The two sister ships, the "Weiyuan" and the "Weizhen", were used as alert ships to protect the harbor, and they only carried three days' supplies and a small amount of ammunition on weekdays, but after the alert was raised on Minmi Island, although it was increased to seven days, two bases of ammunition were replenished. But no one expected that the Jin Kingdom would send such a large number of troops to seize the island and blockade the port so that they could not dock to replenish it.

Now the two ships have been wrestling with the enemy forces outside the island for more than 10 days, and they have exceeded their self-sustaining ability for many days. The supplies have been distributed according to the minimum standard, and there is not much ammunition left, especially the fresh water is almost exhausted, and the Jin army controls several surrounding islands, which are completely unable to replenish, to the point that they are running out of ammunition and food, and do not dare to fire artillery at will. The sailors who rowed their oars no longer had the strength to shake the heavy oars to maintain a high speed, and without these two advantages, they were greatly reduced in combat effectiveness and could no longer compete with the enemy fleet that had the advantage of numbers.

After communicating with the island through the flag, He Wei allowed the two ships to evacuate the waters of Shenmi Island, ordered them to find an opportunity to leave the battlefield to rendezvous with the Liaodong Bay Patrol Fleet, and informed the base of the deployment and battle situation of the island and the Jinshui Army, and asked them for reinforcements again. But the good fortune that had accompanied them for many days seemed to disappear at once, and soon after they returned, a hurricane blew at sea, and sailing in monstrous waves was a very dangerous thing for a medium-sized warship......

After struggling in the wind and waves for three days, the Weiyuan finally ushered in a calm and sunny day, but it had been damaged by the storm, the main mast had been blown off, and only one of the two auxiliary masts was left standing on the ship, and the oarsmen had long since lost the strength to row the oars, and the warship was barely moving slowly against a sail. The food reserves had long since been exhausted, but the heavy rain had temporarily alleviated the water shortage, but the waistbands of the trousers were already tightened to the end.

In addition to the helmsman at the helm and the lookout post in the bucket on the mast. Everyone else was lazily lying on the deck basking on their moldy bodies, while others lowered their hooks at the stern to see if they could catch a few fish that were just as unlucky as they were. Captain Song Yi stood at the bow of the ship and observed the sea with a telescope. His face was like the calm sea at this time, but his heart was not calm. Worry and anxiety have always been with him, but he is now the backbone of the ship, and he also wants to encourage everyone to work together to complete the task.

Song Yi and the captain of the Weizhen both knew that they would not be able to return to the Dengzhou base with all their ammunition and food, and that the only chance was to rendezvous with the patrol fleet, so they sailed in formation along the coastal waters of West Korea Bay, intending to bypass the peninsula and enter the Bohai Bay to find the patrol fleet. But just when they had just passed the Iron Mountain and were about to enter, it coincided with the coming hurricane, and there was no port for them to shelter from the wind along the coast of the Jin Kingdom, so the formation that could not advance or retreat could only venture through. The hurricane was bigger than Song Yi expected. The two ships were quickly blown away by the storm and lost contact, and they were also lost in the wind and rain, drifting in the sea with the wind and waves, not knowing where the road would be blown to.

"Captain, where is our place?" Song Yi looked at it for a long time, but he didn't find any islands, land, or even a small boat, and he couldn't figure out where he was blown by the wind, so he turned around and asked the long sailing man who was fiddling with the sextant.

"Captain. According to my calculations, the position of our ship should be on the Bohai Sea! The navigator replied after a moment of reckoning.

"Oh, are you sure?" Song Yi asked with some suspicion, this navigator was only assigned to the ship after graduating from the naval academy last year, and in the past, only people who had walked on the sea for many years could be in charge of navigation. The important position of formulating the route, so he somewhat distrusted the young man.

"Report to the captain, I can be sure. We're right in the waters! The navigator did the math again and made sure it was correct. The location of the Weiyuan was marked on the chart and pointed it out to Song Yi.

"Hehe, it's shit luck. This gust of wind did not blow us into the ocean, but sent us back to our hometown! Song Yi looked at the chart and smiled, and ordered, "Sail to the northeast, target Fulong Island, pay attention to the Guantong chief!" ”

"Understood, we're going back to our hometown!" Guan Tong replied in a loud voice, while the veterans, who were still lazily lying on the deck just a moment ago, all flocked to the bow of the ship and looked excitedly.

"Captain, what do you mean by hometown, and where is Fulong Island, why isn't it on our chart?" The navigator carefully looked up the chart and did not have the name of the island that the captain had mentioned, and asked in confusion.

"That was the hometown of our gang back then, the first real base of our new water army!" Song Yi said proudly.

