Three days later, in the evening, it was dark and moonless.

Nearly half of the time had passed, but the sky and the earth were quiet at night. The 300 members of the Changxi Village Escort Team and the 100 black-clothed guards had already boarded 25 boats, the sails had been raised, and the 400 men and horses had eaten a full meal.

Xia Xue stood on the deck of the bearded guest's ship, looking up at the dark night sky, and had maintained this position for a long time. Zhao Ning, Zhao Feng, Zhao Quan and several other team leaders of the Changxi Village Escort Team were also like Xia Xue, looking up at the starry sky.

There was no rain, not even a little wind. If today wasn't the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Ning was sure that this would be a starry sky and a moonlit night.

Rubbing his somewhat sore neck, Zhao Ning asked with some concern: "Master, are you really sure that there is rain tonight, and it is a torrential rain?" ”

After all, there are no meteorological satellites now, Xia Xue is just a judgment based on her own experience, the weather is impermanent, and she actually has no bottom in her heart.

The weather in the past three days has been getting better and better day by day, three days ago it was still cloudy, but these three days it was a big sun, so sunny that even the wind could not rise, and there was not even a cloud in the sky.

Now, the troops and horses are ready, and the battleships are ready.

But the heavy rain that should have happened did not appear!

Xia Xue was stared at anxiously by Zhao Ning, and sweat broke out on her forehead.

She looked up at the sky again, and the air seemed to condense, and everything became extremely quiet in an instant, without a trace of wind, and even the seabirds stopped chirping and hid back in their nests. I can't help but be ecstatic in my heart, this is the typical "calm before the storm".

"The storm is coming!" Xia Xue said silently in her heart.

Xia Xue knows that the simplest storm, a single-celled thunderstorm, usually has only one major updraft, that is, a warm and moist air stream rising from the ground. Warm, moist air is necessary for storms to form, so they are usually sucked in from their surroundings. Thunderstorms can suck in the warm, moist air they need from any direction around them – even air in the direction of the storm's movement. As warm, moist air is sucked into the thunderstorm, a low-pressure vacuum zone is formed where the thunderstorm passes.

The warm, moist airflow continues to rise, but as it passes through the clouds, it undergoes a process of water vapor condensation as the temperature drops, and the warm-moist airflow begins to cool and become dry. When the warm, moist air reaches the top of the cloud, it is squeezed out of the cloud, and this air flow flips over a huge anvil-shaped thundercloud cloud. At this point, the air flow begins to sink – sucked back down by the vacuum that it creates as it rises. The dry heat is relatively stable, and once it covers an area, it stabilizes the airflow in that area, which creates a calm before the storm.

"The calmer it is now, the more violent the storm will be!"

Xia Xue said to Zhao Ning and the bearded guest: "The storm is coming soon, let everyone be prepared for the storm!" ”

"But why can't I see the slightest sign of rain on this day?" The bearded man frowned and said, "All sailors who have made a living at sea can basically look at the sky and stargazing at the stars, but he really hasn't seen any signs of rain tonight."

Xia Xue confidently explained: "Today's celestial phenomenon belongs to a kind of vision that is rarely seen in ordinary times. The calmer it is now, the more calm it is before the storm, and the more violent the storm will be. Let's get ready to go! ”

The bearded guest admired this "little fairy" with great powers very much, but looking at the dark night sky without a trace of wind, he was still a little suspicious, and his eyebrows couldn't help but tighten even tighter.

At that moment, the bearded guest's cloak suddenly swelled and rattled.

"The wind is blowing!" Someone shouted loudly in the distance, and the impatient escorts who were already sitting in the cabin rushed to the deck and shouted into the night sky.

Zhao Ning, Qiu Bearded Ke and the others couldn't help but glance at each other, and their eyes finally showed a long-lost joy, and their admiration and worship for the "little fairy" were like a turbulent sea.

"Anchor, sail!" The bearded man ordered loudly. He changed into a set of pitch-black leather armor today, after all, black is better for concealment at night.

Huge sails rose high on the masts and fluttered in the howling wind.

Sima Chao tilted his head, his eyes slightly closed, and his nose kept inhaling air. With an increasingly excited expression on his face, he said loudly: "I smell the humidity in the air, this is the prelude to the rainstorm!" Heavy rain is coming, hurry up! ”

The captains of the ships shouted loudly as the guards steered the ship to set sail, and the wind grew stronger and stronger, and even the people who blew it were unsteady on the bow. But the stronger the wind blew, the more excited several team leaders such as Zhao Ning, Zhao Feng, Zhao Quan, and Sima Chao of the Changxi Village Escort Team became. Growing up by the sea, they don't have to hold the boat at all, and they can be firmly attached to the deck like an iron sucker.

The sea breeze howled, and the battleships fired in unison.

The fleet had traveled more than half the distance, and when it was less than six miles away from Yuanshan Island, the strong wind finally brought heavy rain. At first, it was just like beans falling like a sparse wind on the bow of the ship and on everyone's faces, and gradually, the rain became more and more dense, hitting the people's bodies and causing pain, until finally it poured down like a downpour.

The dense rain is like a silver curtain of water, as if connecting heaven and earth.

The guards on the deck fled into the cabin to hide, but Sima Chao and the bearded guest laughed wildly in the rainstorm. With such a torrential rain, the defenses on Yuanshan Island will inevitably weaken, and their vigilance will definitely be reduced to a minimum. A rainy night like this is a great time to really attack.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the rain poured on the deck, splashing high mist. The entire heaven and earth seemed to be the Milky Way falling for nine days, and there was water everywhere. The visual range is so low that even the rest of the fleet can no longer be seen.

Fortunately, the carefully selected guards of Changxi Village this time all grew up by the sea and are familiar with water, no matter how bad the weather is, they have also seen it, although the rainstorm is heavy, but they also have a set of methods for sailing in the rain, keeping the entire fleet together and moving forward.