The sky is blue, with only a few clouds floating with the breeze, and they are changing shapes from time to time, sometimes like rushing wild horses, sometimes like towering giant mountains, sometimes like huge flowers blooming in the air. Qin Feng has no image of an emperor, and is lying on the top deck in a strong suit, enjoying the sunshine comfortably. It is said that after the beginning of winter, there is rarely such a good weather. The sun shines on his body, warm, and the wind is not strong, but with a hint of chill. However, people walking on the sea feel more warm than those on the shore.

The main sails of the Taiping and Changyang ships had enough wind power and were slashing the waves forward and moving forward quickly. The Taiping ship was the first ship launched in the Ming Dynasty. It was named by Qin Feng himself. The second battleship had not been named yet. This time he went to sea, Qin Feng gave this honor to Ma Xiangnan. This guy happily immediately named the ship Changyang without hesitation.

The people who operated the warships were all very experienced sailors. The Zhou family and his son each commanded a warship. The vast sea was empty. Apart from these two warships, they could not even see one of the sampans. However, Qin Feng knew very well that it would not take long to encounter surprises.

There is General One-Eyed Dragon, a former caravan guard leader and part-time pirate, whose goals are clear.

Now it is very relaxed on the warships. Within the eyes of the sight, the sailors operating the ships skillfully adjust the sail positions and courses, while making jokes loudly, laughing and fighting without any preparation.

Compared with these sailors, the guards of the Fire Death Camp who went to sea for the first time were much more serious. They sat rows on the deck, meticulously checking their equipment. There was nothing to check, so they pulled out their knife, took out their skin, and wiped them one by one.

In addition to the bottom deck, the latest crossbows were installed on the second and third floors. Several soldiers were fiddling there. The crossbows that could have rotated without dead corners on the ship could only turn 270 degrees. The box with crossbow arrows was fixed on the base of the crossbow. Originally, there was no fixed on the shore. Adding a crossbow box would increase the weight by dozens of kilograms. However, on the ship, there was no such concern. Moreover, there were often winds and waves on the sea, and various situations would also occur during combat. If fixed, it would be more conducive to combat.

The crossbow soldiers were carefully inspecting every part of the crossbow machine. Things have two sides. If there is a good side, there will inevitably be a bad side. Just like the new crossbow machine equipped by the Ming army now has a fast firing speed and no dead corners, but there is a big problem, that is, this thing is too precise. Anything that is too precise is the most easily damaged thing. If you accidentally maintain it, you may strike for you at any time.

Several sailors were squatting in front of the crossbowmen, gathering in the meeting place to watch the crossbowmen checking and maintaining the crossbow machines. In their opinion, it was really a rare thing that such crossbow machines could shoot the crossbow arrows without their usual bowstrings.

The crossbowmen rolled their eyes at them, took apart the guardrail outside the crossbow machine, looked at the gears that were biting each other one inside, and looked at the pressure springs one by one. The sailors widened their eyes and looked confused. The crossbowmen looked down at them from a high point, smiling proudly.

You dead crabs, a while ago, mocked us so ashamed that they were so sad that they made me jump into the sea. I was also defeated today, don’t you understand?

"Brother, do you want to give it a try?" The crossbow soldier slapped the crossbow machine and laughed.

The sailor was overjoyed, "Is it OK? Can we do it?"

"Of course, a crossbow machine costs about 200 taels of silver. If it is broken, it will only deduct your military pay." The crossbow soldier said with a smile.

The sailor's hand stretched out immediately shrank back. Fuck your mother, two hundred taels of silver. Look at the stuff inside, if you accidentally break one, it will not make people live. More importantly, the crossbow soldier in front of him looked malicious.

The sailors suddenly remembered that when they trained these crossbow soldiers these days and helped them adapt to the sea battle, they had been very much in charge. Now, he was obviously trying to get back the venue!

"No, I have specialized in my skills, so I'll get my sail!" The sailor looked at the other party's pride of plot, held his head high, and left with smugness. "Brother, do you want me to teach you how to go up and down?" As he said, the sailor was like a clever monkey, climbing on the ropes on the sail and climbing up.

"You dead monkey, you are quite clever!" The crossbow soldiers laughed and cursed for a few times, then lowered their heads and carefully checked the small parts one by one. When they boarded the boat, the craftsmen from Taiping City warned them that the sea water was very salty and the salt was heavy, so it was easy for their crossbow machine to have problems and must be maintained at all times.

