Among the more than 30 people led by Le Wen, there were Long Chao, the seven-rank military attache general Lu Wu, Wu Security and Wan Fatzi, and the others were all cavalrymen who knew more about water.

From more than 400 cavalrymen, only these 30 or so water-literate people were selected to row the oars on the warship, and the others were landlubbers, who didn't understand water at all, and it was useless to follow.

Originally, Lewen, Long Chao, and Wu An'an were also landlubbers, but Wan Fatzi was deeply water-savvy, and during this time in Shanghai County, they often came to the beach to play.

Taught by the old driver Wan Fatzi, they slowly learned to swim, although the water is much worse than the old driver Wan Fat, but it can be regarded as out of the ranks of landlubbers.

Lewen stood in front of the warship, feeling the breeze gently passing by him, looking at the pale blue water in front of him, and a few dolphins jumping over the boat from time to time, which made people feel a little comfortable.

"Liu Ergou, how long will it take to reach the unknown island you said?"

A group of people had been on the warship for two hours, but they still hadn't seen any trace of an island, Long Chao asked the guide fisherman Liu Ergou a little impatiently.

"Xiaomin...... Xiaomin doesn't know, it is said that the time of two hours has already arrived, but it is strange that he has not seen the island until now. ”

Liu Ergou held the helm in one hand, and looked at the navigation compass in the other hand from time to time.

This nautical compass is a type of gimbal now called a gimbal bracket, which consists of two copper rings, slightly different in diameter, so that the small circles are cut into the large circles and connected by a pivot. They are then mounted on a fixed stand by a pivot.

The dry compass is hung in the inner ring, so that no matter how the hull swings. The dry compass is always level.

Before the compass was used for navigation, sea navigation could only be located according to the sun, moon and stars, and in case of gloomy weather, there was nothing to be done. After the compass was used for navigation, the course was recognizable regardless of the gloomy weather.

The 24-way orientation of the nautical compass is arranged according to the orientation theory of the acquired gossip in the theory of yin and yang and the five elements.

The ten heavenly stems, the twelve earthly branches, and the four dimensions of the eight trigrams, Qian, Kun, Gen, and Xun represent each direction. Because the "Wuji" represents the central direction in the ten heavenly stems, the position has been occupied by the compass, so it is not used.

Zibei, Wunan, Maodong, Youxi. In nautical applications, each azimuth represents a point, which is 15 degrees, and is called a single (Dan) needle.

Such as a single meridian hand. That is, pointing due south. Heading 180 degrees; With the progress of navigation technology in the Ming Dynasty, the twenty-four directions were refined into forty-eight directions, and the middle of the two adjacent directions can represent a smaller direction, which can be accurately pointed to 7.5 degrees, which is called a needle in the needle scripture, such as the Bingwu needle, the needle points to the two words between the words C and Wu, that is, 7.5 degrees to the east of the south. The course is 172.5 degrees.

These are all maritime knowledge that fisherman Liu Ergou knows very well, but now he can't find the nameless island. It's weird.

Liu Ergou, who was thinking about what was going on at the bottom, suddenly appeared in front of him a hazy island shrouded in mist.

"Alas...... Island...... The island, this is the nameless island that the little people call it, and it is from here that those damned pirates set out to harass us hard-working fishermen, and they all deserve to die. ”

The reason why Liu Ergou is willing to come out to be a guide is because his family members have been killed by the Japanese Invaders, and he hates the roots of his teeth for the Japanese Invaders, and he can't wait to eat them alive and skin these damn Wolves.

Now Lewen has annihilated all the widows who came out of this unknown island at once, he is very grateful and worshipful to Lewen in his heart, and now Lewen is the god in his heart, as long as Lewen gives an order, he will not frown at all.

This small and unknown island, which looks half the size of Shanghai County, is home to many banyan trees and a variety of seabirds.

At this time, a warship suddenly appeared on the seashore of this small island, and more than 30 Ming people wearing battle armor walked down from it, and the seabirds on the seashore flew up.

"No...... Oh no, a group of Ming people broke into our island...... Now that our leaders are gone, what are we going to do? ”

When a young widow saw the ship that had broken into their island, she panicked and ran back to the house in the center of the island where the widows had gathered, and shouted loudly.

Because the Japanese wanted to take Shanghai County in one fell swoop, all the Japanese men on this small island were dispatched, even the old people and children who could hold weapons, and only these helpless young women and girls were left.

In order to be able to take down Shanghai County, they are also desperate enough, originally this group of Japanese robbers wanted to take Shanghai County in one fell swoop, and then they took down several cities along the coast, and killed all the Ming people in these cities, who knew that the battle was unfavorable, and the first battle was destroyed by the Lewen army, and they could only be ghosts at sea.

The young women and maidens who remained on the island did not know that their army, which had always been fierce and fierce, could no longer give them back the spoils of war, and they had packed up their salutes and were ready to go to the city they had longed for to take up residence in when they received the news of victory.

When these young women and girls learned that a bright **** had come to their island, they all looked panicked, like frightened chickens, and they didn't know what to do.

"How did these Ming soldiers break into the island......!"

"I don't know, is our husband defeated...... How could it be ......"

"It's horrible...... What should we do......"

"Despised...... Butterfly ......"

At this time, Ming **** had already come to the place where they lived, and a Japanese girl shouted loudly because she was afraid.

"Lord Le, what should we do with these young women and girls?"

Lu Wu, who was beside Lewen, was still thinking about whether there would be another battle, but who knew that there was no one more Japanese man on the island, and there were all these beautiful young women and girls left, not even a baby, which was really strange.

It turned out that the women who lived on this island ten years ago didn't know what was wrong, and after eating the spoils of war looted by the Japanese bandits, they couldn't have children, and these Japanese robbers found their wizards, but it was useless, so in the past ten years, there has been no Japanese woman who has been pregnant again, and naturally there is no baby.

Lewen thinks that the scenery of this island is not bad, if it is colonized, it is good to have nothing to play, but there is no soldier to guard, it will definitely not work, and if there are fewer people, it will definitely be destroyed by the Japanese on other islands, and if there are too many people, he does not have so many people, which makes Lewen not know what to do.

(To be continued.) )