As the saying goes: know the nature of the fish near the water, and know the sound of the bird near the mountain.

It can be seen that the environment in which a person lives is of great importance to his growth.

Because of this, there is an allusion to the three migrations of Meng's mother, thus leaving the three-character scripture of "Meng's mother in the past, choosing a neighbor".

A person's growth has a strong relationship with the environment in which he lives.

The growth of a fleet is also related to the environment they face, and it is a matter of life and death.

Zhong Guozhu, the original deputy helmsman of the Yellow River Platoon Gang in Luoyang, knows the temperament of the Yellow River well.

Later, after Peng Wuying's secret operation, Zhong Guozhu was sent to Dongting Lake for training, so as to master the water properties of the 800-mile Dongting and the 10,000-mile Yangtze River.

However, whether it is the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, or Dongting Lake, they are all inland rivers and lakes.

When he came to Myanmar to form a water division, the training area was the Irrawaddy River basin, or was it an inland river.

In short, most of Zhong Guozhu and his brothers in the sailor have never seen the sea.

Although there are times when there are huge waves in the Eight Hundred Miles Dongting, there is a season after all.

Although the Eight Hundred Miles Dongting is large enough, it is only a lake, and it is definitely not comparable to the sea.

The sea, and only the sea, can really be called "boundless".

He led twenty-seven warships along the Irrawaddy River and captured the city of Bosheng near the mouth of the sea, facing another world.

The Andaman Sea is the mouth of the Ibrawaddy River, and the Andaman Islands are not far south of the port of Kumbe.

The Andaman Sea is bordered by the Strait of Malacca to the southeast and the Indian Ocean to the southwest.

This is a very complex sea area, and the sea conditions are changing rapidly.

The only impression in Zhong Guozhu's mind, and the largest body of water he has ever seen, is only Dongting Lake. So as soon as he came out with twenty warships, he encountered a lot of things that caught him off guard.

First of all, due to the combined effect of the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Islands, the direction of the sea breeze in the Andaman Sea is variable. If you are not a skilled sailor, you have no idea exactly what the wind is blowing.

Secondly, because of the large amount of fresh water entering the estuary of the Irrawaddy River, the water temperature and salinity of this area are unpredictable, and the current is mysterious and unpredictable, and there is no comparison with inland lakes.

Third, the Xiong Jiajun Naval Division had just learned to operate the arc-shaped soft sail, and when encountering a fixed wind direction, the officers and men of the Naval Division could barely cope with it. Now suddenly there is a downwind, a headwind, and a crosswind, and the whole fleet is suddenly in chaos.

Fourth, none of the Xiong family's military sailors had experience in navigating the sea, and the warship that was originally considered a giant now became very small as soon as it entered the sea. Because the surrounding sea and sky are the same color and boundless, first of all, the officers and men of the Navy Division have developed tremendous psychological pressure.

Fifth, although we have recently captured the enemy's charts and read the enemy's logbook, I have only memorized where there are reefs and where we cannot navigate, but the terms of ocean currents and sea conditions are still very unfamiliar.

Less than thirty miles into the sea, twenty warships could no longer hold the queue.

Some warships could not control the main rudder and had already crossed the war, and some warships could not control the sails and had turned away from the formation. Two other ships spun around in circles and almost collided with each other.

Fortunately, the north is the land, and the navigator can still see the land as a reference, and finally know where his home is.

Now it is a blessing not to sink yourself, and you can't sail normally at all, so don't think about fighting the enemy.

Zhong Guozhu gave an order, and the signal soldiers hurriedly used the flag language to contact other warships and started boat training on the spot.

In the blink of an eye, more than 1,000 officers and men were exhausted by the fact that they were in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, they were all exhausted.

The harvest is still there, the deck officers and men slowly understand the operation skills of the curved soft sail, and the helmsman also slowly understands some of the laws of the sea undercurrent.

Twenty warships were finally able to follow the flagship, and Admiral Zhong Guozhu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the speed could not be too fast, at least there was no accident in which the two warships collided together. It was barely able to form a single column, and it was also able to make a wild goose array.

In short, on the surface, Xiong Jiajun's sailors began to look a little different, no longer putting ducks in the sea.

The only thing Zhong Guozhu remembered was to send reinforcements to the east. But now it is difficult to protect yourself, and you still have to remember what the old man said: sharpen the knife and do not cut the wood.

"Return to the sea, return to the port for three days of rest!"

Returning to the port of Kunbei, Zhong Guozhu suddenly gasped.

Countless broken planks floated on the surface of the sea, and several corpses drifted with the current.

Smoke billowed from the docks, and some of the limited facilities were already in ruins.

The seven warships he left behind are still there, these are all hard-sailed warships built by the Xiong Jiajun at the beginning, the main mast has been broken, and the hull is covered with bruises.

More than 1,000 officers and men on the beach were busy, some were carrying the wounded off the boat, some were sorting out the smashed equipment, and some were salvaging the officers and men who had fallen into the water.

The scene was chaotic, with heavy casualties and a depressing atmosphere.

The only result Zhong Guozhu could think of was that there was a big battle here not long ago, and the results were very bad.

"Report General: After your large army left, the fleet of the Kingdom of Arakan suddenly moved south and launched a surprise attack on us, which caught us by surprise. ”

Huang Jie, the captain of the Dangkou No. 1 ship.

Huang Jie used to be a water guru in Dongting Lake, and the gangsters in the rivers and lakes were called "Intercepting the River Dragon". Later, he was single-handedly attended by Shen Xiyue, and after being convinced, he was the first general under Zhong Guozhu.

This time, he commanded seven remaining ships to defend the city of Bosheng and the port of Kunbei.

