The sailing route to the Americas this time is to start from Jinling and follow the coastline to Macau, in fact, there is no need to go to Macau, but Lewen heard that some pirates in the South China Sea often attack nearby fishermen, so Lewen must go and clean them up. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

During the Ming Dynasty, Macao was a small fishing village with oyster farming as its main business, and "Macao" in Guangdong refers to a relatively small wharf, because it is one of the eight estuaries of the Pearl River, so it is called "Macao".

Then from Macau - Manila - Northern Mariana Islands - Iwo Jima - South Bird Island - Wake Island - Midway Island - Hawaiian Islands - Reviahi and Dona Islands - Guadalupe Island - North American Coast.

Although it is close to the westerly wind belt, the westerly wind belt in the northern hemisphere is not a global current, and the wind and waves are smaller, especially in the summer of June and July, the wind and waves are calm, and it is safer to pass before the hurricane season at the end of July.

The Pacific route can also be resupplied by the Hawaiian Islands, and from the perspective of sailing in the age of sailing, the North Pacific summer route takes advantage of the westerly wind belt, the coastal warm current, and the monsoon.

The westerly wind belt, also known as the storm circle, has strong wind and waves, but the westerly wind belt in the southern hemisphere is called the sea graveyard because of the formation of a global current, and the storm is extremely large, which is a cold current. The Northern Hemisphere is blocked by continents, so it does not form a global ocean current, and the wind and waves are small and warm. Especially in the summer. Smooth sailing and fewer storms.

Take the Pacific route, take the westerly wind belt in summer, although it is not as good as the trade wind belt, but the North Pacific has less wind and waves in the summer, and you can use Hawaii to get to the coast, you can use the warm current and trade winds to the south to Mexico.

More than 100 Dale Chao sailing boats, the power is mainly to sail, and the oars are boosted, and the ship is also designed with a sail rope, which can pull the side of the sail against the wind, so that the boat can still sail downwind in the case of crosswind, and is specially equipped with a device for fixing the oars.

Riding along the Pacific route, relying on the nautical compass and Firot as a guide, we set off on the nautical route.

Among them, the imperial ship that Le Wen rode on is the largest ship in the Dale sailing ship, the imperial ship is as tall as a building, the bottom tip is wide, 51 zhang 3 feet long, 21 zhang wide, and the carrying capacity is 890 tons.

The overall design adopts the longitudinal sail layout, hard sail structure, the canopy surface with the reinforcement effect of the support bar equivalent to the rib, the boat-shaped structure: the bottom tip is wide, the first stern is high and the transverse bulkhead affects the speed and stability of the hull, the bottom tip is wide, the first stern is high, this ship shape has a higher performance in the harsh sea surface control, and it also ballasts the earth and stone in the bilge of the ship, and the stability can be said to be second to none at that time, in order to further improve the stability.

The planks facing the side of the ship further reduced the amount of sway of the hull to the sides, and the hull structure was also unique at the time with multiple transverse bulkheads. The interior of the ship is divided into different cabins with wooden planks and sealed against each other. This not only strengthens the structure of the ship, but also has the effect of watertight and anti-sinking of the compartment.

In order to prevent the safety problems caused by water leakage, the Royal Ship used bulkheads to divide the bottom cabins into compartment areas when designing, and there were at least more than 10 similar cabins.

In addition, in order to improve the collision resistance of the ships, the fleet of the Royal Ship also connected the bulkhead plate to the hull plate with flat iron and hook nails, and the hull plate was partially made of three layers of thin plates superimposed to form a very strong one. Because the cabins are tightly separated from each other by bulkheads, even if one or two compartments break into the water during an ocean voyage, the water will not flow to the other compartments. Therefore, from the overall point of view of the ship, it still maintains considerable buoyancy and does not sink.

Sailing from a distance, it is inevitable to encounter pirates, but if the pirates see the fleet composed of more than 100 warships, I am afraid that they will be scared for a long time, and they will run away as soon as they slip away.

The ship has four layers, the 9 masts on the ship can hang 12 sails, the anchor weight is several thousand catties, it takes more than 200 people to set sail, and a ship can accommodate thousands of people.

The bottom floor is a large cargo hold 80 meters long, 36 meters wide and 2 meters high, which is used for cargo and food, and the fleet is also specially responsible for carrying food, fresh water and various baggage.

On the top floor there is the captain's quarters, with a captain, two co-captains, as well as a lounge for the artillery and the navy, with cannons on each side of the cabin.

The second floor is dedicated to the emperor, and the palace maids and dancing musicians are also on this floor, and no one else is allowed to trespass.

The third floor is used by Jinyiwei and the imperial doctors, cooks, and so on, and there are medicine boxes and kitchens for the imperial doctors, etc.

On this royal ship, there are ten cannons, ten observation gunners, one hundred ammunition squads, and one hundred gunners.

There are 100 Jinyi guards who are responsible for protecting the emperor's safety, 20 navy people who are responsible for managing the baggage, 30 royal chefs who are responsible for the emperor's diet and the diet of all the imperial ships, and 20 imperial doctors, including Li Shizhen's father Li Yanwen.

However, as soon as the Dale fleet set off from Jinling, it encountered two Japanese ships chasing the Dale fishermen's boats.

"Oh, my majesty, let's ignore these pirates."

Le Wen was dressed in a golden dragon robe, embroidered with a nine-clawed golden dragon, and Ding Ke'er in a phoenix robe was admiring a few seagulls rowing by the blue water from time to time on the deck of the imperial ship.

Without saying a word, Lewen ordered the gunners on the imperial ship to open fire, but Philot was afraid of attracting a siege from other Japanese ships, so he wanted to dissuade the emperor from canceling the order.

But where can Lewen's eyes tolerate this group of little pirates rampant, not to mention that he didn't see this group of pirates attacking fishermen's sea boats at sea, as long as he saw that it was a Japanese boat, Lewen would also use artillery to blow the Japanese boats to pieces.

Lewen didn't listen to Philot's persuasion, he pulled out the Chengying sword at his waist and raised it high in the air, and shouted sharply: "The gunners on the left side of the imperial ship listen to the order, aim at the Japanese ships and open fire. ”

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Those two Japanese ships had actually seen the fleet of the Dale Dynasty a long time ago, and where did they dare to pursue the ships of the Dale Dynasty, they had already prepared to run away with a smoke, but where did they run past the pursuit of the imperial ships.

With the five guns on the left side of the imperial ship firing in unison, the two Japanese ships on the opposite side were instantly torn apart, and the Japanese on the Japanese ship were killed by the explosion, and those who were not killed were about to be blown into black people, shouting and screaming, and jumping into the sea covered in blood.

A sailboat behind Le Wen ordered to sail over, ready to arrest these would-be robbers who had not been killed. (To be continued.) )