"Here?" Carnesto hurriedly leaned over and took a closer look, and soon understood the location of the island, "This place is not suitable for landing and recuperation, right?" In particular, the personnel we are carrying on our ships cannot be immediately put into the construction of the shore camp, and most importantly, the building materials and materials carried by our fleet are used to establish a base in Qingdao, and if we build a shore camp on this island now, there will be a shortage of building materials and materials. ”

Yang Junbo nodded, "That's right, it's true that the supplies we carry on our ship now are not enough to build a new camp, but now we have reached a situation where something big is going to happen without stopping, so we have to dock." ”

"Then how should the supplies be distributed, and there is also a transportation plan," Carnesto said, digging around on his body, and then remembering that the transportation plan was not on him, he quickly turned around and looked for it on the table. "According to the transportation plan, the second batch of materials should depart from Dongfang Port today, and the sail transport fleet will march to Qingdao under the escort of the sail fleet."

"I know," Yang Junbo rubbed his chin, "this is not a big problem, we can contact Dongfang Port by radio, and at the same time, we can also contact the second batch of ships and ask them to turn, but the problem is that the second team has completed loading and has already set off." Taking a step back, even if they didn't set off, it would have been almost impossible for them to unload the supplies already loaded on the ship and reload them with what we needed. ”

"What then?" Canesto looked at Yang Junbo, and Yang Junbo also spread his hands, "I don't know, let's go to the shore first." ”

Yang Junbo thought for a moment, then turned to the flag bearer standing beside him and said, "Send a signal to the Dongfang Gang, we will now turn to 027 and go to Taiwan." ”

"Taiwan?" Yang Feng looked at the standard-bearer in front of him in disbelief, "Is this really the order of the flagship?" ”

The standard-bearer hurriedly stood upright, "Yes chief, the flagship orders us to turn to 027 now and go to Taiwan." ”

"Taiwan?" Yang Feng walked quickly to the chart table, rummaged in the chart for a while, and soon found a chart, which was opened to reveal the topographic map of the Taiwan Strait.

The terrain of the Taiwan Strait is complex, and the ocean currents are deeply affected by it, not to mention the other ships in the fleet for the time being, with the draft depth of seven meters of the Oriental Port, it is very challenging to sail in such a complex waterway. Not to mention that the topographic map of the western waters of Taiwan in the hands of the Senate was drawn in the 21st century in the old world, and anything could happen after hundreds of years of evolution, and at that time, there may be reefs everywhere in the Penghu waterway, which will affect the speed of the passage of ships, and may even threaten the safety of the fleet. Besides, the wind in the Taiwan Strait is not very reliable, it is winter, and the cold wind blowing from the direction of Fujian to the direction of Taiwan will not help the fleet sailing, and it will also seriously affect the sailing time of the fleet.

If you choose to bypass the island of Taiwan and sail north from the east side into the Pacific Ocean, the warm wind in the Pacific Ocean can push the fleet to speed up the voyage at this moment, not to mention that the seabed in eastern Taiwan is simply bottomless, not to mention the seven-meter draft of the Oriental Port, even if it is the thirteen-meter draft of the Dongfeng, as long as you are not blind and rush towards the island, you basically do not have to worry about the accident of hitting the reef. For these reasons, the fleet chose to sail around the Taiwan Strait, detour from the eastern side of Taiwan, and then from the eastern side of Taipei back to the East China Sea.

Of course, there is another reason for choosing this route, which is Zheng Zhilong, the South China Sea overlord in Fujian. Zheng Zhilong has a naval army that can threaten the Medenor people in the South China Sea, even if this fleet is basically a "junk ship" that the Medeno people look down on, but it can't stand the ants biting elephants, and Zheng Zhilong's naval army is familiar with the terrain and waterways of the Taiwan Strait, and in these narrow waterways, it can sneak attack and block by guerrilla attacks, and at the same time mobilize the fleet to encircle and annihilate on a large scale under the guidance of arsonist ships, which is exactly the attack mode of Zheng Zhilong's naval army. Although the Iron Fist capital ship with a steam engine installed now does not frighten them, the fleet except for the Oriental Port is still a sailing ship, and once it encounters the siege of the Zheng family's naval army, it is likely to suffer if the other party has the advantage of the wind direction.

