There will be times when the wind blows and the waves break, so hang up your sails and sail across the sea!

Three sea ships traveled overseas, cutting through the rough seas!

Li Bao stood at the bow of the ship, holding a telescope, looking at a vaguely visible black spot in front of him, waving his cloak, and turned back to the command room at the stern of the ship!

He looked at the chart on the wall, compared it with the compass, marked the distance, compared it with a ruler, and gave the order.

"The front is about to reach the destination, order the fleet to maintain speed!"

It was the dusk of the second day, a continuous day and night sailing, hundreds of kilometers away from the coast!

This voyage happened to coincide with the season when the ocean current passed through this place. The frigate's high speed of ten knots would not have taken so long, but the transport ship's top speed was only seven knots. There was no other way but to reduce the speed and escort the ship.

Take these slower transport ships!

The planet where this world is located is larger than the previous world, and each nautical mile should be two kilometers. When it is located in the ocean current and the wind is suitable, coupled with the excellent power system of the battleship, it can achieve such a high speed!

Fourteen kilometers per hour, twenty-six hours a day, and more than three hundred and sixty kilometers in one day and night.

Unfortunately, this is not a good thing every time. When you go out to explore, it would be nice to have five sessions every hour!

And many times, without clearly exploring the route, we don’t dare to drive at night. What if we hit a rock?

Therefore, when going out to sea for exploration in the past, Li Bao's fleet was very cautious and did not dare to travel too fast. It only dared to move at full speed in familiar sea areas!

This is also the reason why it took so long to complete the exploration of the sea areas within a few hundred kilometers of the outer sea!

In fact, in many cases it is not that it cannot travel further, but that in the ocean far away from the coast, the strength of the storm is far from what it was in the previous world. Sea ships of the frigate level are not enough to withstand such storms!

Furthermore, the hardships of a long voyage are not something that ordinary people can understand. Long-term nervous tension, physical fatigue, monotonous food, etc., the total is not something that can be explained in just a few words!

Yang Song also learned about the dangers and difficulties of sailing after hearing Li Bao's story. Therefore, he did not rush Li Bao!

In the early stage, we mainly focused on adaptive navigation, adapting to sea conditions, hydrology, astronomy and other environments. After all, it is a different world, and many standards need to be re-established, such as the length of a nautical mile!

After a year of adapting, Li Bao dared to take the warship on a long voyage, and he never sailed too far each time. After all, sailing and land are two completely different environments!

The ocean is always a place that land creatures yearn for and fear! Its mystery and richness deeply attract humans!

But because of this, the ruthless side of the ocean often appears before human eyes. A small boat in the wind and rain is so inconspicuous and fragile in the eyes of the ocean!

"Yes! Commander!" came the response from the captain of this ship!

The captain turned to the first officer and ordered: "Send a signal and order the fleet to maintain speed!"

"Yes, maintain speed, the signal has been sent!" After the first mate asked the sailor to use a torch to send out quotation marks, he loudly reported that the order had been executed!

After a while, the black spot in the distance slowly grew bigger and turned into a black shadow. The black shadow slowly grew bigger again and turned into an island. When you get closer, you can only see the coastline!

When he was still some distance from the coast of the island, Li Bao ordered: "Lower the anchor, lower the sails, and stop the ship!"

The anchor, weighing several tons, was lowered to the bottom of the sea, and all the sails were lowered. After a period of shaking, the ship's hull came to a complete stop!

Li Bao ordered: "Take a rest tonight and go to the island tomorrow!"

In the early morning of the next day, a light layer of mist floated over the sea, and the small island in front of it was given a sense of mystery in the mist!

Li Bao ordered to set sail. He spent most of the day circling the island and selected a landing point at the southwest corner of the island. Under the afternoon sun, the white sandy beach reflected little crystals.

Beautiful and charming outside!

"Lay down the boat and start landing!"

Following Li Bao's order, the boat and the ladder were put down. The sailors, armed with weapons, lined up one by one to board the boat, neatly waving their oars and paddling towards the charming beach of the island!

After landing, the first thing the sailors did was to explore the surrounding environment and find a suitable place to camp.

Finally, I found a lake in the center. This lake seemed to be formed by a circular crater caused by the impact of a falling meteorite!

After climbing over the top of the crater and looking at the lake in front of them, the sailors stopped and stood here quietly, as if they couldn't bear to break the tranquility from the depths of their hearts that this scene brought to everyone!

The calm water surface of the lake reflects the blue sky above, and a few white clouds slowly drifting by, as if you are already standing on the sky, with the blue sky and white clouds at your feet, making it difficult to tell whether the sky is under your feet or above your head!

After a while, the boatswain broke the silence of the moment: "Go and see if the water is salty?"

After trying it, I found that this is a freshwater lake. No wonder this island will become a habitat for seabirds. There are such rich freshwater resources and relatively calm sea waters around it!

With abundant fish, there are many birds, and with birds, there is this guano island!

According to the exploration in the past few years, this should be an archipelago, with a large island and several volcanic islands further east. It is precisely because these islands effectively delay the manic storms in the depths of the ocean that this becomes like

Pearl of the sea!

Unfortunately, due to the excessive number of birds and the accumulation of guano, there are not many plants on the entire island. Instead, it is overgrown with weeds. Otherwise, the environment here would be much more attractive!

"Let's go and report back to the commander. The river flowing to the sea over there can be used for camping!" The boatswain waved the sword in his hand to his men and walked in the direction he came from!

The boatswain returned to the battleship to report what Li Bao had discovered on the island. Li Bao ordered: "Start landing!"

The two transport ships that received the order launched small boats one after another. Each small boat could carry twenty or thirty people at a time without any problem, and there were a total of eighteen small boats.

Each small boat can only transport twenty indigenous people at a time, but it can also transport 360 indigenous prisoners at a time. A thousand indigenous captives can be transported in only three trips!

The whole afternoon was spent in small boats transporting not only prisoners, but also supplies. Transporting these supplies ashore was the most time-consuming!

Finally, before it got completely dark, we set up a simple camp at the chosen place!

The campground is very simple, just a stretch of tents with no fences, no lookouts, no piers, and no lighthouse!

Light a few more bonfires, warm your body, and eat hot meals! Feeling the sense of security standing on land is the feeling you miss most when sailing on the sea!
Chapter completed!