When the arrival of 50 clippers, it is equivalent to saying that the whole exploration work can begin, although at present, the entire base camp, there is still a part of the project has not been completely completed, but the initial accommodating ships is still no problem.

After 50 exploration ships entered, about 2 days later, at least 50 Spanish galleons, also followed, unlike before, they carried a large number of machinery and necessary materials, in the future, the opening of the voyage, the materials needed, and the construction of the base camp, is different, these materials did not arrive, the entire exploration work, there is no way to open.

These ships are from Hokkaido, not from Huludao, navigation, and most importantly, the distance, if you follow 200 kilometers a day, 1000 kilometers means five days, Hokkaido is close to 4000 kilometers from Huludao, and it continues to the north here, and every step to the north means that the voyage is increased by two steps, and it really crosses the Kuril Islands to enter the peninsula, and even the Aleutian Peninsula, which takes a distance, almost multiplied.

From the northern part of the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, the absolute distance starts at least 10,000 kilometers, or even more, so that the whole distance is very huge.

From the very beginning, Zhao Xin was not prepared, all relied on Huludao, such an exploration, simply a time to go out, the cost is very huge, the main body of the island jumping tactics is to build some supply ports along the way, on the right islands, after the supply and relay of this supply port, you can continue to sail, without the need to return to the mainland.

In the Age of Sail, supply ports were the root of everything, and a shipping route, without supply ports, could not be sustained, even if it was a terrible warship.

The negative example of this is that during the Russo-Japanese War, because of the refusal of British and French and other powerful countries to supply and clean up Russian warships, the Russian army traveled tens of thousands of nautical miles from the Mediterranean Sea all the way to Asia to participate in the war, even if it has not yet arrived, it has already lost more than half of its combat effectiveness, which can be seen from this.

Portugal and Spain, the pioneers of the Age of Discovery, it took them almost hundreds of years to gradually occupy the world, divide the colonies, and build supply ports, they almost used time, slowly going on, this was formed, but the navy did not have this time, let alone hundreds of years, decades of time, are very little, we must speed up this speed.

At present, there is no question of time in Ding Haijun's exploration plan, and five years is a point in time, which is already very open, and Zhao Xin cannot allow it, and in five years, this matter in North America cannot be found.

It sounds a bit greedy, but in fact, Zhao Xin's consideration is well-founded, on the one hand, the ships that can cross the ocean, whether it is a Spanish sailing ship or a clipping boat, are the pinnacle of the sail warship period, after some modern modifications, and the construction of some auxiliary facilities, the performance of these ships has been greatly improved, and it is beyond the peak.

On the other hand, Zhao Xin gave the navy and drew a nautical chart, which has a strong indicative effect.

Don't underestimate this, this is actually the most difficult step in the whole voyage.

The reason why the sea is difficult to cross is because the sea is vast, there is no reference, and it is easy to get lost after leaving the familiar channel or familiar scenery, and the sextant plays a huge role in this.

In the same way, if they did not have the foresight, and did not have the simple nautical charts drawn by Zhao Xin, they would have either followed the old path recorded in history, all the way along the road of India, the Middle East, and Africa, which did not have much profit.

Or it is not necessary to pile up the final result in the Pacific Ocean with countless human lives, rather than leisurely exploration like the Dinghai Navy.

The current search allows them to take fewer detours, shortening the detection range of 360 degrees and 180 degrees to a range of less than 50 degrees or even 30 degrees, which improves the efficiency a lot.

All-round, full-area exploration, for the Pacific Ocean, to the premise of future satellite remote sensing, is only a surface exploration, in the age of navigation, there is no country that can thoroughly explore the Pacific Ocean, let alone this era.

Navigation and exploration are still not achieved in a handful, and the navy has many prerequisites, for example, to open up Hokkaido as a gradual base, and then, step by step, to the north, find a suitable island, as a port of advance, in order to determine the navy's terrible transportation capacity and construction capacity, it can be very fast, maybe ten or twenty days, you can build a small island, and then use this fixed route, as the basis, and then carry out exploration.

Such a speed, will be relatively slow, but very stable, from the north, around the Pacific Ocean, how much distance is needed, even the approximate distance and coastline, etc., have been drawn, this, perhaps in the eyes of later generations, is nothing, any person, can not draw an accurate map of the world, which is difficult for everyone, is difficult to achieve, but a general outline, as well as the entire earth, the general location of the four oceans and seven continents, is still no problem, even in the Pacific Ocean, This chain of islands is an arc-shaped way, perhaps specific islands.

There's no way, it's drawn accurately, but a general figure, or there is no problem at all, this helps a lot.

Sailing expeditions, the most important thing, is to find no direction, a sea, a vast area, everywhere without any markings, to be able to try luck to find, like this, at least save dozens of times the energy.

After the scissors arrived, the next day, they began to make tentative voyages around the area, and a lot of their training, even from Huludao all the way to Hokkaido, was unfamiliar with the charts that started with Chubu No. 1 and exceeded 100 kilometers later.

Because of the proximity to the base camp, they have a margin of safety, even if they cross a little bit, there are sextants and recorded things, it is enough to guarantee that they will come back and make the first wave of attempts.

50 ships, divided into 2 parts, one staying, one exploring, the main thing is to gradually get used to the situation in the vicinity of the Kuril Islands, the situation in the ocean basin, as well as the hydrological characteristics under the water, to help in the future, for the exploration of the ocean.

Ocean exploration requires some necessary equipment, and the clippers carry some on it, but it is far from enough, and they are waiting for the arrival of the follow-up fleet while exploring.

In the plan of the navy, the clipper is the core, his seaworthiness, his speed, can help the vanguard and the exploration fleet, can be the fastest speed, can discover everything around.

