Chapter 371: The Drifting Island
On the vast sea, a moving 'land', full of 'sails' of various colors, drifted slowly towards Dachu with the power of the weak sails and currents.
When he saw it for the first time, Renault was startled, and when he looked closely, he felt incredible, this mysterious person's brain is really unusual, and such an outrageous thing can be done.
Of course, this is not land, but is composed of countless rafts of all sizes connected together, the longest place, more than 130 li, and the narrowest place, there are also more than 40 li, connected to form a raft drift island with a total area of more than 6,000 square miles.
There are more than 2.6 million people living on this super artificial island, and it is not known how long they have been floating on the sea, and many of them have no clothes on them, and the 'sails' are patched layer by layer.
This 'island' is not small, and the population density is even more terrifying, they have a living raft in a family unit, three to eight people, and a supply raft.
When the God of Wealth scanned them, there were not many supplies on this island, and they barely survived by fishing, and at the speed of this artificial 'island', it would take at least two months to reach Dachu, and Renault couldn't imagine how these people could survive these long two months.
Looking at their fishing methods, although they are Aotian, Renault also feels extremely uncomfortable.
First, a person is chosen, a hole is made in the arm, and the blood is allowed to flow into the exposed water between the raft connections, and then it is time to wait.
In the sea, there is never a shortage of blood-eating fish, and it won't be long before a group of sharks swims in from a distance, dozens of people jump into the sea, keep kicking the water, and attract the attention of sharks.
It seemed dangerous, but they seemed to have long been used to it, and at the cost of two minor injuries, a shark more than two meters long was pulled onto the raft, and hundreds of people began to share the food.
The next day, another group fishes, and the others try to lie in the shadows and stay motionless, so as to reduce physical exertion as much as possible.
Renault has been observing for a few days, and he has been hesitating in his heart, this artificial raft island has no defense, even a transport ship can kill all these people, isn't it too cruel?
As it turned out, the Austrians, despite their extremely difficult situation, were much smarter than Renault had imagined, and the raft island, although a last resort, was not as fragile as Renault had imagined.
The slaughter of unarmed Austrians, and the number reached more than two million, and Renault really couldn't do it. But he knew in his heart that this so-called kindness was unacceptable, and these mysteries didn't know how long they had been floating on the sea, which not only had a great impact on the body, but also distorted human nature.
In the parlance of the earth, after surviving in an extreme environment for a period of time, people will inevitably develop mental illness.
Renault has no doubt, don't look at these people are pitiful now, when they arrive in Great Chu, with the help of the two fleets of the Austrians, they will never be soft, and they will not be soft, even more crazy than the Austrian army.
Raft Island is different from the fleet, it moves too slowly, and the God of Wealth discovered it relatively early, giving Renault and Da Chu enough time to react.
Renault didn't know how to convey the information to the Great Chu Army, he hesitated for a long time, couldn't put a word down, and simply drew a few pictures.
"As quickly as possible, hand over this letter to General Wei Wenchang. Renault said, in fact, Wei Wenchang is not a secretary of the military department, he is just a general of Yulin, but Renault is more familiar with him.
"Yes. Huya took the letter, turned around and went out to arrange, he followed Mr., this was the first time that Mr. asked for the information to be delivered as quickly as possible.
Huya left, Renault was still sighing: "It's incredible, how did they do it, the raft island looks very big, but it's actually very fragile, just a small storm is enough to tear those rafts apart, they can actually float all the way from the continent to here." ”
Renault naturally did not know how much the Austrians paid to find this safe current, thousands of ships sank and disappeared, and tens of thousands of people died at sea.
Of course, the Austrians don't want to do this, but there is no way, even if they go all out to build ships, it is impossible to take away all the people in the Austrian continent, not to mention all the people, not even a tenth of them.
What about the remaining nine-tenths of the population?
It's not how kind the top leaders of the Austrians are, but when the people know the news, even the tenth of the people don't want to leave the Austrian continent, and when people know that they are going to die, no legal rules can bind them, not even muskets can stop them.
Behind them were the shaking earth, floods, and magma, and they had no choice but to swim away from the imminent destruction of the continent even if they jumped into the sea and swam away.
To solve this problem, it is simple, if not enough ships can be supplied, then give these people a hope.
A safe ocean current is born by luck. In fact, few people know whether this current is really safe, after all, this kind of artificial raft island is needed, and it takes nearly two years to drift at sea to reach Dachu.
Although there is little hope, after all, it is a possible way to survive, and as long as people have hope of survival, it is easy to control.
