The sea is vast, boundless, the deeper you go into the depths of the sea, the bigger the wind and waves, because it has entered the depths of the North Pacific Ocean, here because of the relationship between the ocean currents, the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean currents are opposed, and the wind and waves here are somewhat larger than the center of the Pacific Ocean, but they are also within the range of bearing.

In the middle of the ocean, a fleet of 3 clippers is riding the wind and waves. Although the Pacific Ocean is very large, but in the north, the entire northern part of the Pacific Ocean, the whole distance is not very long, this is a narrow area, from Hokkaido, to the Aleutian Islands, at most it is three or four thousand kilometers of voyage, more than 2,000 nautical miles, has been close to the American continent,

Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, in the long road, if you want to finally pass the pass, it takes time, from the beginning of the establishment of the navy, the beginning of the exploration, the Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the early stage, everything is going very smoothly, but after entering the Pacific Ocean, all kinds of things have appeared, and there are many dangers.

Although there is a lot of experience at sea, this experience at sea is in the near sea, or in a place close to the land, after really going deep into the ocean, problems in all aspects have appeared, and even casualties have begun to increase.

They have all done this, they have all gone deep into the depths of the sea, and they should be getting closer and closer to the Americas, but it is just this little bit, but it is very stagnant, for a long time, there is no new discovery.

Going deep into the ocean, for these sailors of the Dinghai Navy, the intensity of training is very large, and the Dinghai Navy does not casually let the sailors go to death, but in the ocean, the inevitable danger is unavoidable.

The clipper boat is a very fast boat, but it is still relatively stable in the face of high sea conditions.

Whether it is a clipper ship or logistics, it is very well organized, and the maximum voyage is only about 200 kilometers, relying on the island, steady and steady, after figuring out everything around, it becomes a relatively mature channel, and then continues.

As long as the channel is discovered, some less powerful sailors, or less powerful ships, can sail on this channel, instead of just clipping fleets.

Even so, the inexplicability of the ocean, the vagaries of the ocean, full of dangers, these dangers, even for the ships of the 21st century, there are certain dangers, not to mention the ships of this era, even if newer technology is added, a large number of technologies have been added, but it is still a sailing ship after all, once the ship cannot resist it, exceeding the capacity of the sailing ship, it will definitely capsize.

After gradually adapting to the ocean, at the beginning, it has been stagnant, and then the results of leaps and bounds have advanced for a long time in just one year, but such high-speed advancement, after all, has a limit, and in the past three months, the speed of forward progress has become slower and slower.

The closer you get to that side, because of the geographical relationship, there is no island that can accommodate the most people, and the distance from the forward base, the distance from that side, is more than 1,000 nautical miles, in this case, the longer it takes to explore, and the islands here are also starting to thin out, which is a key problem.

The best way to find this way of the navy is to have islands around 150 kilometers or 200 kilometers, and when a large number of clippers search in a carpet way, you can find this island, and then use this island as a springboard to continue forward.

Zhao Xin knows that this is a normal phenomenon, this is the final stage of tackling tough problems, and the time when the two continents have seen each other is not very long, because on the drawn chart, there have been too many things that have spread forward, perhaps, there is an opportunity, once this opportunity comes, it will inevitably be able to find the Americas.

Although Zhao Xin knew before that the journey of exploring the Americas was not so smooth sailing, and there were many hardships and dangers, he did not expect such a huge loss and such a long time.

The Kuril Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula took only half a year, but later, such a route of more than 2,000 kilometers took one and a half years, and at the same time paid huge casualties.

In one and a half years, a total of 350 flying clippers have been sunk, and the loss of personnel has exceeded 7,000 people, which is almost the beginning, the number of exploration fleets, that is, in two years, the number of flying clippers has been expanded, and now it has reached 2,000 ships, and the exploration personnel, through the training of the front and rear, have reached tens of thousands, which supports such a search.

Using the most stable method and using the island as a springboard is already a very safe method, but it still produces such a large number of casualties, which has to be said that the ocean is unpredictable.

However, it takes a lot of time, and it is also the most secure, and there is an advantage, that is, on the entire waterway, every 200 kilometers, there is a supply port, even if it is only temporary, and some suitable places are cleared as ports, which will also be very helpful for the future northern route.

In the future, once the Americas are found, in order to determine the strong detection ability of the navy, this waterway will be turned into a mature waterway, and at that time, the Spanish sailing ship with a larger capacity can smoothly enter the United States through here, to explore, to find what Zhao Xin needs.

In the middle, it may not stop at these places, ocean voyages, often day and night, but the existence of this port, but has become a reliance, really encountered bad weather, can enter the port at any time to take refuge, at the same time, set up in the port, will investigate the nearby hydrology, as well as the characteristics of the weather, find out the law, for the future mature route to make preparations.

At the same time, the points distributed on the various islands can also play a role in early warning, for example, if the ship is still 200 kilometers away, but it is already dark clouds and torrential rains, then it must not move forward, and it must wait until the storm or rainstorm has passed.

Of course, this is all an afterthought, and now it is just a preparation, and there is no use for it, and there is almost no way to achieve such a method until the radio research is completed, because in the midst of the storm, no ship can leave the message.

Speaking of communications, the development of communications has actually changed the pattern of the world, and it was originally possible to rely only on transportation and railways to transmit information, but once there is a faster way, places can be separated by thousands of miles and combined into a whole.

