"Say no more! Lao Zheng! Say this is unlucky on the boat! Meng Guangliang suddenly shouted, and Zheng Jiawei stopped talking when he saw that the muscles on his face were twisted again because of excitement.

"What's wrong? Meng Ye? Several sailors asked with concern.

"Don't talk about this...... Unlucky......" Meng Guangliang muttered.

"Meng Ye has been there, hasn't he?" Wang Antai seemed to understand something and asked.

Meng Guangliang's eyes flashed with horror, and he nodded without thinking.

"The sea and the sky are like turning one by one...... The waves are as high as mountains, and no ship can resist them......"

"Not necessarily, right? I don't believe that what kind of wave can overturn our 'Fuxi'. Wang Antai patted the wall of the cabin and said proudly.

Hearing his words, several young sailors around him also showed pride on their faces.

For them, serving on a super giant ship like the "Fuxi", the pinnacle of China's shipbuilding industry, and the flagship of the Huaxia Navy, is the most proud and proud thing in life.

In the eyes of the sailors, the "Fuxi" is the real "unsinkable ship".

"You don't understand, you don't understand......" Meng Guangliang shook his head and didn't say anything more. Zheng Jiawei waved his hand to everyone, signaling everyone to stop asking and go back to work.

And the sailors did not know what kind of trials they would encounter in the coming time.

On the bridge, although no one among the officers talked about this "unlucky" topic, it did not mean that no one thought about it.

"Grandma's! How did the waves rise at this moment! ”

Chu Yangwei stood in the command tower, looked at the sky like the night sky with black clouds, and cursed.

"This area belongs to the western Pacific wave area, which prevails in the westerly wind belt, and the whole section is an area with relatively large waves," Zhang Enming said, "and further along, it is the 'dragon triangle' that I am talking about." ”

"'Dragon Triangle'?" Chu Yangwei was slightly stunned when he heard this term, he seemed to feel that he had heard of this place somewhere, but he couldn't remember it in a hurry.

"The 'Dragon Triangle' is the legendary 'Demon Sea', a sea area with a high incidence of ship wrecks." Zhang Enming noticed the change in the commander's expression, smiled, and continued, "I say that there is a dragon there, so it is called the 'Dragon Triangle', of course, this is just a legend, but it is true that ships have always wrecked there in the past. ”

As he spoke, he nodded to a staff officer, who found a table in the folder and handed it to Chu Yangwei.

"This is a list of our ships that have been wrecked or missing in this area in recent years." The staff officer said, "The chief of staff asked for the record." ”

"These lights are ours, and there are more of them, not even counted." Zhang Enming said.

Chu Yangwei looked at this list of shipwrecks, and suddenly his mind flashed, remembering where he heard this word.

I remember that when my adoptive father told me the history of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, he once mentioned such an incident: in order to fight against the Chinese Navy, he ordered a powerful protective cruiser "Mu Pong" in the French Mediterranean shipyard.

"The power of man, in the face of nature, is still too far behind." Zhang Enming looked at the surging waves on the sea and said, "When Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, went on an expedition to the east, the prosperity of the boat master was unparalleled in the world, but in the face of the storm, it was like a fallen leaf, and it was easily destroyed. ”

"Oh?" Hearing Zhang Enming talk about history, Chu Yangwei became interested, "When the Yuan army went on two expeditions to the east, they both lost their teachers and returned, and the reasons for this have always been different. Is it really as I said, what kind of 'kamikaze' helps? ”

"There is no 'kamikaze', it's just that the Yuan people were not vigilant enough about the arrival of the typhoon at that time, so they suffered a big loss." Zhang Enming said with a smile. He looked at Chu Yangwei with some puzzlement, and felt strange that he had suddenly become interested in the Yuan army's eastern expedition at this time.

"I want to hear about it." Chu Yangwei turned his head to look at the darkening sky and asked.