Fulong Island was a sea base established by Zhao Ta's caravan when he was still a prince, first, it was used to train sailors and reserve supplies; second, as a garrison and repair place for the fleet; the third is to use it as a base for attacking the Jurchens in the coming days; The second is to leave yourself a way back, and in the event of an accident, you can temporarily accommodate yourself. Because this island is like a dragon, and Cheng Xishou thought that the prince was not only a dragon grandson, but would one day turn into a dragon, but the time was not enough, so it was named Fulong Island.

After the base was built, it undertook the training task of the mid-level sailors and marines of the navy, and also used it as a shelter for Zhao Shu after robbing Han Buli, but what is not known is that there are still 20 million taels of silver stolen here, and there are still as many as 10 million taels. With Zhao Ta's ascension to the throne, he took power, and the navy that had been hidden behind the scenes came to the foreground to establish four major bases, plus after several victories, except for the coast of Liaodong, Bohai Bay all fell into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, and the role of the Fulong Island base began to decrease.

At the behest of the emperor, Fulong Island slowly faded out of people's sight, and its mark was no longer visible on the new chart, and it was gradually forgotten and became a mysterious place. If Xiangyi Beifu is the Whampoa Military Academy of the Great Song Army, then Fulong Island is the 'Beiyang Naval Academy' of the Navy Army, which can be said to be the voyage that changed their lives here, and they all bear the mark of Fulong Island, which is difficult to erase in their lives......

After half a day of difficult sailing, a piece of land finally appeared in front of him, and Song Yi personally steered around the reef, avoided the shoals, and sailed into a narrow waterway to slowly approach the island. Seeing that Fulong Island, which was once lively and heavily guarded, fell into a deathly silence at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional, and it seemed that the future base had been abandoned in a few years.

'Boom', when there were still three miles away from the island, there was a muffled sound suddenly, and a cannonball whistled past the battleship Weiyuan, smashed into the sea not far away, stirring up a column of water of more than ten zhang, the ship actually knew how to do it, this cannonball was at least 20 catties of solid bullets to have such great power.

"Raise the flag, send a signal, inform us that it is the Weiyuan of the Dengzhou Navy Division Shenmi Island Task Force, damaged by the storm, food and water are cut off, and ask to dock at the port to rest!" Song Yi was happy when he saw someone bombarding him, at least it showed that there were still people on the island, this was a warning shot at them, he hurriedly ordered Guantong to contact him, and raised the flag to show his identity.

"Captain, the island ordered us to fire fourteen cannons, and then lower the sails and enter the harbor along the B-shaped waterway!" Guan Tong gestured with his hand and said.

"Damn, this rule hasn't changed!" Song Yi muttered a sentence and then gave an order, "Lower the second sail, all the artillery will withdraw from the live ammunition, and the surrender artillery will shoot according to this air cannon!" ”

"Captain, why is this being shot by air cannons?" The navigator asked curiously as he watched the captain's skillful steering enter the waterway.

"The military academy didn't teach you this, did it?" Song Yi stared at the sea and said, seeing that he shook his head and said, "Back then, our navy was still weak, there were few cannons on a ship, and it was easy to be attacked at sea, so there was a danger of being captured, so the emperor made a special rule that all naval guns must be fired when a single ship enters the harbor, so as not to let the enemy mix into the harbor and cause danger!" ”

"Oh, so that's the case, the emperor is really a god, such a trivial thing can be imagined!" The navigator said with emotion.

"Hmph, you just know that our navy was developed by the emperor from a few small merchant ships, who would have thought that our navy would have today's situation at that time!" Song Yi looked at the 'young man' with admiration on his face and teased, in fact, he wasn't like this back then!

It turns out that Fulong Island is not composed of an island, but a ring surrounded by several small islands, blocking the hurricane and blocking the view from the outside, forming a natural harbor in the center with a radius of dozens of miles, which can dock hundreds of medium-sized warships.

"Oh......" When the Weiyuan sailed through the crooked waterway between the two small islands into the harbor, the eyes suddenly opened up, but the scene in front of them made the sailors on the ship let out a unison exclamation, and they were so shocked that they almost forgot that they were still empty and exhausted.

"What a big battleship!" The ship sailed past the huge battleship, Song Yi touched his head and looked up, this battleship is about thirty zhang long, more than six zhang wide, the exposed hull is seven or eight zhang high, and the main mast is towering into the sky. The ship is equipped with three gun decks, each floor has a gun window, he roughly counted no less than forty, and the two sides are equipped with at least eighty guns, even the largest Shenzhou-class battleship in the Song Navy is dwarfed by it, much smaller.

"Captain Song Yi, what you see today is the top secret of the Great Song Navy Army, and you must not disclose a word to outsiders, and you will be engaged in violating military law!" As soon as the Weiyuan docked and boarded the gangplank, two people boarded the ship, and without saying a word, they saluted and warned them.

"Song Yi received the order, and he will never reveal a word he saw today!" Song Yi hurriedly replied, and then said something that couldn't be put on the table, "It would be great if I could be the captain of this battleship......" (to be continued......