In the sixth year of Shenyuan, on the twenty-first day of the first month, the sky was clear and the breeze was breezy.

On the twenty-first day of the first lunar month, how much is it converted into the solar calendar?

Hell knows.

In order to cross the sea for the expedition, Wang Xuance has been preparing here for nearly four years, except for a trip to Tuyuhun and Tubo in the middle, which was delayed for a year.

For the remaining three years, Wang Xuance stayed here.

And staying here is not just blindly training the army, in fact, the hardest time to join the army is the first year, because in this year you need to go through a lot of training, training that you have never been exposed to before, training during the day, training at night, and dreaming is training.

By the second year, I was used to it, and the intensity of the training was reduced compared to the first year.

At the beginning of the third year, the rest is only a phased training, and most of the rest of the time, it is training like maintaining a state of condition.

Because by this time, the soldiers have already learned, and all that remains is to keep repeating them in the long days and nights, deepening their memories, and burying these actions deep in their hearts.

The disadvantage of the conscription system is that the cost is too great, and the advantage is that after two years, every unit will be pulled out, compared with the previous army, they are all elite, what they lack is only a real combat experience, as long as they can go to the battlefield, it will not be long before it will transform into a division of a hundred battles.

In his first year, most of Wang Xuance's energy was still on the army.

But since the second year, Wang Xuance's energy has changed direction, because he has discovered an abnormal phenomenon.

By the third year, the phenomenon had continued to repeat, but this year he had not been here, but that did not affect his arrangements.

After returning to Haizhou again, Wang Xuance devoted one-third of his energy to studying this matter.

That is the problem of wind direction, through the records of his own people, through the records of the sailors in the past few years, and then through a large number of visits and investigations by the people.

In the end, Wang Xuance came to a conclusion that every year around the end of October and lasted until the end of the first month, in the intervening four months, no matter when, the ship wanted to go north, it needed to face the wind.

And from the end of April to the end of August, the sea will be indirectly convulsive, most of the time it will be very stable, but when the wind is pumping, even the naval warships have to dock at the dock and connect hundreds of warships together to resist the strong winds that can blow people away and overturn ships.

And the months in between these two seasons are relatively smooth sailing, windy, not too much, or even windless, which is extremely suitable for expeditions.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the wind on the sea has weakened significantly, and it is getting weaker day by day, and even fishing boats can carry out fishing operations in the offshore area without worrying about anything.

Once again, Wang Xuance's guess was confirmed, and the army set out.

More than 12,000 officers and men of the Marine Corps, plus tens of thousands of sailors and soldiers, drove thousands of warships and transports, escorted enough supplies for 30,000 people to use for half a year, and went to sea in a mighty way.

The magnitude of the scene is prohibitive.

The speed of the battleship is so fast that it makes your mouth water just by looking at it.

However, no matter how fast the battleship is, it is useless at this time, and the fleet can only sail at the same speed as the slowest battleship, otherwise, the transport ship will be out of the protection of the battleship.

Of course, the huge fleet was also mixed with more than a dozen empty fishing boats, to be exact, converted fishing boats, without artillery as firepower, and on the turntable of the fishing nets, a small wooden boat was hung, equipped with a large number of life jackets, the kind made of bamboo tubes.

In the event of a problem with the warship, the fishing boats would quickly take over, and if there was no problem, the fishing boats would start fishing operations and sell them to the marines at a low price.

This has been said in advance, and at this time, it has been a year since they got this fishing boat, because the fishing boat is free of charge, so this year, it is also a lot of money.

The ancients still had a very contractual spirit, and when they received the order for the fleet to go on an expedition, these dozen or so shipowners canceled their original plans to go to sea, said goodbye to their families directly, and then joined the fleet.

"How does it feel?" Looking at the endless sail battleship, Chief of Staff Huang Hui asked Liu Li beside him with a smile.

According to the plan, the first echelon is fully responsible for the commander of the first division, and Huang Hui, the chief of staff of the expeditionary force, coordinates with the team, the so-called coordination, that is, acts as a microphone between the forbidden army and the first division, after all, it is a forbidden army, although the number is small, but it is not suitable to directly hand it over to the first division to command.

And in some aspects, Huang Hui still needs to be responsible, for example, Wang Xuance has long known that this expedition is unlikely to encounter any decent resistance, in fact, Huang Hui can be regarded as a referee, to supervise the first division, to score the first division.

Wang Xuance will follow the second echelon, lead the second division and the third division, and rush to the landing site to join the first echelon on the sixth or seventh day after the departure of the first echelon.

