"That's it~Thank you, Captain Li, for your guidance."
After Li Yuanshan taught him personally, Zhang Lun finally figured out how to use the sextant to calculate the position, so he also expressed his gratitude to Li Yuanshan.
"Thank you, we are all on the same boat."
Li Yuanshan smiled and said, this sentence is very popular in Tianjin now, and it naturally came from Tianjin or the college.
We all go to sea, share life and death, share weal and woe, and live and work together for a long time, so the relationship between each other is very important. In this aspect, Tianjin Maritime Academy attaches great importance to the cultivation of this aspect.
Therefore, everyone from Tianjin Maritime University has always been very united. If something happens, everyone will come to help. This sentence, "We are on the same boat" has slowly spread in Tianjin and has become a popular saying.
"Team Li, how long will it take for us to arrive in Ryukyu?"
Zhang Lun smiled, and then started chatting with Li Yuanshan.
He was not used to this kind of life at first, but after getting used to it, he gradually came to like his current life again. For people like Li Yuanshan, he gradually looked up to them with admiration.
Zhang Lun knew that people like Li Yuanshan were born with poor backgrounds. In the past, they could not read a lot of Chinese characters. But now, these people not only know Chinese characters, but also have a wealth of knowledge, especially those who graduated from Tianjin Maritime Academy.
This is even more true for these people.
It is hard to imagine how Liu Jin changed these people and randomly removed some people from his industries. It turned out that everyone was literate and could count. They also knew a lot of astronomical and geographical knowledge, and their abilities were much better than those who only
Scholars who know how to do this are much better.
“We can reach Ryukyu in almost half a month~”
Li Yuanshan took out a map, pointed at the location of Ryukyu and said.
"The location of Ryukyu is very critical. To the north you can go to Korea and Japan, and to the south you can go to Luzon in the South China Sea."
Zhang Lun looked at the map in front of him, thought about it carefully and said.
"Isn't that right? Mr. Liu organized everyone to go to Ryukyu to establish an advance base, it must be for future consideration."
Li Yuanshan said with a smile.
The two of them chatted, becoming more and more immersed in the conversation, and slowly started talking about the future development of navigation around Ryukyu.
Time passed day by day, and twelve days passed in the blink of an eye. As we continued sailing to the south, we could clearly feel that the temperature was getting hotter and hotter.
On the "Huo Qu Bing", Dong Mu, the captain of the advance team, was fanning himself continuously with a fan. From time to time, he tugged at the uniform of the advance team on his body. He always felt that this uniform was very ugly and wanted to tear it off.
Thinking about the official uniforms he wore in the past, and then looking at the current team uniforms, he always felt that he had suffered a big loss. He used to be the commander of the emperor's guard, a high-ranking official, and a serious general.
He was sent by Emperor Hongzhi to take control of this advance team and became the leader of the advance team. He was extremely reluctant, but it was hard to disobey the emperor's order and he had to come even if he didn't want to.
"It's still comfortable as before~"
Thinking about the life he had lived during this period, he couldn't help but miss the days when he was an errand in the palace.
For more than a month, he trained and studied with everyone at Tianjin Maritime Academy. He felt that the training at Tianjin Maritime Academy was much more rigorous than their previous training, and it was really more tiring.
The key is to study. Even if he can read and write, he still has to learn navigation knowledge and various military knowledge. This makes him, who is used to living a good life, very uncomfortable.
But he had to learn it, and he didn't dare to lose his temper, because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the British Duke Zhang Mao were in Tianjin at that time, and several people of the same origin as himself were causing trouble.
Not only was he severely punished by the Tianjin Maritime Academy, but he was also directly dismissed from his official position by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and he was made into a commoner. If he didn't follow up and make great achievements, he would never be able to stand up again in the future.
Therefore, even though people like Dong Mu look down on idiots like Li Yuanshan and others, when they get along with each other, they are more polite and don't dare to do anything extreme.
Otherwise, it will be miserable to be beaten into commoners. The official positions of these people were earned by their ancestors. Once they are beaten, it will be difficult to stand up in the future.
"It has been twelve days, and now we have reached Jiangsu, the East China Sea east of Zhejiang, and we will reach Ryukyu in a few days. I heard that Ryukyu is full of miasma and the barbarians are fierce. My life is really miserable, and I want to go to such a barbaric wilderness.
place."
Opening a map, Dong Mu looked at Ryukyu Island on the map and couldn't help but sigh.
"Dang~dang~"
"There are Japanese pirates~There are Japanese pirates~"
At this moment, there was a burst of bells on the ship, and the person in charge of watching yelled loudly. Suddenly the whole ship began to become chaotic, and the crew members rushed out one by one to look at the sea.
