Chapter 482: Hantang Group's Ocean Fleet (9)
The Han Tang Group's ocean-going fleet stayed at Hoi An Harbor for only one night and left early the next morning, leaving for another day at Yong Tien Harbor in Annam. There, though, they will be mainly supplied.
When he was still in Hoi An Port, Captain Sun Yu saw that there were constantly merchant ships of the Han Tang Group placing goods for Hoi An Commercial Station, and from time to time there were sneaky young men from Hoi An Commercial Station coming and going, what level are they, don't look at the hairstyle and clothing are the same as ordinary Ming people, but as soon as you look at the movements, you can know that they are all members of the so-called Lu'an Agent Brigade.
Captain Sun Yu discussed with Captain Wang Cheng at that time and said: "Our Hai'an Brigade should not always be trained at sea, and after we go back, we will start to form our special agents, don't let the people of the Lu'an Brigade monopolize the area of agents, compared with the Lu'an Brigade, we are much worse in structure and organization......
Captain Wang Cheng also stared at the guys who came and went for a while, and after a while, he said, "How did you tell that they were secret agents, why didn't I see them?" β
Captain Sun Yu smiled slightly and felt very sad, and said, "I knew it in advance. You are always snooze and don't like to surf the internet. β
Captain Wang Cheng took a closer look, and sure enough, he found that they didn't often look at the surrounding environment secretly, and they were always very careful.
Captain Wang Cheng said: "I now feel more and more that we have lost a hand in this part of Vietnam, and there is a feeling that we are just acting as a transport brigade. β
Captain Sun Yu said: "Let's see, the harvest of this training is too great, fortunately, we can make up for it when we go back, and there is time." β
Then the two of them became triumphant again, and the weather information afterwards showed that they had experienced the storm of magnitude eight.
The two of them called the smiling old sea wolf and said, "How is it, what do you think of such a storm?" β
The old sea wolf smiled and said, "Captain Sun has commanded properly, and Captain Wang has responded in a timely manner-"
"If you tell you the truth, we won't blame you."
"That's not even wind and rainβ"
"That's it! Get ready to go to Yongxian Harbor! Can you still recognize the reefs and seaways along the coast?! β
"Of course!"
Everyone parted unhappily, the old sea wolf on the way smiled and led the way, Captain Sun Yu didn't bother to take care of him, he and Captain Wang Cheng also imagined how spectacular it would be if it was accompanied by the background and scenery music of "Pirates of the Caribbean"!
Our great voyage!
As a result, damn it, in his eyes, it wasn't even wind and rain!
I really want to kick him to Yongxian Harbor.
After the fleet of the Hantang Group arrived at Yongxian Port, it was still not disturbed by the local ship, and it seemed that the other party had received orders from above.
They have to make serious preparations here and buy some necessary supplies.
This time they were going to go straight to the city of Malacca, and of course there were other tasks during this period, which were to be kept secret from the Ming merchants before leaving Taiwan, but as soon as they left Yongxian Port, it was made public.
They were going to build a port on the island of Singapore beforehand, and of course it was only at the dock level at first.
We must first build a military station, and firmly occupy it first, and it will be a place of great use for the next 10 years.
The earliest documentary record of the island of Singapore dates back to the 3rd century, written by the Soochow general Kang Tai in the 3rd century, which was originally called Pulau Ujong, which is a counterword to the Malay word "Pulau Ujong", meaning "island at the end of the Malay Peninsula".
By the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming merchants called it "Temasek".
Around 1330, a Ming mainland man named Wang Dayuan came to this place, called this residence "Longtou", and said that there were already people from the Ming mainland living here.
The island of Singapore became important in the 14th century, when the late prince of Sri Buddha, Barry Missoula, established the Sultan of Malacca in the region, but the Portuguese later burned down the estuary in 1613. Until now, it was in ruins, probably hundreds of homes.
When the inquiry was made in advance, the old sea wolf, who had always been smiling, could not laugh and said, "I have never been to the shore once in the past countless times, and it is only less than two days away from Malacca, and there is no need to go there again after the supplies are finished."
The other maritime merchants also roughly explained this, and no one knew the geography of it, and the most complete information was that there was a river, a wide mouth, some indigenous inhabitants, and countless pirates around.
Well, that's enough, even if the Ming people like to say the word "numerous" to indicate the number of natives, they have to take the position.
"Our goal now is not land, but a naval base and a trade base, and it will be a great naval center and commercial center!"
This program is listed as the second plan in the ocean-going training.
After the ocean-going fleet of the Hantang Group left Yongxian Port, they officially entered the southwest of the South China Sea, so that they arrived at the most beautiful sea area in the South China Sea.
The influence of the northeast monsoon has recovered in this area, but the cold air from the Mongolian plateau has greatly weakened, and has little effect on the climate of the southwestern islands in the South China Sea.
There are more islands and reefs in this sea, but Captain Sun Yu is not afraid, not only does he have a modern nautical chart in his hand, but also an old sea wolf is smiling and leading for them.
