Above the boundless sea, the night is dark, the wind is full of wind, and the waves are crashing.

In the midst of the storm, the heavy waves, one after another, picked up the waves several feet high, the waves covered the sky, and they were wiped out together, and a huge fleet composed of nearly 20,000 people, mainly two building ships, seemed a little helpless at this moment, but it was like a light boat, in the turbulence of the heavy waves, the slightest could not help but control.

The Tiger building ship was swaying, and on the deck, Sun Quan and Sun Ce stood side by side, barely able to stabilize their figures, while Xu Sheng stood behind a few people with dozens of elite cars.

Zhou Yu's figure stood at the front, looking around the dark square, in the midst of the raging storm, facing the generals under his command, commanding the fleet, so that the warships were constantly avoiding the waves.

"Report to the Grand Governor, the ships of the A-shaped fleet and the T-shaped fleet have been scattered by the waves and cannot form a formation, and there are still several ships in their fleet that have been damaged by the powerful waves and are now sinking."

A naval officer hurriedly walked up and reported: "The wind and waves are too strong, the fighting ships can't be relied on at all, and there are still hundreds of soldiers on the sinking warships, and there are still a lot of grain and fresh water stored on them, so how can we get by?" ”

"Let the Taihu Lake ship rush over, and then use the iron cable to train all the warships used into a straight, iron cable to connect the boat, put the horizontal board, save people first, don't care about the others first, take people over first as soon as possible!"

Zhou Yu's eyes looked at the shaking warships in the overlapping waves in front of him, reacted quickly, and immediately shouted loudly: "Attention, don't miss a single one, it's really not good, use ropes, put boats, and use lifebuoys to rescue people." ”

Sun Quan made some simple lifebuoys out of thin leather, which are very practical.

"No!"

The soldier immediately went down and began to prepare for the rescue.

"Brother Gongjin, several fleets were scattered by the wind and waves tonight, is there a lot of damage?"

Sun Ce and Sun Quan were also facing such a harsh environment for the first time, Sun Quan's heart was a little flustered, but his expression was quite steady, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he hurriedly asked.

This huge fleet is centered on two building ships, and the fighting ships are mainly below, forming a small fleet, with A, B, C, and D...... to name it, lingering around the ship.

A warship the size of a fighting ship can be supported, but hundreds of warships are much more dangerous, and they can only be connected by iron cables.

This was already the seventh night of the fleet's voyage, and in the previous days, it had been calm, but this afternoon, the wind was heavy, the waves were raging, the storm was raging, the sails had to land, and the fleet could not sail at all.

"Zhongmou, our fleet has sunk three ships so far, and the number of casualties is not yet known."

Zhou Yu has some experience in commanding the navy for more than a year, but it is the first time to go to sea, his handsome face is a little tired, and he is also a little gloomy, his eyes look at the stacked waves, and he sighed: "This time the wind and waves have made us go to sea, the biggest wind and waves, the destructive power is too great, even if the Tiger and Taihu are a little unable to hold on, although the fighting ships and ships below are connected with iron cables, but there is still a lot of damage, and if it goes on like this, we will be in big trouble." ”

"This is the sea! Threats posed by nature. ”

Sun Quan's eyes burst out with a cold light, and he said firmly: "No matter how dangerous it is, no matter how difficult it is, we have to hold on, as long as we can get through this time, the back will be fast, believe me, now we have walked most of the way, less than three days, we will definitely be able to reach the place." ”

"Zhongmou, we still have enough food, but we are obviously not enough for the preparation of fresh water, ten days at most, if we don't find a place in ten days, then our fresh water will be in an emergency." Zhou Yu's eyes moved, and he said in a low voice.

The previous voyage to Zhoushan was too short to be considered to go to sea at all, and this was the first time they went to sea worthy of the name, so they had enough food, but they were still a little negligent in the preparation of fresh water.

"Second brother, if the fleet goes for another three days, it still can't find the place of Yizhou, we must choose the return trip, otherwise we are in danger of cutting off the water." Sun Ce's eyes moved, his expression was tenacious, and he was categorical.

"That's the right direction, and I'm sure we'll find a place."

Sun Quan grinned at the corners of his mouth, raised his head, looked up at the gloomy sky, and showed a confident smile at the corner of his mouth, and said: "Big brother, you go first to appease people's hearts, it is estimated that this big wave has made many people see the dangers at sea, people's hearts are uncertain, many people are retreating in their hearts, by the way, you have to smile, don't be too nervous, if even we ourselves are not confident, how can the people below be confident!" ”

"I understand, I'll settle them down!"

Sun Ce naturally understood this, showed a very reluctant smile, nodded, and hurriedly walked down, his identity, his ability, this little thing could not stop him.

"Brother Gongjin, where is the chart we have marked?" Above the waves, Sun Quan walked into the rickety cabin from the deck, inside the cabin, a lantern swayed, the light was dim, Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu and asked.

"Here!" Zhou Yu turned out a map from the hands of a personal soldier, spread out on the desk, and under the dim light, both of them could see the map clearly.

"Brother Gongjin, guess where we should be now?" Sun Quan stared at the map and asked.

Zhou Yu's eyes also stared at this map, this map is after going to sea, little by little, he stretched out his hand, took out a compass in his arms, looked at the pointer of the compass, pointed with his finger, and said: "That direction is north, if the direction is not wrong, after we go to sea, the general direction should always be to the east, but there are more or less discrepancies, after all, the wind and waves are too big, there is no marker, the detailed direction, it is difficult to confirm, we have passed by four islands, all of them are small islands, Among them, we have marked the landmarks, practiced into a line, the direction should be southeast, if the guess is not wrong, we should be in the ......"

