Chapter 946: Eight Groove Ship

Zhang Fan and Xuanyuan Xing drilled into the cave, and following the mark, they really unearthed boxes of gold bricks and silver blocks! However, these gold and silver blocks were forged with lead and copper blocks coated with a layer of gold and silver leaf. If you don't know, it's easy to be fooled.

When Zhang Fan and Xuanyuan Xing dragged such a box of gold bricks out of the cave, those pirates immediately couldn't hold back. rushed towards Zhang Fan and Xuanyuan Xing from the hidden place, and beckoned the accomplices on the boat! Good fellows, thousands of pirates poured up the peninsula col from the sea. It was a spectacular scene!

Zhang Fan Xuanyuan Xing immediately dropped the gold brick, flew off the ground, and fled in panic. The leaderless pirates who were left behind were seduced by dozens of boxes of gold and silver in the cave and killed each other!

At this time, the pirate group led by Wang Wei also participated, wanting to suppress the peripheral pirate group of these Wang Zhi pirate groups. Helplessly, he doesn't have the prestige of the 'Pure Sea King', and in the face of huge interests, no pirate leader still buys his account! The result can be imagined, a chaotic battle unfolded in the mountain col!

The hidden Daming sailors in the bay had blocked the only channel in the bay at this time, and more Daming officers and soldiers also came out of the hidden places on the peninsula and surrounded the mountain col!

It's a dead end! Zhang Fan and Xuanyuan Xing, who had long been watching the battle through binoculars in the sky on a wooden kite, breathed a sigh of relief when they watched the tragic slaughter below and the raging fire burning pirate ships in the bay. This trip to China not only got the 'proof of the four seas', but also helped the imperial court to exterminate the Japanese pirate group that seriously harassed the coastal people, so that history was changed! I even got a treasure map that is likely to be the real treasure map of the 'Pure Sea King' Wang Zhi! The harvest is beyond imagination!

The battle below is coming to an end, and Zhang Fan Xuanyuan Xing and the Book Demon have both received a ring reminder: With your efforts, with the help of the Ming Patrol to supervise Hu Zongxian, the left attendant of the Imperial History and Military Department, they have completed the hidden mission of 'The Destruction of the Japanese Pirate Group' ahead of schedule, saving the people of coastal China from fire and water......

"Let's go, let's go to Luzon Island and see what Wang Zhi left us behind......" Zhang Fan asked Xuanyuan Xing to turn the wooden kite and fly towards Luzon, "That strange woman Wang Cuiqiao seems to be also in Luzon, just lucky......"

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Wang Zhi's hidden treasure is really hidden! If it weren't for the detailed guidance of the nautical charts, no one would have been able to find it, but in the depths of a narrow bay called Divilacan Bay on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, there would be a treasure trove for Wang Zhi. And this treasure trove goes up a river deep in the bay to a cave! The treasure is a huge Chinese sea ship! I don't know how Wang Zhi found this place, and how he drove such a big ship in!

When Zhang Fan and Xuanyuan Xing entered the depths of this tall cave, they found that there were a large number of human corpses lying here. Judging from the rotten clothes, many of them are Dongying Japanese robbers. Their throat bones and abdominal bones are black, and they are clearly poisoned to death! It seems that Wang Zhi made a ruthless move in order to hide this secret! And these Japanese robbers, the master took great pains to drive this big ship to this Jedi, and it is estimated that Zuihou still dragged the ship in! Unexpectedly, this place has become their graveyard!

This sea ship turned out to be a Ming standard sea ship, which is known as the strongest Guangzhou ship among the four major ships in China! This type of ship is characterized by a long pointed head, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, a thin pointed bottom, a thin pointed bottom, a small beam arch, and a low ridge arc on the deck. The transverse structure of the hull is made of tight ribs and bulkheads, and the longitudinal strength is maintained by the keel. The structure is sturdy, and it has more haode seaworthiness and endurance.

This gulet is about the same size as the famous Fukubune, but the materials used for shipbuilding are more elaborate, and it is made of ironwood, which is unique to the southern subtropics, and is much stronger than the Fukubune made of pine and cedar wood. If Hirobune collides with Fukufune, Fufune will be a complete defeat!

This standard ship is the legendary 'eight-groove ship', that is, it has more than eight watertight cabins! It was a three-masted galleon. It is 30 meters long and 10 meters wide, with a displacement of almost 300 tons. On the old fan-shaped red hanging sail, a five-clawed golden dragon pattern can be seen! This is clearly a Ming royal warship!

Judging from the standard of this ship and the five-clawed dragon pattern on the sail, its identity is about to be revealed. This ship should be a standard warship in the fleet of the Three Treasure Eunuch Zheng He in the Western Ocean during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty! Because in Zheng He's fleet, the sturdy and wide ships made of Tie Limu must have been used as escort warships.

"Hey, hey! Akon is right, our 'Holy Fox' does have a chance to improve during this trip to China! Zhang Fan was overjoyed when he saw this ship, "Compared with Wang Zhi's treasure, this sea ship is more precious!" You look at its rudder, but the legendary porous rudder, the rudder blade has a diamond-shaped hole, which can minimize the resistance caused by the vortex when the water flows through the small hole of the rudder blade to the ship, so that the ship has good rotation, convenient and flexible maneuvering. Europeans learned from China very late! ”

Zhang Fan immediately summoned the 'Holy Fox', and the two big ships were side by side in this wide cave, but they didn't seem crowded. This time, the 'Holy Monkey' seemed to be in a hurry, and even threw the cable on its own, ripped off the unique fan-shaped sail of this Canton ship, and hung it straight on its own mast! Then, as if he didn't think it was enough, he turned into a huge fox and threw himself on the boat, writhing with golden light for more than half an hour, before he ran out lazily and turned into a galleon with a propeller again.

Zhang Fan carefully checked the attributes of the 'Holy Fox' and found that its mast and sails had been replaced with dark gold props for this Guangzhou ship! The original rudder board also has diamond-shaped holes, and dark gold watertight cabin props have been added! This dark gold watertight cabin has transformed the interior space of the 'Holy Fox', which not only greatly enhances the durability of the ship, but also increases the capacity of the ship by 50%!

You must know that as early as the Song and Yuan dynasties in China, Chinese ships have generally set up watertight compartments, and large ships are separated by several cabins or even dozens of cabins. The watertight compartments of Chinese ships are well-known at home and abroad, and people from many other countries mention Chinese ships and praise its watertight compartments and good anti-sinking performance. Western ships, on the other hand, did not have watertight compartments until the 18th century.

Because the cabins are tightly separated from each other, even if one or two compartments are damaged and water enters the water during an ocean voyage, the water will not flow to the other compartments. From the overall point of view of the ship, it still maintains considerable buoyancy and does not sink. If the damage to the ship is not serious and there is not much water ingress, as long as the goods in the water inlet area are removed, the damaged places can be repaired without affecting the ship's continued navigation.