The Three Kingdoms

"Both of you are lunatics, so I regret it a little." Zhou Yu smiled wryly, but his gaze was firm.

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Three days later, nearly 8000 people from the Jiangdong Navy, including civilian husbands and craftsmen, as well as some fishermen and shipbuilders recruited in Dongzhi who often live at sea, set off.

The army set sail as scheduled and crossed Yizhou eastward.

(One update today, there are a lot of things in the past two days, some of them are too late, but starting tomorrow, I will definitely resume the third update!)

[Text 1 Chapter Seventy at Sea!storm! ]

On the boundless sea, the night is dark, the wind is full of the sky, and the waves are surging.

In the storm, there are many big waves, one pile after another, picking up the waves several feet high, the waves cover the sky, and they are destroyed together. One group is mainly composed of two large-scale ships and nearly 2 people. The fleet seemed a little helpless at this moment, but it was like a light boat, amidst the turbulence of the waves, it couldn't help it at all.

The tiger ship was swaying. On the deck, Sun Quan and Sun Ce stood side by side, barely able to stabilize their figure, while Xu Sheng brought dozens of elite tiger warriors to stand behind them.

Zhou Yu's figure stood at the front, looking around in the dark surroundings. In the stormy sea, facing the generals under his command, he was directing the fleet, making the warships keep avoiding the heavy waves.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, both the A-shaped fleet and the T-shaped fleet were scattered by the waves and could not form a formation. There are still several warships in their fleet that have been damaged by the powerful waves and are now sinking. "

A navy officer came up in a hurry and reported, "The wind and waves are too strong, and the battleships cannot rely on them. There are still hundreds of soldiers on the sinking warships, and there are still a lot of reserves on them." Food and fresh water, we can't make it through, what should we do?"

"Let the big boats of the Taihu rush over, and then use the iron cables to train all the warships used into a straight line. The iron cables connect the boats, put horizontal boards, save people first, don't worry about the others, and pick people up as soon as possible. come over!"

Zhou Yu looked at the warships that were swaying in the overlapping waves in front of him, and he reacted quickly, and immediately shouted loudly: "Be careful, don't miss one, if it is impossible, use the rope to release the boat, Use a lifebuoy to rescue people."

Sun Quan made some simple life buoys out of thin leather, which are very practical.

"promise!"

The soldier immediately went down and began to prepare for rescue.

"Brother Gongjin, several fleets were scattered by the wind and waves tonight. Is there much damage?"

It was also the first time for Sun Ce and Sun Quan to face such a harsh environment. Sun Quan was a little flustered, but his expression was still stable. He narrowed his eyes and asked hastily.

This huge fleet is centered on two large ships, and the fighting ships below are the main ones, forming small fleets, named after A, B, C, Ding..., lingering around the buildings.

A warship of the size of a fighting ship can still support it, but hundreds of warships are much more dangerous, and can only be connected together with iron cables.

This is already the seventh night of the fleet going to sea. In the previous few days, the weather was relatively calm, but starting from this afternoon, the wind was heavy, the waves were surging, and the storm was raging. The sails had to be lowered, and the fleet could not sail at all.

"Zhongmou, our fleet has sunk three warships so far, and the number of casualties is still unknown."

Zhou Yu had some experience in commanding the navy for more than a year, but it was the first time to go to sea. His handsome face was a little tired, but also a little gloomy. He looked at the waves and sighed: "This time the wind and waves make me feel like I'm here." Since we went to sea, the biggest storm was too destructive. Even the Tiger and the Taihu could not hold on. Although the battleships and warships below were connected by iron cables, there were still a lot of damage. If we go down, we'll be in big trouble."

"This is the sea! A threat from nature."

Sun Quan's gaze shot out a cold light, and he said in a firm voice: "No matter how dangerous or difficult it is, we will hold on. As long as we can survive this time, the future will be fast. Believe me, we have already left now." Most of the journey, less than three days, must be able to reach the place."

"Zhongmou, we still have enough food, but we obviously don't have enough fresh water. It will take ten days at most. If we don't find a place in ten days, then our fresh water will be in a hurry." Zhou Yu's eyes moved, and he said in a low voice. .

The previous voyage to Zhoushan was too short, so it was not considered going to sea at all. This was the first time to go to sea worthy of the name, so they had enough food, but they were still a little negligent in preparing for fresh water.

"Second brother, if the fleet travels for another three days and still can't find Yizhou, we must choose to return, otherwise we will face the danger of water shortage." Sun Ce's eyes moved, his expression was firm, and he said firmly.

"It's the right direction, and I believe we can find a place."

