Countless sharks crossed the sea with their dorsal fins, and in the crimson water, a floating corpse was eaten by a group of sharks, the sea breeze blew, and the familiar smell of blood made Zhang Yu, the lieutenant of Xiyang Palace, feel that the blood in his whole body began to warm. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wiping the bloody blade with a rag, there was a babbling sound in his ears at this moment, although Zhang Yu couldn't understand it, but he could hear the pleading meaning in his tone.

A middle-aged man dressed as a fisherman collapsed on the deck, his body was cut out of several large holes, and his left arm was missing below the elbow, and his body was stained with blood.

Blood flowed from the wound, his body curled up, and he couldn't stop wailing, seeing Zhang Yu approaching with a knife, he kowtowed regardless of the injury.

A crew member translated this person's words, saying that as long as he could save his life, he was willing to be a slave and a servant on the ship, Zhang Yu sneered after hearing this:

"You told him that the shippers who were plagued by you had a chance to live? Throw it down and feed the fish! ”

In the howl, the middle-aged man was thrown into the sea, and the sharks that had been waiting for a long time surrounded him and ate him in an instant, and several other pirate corpses on the deck were also thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

"Phew, it's as black as a crow in the world! Those who fish in the river become river thieves, and those who fish in the sea become sea bandits! ”

"With such a big sea, there are so many fish that you can't catch them all, and you have to kill people and sell more goods, you really deserve to die!"

"Fishing for fish, you know for fishing, these pirates kill people and sell things, that's much better than fishing."

"Then you can't do such a thing with a clear conscience!"

"Ouch, do people have a conscience, if you take out his heart, maybe it's all black."

The crew talked a lot, and they were not affected by the just ended broadside battle, most of them were born in the Xiangyang Navy back then, and they had been in the coastal sea for more than half a year, so there was nothing unsuitable for fighting at sea.

"Carry all the things that can be used on these little broken boats, and then light a fire!"

Zhang Yu commanded his men to "clean up the battlefield", and several small boats were leaning on both sides of his boat, and the pirates used ropes with iron hooks to grab the boats, but they were beaten up by the prepared ones.

Looking back, the last two boats looked the same, but the sea that had climbed into the boat had also been thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

"Are there any casualties?"

"No, as soon as the lime powder sprays out, those birdmen are half blind, how can they fight back?"

"Then wash off the blood stains on the deck, otherwise it will stink after a long time."

Zhang Yu arranged the relevant matters, asked the flag bearer to issue the flag, signaled the two ships behind to follow his flagship to continue to move forward, and turned back to the west to look into the distance, the land on both sides of the Yangtze River estuary was still faintly visible.

As soon as he went to sea, he met Haikou, although he had been mentally prepared, but Haikou came so quickly, which really made Zhang Yu a little embarrassed.

Alas, is it a fisherman who doubles as a pirate, or a seaman who doubles as a fisherman?

He grew up on a boat, and was very familiar with things on the water, and a few honest fishermen were likely to be fishing one moment, and the next moment they would kill the lonely merchants on the small boat passing by and sink to the bottom.

A boatman who ferries at the ferry, seeing a merchant who is in transition alone, can take advantage of his unpreparedness to kill people and seize money, and when he looks at a fisherman these years, it is not clear whether he is a good person or a bad person.

There are pirates in the river and pirates in the sea, so they are fully prepared for this trip, and any ship that approaches in defiance of warnings will be regarded as pirates.

Zhang Yu walked into the cabin below deck, where five wooden boxes were placed in the middle, each containing a metal tank the size of a rice tank, and inside was a "water platform" made of three metal rings set together.

No matter how bumpy the hull is, the water platform can always be level, and one of the metal boxes the size of a wine jar is a clock that can move normally on the rough sea.

"How, is it broken?"

"Lieutenant, five bells are running."

"Are all five clocks accurate?"

"Lieutenant, it's already clear that something is wrong when a bell is gone."

Zhang Yu was speechless when he heard this, Lord Lang said that this kind of clock should be able to withstand bumps at sea, and it will not be bad, but it is likely to be inaccurate, he thought that it would last at least a few days before there was a problem after entering the sea, but now there is an inaccurate one.

It is said that the clock with a pendulum is easy to be inaccurate once it is bumpy, so the five clocks on Zhang Yu's boat are made of another structure of escapement, of course, he does not know what kind of structure the "escapement" has.

In order to ensure reliability, such a bell is very large, plus the water platform, the volume is as large as a rice cylinder, and the cost is also very high, the production cost of each clock is more than 10,000 yuan, mainly because the yield of various accessories is too low.

Then he put five of them on the ship in one go, in order to time the sundial with the grinding plate on the ship after arriving at the destination.

Zhang Yu didn't quite understand Lord Lang's intentions, but he would not hesitate to carry it out, just as Lord Lang nodded without hesitation when he asked him if he was willing to risk his life to go to sea.

He has become a family, his daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby at the end of last year, and he already has a queen, Zhang Yu, who is deeply favored by the lord of the Lang, is willing to go to the soup even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of him.

The three boats, except for a few coastal fishermen, the others were all from the guards of the Xiyang Palace, and like Zhang Yu, they were all born in the Xiangyang Navy back then.

Most of them came to Jiankang last year, and from time to time they took a big boat to go to sea to do "adaptation training", and after practicing hard for so long, they finally had the opportunity to carry out the tasks arranged by Lord Lang.

It is also a boat trip, but not in the Yangtze River, but on the rough sea, and there is no chance of survival once the boat capsizes.

Everyone wrote a suicide note, and cut off a strand of hair and wrapped it in cloth to stay in Xiyang, if this time can never come back, then at least let parents or wives and children have a thought.

Their route was neither southward or north, but eastward into the Black Water Ocean, heading to the Wa kingdom on top of the East.

Zhang Yu was fortunate to have been to that country, so he was fully responsible for commanding it this time, and the big ship he was riding on was also a new type of ship built in Huangzhou and tested in the waters near the mouth of the sea.

Walking to the deck again, Zhang Yu came to a man who was observing the sun with a strange instrument, which was measuring "latitude".

At noon, the angle between the horizon and the sun's shadow can be measured with this instrument to derive the "latitude" of the position, which is now exactly noon, just in time for observation.

As long as the latitude is measured at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then the ship keeps this latitude to go due east, you can reach the southwest end of the large island in the west of the Wa Kingdom.

Walking north along the large island called "Tsukushi", and on the northwest edge, there is a harbor called Hakata, which is the harbor where the big ship on which Zhang Yu and Lang Lord Yu Wenwen were blown by the wind.

Zhang Yu knew the "latitude", and he had heard the lord say that there was also "longitude", but the longitude could not be measured by a suitable instrument, so they could only sail according to the "latitude" this time.

According to Lang Lord Yu Wenwen, this is called "isolatitude sailing".

"Have you measured the latitude?"

"It's been measured, it's been recorded."

Zhang Yu nodded, and took out a pocket watch-like thing from his arms, this thing is called a "compass", the watch body is sealed with oil, and there is a zigzag pointer floating in the middle, and its two ends can point to due south and due north.

"Lieutenant, the southeast wind is blowing!"

"Signal the ships behind, sail with full sails, and sail due east!"