The east fan shape is like a sweet potato, about 800 miles long from north to south, about 300 miles wide from east to west, the red pointer of the compass rotates a grid is about 150 miles, there is an estuary about 50 zhang wide here, and now the pointer rotates less than a grid, about this position.

Zhang Cha held a brush in his left hand and a compass in his right hand, and while babbling and reading fragments, he carefully scribbled on the sketchy map on the small square table.

At this time, the scout team's broken fishing boat was moving very slowly, the sails were not full, and the oars had already been retracted, and the speed was less than half that of ordinary sailboats.

Zhang Cha sat alone at the small square table in the cabin, carefully revising the map, while the other team members were busy with their own affairs.

There are a few team members who are pretending to be fishermen, they are holding fishing nets from time to time to wave a wave, as if they are really fishing, but they will carefully screen the fish that catches them, moray eels, swordfish, barracuda and other messes, they throw them away, only shrimp, small yellow croaker, sea bass and other delicious meat will be left in the fish bucket.

After their selection, it is good to have a small half bucket of harvest for every net they cast, and I am afraid that I will not be able to earn a tael of silver a day when fishing like this.

Of course, they didn't come to catch fish, and the fish and shrimp they picked out were mainly kept for a few people on the boat.

At this time, it was almost unitary, and the team members in charge of cooking were already busy.

The supplies Zhang Bin prepared for them were still very rich, including charcoal, rice, spices, vegetables, and even vegetable oil, and if they wanted, they could make a hearty meal at any time.

Of course, they are on a mission, and they can't really concentrate and come out with a whole table.

The team member in charge of cooking just turned on two fires, one stove to cook porridge, and all the fresh shrimp, scallops, and abalone were shelled, washed, cut into pieces, and thrown into the porridge.

As soon as the fish soup is cooked, a few fatty and tender sea bass have been washed and peeled and thrown into the soup to boil out the white juice, and some spices and seasonings have also been lost, and then some green vegetable leaves have been thrown away, and you can eat it directly.

As soon as he smelled the fragrance of fish soup, he immediately put down the brush and greeted loudly: "Hurry up, two stunned, take the bowl and chopsticks out, one person will have a bowl of fish soup and a bowl of porridge." ”

When the honest young man nicknamed Dumbfounded heard this, he immediately took out a stack of soup bowls from the cupboard, filled Zhang Cha with a bowl of porridge, filled a bowl of fish soup, and placed it on a small square table with chopsticks, and sent two bowls to the team members who kept looking out with binoculars at the bow of the ship, and then beckoned the other team members to eat and drink.

Zhang Cha picked up the chopsticks, picked up the porridge, and drank it while blowing, almost a tea time, and drank a bowl of porridge.

He was about to make the second stunned man give two more bowls, when the team member looking at the bow of the boat suddenly said loudly: "Captain, there seems to be a boat ahead." ”

When Zhang Cha heard this, he stood up suddenly, ran to the bow of the boat quickly, took the telescope and glanced forward.

There is indeed a row of small black dots on the sea in front of him, although the distance is too far to see what it is, but Zhang Cha can be sure that it is definitely a boat, looking at the number of black dots, there are at least twenty or thirty boats!

The black dot did not expand rapidly, which proved that the opponent was not coming straight to this side, and the speed of the own ship was already quite slow, and it was reasonable to not be able to catch up with other ships, so it is very likely that the other party was leaving the coast, or was heading towards the coast.

He moved the telescope slowly, so that there was only one black dot left in the telescope, the right was the coast, the left was the black dot, if there were more and more black dots in the telescope, it proved that the other party was driving towards the coast, if the black dot disappeared, it proved that the other party was moving away from the coast.

After a while, another black dot appeared in the telescope, and then another black dot slowly moved in, and without thinking about it, the other party was heading towards the coast.

Zhang Cha carefully swept the coast in front of him with a telescope, and the coast facing the other party was too far away to see clearly at all, but there was an estuary more than ten zhang wide about a mile in front of him, and he immediately said: "Quick, turn the rudder, raise the sails, take out the oars, and turn into the river in front." ”

As soon as his words fell, all the team members immediately put down the big bowl in their hands, two people ran to the stern of the boat to turn the rudder, two people ran to the middle to operate the sails, and the remaining six people picked up the oars on the splint and put them into the gaps on both sides of the boat, and rowed vigorously.

The speed of the galleys was as fast as the speed of the ten men working together, and in a short time they turned into the mouth of the river in front of them.

Zhang Cha raised his eyes and swept to the north shore, then pointed to a big tree on the shore and said, "Quick, lean up and tie the boat to that tree." ”

When they heard this, they lowered their sails, rowed their oars and carefully brought the boat to the shore, and then the two sail men lifted the cable, jumped onto the riverbank, and tied the cable to the big tree with three strokes and two strokes.