However, the ships of the Zheng family's naval army are small and have low resistance to wind and waves, so they cannot enter oceans such as the Pacific Ocean. The large ships used by the Medeno people are inconvenient to navigate the Taiwan Strait, and often only travel along the eastern ocean of the island of Taiwan. Therefore, for several decades, the Zheng family only governed the control of passage within the Taiwan Strait, while the Maidno people circumnavigated the eastern side of Taiwan, and the two sides were at peace.

Although the Zheng family could not receive the money from the people of Medno, the merchant ships of the Wuguo Kingdom in the Taiwan Strait were like carp crossing the river, and the money from these passages was enough to ensure the development and operating expenses of the Zheng family. Speaking of which, the Zheng family and the Senate have already had contact and business dealings, and they also purchased a large number of Senate rifles from Dongfang Port, it stands to reason that the relationship between the two sides should not be too bad, but who can say for sure the relationship between the two forces? What if the Zheng family sees an opportunity to sneak attack? Don't look at Zhong Bin's destroyer in the case of a sneak attack, it fought a bloody way and caused heavy losses to the Medeno people, but that was still carried out without the Medenor people's mental preparation. And Zheng Zhilong has long had a preventive shot against the advanced weapons of the Senate, and once he really intends to attack the Senate's transport fleet, he will inevitably make all kinds of preparations, especially to launch a fire attack on the narrow channel of the Taiwan Strait, so the Navy and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade discussed again and again, and decided not to bet on Zheng Zhilong's character, and chose to enter the Pacific Ocean directly from the east of Taiwan.

However, now in the area close to the Penghu Islands, a large number of seasickness has suddenly appeared on board, and it is impossible not to go ashore, but if you go to southern Taiwan, there are not many landing places to choose from. Although there are not many immigrants in Taiwan now, both the Zheng family and the Maidno people have been operating on the island for more than ten years or even decades, and the areas suitable for landing have long been occupied by immigrants from various forces as villages, and the places they do not occupy are directly controlled by the local natives of Taiwan.

Taiwan's indigenous people are basically composed of Gaoshan people, and these natives who have not been exposed to culture and education have a bad habit, that is, they like to cut off people's heads, and they like to poke and erect them near their villages with wooden sticks and bamboo poles to warn outsiders not to approach at will. They were not as hospitable to these visitors as the Indians, and when there were many people, they hid, and when there were few people, they came out and killed them all, and then cut off their heads. The custom of cutting off the heads of Taiwanese natives in the old world continued until the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and the Japanese army spent a lot of effort to conquer the indigenous villages one by one, move them into settlements, and then carry out cultural education. These Gaoshan people had always been discriminated against by the ordinary Han Chinese and the Japanese occupiers at that time, and after receiving a Japanese education, they wanted to pursue their own status in society, so they enthusiastically joined the Japanese army when Japan lacked soldiers, and became lonely ghosts on the battlefield in a foreign land. But at this moment, I can't help but worry too much that these "Shengfan" will launch a long-live charge, but the time for such a large army to land and recuperate is not a day or two, and the soldiers will always have the possibility of being left alone, in case they are cut off by Shengfan on this "treasure island of the motherland", it is too unacceptable.

Yang Feng soon sent a direct signal to the Iron Fist to change its landing plan and not land on the island of Taiwan, so as to avoid being coveted by other forces on the island, and even more so to avoid being attacked by unfriendly forces on the island and causing casualties. However, Yang Junbo did not approve of changing the landing site and demanded a landing at Hengchun, the southernmost tip of Taiwan. Yang Junbo's request is also reasonable, Hengchun is located in the western part of the central mountain range of the island of Taiwan, and there is a river nearby, which can ensure the access to fresh water. Hengchun has a pasture called Kenting in the old world, which shows that the terrain of this area is relatively flat, and now Taiwan's ecological environment is absolutely original, whether it is wild deer or rabbits, there must still be a huge population, so hunting can also meet the needs of food. In addition, the name of this place can be seen in the climate of this place, Hengchun because it is located in the southernmost part of Taiwan, under the influence of the northeast monsoon, a large amount of moist hot water vapor in the Pacific Ocean is blown in, so the highest temperature is 28 degrees Celsius and the lowest temperature is 21 degrees Celsius throughout the year. In today's winter weather, it is perfect to find such a place to land and camp and recuperate, without the need to collect a lot of fuel to burn for heating, nor to consume too much food to increase the body's calorie storage.

