When all this was done, four days had passed, and the people on the island who were ready to set off were gathered on the dock, and on the tenth day of the first month of the first month of the Yellow Emperor's calendar of 4326, after a few days of preparations, Gan Tang led a multinational combined fleet composed of Abbas, Egypt, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the Roman Empire's merchant sailors and merchant sailors to go to sea to fight.

Gan Tang boarded a ship converted into a building ship with a thousand stone blessings.

A thousand stone fortune boats, not to mention in the sea, even in the Yangtze River, are not large ships.

However, the shape of the pointed bottom and keel structure, the watertight compartment structure, the multiple bottom plates, and the winch used to control the tail rudder lifting and lowering all represent the most advanced seagoing ship technology in Bactria in this era.

Not only is this kind of boat safer, not easy to overturn, can withstand high winds and waves, even if it leaks, it will not affect navigation, and more importantly, the boat is faster.

This two-thousand-stone battleship, although not the largest, was the fastest and had a small draft. Whether it is in Chaohu Lake, Poyang Lake, or Dongting Lake, it can be unimpeded, so this kind of boat has also become a boat commanded by the generals of various naval divisions in the inland river.

In order to keep it secret, he did not mobilize the army this time.

In the vast sea, if encountered, the main thing is to look at the size of the ship, the largest warship of the Yangtze River Naval Division that Fan Sui hijacked, a large building ship with a displacement of 4,000 stones, but Gan Tang is not worried, with the blessing of the heat-weapon of artillery fire, Gan Tang believes that the comprehensive combat capability is not worse than the other party.

Now the naval warships of Yanxia and Xia use hard sails, while Gan Tang said that the warships of various countries led by Gan Tang use soft sails, which are faster.

In the past, the Great Xia sailors also tried to change the warship from a hard sail to a soft sail, but the soft sail was more complicated to operate, and at this stage, the sailors who operated the warship were basically illiterate, relying on long-term experience to drive the ship to fight, and it was impossible to organize the Daxing fleet at all.

The strength of the Great Xia Navy is the best in the world, and it is great that Western countries can organize a battle of thirty warships, how can they be like Great Xia, where hundreds or thousands of ships act together every time they go out in battle. Even so, Great Xia was only in its infancy in terms of developing its war potential.

Everyone boarded their respective ships, and Grace also followed Gan Tang in men's clothes to board the command ship, standing beside Gan Tang, her long hair tied up with a piece of gorgeous Suzhou brocade, but these did not affect her beauty in the slightest, and as the sails were raised, a hundred warships slowly sailed out of the dock.

Gan Tang, who was standing at the bow of the ship, was also excited, it was the first time he really went to sea with the team to fight, but he didn't know what the result of his gamble would be, but he was not very worried about this, although they were few, but with these ballistas, plus firearms, they could completely make up for their numerical inferiority, the only problem was to find Fan Sui's fleet smoothly, which was not something he could decide.

At sea, Gantang's large fortune ship is much slower than those in the West, and in order to maintain the formation, which ships do not need to be full sails at all.

The bow of the boat ploughed the waves, and the flying fish leaped over the sea from time to time, so that Gantang, who had never been to the sea, was in a very comfortable mood, and he suddenly felt that he liked the taste of the sea, and only when he smelled the smell of the sea, he felt relaxed and happy, not to mention that there was a big beauty standing behind him, who cared about him at all times.

At this time, Yu Ke, the bear child who had been following his entourage, jumped up and down to Gan Tang's side, and pulled Gan Tang to see his new weapon for Gan Tang.

Gan Tang began to find that the little grandson of Yu Mao, a craftsman in the big class, was very talented in invention and creation, so he always took it with him, and often gave scientific guidance to later generations.

Gan Tang came to a device similar to the speargun of later generations, looking at this new invention in disbelief, Gan Tang was very happy now, the speargun of the West in later generations relied on a strong spring to provide firing kinetic energy, and the shape of this speargun is basically the same as that of the speargun of later generations, but the spring is replaced by a whale's tendon.

It can reach a range of more than 10 steps in the water, and in the air the fish arrow can fly at least 70 steps or more, and can also penetrate the hull of the ship, and can be used to shoot people like fun.

According to the scale of the ships going to sea, the marching route, the battle plan, the new type of herald flags were determined, and even the emergency measures of each ship after encountering sea breezes and fog.

Gan Tang sat in the position of the chief general in high spirits, and immediately issued the first military order, which was to determine the command system of the entire fleet.

When Gan Tang's command ship raised the military command flag, all the ships successively raised the flags of various countries, which was simply varied, just like the joint naval exercises of later generations.

Each different ship hoisted the flag to the left and right, and the high and low positions were different, and these determined their position during the march. Any trained crew member can easily tell where each ship should sail.

Although the means of communication are somewhat backward, when the concise and clear flag herald system is unified, the seemingly chaotic fleet actually has a stable law.

The first order was conveyed, and Gan Tang sat in the command cabin and handed over the power to Zhang Gui and López, the lieutenants sent by Li Yu.

As Zhang Gui's orders were conveyed through the flags, the hundred warships gathered here began to set off in an orderly manner.

On the vast sea, warships marched in line according to different sizes and different uses. Or two ships in parallel, or three ships in parallel.

