Countless sharks had their dorsal fins across the sea. In the fishy red sea water, floating corpses were eaten by groups of sharks. The sea breeze blew. The familiar smell of blood made Zhang Yu, lieutenant of the Xiyang Palace, feel the blood in his body begin to warm.

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Wiping the bloody blade with a rag, and at this moment, a babbling sound came from his ears. Although Zhang Yu couldn't understand, he could hear the pleading in his tone.

A middle-aged man dressed in a fisherman fell on the deck, with several large holes cut out of his body, and his forearm below his left arm and elbow were gone, with blood stains on his body.

Blood flowed out of the wound, and he curled up and kept wailing. Seeing Zhang Yu approaching with a knife, he kowtowed regardless of his injuries.

A crew member translated the words of this person and said that as long as he could save his life, he was willing to be a slave and a servant on the ship. After hearing this, Zhang Yu sneered:

"You tell him, do those boatmen who have been harmed by you and others have a chance to survive? Throw them down and feed the fish!"

Amid howling, the middle-aged man was thrown into the sea. The group of sharks that had been waiting for a long time surrounded him and instantly shared them. Several other pirate corpses on the deck were also thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

"Bah, it's like a crow in the world! Those who fish in the river are the best, and those who fish in the sea are the best!"

"In such a big sea, there are so many fish that can't be caught. I still have to kill people and rob people. I deserve it!"

"If you catch fish, you will know how to catch fish. These pirates kill people and rob, and sell things, it is much better than catching fish."

"Then you can't do such a thing against your conscience!"

"Oh, I'm still talking about whether he has a conscience. If you cut his heart out, it might be all black."

The crew members were talking a lot, not at all affected by the just-concluded platoon battle. Most of them were from the Xiangyang navy and had been struggling near the sea for more than half a year, so there was nothing wrong with fighting at sea.

"Please carry all the things that can be used on these small broken boats, and then ignite the fire!"

Zhang Yu directed his men to "clean the battlefield". Several small boats were leaning against both sides of his ship. The pirates used ropes with iron hooks to grab the boat to climb up to grab the ship. As a result, they were beaten to death by them who were prepared.

Looking back, the two ships looked the same, but the sea that climbed onto the boat had been thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

"Are there any casualties?"

"No, as soon as the lime powder was sprayed out, the birds were half blinded. How could they fight back?"

"Then wash off the blood on the deck, otherwise it will smell bad after a long time."

Zhang Yu arranged the relevant matters and asked the flag bearer to sign the two ships behind him to continue moving forward with his flagship. He turned around and looked into the west. Six sides of the estuary of the Yangtze River were still vaguely visible.

I met the pirates as soon as I went out to sea. Although I was mentally prepared, the pirates came so quickly made Zhang Yu feel a little sad.

Alas, is it a fisherman who is both a pirate or a pirate who is both a fisherman?

He grew up on a boat and was very familiar with water. A few honest fishermen were probably still fishing the moment before, and the next moment they would kill the lonely merchants on the passing boat and sink the corpse to the bottom of the water.

A boatman ferrying at the ferry, seeing a merchant who is alone in transition can take advantage of his unpreparedness and kill people and seize wealth. These days, fishermen cannot tell whether he is a good person or a bad person.

There are ** in the river and pirates in the sea, so they made full preparations for this trip. Any ship that ignores the warning will be regarded as pirates.

Zhang Yu walked into the cabin under the deck, and there were five wooden boxes in the middle. Each wooden box had a metal can the size of a rice tank, inside which was a "water platform" made of three metal rings wrapped together.

No matter how bumpy the hull is, the water platform can always be kept level, and one of the metal boxes, the size of a wine jar, is a clock that can move normally on the bumpy sea.

"How, is it broken?"

"Lieutenant, all five clocks are running."

“Are all the five-clock departure accurate?”

"Lieutenant, it's already wrong to have a clock leave."

Zhang Yu was speechless when he heard this. The man said that such clocks should be able to withstand bumps on the sea and would not be damaged, but they may not be able to walk accurately. He thought that he could last at least a few days after entering the sea before a problem occurred, but now there is one inaccurate situation.

It is said that if the clock of a pendulum is bumped, it is easy to be inaccurate. Therefore, the five clocks on Zhang Yu's boat are made of another structure of escapement. Of course, he does not understand what structures the "escaper" has.

In order to ensure reliability, such a clock is very large, and the water platform is so large that it looks like a rice cylinder, and the cost is also very high. The production cost of each clock is over 10,000 jin, mainly because the yield rate of various accessories is too low.

Then he put five units on the ship in one breath, in order to meet the time with the millstone-sized sundial on the ship after arriving at the destination.

Zhang Yu didn't quite understand the intention of the Langzhu, but he would execute without hesitation. Just as the Langzhu asked him if he would risk his life to go out to sea, he nodded without hesitation.

He has already become a family, and his wife gave birth to a baby at the end of last year. Zhang Yu, who has been favored by the man-in-law, is willing to go through fire and water even if there is a sea of ​​swords and fire in front of him.

Except for a few of the three ships, the others were from coastal fishermen, and like Zhang Yu, they were all from the Xiangyang Navy Army of that time.

Most people went to Jiankang last year and took large ships to sea to do "adaptive training". After practicing hard for so long, they finally had the opportunity to perform the tasks arranged by the boss.

It is also a boat trip, but not in the Yangtze River, but on the turbulent sea. Once the boat capsizes, there is no possibility of survival.

Everyone wrote a suicide note, cut off a strand of head and wrapped it in cloth to stay in Xiyang. If you can't come back this time, then at least you can have a thought for your parents or wife and children.

Their route was neither going south along the coast nor going north along the coast, but heading eastward into the Hei Shui Ocean and heading to the Japan country above the East.

Zhang Yu had the honor to be there in that country, so he was fully in charge of the command this time, and the large ship he was riding was also a new type of ship that had been tested in the waters near the estuary in Huangzhou.

Walking to the deck again, Zhang Yu came to a man who was observing the sun with a strange instrument, which was measuring the "latitude".

At noon, this instrument can be used to measure the angle between the horizon and the sun shadow to obtain the "latitude" of the location. Now it is noon, which is exactly the time to observe.

As long as you measure the latitude at the estuary of the Yangtze River and then keep the ships going eastward, you can reach the southwest end of the big island west of Japan.

Walk north along the large island called "Zhu Zi" and arrive at the northwest edge. There is a harbor called Bodo, which is the harbor that was blown by the wind by the large ship that Zhang Yu and Langzhu Yuwen Wen.

Zhang Yu knew the "latitude" and heard from the Langzhu that there was still "longitude", but there was no suitable instrument to measure the longitude, so they could only sail according to the "latitude" this time.

According to the Langzhu Yuwen Wen, this is called "avaling at the same time as the latitude".

"Have the latitude measured?"

"It's been tested and recorded."

Zhang Yu nodded and took out something like a pocket watch from his arms. This thing is called a "compass". There is oil sealed in the watch body. A single-shaped pointer floats in the middle, and its ends can point to the south and north.

"Lieutenant, the wind is blowing in the southeast!"
Chapter completed!