Chapter 159: The Stumbling Forerunner
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A large fleet of ships is slowly moving slowly on the endless sea.
Since human beings learned to work and contact the sea, the sea, which occupies two-thirds of the earth's area, has been the most mysterious thing in the minds of human beings for more than 10,000 years.
It is precisely because of the mystery that there is awe.
Unlike human exploration of land, it was not until more than a thousand years later that humans began to toddle from land to light blue, and then from light blue to deep blue.
The history of human navigation is actually a history of the progress of human civilization.
Although this fleet is large enough in this day and age, and can even be said to be the world's first, it is like a drop in the ocean compared to the sea that cannot be seen at a glance.
In the center of the huge fleet are six huge sea ships more than 20 zhang long, with high masts towering like a forest. Hundreds of buildings and ships of several zhang and more than ten zhang in size were scattered around these six huge ships like stars and moons.
On the highest mast of the six giant ships, there was a huge black pennant flying high in the sky above the fleet, and the small seal with the word "Qin" in the middle of the black brocade flag was particularly eye-catching.
This unfamiliar fleet is naturally the Jia Hanteng Snake Army fleet that departed from the Huangxian Shipyard and headed east.
It has been more than three months since I left the Huangxian Shipyard in mid-June. In addition to the endless sea water on the sea, it is still sea water, and if there is no sunrise and sunset every day, Jia Han would have forgotten what day it is.
As the commander of the first "navy" of Great Qin, the pressure on General Teng Snake Jia Han is undoubtedly the greatest in this fleet. He knew very well what the emperor had sent nearly 30,000 people to sea for.
The navy, the name, was uttered by the emperor when Jia Han met with the emperor before leaving Xianyang.
It's not a shipwright, it's not a navy, it's a navy. What the name change means, Jia Han is also clear.
Everyone thought that Jia Han went to sea to arrest Xu Fu, who deceived the first emperor, and only Jia Han himself knew that Xu Fu was actually not as important as the ministers of the court and the central government imagined in the emperor's heart, although it was undeniable that Jia Han could hear the undisguised and even some inexplicable disgust from the emperor's tone of talking about Xu Fu.
The navy will become a very important branch of the Great Qin army. That's right, it's a class. This sentence was also heard by Jia Han from the emperor. Adapting to the environment at sea, drawing nautical charts, and exploring a set of training and distribution and naval warfare tactics are the core tasks that Hu Hai gave to Jia Han.
Obviously, in the emperor's heart, the Teng Snake Army will be the pioneer of the Great Qin Navy, and the training of the Great Qin Navy in the future will be based on the Teng Snake Army.
I have to say. The emperor's expectations of himself made Jia Han feel grateful, but more pressure and fighting spirit.
Up to three months of sea travel. Let everyone lose a circle of weight and a circle of blackness. Jahan is no exception.
After these elites selected from the Nanhai Mansion sailors arrived at sea, they found that training in the middle of the river and the lake at sea were fundamentally different things. Originally, most of the building boatmen who were very water-based collapsed on the bumpy sea on the third day of going to sea.
As for the Xuanniao Battalion and the Goshawk, who were not very good at water, the more than 2,000 mysterious soldiers were basically wiped out, and the entire fleet was shrouded in the shadow of seasickness. vomited until he was weak, and when he vomited until he didn't vomit, he could only retch yellow bitter bile water, but he was still vomiting.
The soldiers of Great Qin felt for the first time the feeling of having no way to enter the sky and no door to the ground in the vast sea, on a lonely sea ship. Persistent seasickness and vomiting. He also knocked down a number of high-ranking generals, including Jahan, Black Iron, and Goshawk.
It can be said that in the first 20 days after leaving Huangxian, the entire fleet basically wandered and advanced on the sea surface of less than 200 kilometers on the Korean Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula because of collective seasickness.
It wasn't until more than 20 days later that the soldiers on the ship, including the generals, finally got used to spitting in the process of spitting and spitting, and began to cross the Yellow Sea under the guidance of the compass refined by Shangfang against the rough nautical chart given by Hu Hai.
Fortunately, the ship was big enough and brought enough supplies. Most importantly. Following Hu Hai's instructions, Jia Han produced a large batch of bean sprouts for the first time on a sea vessel. Although the production of bean sprouts requires fresh water, compared to the soldiers of the Teng Snake Army, who can only eat meat and less than half of fresh vegetables every day, the tender bean sprouts that have never been seen before are undoubtedly the rarest delicacy.
And the appearance of bean sprouts undoubtedly made the soldiers of the Teng Snake Army awe of the emperor to a higher level. There seems to be nothing in this world that His Majesty did not know? Even the chart seems to have been drawn by His Majesty the Emperor himself and handed it to General Jia.
The most terrible thing about a long sea voyage is actually the lack of vitamin supplements and scurvy. And the bean sprouts made by Hu Hai. Undoubtedly, it helped this group of Daqin's navigation pioneers solve one of the most difficult problems to solve.
Of course, these things are actually unclear to the Snake Army.
Because the ships were so large that each of the six great ships carried quite a lot of citrus and poultry in live chickens, ducks, and sheep. Fresh vegetables are not easy to preserve, so dry them, for this time to go to sea, Hu Hai actually ordered the Longwei Mansion to prepare as early as a year ago.
Whenever he thinks of something, he immediately orders the Dragon Guard Mansion to write it down. Then it was ready to be sent to the Huangxian shipyard.
At this time, there were naturally no pirates at sea. The only thing to consider is the hurricanes that are most likely to occur in the summer. However, it seems that Jia Han and the others were lucky, and they did not encounter too much storm, so they arrived safely at the supply dock prepared by Xu Chuang for Jia Han along the sea chart to the east.
Xu Chuang prepared more than 50 beacon towers on the coastline of more than 200 miles, and lit beacon fires every day to remind Jia Han of the location of this lone army, if Jia Han could not find it, he could only deserve it.
Seeing Xu Chuang, the soldiers of the Teng Snake Army, who had been worried all the time, finally relieved their hearts. Looking back, it seems that everything was expected by the emperor, so maybe if you follow this chart, you can really find the big Xu Fu hiding place that His Majesty said.
The increase in confidence has greatly accelerated the speed of the fleet's advance.
All the ships in the fleet, whether they were six giant ships or those smaller ones, had sails and oars. Sail with the wind and paddle against the wind.
Along the green coastline of the Korean Peninsula, the fleet stumbled eastward, into Korean seafood, across Tsushima Island, and into the Tsushima Strait. Although it cannot be said that all kinds of things along the way can be seen in the nautical charts drawn by Hu Hai, but several iconic islands are all the same, after seeing Tsushima Island and landing on the island to leave the boundary monument of the Great Qin land, Jia Han and the others began to quietly get excited in their hearts.
If the chart is still correct, then the front should be the Wa Island where Xu Fu is hiding.
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