Chapter 395: Southbound Route
When Zhang San returned to Sea Shark Island, he brought a boatload of brown sugar, the sugar factory here was also built, and the various tools required by Zhang San were also prepared.
Because he had already tried it once in Tokyo, he just had to do it once this time, and Zhang San spent two days teaching these people, and then the rest was to wait for the result.
For the next three days, Zhang San has been studying the route with the children, and this time the children have learned to apply it for the first time, so Zhang San decided to divide the whole route into two parts, the first is to fly directly from Sea Shark Island to Wenzhou, and there is no problem with the calculation method of the experimental route.
If there is no problem, then take the second step from Wenzhou to the north of the Ryukyus, fortunately, the island of Ryukyu is large enough, there is a huge margin for error, just to test the knowledge of these children, if the voyage goes well, then the sea shark island can be a direct flight to the north of the Ryukyus, which not only saves time, but also reduces the risk of being discovered.
This time, the thirty children who came to the island who had learned to sail had to be brought with them, and they continued to study while practicing, and the rest of the candidates needed to be carefully considered, first of all, there must be a general as the left-behind personnel, Zhang San finally chose Gan Xingtai and Shi Wengong to stay.
Then Zhang Hengtong was left behind, Gan Xingtai was enough to deter the two, and then the three of them led other ships were also enough to resist the general pirate sneak attack, and Shi Wengong led Wang Yin to lead the remaining marines and marksman battalions to defend the island. Suppress a possible rebellion.
After all, this is not the same as in the past, not to mention the fact that there are a large number of prisoners on the island who are undergoing labor reform, and the shipwrights and other craftsmen who have been deceived will definitely try to escape without sufficient deterrence, not to mention that those seemingly obedient pirates may take advantage of the island's defense and the pirates in the prisoner camps to join forces to rebel.
Therefore, among the people left behind, Shi Wengong and Wang Yin threatened the island, and Gan Xingtai, Tong Meng and Zhang Heng were responsible for defending the sea, in fact, it was more important to defend against their own people than to defend against pirate attacks.
In this way, the only generals that Zhang San could take away from Sea Shark Island were Tong Wei, Li Jun, Zhang Shun, Yu Tai and Pang Wanchun, plus Wang Huan, Du Bai, Zhang Yuanba, and the three Ruan brothers, as well as Wang Jin and Zhang San, such a lineup of generals was enough to deal with the general situation.
Zhang San then ordered 1,000 men to be selected from the Marine Corps, and then 200 men from the Shooter Victory, with the Marines asking for half of the old and new players, and the Marksman Team asking for the best shooters.
After all, the bow and arrow level of those alpine savages should be good, Zhang San needs to prepare a large number of archers to suppress the other party, in addition to the humanoid machine gun of Pang Wanchun, Du Yan, Wang Huan, Yu Tai, and Wang Jin are not bad in archery.
Then there is the problem of the ship, the first three ships are training, this year is not popular what shipyard sea trials, built and directly used, after more than ten days of familiarity, now these sailors have figured out the habits of the ship, and the operation also has a look.
It's just that after the three warships were full, and the necessary ones were not given, they couldn't carry too much goods, so in desperation, Zhang San mobilized two large ships of 5,000 stone to transport the goods.
After discussing what to sell, and not knowing what these savages would like, Zhang San simply chose a few commonly used ones, nothing more than weapons, salt and cloth, and filled two boats.
As soon as Zhang San was ready, the Ruan brothers and Wang Huan and Du Yan hurried to arrive, and several people stayed on the island for another day, reminiscing about the old days, and held a bonfire party with the brothers who went out in the evening, and everyone played until late.
The next morning, the fleet set off on time, waved goodbye to the crowd at the dock to see them off, Zhang San and others embarked on the journey, the three Ruan brothers and Tong Wei, Li Jun, and Zhang Shun on the boat did not use a day to fight hotly, mainly because the three Ruan brothers looked at the new ship under their three commands.
Although the three of them had just left the fishing boat, they could still tell whether the boat was good or bad, and the three new ships were only half a sail up and could follow the cargo ship back and forth, how fast it must be, not to mention the big guys on board.
The three of them didn't know that Zhang San originally planned to equip the Weiyuan Dart Bureau and Sea Shark Island with ballistas, but later, considering that the equipment target was too big, they simply waited for the island to make a name for itself with ballistas, and the Weiyuan Dart Bureau was 'developing'.
Zhang San studied the charts with the children in the shipyard, accompanied the children to check the calculations over and over again, and finally on the fifth day, the ship arrived at the sea off Wenzhou with an error of more than 10 kilometers, and Zhang San was relieved.
The ship did not stop and immediately turned to the south to sail, after all, the ships were both weapons and salt and iron, and they could not enter the port, so Zhang San did not linger over there, and went directly to Ryukyu first.
A day later, the fleet entered the busy waterway, Zhang Shun and others were bored, and Zhang San suggested that they rob a merchant ship to play, Zhang San smiled and scolded that he did not agree, this matter was originally just an episode, but I didn't expect to go dozens of miles, and I really encountered a pirate robbery.
Zhang San didn't want to cause trouble, but he didn't expect the pirates to be unrelenting, Zhang San avoided them and left, and they took the initiative to come up, so what else is there to say, the pirates on the opposite side only have two ships of more than 1,000 stones, and more than a dozen small sampans, Zhang San's boat didn't play much, and the head of the rat was immediately beaten there.
After collecting the captives, I asked to know that this group of people was a group of pirates from Nanji Island outside Wenzhou, as for the merchant ship that had just been robbed, it had already run away, and Zhang San was short of a place to repair, so he immediately stopped hesitating and set off on Nanji Island, and a group of people pressed the captives to easily occupy the island.
To say that this island is three or four times larger than Sea Shark Island, and there are many pirate families and fishermen on the island, Zhang San is not polite, and immediately left 200 people to guard the island, took all the pirates with him, and dragged them to Ryukyu Island to work.
Two days later, the fleet was repaired, and Zhang Sanqi was guaranteed by pirates, not to mention, worthy of being a pirate on a busy waterway, this Xie Dayan really grabbed a lot of good things, and the total value was at least more than 100,000 yuan.
Zhang San moved things to the warship and began to continue sailing, and after five more days, Zhang San and the others finally saw a piece of the continent, Zhang San stopped the cheering crowd and sent Li Jun to drive a clipper ship to reconnoiter along the mainland, and three days later Li Jun came back around the island and confirmed that this was indeed a big island.
At this time, Zhang San breathed a sigh of relief, since he had found the right place, Zhang San began to choose a suitable place to build a wharf, and finally Zhang San decided to take a look along the Tamsui River and choose a good place to come out.