Zhong Guozhu saw that there were still two blood marks on Huang Jie's face, and he could understand the intensity of the battle: "Huang Jie, how are the losses of the brothers?

Huang Jie's expression was a little gloomy: "There are all seven warships with damage, a total of more than 20 brothers killed in battle, and more than 100 injured. The point is that our warships are all damaged and cannot take the initiative. ”

After letting Huang Jie into his command room, Zhong Guozhu said in a low voice: "Don't worry, this debt always has to be recovered, let's talk about the specific battle situation." ”

Huang Jie nodded: "The fleet of the Arakan Kingdom is led by a Portuguese sharp-tailed warship, about the same size as our centipede ship, and it was sunk by my Dangkou ship with its right side gun. ”

"The other forty or so boats were all small boats with more than 20 people, and there was a four-inch gun in the bow, and they all rushed up desperately to get close and fire. They were very fast and slid around like loaches, making it difficult for our artillery to hit. ”

"Our ships did not turn around on the seashore, and the enemy's boats were always able to go around behind our ships, which happened to be a dead end for our artillery, and this is how the casualties were generated. ”

"Seeing that all the enemy's small gunboats have burrowed into the harbor, I can only order all the warships to be close to each other and use the small-caliber guns on our deck to fire intensively and deliver covering strikes. ”

"Although we sank seven small boats, we were also heavily damaged. If it weren't for the large number of tiger cannons and crossbow arrows on our deck, they would probably have been robbed of the ship in the end. ”

"Actually, if it weren't for the return of your main fleet, those people wouldn't have taken the initiative to retreat. If they really rely on them, then they can only have the final hand-to-hand combat, and I don't know what the outcome will be. ”

Zhong Guozhu's expression was solemn: "This is a bloody lesson, we must keep it firmly in mind." First of all, the wounded brothers were settled, and then they had to rush to repair the warship with all their might, and then carry out training. ”

"To be honest, we didn't do anything when we went out this time, because the sea was much more complicated than we originally thought, and the experience inside Dongting Lake didn't help at all, so we had to start from scratch. ”

Looking at the qiē in front of him, Zhong Guozhu finally understood the grim shape faced by the sailor, and really understood that it was useless to be ambitious.

The three-day break was immediately cancelled, and everyone took turns to get on board for training.

Fortunately, Fan Hu ordered a battery force of 3,000 people, with more than 100 artillery pieces of various calibers, to escort more than 200 craftsmen from the shipyard to the port of Kunbei in Bosheng City, and at the same time brought the order of Xiong Chu.

Since the original hard-sail warship has been heavily damaged, there is no need to repair it as it is, and simply completely transform it into an arc-shaped soft-sail warship to undertake the defense task of the coastal sea.

During this period, Zhong Guozhu finally decided to build his own naval base in the town of Qianggua, on the east side of the estuary of the Irrawaddy River.

The reason why Zhong Guozhu made this decision was to salvage more than a dozen sailors from the Arakan Kingdom from the sea.

Zhong Guozhu did not execute them like others, and also saved their lives, so he won a certain trust.

These guys were all seafaring sailors, and then told Chung that there were often tsunamis here, and the current port was not at all suitable for large ships.

From these people, Zhong Guozhu learned about the marine sailor base for the first time, and he had to determine the location of the safe haven first. Otherwise, there is no need for the enemy to attack, and a single tsunami will wipe out the entire army.

After three days of searching, the town of Qianggua, thirty miles upstream of the sea, was selected. Because there is a river island here, and there is a backwater bay that constitutes a safe haven.

Human life is not worth much in these years, and the sailors who fell into the sea in the Arakan Kingdom thought that they would definitely die this time, but they didn't expect to survive.

But after the introduction of the local sailors in Zhong Guozhu's water division, more than a dozen people who were rescued decided to continue to serve as soldiers and eat food.

Zhong Guozhu found these people to talk to each other face-to-face, only to know that they all belonged to the same small gunboat, and the leader was called Mao Mindang. At that time, he fell into the water after being knocked over, but he was afraid of being beheaded, so he did not dare to swim ashore.

Although they are not familiar with large warships, they are very familiar with the nearby sea conditions, waterways, and climatic conditions, and they are all treasures for Zhong Guozhu, who can undertake the task of navigation and signal soldiers.

Mao Mindang, the brand-new captive soldier, still led his thirteen brothers to form a team of instructors to train navigation and signal soldiers.

The construction of the military port progressed smoothly, and the shadow of the previous fiasco was slowly removed. In particular, with the guidance of the sailors who are proficient in navigation, the training of the officers and men of the naval division has become more targeted, and their adaptability has become higher and higher.

Seeing that his fleet was finally gaining combat effectiveness, the six batteries on the hills around the naval division base had been completed, and the seven damaged warships had been basically repaired, Zhong Guozhu remembered that more than a month had passed, and he didn't know what to do in the battle in the east.

"Stop training, all warships immediately tidy up their interiors, replenish ammunition and supplies, and set off in three days!"

There will always be many coincidences in the world, and many changes will happen in three days.

In fact, there were no three days at all, and at noon the next day after Zhong Guozhu's order was issued, a huge change had already happened.

On this day, Zhong Guozhu was thinking about how to support the operation on the shore, and Mao Mindang suddenly came to the command room with a clairvoyant more than two feet long: "General, a fleet has come to the west, and the preliminary estimate may be twenty!"

There are no friends of their own warships here, as long as the battleships come over, they will definitely be enemies.

Zhong Guozhu stood up and walked out, and shouted loudly: "Can you take into account how far away the enemy's warships are now?" Forget it, order all warships to pull anchor and set sail!"

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