A huge fleet of 41 ships began to set off along the Yangtze River channel towards the sea.

There were ten huge ships in this fleet of 60 meters alone, and they were driving together on the river, and the scene was terrible.

The trough boats and fishing boats in the river have avoided and hid to both sides.

However, they were not frightened, because the boats in Gaojia Village were all hung with the Colorful Tianzun flag, and the boats of this flag had been working hard to exterminate the Huangmei water thieves and help the common people, and had never done any stupid things to bully others.

The colorful Tianzun flag has won a good reputation among the masses on this section of the river.

As for the officers and soldiers, when they saw the colorful Tianzun flag, they thought that it was "the emperor has the emperor's secret decree and is doing something big", so they didn't dare to come forward to inquire, anyway, they hid far away and pretended not to know, so it was the safest for them.

Soon, the fleet came to the mouth of the Yangtze River, Chongming Island.

Cui Weihua, Su Song's military officer, drove a Cangshan boat and greeted him from the side: "Excuse me, is Brother Shi on the boat?" ”

Jiang Cheng poked his head out from the side of the boat and hugged his fists: "Master Cui, don't you come to harm?" Master Shi stayed in Anqing, not on the ship. ”

Cui Weihua looked at the huge fleet in front of him, a little blind, as Su Song's soldier, he had the largest fleet in the vicinity in his hands, but compared with the fleet in front of him, he felt a little ...... It's not on the table at all.

He couldn't help but sigh: "You boats, when you sailed through Chongming Island one by one, the official didn't feel it, but now that they are placed together, they are really a powerful sailor." With such a large-scale operation this time, it seems that there will be no return to the Yangtze River in the future? ”

Li Daoxuan listened beside him, and thought to himself: This guy is very smart, as soon as he sees our posture, he knows that we will not come back.

Jiang Cheng said: "Yes, we are going to carry out a secret mission under the emperor's secret order, and if we return to the Yangtze River in the future, we will only come back one by one, and we will not come on such a large scale." ”

Cui Weihua was so melancholy: "Why didn't the emperor let this official go?" I really want to make a big contribution. ”

Jiang Cheng smiled: "Master Cui, as such an important position as Su Song's military armament, you will have more opportunities to make meritorious contributions in the future." ”

This is really not to comfort him, but to be true.

Li Daoxuan planned to use Zhoushan Port as a military port, since it is a military port, it must be distinguished from a civilian port, and the place that Cui Weihua is in charge of is the magic capital of Shanghai in the future.

How important is the geographical location of the magic capital Shanghai, there is no need to talk nonsense, how can there be no reason for Cui Weihua in the future? His bunch of old-fashioned ships of the Ming Army can still be used for business.

The fleet bid farewell to Cui Weihua and sailed southeast.

Cui Weihua glanced at the direction in which the fleet left, looked up at the sky, thought carefully for a few seconds, suddenly thought of something, and said in astonishment: "Huh? Southeast? Such a large fleet goes to the southeast? Either to fight pirates, or to fight Westerners. What kind of medicine did the emperor take? Suddenly so hard? ”

After leaving the mouth of the Yangtze River, the fleet walked along the coastline for a short time......

A strange sharp shape appeared on the coastline of the mainland in front of it.

This is the Nanhuizui of the magic capital of later generations, which is a famous tourist attraction.

Of course, at the moment it is not a scenic spot, but a guard house. When the Japanese invaded, the imperial court built a city here to set up a palace, after several wars, the palace is now in disrepair, looking like a dilapidated and unfinished building.

There were a few guards with vegetable faces inside, standing on the roof of the unfinished building, looking at the huge fleet that appeared in front of them with shocked eyes.

The labor camp pirate who was in charge of leading the way spoke: "Tianzun, Jiang Jiaoxi, we can't continue to walk along the coastline here, we have to go southeast into the sea, and reach Shengsi Island in the north of the Zhoushan Islands, where some pirates are stationed, it will be better for us to start from the periphery." ”

The sailors in Gaojia Village had no sailing experience, so Jiang Cheng had to humbly ask: "How to locate the direction?" There is no sea in front of us, there is not even a reference, and once we leave the coastline, we don't know where we are. ”

Laogai Pirates: "The sun, the monsoon, and the ocean currents can all be used to lock the bearing." Of course, the most important thing is to look at the sun. It's just that it hurts my eyes to look at the sun to judge the direction for many years. So...... Nine out of ten captains are one-eyed. ”

Jiang Cheng was taken aback: "I don't want to become one-eyed." ”

Li Daoxuan couldn't help but be happy when he heard this, and when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that the sextant had not been invented yet, and the Western European pirates did not have a sextant available for navigation now.

At this time, Western European pirates could usually only rely on the sun to determine the "latitude", but not the "longitude", in this case, all ships could only move along the same latitude, which gave the pirates an opportunity.

Pirates don't need to go up the sea to find merchant ships, they just need to wait at a certain latitude.

Li Daoxuan returned to the outside of the box, found the production materials of the compass, sextant, and navigation clock, sorted them into a "complete collection of positioning artifacts in the Age of Discovery", and threw them in front of the research building in Gaojia Village.

Cutting back into the box, I saw that the Laogai pirate was looking at the sun, judging the direction, and then looking at the sun and fine-tuning the direction...... Commanding the fleet, advancing towards the vast sea.

Sailing from Nanhuizui to Shengsi Island, the straight-line distance is only less than 50 kilometers.

It's not a very long distance for pirates.

However, for the first time, the rookie sailors in Gaojia Village sailed in front and back, left and right, all of them were full of water, and they couldn't see any land or islands as a reference, and they were so nervous that their palms were sweating.

"Where are we now?"

"How long will it take?"

"Oh my God! Where exactly is this? ”

The sailors panicked.

A wave came over, and the Wanli Sunshine shook violently with the waves, and the boat shook much more than in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and the sailors were not lightly frightened.

The ship was full of screams of shame.

The labor camp pirates glanced at the state of the ship, and couldn't help but whisper: "Tianzun, Jiang Jiaoxi, I feel that the ship is full of vegetables, so let's recruit a group of people who grew up by the sea to be sailors." ”

Li Daoxuan smiled and said nothing.

Jiang Cheng said: "No one is born with the ability to do anything, and it will be good if you exercise." We don't have enough time to build a navy from scratch by recruiting and training, and by the time we get a navy like that, the daylilies will be cold. ”

Shi Lang came out from behind, and the young man was also infected by the last time he watched "Bloody Battle of Luowan", and roared violently: "Yes! We have to speed up now, and the more time we drag, the more powerful the pirates will become. It doesn't matter if the sailor dishes are dish, let's catch them and catch all the pirates on Zhoushan Island, all! ”