In the eleventh year of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, in 1274 AD, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, ordered a coalition of armies composed of the armies of the Mongols, Hans, and Goryeo to march eastward. The core of the coalition army was the Mongol army, with 20,000 Mongol and Han troops, 5,600 Goryeo troops, and 6,700 Goryeo sailors, a total of 32,300 men. ”

"At that time, the Mongolian army was trained by Genghis Khan, and the military discipline was strict, with a combat team of ten, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand people, and each team was led by a commander, and the organization was extremely tight, so it was brave and good at fighting, and the combat effectiveness was very strong. In addition, the technology of firearms use in the Yuan Dynasty at that time was at the leading level in the world, and it once commanded Europe, so artillery appeared in the battle sequence of the Yuan army as the secret weapon of this expedition. However, the samurai troops had strong individual combat effectiveness and sophisticated weapons, but they had no firearms, and their command was not uniform, and the battle was biased towards a one-horse one-on-one fighting style, so the battle was chaotic, unorganized, and undisciplined, not easy to command, and there was no tactics to speak of, and it was impossible to compete with the Yuan army at all, and the overall combat effectiveness was quite weak. ”

"In the eleventh year of the Yuan Dynasty (1274 AD), the Yuan army was under the command of the three generals Xindu, Hong Chaqiu, and Liu Fuheng, and set off from Goryeo on October 3 and sailed to Yueben. The Imperial Court and the Shogunate did not have any specific deployment and command for the Yuan army, and the battle was mainly fought under the command of Fujiwara Keshi, the Shoji of Dazaifu. The Yuan army won the first battle and successfully landed at Hizen, but did not develop in depth, but transferred the main force to Hakata Bay. On October 19, the Yuan army fleet attacked Hakata Bay, and on the morning of the 20th, the Yuan army launched a landing battle. On the 20th, the Yuan army and the Yue army fought fiercely for a whole day, and in the evening, Hakata Bay, Hakozaki and other places fell into the hands of the Yuan army, and the Yue army was forced to retreat. After a day of fighting, the Yuan army was quite afraid of the brave battle of the warriors, and it was difficult to estimate the exact number of samurai troops participating in the battle, thinking that they were several times the Yuan army. At the same time, although the Yuan army occupied the beachhead, it suffered many casualties, exhausted soldiers, and the commander was wounded, which had an impact on the long-experienced commander of the Yuan army, Xindu, so that he could not accurately judge the situation on both sides of the war. So Xin Du decided that the whole army would retreat to the ship, and Ming would be called the class division. ”

"If the Yuan army goes back to this class, it will not be a failure, at most it will be a draw, but there are unforeseen circumstances, and the night before Xindu decided to divide the class, there was a rare typhoon and rain in Hakata Bay."

"The archipelago is surrounded by the sea on all sides, except for the northeastern coast, and is surrounded by warm currents from the tropical Pacific Ocean, which we often call the Kuroshio, and the climate forms a milder and more humid marine monsoon climate. In August, September and October every year, the western and southern parts of the country are often hit by typhoons. Hakata Bay happened to be in the area hit by the typhoon, and just at the last moment when the Yuan army was preparing to return home, the typhoon also happened to arrive. ”

"Due to the unfamiliarity with the terrain and weather, the fleets of the Yuan army anchored at the mouth of Hakata Bay were in disarray, either colliding with each other and capsizing, or being sunk by the waves; After midnight, the typhoon gradually stopped, but the torrential rain fell again, and it was pitch black, and the soldiers who fell into the sea could not be rescued at all. Xin Du was afraid that the army would take advantage of the opportunity to attack, so he ordered the army to withdraw and return to China in the rain. ”

"On the morning of the 22nd of the next day, the army lined up at Dazaifu Suijo, but did not see the Yuan army attacking, and after sending reconnaissance personnel, it was learned that there were no Yuan warships on the Hakata Sea, and the Yuan army retreated. It is said that the government and the opposition were very surprised by the sudden typhoon to drive away the Yuan army, and launched a large-scale worship of the gods throughout the country, so it was called "kamikaze". In this battle, the Yuan army lost 13,500 soldiers. ”

"The loss of nearly half of the troops is also heavy enough, the terrain is not familiar, and the consequences of not understanding the weather seem to be very serious!" Chu Yangwei nodded and motioned for Zhang Enming to continue, "However, these losses were still within the scope of bearing for the Yuan Dynasty at that time. ”

"That's right." Zhang Enming said, "The purpose of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, to send the Yuan army to attack Yueben for the first time was to intimidate Yueben and make it get through quickly, and he had no determination to destroy Yue. By the 16th year of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty unified China. In the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the news of the killing of the Yuan envoy came, and Kublai Khan decided to conquer again. ”