But Yang Feng also has his opinion, you must know that the negotiations with the Medeno people have been deadlocked for two months, and the negotiations between the two sides have not been completed until now. Since the negotiations have not been completed, then the two sides are still in a state of war or quasi-war, and the Medeno people have been entrenched in the sea area of dozens of nautical miles outside the Dongfang Port, prohibiting the ships of all other forces from approaching, and even the Zheng family fleet has been blocked from the Dongfang Port. Now that such a fleet, mainly composed of transport ships, is sailing such long distances, Yang Feng has reason to believe that the Medeno people will intercept or obstruct the Chinese fleet in the direction of the fleet. It has been determined that there are Medeno immigrants on the island of Taiwan, and even if there are no Medeno people, there must be the eyeliner of the Medeno people, and once they learn that the Chinese army has landed on the island of Taiwan, they will inevitably find a way to stumble the Chinese fleet, and it is not impossible to even directly send troops to attack and harass them. The island of Taiwan is so big that there are many roads that can be driven through even the Hengchun area, and if this foreign legion, which is in urgent need of recuperation, has to be exhausted to guard everywhere during the period of recuperation, this in itself is contrary to the purpose of recuperation.

"Meow! This doesn't work, that's not good, then don't stop the boat to recuperate! Yang Junbo couldn't help it, and put the red and blue pencils on the table, so frightened that the flag bearer hurriedly took a step back. Speaking of which, Yang Junbo originally planned to drop the red and blue pencils on the chart table, but the red and blue pencils are the inventory brought by the old world, and they can't withstand the fall, and if they are broken, there will be one less, and the colored pencils cannot be produced by themselves at this stage. "Chief, I didn't say nonsense, this is the sentence from the Dongfang Harbor."

"Not about you!" Yang Junbo had to take a long breath to straighten out his breath, and then said to the signal standard-bearer with a pleasant face, and at the same time went to pick up the thing that was shocked on the chart just now, but he found that the pencil just now drew a small path on the chart in the process of putting it down, and quickly took out the eraser and wiped it lightly on it, but the movement of wiping and wiping him began to become slower and slower, and finally stopped completely, and his eyes fell on the last piece of the pencil trace, the location of this imprint is in the eastern part of the southern tip of the island of Taiwan, About 50 nautical miles away from Hengchun Eluanbi - Orchid Island. He thought for a while, measured it with his measuring tools, opened the hydrological books brought from the old world and looked at them for a while, and said to the signal bearer, "In this way, you send them a new signal and land in a different place." ”

"Huh? What the? Orchid Island? Yang Feng asked with some hesitation, as a perennial boat runner in the old world, although he had never been to this place in Lanyu, he had heard of it many times. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, Orchid Island is a volcanic island, due to the strong monsoon in winter and typhoons in summer and autumn, the surrounding coast is very eroded by waves, resulting in many special sea erosion landscapes, full of natural caves and strange rocks and cliffs. Orchid Island is located in the tropics, with high temperatures all year round, and the island is mostly covered by tropical plants, and wild animals are also relatively abundant. The only drawback is that the seaside situation is complicated, and there may be a large number of reefs and shoals, which make it impossible for ships to dock. In the old world, the transportation of materials on Orchid Island was basically by air, and there was only one Kaiyuan port on the island, which was usually only used as a supply port for fishing boats to dock, but now there are two ships with a deep draft, the Oriental Port and the Iron Fist, which are close by, and I don't know if they can dock smoothly.

Yang Feng carefully calculated on the chart table for a while, shook his head and said to himself, "What Lanyu are you going to?" What can the hell be in that place? It's just that there is a river in Coconut Oil, and there is a green grassland on the island, so why do you go there to find the gray wolf? He couldn't help grinning and laughing at himself, "Otherwise, you reply to the signal, let's go to Orchid Island first, there are many reefs near Orchid Island, you have to drive carefully, if you can't find a chance to stop there, go directly to Green Island, and strive to land on Green Island to recuperate." ”

"Green Island?" Yang Junbo couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at the flag signal sent by the Dongfang Port again, which was indeed the Green Island. "Isn't Green Island the Burning Island? What are you doing there? But I don't object, okay. As he spoke, he said to the signal bearer beside him, "Reply to the signal, come on, we will follow the Oriental Port, your draft is the deepest, you can get by, we can all pass." ”