Before the time came, the battalion of the land division and the battalion of the navy division had already begun to make noise.

Wang Xinyu, who woke up from his sleep, took out the pocket watch that Albert gave him and glanced at the time, it was only half past four in the morning.

Pocket watches are a good thing, since they came to this era, they have used hours, two hours are an hour, and a quarter of an hour is half an hour, Wang Xinyu feels a little unaccustomed. Now with the pocket watch given to him by the British, he has returned to his original concept of time.

The fireheads in the barracks make fires to cook, steaming white rice porridge is boiling in pots, and fragrant white flour steamed buns are steaming in steamers. The clay pot with pickles is opened, and the pickles inside are poured onto a plate. There are also small plates on the stone table, in which side dishes such as tofu milk, dried fish, and shrimp skin are placed. The gate of the barracks was opened, and the men who got up early came one after another, and they wanted to have breakfast with the soldiers in the barracks, and then set out after eating.

Busy until half past five in the morning, the soldiers and people who were about to go out gathered together, eating pickles and side dishes, snoring loudly to drink porridge, and eating steamed buns. By six o'clock in the morning, everyone had finished breakfast.

Wang Xinyu stood on the platform and issued an order before the expedition.

Afterwards, a long line of soldiers and minzhuang lined up along the gangplank to board the boat moored at the dockside.

Wang Xinyu took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, it was not half past six, and the departure time was Chenshi, that is, seven o'clock in the morning, and there was still more than half an hour.

The seven large ships were full, and the bilges of the ships were filled with supplies, fresh water, and cargo; The soldiers' cabins were crowded with small soldiers and men, and the extra space was used to stack goods. On the upper deck, the gunners laid their bunks here. For the rest of the voyage, most of the gunners and sailors had to stay on the upper deck, because their quarters were already occupied by the land division and the people, and the ship's gunners and sailors had to sleep on the open deck. There were also lighter goods, such as silk and silk, which were packed in wooden boxes and placed on the upper deck. These wooden boxes were turned into beds for gunners and sailors, on whom they spread mats and blankets.

In the helm tower, in addition to the captain, there are also officers of the Marine Battalion. The cleanest toilet on every ship is also in the helmhouse, where the tail protrudes from the sea, and the waste is discharged directly into the sea. There was also a toilet in the ship's inner cabin, which had a disgustingly dirty toilet. Now I don't know where the toilet was thrown to, and the toilet has been flushed and turned into a cargo hold.

The 400 material Daifuku ship is Wang Xinyu's main ship, there are a total of six ships on this expedition, a 400 material Daifu ship, when fighting, there are ballast stones at the bottom of the ship, carrying a crew of 60 to 90 people. Now the ballast stones have long been removed and replaced with boxes of ceramics. Each ship carried nearly 100 tons of cargo and a hundred and sixty people, all of whom had to be crammed to the upper deck.

Wang Xinyu's Chinese warship is a large ship of 800 materials, which usually carries 120 people, but now it is crowded with 200 people and 200 tons of cargo.

Although each ship is well arranged, it is still very crowded.

The wharf was crowded with family members who had come to see them off, especially those who were strong and did not know when their loved ones would return. People waved at their loved ones on board, and some had tears in their eyes.

Wang Xinyu took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, and the pointer pointed to 6:50.

"The hour is coming! Tell the ships to pull anchor and untie the cables! Wang Xinyu gave Li Rui an order.

"No!" Li Rui stepped back.

Flags waved, and ships rang bells.

With the sound of the "dang dang dang" opening bell, the gangplank connecting the ship to the dock was put away, the auxiliaries on the pier untied the cable, and the sailors on the ship began to slowly retract the cable.

At the same time, the anchor chains were pulled up by the sailors, and the sails of the battleships began to slowly rise.

On the dock, there was a commotion among the people who saw them off, waving their hands at the battleship that was about to sail away, shouting loudly, and some of them had even begun to cry bitterly. Suddenly, Wang Xinyu found his mother, sister, Zhang Yan, and even his younger brother in the crowd of people seeing him off on the dock!

It's his own brother! Now the sturdy young man who is now called Wang Zihao.

The younger brother rushed towards the battleship that was about to set sail, waving his hand vigorously, as if he had a thousand words to say to his brother in his heart.

Wang Zihao rushed back home in the morning, and when he got home, he immediately took his mother and sister and hurried to the dock, but he still couldn't say a word to Wang Xinyu.

