When he woke up in the morning, Fujiwara found Zhen Qian standing on the side of the boat with two dark circles under his eyes, yawning and dozing.

"Young people are angry, and they should be a little restrained in doing things!"

was slapped in the back, Zhen Qian turned around and saw that annoying face, and didn't explain it, just looking at the east sky, the proverb says that the east rainbow sun is the west rainbow rain, and then look at the west sky, Zhen Qian already has a bad premonition and said: "It's going to rain?" ”

Fujiwara Shuo said disapprovingly: "What's so strange about the rain, hasn't it already rained after going to sea?" ”

Zhen Qian pointed to the seabird that landed on the side of the boat and said, "That's not right! There are a lot of seabirds falling today, I asked Ke Ming just now, this rain is coming from the southeast, and there is a forty percent chance that it will be a strong wind? ”

Fujiwara Shuxiong's face became ugly, "Forty percent!" Isn't it surprising that there are strong winds in spring, not necessarily passing through our seas? ”

Zhen Qian has seen the cloud map of the later generations, Fujiwara Shuxiong is right, even if there is really a gale, it may not be just encountered by this fleet, and it can be hit by a gale, and the luck can only be said to be extremely bad.

"Ke Ming is still observing, if there are not many seabirds flying from the southeast, the chance of us hitting the gale head-on is not ......."

This is bad news, Fujiwara knows very well what the outcome of a ship encountering a gale, even if it is swept by the edge of the gale, the consequences are also not daring to think about it.

There are not many people who know this news, first, the accuracy of this news is really difficult to judge, second, even if it is true, as Fujiwara Shuxiong said, the chance of being hit head-on is not great, and third, even if the judgment is true, what can it be, announcing it in advance can only cause panic, once the people's hearts are scattered, then they can only wait for death.

Zhen Qian remembered that there were not many typhoons in spring, and most of the typhoons on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean would occur in summer and autumn, but the paths of most of the typhoons were westward, and the rest were landfall and parabolic typhoons, and the rest were unclear.

Zhen Qian did not give Ke Ming a map of the Tang Dynasty drawn by himself, Ke Ming had a map of his own, which was the accumulation of his many years of sailing experience, Zhen Qian compared it with the map in his hand, and found that this chart was much more accurate than the chart in the hands of most maritime merchants, especially the parameters of distance and direction and reference were marked very correctly, even so, the position of the sea ship in the sea is only a vague concept.

Fujiwara Shuo also has a sea chart in his hand, but compared to Ke Ming, it is simply a very poetic ink painting, and only Fujiwara Shuo understands what it means, "Zhen Lang, we have been sailing on the sea for twenty days, and we should be able to see some islands in six or seven days?" As long as you can see some of the islands, the rest of the voyage will be much easier! ”

I don't know if these words are Fujiwara Shuxiong comforting Zhen Qian, or comforting himself, as if he is chanting scriptures in his ear, or to enhance his confidence, anyway, after hearing it often, it is equivalent to, everyone knows that every day the sun rises in the east and sets from the west, as long as people with a sense of direction know that the ship is now sailing in the direction of north-east.

Zhen Qian also knows that there is no problem with the current direction of navigation, in the era of GPS positioning, the specific position of the ship in the sea depends on experience, even Ke Ming, who can lead the stars, is not sure where he has arrived now, there is no navigation instrument like a sextant, the distance is estimated in his heart, and the probability of error is infinitely close to 100%.

The results calculated by Fujiwara Shuxiong and Ke Ming have never been the same, at this time Zhen Qian is more willing to believe Ke Ming, if Ke Ming has not miscalculated, the wind and waves at sea in the past two days have blown the fleet away from the predetermined route, and now the position of the fleet may be in the direction of four or five hundred nautical miles from the south of Kyushu Island in the country of Wakoku, according to the speed of normal navigation, it will take four days to see the coastline of Kyushu Island.

But these are the most optimistic calculations, and as for the worst ......, let's not talk about it!

Zhen Qian stood on the bow of the boat and looked at the sea and sky in the distance, the boundless sea made people feel helpless, I don't know when it will end, such days generally can't last long, and people may go crazy after a long time.

"Sir, the weather and wind direction are not right these days, we have tried our best to avoid the front of the strong wind, it stands to reason that the wind should be reduced, but you see that the wind has not only not weakened in the past two days, it seems that it is still strengthening, we may have entered the wind belt, it is best to find a leeward island to avoid it in the past two days?"

Zhen Qian also wanted to find an island to shelter from the wind, but the problem was that he had not found an island so far, which showed that his fleet was not close to the coastline.

The consequences of encountering strong winds at sea can't be thought about at all, the ship is destroyed and people are killed, Ke Ming has to be cautious. There was also no unanimity of opinion on the fleet, and some people believed that it was impossible for the fleet to encounter a frontal attack by a strong wind, after all, the fleet had been sailing for almost twenty days, and the most dangerous moment had passed. But some old sailors don't see it that way, nothing can't happen at sea, Zhen Qian agreed with Ke Ming's suggestion, thinking that the fleet should temporarily find a pirate to hide from the wind and waves, even if it changes course.

Ke Ming just felt that a big storm was approaching this fleet through long-term observation and his keen intuition, but if Ke Ming wanted to come up with any theoretical basis, wouldn't it be difficult for Ke Ming?

Zhen Qian is not good at attacking Ke Ming's thoughts, after all, no one dares to guarantee that Ke Ming's words are wrong now, in case Ke Ming's words are fulfilled, the consequences are not something that this fleet can bear.

Zhen Qian patted the handrail on the side of the boat and said: "I personally believe in your words, no matter whether you can prove your right or wrong in the end, I will support you, can you tell me now, if your judgment is correct, how long do we still have, it is still far from Kyushu Island, it is impossible for us to reach Kyushu Island before the arrival of the gale, but now there is not a single island in sight on the route, and the idea that you want to avoid the gale is not feasible?" ”

Ke Ming discovered Tianzhao two days ago, but Tianzhao is not necessarily correct, and no one is sure whether the strong wind and waves will attack this fleet head-on, and Ke Ming can't pat his chest and say that his fleet must be in danger.

Ke Ming was a little unconfident and said: "From the current point of view, maybe this is a big storm, the half of the rainbow in the sky is a sign of the coming storm, but now the direction of the storm is uncertain, if the storm moves in the northwest direction, it will be there tomorrow night at the earliest, if it moves west, our current position is just to avoid the storm area."

Judging the gale is definitely a technical task, but Ke Ming can't judge the size and direction of the approach, and the position of the fleet is not clear now, maybe the storm just passed by, maybe the storm doesn't move north at all, because most of the storms move in the direction of the continent, Ke Ming can know the path of this storm.

Zhen Qian was very entangled in his heart, he was not the commander of this fleet, Ke Ming's words could convince Zhen Qian, but he couldn't convince others.

(End of chapter)