After entering the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca, the ocean-going fleet of the Hantang Group chose to take a sea route led by the old sea wolf, which was the old road often taken by Ming merchant ships in the past.

In fact, the Hai'an Brigade has modern charts and sea routes in its hands, but since it has chosen to trust the old sea wolf, then listen to him and just see how the navigation routes of the ancients are.

Captain Sun Yu can see from the latitude and longitude on this route that the old sea wolf sailed directly from the lower part of Nicobar Island with the fleet, which really reduced the sailing distance on the surface of the Andaman Sea, which was more correct from the time point of view, and was conducive to reducing the time to go directly to Goa.

But this is not very economical, because such a direct flight needs to carry too many supplies at one time, in fact, it reduces the amount of cargo carried, if you can only sail once a year, then it is not high from the point of view of cost performance.

The best thing to do is to leapfrog shipping.

When Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, that huge fleet used a beautiful leapfrog to sail and solve many troubles when going to the ocean.

Of course, they didn't have any supply stations in advance, and they were randomly resupplyed, because the islands in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean were full of fresh water, fruits, and other supplies.

It is impossible for the Han Tang Group to accept random supply methods, unpredictable actions, and it is impossible for them to let their own people take risks. Therefore, in their plan, they must build a good supply station, step by step, and the safety and comfort must be higher.

The Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands are the gateways to the Indian Ocean, and they must be taken, which has long been in the development plan of the Hantang Group, but the natural conditions there are too poor, and they are still thinking about the calculations, there is a lack of fresh water, and I heard that the savages are still fierce.

What Captain Zhang Yu didn't think about was that the old sea wolf also knew about the surrounding situation here.

The old sea wolf smiled and said: "Yantuo barbarian country, from the blue to the fine orchid country, if the wind is not smooth, drift to one, the place name is Yantuoman, there is a large island in the sea, there are two mountains, one large and one small, its hill is uninhabited, and its big mountain is seventy miles around. The people in the mountains are like black paint, and they can eat people raw, and the boat people dare not go ashore. There are no defenses in the mountain, and they are all sharpened with clams and mussel shells. On the island, there is a holy miracle golden bed, which bears a dead man, is protected by a big snake, and is immortal through the generations. There are wells on the island that will flow holy water, and all the sand and gravel through which the water flows will turn to gold. ”

Captain Sun Yu squinted his eyes and said, "All the sand and stones that flow through the water will turn into gold?" Do you believe it yourself? ”

The old sea wolf smiled and said, "If the little one believes, can he still lead here?" ”

Captain Sun Yu rolled his eyes and said, "But there is no wind and no waves, maybe there is really this well, you may not find it."

Let me tell you something, do you want to be an island owner? This Andaman island is lush with Andaman mahogany, walnut, oak and many more. Among them, the Andaman mahogany is a good material for construction, shipbuilding, and furniture, and it is useful to cut more.

There are so many fish around, so many of them! There are also countless beautiful women, I heard that they are all running around naked, if you take a fancy to it, what is it, I guarantee that you can't be prostituted, they haven't evolved to be so bad......

By the way, you can slowly find the holy water that can turn sand and gravel into gold - if you do, you will make a fortune and your family will become the richest man in the world.

Do you want to? ”

The old sea wolf smiled and said, "The little one doesn't want to." ”

"Why?"

"The ambition of this Hantang Group must be this whole earth, this small island, it is nothing, there will be a better place in the future!"

Captain Sun Yu regretted showing him the globe often, and said, "How do you know that our ambitions are so ambitious? In fact, we just want to find a few girls and live a good life, as long as we don't feel so tired......"

The old sea wolf smiled and said, "You're lying to me again...... When I came from Quanzhou, I found that everyone on your boat was eating the same thing......

"What's the matter, it's too much work to do both."

The old sea wolf smiled and said, "In Sanya, you are not greedy for money, you must know that money is the most touching thing in the world." ”

"It's not that you are not greedy, but you dare not be greedy. We all know how the mutually harmful society came about, if you don't follow the rules and abide by the bottom line, you won't be able to play, besides, we also have an accounting firm, regardless of the money, specializing in auditing. In the end, the main thing is that I don't dare to promise not to let others know.

If I had found that place on the island of Andaman that could turn sand and gravel into gold, I wouldn't have played with the collective, the richest man in the world.

Look, why don't we partner up, and you look for it on the Andaman Island first? Don't worry about safety, I'll have more sailors to ...... you."

"Don't try to lie to me, if it was planned, you would have sued me a long time ago, this must be the way I just thought of......"

Damn, it's not easy to deceive, this middle-aged uncle has a very high IQ.

This has to be done slowly, the Andaman islands are indeed not rich enough.

The Hantang Group's ocean-going fleet entered a sea area full of small islands of various shapes.

The old sea wolf smiled and said, "There are many islands here, but there are few reefs, perhaps because they are all exposed to the sea." ”

Captain Sun Yu wanted to tell him the cause of the coral reef, but he felt funny looking at his smooth chin.

"It's really not good that you've shaved this beard."

"Why?"

"I can't see what you're stealing again...... Hey, don't go! ”

Due to the large number of islands, the currents here are a bit chaotic, but they are generally stable.

What a beautiful Andaman Sea!

Those islands are the green pearls in the jade plate, or are they inlaid with silver edges!

If you can see it from the air, the color of the sea near the island still changes gradually, dark blue, sapphire blue, gray blue...... Beautiful!

This fleet is like two little girls jumping around, leading more than a dozen ducks on a relaxing spring outing......