"What?"
"Are there any Japanese pirates?"
Dong Mu, who heard the sound, hurried out and picked up his binoculars to look at the surrounding sea to find traces of the Japanese pirates.
Not only was this the case on the Huo Qubing, but other ships also rang bells, and they all discovered Japanese pirates on the sea almost at the same time.
"They are really Japanese pirates~"
Dong Mu looked in one direction on the sea with a telescope, and saw hundreds of ships rushing towards him and others between the water and the sky.
These ships are not big, they are basically small ships. Only a few ships are larger, but there are many of them, hundreds of them.
Each ship was full of Japanese pirates, holding weapons in their hands, shouting and rowing towards them.
Through the telescope, we can clearly see that these people are Japanese pirates. Their clothes and the flags hanging on the boat are all Japanese flags. There are also a large number of Japanese warriors on the boat.
"Not only Japanese pirates, but also pirates~"
Dong Mu looked carefully with a telescope, and soon he discovered that among these Japanese pirates there were a large number of people from the Ming Dynasty. The clothes of these people could be clearly seen, and they were obviously different from the Japanese pirates. These people should be from the Ming Dynasty.
pirate.
"Prepare for battle~"
Dong Mu became frightened and nervous.
Although I was a guard and protector for the emperor in the past, I had never participated in any battles. Now I encountered Japanese pirates and pirates. Thinking about the ferocity of Japanese pirates and pirates, I felt a little at a loss.
But soon, he also issued an order to prepare for battle.
The flagman on the ship began to convey his orders to other ships through flag language, and all of a sudden the ships became busy. In fact, it was not just Dong Mu who became nervous and scared, but everyone in the entire advance team was also like this.
The cannon on a ship was pushed out. The team members put on the armor produced by Miyun Iron Works, picked up their swords and firecrackers, and began to look nervously at the Japanese pirates and pirates approaching rapidly.
"Huh~"
Li Yuanshan took a deep breath. He was the vice-captain of the advance team and also the captain of the "General" he was riding on. Looking at the pirates and Japanese pirates rushing towards him, his breathing became heavier and there was a rush of smoke in his palms.
Sweated.
"Not only Japanese pirates, but also pirates~"
"This is a bit unusual. They are obviously well prepared to ambush us here."
Next to Li Yuanshan, Zhang Lun observed carefully with a telescope, and soon noticed something unusual.
Logically speaking, they set out with more than a dozen large ships, and the Japanese pirates and Hai Dao dared to provoke them no matter where they were. Now they not only dared to provoke them, but also looked well-prepared, which was obviously unusual.
“It’s very unusual~”
Li Yuanshan calmed down, then thought about it and nodded.
The advance team has more than ten large ships and more than 2,000 people. Such a huge team is actually attacked by Japanese pirates and pirates who have no eyes. Moreover, it is an obvious ambush. They know everyone's route and location in advance and are waiting for everyone here.
.
"Never mind this, what we have to do now is to defeat these Japanese bandits and pirates, and survive first."
Then Li Yuanshan did not think about these things anymore, but focused all his energy on the battle in front of him. Japanese pirates and pirates were very ferocious, and their attackers were evil. If you want to survive, you must defeat them.
"Everyone listens to the order and prepares to fight~"
On the other side of the sea, on the largest ship, a group of people gathered together, also discussing something.
"General Matsuura, what do you think of these ships?"
A man wearing a robe, holding a fan, and dressed like a Ming Dynasty scholar said to the Japanese man next to him who was wearing armor and had a samurai sword at his waist.
This Japanese man is called Matsuura Takanobu. He used to be the commander of a daimyo here in Japan. Later, when the daimyo was defeated, he led some of his former samurai to become Japanese pirates.
The man next to him is Wang Zhi, a large merchant in the Jiangnan area of Daimyo. He is also the main supporter of pirates in the East China Sea. This time he also joined hands with Matsuura Takanobu to do big business.
The dozen or so large ships in front of them came all the way south from Tianjin Port. As for where they are going, they don't know yet, but the large ships coming out of Tianjin Port are all big fat sheep.
“Although the styles are strange, they are the best boats~”
"Although these ships are big, their speed is very certain, and they are also quite flexible. They are much stronger than the Matsuura we are riding now."
Matsuura Takanobu spoke fluent Ming Dynasty Mandarin and had a very sharp eye. He immediately recognized that the dozens of large ships in front of him were the best ships of this era.
At the same time, his eyes turned slightly red. He really wanted to capture these dozen large ships. If he had these dozen large ships, his strength would increase exponentially.
"Pass my order, these ships are not allowed to be damaged, I want these ships!"
