The wind really stopped, there was only a swell on the sea, and the sails on the ship were fixed there like paintings. People who still hated wind and waves suddenly thought that the wind and waves of the previous two days were so cute, at least it could make the boat move. He Jinrong was right just now, the sailboat is a fart when there is no wind, but there is no other power on these boats except for the sails. Even if you give it to the oars, you can't row, and the big boat of several hundred tons is still fully loaded, rowing with oars? Before they died of thirst, they died of exhaustion.

Although the lack of wind in the equatorial windless belt is not enough to continuously propel ships to sail, its sea water is not static, and it looks calm on the surface, but there is an undercurrent surging dozens of meters underwater. The North Equatorial Warm Current is slowly moving westward, drifting westward with ships until it reaches the Arabian Sea, where it is taken over by the equatorial countercurrent, and then drifts eastward with ships back to the Indian Ocean. It's just that the latitude changed to the southern latitude, crossed the equatorial line, and was taken over by the warm current of the southern equator, drifting with ships all the way to the east coast of the African continent, and then going south along the coastline. If the people on board could resist, they would have been able to drift all the way to the island of Madagascar.

It's a pity that the ships can drift for months or years, but the people on it cannot, and in less than ten days, this fleet of more than 20 large ships has drifted to pieces. Some sailors were smarter and figured out what time of day it would be a little windy, so the ship went a little farther. Some ships do not sum up these rules, so they can only follow the currents. As for the unified command, it has long been gone, and now everyone is taking care of themselves and loving whoever they love.

At first, Shi Hong and Zhao An were able to control the situation on the ship, but a month later, a rebellion initiated by the sailors killed them and their entourage. The cause was just a few barrels of wine.

Sailors already had a lot of opinions about the plan for the distribution of fresh water. Why do people who work all day only have three scoops of water to drink? Shi Hong and Zhao An can take a shower every few days, and they can fight tea if they have nothing to do. In the end, because a few sailors stole a few barrels of wine and were discovered by Shi Hong's subordinates, and they wanted to punish these sailors in public, everyone's anger was ignited.

Once a person loses hope of life, he becomes fearless of nothing. Shi Hong, Zhao An and their entourage were knocked to the ground by the sailors, some died on the spot, and the rest were thrown directly into the sea, even the singers and maids who brought them on the ship were not spared. The sailors were red-eyed, mentally on the verge of collapse, and went into a state of madness.

This situation does not happen on one boat, most of the ships do happen, but some shipowners are more human, they are provoking sailors to kill each other, just reduce the number of people on board, and divide the saved water among everyone. Some shipowners, like Shi Hong and Zhao An, can't let go of their bodies, and as a result, they are thrown down to drink seawater.

Two months later. Most of the boats were cut off from water and had to be sustained by catching fresh water every day when it rained. Many people could not resist the body, or their spirits collapsed, and every day some people jumped from the ship into the sea, and some people died directly in the cabin, and their bodies were thrown into the sea by their colleagues. What is even more terrifying is that there is a situation of cannibalism, although not on every ship, but it is not an exception. So the men of every ship began to be wary of every companion around them, and the slightest disturbance would lead to brawls and killings.

In the past two months, the Royal Navy has not been idle, not only the merciful patrol fleet has sent most of its warships into the waters on the edge of the windless zone to search, but even the main fleet of the Royal Navy, which has assembled in the port of Kalamba and is preparing to escort the merchant fleet to the Great Food Country, has also been alarmed. After analyzing the information brought by Cixi, without waiting for Hong Tao's order, Bo Jiao divided the fifteen warships into five groups and began to patrol the edge of the windless zone in batches according to the nautical chart, hoping to find this merchant fleet of the Southern Song Dynasty.

But the search activity has no results, whether it is Bojiao or Mercy, they dare to cross the windless belt, but it is very trembling to go around in circles in the windless belt, and this kind of difficult work has to wait for Hong Tao to rush over from Jinhewan before they dare to really enter the windless belt to search. In this regard, no captain in the Royal Navy dared to compare with Hong Tao, in their eyes, Hong Tao was the god of the sea, he could go anywhere with him, and no one dared to act rashly without him.

Hong Tao did work, the chart in his mind and the laws of the ocean currents were not possessed by others, and he spent two days carefully calculating the speed of the ocean currents before he began to sail towards the sea where the merchant fleet was most likely to appear. It's a pity that he can only know that he can't control it, the windless belt is the same for everyone, as long as he goes in, he has to resign himself to fate, and he can't be much faster if he wants to, at most, he can make full use of the breeze that comes and goes, and by the way, he can make use of the ocean currents that can't be seen or touched.