Just as everyone was lazily looking forward to arriving on the Indian mainland, suddenly, the howl of the captain of the supply ship sounded on the duplex walkie-talkie of Captain Sun Yu: "Damn, there are six pirate ships coming from behind, no, it's seven!" We are in ambush!! ”

Captain Sun Yu was shocked, and immediately denied the possibility that the old sea wolf was deliberately leading, and he didn't have a chance to spread the news at all.

Instead, he calmed down and said, "Look at it, how many are they broken wooden boats, I'm afraid of a fart......"

"It's so sudden, damn it, they don't know where they came out, it seems that there are three or Arab pirate ships!"

The most distinctive feature of the Arabian pirate ships of this period is that they have a long bow protrusion at the bow and stern, and its mainsail is square, with two and three masts and a spinnaker hanging from the bow and stern.

An even more important feature is that it borrows from the long oars of the Turkish galleta sailboat, making it more agile when sprinting at close range.

Again, this type of ship reduces its firepower output and is mainly focused on jumping gangs, and its two masts can even be lowered to allow gang jumpers to crawl over the ship.

It is really a good helper for Arab pirates to kill people and sell goods.

Captain Sun Yu said, "What is their distance and speed? They're pretty good at letting our Hai'an No. 1 and No. 2 ......."

The captain of the supply ship was also much calmer, and said: "It seems to be faster than our merchant ships, about four nautical miles per hour, and the distance is now more than two nautical miles, which is enough for them to chase for a while...... Was I scared just now? I was ecstatic......"

Well, this is not the time to argue, Captain Sun Yu immediately set out to deal with it.

He excitedly shouted to Captain Wang Cheng: "Hurry, hurry, let's just practice the close formation of two columns!" ”

Wang Cheng happily replied: "Okay, it's just the opportunity to actually operate!" ”

During the exercise, Captain Sun Yu and Captain Wang Cheng discovered that even if two friendly ships were fighting against a single enemy ship at the same time, they would need superb naval skills to concentrate their firepower.

The effective range of the M1857 guns is about 400 meters, and the Haian Brigade is required to shoot at 300 meters, but beyond this distance, the chances of their guns hitting the enemy ship and penetrating the hull are quite slim.

The angle of their ship's broadside firing arc was limited to about 25 degrees in front and 25 degrees in the rear, and the ship's movement had to be used to assist the guns in aiming at the target, rather than the time-consuming and awkward movement of the guns to aim at the target.

So, they practiced two friendly ships in a column in quick succession to fight a single enemy ship in motion, so that they could shoot fully and effectively, giving full play to the firing advantage of the M1857 secondary guns.

What's more, they also have a big killer weapon in the bow, two 100mm smoothbore main guns, which are the life-saving guys they processed in that world before the crossing, but they didn't use it, so they simply saved their lives.

They also had more than a dozen hand-made copper shells, which they believed had hit the largest warship of the period, the 1,683-ton British Sea King, and could sink or shatter it in a matter of days.

"Quick, quick, open the tarpaulin of the main cannon, the pirates are very good at playing, and they want to eat our tails!"

Hai'an 1 and Hai'an 2 formed a tight column and headed for the rear.

In fact, Captain Sun Yu overestimated these pirates.

In this era of no radar, no means of long-range communication, experience and luck are the main keys to success.

Captain William was a little disappointed and a little happy that Azisha 61 Nuren Nahar did not come to lead the team in person.

What disappointed him was that he didn't have a chance to associate with Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar, and in this Indian Ocean, was there anyone more worthy of being Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar's husband? Who else can a pirate find if he doesn't look for a pirate?

He could have taken the gold, the fleet, and the beauties, which was God's reward for his adventure in the Indian Ocean!

What makes him happy is that he has more say in this North Indian Ocean pirate consortium, and naturally he can share more.

The pirates' raids are proportionate, and there are generally regional differences.

The pirates of the North Indian Ocean had their own unwritten rule, that is, the captain of each pirate ship was given two share of the booty, the gunner and quartermaster were divided one and a half, the gang jumpers were given one and a quarter of the money, the sailors were given one share, and the temporary recruits were given one or another quarter of the trophies.

In the case of such a conglomerate group, the number of recruits is determined by the number of people recruited according to the amount of money stolen by the ships themselves.

When everyone discussed the ambush location and attack method, there was no dispute at all, everyone knows where the Ming merchant ships generally go, and the attack methods are also fixed, and the shelling and jumping gangs are fortunately less sinking than other merchant ships, which is a good thing.

Even the evil Arabs were in favor of his suggestion of an ambush in which everyone could wait for the Ming fleet to appear and attack in a loose column.

But the deputy sent by Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar was like a fool, and insisted that his own team be separated from everyone, and they wanted to attack the other end of the Ming fleet, and then they would all take this fleet.

This is also a method, not only to increase the possibility of discovering the Ming merchant ships, but also to prevent every merchant ship from running away, but it also increases the difficulty of attacking the fleet, but everyone saw that he was very persistent, so they agreed with the deputy's idea.

This may increase their own casualties.

The Arabs saw this, and they didn't say anything, but only a sinister smile at the corners of their mouths.

Well, Captain William didn't care, he swore in his heart that if he married Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar in the future, he would definitely give this foolish deputy a tow under the boat.

Bottom towing is a deadly version of the waterlogging punishment.

They pulled the rope from starboard to port with the guò bottom of the boat, fastened the punished person to the rope at the bottom of the boat, and subjected the ship to friction from the keel as it sailed, and most of the wooden bottoms were covered with razor-sharp burrs and splinters, with the result as you can imagine.

As a result, after waiting for a few days, the Daming fleet really appeared, and Captain William led his four boats and the three boats of the Arabs to pounce on them from the other side of a small island!

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