Sun Quan grinned, raised his head, and looked up at the gloomy sky. A confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said: "Brother, you go to calm people's hearts first. It is estimated that this big wave has made many people aware of the dangers at sea. People's hearts are uncertain, and many people are retreating in their hearts. By the way, you have to smile and don't be too sullen. If we don't even have confidence in ourselves, how can the people below have confidence!"

"I understand, I'll let them settle down!"

Sun Ce naturally understood this, showed a forced smile, nodded, and hurried down, his identity, his ability, these things could not help him.

"Brother Gongjin, where is the chart we marked?" On the waves, Sun Quan walked into the rickety cabin from above the deck. Inside the cabin, a lantern was shaking and the light was dim. Zhou Yu asked.

"Here!" Zhou Yu took a map from a soldier and spread it out on the desk. Under the dim light, both of them could see the map clearly.

"Brother Gongjin, guess where we should be now?" Sun Quan asked, staring at the map.

Zhou Yu's gaze was also fixed on this map. This map was marked little by little after going out to sea. He reached out and took out a compass in his arms, and looked at the pointer of the compass. Pointing, said: "That direction is north. If the direction is correct, after we go out to sea, the general direction should be east. , it’s hard to confirm, we’ve passed by four islands, all of which are small islands, and we’ve marked them with landmarks and formed a line, the direction should be southeast, if the guess is correct, we should be in…”

Zhou Yu pointed at the map, pointing at the southeast corner of the Dongzhi County sea area, and said: "Here! It should not be far from Yizhou, that is to say, if our direction is correct , and if the picture you drew, Zhongmou, is correct, Yizhou is at this location, then we can log in to Yizhou in at most one day."

"Wen Xiang."

Sun Quan heard the words, squinted his eyes, looked at the map, and suddenly yelled.

"Here!" Xu Sheng was just outside the cabin, upon hearing this, he walked in quickly.

"Go to Houcang, and get the three fishermen I talked to a few days ago, and tell them that I have something to ask them."

Sun Quan knew that on the vast sea, the more critical the time, the more cautious he should be. Although the storm was big, but with Tiger and Taihu, their fleet could not be broken up.

But if they can't find the most accurate direction, then their fleet will get lost at sea sooner or later.

Sun Quan believed in his own memory, but after all, this was the era of 800 years ago, and the terrain must have changed a lot. If he didn't grasp it well, something would definitely go wrong.

"promise!"

Xu Sheng walked down quickly, and within a quarter of an hour, he brought three fishermen from Dongzhi in.

Over the past few hundred years, the fishermen of Dongzhi and Jiaozhou have all gone out to sea to fish, encountered wind and waves, and drifted on the sea, and many of them have drifted to Yizhou and returned.

The isolated island in Yizhou was brought back to the Central Plains by word of mouth by the fishermen who survived.

The so-called Yi in Yizhou means barbarians.

When Sun Quan was in Dongzhi, he recruited a group of fishermen to board the boat. During this time, he got to know them one by one. These fishermen still knew a little about the sea. The Central Plains that can float back from Yizhou.

"Uncle Bai, please tell me about the situation in Yizhou back then." Under the dim light, Sun Quan's face was like a crown of jade, soft and indifferent, he looked at the man in the middle of the three, and asked.

This man, about fifty years old, with dark skin and a thin figure, took a step forward and said with a wry smile: "My lord, we have already talked about what happened back then, and the few of us can go to Yizhou, and we can also go to Yizhou from Yizhou." It's pure luck that Zhou came back, and we don't quite understand the things involved."

"Then tell me about the time you spent floating in the sea, and, have you seen any special landmarks or something, and what do you remember?" Sun Quan continued to ask.

"Young master, when we went out to sea to fish, we didn't go very far, but suddenly there was a big storm, and our fishing boat drifted there. We tried to find a way, but we couldn't find it. Later, there were not enough fishing boats. It was solid, but it fell apart in the wind and waves. The five or sixty people on board all died. The three of us hugged the biggest piece of driftwood and drifted with the wind and waves for three days before arriving at an island, which is Yizhou. .”

"Wind direction, what was the wind direction at that time, do you still remember clearly?" Sun Quan asked.

"My lord, when we were in a hurry to survive, how could we remember this?" A burly man with a sharp nose on the left shook his head and said, "We thought we were going to die with a piece of rotten wood in our arms, but when we woke up, It's Yizhou."

"Then how did you come back?" Zhou Yu asked suddenly.

"Because there are people in Yizhou."

The short fisherman at the end said in a low voice: "And there are quite a few people, like us, they all traveled from the Central Plains a long time ago, and have lived there for many years. The three of us People remember the people at home, so they try their best to go home. They not only gave us food, but also gave us a fishing boat. We prepared food and water for a month, and floated on the sea for more than a month. Fortunately, we finally came from On the shore in Jiaozhou, I returned home."