Navigation is no stranger to each and every one of them, and everyone who can appear in this fleet has no less than five years of experience at sea, no less than 100 trips between Haicheng and Korea, and no less than 10 trips between Haizhou and Yamato.

Although the journey along the way is not far away, and it is still calm, it is not unheard of that kind of big scene.

It can be said that everyone in this fleet is a talent in navigation, from the commander, down to the engine room, and even an ordinary crew member.

One hundred and nine transport ships, plus eight capital warships, and one hundred and seventeen large ships were sailing mightily, and the appearance was very magnificent.

But if you look closely, you will find that among the one hundred and nine transport ships, there are fifty coal and water ships.

The boiler needs water, seawater cannot, and unless they want the boiler to be scrapped at any time, they can only use fresh water.

The purpose of this fleet was North and South America, from which it brought back countless gold, as well as various agricultural resources.

In addition to this purpose, they also had another task, mapping routes.

The ships of this era, even if they were replaced with steam-powered ships, could not have plunged directly into the Pacific Ocean.

Li Yuanji knows this very well, and he also knows that there are only three routes for Datang to North or South America, and the one to choose the north is undoubtedly the safest and the closest.

But where exactly is this route? Li Yuanji didn't know, but he heard that as long as he entered this route, even if it was just a sail-powered ship, he could quickly reach North America.

Li Yuanji didn't dare to take risks, so he could only ask people to find this route on the one hand, and on the other hand, let them go along the islands along the way, and in case of extreme weather, the fleet could rely on the islands to take refuge.

The other two routes are a bit unreliable at present, one is through Iwo Jima, Hawaii, and then to South America, and the other is through Australia, but I'm sorry, where are these places, Li Yuanji only knows a rough idea, this probably, on the sea, may make people unable to find a place for a year or two, and the risk is too great, and there is no danger of having a reference in the middle.

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, choosing the northern route is the safest and the most reliable.

The fleet brought not only seafarers, but also marine surveyors, a 60-person ship expert, who mainly used to repair the ship on the way, evaluate the condition of the ship, and decide whether to abandon the ship.

In addition, there was a regiment of marines, five infantry armored vehicles, five tanks, and eight machine guns on each ship for self-defense.

This is just a conventional self-defense force, but with the arrival of the Marine Corps, the bazookas were placed on each ship separately, so the self-defense firepower on each ship has an additional bazooka, occupying a high point, and the effective accuracy range of 100 meters is fatal for the pirates of this era.

The focus is on the eight main battleships, six wooden warships, equipped with two new guns of 50 mm and 30 times the caliber, with a layout of one in front and one behind, with a maximum firing range of 3,000 meters and an effective firing range of 1,600 meters, but the effective firing range must be determined according to the enemy's situation.

If it is a small ship, this effective range is much closer, one is not easy to find, and the other is difficult to aim, at this time the aiming is all by the eye, and the others are floating clouds.

In addition, these six capital battleships were equipped with forty-eight heavy machine guns.

What is a heavy machine gun? Fixed position to ensure that the recoil does not affect the shooting too much, and with more powerful ammunition, the range will naturally be longer.

Forty heavy machine guns were arranged in a vertical layout, twenty each on both sides, and if the enemy dared to come, they would face a three-dimensional blow.

The remaining eight are the front four and the back four, ensuring the firepower of the front and back.

To put it bluntly, with such a firepower configuration, one battleship can completely hang one hundred and nine transport ships.

Of course, the most terrifying and desperate are the two new steel warships that have just been in service for three months.

The two new steel battleships adopted an all-steel structural design, the hull was about thirty meters longer than the other warships, and four high-power steam engines were installed at the same time, and they did not know how much power it was, anyway, if they were at full power, the speed was about 1.5 times that of the old warships.

The speed is just a floating cloud, and if they collide, these two ships can hit each other half-naked with a single blow.

If you really want to compare, it can only be said that the heavy machine gun firepower of these two steel battleships is much less than that of the old battleships, and the whole ship combined is only twenty-four heavy machine guns, two in the front and one in the front, and ten on each side.

But......

People are frantically installing four 80 mm 35 times caliber guns, with a maximum range of 5,000 meters, and the effective range depends on the face, but the two battleships are all old birds, if they are really compared, their ability is far beyond that of the old warships, after all, they are elite combat collectives.

The four main guns are two in the front and two in the rear, with a straight line layout.

In order to solve the embarrassing situation that the rear artillery could not fire in a straight line, the battery of the rear artillery was deliberately raised by two meters, so that all the problems could be perfectly solved.

Next is the side, the machine gun positions are all moved up, and the combat positions connected to the deck at the bottom are each placed with five small guns of 30 mm and 25 times, and the maximum firing range is only 2,200 meters, but it is still the same sentence, in the current environment, it is enough, even if the effective range is only 100 meters, they have enough ability to overturn any opponent.

If he had put this ship in the middle of the fleet, he would have been able to hit ...... at the same time

Well, at least twenty goals, it's all the result of the wolf entering the flock.

"Commander, it's almost time!" Yu Ji walked up to Pang Bing and reminded with a sigh.

"See the island?" Pang Bing asked.

Yu Ji is the person in charge of the course, and he is responsible for the course of the entire fleet, and he will remind him of where to turn and where to stop, which is also his duty.

"No, but according to the calculations and the data given by His Majesty, it is about the same." Yu Ji said.

It had been twenty days since they had come out of the southern tip of Yamato, and according to their own speed, Yu Ji deduced that in these twenty days, the fleet had traveled nearly seven thousand miles, almost to the limit.

But at this moment, on the sea, there is nothing absolute, no one has ever been to such a far place, and Li Yuanji has not either, he has only heard from others, no one knows what it is.

"Wait a ......little longer," Pang Bing thought for a moment, and then instructed his communicator: "Let the sailor send a warship to the east to see the situation." ”