Standing in the command room, Dugu Junjie followed Zhang Hao's direction and saw a huge octopus; and this octopus only had four complete but mottled tentacles, and four broken tentacles, which was shocking.
At this time, the octopus was supporting the rock with three tentacles, and the other tentacle pointed at the Zhiyuan battleship, and there was a faint roaring sound.
Behind Black Scale Island, in the surrounding sea, monster beasts like waves began to appear. These ocean monsters were so densely packed that they almost covered the island and covered the sea surface.
In comparison, the battleship Zhiyuan looks pitifully small.
Even Liu Dingshan, Taoist Master Mingxu, and Chen Yansong couldn't help but gasp at this moment. Facing this overwhelming monster, you can feel your own insignificance. After all, this is the ocean, the territory of the ocean monster.
Now is not the time to hesitate. Zhang Hao narrowed his eyes and immediately shouted to Dugu Junjie: "Capture the thief first, capture the king, and focus your fire to attack the octopus monster. In addition, try to chop up the octopus monster's tentacles and throw them into the surrounding ocean."
, it may have unexpected effects.”
Zhang Hao did not give the order directly, but told Dugu Junjie, who then gave the order.
Professional matters are left to professionals. Zhang Hao is very self-aware. He does not need to be able to command battles. He only needs to be able to command Dugu Junjie. In one sentence, this is called "a good general"!
Dugu Junjie decisively ordered the artillery fire to attack the octopus monster immediately. The octopus monster suddenly panicked. The artillery attack a few days ago obviously frightened him. But it was unwilling to give in and came back to kill him.
However, if Zhang Hao and others could read the mind of the octopus monster, they would understand: It not only has revenge, but also greed. For the ocean monster, the steel giant ship is a huge treasure.
There are a lot of metal deposits in the sea, but there are not many metals that can be used. Moreover, the creativity of the monsters really needs to be strengthened. Therefore, they are particularly greedy for human metal items.
Especially in the battle a few days ago, the octopus monster also collected a lot of shrapnel. Those shrapnel were all made of steel. Although the quality of the steel used to make the cannonballs was very poor, and the material looked like pig iron; but that was after all.
Steel is enough to cut through the bone armor of a monster in the transformation stage!
So, Octopus has a weird idea, these fragments are so powerful, what if you can take all the battleships as your own? Isn’t it exciting?
After lying dormant for so many days and suffering wounds for several days, the octopus monster finally took action.
Not only that, there was sea water rolling behind the battleship, and a giant snake that was hundreds of meters long, surrounded by black water, slowly emerged. The giant snake looked at the Zhiyuan battleship with eyes full of greed.
The 100-meter giant snake stirred up half of the sea water, and the Zhiyuan was bumping in the water.
Zhang Hao finally asked for help from the three divine transformation stages and held the giant snake.
Taoist priest Mingxu roared, "I'll first ask two fellow Taoists to help us raid the formation. We just broke through the stage of transformation into gods, and my hands are itchy!"
While the artillery roared, Taoist Master Mingxu had already taken off and flew towards the giant snake. He shot out a talisman from a long distance, and the talisman turned into a huge giant in the sky, covering his head towards the giant snake.
The giant snake roared, and the sea water with a radius of hundreds of meters suddenly rushed into the sky. The majestic waves actually washed away the giant falling from the sky!
Under the control of the giant snake, the waves rolled towards Taoist Mingxu, and the sea snake also rode the waves and rushed towards him with black light swirling from its mouth.
Taoist Master Mingxu dodged the waves and struck a sword at the giant snake; the sword was cold and piercing, and it was more than ten feet long.
The giant snake also spurted a black, torrent-like attack from its mouth. The attack was cut off by the sword light, but it also blocked the sword light, and the sword light quickly dissipated. At this moment, the giant snake suddenly swung its tail, and its tail was like lightning.
With a roar, it hit Taoist Master Mingxu.
This move was too fast, and by the time Taoist Master Mingxu reacted, it was already too late. He could only let out a long roar, and a shield appeared in his hand to block it in front of him.
"Boom..." A roar exploded in the sea, and Taoist Mingxu was blown away like a piece of wood. But Taoist Mingxu's shield was not simple either. The tail of the giant snake was suddenly bloody and bloody, with blood and broken scales spilling into the sea.
