Chapter 172: Landing
On the sea, the scorching sun hangs, and the wind is high and the waves are fierce.
On the deck of the Tiger, the figures of Sun Ce, Sun Quan, and Zhou Yu stood upright, and the faces of the three of them were a little grim.
Today is the eleventh day of the fleet's voyage, and it is still a boundless sea, not only Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, but even Sun Quan is a little unable to sit still.
"Zhongmou, is it in the wrong position, or is it in the wrong direction?"
Zhou Yu scanned the surroundings with a simple telescope in his hand, and it was still a vast sea area, and he obviously didn't see any land.
"Could it be that our charts are wrong?" Sun Ce also has a simple telescope in his hand, the technical content of the telescope is not high, this kind of telescope was made by Sun Quan as early as when he was on land, and Jiangdong has begun to use it for a period of time, commonly known as clairvoyance.
Both of them were visibly drumming in their hearts.
If the expected speed is followed, they should be able to land on Yizhou on the eighth or ninth day, but now they haven't seen even a single island, which makes their hearts a little flustered.
"Directions?"
Sun Quan squinted, and suddenly a spiritual light flashed in his heart, and asked, "There should be nothing wrong, but ...... What kind of wind was blowing on that night when the storm was raging? ”
"Northerly wind!"
Zhou Yu replied immediately.
"The wind is blowing from the north, that is, it blows to the south, and we seem to have forgotten that one of the incidents, that night, our warship was in the hurricane, drifting with the current, and must have drifted out of its original course."
Sun Quan said in a low voice: "In this way, it is very likely that our fleet will cross the destination early in the morning." ”
"You mean to say that the deviation of our fleet course to the east, all the way it has been, not without encountering, but beyond the boundary?" Zhou Yu's expression was shocked, and he immediately understood what Sun Quan meant.
"Yes, it must be so, immediately change the direction of the voyage and go north!"
Sun Quan nodded and said categorically: "From now on, the fleet will walk along the northwest direction of the current location for a day to see if we can find our destination?" ”
"What if it's not a day later?" Sun Ce's face was a little gloomy, and he asked, "Now we don't have much fresh water, and even if we return to the sea at that time, we may not be able to support the land." ”
"Big brother, be optimistic, don't say these discouraged words." Sun Quan looked at the blue sky and the blue sea, his eyes were still firm, and said: "Believe, we still have a glimmer of hope, if we don't believe it, then we will never find it." ”
"Second brother, you really have a lot of crooked reasoning." Sun Ce smiled bitterly.
"Someone!" Zhou Yu shouted.
"The Grand Governor." Several sailors on the Tiger immediately walked up.
"Give the order to go down and immediately change the direction of the voyage to the direction of the west side of the northern bevel." Zhou Yu is the governor of the navy, and he has always been the commander of this time, except for the three thousand tiger soldiers under the car, the navy is all born in the navy, he is much more familiar with the soldiers under his command than Sun Ce and Sun Quan.
"No!" Several soldiers immediately went down to give orders.
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Sun Quan proved right, in less than a day, the fleet only went northwest for about three hours, and in the evening, when the sunset sun shone on the sea, a huge island finally appeared in front of everyone.
"Yizhou?"
"It's here, it's really here, I didn't expect it to really be in Yizhou!"
"What a big island!"
"Is this Yizhou?"
In the fleet, on the warships, the crowd was concentrated on the deck, and all of them looked at the island that appeared in everyone's eyes in the distance, and let out a shocking cry one by one.
"Wen Xiang, clairvoyance!"
Sun Quan's gaze was also looking at this treasure island from afar, he was a little excited, and he shouted, Xu Sheng immediately took a telescope and handed it to him.
Taiwan, this is Taiwan, Taiwan 1,800 years ago.
In the previous life, the two sides of the strait were separated, and the procedures for traveling to and from Taiwan were a little troublesome, and he didn't have the opportunity to go around Taiwan.
"Zhongmou, you're really right, good guy, I didn't expect that there is such a big island on the sea, this place, I'm afraid it's the size of Huiji County!"
Sun Ce's gaze was through the binoculars, and he stared at the majestic treasure island in front of him with some excitement: "If we can win it smoothly, we will add at least one county." ”
"Well, as the first treasure island of the Great Han, its face is not small." Sun Quan nodded.
"Pass the order, speed up the advance, and the whole army will immediately be on alert and prepare to land."
Zhou Yu's mind is very clear-headed, he has not forgotten that there may still be local natives on this island, and this must be guarded against.
Half an hour, the fleet began to quietly dock on a beach, if you go ashore, there is a mountain forest in front of you, Zhou Yu is cautious, he first used ten ships, more than 1,300 cars of Hushi sent to the shore, let them reconnoiter first.