"Sail!" Wang Xinyu endured the sourness in his heart and gave an order ruthlessly.

The sailors pressed their thick bamboo poles on the pier, and a gap appeared between the ship and the pier, and as the gap grew larger, the foaming sea gently lapped against the hull and the pier.

Looking at Wang Zihao and Zhang Yan standing on the dock, Wang Xinyu suddenly had an idea: The two of them are quite a good match, so let my younger brother marry Zhang Yan in the future! But that's for later, so I'll talk about it when I get back.

The ships were getting farther and farther away from the docks, and their speed gradually increased. After only a few moments, the pier behind him had shrunk, and the people standing on the pier turned into small black dots.

The huge Chinese battleship ploughed through the white waves and headed west. When passing through the Lujiang waterway between Xiamen Port and Gulangyu Island, the large and small warships of the Zheng army moored on both sides waved their flags one after another, and the big ships also fired cannons to see off the expeditionary fleet.

About an hour later, the fleet passed through the mouth of the Kowloon River.

Wang Xinyu looked in the direction of the Jiulong River, only to see that it was crowded with Zheng Jun's large and small warships, and from time to time there was white smoke rising, and Zheng Jun's big ships opened artillery bombardment on the Qing troops facing each other on the shore. Looking at the shore again, the green flag of the Qing army did not dare to approach at all, but only dared to hide far away. Occasionally, a probe horse who was not afraid of death entered the range of the fleet, and was shelled by the main fleet of the Zheng army.

"Da Su was restrained by King Yanping, and Brother Chen is safe over there! The Tartars moved the Fujian Governor's Mansion to Zhangzhou, but they still couldn't spare their hands to deal with Brother Chen. It is estimated that the main force of the Tartars will be transferred from the north, and it will be next year. Wang Xinyu pointed to Zheng Chenggong's main fleet facing the Qing army in the Jiulong River and said to the soldiers around him.

But Wang Xinyu didn't say a word in his heart: When the main force of the Tartars enters Fujian, it is estimated that Shunzhi will ascend to heaven, right? If I remember correctly, Shunzhi ascended to heaven in February of the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, that is, next year. After Shunzhi ascended to heaven, he still used the era name of the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, and he had to wait for a year to pass and the new year to begin, before he could use the era name of the first year of Kangxi. That is, the little emperor Kangxi, who had just ascended the throne, could not use his own era name for nearly a year.

However, Wang Xinyu seems to think that he has been a little misremembered before, because some online information in his previous life said that Shunzhi was deceived by Dasu and was angry to death, and it was Dasu who claimed to have killed Zheng Chenggong, but at this time, the news of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan came and he was angry to death.

In fact, the so-called Shunzhi was angry to death by Dasu and Zheng Chenggong, all of which were gossip, and there was even gossip that Shunzhi was killed in Xiamen.

The real history is that because of the successive deaths of Aiko and Concubine Dong E, Shunzhi's spirit was hit, his body deteriorated, his resistance was seriously reduced, and then he contracted smallpox and died. And Kangxi, who had smallpox when he was a child, was elected as the crown prince because he had smallpox and would not die young, so Xiaozhuang chose Kangxi instead of the second elder brother Afu.

The so-called Concubine Dong E is Dong Xiaowan, Shunzhi became a monk, Kangxi went to Wutai Mountain to find his father, and Chen Jinnan is strong in martial arts, Feng Xifan is even more courageous, and Chongzhen's daughter Ah Jiu became a one-armed god, these are all apocryphal fabrications of wild history and martial arts novelists. In fact, Concubine Dong E and Dong Xiaowan have nothing to do with each other; Shunzhi didn't go at all, but the monk died a long time ago; Chen Jinnan doesn't know martial arts at all; Although Feng Xifan's martial arts are strong, when he meets Cai Jiuyi and Hong Xiguan, he is not even a fart; As for the so-called one-armed god Nia Jiu, whose real name is Zhu Yujiao, he doesn't know any martial arts at all, and he died a long time ago because he missed his parents, and he didn't become a one-armed god or nun at all, these are all made up by a certain martial arts novelist.

The fleet left the mouth of the Kowloon River and gradually sailed into the depths of the sea.

Wang Xinyu stood in the captain's room in the helm tower, looking at the charts on the table.

