and Jiang Shang, who has already gone to the university, is the same student. However, unlike Jiang Shang's all-round development of the three bars, Han Zude, who is already 30 years old and was just a buddy in a difficult paper mill before, is a bit biased in his studies: he is very poor at writing, but he learns mathematics very quickly, to put it simply, he has the head of a science student.

Considering that he is not young and biased, he has little potential for growth in the future, so as soon as Lu Cheng received the appointment of the head of Hangzhou Station, he transferred Han Zude to his command.

After that, Han Zude began to learn the basics while receiving training courses for intelligence officers, including receiving and receiving telegrams. Now his work on the Debang is the third position in Han Zude's rotation.

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Chen Huoding waited patiently for a while, and after seeing Han Zude finish sending the message, he leaned over and asked, "Scholar, do you have a letter?" ”

The scholar turned his face at this time and shook his head slightly: "No news." With that, he got up and went to the workbench in the middle of the stern, on which were placed charts, some ruler tools, and most precious of all, a rechargeable lamp.

Chen Erye and Ma Liu also followed to the table. The two began to quietly watch the scholar measure and calculate on the desk.

"We'll see it today."

After Han Zude finished calculating, he straightened up, took a plastic ruler and began to compare on the chart: "Fu Lao's ship rested in the area of Sipingtou Island last night, well, base news, Fu Lao's ship set off on time this morning, if nothing else, Fu Lao should be in this area now." ”

Speaking of this, the scholar used a ruler to draw a circle near Jintang Island in Ningbo: "It's within a hundred miles of here." ”

"Then why hasn't the news board reported yet?" Ma Liu opened his mouth and asked at this time.

"Hehe, our message board is too small." Han Shusheng smiled at this time, and then gestured with his fingertips to make the action of "a little bit": "The whispering myth on the Fu Lao ship is too small, and the ears of the base can hear it, and the ears on our ship are small, and the Fu Lao can only hear it when he gets closer." Well, come on, according to my calculations, there should be news in a few hours. ”

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In the later generations, on a certain treasure, as long as the main room spends eighty hundred, you can easily buy a biscuit-sized, magnet tracker with global GPS positioning function, well, as long as it is attached under the car, you can track the dead ghost to catch the junior.

However, it is now the 17th century, and in the sky of the Ming Dynasty, there are only the Big Dipper, and there are no Beidou satellites - all instruments with GPS function are ineffective.

Therefore, if we want to play tracking and positioning and information communication in the 17th century, human beings can only rely on the most primitive and reliable telegraph, Morse cipher, FM band, which have been eliminated.

Don't underestimate these old means of communication, in fact, the current mainstream means of communication is very fragile: in 2017, Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas, and the coastal areas lost power, network, and signal overnight. At this time, the only thing that was not affected was the FM signal radio in the hands of the old men...... The rescue team later relied on FM radio to communicate with each other.

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The black wooden box that Wangcai handed over to Xie Chushui was installed at the bottom of a set of biscuit-sized FM signal components. The system consists of a lithium battery and an FM chip, which sends a specific signal to the outside world every 10 minutes. After the antennas installed in the back garden of Tangzhuang received signals one after another, Master Xiong's concubine was able to outline the general movement line of the target, and then sent the information to the Debang.

As the Fuchuan farther and farther away from Hangzhou, the signal received by Tangzhuang became weaker and the positioning range became more and more blurred. But it doesn't matter, soon the Fuchuan will enter the signal acceptance range of the Debang, which is equipped with a simple handheld locator. The principle of this instrument is similar to that of a radio, except that because the antenna is too short, it is possible to receive the signal only when the source is within 50 kilometers.

That's the benefit of being stuck in this choke point at sea less than 10 kilometers wide: the Deppon has plenty of time to plan its next steps – as soon as it receives a signal.

Perhaps the wind direction was not in the right direction, and when the electronic alarm sound of "Didi" came from the locator, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, Han Zude looked at the picture from the locator the size of a palm machine, and hurriedly ran to the chart to start calculating, but poor Chen Erye couldn't understand the KM numbers, small black dots, and ripple circles on the LCD screen, so he could only be in a hurry.