However, there is not enough logistical supplement, even if it is the pilot fleet, some effects can not be sustained and fixed, there must be sufficient support, this support is the transport fleet sent by the Spanish galleon as the main body.

This fleet comes from Hokkaido, the base camp of the No. 1 island in the middle, which is almost 600 kilometers away from Hokkaido, and the relative speed is also very fast if it is transported by Spanish galleons.

Hokkaido is a very good island, whether it is resources, or fishery, are quite outstanding, to the industry is somewhat weak, but under the current level of industry and science and technology of the Dinghai Navy, the industry is weak, not nothing, Hokkaido is mainly fishing, no matter what, it is also a developed city under the control of the Dinghai Navy, some necessary materials and small industries are still available.

In order to explore the ocean, it is too troublesome and too far to transfer directly from Shenyang, part of the production capacity, and some new industries, which are enough to support large-scale exploration.

These are opened in advance, and, also accumulated a part of the materials, this part of the materials will be placed on the central No. 1, the future of this base camp, Tongyan is the forward base that can produce some products, similar measures, will continue all the way, before the real exploration of the whole route, all the bases on the way, will continue to produce, the output of materials, will also use the relay method, to the front of the base.

At present, the entire large-scale exploration has not been completely opened, and the 50 clippers are just the vanguard in the early stage, and the follow-up work will be gradually improved.

Two days later, there was a fleet of at least 800 Spanish sailing ships, all of which were large fleets between 600 and 800 tons, dedicated to this work, and a 500-nautical-mile exploration field was not a problem for Spanish sailing ships, taking the Chubu No. 1, the most core of the entire central islands, as an example, in the past 40 days, a total of 2,000 ships docked around this area, unloading about 1.2 million tons of supplies.

A large number of people and equipment have been unloaded here, and the basic temporary port has been built, and a large-scale port is under intense construction, and some warehouses, residential buildings, and port infrastructure are also under intense construction.

The 50 flying clippers are just a vanguard force, and the person in charge of this exploration is Zhuang Ji, he is not from the dragon minister, there is no him among the guards of Sun Ji and others, and there is no him in the villagers of Miaojiazhuang in Baozhou, he was only defected after the opening of the Dinghai Navy, and he was born as a bankrupt fisherman along the coast.

From a penniless fisherman who struggles for life every day, to the sea, countless fishermen, on the premise of encountering major events, will choose to go deep into the ocean, looking for such a glimmer of possibility in the smallest opportunity.

For the vast majority of fishermen, they are very clear that at this time deep into the ocean, the chance of success is very small, the ocean is boundless, the deeper into the ocean, the greater the wind and waves, even if it is a large Chinese sailing boat, can not resist the invasion of the waves, not to mention these fishermen's fishing boats, but in the face of the unpassable level, can only ask for the ocean, embark on a dead end, this is also the end of most of the fishermen in the fishing village.

The emergence of the Dinghai Navy changed the fate of the fishermen, the fishermen chose to enter the Dinghai, at the beginning, most of them changed their trades and became a worker, Zhuang Ji was no exception, he even has been a 5-level worker, relying on high income, to feed a large family, and live a happy life.

In the beginning, the Dinghai Navy rarely set foot in the ocean, but with the stability of industry, everything in the Dinghai Navy developed smoothly, more and more attention was paid to the sea, and it also began to transfer personnel on a large scale to enter the ocean, whether it was transportation, shipping, or fishing, people were needed.

Many fishermen chose to ignore it, they have had enough of the wind and waves at sea, and they are not willing to live such a dangerous life again, but the fishermen, including Zhuang Ji, they know how to repay their kindness, and they are determined by the navy to let them live a happy life, and now the family is living very well, without worrying about food and clothing, and even future generations can still learn and take a road of knowledge, without worries, they are willing to share for the navy.

It was only after Zhuang Ji went to the ocean that he discovered that his interest was the ocean, and he liked the feeling of fighting in the sea and the feeling of running freely in the ocean.

Starting from the fishing boat, Zhuang Ji began the process of fighting in the ocean, and relying on hard work and solid level, step by step from the captain of the fishing boat, the captain of the detachment, the captain of the transport fleet, the captain of the captain and a series of promotions, when this expedition began, he became one of the three captains of the entire exploration fleet, and became the commander-in-chief of the vanguard force.

The arrival of a large number of materials, the port, there is no need for Zhuang Ji to manage, maybe in the future after the completion of the future, he needs to dispatch, but not now, he only needs to manage the current 50 clippers.

The vanguard is not just such a few ships, 50 is just the first batch, and in the follow-up, there will be about 500 ships, the three major fleets, the vanguard fleet is the least, but it is also more than 500, and the next two teams are a huge fleet of more than 1,000 ships.

It's a pity that with the current production rate of the navy, there is no way to produce such a huge ship for the time being, and it is expected to last for about a year.

This is very normal, even if Zhao Xin has a card system, is a traverser, and also remembers the general location of the Pacific Ocean, seven continents and four oceans, he will not think that this exploration fleet can find the Americas in a short time.

This is a very difficult and difficult road, as short as 3 years and 5 years, and more than 10 years, as long as you find it in this time, this is a protracted battle.

All the Navy can do is provide maximum support, and the rest depends on fate.

Zhuang Ji soon distributed the necessary supplies in place, 50 ships, except for the 5 ships that remained, as a liaison ship, the others were sent out, the previous foundation, plus the exploration of this time, Zhuang Ji had a plan for the future, 45 ships, divided into 9 teams.

In a fan shape of about 35 degrees, diverging outward, each fleet will be separated by about 15 kilometers, and then, in a short period of time, explore the distance of at least 300 kilometers, and explore more than 30,000 square kilometers of sea frontier.