These soldiers in charge of the battle looked no different from other sailors, taking off their armor and wearing barefoot boards.

The commander of Ma Hou, the personal guard camp, had an objection to not wearing armor, but Zhou Li said just one sentence, leaving Ma Hou speechless.

"Master Ma, if you jump into the sea in armor and still float a few steps on the water, you will have no objection." Zhou Li smiled badly at the time.

The Mahou immediately turned black. The armor of their personal guard camp was at least twenty or thirty kilograms. Wearing such heavy armor, he could still float when he jumped into the water. Even if he could float, he would definitely exhaust his energy to sink into the water like a stone.

This time it was a water battle, and no one could guarantee that they would stay on the boat. If they accidentally fell into the water, they were not killed but drowned, it would have become a big joke.

Qin Feng didn't bother to pay attention to the harmless ridicule of these soldiers. In his opinion, this was another way for soldiers to communicate their feelings.

At this moment, he was staring at an unknown seabird on the mainmast, hovering at the highest point with one foot, and actually holding a fish in his mouth, tilting his head to look at the person below.

I don't look very afraid of people!

Qin Feng felt that the sea was really good, at least he felt inexplicably open up now, including blue sky, clear water, water birds, waves, and of course, big fish that jumped out of the water from time to time.

After sitting up straight, I could see Huo Guang not far away sitting on the deck fishing. Since this guy overcame the problem of seasickness, sitting on the boat sailing and shaking his legs has become his biggest hobby.

Qin Feng couldn't stand this kind of character, so he prefers to build a big net, and if there is one net, it will be effective immediately. This idea was of course ruthlessly ridiculed by Huo Guang.

However, Qin Feng still insisted on his own view.

Mahou walked to Qin Feng, looked at the endless sea, and said in a daze: "Your Majesty, I, I really don't argue about the east, south, west, north, now."

Qin Feng pointed to the sun in the sky, "Look at it, don't you still argue about the east, south, west and north?"

"With him here, I naturally know that if there are stars at night, I can argue, but what if it is cloudy? What should I do if there is no sun or stars? There were no sun or stars two days ago. The blind man wouldn't have taken us to the wrong door this week, right? It's been several days, let alone pirates, I haven't even seen many birds! Your Majesty, if you go the wrong way, how can we go back then?" Mahou was full of worries.

"Zhou Li and the others are old men on the sea, or they have other ways besides the common sense that we know how to distinguish directions, but we just don't understand." Qin Feng said unconsciously, "Do you see his calm appearance, as if he is lost?"

"That's right!" Mahou looked down and looked at Zhou Li standing straight on the bridge of the two-ship below, holding the railings, and nodded. "Look at that look, it seems to be confident. Your Majesty, I am just stuffy and uncomfortable. I can't see anything except water. I always feel panic. In the past, there were mountains, water, trees, flowers, and people on the land, but here there was nothing but water."

"So it's not that easy to be a sailor." Qin Feng nodded: "Zhou Li said that it was common for them to go out to sea before, and it was a common thing for several months to float on the sea. You have only been going out to sea for a few days."

The horse monkey jumped up, lay on the railing, looking into the distance, "It seems that I am not this material, but I'm still steadily on the ground. If I have been floating on the sea for several months, I will be crazy. Huh?"

"What's wrong? Mahou, what did you see?" Qin Feng asked. Almost at the same time, the lookout whistle at the top of the mast also blew a short whistle. It was not that the enemy's signal was discovered, but that there were other signs of discovery.

"Your Majesty, there are a lot of things floating in front of you. Oh, ah, dead people, I'll go, why are there so many dead people, one, two, three, four, five... Your Majesty, seven or eight dead bodies floated on a string!"

Qin Feng also stood up, walked to the mast, and looked into the distance. Among the waves, there were not only dead bodies, but also many fragments, a large area of ​​scatteredness.

"I finally saw a few outsiders, but they were dead." Ma Hou murmured.

The Taiping Ship began to slow down. Several sailors stood on the deck of the first floor with a long rod with hooks. The dead bodies floated nearby and hooked them with the poles and dragged them onto the boat one by one.

"What are they doing? Get the dead body onto the boat?" Ma Hou's eyes widened.

"Didn't you just say that you haven't seen people for a few days? Now that you've seen people, you have to figure it out. Look at the appearance of these people, you don't drown in the water, but were killed."

"Pirate!" Mahou suddenly became excited.

"Maybe it was the stolen businessman." Qin Feng said with a smile.
Chapter completed!