Kublai Khan ordered Fan Wenhu to go to Jiangnan to collect 100,000 people from Zhang Shijie's old army and other voluntary soldiers, and 3,500 warships to form the Jiangnan Army. The dispatch of this army was largely due to the need to deal with the surrendered soldiers after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty. On the other hand, he ordered Hongchaqiu to go to the northeast and recruited 3,000 volunteers from Shenyang, Kaiyuan and other places to serve in the army, and returned to Hongchaqiu under the command. Xindu still commanded the Mongol army. He also appointed Kim Fangqing, a Goryeo general, as the marshal of the Eastern Capital, commanding 10,000 Goryeo troops, 15,000 sailors, 900 warships, and 100,000 stone of military rations. The three armies totaled nearly 40,000 people to form the Eastern Route Army, which passed through Goryeo to the east. The two route armies chose to set off separately, and Xin Du wanted to seize the credit, so he launched an attack in advance. ”

"Due to the lessons learned from the last invasion of the Yuan army, the defense was strengthened, and the Yuan fleet sailed into Hakata Bay only to find that there was a stone dam built along the beach, and the implementation of the landing battle was very difficult. The Yuan army was unable to carry out a sneak attack, so it had to launch a strong attack, and the Yue army resisted desperately, and the battle was very fierce. Because the Yuan army could not give full play to its strengths in the long and narrow beachhead, it happened to adapt to the fighting style of one person and one horse of the samurai, so the Yuan army suffered heavy casualties. The battle continued until June 13, and the Yuan army could not move forward. At this time, it was the height of summer in June, and the long-term life and fighting on the ship made it difficult to supply vegetables and drinking water, and epidemics continued to occur, and many people died of diseases. The Yuan army was in a bad situation, so he turned back to join the Jiangnan army. After the two armies met, the army was greatly strengthened, and the offensive should have resumed immediately, but because of the internal contradictions among the commanders of the far army, the result was a difference of opinion, and the command was difficult to coordinate; Due to a day of hesitation at sea, on August 1, a typhoon struck again, the Yuan army ships were destroyed and drowned, and most of the divisions were lost. ”

"The last time it failed because of a typhoon, didn't you learn a lesson this time?" Chu Yangwei sneered and asked, "Among the 140,000 troops, there is not a single person who understands the weather?" ”

"It's not like this, at that time someone saw the precursor of the arrival of the typhoon, the "Yuan History" recorded that at that time, 'see the mountain shadow floating waves, the suspected reef in the sea, will be green hair seen on the water, the sea water as sulfur gas', but the commanders of the Yuan army on both sides have no common sense of navigation, see the typhoon precursors do not know to dodge, if the retreat to Hirado, Iki, Tsushima or Goryeo at that time, it can still be preserved. For example, the Jiangnan Army's Zhang Xi and Ye Sudu'er Divisions, because of the bad weather, ordered the warships to go to anchor at 50 paces each when they were anchored at night, so as to avoid the collision of the ships with each other when the typhoon hit, so the losses were very small. Zhang Enming said.

Hearing this, Chu Yangwei turned his head to look at the sea again, at this time the sky seemed to be a little brighter than just now, and the clouds in the sky seemed to be thinner, but on the sea in the distance, there were faint black clouds piled up there, like huge mountains.

After the typhoon, Zhang Xi and Ye Suduer immediately took boats to rescue the soldiers of the Yuan army. The flagship of Fan Wenhu, the commander of the Jiangnan Army, was broken and sunk, and he drifted on the sea with the boat board and was rescued by Zhang Xi. Zhang Xi immediately suggested to Fan Wenhu that half of the soldiers in Jiangnan who had not drowned, and all of them were young and strong soldiers, so they could regroup and fight, and take advantage of the mentality that the soldiers had no way to retreat after the ship was broken down, and forcibly landed, because they had food for the enemy, and expanded the results of the battle. Judging from the situation at the time, this suggestion was feasible, but Fan Wenhu, who had just escaped from danger, had already been robbed of his fighting spirit by the typhoon and insisted on returning to the division immediately. He said to Zhang Xi: 'The crime of returning the teacher to my generation deserves it, and the public will not do it. 'Zhang Xi only scored the boat to Fan Wenhu and collected the remnants of the common class teacher. At this time, there were still 4,000 rescued soldiers on Hirado Island who had no boat to ride, and Fan Wenhu actually ordered them to be abandoned. Zhang Xi couldn't bear it, abandoned the war horses on the ship, and returned home with 4,000 soldiers. After Fan Wenhu returned to China, most of the Yuan soldiers who were left on Yueben Island were killed by the Yue army. According to the soldiers who escaped from Yuben in the 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty, about 30,000 Yuan soldiers were left behind on the islands. Because the generals were all gone, everyone elected the head of a hundred households surnamed Zhang as the commander, organized logging for a boat, and waited for the opportunity to return to China. On 7 August, the army went island by boat to search for the army, and about 30,000 troops were killed in the battle, except for some who were captured. On the ninth day, the army took the captured Yuan army to Bajiao Island, and selected the newly attached Southern Song Dynasty, craftsmen, and peasants to keep as slaves, and killed the rest. ”