"During our voyage, there are two small islands, Dongsha Island and Huangyan Island, which can supply us with fresh water. The first stop is Dongsha Island, the second stop is Huangyan Island, and then, we first enter Dingguo Bay, unload the Minzhuang and the marine battalion on the ship, and build fortifications. After the fortifications were built, the people could start to settle the fields. And we left four ships, and the remaining three went to Manila to sell goods. Wang Xinyu traced the chart from Dongsha Island to Huangyan Island, and finally landed his finger on a bay 100 kilometers north of Manila on Luzon.

Li Rui asked, "My lord, aren't we going to Macau?" ”

"If you don't go to Macau for the time being, go to Luzon Island first! We'll come back and go to Macau. ”

"Manila is also a Franco, right?" Gong Xiaoda asked.

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "Don't be a Franco, in fact, the Tessie people are divided into several types, the Tessie people are British, French, Prussian, red-haired ghosts are those pirate countries in Northern Europe, and the Netherlands is just one of the countries." And the Franco-Mechanics are divided into Portuguese and Spaniards. In Macau it is the Portuguese, and in Manila the Francois are actually Spaniards. In addition, the hair of the red-haired ghost is not red, it is golden, and those in Northern Europe are purebred Europa. The Franc and the other Ctesi, with the exception of the Prussians, who were more pure-blooded, were somewhat mixed-race, so their hair was brown and black, and their eyes were not as blue as those in Northern Europe. ”

"How do you know so much?" Li Rui admired it very much.

Wu Haodong pulled Li Rui aside and whispered in his ear, "Haven't you heard of it?" It is said that Lord Wang is the son of the god of the sea! The son of the god of the sea, can you know much? ”

"What son of the sea god?" Gong Xiaoda corrected and said, "It's obviously the reincarnation of the sea god!" Master Chen said this in private! ”

"Isn't that right?" Li Rui's eyes widened, "The Seagod Niangniang is a woman, that is, Mazu Niangniang, how can it be our Lord Wang?" ”

"Guanyin can become a man when he is reincarnated! What's so strange about Mazu being reincarnated as a man! Gong Xiaoda knocked a chestnut on the back of Li Rui's head.

Obviously, Wang Xinyu was a disciple of Mazu at the beginning, and he was falsely rumored, and the words that were passed on in private have long changed.

Because the fleet did not follow the shipping lines of the Dutch, but looked for islands with fresh water in the South China Sea according to Wang Xinyu's own charts, they were lucky not to run into the Dutch.

On the way, two merchant ships passed, both of which were ships flying the Portuguese flag, and the Portuguese were friendly to the Ming fleet, and asked questions in the language of the flag, and then passed by.

But Wang Xinyu didn't know that in fact, at night, a Dutch fleet passed by, but neither side found each other.

After a long voyage of three days and two nights, the fleet arrived at the waters of the Dongsha Islands marked by Wang Xinyu himself. But the fleet did not find any islands in the sea.

Wu Haodong asked, "My lord, the location you said is not wrong, right?" Why didn't you find the island? ”

"There may be a deviation!" Wang Xinyu looked at the chart, "Let's look around, it's getting dark, we can find the island, and it's good to let the brothers go ashore and sleep for the night." Many of the brothers have been sleeping on the deck these days. ”

The flotilla searched the vicinity for more than an hour, and also lowered three oars to row fast boats and searched the surrounding waters. Finally, before it got dark, someone discovered the island.

"Found the island! Let's go up! Wu Haodong said excitedly.

Li Rui said admiringly: "Of course! Lord Wang is the reincarnation of a god, and he is sure of the spirit! ”

The flotilla sailed to the vicinity of the largest island in the archipelago, lowered its anchor chains, anchored the large ships at sea, and rowed small boats full of soldiers to the beach ahead.

After arriving on Dongsha Island, the soldiers laid down wooden stakes, set up tents, and set up a simple camp. The sailors and gunners slept on deck for three days and two nights, and at night they could get a good night's sleep on the shore.

The soldier in charge of digging the well dug it down, and soon the groundwater was dug up.

"Fresh water! Sure enough, there is fresh water! The soldiers shouted excitedly.

Wang Xinyu tasted it and found that although the fresh water was a little salty, it was still drinkable and could replenish some of the fresh water on the ship. As for the next step, let's wait until we go to Scarborough Shoal. The water quality over there is definitely better than here.