Zhou Yu pointed to the map, at the southeast oblique corner of the sea area from Dongzhi County, and said, "Here!" It should not be far from Yizhou, that is to say, if our direction is not wrong, and the map you drew is not wrong, Yizhou is in this position, then we will be able to log in to Yizhou in a day at most. ”

"Wen Xiang."

Hearing this, Sun Quan squinted, looked at the map, and suddenly shouted.

"In!" Xu Sheng was outside the cabin, and when he heard this, he immediately walked in.

"You go to Houcang and bring the three fishermen I talked to a few days ago, and say that I have something to ask them."

Sun Quan knew that no matter how vast the sea, the more critical the time, the more cautious he must be, although this storm is big, but there are Tigers and Taihu Lake, and they can't break up their fleet.

But if it is impossible not to find the most accurate direction, then sooner or later their fleet will get lost at sea.

Sun Quan believed in his memory, but after all, this was an era of 1,800 years ago, and there must have been many changes in the terrain in it, and if it was not grasped well, there would definitely be problems.

"No!"

Xu Sheng walked down quickly, and in less than a quarter of an hour, he walked in with three fishermen from Dongzhi.

In the past few hundred years, the fishermen of Dongzhi and Jiaozhou have gone out to sea to fish, encountered wind and waves, and also drifted on the sea, and many have drifted to Yizhou and can come back.

Yizhou, the isolated island on the sea, was brought back to the Central Plains by word of mouth by the fishermen who could come back alive.

The so-called Yi of Yizhou is the meaning of barbarianism.

When Sun Quan was in Dongzhi, he recruited a group of fishermen on the boat, during this time he learned about them one by one, these fishermen still have some understanding of the sea, and several of them have been to Yizhou, and can float back from Yizhou to the Central Plains.

"Uncle Bai, tell me about the situation in Yizhou at the beginning." Under the dim light, Sun Quan's face was like a crown of jade, soft and indifferent, his eyes looked at the man in the middle of the three, and asked.

This man, about fifty years old, with very dark skin and a somewhat thin body, took a step forward and said with a wry smile: "Childe, we have already said the original things, and a few of us can go to Yizhou and come back from Yizhou, pure luck, we don't know much about it." ”

"Then tell me about the time you spent floating on the sea, and whether you have seen any special landmarks or anything, and what you remember to say." Sun Quan continued to ask.

"Childe, when we went out to sea to fish, we originally walked not far, but suddenly there was a big storm, and our fishing boat did not know to float there, we wanted to find a way, but we couldn't find it, and later, the fishing boat was not strong enough, so it fell apart in the wind and waves, fifty or sixty people on board, all died, and the three of us held the largest piece of driftwood, and with the wind and waves, it took three days to reach an island, that is, Yizhou."

"What about the direction of the wind, what was the direction of the wind at that time, do you still remember clearly?" Sun Quan asked.

"Childe, we were in a hurry to survive, how can we remember this?" A burly man with a sharp nose on the left shook his head and said, "Holding a piece of rotten wood, we thought we were all dead, but we didn't expect that when we woke up, it would be Yizhou." ”

"And how did you get back?" Zhou Yu asked suddenly.

"Because there are people in Yizhou."

The fisherman, who was a little short in stature, said in a low voice: "And there are many people, like us, they all crossed away from the Central Plains a long time ago, and lived in the local area for many years, the three of us remembered the people at home, so we tried our best to go home, they not only gave us food, but also gave us a fishing boat, we prepared food and water for a month, and floated on the sea for more than a month, very lucky, and finally returned home from the shore in Jiaozhou." ”

"Is there anyone on the island?"

Zhou Yu's eyes burst out with a cold glow: "There are people in Yizhou, are they Han?" ”

"It's not strange, and I suspect that there are still a lot of people on Yizhou, a certain once found a book in the collection of Cai Xijiu, which recorded such a paragraph, in the Warring States Period, when the Chu State destroyed Yue, some Yue people went south to southern Fujian, but there are also a lot of Yue people, who went to the sea to flee, and went to Yizhou."

Sun Quan looked indifferent, and said softly: "And later, when the Qin State destroyed Chu, many Chu people also went to sea, and they went to Yizhou, I estimate that in Yizhou, there are at least tens of thousands of people." ”

Naturally, this is not from Cai Yong's book collection, but it is recorded in history that the Emperor of Eastern Wu, that is, Sun Quan, once sent troops to Yizhou, and when he landed in Yizhou, he was obviously resisted by the locals.

This was the first large-scale landing on Yizhou in the Central Plains, but it obviously failed, so there was the later Ryukyu.

"So, even if we find Yizhou and want to land, there is still trouble?" Zhou Yu's eyes flashed with a cautious light.

"It's not a hassle!"

Sun Quan shook his head, his expression was extremely confident, and said, "As long as we can land in Yizhou, nothing can stop us." ”

"That's right!" Zhou Yu nodded. With tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, he naturally has such confidence.

"The most important thing now is to land!"

Sun Quan squinted at the navigation chart, his eyes were sharp, and said: "In the wind and waves, you must be stable and continue to sail, in this regard, Brother Gongjin, you are good at it, you continue to command." ”

"Hmm!"

Zhou Yu nodded.