"That is, isn't it like some books say that the whole army has been wiped out?" Chu Yangwei asked.

According to the available historical data, the losses of the two armies of the Yuan army were of varying severity. There were more than 27,000 Goryeo soldiers and sailors in the army on the Eastern Road, and about 19,000 returned after the typhoon, with a loss of about 7,000 people, less than one-third of the total. If we subtract the number of people killed in war and those who died from epidemics, the number of people drowning in typhoons is even lower. The same can be said for the losses of the Mongol and Han armies, which were piloted by Goryeo sailors. On the contrary, the losses of the Jiangnan army were relatively heavy, only Zhang Xi and Ye Sudu'er were able to return with the whole army, and the rest of the troops suffered heavy losses. According to Zhang Xi's estimate, half of the soldiers were still there after the typhoon, that is, about 50,000 people, and Fan Wenhu abandoned some when he returned to the division, so the estimate of 'six or seven soldiers out of ten' is credible. It was by no means a total annihilation. Zhang Enming said......

"It's a pity that after several years of preparation, the Jiangnan army of 100,000 people and 3,500 warships were lost for a while, and they were lost." Chu Yangwei looked at Zhang Enming and said with a smile, "You said so much, I understand what you mean, although Lao Tzu doesn't believe in any 'Dragon Triangle', he will never be Kublai Khan." ”

Zhang Enming knew that what he had just said had already played a role in this fleet commander who was "surnamed like a fire" and had the name of "habitual surprise and danger" in the Chinese Navy, so he couldn't help but smile slightly and didn't say anything more.

"Looking at the weather, it is estimated that there will be strong winds and waves in a while." Chu Yangwei returned to the command tower, came to the chart table, looked at the current location of the fleet, and said, "Draw me that 'dragon triangle'." ”

The mapping officer quickly completed the marking work, and a large triangle appeared on the chart, and the position of the Chinese fleet at this time was just at the edge of this triangle.

"What do you think we should do now?" Zhang Enming stood beside Chu Yangwei and asked.

"Soldiers go out and say frankly, in order to be safe, let's get around this ghost place." Chu Yangwei said, "Regroup, let aircraft carriers and cruisers and other frigates merge into one team and go around." ”

"You mean, you want to divide the troops?" Zhang Enming was taken aback and asked.

"Yes, what I mean is that except for the battleships, all the other ships turned southwest and then southeast, and the big arc navigation method went around the 'Dragon Triangle'." Chu Yangwei said, "The 'Chiyou' formation that responded to the notice did the same, the battleship went straight to the Dragon Triangle, and the aircraft carrier formation circled around the northwest and turned to the northeast, and joined up with our aircraft carrier formation going south. ”

"Why don't you go together?" As soon as Zhang Enming spoke, he saw the evil smile on the corner of Chu Yangwei's mouth, and immediately understood, "Do you want to attract me to follow me into the 'Dragon Triangle'?" ”

"Those who know me, Zhang Gongye." Chu Yangwei laughed and nodded, "I want to see if I have the courage to take their aircraft carrier into this 'Demon Sea'." ”

"I'm afraid that I won't be so dead-eyed at this time," Zhang Enming shook his head and said, "There are big waves just now when I enter the periphery, and the large opening of the aircraft carrier's elevator is easy to cause seawater to pour in, as long as it is a rational commander, I am afraid that he will choose to detour, right?" ”

"That's right. In fact, our large aircraft carriers are very sturdy, and they can break through in such bad weather, but the planes are estimated to be bumpy and fall apart. Chu Yangwei said, "Battleships shouldn't be a big problem. So I guess I may not dare to let the aircraft carrier in, but I will definitely let the battleship in. ”

(To be continued)