Xu Zizhen knew the power of the steam engine, so although he was very excited, he could still hold it, but the others were different, watching the white waves rolling on the side of the ship, and the sails were not hung up, the speed was several times faster than the original sail of the ship.

Su San was even more excited, she knew how to water since she was a child, but she had never seen much of a boat, and today she was too addicted all of a sudden, obviously married to a woman, but she was still jumping around on the bow like a child.

The three giant ships are each equipped with eight small boats, Xu Zizhen said that this is called a lifeboat when designing, Du Jin and others unanimously disliked the name of the bad luck, so Xu Zizhen changed to an assault boat, each small boat can only sit about 20 people, even if the eight boats are put down at once, it can only sit 160 people, but both the Shenji battalion and the bandits feel that it is enough, if they go to the dock to kill a golden dog on the ground, get three or four assault boats are rich.

Xu Zizhen stood beside a swarthy man, with a tall body and a rusty face, looking at the sea in front of him and sighing: "If there were three of them in charge of Li Da at the beginning...... No, one is enough, he won't be gone if he dies. ”

This is Tang Qian, Xu Zizhen's old acquaintance in Taihu Lake Water Village, when Xu Zizhen took Gao Pet to ask for marriage, he was the one who drove Xu Zizhen into the Water Village.

"Master Li? Who is it? Xu Zizhen asked.

Wu Song walked over and said, "Li Jun, the dragon of the mixed river." ”

Xu Zizhen's interest came suddenly, this is the leader of the navy on Liangshan, and the big man who sits firmly on the throne of the thirty-six Tiangang stars in the novel.

"And where has he been now?"

Tang Qiandao: "I heard that in Siam, some people rumored that he was the king of Siam, but I don't know if it's true or not." ”

Xu Zizhen's eyes brightened, isn't Siam Thailand, it's a good place, Sawadika, welcome everyone.

"Old Tang, you are so worried about Li Da's master, go back and wait for us to destroy the golden dog, you can take me to find him, and we will also do Siamese business by the way."

Tang Qian immediately agreed: "Okay, I'm also quite concerned about Master Li's family." ”

Wu Song's eyes also showed a look of memory: "I haven't drunk with that birdman for many years. ”

As soon as it came to wine, these men were all interested, originally they were all masters of no wine and no joy, not to mention that it was still very early to go to Huining, and there was no ghost in the vast sea, so a jar of wine was moved to the deck, and it was drunk with the blue sky, white clouds, cool breeze and light waves.

That night, Gao Pujun had no way to hide, and finally Xu Zizhen fulfilled his wish beautifully, and played a game of double phoenixes and dragons all night.

In the next half a month, the weather has been very good, the autumn is high and cool, there are not many storms on this day, even if the wind is occasionally stronger, but the ship is still moving forward steadily, Xu Zizhen and others drink and chat on the boat every day, and if the wine and meat are not enough, let people put down the assault boat and go to the shore to purchase a batch, and the days are free and happy.

Wanyan Zongde is also on the Shenji, and he hangs out with the horse thieves every day, his identity is not hidden, but no one despises him, on the contrary, such as Bu Fen Hao Donglai and others are all wild people, only he is a regular army number, these days he has not explained to the horse thieves and water bandits the habits of the Jin soldiers and the brave warriors in the army, so even if he is still cold-mouthed, there are still many people who are familiar with him.

There is no sun and moon on the sea, the ship walks day by day, people forget the time, every day on the deck is the same scenery, gradually everyone is more and more bored, the weather is cold, the bandits do not even have the interest of going into the water to play, it is extremely boring.

Gao Pujun ignored Xu Zizhen for a few days after the loss of the bet, but then she couldn't suppress her curiosity about the ship, and began to study it again, from the bow to the stern, from the lookout to the gun, she didn't miss a place, especially the huge steam engine in the cabin, which was her favorite place to stay.

On this day, it was a good day with a beautiful day, no wind and no waves, the ship was moving forward steadily, Xu Zizhen was lying on a bamboo chair on the deck, and Gao Pujun asked him about the propeller by his side, the progress of these three giant ships relied on a huge propeller at the stern, which was tantamount to a masterpiece for Gao Pujun in this era.

Xu Zizhen was drowsy from the sun, and he explained without a match, and suddenly He came over in pairs.

"Big brother, we have to stop first, the tail rotor of the Tianji seems to be in some trouble."

"What's the trouble?" Xu Zizhen was startled, immediately sobered up, and sat up.

He Liangliang said: "It seems that he is involved in something." ”

"Then what are you waiting for, stop the boat and let people go down to check, that thing is not stocked, and it has no replacement if it is broken."

Xu Zizhen couldn't help but be nervous, everything else on the ship was easy to say, there were a lot of muskets and artillery, and there were also many accessories for the steam engine, which could be replaced at any time, but there was only one propeller, just that, because this thing was too big and not easy to build, and it took a lot of time and energy to build these three ships in the first place.

The flag on the lookout sounded, and the three ships stopped one after another, the captain of the Tianji was Du Jin, and his boat was full of students from the science and engineering department, and those Hu people recruited by the Shenji Battalion, Xu Zizhen asked Tang Qian to row an assault boat with a dozen or so water bandits, and then dived into the water to check it, but the result was a false alarm, but the propeller was entangled.

From the nautical chart, here to the northwest is Dengzhou, that is, the Yantai area of the Shandong Peninsula in the later generations, entangled in the propeller is a broken fishing net, mixed with a lot of seaweed, in fact, the impact is not very large, but when the three ships go together, there is an obvious speed difference.

Clearing the entanglement is very simple for a water ghost like Tang Qian, he took a dozen or so water bandits to cut the broken fishing net, cleaned it up, thinking that it had already entered the sea anyway, and cleaned up the tail rotors of the other two ships, and then returned to the boat.

Now that it has entered October, the temperature in Shandong is already very low, when Tang Qian and the others returned to the ship, Xu Zizhen burned a brazier for them, prepared wine, and let them change their clothes to warm up, and saw that it would be evening in another hour, so they simply stopped sailing, and rested at anchor, waiting for tomorrow to leave.

The 3,000 people on the ship didn't know what to do, they ate and drank early, and they were not interested in chatting and practicing, and many people went back to the cabin to sleep for a while.

Xu Zizhen said: "What's wrong?" What's the trouble again? ”

He Liangliang said: "There are four fishing boats heading towards us in the east. ”

Xu Zizhen smiled: "This is the sea, what is strange about fishing boats?" ”

He Liangliang scratched his head and said: "It's not strange that there are fishing boats, but these four are not serious." ”