At the same time, on the deck of the Zhiyuan battleship, everyone also scattered a large number of chopped octopus tentacles into the sea.
In the sea, countless marine monsters suddenly went crazy. They no longer attacked the warships, but began to fight for the flesh and blood of the monsters in the transformation stage in the sea.
Most marine life has little intelligence, and most of their actions are almost succumbed to instinct. When encountering such a coveted 'resource', one can imagine the madness.
There was only one discordant voice at the scene. Senior Brother Feng Zhi Lingfeng was yelling: "Cut less, that's the flesh and blood of a monster in the transformation stage, it's very valuable!"
On the other side, Taoist Master Mingxu flew out, but immediately returned. He quickly mastered the fighting method of the divine transformation stage, and the sword light in his hand became colder and sharper. The background of the master of the Holy Land was slowly revealed here.
The sharp sword light could easily tear apart the giant snake's defense and even attack. Taoist Master Mingxu gradually approached the giant snake. Suddenly, Taoist Master Mingxu played a talisman again. This time, the talisman instantly turned into a giant, and
The giant snake is wrapped in layers.
The giant snake screamed, rolled in the sea, or dived into the water. But Taoist Master Mingxu also rushed into the water and fought under the sea.
About three minutes later, Taoist priest Mingxu stood on the head of the giant snake, floating on the sea. From a distance, Taoist priest Mingxu asked Zhang Hao if he wanted to kill the giant snake?
In the sea, Taoist Master Mingxu was not good at making opinions.
Zhang Hao looked at the giant snake's unruly eyes and smiled: "Master, if you let it go like this now, I'm afraid it will cause trouble. If you want to beat it up, when will you give in and when will you let it go."
"Haha, I understand!" Taoist Master Mingxu suddenly eliminated the restraints of the giant snake, stepped on the giant snake under the water, and continued fighting. The giant snake had lost its energy, and this time it was really suppressed and beaten by Taoist Master Mingxu.
Play in different ways.
At the same time, the island had been cleaned several times by artillery. There were craters and broken monster corpses everywhere. The octopus monster had rushed into the sea and was preparing to attack from the water. But immediately, experts dropped bombs from the air. These bombs
It can explode 100 meters above sea water.
The underwater explosion was even more powerful. After a while, the octopus monster was forced out of the sea and continued to be baptized by artillery.
Almost ten minutes later, the octopus monster fled in panic again, and Feng Zhiling happily harvested a huge tentacle again. As for the sea snake, which had been beaten several times by Taoist Master Mingxu, it finally begged for mercy.
"Get out!" Taoist Master Mingxu kicked it and flew back to the deck.
The giant ship did not continue to move forward, but moved closer to the island.
Zhang Hao flew to the island, dodged the corpses of the ocean monsters, and stood at a commanding height, thinking thoughtfully, "The location of this island is in the south of the country of Canglan?"
Dugu Junjie took the nautical chart, pointed at it and said: "Black Scale Island is not on the nautical chart, but it is on the map found in Canglan Country.
According to records, this Black Scale Island has a radius of about 100 kilometers, is about 500 kilometers away from Qianlong Port, and is a thousand kilometers away from Taotu Island in the south.
To the east is the Emerald Sea, and to the west is the Green Sea of Death. But no ship has ever approached here.
This is a very important node.”
Zhang Hao looked around: "Is it possible to occupy this place and use it as a territory of the Kingdom of Qixia?"
Dugu Junjie frowned slightly: "I think it will be a little difficult to gain a foothold here. It is surrounded by the green sea of death, which is very dangerous.
According to the information we collected, the country of Canglan also wanted to occupy this place, but in the end it was nothing. There is nothing on the island, only rocks. There are lairs of marine monsters everywhere, and all kinds of marine monsters.
Countless.
Moreover, there are many strange insects lurking on the island, making it difficult for ordinary people to survive."
Zhang Hao looked around and had to nod. In places that were not bombarded by artillery shells, there were all kinds of weird bugs in the cracks in the rocks. These bugs didn't seem to be a bad thing at first glance.
If you want to occupy this place, you will need to invest a huge amount of resources. Zhang Hao frowned and calculated for a moment, then smiled and said: "It's not impossible to establish a base here. But not now.