Within half a month, all five divisions will appear on Jeju Island and gain a foothold there.

Many people don't know about these plans, and the entire command is only known to Wang Xuance and Huang Hui, as well as Huang Hui's deputy Li Qi.

Liu Li's face was a little ugly, but looking at the sailors who were constantly busy on the battleship, he was not too embarrassed to express his thoughts.

"It's still a little too underestimating the sea." Liu Li felt that his face was gloomy, they had already carried out a lot of anti-motion sickness training, in fact, it was not bad when they first went to sea, but with the increase of time to go to sea, the old problem appeared again.

At this moment, the soldiers in the cabin were all spitting and vomiting, and the vomit was called a dark sky, and the whole cabin was filled with the unpleasant smell of vomit.

"That's normal, in fact, the Marines looked worse than you when they first got on board. If you can only blame your bad luck, if you can come half a year in advance, you can get in touch with the feeling of boarding the ship early, but it's not bad now, at least the wind is much weaker than before, and soon, these winds will disappear. Huang Hui explained.

It's not a compliment, it's a real feeling.

How long did it take for the Marines to get used to it? Three years, three full years, except for the first year when they didn't board, now it's been three years since they first boarded, and the real full adaptation was also last year, or the year before that, because this is the fifth year they've been here.

How long has the Forbidden Army been here? In less than four months, and it was the first time I had boarded a ship, and I felt this ethereal feeling at sea.

"If you can go straight forward, it will feel much better, but there are some doubts, such a zigzag back and forth, and there is no reference at sea, are you not afraid of getting lost?" Liu Li raised his doubts, the bumps on the ship are only one of them, and what is even more depressing is that the boat is still constantly turning to take a zigzag road, and the combination of the two is the root cause of seasickness.

"Going straight can only be done by those warships equipped with steam power, and the kind of transport ship we are taking, his power can only rely on the wind to promote, and the current wind direction, straight forward is not impossible, but it will yaw, so we can only continue to take the zigzag road, one is to correct the course, and the other is to use this route to increase the speed of the fleet. As for the Trek, it is more reliable to worry about this problem, it is better to worry about whether the battleship will hit the reef and sink. Huang Hui still explained with a smile.

In a few years, the sailor has long mastered the skill of how to use the sail to provide power, and now let alone crosswind, it is against the wind, except for a slower speed, there is no other problem.

Of course, it is regarded by Liu Li as a zigzag route, but in fact, in the eyes of the sailor, this is not a zigzag road at all, and when it is against the wind, it is called a zigzag road.

Now this, at most, it is just a correction course, and the time of each tea is corrected once, which can maximize the avoidance of running a wrong road, but the other, that is, the reason why Liu Li mistakenly thinks that it is a zigzag road, too frequent correction of the course, for a person who has lost the concept of time, is really no different from continuous correction.

"Sinan, you should know, right?" Huang Hui continued.

"I know, but it's too big for us to carry, but the high-level general has it in his hands." Liu Li nodded, Sinan is indeed inconvenient for combat troops to carry, and only the command headquarters will equip it.

For the sailors, Sinan's volume is not large, and he can put it down if he finds a place on the ship, and it does not occupy any space, but for the infantry, it is too big.

"How do you orient yourself other than the sun?" Huang Hui asked with some curiosity.

"A lot, sometimes we will know the direction of the long wind in the combat area in advance, and then determine the direction according to the state of the trees and grasses, if you don't know the direction of the normal wind, the best way is to find a big tree, and then dig around it, and judge the direction from the moisture in the soil." Liu Li shrugged his shoulders: "Of course, sometimes these methods are not particularly spiritual, so before setting out on the expedition, the superiors will first determine their own direction for them, and if necessary, they will also carry Sinan." However, this is rare, as it is unlikely that all three methods will fail at the same time. ”

Huang Hui nodded, there are indeed many methods used by the infantry to identify the direction, but the sailor is not good, once he leaves the dock, he is faced with an endless sea, surrounded by water, where to determine the direction through the reference?

If there is a sun, it can be more direct, but the sun is not every day, and the sailor can't always go to sea on a sunny day, so the importance of Sinan is self-evident.

A large number of voyages, drawing charts, the most important thing is to determine the direction of the destination, and then through the charts and Sinan's fingerprints, constantly correct the course, the error can be, but never more than a day, if it exceeds, it may be the wrong way.

But this situation is rarely encountered, because there are still many capable people in the army......