Radio is something that Zhao Xin attaches great importance to, and he has also invested a lot of energy in the field of radio, but the effect is not very good, because there are too many disciplines to cross, and radio is not Zhao Xin's specialty.

At first, Zhao Xin first entered the radio because of the radio he was exposed to, but soon, he was hit with no skin, because he had no clue at all, spent a lot of money, and added a lot of personnel, and finally had nothing.

This is completely impossible to succeed, such a waste, but a frustration, Zhao Xin urgently adjusted, the research radio, changed to wired electricity. ，

This also follows the basis of the discovery of the telegraph, he still does not know the principle of the telegraph, but he can briefly describe it, for example, the frequency of the current, different frequencies, representing different information, and then send the information and accept it at the receiving end, without thinking about the problem of wireless transmission.

This is a lot simpler, before the study of radio, in fact, is to produce some effects, but those effects for people who have no way to understand the radio, not called the results at all, but put on the wire, soon, found the direction, transmission directly with wires, the current will have different voltages and frequencies, with some commonly used current, representing some code, and then compiled into different methods, you can carry the code, even if initially, just carry a simple sentence, this is considered a success.

In the 12th year of Qingli, the cable telegraph had appeared in the laboratory of the Dinghai Navy, and after simple development and customization of the codebook, it was rapidly popularized.

Although the steam train is also very fast, 120 kilometers of speed, 1200 kilometers, and only 10 hours, but for some time-sensitive industries, it is not possible at all.

However, it will take time to lay telegraph lines, and it will take a long time to complete the laying on the huge land currently controlled by the navy, and even more so at sea, it will take a long time for the submarine cable to spread all over the world from the time it appears to the time it is laid, and it will be even slower in this era.

Radio is a solution, but cable telegraphy is also a more reliable solution, and when the time comes, see which one is a little faster, and I am considering.

But no matter which one it is, in the future, once the American route is connected, such a method of contact will inevitably be carried out, whether it is wired or wireless, when there is a convenient and fast method with strong timeliness, it will be very beneficial for ocean voyages and control of the distant Americas.

Even in a certain sense, in itself, it can only open up colonies in North America, once the means of communication are improved, with such a weapon as telegraph or radio, remote control can be carried out, which is equivalent to increasing the territory of the navy.

This is all the idea of the future, the future, how will it go, but also the development of scientific research, the current sea, or basically rely on roars and flags, the means of communication are relatively backward.

This fleet is responsible for exploring the surroundings, according to the route and time, it is nearing the end, they have walked to a place 160 kilometers away from the island, but, three or four days of continuous exploration, almost this route, the surroundings have been explored, very disappointed, still nothing found.

Something like this has been happening in the past month or so, and the disappointment has been too many times, not once has the captain proposed to take a risk and go deeper than 200 kilometers for an expedition.

There is a precedent for this, there has been a bottleneck before, it was a whole month and a half, there was no harvest, and finally, a team of 40 boats was concentrated, and the adventure went deeper, and finally found an island 250 kilometers away, so that this island hopping plan could be continued.

At that time, although there were some twists and turns, and there were some dangers, but in the end, I successfully survived, and now, I have encountered such a situation again, and it seems that this is the most correct solution.

There are definitely dangers in sea exploration, but there is no risk at all, how to achieve success, everyone who has been in the exploration fleet knows that this is the inevitable result.

Looking at the charts and the positions recorded by the sextant, although the captain wanted to continue one more step, go deep into the ocean, and obtain fruitful results, but in the exploration fleet, once he disobeyed the order, the punishment was also huge, so he still didn't take this risk for the time being.

Just as the captain was about to go another ten kilometers and return to the ship, the lookout, who was standing on the mast, suddenly shouted, and at 3 o'clock, a storm had formed.

The captain immediately sounded the alarm, above the sea, the storm is the most dangerous, and it is also the most dangerous for the naval exploration fleet, and the largest loss, almost half of the ships, were sunk by the storm, and there was an emergency, hit the rocks, their own danger, plus other incorrect operation and sinking, add up, half.

With the sound of red sirens, a large number of sailors, coming out of the cabin, stood in their respective positions, while the captain, on the slipway, looked at the direction of 3 o'clock with a telescope.

The weather in the northern Pacific Ocean is also changing rapidly, just now, it was still a beautiful day, a strong wind blew, and the storm was formed.

On the sea, there is no wind and three feet of waves, and in high latitudes, although there is no typhoon like a tropical storm, there are many winds that exceed level 7, and for ships like clippers, generally more than level 5 winds will have a great impact, and if they exceed level 7, there will be a risk of capsizing.

They have a lot of experience in exploring the sea, especially these pilot fleets, almost on the sea, inch by inch, they are somewhat familiar with the climate above the North Pacific, and they can also analyze the center of the storm and the specifications of the storm from the weather conditions.

The captain took a brief look, the storm is not small, and the enveloping area is also very large, it is a powerful storm, at least above level 6, but the only thing that is a little fortunate is that they are on the periphery, so they found this storm in advance, and now, there is a chance to turn, it cannot be said, completely escape from the scope of the storm, but if the luck is not too bad, it should be on the edge of the storm to pass through.

After a brief look, all the crew members were ready, and with the captain's order, the whole ship began to act to deal with this sudden storm.