After waiting for a while, when we have many warships, we can use explosives to flatten the island and then build a base.
Once the communication between the inland sea and the outer sea is opened in the future, the location of Black Scale Island will be very critical. This is simply a choke point.
The country of Canglan doesn’t want it, but we want it!
Place the flag of the Qixia Kingdom and the Dayang Group’s flag, and carve a message on the stone: This is the territory of the Qixia Kingdom; and it belongs to the Dayang Group.”
"Wait!" Liu Dingshan came forward, "What do you mean by this? Does this place belong to the Qixia Country or the Ocean Group?"
Zhang Hao said without blinking: "It belongs to the Dayang Group, and the Dayang Group belongs to the country of Qixia. It is the territory of the country of Qixia, but because it was discovered by our Dayang Group, it is directly managed by the Dayang Group, so there is no problem
Bar?"
The rules of this world are relatively simple. Zhang Hao's explanation left Liu Dingshan with no doubts. What I discovered belongs to me. It can also give the country of Qixia a nominal ownership, which is really good.
While they were talking, someone had already planted a flag on the island and took photos with specially made high-grade jade slips.
Before departure, Qixia Country and Dayang Group had already made flags.
The flag of the Kingdom of Qixia is majestic, with a golden phoenix spreading its wings in Zixia. The phoenix is graceful and noble, but also has some indescribable domineering power. The slightly lowered head is like a god looking down on the earth from the sky.
The flag of Dayang Group is a sea eagle. A black sea eagle soars in the blue sea and sky.
The flag of the Qixia Kingdom was planted on a mountain top, while the flag of the Ocean Group was slightly lower, but also stood side by side.
The battleship continues to move forward. There are still a large number of monsters on the sea, but now most of these monsters are fighting for the 'octopus slices'.
The battleship directly ran over it, knocking over countless marine monsters along the way, causing great chaos. But the battleship did not stop, but continued to accelerate. Behind the propeller, you could even see blood flowing, some of which
The unlucky guy who was crushed into pieces.
About twenty minutes later, the battleship completed its acceleration, completely got rid of the siege of the ocean monsters, and continued sailing to the east. Many of the ocean monsters did not dare to attack.
After crossing the Black Scale Island, Zhang Hao took a simple map to study: "Although the Black Scale Island is the junction of the inner and outer seas, it is a transition zone thousands of miles east, and few ships come to this transition zone.
, but there are quite a few ocean monsters.”
"So, no one is coming to rob Black Scale Island!" Dugu Junjie mocked Zhang Hao's 'greed'.
"Just because no one is snatching it now, it doesn't mean there won't be any in the future. It's better to prepare early. Moreover, Black Scale Island has a radius of hundreds of miles, which is enough to build a large base.
In the future, I hope to build Black Scale Island into a successor world to the ocean, which will connect the inner and outer seas, connect the vast earth continent in the south, and the fertile soil continent in the north, and become the throat of the sea.
This island must be controlled."
"Okay, okay, we must have it under control." Dugu Junjie said casually. Apparently, this 'native' didn't quite understand the meaning of Black Scale Island.
Zhang Hao shook his head and stopped explaining. Then he asked about the spirit stone reserves. The ship is now powered by spirit stones. It has sailed more than 8,000 kilometers since departure and has just arrived at Black Scale Island.
The distance of this voyage is far longer than expected, and no merchant ship has encountered the sea so far. If we want to reach the waters of Langya Kingdom, it will take at least a thousand kilometers.
Dugu Junjie smiled: "Don't worry about this. We prepared four times the amount of spirit stones at that time. Now we have consumed about 30%. We can definitely return.
Besides, even if there are no spiritual stones in the end, they still have the stage of becoming gods, right? They have enough ability to push the boat and run away."
"I'm afraid that by then, you and I will be beaten so hard that we won't recognize our parents..."
…………
The battleship roared, tearing open the sea surface, and headed straight towards the east. The experienced sailors hired finally did not lose their grip. Although it was a little difficult, they still found the direction in the sea.
Their main tool for determining direction is the compass, or compass.
Until the evening of the fourth day, the sailors at the observation deck shouted: "Ship! Ship, I saw the ship ahead. It is a fleet of three large ships. Wow, their ship... seems to be very big!"
