On the eve of Zhao Yun leading the army to Laiwu to break the "Eight Gates Golden Lock" array. The 20,000 officers and men of the Marine Brigade of the Naval Division, and the 30,000 officers and men of the Qinghuai Army, who had completed the secret assembly and preparation for boarding, finally left the Yuzhoushan Military Port quietly and disappeared into the vast sea on the large troop transport fleet of the Jin State Naval Division.

There's also the issue of time synchronization. The 20,000 soldiers of the Marine Brigade were originally stationed in Fuyang City, in the upper reaches of Zhangshui, Jizhou, but they took small boats down the river more than 10 days in advance, and when they arrived at the big wharf at the mouth of Zhangshui, they changed to a large ship transporting the Montenegrin Army back to Jizhou from Yanzhou, and rushed to the Yuzhoushan Military Port outside the East China Sea to join up with the 30,000 Qinghuai troops who had already assembled on the island.

I have to say that when Tai Shi Ci first arrived in Qu County in the East China Sea, he chose to buy Yuzhou Island in the lonely sea from the government, and then invested a lot of money to build a closed large military port, which is really too strategic!

The area of Yuzhou Mountain Island is the size of a county, there are mountains and rivers on the island, enough to accommodate tens of millions of people to hide in it, not to mention that the 50,000 troops of Nandu are all hidden on the island, even if hundreds of thousands of people of the Protector Army are transported to this island, they will not feel how cramped and crowded. The camp on the island is neatly built and spacious, the living support facilities are complete and complete, and there are abundant reserves of various supplies and supplies to the sea, which is really the best forward base for the Jin Navy Division at present.

Although Zhao Xing was born in the ace army of the land war, he had a lot of research on the formation of Zheng He's fleet in the Western Ocean, so when he instructed Tai Shici to form a sailor, he placed special emphasis on the long-distance performance of the ships and the design and construction of auxiliary ships.

In Zheng He's fleet to the Western Ocean, there were five types of ships. The first type is called "treasure ships". The largest treasure ships can carry up to 800 tons. With a capacity of more than a thousand people, it was the largest ship in the world at the time. The second type is called "horse boats". The length of the horse is thirty-seven zhang and the width is fifteen zhang. The third type is called "grain ships". It is twenty-eight zhang long and twelve zhang wide. Similar to grain ships are also waterboats that specialize in storing and transporting fresh water. The fourth type is called "sitting on a boat", which is 24 zhang long and 9 zhang 4 feet wide. The fifth type is called "war ship", which is 18 zhang long and 6 zhang 8 feet wide. It can be seen that some of the ships of the fleet led by Zheng He are used for carrying cargo, some are used for transporting grain, some are used for warfare, and some are used for residence, with a detailed division of labor and many types.

Don't look at Zhao Xing, a later person, as the "chief designer", but there is still a big gap between the fleet of the Jin State Navy Division and the fleet when Zheng He went to the West. One is that the size of the ships is not so large, because it absorbed the design concept of sailing ships in the European Age of Discovery, and the ships of the Jin Navy were built relatively narrow and long, not as small as the aspect ratio of treasure ships. Second, there are not so many types of ships, which are mainly based on the current needs for maritime transportation, exploration, and warfare.

Of course, the fleet of the Jin naval division also had its advantages. One is that the ships are faster and the firearms are equipped with more than several eras, and the other is that all kinds of life-saving, medical and recreational facilities are more complete. Zheng He's fleet was more often out to shake off his majesty, but the fleet led by Tai Shici was a group of vicious "pirates".

Before the 50,000-strong army crossed south, the Jin naval division began to explore the route south along the Ryukyu Islands half a year earlier. The reason why it was necessary to first go east to the open sea as far away as the Ryukyu Islands, and then sail south along the island chain was to prevent the whereabouts of the army from being discovered by the fishermen along the Koto coast and reaching the ears of the people of Soochow.

Zhao Xing knew that there were several very powerful cattle people in Dongwu, and he could see the truth from the slightest clue, such as Zhou Yu and Lu Su. If he had gone to great lengths to make this surprise attack and it was discovered by the forces of Eastern Wu, wouldn't it have wasted a lot of effort and effort?

After a short rest there, the fleet changed its course from due east to southeast, following several islands on the outskirts of Kyushu Island in the Uno Kingdom to the northernmost tip of the Ryukyu Islands, and then sailed southwest along the Ryukyu island chain to finally arrive at the fishing/fishing/ In the waters of the island, it sailed due west, first landed at Yizhou (Taiwan Island) for rest, then set sail south again, and finally crossed Zhuyazhou (Hainan Island) from Xu Wen in Hepu County, Jiaozhou, and finally arrived in Jiaozhi County, from where it landed and landed.

Judging from the route set by Tai Shici to the south, although it went around the open sea, the sea fleet could always find island markers to determine the location, and many large islands originally had water sources and primitive indigenous people, even if the fleet was in distress at sea, it could sail into hidden bays such as the Ryukyu Islands, Yizhou Island, and Zhuyazhou to temporarily escape the attack of typhoons.

Although it will take a lot of time to make such a long journey, it can not only completely conceal their whereabouts, but also train the troops to adapt to the living environment at sea, which is really a double win. What is more crucial is that this was almost equivalent to an actual combat exercise of landing on the main island of the Japanese slave country, but in the end it did not go ashore. After the problem of Yizhou and the Central Plains is solved, Tai Shici can easily lead a huge fleet to the Japanese slave country to clean up Queen Himiko.

The days of sea voyage are undoubtedly boring and tedious, and because of the wind, sometimes it is very hard and even painful. People who have never been seasick will never be able to experience the torment of "turning over the river and the sea" in the stomach and the groggy brain, and most importantly, sometimes seasickness may last for a long time, not like motion sickness or motion sickness, gritting your teeth and standing up.

The reaction of the soldiers of the Marine Brigade at sea was obviously better than that of the Qinghuai Army, after all, the name of the person was topped with the four big characters of the Jin State Water Division, which was not given for nothing. Tai Shici had anticipated the difficulties at sea before the fleet set off, and after obtaining the consent of Wang Lu and Guan Ping, he mixed the soldiers of the Marine Brigade of the Marine Division with the Qinghuai Army, so that each ship had officers and soldiers of both armies on it at the same time.

In this way, the soldiers of the Marine Brigade who feel better can take care of and encourage the soldiers of the Qinghuai Army in their lives, and because of the competitive factor of young people when they are together, they can also stimulate the strength of the Qinghuai Army not to admit defeat. In the vast sea, the character of perseverance and never admitting defeat is the first element of survival.

When the wind and the sun were good, the soldiers climbed to the upper deck to watch the sunset and the moonrise together, and looked at the strange islands that suddenly appeared on the sea antenna in the distance.

When the storm hit, the soldiers returned to their quarters, or gathered in groups to play poker and play "mahjong", or boasted to each other that they didn't know where they heard anecdotes about the King of Pingxi and the Taishi Governor.

Don't be surprised that the ship of the Jin Navy Division actually equipped the soldiers with such exquisite entertainment tools as "mahjong". This is still Zhao Xing's experience and practice of learning from Zheng He's fleet to go to the West, and the "Three Guarantees Father-in-law" of later generations often used mahjong as entertainment with the soldiers during the voyage!

Compared with "mahjong", the female medical soldiers and psychological counselors who accompany the ship are called a beautiful point, even in the 21st century, this thing is rare!