However, Captain Sun Yu was still a little uneasy, and he let the two Portuguese merchant ships in front, and for their cross-sail Galen ships, it was a tailwind period at this time, and their speed was just right to increase.
The two Portuguese captains did not complain at all, and they did not have the slightest other thoughts, such as seeing that Captain Sun Yu was worried about the reef or something.
Of course, they didn't know Captain Sun Yu's careful thoughts, and they thought that Captain Sun Yu's sailing experience was similar to their own.
Along the way, the tables of Hai'an No. 1 and Hai'an No. 2 have already made them admire.
In this period of great exploration, there is not much difference between pirates and maritime merchants in the oceans, just like people who love literature and people who watch pirated copies in that world, their identities are not easy to define, they are completely based on strength and location to change their identities, big brother don't laugh at the second brother, in the merchant ships that come out to mix, if anyone hasn't robbed other boats, don't say that they have come out to mix.
At first, they only regarded Hai'an No. 1 and No. 2 as armed merchant ships that did not enter the stream, and during this period, except for the sea ships of the Ming merchants, who were not equipped with artillery, and who did not equip the merchant ships from Europe?
They were stunned when Haian 1 and Haian 2 began to sail and train at sea.
The movements of these two sailboats exceeded their knowledge of sailboats, can they still turn so dexterously?! Can it be this fast?!
Especially when the two sailing boats, occasionally borrowing the turbulence of the sea breeze, suddenly leaned out of the fleet with the agility of seagulls that preyed on them, the two Portuguese captains were so frightened that they could not speak.
Think about it, if in a straight naval battle, they suddenly change direction or attack from an unexpected angle, it is really difficult to guard against it!
God, it's good they don't have enough guns, there are only six gun windows for each ship!
But what is it on the bow of their ship? Very strange look, can't guess. Why is there always smoke on their ship, and will they put on the legendary "guoguo" machine that can move when it burns fire? No wonder they raise and lower their sails so fast.
But they seem to have set their minds on surprising God.
They even started to test shoot artillery!
Hai'an No. 1 and No. 2 had a smooth ride and were very pleasant.
There are many small islands on the sea, and they can dock on the islands at any time; There are many reefs on the sea, and there are also many equally wide passages; And the beautiful seagulls, and the flocks of frigate birds flying by - it's a really nice place.
Captain Sun Yu discussed with Captain Wang through the duplex walkie-talkie, and in the case of three or four winds, see if there can be a breakthrough in the accuracy of artillery shooting.
So what is the accuracy rate of shooting in the wind at five or six levels? This is a secret of the Haian Brigade, what do you want to do when you inquire about this? Could it be that a hostile foreign force sent you?
Captain Sun Yu secretly swore hatefully: We must break the record of three percent this time!
The accuracy rate is a little low, but this is related to the shooting distance of the Haian Brigade: their evaluation standard is 300 meters!
Yes, 300 meters, in this time and space where the bombardment is still about 50 meters, the security department of the Hantang Group requires that the warships of the Anhai Brigade must not bombard the opponent at close range if they have to deal with it as a last resort, and the nearest place must be 100 meters, and the artillery will be fired within 300 meters.
Well, we don't play flesh-and-blood, sawdust passion with the enemy. Besides, this body is indeed a little small.
At noon on this day, Hai'an 1 and Hai'an 2 completed the measurement of the sextant at the same time, filled out the chart, and started the shooting exercise.
Speaking of measuring the latitude and longitude, Secretary Yang Youxing, a street writer in the world, once advocated that the Hai'an Brigade should be equipped with navigation clock equipment.
After confirming that he was not sarcastic, Captain Sun Yu laughed wildly and said:
"I'm most annoyed by writers like you who have a little imagination and no life. The ancient pocket watch was very expensive, and it needed to be wound every day, and the habit of winding it was different for each person, so it was easy to produce errors, so this pocket watch could not be used as a timer on board.
As for the pendulum clock, it can indeed run stably for a long time on land, but at sea, due to the violent shaking of the hull of the ship, it will affect the stability of the pendulum clock.
So they had to make the clock bigger and more resistant to shaking. We want a fart marine clock, and the ordinary mechanical watches we bring are more than countless times more accurate than them, and we also have marine clocks! β
Secretary Yang Youxing blushed and said thickly: "In the future, in the future, can your watch last a lifetime?" Don't you use your other ships? β
Captain Sun Yu rolled his eyes and said, "That's for the future, be anxious!" β
After saying that, he laughed maniacally and left.
Secretary Yang Youxing hated it in his heart, you hurt me, and you laughed it off!
Of course, Captain Sun Yu didn't know about these things, so they started shooting in the order they had agreed in advance.
They first chose a reef that was 30 meters long and 5 meters above the water.
The head of the reef was a bit like a duck.
The smiling old sea wolf pointed to the reef and said, "Then the duckbill stone, there is a reef group within a hundred zhang to the south of it, Captain Sun be careful." β
Captain Sun Yu nodded cautiously.
About 300 meters away, the starboard side of Haian No. 1 opened the gun window first, and the gun ports of the three black holes stuck out of the window.
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