Everyone immediately flew up to observe. Zhang Hao used a small magic to see the scene in the distance clearly. It was about ten kilometers away. Based on the figures and ships, the three ships were estimated to be 150 meters in length; their sails were full,
is sailing north.
The ship also had a huge flag fluttering in the wind.
Zhang Hao was overjoyed, but calmly ordered: "Rush over, don't say hello. It would be best if you can just rush in front of these three ships."
"Why?" Taoist Master Mingxu is already well. We finally encountered a ship, so we have to make a deal. If we can't conclude a deal, it's okay to ask, right?
But Zhang Hao laughed: "If we take the initiative to ask, the price will drop. We have to show our muscles now! Wait for others to take the initiative to ask!"
Dugu, rush over!"
Dugu Junjie had no doubts about Zhang Hao's business acumen. He immediately ordered: "Accelerate, accelerate, 120% load, rush over!"
The speed of the battleship suddenly increased, from the previous cruising speed of 100 kilometers to 110 kilometers; but the distance was too close, the battleship had just approached 110 kilometers, and had already arrived in front of the three large ships.
Looking closely, Zhang Hao couldn't help but marvel: What a big building ship!
These wooden boats painted brown and black can be seen with pieces of huge wooden boards. The structure of the wooden boats is relatively bloated, about 160 meters long and almost 60 meters wide. The hull looks a bit fat.
The deck actually has a five-story building, which is no more than 15 meters in height. It is a bit mottled, but it cannot hide its exquisiteness.
The sail adopts a complex three-masted sail structure, and the three huge sails are held in a semicircle by the wind, but the sailing speed of the ship is only about 15 kilometers.
These ships also have a deep draft, and it can be seen that they are fully loaded with cargo. The surrounding seawater is pushed away layer by layer.
Zhang Hao estimates that the overall weight of these wooden ships is probably over 10,000 tons. Although these wooden ships are bulkier, after all, the technology is mature and the load capacity is very considerable.
But now that these three ships are passing by, many people are gathering to work overtime to watch the battleship Zhiyuan speeding past. From a distance, there is a head on the side of the ship, slowly swinging with the Zhiyuan.
Compared with their wooden ships, which are only about 15 kilometers away, the Zhiyuan battleship is almost flying, and it has no sails.
At the same time, on the side of the battleship Zhiyuan, some unoccupied sailors shouted strangely and greeted the three sailboats; but soon, the Zhiyuan quickly moved away and maintained a speed of 110 kilometers per hour.
The people on the Zhiyuan couldn't help but be excited. They went into the sea for the first time and crossed the Green Sea of Death. The speed far exceeded those legendary ships.
The giant ship brought up waves, and the three wooden boats impacted by it kept shaking.
On a large wooden ship, a young man in the Nascent Soul stage frowned slightly: "What a special ship. The vertical sides of the ship and the dots on the hull are all big nails, right? So many nails are used? This ship feels...
A bit ugly.
Also, this ship has no sails, so it won’t be driven entirely by magic, right? How many spiritual stones will it consume?”
The young man next to him shook his head slightly, with a tone of surprise and confusion: "Master, I think this boat... seems to be made of iron!"
"Iron?" The young master muttered and suddenly said, "Uncle Feng, the sailors just said hello to them. They don't look like bad people. Shall we chase after them and ask?"
"Master, I don't think we should be the first to say hello to such an unknown person. We should follow behind and take a look."
The young master snorted: "Our ship...can't catch it!"
Nian smiled and said: "Send a small boat, use the engine, and follow them to see. Also, the fleet is following! If there is an opportunity to cooperate, our Seven Star Trading Company must seize it."
"We're not docking anymore?"
Nian shook his head: "We have been sailing on the sea for half a year, and we don't need more than a few days. Let's go."
Nian, along with the young master and a few Nascent Soul guards, mobilized a small boat about ten meters long and chased after the Zhiyuan, but did not get close.
The Zhiyuan continued its rampage, heading east, and then forward again. Unknowingly, it was already the second day. There were more and more small boats following the Zhiyuan.
At noon, a sailor suddenly shouted: "More than thirty warships appeared in front, and the flags looked like they were the navy of Langya Kingdom!"
(According to research, Zheng He’s treasure ships had a displacement of about 20,000 tons.)