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Chapter 159 The stumbled pioneer

The vast ocean is calm.

A huge fleet is slowly moving forward on the vast sea.

Since mankind learned to contact the sea with production labor, the sea, which occupied two-thirds of the earth's area, was the most mysterious thing in the mind of mankind for more than ten thousand years.

It is precisely because of the mystery that we are in awe.

Unlike humans' exploration of land, facing the sea, it was not until more than a thousand years later that humans began to learn to walk from land to light blue, and then move from light blue to deep blue.

The history of mankind's navigation is actually a history of progress in the Ming Dynasty.

Although this fleet is huge enough in today's era, it can even be said to be the most deserving world number one, compared with the sea that cannot be seen at a glance at the bottom of the ship, it is like a drop in the ocean.

In the center of the huge fleet are six huge sea ships more than twenty feet long, with high masts standing like forests. Hundreds of towering ships, more than ten feet in size, scattered around these six giant ships like stars arched by the moon.

On the mast of the six giant ships, there was a huge black pennant flying high above the fleet. The small seal script with the big "Qin" in the middle of the black pennant is particularly eye-catching.

This strange fleet is naturally the Jia Hantengshe Army fleet that departs from the Huangxian Shipyard to travel east.

More than three months have passed since leaving Huangxian Shipyard in mid-June. Apart from the endless sea water, there is still sea water. If there were no sunrise and sunset every day, Jia Han would have forgotten what day it is.

As the commander of the first "navy" of Daqin, General Tengshe Jia Han was undoubtedly the biggest pressure in this fleet. He knew very well what the emperor asked his nearly 30,000 people to go to sea for.

The Navy, this name, was spoken by the emperor when Jia Han left Xianyang before he met the emperor.

It's not a boatman, nor a navy, but a navy. Jia Han is also very clear about what the change in the name means.

Everyone thought that Jia Han went out to sea to capture Xu Fu, who deceived the First Emperor. Only Jia Han himself knew that Xu Fu was actually not as important in the emperor's heart as the ministers in the court imagined. Although it is undeniable that Jia Han could hear unconcealed and even a little inexplicable disgust from the emperor's tone when he spoke to Xu Fu.

The Navy will become a very important military in the Qin army. Yes, it is a military military. This sentence is also what Jia Han heard from the emperor. Adapting to the sea environment, drawing a naval chart, and exploring a complete set of training and naval combat tactics is the core task assigned by Hu Hai to Jia Han.

Obviously, in the emperor's heart, the Tengshe Army will be the pioneer of the Qin Navy, and the training of the Qin Navy will be carried out in the future with the Tengshe Army as the blue one.

It has to be said that the emperor's expectations for him made Jia Han grateful, but more of it was pressure and fighting spirit.

The three-month long sea trip made everyone lose weight and black. Jia Han was no exception.

After these elite soldiers selected from the Nanhai Tower Boats arrived at the sea, they found that the sea was in the river and the training roots in the lake were two different things. Originally, the tower boatmen with good water fell most of the time on the bumpy sea on the third day of going to sea.

As for the more than 2,000 mysterious soldiers of Xuanniao Camp and Gangshawk, which were not very good at water, were wiped out on the ground, and the entire fleet was shrouded in the shadow of seasickness. They vomited until they were weak, and they could only vomit yellow bitter bile water, but they were still vomiting.

The soldiers of the Qin Dynasty felt the feeling of no way to the sky and no way to the ground for the first time on the vast sea, on the lonely sea boat. The continuous seasickness and vomiting also knocked down a group of senior generals including Jia Han, Black Iron and Goshawks.

It can be said that in the first twenty days after leaving Huangxian, the entire fleet vomited and diarrhea due to collective seasickness. He was wandering and advancing on the sea surface of the Korean Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula, which was less than 200 kilometers long.

It was not until more than twenty days later that the soldiers and generals on the ship finally got used to vomiting while vomiting, and they began to truly compare the rough sea chart given by Hu Hai, under the instructions of the compass refined from Shangfang.

Fortunately, the ship was big enough and brought enough supplies. The most important thing was that according to Hu Hai's instructions, Jia Han produced a large batch of bean sprouts on the sea boat for the first time. Although the production of bean sprouts requires fresh water, compared to the Tengshe army soldiers who could only eat meat every day but could not eat a little fresh vegetables, the tender bean sprouts that had never seen before were undoubtedly the most rare delicacy.

The appearance of bean sprouts undoubtedly made the soldiers of the Tengshe Army's awe of the emperor to a higher level. There seems to be nothing in this world that His Majesty did not know? Even the chart seemed to be drawn by His Majesty himself and handed to General Jia.

The most terrifying thing about long-term sailing at sea is actually the lack of vitamin supplements and scurvy. The bean sprouts made by Hu Hai undoubtedly helped these pioneers of Daqin to solve the most difficult problem.

Of course, all the soldiers of the Tengshe Army were not clear about these things.

Because the sea ships are huge enough, the six giant ships carry quite a lot of citrus, live chickens, ducks, and poultry among live sheep. Fresh vegetables are not easy to preserve, so let's dry them. For this time, Hu Hai actually ordered Longwei Mansion to prepare for it a year ago.

Whenever I think of something, I immediately ordered Longwei Mansion to write it down and prepare it to send it to Huangxian Shipyard.

At this time, there were naturally no pirates on the sea. The only thing that needs to be considered is actually the hurricane that is most likely to occur in summer. However, it seems that Jia Han and others are lucky and have not encountered too much storms. They just walked east along the chart and arrived safely at the supply dock prepared for Jia Han.

Xu Chuang prepared more than 50 beacon towers on the coastline that lasted more than 200 miles, and fired beacons every day to remind Jia Han of the lone army. If Jia Han couldn't find it, he would only deserve it.

When they saw Xu Chuang, the soldiers of the Tengshe Army who had always been nervous in their hearts finally felt relieved. Looking back, it seemed that everything was within the emperor's expectations. Then maybe walking along this chart, you can really find the big hid Xu Fu that His Majesty said was.

The increase in confidence greatly accelerates the fleet's speed of moving forward.

All the sea ships in the fleet, whether they are six giant ships or smaller building ships, have paddles in addition to sails. They sail up and row against the wind.

Along the green coastline of the Korean Peninsula, the fleet stumbled and continued to travel eastward, entering Korean seafood, crossing Tsukuma Island, and entering Tsukuma Strait. Although all the things along the way can be seen in the charts drawn by Hu Hai, several iconic large islands are just the same. After seeing Tsukuma Island and landing on the island, Jia Han and others began to quietly become excited.

If the chart is still correct, then the Japanese island in front should be the one where Xu Fu hid.
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