Zhang Cha looked at the sky, looked at the surrounding terrain, and then ordered: "Erzi, sheepbeard, you five stay to watch the boat, dogs, stones, you five, hurry up and get weapons, and come with me to the front mountain to have a look." ”

When the five people, including Gouzi and Shishi, heard this, they immediately ran to the middle of the cabin, lifted a plywood, and vigorously took out their weapons, and took out short bows, crossbows, knives, axes, and hook locks, and soon the five of them were fully armed.

Zhang Cha ran up directly and took a medium-sized Qi family knife to his waist, and then waved his hand: "Go." ”

When the five men heard this, they ran out of the cabin with him, "swished" onto the side of the boat, jumped onto the riverbank, and then ran quickly to the hill about two miles to the north.

The road was overgrown with weeds and piles of rocks, but their speed was not affected in the slightest, and all six of them were moving around in the weeds like fleas, and in less than half an hour they were running under the hill.

Although this small mountain bag is the highest among the surrounding mountain bags, it is dozens of zhang long, and it is not very high, but the mountain bag is full of green trees and bushes, and it seems that it is not so easy to climb up.

Zhang Cha didn't look at it, and with a wave of his hand, two team members with Japanese knives and one armed with axes rushed forward, waving Japanese knives and axes and slashing wildly, and everyone's speed did not slow down much, and in less than a tea time, they climbed to the top of the mountain.

Zhang Cha found a fast boulder, jumped up, and then took out his telescope and looked north.

After searching for a while, he found that the shadows of houses were faintly visible on a small hill five or six miles ahead, and a fence could be roughly seen on the periphery.

Sure enough, it was a cottage, he slapped his thigh, and said excitedly: "Go back, eat and sleep, and tomorrow morning, we will get closer to investigate." ”

There was nothing to say all night, early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Zhang Cha set off with five team members, this time, they brought more things, fresh water, dry food, tents, and even pen, ink, paper and inkstone, each team member carried a big bamboo basket on his back, I don't know how many things were in it.

The group did not run directly against the cottage, but ran to the highest mountain bag near the cottage, about two miles away.

Condescendingly, Zhang Cha and his team members carefully hid in the bushes, using binoculars to observe the scene below.

This is a large pirate lair, its scale is more than double the size of Gan Hui's cottage, the houses on the mountain bag, Zhang Cha roughly counted them, just relying on their side, there are no less than a hundred, the secret is numb, and the people who see it are dazzled.

Not far from the bottom of the mountain, there is also a harbor, in which there are forty or fifty large and small pirate ships, of which there are no less than ten lucky ships.

What kind of pirates is this?

Zhang Cha swept the masts of more than ten lucky ships, and finally found a flag, on which the word "Yang" could be faintly seen.

Among the pirates, those who can reach this scale are surnamed Yang, and they are also Yang Liu and Yang Qi brothers, and I don't know if this is Yang Liu's lair or Yang Qi's lair.

He roughly swept around a few times, then handed the telescope to a member of the team next to him, and advised: "How many people live in a house, count carefully." ”

After that, he asked people to take out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and then found a boulder that was relatively flat, spread the paper on it, and drew it seriously.

The general appearance of the cottage, the general shape of the harbor, the approximate location of the mountain bags and so on slowly took shape under his brush, his painters did not dare to compliment, if you look at it as art, it is simply a piece of shit, but the appearance is quite clear, where there is something, you can see at a glance.

After drawing for a while, he checked it with his binoculars, and then led his team members along the harbor to the sea, and walked all the way, all the way, until the sun was about to set, they finally came to the beach.

Zhang Cha looked at the sky, looked at the map in his hand, and then said decisively: "It's almost, let's go back first." ”

After that, he led a group of team members over the mountains and mountains, and hurried for nearly half an hour before returning to the fishing boat.

At this time, everyone was already quite tired, but Zhang Cha did not order everyone to rest, but just ordered the left-behind team members to hurry up and make food, while he himself took out the sketch of the East and compared it with the pirate lair map he drew today, and carefully modified and marked it in the corresponding position of the East Fan map.

After he carefully revised the marking, it was almost dark, and the meal had already been made at this time, Zhang Cha beckoned all the team members to finish eating, and then ordered to take turns to rest, and the remaining team members took turns to be on duty, waking everyone up around midnight.

Why didn't he just let everyone rest for the night and talk about it the next day?

He naturally did this for a reason, because during the day, the pirates would certainly send people to watch out on the seashore, and any ship that appeared on the sea near them would be discovered, and their wrecked fishing ships could not go too far from the coast, and they could only sneak over the pirates' lair in the darkness of the night to avoid being discovered.

At night, the moonlight was not bright, and the visibility on the sea was quite low, and it was impossible to see anything clearly from a few feet away.

Zhang Cha ordered all the team members to set sail on the boat, first leaving the coast about a mile away, and then turning the rudder and heading all the way north.