It is much easier to cut wood to make rafts than to build ships, and then connect these rafts together, as long as you encounter such rafts at sea, they will keep connecting, and finally this super large land-like raft will be formed.
What Renault saw was the first batch of civilians who went to sea in Austria, and the time they set off was about the same as Dong Guanyue, who had led the team to occupy the Lomon Islands for almost two years, and this giant raft had only drifted here, and it had deviated from the voyage, passed by the Lomon Islands, and came straight to Dachu.
The first group usually represents a more adventurous spirit, and even these people did not think that they could drift on the sea for so long, and even many people felt that they did not need land, they could just float on this way, and survive on the surface of the sea from generation to generation.
Since leaving the island, they have also encountered several islands, which are not suitable for survival at all, and their choice is to cut down all the trees on the island, whether they are useful or not, all of them are tied into rafts, and constantly increase the area of this giant raft to expand the living space.
In the beginning, most families only had a small piece of living space on a raft, and each person could only get one or two square meters, but now, the living space is obviously much larger.
From hope to disappointment, and then to despair, now they are used to it, and the devil knows where they drifted and how long they still need to drift, and now they feel good.
Because, they are still alive!
A month and a half later, the remnants of the Southern Navy and the few remaining warships of the Northern Navy formed a fleet of more than 400 warships, found the giant raft in the open sea, and attacked it.
It turned out that the truth was far from being as easy as they thought, and when the attack began, the connection between the rafts was severed, and a huge raft became eight or nine hundred thousand small rafts, and although they were very fragile, there were so many of them.
At the time of the slaughter of the fleet, there were water spirits scuttling ships underwater. This caused a lot of trouble for the fleet, and by the time they had dealt with the water ghosts, the rafts of the Austrians had already fled in all directions.
The Great Chu fleet killed more than 100,000 Austrians in one day, but when night fell, their nightmare had just begun.
It was a quiet night, and when the sky turned white, the fleet commander was surprised to find that they were surrounded, surrounded by countless small rafts in the middle of the sea, and the rafts around them were once again connected, and the Chu fleet was surrounded in the middle.
The next battle was too bloody, and the 60,000 sailors who fought to the teeth faced more than 2 million crazy Austrians.
In the end, only half of the ships of this fleet returned, and more than half of them were killed or wounded, and it is impossible to calculate how many Austrians were killed, but according to the fleet commander, at least between thirty and five hundred thousand.
Judging from the number alone, this is a big victory, but Chu Ren knows that this is a defeat, judging from the losses of the two naval armies in the south and north, it is difficult for Da Chu to organize an open sea operation of this scale again.
Through the God of Wealth, Renault watched the slaughter he originally thought was a naval battle that surprised him, but unfortunately the distance was too far, even if he discovered the tactics of the Aoren in the dark night, there was no way to pass it on to the Great Chu fleet far away in the open sea, and in the end, he simply didn't look at it, the kind of flesh and blood flying, and the scene that attracted countless sharks to devour, was really unsightly.
In contrast, the performance of the Divine Engineer Army, although it is dull and jerky, and even sometimes childish and ridiculous, but every time the result makes Renault quite satisfied, and the performance of the Tiger King makes him even feel a little amazing.
Of course, Renault felt that if he had personally commanded this force, the result would have been better. In fact, sometimes, people always feel this illusion, and after watching the whole process of other people's battles, they think that they are better than others.
There's only one reason, you're a spectator, and if you experience it yourself, it's a completely different feeling.
Renault's self-confidence is naturally different from those bystanders, in fact, he has always been a 'bystander', even if he is in the game, he can know the enemy in advance through the scanning function of the God of Wealth.
"Sir. The sound of tiger teeth in his ears sounded in his ears, and Renault turned his head to look, feeling that he should call himself for a while.
Recently, Renault found that his mystical illness was getting more and more serious, and he always looked at the God of Wealth and was distracted, and often didn't hear others call him.
"Something!" Renault asked, having just seen a small-scale battle of annihilation of the Divine Engineer Army, and it felt like a visual feast, both brutal and pleasing to the eye, and the war was indeed a monster.
Luo Ning asked to see her outside, and a topic of Luo Ning's group seemed to have made a major breakthrough. Huya said softly.
"Oh, let her in. "After a year, Luo Ning, the first talented woman in Da Chu, finally began to break out?
Renault actually doesn't think very highly of Chu's talented women, but this Luo Ning seems to be really different, he, like Mozi, was born to engage in research.
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