Early in the morning of this day, Zhou Tong, a lieutenant commander of the Imperial Navy stationed in the Nankai area, set off with his fleet.

His mission was simple, to cross the Atlantic Ocean directly to the mouth of the Buyi River.

Of course, the hydrological conditions along the route are also recorded to accumulate the necessary information for the official establishment of a new route.

However, it seems that this route is not an untraveled route, because the chart in the hand of Lieutenant Commander Zhou Tong of the Imperial Navy clearly marks a group of islands that can be replenished with fresh water, which is located in the middle of the whole route------ and those pioneers are really lazy, they have completed the exploration early without leaving basic hydrological information.

The entire route can be seven or eight thousand kilometers long, and it is estimated that it will take two months to easily complete the entire voyage, and the preliminary survey of the hydrological situation can be completed at the same time.

For the Imperial Navy, in fact, there was no need to build a supply depot in the middle of the way, but considering the future trade and transportation, they could only go to that archipelago to build one first.

With one five-masted battleship, one three-masted battleship, and two five-masted logistics transports in this fleet------ it was clear that they were really just rediscovering the route and not fighting it.

The fleet was very well equipped with communications, with spark wireless telegraphs of different sizes and powers on each ship, and their wireless window in the South Atlantic was round-the-clock------ because they were the only ones who had the equipment and were not afraid of interference.

There were 450 sailors in this fleet, including officers and logisticians, but only 600 men.

Theoretically, they could maintain a continuous high-speed voyage for three months without having to stop at land or islands, as long as they maintained a basic standard of living.

However, this time it was unnecessary, Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong did not even have a time limit in the order letter, and the task was completed within two months, which was what they asked for themselves.

It was destined to be an easy and relaxing voyage.

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong didn't quite understand that the southern waters of the Atlantic Ocean were even calmer than the southern part of the Tianzhu Ocean!

Previously, he had also organized adaptive sailing, but not once had he encountered strong winds and waves.

Could it be that God is kind to himself?

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong obviously didn't understand the reasoning.

It turns out that the formation of typhoons requires a huge amount of energy, which is mainly converted by high temperatures and abundant water vapor.

Second, there should be an initial environment in which the atmosphere converges and rises, and the most suitable environment is the "intertropical convergence zone".

It is a zone where the air pressure is lower than that on both sides, and the atmosphere with high temperature and humidity can flow inward.

Here, a large amount of water vapor rises and condenses, releasing latent heat, which increases the temperature and reduces the density of the air, so that the air pressure in the intertropical convergence zone is also lower and lower, and the atmosphere with high temperature and humidity is attracted to the tropics more quickly, and the wind blows stronger and stronger.

Third, after the action of the above two conditions, the high temperature and high humidity atmosphere blows vigorously into the tropical convergence zone, but it cannot produce a violent atmospheric vortex.

Geostrophic deflection force is a force generated by the rotation of the earth that can deflect the wind on the way to a low pressure, which makes the wind not blow directly into the center of the depression, but deflects to the right or to the left, so that a typhoon that rotates violently around the center of the depression is formed!

It is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Because geostrophic deflection forces exist in all regions except the equator, the source of typhoons is not near the equator, but at low latitudes away from both sides of the equator.

In the South Atlantic, although there are also high temperatures, high humidity and geostrophic deflection forces, the intertropical convergence zone prefers to stay in the North Atlantic, and even in the winter of the Northern Hemisphere or the summer of the Southern Hemisphere, it only moves south near the equator, and the southernmost does not cross the 5 degrees south latitude.

As a result, there is a relative lack of breeding grounds for typhoons in the South Atlantic, resulting in very few typhoons.

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong secretly thought during the trial voyage that if he waited until the day of the mission, and still did not encounter strong winds and waves, he would name the archipelago in the middle of the route Lucky Islands, indicating that God had mercy on our federal empire.

Of course, he knew in his heart that this route was only the last part of the round-the-world route, and that the real commercial use was far from being used at present.

From the Badao River on Liuqiu Island to Marbury in the Tianzhu area, then to the Nankai area, to the Baisi City in Australia, and back to the Badao River, this four-point loop route is now becoming more and more important!

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong believes that if this circular route is really mature, the federal empire will be worry-free for a thousand years.

Everything produced in the world, ten out of ten ** are all into my federal empire!

However, his superiors may not think so, but they keep opening new routes.

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong was originally a native of Fuzhou on Fujian Road in the Great Song Dynasty, and has been a maritime merchant for generations.

His family originally wanted to train him to become a civil official, but his hobby of swords and guns was far greater than studying.

The family had no choice but to let him go after he had studied private school for four years.

Just in time for the Liuqiu Guards to recruit the navy at that time, he liked it as soon as he heard the name, which was much better than what the Great Song Dynasty called the navy.

I went to apply for the registration by myself, but with my physical condition and knowledge of nearly 1,000 words, I was directly admitted.

He was quickly put to good use, and his official position was constantly promoted, and when the Federal Empire was established or formed, he also became a lieutenant commander and could manage a naval base.

Half a year ago, he was directly transferred to the naval base in Nankai by an order from his superiors, and when he was about to show his skills, he was ordered to rebuild a new route.

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong was glad that the Federal Empire had a large area of grassland and fertile soil again------ but this route did not seem to make much sense.

After carefully studying the charts, he believed that within ten years, except for the warships of the Imperial Navy, there would be basically no merchant ships taking this route!

In this decade, it is the best choice to fully develop and build the African continent.

With ivory, rhino horn, gold and coal mines, and seemingly never-ending dry fields for cotton cultivation------ sugar beet here will surely produce more sugar beets than Shandong and Australia in the future!

However, an order is an order------ and that order also implies that this is what the king means, well, Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong can only obey.

Maybe he can only see it for a few decades, but his king, as the rumors say, can see it for hundreds of years!

No matter what he thought in his heart, he made a serious reprimand to all the staff when he was about to leave.

It's a voyage that fills in with the last missing part of the round-the-world route!

It was a voyage that brought wealth to the federal empire and a way out for the citizens!

It is the duty of the Imperial Navy to expand the territory of the Federal Empire!

Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong's remarks had a strong sense of color, and it immediately aroused the feelings of the crowd------ no one will think that this is just a sea walk, this is really an important task!

The flotilla sailed out of the Nankai Naval Base and rushed proudly into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

The huge sails seemed to feel the passion of the sailors, who took advantage of the southeast wind to swell their bodies and pull the battleship hard!

The bow of the boat soon stirred up snow-white waves!

Atlantic, our ocean!

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I wish book friends a safe and healthy Dragon Boat Festival------ let's do it today, I'm too tired these days.