Map 9: Soldiers forced to Lushun. It will be produced before 12 o'clock tonight and announced in each group.

The expeditionary fleet of the Zhoushui Alliance left the Tanggukou Naval Base, sailed into the vast Bohai Sea, formed a mixed fleet, and sailed in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula. This expedition required crossing the Bohai Sea, which was completely different from ships navigating inland rivers and coastal voyages, where there were coastal signposts to refer to, but it was impossible to see any direction on the vast sea.

The total length from the Tanggukou base to Lushun is 580 miles, and the expeditionary fleet can reach Lushun in about one day. But if the fleet only goes off the rails, it will miss Arthur and run farther away.

So this expeditionary fleet carried a few small items - a high-precision compass, a chronograph hourglass, a telescope, and a navigation chart of the Bohai Sea. The Science Research Institute of Zhoushui University is an item specially researched for cross-sea navigation.

High-precision compass compass: magnetic needle plus a directional compass to determine the direction in which the fleet is advancing on the Bohai Sea. Compass, involving the application of magnets, the Academy of Science used tens of thousands of copper coins to develop a high-precision compass compass.

Timing hourglass: Determine how far a sea has been traveled in a certain period of time. The technique is very simple, and it takes only a few thousand copper coins to make it.

Telescopes: glassware. The players in Zhoushui's ceramic industry wanted to invest in the research of glass technology, and the technology investment department of Zhoushui University issued a sponsorship fee of more than 100,000 copper coins, and the glass was researched and manufactured. However, the glass is still very rough, and the technology is not very mature. The people from the Academy of Science selected some concave and convex lenses to make binoculars, and the effect is not bad, which can magnify the distant landscape by 8 times.

Bohai Sea Nautical Chart: A paper product used to record hydrographic charts of mountains, islands, shoals, reefs, and narrow slopes - this map is a blank space, and the expeditionary fleet needs to add content to it.

With these four items. The trip to the Bohai Sea is much easier.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you go wrong, the Bohai Sea belongs to the inland sea, not the Pacific Ocean. The fleet carried enough food and water supplies for seven or eight days, and even if it sailed to the wrong place, it would not have been too much trouble if it had been sent to the Liaodong Peninsula by a gust of wind and carried to the Shandong Peninsula. The degree of the fleet is very fast, and it runs more at sea. You can still find the right place.

The expeditionary fleet left early in the morning and left Tanggukou Port. Qin Xiaobai, Qianli Buliuxing and others are the commanders and deputy commanders of the fleet, and they command the expeditionary fleet to advance to Dalian on one of the heavy fighting ships, and there are about 1,000 players in the accompanying area, except for the NPC soldiers.

The fleet drifted on the Bohai Sea for a day and a night. Players recorded the situation along the way in detail on the "Bohai Sea Navigation Chart" to facilitate future sailing.

At about six o'clock in the dawn of the next day, the sailors on the first light fighting ship in the front of the ground passed through the telescope, and through the fog, a large 6 appeared in the distance. The news immediately spread to the various fighting ships, and the players of the entire fleet online were boiling and cheering, "It's here." We crossed the Bohai Sea. It's almost time to reach the Liaodong Peninsula! "The players on each fighting ship are shouting loudly.

Qin Xiaobai rested on the boat at night. The captain of the flagship immediately informed him of the surprise. As soon as he got the news, he immediately left the cabin. Come to the crowded deck of the ship and look at the six places in the distance with binoculars.

Qin Xiaobai nodded secretly, yes, there is indeed a 6 land in the distance.

The captain of the flagship ground player stood next to Qin Xiaobai and said loudly with joy: "Boss, there was no wind all night last night. Judging from the fleet's ground voyage, the time consumed by the hourglass, and the fact that the compass did not deviate. Only the Liaodong Peninsula could have appeared in the field of vision due east at this time. Shandong Peninsula. Or anywhere else on the Liaodong Peninsula, it's unlikely. ”

Qin Xiaobai frowned slightly, and said solemnly: "Immediately order the entire fleet, the captains of all ships, all player brothers, and NPC soldiers to prepare for battle, there are pirates in the waters in this area!" Our fleet landed at the 6th Port Arthur, and there is a high probability that it will engage the pirates. In addition, our fleet changed to a dense formation of five teams, and approached the Liaodong Peninsula in a fighting posture. As soon as there are existing pirate ships, they will immediately dispatch fighting ships or boats to surround them and capture them alive. ”

"Yes!"

The captain of the flagship immediately received the order and gave instructions to the flag officer next to him.

Fifty ground fleets began to change formations on the vast Bohai Sea, which was a very complicated matter. The entire fleet was very large, and the front and rear ships were separated by miles. The instructions on the flagship must be conveyed to each fighting ship through torches, flags, etc.

