Chapter 419: Crossing the Ocean and Pulling the Stars

Hearing Shi Daxuan's emotion, Wang Yuqi said: "This official has been in the Daming Longjiang Shipyard for many years, and he has also heard of Zheng Zhilong, and he is also familiar with the state of the warships under the command of Shibazhi and the proportion of artillery.

This official only said one word to you, you kid is too lucky, and he got the opportunity to defect to the 'Red Flag Army' at this critical moment.

You must know that in the past two years, the 'Red Flag Army' sailors have developed too quickly from scratch and lack talents, and it takes time for those educated young soldiers to grow up. ”

Shi Daxuan hugged his fists and said: "The lowly position has been taught, and the person goes to a high place, how can the lowly position not cherish the opportunity to lead such an advanced warship." ”

Shen Ming said very seriously: "Lord Shi, although the coastal defense guerrilla battalion and the 'Red Banner Army' are both Ming troops, but the military discipline is completely different, if you want to become a member of the 'Red Flag Army', you must completely get rid of pirate habits, know how to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and make up your mind to fight for the country and not hesitate to throw your head and spill your blood." ”

"Brother Shen is polite, just call me by my name in the future. You're right, I do have pirate habits, and in the future, I will use my efforts to kill the enemy for the country. ”

Huang Yong is conscientious and more realistic, he is responsible for the safety of fifty merchant ships without force, and has been paying close attention to the dynamics on the route, and the most he has done in the past two days is to observe the sea through a clairvoyant mirror.

Looking to the east through the windowsill of the command module on the flagship, he was suddenly startled by the appearance of a fleet of dozens of large warships in front of him.

It is not surprising that Huang Han led seven warships, captured five armed merchant ships of the Tsugawa family, captured thirteen warships of the Eighteen Zhi, and captured two warships of the East India Company, and now the fleet has twenty-seven warships lined up with a length of more than two miles.

Huang Yong was just about to give an order to all the first-level combat readiness, when he found several warships with red flags fluttering, and then looked closely at the seven warships that turned out to be the 'Red Flag Army'.

"Hahaha! It's incredible, it's been less than three days since the breakup, and my brother has robbed twenty sea ships, how did he do it? Huang Yongle muttered.

At this time, the captain Yang Dacheng beside him also saw the situation clearly and said loudly: "The general won a complete victory and captured the nineteenth ...... Not to mention twenty large sea ships, among which there is also a Xiyi deck warship that is frighteningly large. ”

The soldiers in the command cabin immediately cheered and thundered, and then the slogan of "the general is mighty, the 'Red Flag Army' is victorious" was endless, and Yang Dacheng, who was overjoyed, took the lead in singing: "The sea is laughing, the tide on both sides of the strait is surging, and the ups and downs are remembered ......with the waves."

The flagship's 400 or so soldiers all opened their throats and sang, and soon the joyful atmosphere was transmitted to other merchant ships and warships.

Most of the Huang family's fifty merchant sailors were former maritime merchants, and some were recruited coastal fishermen.

In this year, the income of sailors who ran the sea was good, so the remuneration of the sailors of the former maritime merchants who were retained by the "Red Banner Army" was almost the same, and these people basically had no loyalty to the "Red Banner Army", which belonged to the nature of passive part-time work.

In contrast to these people, the newly recruited fishermen and sailors had a very different sense of identification with the "Red Banner Army".

Because their families live in the system and are respected for food, clothing and clothing, they can get more than two taels of silver every month, and the living conditions at home have improved, and it is a matter of time before they become well-off.

At the beginning of the year, Huang Yong, Shen Xianyi, Yang Dacheng, Huang Chunsheng and other generals discussed the major matter of immigration in the shortest possible time.

The loyalty of the gunners and sailors of the Lushun Water Battalion is no problem, largely because their families have settled in Tiger's Den City and enjoy the power of the collective, and the families can not only get job opportunities, but also have the advantages of military families.

Most of the sailors of the former maritime merchants are still in Shandong, and these people have not integrated into the "Red Banner Army" system, so they are still a chaotic mentality.

The Beidaihe area is a livable place with great development potential, and Huang Han has never worried about overcrowding, as can be seen when you think about the development of an island with a population of less than 2,000 in Xin'an County, Guangdong Province in the Ming Dynasty, into Hong Kong, which later had a permanent population of 7 or 8 million.

Huang Han also did not think that after the two cities of Tiger's Den and Funingwei were connected, there would be millions of soldiers and civilians, but there was no problem for three or five hundred thousand permanent residents to live here.

Captain Yang Dacheng is the third brother of Yang Danian, and he is also the son and grandson of the Yang family who reads the most books and undertakes the mission of glorifying the ancestors.

However, since the Huang family father and son came out of Jiulitai Village, he has changed his school to become a soldier to win credit and glory to his ancestors, so Yang Dacheng belongs to the first batch of scholars who put pen to paper from Rong, of course, he is not very good at reading, and he has not even passed the children's life test.

Because Yang Dacheng has no martial arts and culture, no strong physique, no horseback riding and no archery, but he can swim, so he followed Huang Yong to learn the pipe and belt camp from the beginning.

Now Yang Dacheng has a vision, he has heard Huang Han talk about geography many times, and knows that the place where human beings live is a huge planet, if you want to verify that the world we live in is a sphere, it can be confirmed by sailing around the earth.

Yang Dacheng is full of curiosity about the world, thinking that one day he will realize his dream of circumnavigating the earth and be the first Ming man to accomplish this feat.

He knew that a hundred years earlier, a man named Ferdinand Magellan had led a fleet of five ships to complete the first circumnavigation of the world.

It is also known that the pioneer paid with his life for that circumnavigation voyage, and in the end only one ship returned to the place of departure.

Yang Dacheng was not afraid of danger, he was seriously studying astronomy and geography, and he had made some achievements in painstaking research with dozens of young sailors.

"Transoceanic star pulling" is an ancient astronomical positioning technology, which is to determine the vertical height and the length of the rope through the "star puller" this measuring tool, which can be converted to the altitude angle of the North Star, and the geographical latitude of the place is obtained, so as to determine the specific course of the ship.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Mao Yuanyi compiled the "Wubei Zhi", among the 20 pages of Zheng He's sea charts, there are four "maps of crossing the ocean and leading the stars". Today, when modern navigation technology is quite developed, sailing on the vast sea can still rely on this ancient navigation technology to navigate.

Huang Han spared no effort to open the eyes of young people in the system to the world, and when he talked about astronomy and geography, he didn't know how many people he had influenced, and Yang Dacheng was just one of them.

Within the system, it is beneficial for the great Han nation to strive for the publication of newspapers in the autumn, so that the "Red Banner Army", which is constantly engaged in literacy eradication, can learn about the affairs of the world through reading books and newspapers.

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