The merchant ships traveling back and forth, seeing a march of this magnitude, avoided them one after another and gave way to the fairway.

Heading north along the coastline of the East China Sea, thanks to the arrival of the southeast monsoon, the fleet can reach the mouth of the Yangtze River in a maximum of one day.

Gantang their flagship was located in the middle of the flotilla, protected by a frigate on each side. The fleet sailed, and the generals of the fleet were idle.

On the same day, in the belly of the mountain of Oki Island on Shuangqi Island, this is the largest hidden base of island leaders such as Sekijin. Because the Great Xia fleet blockaded the entire sea area around Shuangqi Island, any ships were captured. Therefore, the people outside Shuangqi Island have not yet received the news of the destruction of the main force of the pirate group.

More than 200 elite pirates, including Guan Jin, who have been hiding here, have been paying close attention to the situation outside in recent days.

Early in the morning, Guan Jin had just gotten rid of the entanglement of a teenage stupid girl, and suddenly, he heard a commotion outside. Before he could react, his nephew, Zong Zhenliang, who was also the leader of his personal guard, suddenly slammed open the door and rushed in. “。”

"Withdrawn! Withdrawn! ”

Guan Jin didn't even have time to explain, and rudely pushed the little lady away, revealing her naked body and the delicate body of the concubine.

Another large group of people rushed in, all of them members of the leaders of the island who had survived the catastrophe, and their faces were excited.

No one's eyes glanced at the little concubine, and a few of the younger juniors were even crying excitedly.

Such a humiliation made Guan Jin very angry, he jumped up from the bed, waved his hand and gave his nephew Guan Qing a big mouth. "Bastard, who did you have the audacity to break into!"

Guan Qing, who had always been honest, shouted: "Uncle, the army of the Great Xia Sea Master has already withdrawn from Daqi Island and returned to the warship. ”

At this time, Guan Jin finally reacted and quickly put on his clothes. "What about Kogijima? Did the troops on Kogishima withdraw? ”

"The lookout post on the hill can't see clearly."

"Quick, send a few clever people to follow, and see what kind of moths the Great Xia Navy is playing?"

Guan Jin looked at his excited subordinates, shook his head and said, "Only with the complete destruction of our people, can Great Xia completely master this small island that is a key point in the north and south seas and lands. So, guys, don't rejoice too soon, everyone else may still be alive, but we ......"

The hearts of Charles and Matsushita Gonbei and others suddenly became cold, and he had already heard the meaning of the words. It also dashed their last hopes.

If Great Xia really had the heart to occupy Tsushima Island, it was true that they, the pirate leaders, would all have to be destroyed.

Matsushita Gonbei asked in broken Chinese, "Then how do you explain that the army of Great Xia withdrew and searched half of the island of Daqi?" ”

Guan Jin pondered for a long time before he spoke: "There are two possibilities, one is a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, lure us out, and then trap us to death, and the other may be that our news base camp knows about it and sent reinforcements, Daxia is not the opponent of the reinforcements, take the initiative to avoid it, so that we can not only live, but also restore our previous glory in the future." ”

When they were anxiously waiting for the verdict of fate on the island, they knew that in the afternoon of the same day, the lookout post on the top of the mountain finally came with the news that they were excited, and a huge fleet appeared on the sea north of Shuangqi Island, with no less than 500 warships, and the wolf flag of the Yan Navy was flying on the ship.

Pirates in the East China Sea have been rampant for many years, and the Taiwan Strait has been used as a hiding place by pirates because of its good natural ring topography.

Earlier, due to the prosperity of the east-west trade on the southeast coast of Great Xia, the rise of the Maritime Silk Road, and the continuous strengthening of the naval strength of Great Xia, the continuous suppression of coastal pirates, pirates have long been not as popular as they were in the past.

But they did not disappear completely, they began to join the group to keep warm, in the northwest of the Taiwan Strait near the Penghu Islands of Shuangqi Island hidden a group of fearsome pirates, unlike in the past, this so-called group of pirates is not a rabble, strict discipline and sophisticated weapons, their pirate ships are famous for navigation and firepower.

As the mastermind behind this group of modern "pirates", Yan reached a compromise with them many years ago, and the ultimate goal of Yan was to plant a nail on the southeast coast in the future Yanxia War.

As long as the destruction of Bactria overseas trade is like cutting off a major blood vessel in a person's body, it will cause Bactria to lose a major hematopoietic function in the war. Therefore, Great Xia's conquest of Shuangqi Island and Yan State did not care.

Fortunately, Fan Sui's Yangtze River Naval Division changed hands, and now the strength of the naval army is Yan Guo slightly superior, wearing a military uniform of the Yan State Marshal, leisurely sitting in an open-air position on the port side of this battleship with a displacement of 4,000 stones, the deputy general also put a small coffee table here, the freshly brewed fragrant tea wafts out of the tempting fragrance, and the steep green hills on the shore in the distance, the calm sea water and the sunny weather are as refreshing and pleasant.

"I don't know how long this bad weather will last!"

Under the blue sky, Vice Admiral Bai Yang's words seemed a little out of place, but for this fleet, the clear weather was indeed a "bad weather", because they had to find a weather with low visibility to slip through the cordon deployed by the Great Xia Naval Division on the eastern coast of the Yangtze River.