Fortunately, there are 8x telescopes, and the flag movements of each fighting ship can be seen very clearly.

Soon after, Chisato Buliuxing and others also went online and appeared on the flagship. In addition, several other linemen appeared on several other heavy fighting ships in the fleet. Every 2 heavy fighting ships, 2 heavy fighting ships, and 6 light fighting ships are a small team, a total of 5 detachments, which are separated from each other by a certain distance, escorting the central flagship, and approaching the 6 places in front.

About half an hour later, the fleet approached the position of the Great 6 about 5 miles.

However, they did not immediately land on 6, because the fleet now has two small islands: Snake Island and Sea Cat Island. The presence of these two small islands allowed the expeditionary fleet to confirm its exact location, the top half of the Liaodong Peninsula.

This is not where the fleet wants to board the 6, but the Lushun in the lower half of the position

The whole fleet was diverted and went about 5 miles along the coastline to bypass the Bohai Strait. It is estimated that it is only past six o'clock in the morning, and there are no pirate ships on the way. The fleet continued to sail for almost an hour, and finally approached the Port of Arthur.

At the entrance and exit of Lushun Port, there are a total of ten simple watchpost towers on the left and right.

On the outermost watchtower, four player pirates in tattered skins rested in the watchtower, resting next to a few stone spears, occasionally standing up and looking around, then sitting down again and continuing to chat. In addition, there are several NPC pirates standing next to them, who have been honestly looking at the sea and are responsible for guarding.

These are all the subordinates of the largest player pirate force in Lushun, and they are on duty here in shifts. Lushunkou now belongs to the territory of "doing my own thing", with a total of about three or four hundred players, more than 3,000 NPC fishermen, and thousands of boats and boats of all kinds.

To be honest, this place is too remote, and there is usually not even a shadow of a ship, so there is not much point in sentry. It is not a treaty port, and there are no ships passing through it at all. Most of the ships in the game are only sailing on inland rivers and operating along the coastline, and cannot cross the vast Bohai Sea to reach here.

Even these so-called "pirates" actually couldn't get along in Liaodong of Yan State, Shandong State of Qi and other places, so they came here to carve land as kings and rely on fishing to support their tribal soldiers. Most of the time it is quiet, with little to no outside interference.

After losing his aristocratic origins in the Yan Kingdom, he made a living by robbing ships along the coast of the Shandong Peninsula, but was later chased and intercepted by several powerful player forces, and was forced to take a group of his brothers to take a risk to drive a boat and boat across the Bohai Sea and escape to Lushun on the Liaodong Peninsula. At that time, the Bohai Sea was calm, so they were lucky not to sink the ship.

Saying that they are "pirates" is a bit wronged, there are no merchant ships in the Liaodong Peninsula to rob them, they belong to fishermen. If you want to rob, you must cross the Bohai Sea again and run back to the rich coastal area of the Shandong Peninsula 200 miles 00 miles on the opposite side to rob.

These watchtowers at the mouth of Arthur are mainly to prevent other player pirate gangs from making surprise attacks. Four players and four NPC pirates are guarded at the outermost watchtower, just in case.

Four player pirates are chatting.

Suddenly, an NPC pirate pointed to the sea and exclaimed in surprise, "Huh! ", followed by several others; The screams of the NPCs immediately caught the attention of the four player pirates.

One of the captain of the pirate players laughed, "Damn, early in the morning, who is full of food and harassing?!" Eighty percent are those pirate gang rabbits in Dalian, and they always beat our Lushun idea. You must teach them a good lesson when you go back! Get up and see what's going on! He jumped to his feet on the ground.

"Isn't it, let's go and harass them another day! Let them also try what it is like to be harassed early in the morning. ”

Several other pirate players laughed as they all stood up and looked out to sea. They had expected to see a crowd of pirates swarming in hundreds or thousands of people who looked like them, dressed in animal skins, and in a large number of small boats and boats.

But no.

The four pirate players were shocked to see that dozens of large, strange sailing ships with extremely powerful masts were approaching the mouth of Arthur at a rapid pace. Such a huge sailboat, they had never seen it in the game.

"No, they're not pirates, they're armies, fleets! Hurry, call the police! The pirate captain yelled at the other players in a panic, and suddenly remembered that the alarm was on him, and he quickly picked up the bull horn hanging around his neck and blew it loudly.

Woo woo woo!

Two short and one long, special critical alarm. The low sound of the horn resounded throughout Lushun. The entire peaceful pirate camp of tens of thousands of people in Lushun suddenly exploded and boiled.