The Hushi under the car led the team by Lei Ding and Pan Zhang, even if there is trouble, with the two of them, with more than a thousand elite Hushi, they can definitely protect themselves.
"Brother Gongjin, looking at this environment, there should be no one in this direction where we landed!" Sun Quan took the binoculars, looked at the side carefully, and said.
"Well, but let's be cautious."
Zhou Yu stood on the deck, looked up at the gradually darkening sky, and said: "Since the place has been found, the landing is not at such a moment or three, and there are obviously mountains in front of us, it is not easy to land, it is really not possible, we will continue to spend the night on the ship tonight, and find another place tomorrow, and then land, after all, we want to build a port, build a city, and occupy it for a long time." ”
"Hmm!"
Sun Ce also said: "We must first figure out where we are now, in what direction is this island?" ”
"That's north, it's east, then we're obvious, on the east side of the island!" Zhou Yu took out the compass and looked at it carefully before he said.
"That's not good, it's not convenient for us in the future, we have to go back and forth to the Central Plains frequently, the Central Plains is on the west side of this island, we still have to find a place from the west side and land!" Sun Ce said.
"Well, that's a good idea!" Sun Quan also nodded.
In less than an hour, Lei Ding and Pan Zhang returned, and by this time the sky was completely dark, and the light of the lantern swayed in a cabin above the Tiger.
"Tell me Gongzi, we explored these peaks, and found no traces of people, but there are water sources in the mountains, and there are some poisonous snakes and beasts, and several brothers were accidentally bitten by wild boars and poisonous snakes, so we caught some of them back."
Lei Ding bowed to the report.
"Are you alright, brothers?" Sun Quan immediately asked, this is his descendant army.
"Childe, rest assured, the five brothers were only injured, and there were no casualties." Lei Ding said.
"Very good, go down and rest first, those beasts, slaughtered immediately, boiled into broth, let everyone appetize, these days, the mouth is light!" Sun Quan breathed a sigh of relief.
"No!" Lei nodded his head and walked down with great interest.
"We can't land here, this direction, it's not suitable!" Zhou Yu's face was solemn and said.
"I think so too, until tomorrow, we will go around, linger on this island, and go all over again, and we must find a suitable place on the west side to go ashore, and build a port and a living city, and it is better to have a foundation where people have lived."
Sun Ce pointed to a map that had just been marked and said.
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Following.
Early in the morning, their warships came from the south, detouring to the east of the island, searching for a morning, and finally found a suitable place to dock, and landed directly.
"Someone!"
On the deck, Sun Quan used a telescope to stare at the hilly area on the shore, and at a glance, it was a small village, small in scale, and there were still more than a dozen fishing boats scattered on the coast.
"I've confidently looked at the map, if my guess is correct, this should be the northeast corner of the island, the most suitable for us to land, look at this terrain, and the most suitable for building a city, here it is." Zhou Yu squinted and said.
"Xu Sheng!" Sun Quan shouted.
"Here!" Xu Sheng was wearing armor and a long knife in his hand, and responded.
"Thou shalt immediately take all the chariots and land and control the people on the shore, remember, it is the control of the people, as long as they do not threaten your lives, and do not harm anyone."
"No!" Xu Sheng's eyes flashed and he said loudly.
"Zhongmou, this time I landed, and I went in person!" Sun Ce was also wearing armor and holding a spear in his hand, and walked out, saying firmly.
"It's okay, big brother, be careful yourself!"
Sun Quan nodded, but he didn't object, looked at Xu Sheng, and said, "Wen Xiang, optimistic about the eldest son." ”
"Don't worry, Childe!"
After the tiger soldiers began to land under the car, Zhou Yu also began to give orders to all the sailors: "Immediately pass the order, and as soon as the situation on the shore is controlled, immediately dock!" ”
"No!"
The expressions of everyone seemed to be united, obviously a little excited.
……
An hour later, the villages on the shore had been controlled, the warships began to slowly land, the army of Koto had landed, and everyone appeared on the island.
"Zhongmou, let me make it clear, this small village is called Baiyue Village, and this is the village chief." Sun Ce greeted him, and there was an old man in his sixties beside him, obviously trembling.
"Brother Gongjin, what kind of font is this!" At the entrance of the village, in a wide place, there is a conspicuous stone tablet with rows of fonts on it, dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, but Sun Quan can't understand a word.
"This is the Warring States Period, Wu Yue's font, the bird seal." Zhou Yu was erudite and talented, and he could understand this inscription at a glance, and said: "What it says above is that after the Yue State was destroyed by the Chu State, a group of people escaped from the sea, and then floated here, and landed from here. ”