Zhang Chu's schedule was very tight, and the affairs of Nanjing were arranged a little, leaving Zhou Jialin to preside over everything, and he hurried back to Liuheng Island. Liuheng Island is where Zhangchu Jiangnan is established.

Zhang Chu led people to rush back to Liuheng Island day and night, and at this time the island was a new scene. The money brought by Zhang Chu played a role, and more craftsmen were busy on the island, and a large stream was cut off by a stone dam, raising the water level in preparation for the water wheel, and the clean water was brought down through the pipeline to provide water for the whole island. Zhang Chu made special plans for the construction of the entire island before leaving the island, and set up sentry posts around the island to send people to defend it to prevent outsiders from entering. Security has been tightened in the factories, with security guards patrolling daily and ships registering at the port to prevent unauthorized entry and exit. The fort on the fort was ready for use, and the Portuguese technicians and the security guards practiced every day. The operating procedures of the artillery were recorded and sent to Zhang Chu, who made some minor modifications based on the actual combat of the past two years and the knowledge of later generations, and the use of artillery of the security army was more standardized.

Zhang Chu is most concerned about the four small lucky ships, and the current security forces can only use this kind of small ships as the main warship, large warships need a lot of money, and now there is no place to build them if they have money. As the first step to the ocean, even if the boat is small, Zhang Chu decided to take this first step.

Zhang Chu left, and the security forces who stayed on the island in the past few days suffered again. After more than ten days of turbulence at sea, they felt that they had vomited out their internal organs, and finally arrived at Liuheng Island, and everyone swore that they would never get on the boat again in this life, their dream was not realized, and after only two days of repairs on the island, all the people were caught on the boat again, and the situation was worse, there were more Portuguese ghosts who looked like white-faced ghosts, and local fishermen who were blown black and red by the sea breeze. These people together are like black and white, and it has become a nightmare for the players. Orders were handed down from above, and all the people temporarily obeyed the command of the Portuguese, and the members of the security team, who were still vomiting on the boat, were instructed by those ghosts to climb up and down. From time to time, he was ridiculed and scolded. These Portuguese speak Chinese poorly, but they learn swear very quickly. The team members with weak legs were indignant in their hearts, and if they were on land, they would definitely beat these ghosts all over the ground to find teeth. Peeking at their squad leader and platoon commander were also climbing the mast like monkeys on the boat, the team members did not dare to be lazy, so they had to train hard under the command of the Portuguese.

Zhang Chu had already held a meeting with the leaders of the team before leaving, and if they couldn't learn to live on the ship, they didn't have to go back to Shaanxi, just roll into the sea. Zhang Chu had never used such harsh words before. The leaders all felt Zhang Chu's anxious mood, and an invisible pressure arose, and the team members watched the skillful movements of the Portuguese and fishermen also aroused their competitive spirit, and secretly intensified their training.

By the time Zhang Chu returned to Liuheng Island, the landlubbers were able to walk upright on the boat.

Li Fugui was appointed by Zhang Chu as the commander of the security fleet by virtue of his rich maritime experience, and he looked at the only four small boats and began to be reluctant to accept it, but immediately changed his mind when he learned that he would have a salary if he worked part-time.

The mercenaries on the island were assigned to different departments on the island according to their skills, and the rest of the mercenaries, who were good at navigation, began devil training for the security forces under the leadership of Li Fugui.

Zhang Chu returned to the island, and Li Fugui was leading the team back from training. Zhang Chu went to the dock to board the ship to check the situation.

Li Fugui followed Zhang Chu and kept complaining: "Boss, you shouldn't let these soldiers come to the boat, I understand, they haven't seen the sea at all before, I admit that your soldiers are very good, they are very brave and powerful on land, but the sea and land are completely different, there are many people who can't even swim now, I suggest that they go back to land, we recruit some fishermen to train from scratch will be much better than this." ”

Zhang Chu listened to him nagging, didn't say anything, and observed the ship like a baby. He looked up and down the boat. The quality of these ships is still good, after the completion of the north ran a circle, back after the overhaul found no major problems, Zhang Chu and Li Fugui studied the ship after the modification, the ship opened the gun window, installed the artillery, considering that often in the offshore activities, in order not to attract the attention of others, the gun windows are camouflaged. In order to improve the efficiency of artillery, Zhang Chu also ordered craftsmen to make wooden four-wheeled gun mounts. It is now installed on board.

Li Fugui admired Zhang Chu's design very much, and the sea test in the past few days has reflected the advantages of the four-wheeled gun mount. The guns were mounted on wooden gun carriages on four wheels, fastened to the deck with ropes and pulleys, which counteracted the recoil of the gun sections, and the guns were quickly reset by the crew pulling the ropes after the guns were fired. The elevation angle of the gun can be adjusted by padding the tail of the gun or by reducing the wooden block, and the speed of fire is greatly increased.

The crew was already lined up on the deck, waiting nervously for Zhang Chu's words. They themselves were ashamed that the Portuguese and fishermen were able to move freely on the boat, and there was no obstacle in handling the boat and firing the guns, and it was a problem for them to walk on the boat.

"Commander Li Fugui said, you people should not be allowed to stay on the ship, you are just tigers on land, and you will not be able to do it at all when you get to sea." Zhang Chu stood in front of the crew and began his speech. Li Fugui next to him thought to himself after hearing this, I just said it so casually, how can you take it seriously, and you still tell it in front of the crew, this is too bad to do things.

Zhang Chu didn't care about Li Fugui's feelings, and continued: "I don't think so, it's man-made, our security forces are heroes regardless of land and sea. From tomorrow onwards, I will also train with you, and we will also produce a batch of water dragons in the arid land of Shaanxi, do you have confidence. ”

"Yes!" The team members replied loudly.

Zhang Chu and Li Fugui got off the boat and returned to the office, Li Fugui gave a detailed report on the training these days, and with the help of the Portuguese and fishermen, the team members were able to operate the boat simply, but they were not very proficient. The two discussed again and formulated the next training plan. I decided that I couldn't always wander around the open sea, and that I would take all the team members to the open sea tomorrow.

The next morning, a loud assembly horn sounded, and a large number of supplies and weapons were transported to the four lucky ships parked in the harbor, and the team members boarded the ships in turn, one by one, with solemn expressions.

Recently, Zheng Zhilong, the largest pirate in the coastal area, accepted the appeasement and submitted to the imperial court, and his power was mainly concentrated in the coastal areas of Fujian, and his activities were somewhat restrained. But there are still small groups of pirates operating along the coast of Zhejiang. Although they are not very strong, they are far more proficient in the control of ships than the new hands of the security forces. When Zhang Chu made the plan, he asked the four ships to act at the same time, so that they could take care of each other if there was a situation.

The crew lined up on the ship, Zhang Chu boarded the front ship, the crew was in place, Zhang Chu gave an order, the fleet raised the sails and slowly started, slowly left the port, and sailed to the unknown sea.