"Piercing the Nose Island." After a few minutes, Han Zude threw down his pencil and said these three words with certainty.

"Boat speed?" The second master opened his mouth and asked the key question.

"Up to 4 knots."

After hearing this, the two masters of the Debang coincidentally lay on the chart and began to clumsily gesture the distance with their fingers: "This is to take the snail waterway?" ”

"Yes, the most to Peach Blossom Island before dark......"

"Set sail and go to Peach Blossom Island!"

Ten minutes later, Chen Huoding gave the official order, and the sailors on the Debang quickly hoisted their sails and set sail for the southwest.

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The Xie family's fortune boat, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, was sailing around the Chuanbi Island off the coast of Ningbo. Knowing the general position and speed of the Fuship, it is easy to calculate the maximum sailing range of the Fuchuan in the next 4 hours: about 4 knots per hour, and the Fufu can only go south to the area of Taohua Island before dark.

This is simple, the Debang is located in the middle of the Fuchuan and Peach Blossom Island, and now it can easily rush to Peach Blossom Island to sleep - no matter where the Fuchuan spends the night around, the Debang can set off early the next morning, wait for the rabbit, intercept it, and hunt it!

In the 17th century, all Chinese ships heading south and north along the coastline of the mainland had to find shelter and spend the night after dark. The so-called "needle road" also contains information on the harbor suitable for overnight stays on the route.

The Debang had only one transmitter that needed to be replaced at regular intervals, and it was not equipped with navigation radar, so the Debang did not dare to sail at night in the reef-ridden Zhoushan Islands, so the battle had to take place in the daytime.

...... As it turned out, Chen Huoding and their choice was correct: that night, the rabbit and the hunter rested on Peach Blossom Island. It's just that the hunter is in the south of the island, and the rabbit is in the north of the island - the hunter has plenty of time to hurry, so he is ahead of the curve.

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Xie Chushui felt very bad.

After setting sail early in the morning, the fleet at first sailed smoothly south along the waterway between Taohua Island and Shrimp Island, and there was nothing wrong along the way.

However, when the fleet sailed out of the Shrimp Ridge Channel, the situation became a little unpleasant: in front of the suddenly cheerful sea, a sand boat suddenly appeared.

Theoretically, the appearance of a sand boat near the Zhoushan Islands is also very logical.

However, when the guy in Wangdou shouted to Xie Chushui and the sand boat in front of him was half-sailing, he went to sea at the age of fifteen to fight for his life.

Sure enough, when Xie Chushui tentatively ordered the fleet to lower the half-sail, the sand boat in front simply lowered the mainsail as well, leaving only two auxiliary sails there half-dead to drive the ship forward.

The wind direction of the two ships is the same at the moment, so it is like a slow board truck sliding in front of it in first gear - although the two heavy trucks behind them are carrying more goods and the speed is slow, the distance between the two is still slowly approaching.

Xie Chushui had already calmed down at this time: since he couldn't dodge, he had to meet him. He wanted to see how the other party's sand boat, which was no bigger than 500 materials, could eat his two 800-material Dafu boats.

The next moment, the two fortune boats raised their sails and turned their rudders, trying to bypass the side of the sand boats; At the same time, more than a hundred sailors on both ships had gathered on the deck at this moment, all kinds of knives and axes were ready to scratch and hook, and they were full of murderous energy.

On the Fu boat at the head, a short tiger squat cannon was also mounted on the bow, and Captain Xie, who had participated in the Penghu War that year, was loading the tiger squat cannon with black powder and gravel.

When everything was ready, the two sides were already less than 500 meters apart at this time, and the Fu fleet was slowly approaching from the side and rear of the sand boat, but a strange scene happened: the pirates on the sand boat did not lean over to jump the gang for a bloody battle, but raised half a sail, maintaining a posture that was gradually parallel to the Fu fleet and moving forward in a straight line, and the parallel distance between the two sides at this moment has slowly approached the number of 300 meters.

As for how the people on the ship were sure that the other party was a pirate, it was very simple, the flag with black letters on a white background had been hung on the sand boat - covering the sky.