"Sink the ship...... The people on the ship are no longer people, and they won't be able to survive when they return to the Great Song Dynasty...... "Don't say it, Hong Tao's calculations just work, and you can't believe in science." Others searched for more than a month but didn't find anything, and he had just been here for half a month when he came across a ship.

It's a pity that there are few living people on this ship, and the rest are all bloodthirsty monsters, Hong Tao almost didn't vomit when he looked at the dried things hanging on the rigging with his binoculars. He had no interest in approaching the ship to distinguish it carefully, and directly ordered his ship to open fire, humanely destroying the ship.

With the first there will be a second, and over the next few days, the search fleet will occasionally see a galleon floating alone on the sea. Some of the people on the boat are quite normal, at least there is no cannibalism, and such a boat will send people to help. However, the results of other ships were not so rosy, and they were all smashed to pieces by Hongtao's battleships.

In the face of Hong Tao's ruthlessness, none of those who were rescued had any objections. If those who have been bloodthirsty die here, they can still say to the court that they are loyal to the country when they go back, and if they eat human flesh for many days and drink a belly of human blood and then return to the Great Song Dynasty, who dares to guarantee that this matter can be hidden forever? As long as the news leaks out, the name of Emperor Lizong will be considered stinky.

The royal fleet eats human flesh and drinks human blood, and there are many family members and relatives of court officials on it, how should this Nima be written in the history books? Can those literati and writers spare these people? Don't talk about them, as long as they have something to do with them, no matter how big the official, they all have to step down and go home to retire. The whole family will be ashamed because of this incident, and the stench may not be known for ten thousand years. Now Hong Tao killed them at sea, helping these living people, and at the same time helping the Great Song Dynasty and dozens of big families eliminate a huge hidden danger.

The search lasted more than a month, and a total of seven merchant ships were found, including the flagship led by Ho Kam Wing. This ship is in the best condition, and it has not been completely cut off from water and food. This is mainly due to the fact that the ship is the largest and has the most supplies in the hold. After throwing all Shi Hong and Zhao An's entourage into the sea, everyone was allocated the most living materials.

In addition, Wu Juntou is well managed, and he is indeed a good leader. When he figured out the current situation, he took his old subordinates to organize the whole ship well, which was much more efficient than other ships, and the distribution of food and fresh water was also very fair. The main thing is that they have not completely lost the hope of life, and with this spiritual head, people will not become animals.

Hong Tao found them at the latest, and only encountered them on his way back to the port of Calamba. At that time, they were slowly navigating the sea with three small boats towing the big boat, and although the speed was very slow, they kept heading north, but the course was a little crooked. If they can hold out for more than 10 days, they will sail out of the windless zone and into the Arabian Sea.

"The villain was incompetent, and the cargo on board was thrown away by my order, and he took the lead in killing the two leaders of the fleet and their retinue. I did all these things alone, and I have nothing to do with them, so please ...... Your Majesty...... Don't embarrass them. Wu Juntou knelt on the deck after boarding the Hongtao ship, he didn't know Hong Tao, but he knew Hong Tao's banner, and he had already roughly guessed who Hong Tao was.

"No one will pursue the goods, and no one will scrutinize the dead people, they were all swallowed by the storm! Am I right? Hong Tao admired the ability of this Wu military leader, and even if he did not rescue himself, the ship would not be trapped in the sea under his command, and might find a shore somewhere on the western side of the Indian peninsula.

The people on this ship were not desperate, they were very organized and disciplined, and it was not easy to do this in such a situation, in addition to the overall quality of the crew, their leaders must have excelled. When Wu Juntou took all the responsibility on himself without hesitation, Hong Tao understood where his superiority was. This person is a person who is not afraid of death, a kind-hearted person, and a very selfish person, who is born with the conditions to be a leader.

"Your Majesty is right...... The sudden catastrophe of the fleet was all due to the fierce wind and waves at sea, and our ships could not resist it, so we ended up in the situation of shipwreckage and death...... There is no one in the fleet who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he will protect the ship to the death. How can the wind and waves be strong, and manpower will be invincible! "The leaders who rescued from several other ships have not been idle these days, and there are many people with clear minds among them, and they have already figured out the cause and effect of the whole thing. How to fool the court after returning to the Great Song Dynasty is the basis of whether they can survive or not, and they coincide with Hong Tao at this point, in fact, they can only say this, there is no choice. (To be continued.) )