My Daming New Empire

Now that they know the whereabouts of the pirates, Zhu Zhanji and the others will of course not wait passively.Assemble orders, and early the next morning, the order ship quickly reported to the scattered ministries, and headed for Jeju Island according to the scheduled route.

It took two hours for the five treasure ships of Zhu Zhanji's fleet and more than 20 escort ships to form a sailing formation and sail all the way north.

It's winter now, and most of the wind blowing from the northwest is from the sea, so the fleet's sailing speed is not fast.

According to Zhu Zhanji's estimation, the speed of the treasure ship will not exceed five knots per hour.At most ten nautical miles per hour, the sailing distance in one day does not exceed 240 nautical miles. It is estimated that it will take two days to reach the waters near Jeju Island.

Along the way, early warning ships scattered along the coast of Daming gradually approached the flagship one by one.

In the past, maritime positioning required the combination of nautical astronomical positioning and the application of the navigation compass to improve the accuracy of determining the ship's position and course, which was called "astrology".Use the method of "star-leading board" to observe and locate, and determine the ship's position, direction, and route by measuring the height of the sky.

Then at the same time, use nautical instruments such as nautical compass, log, depth sounder, etc., to ensure the ship's navigation route according to the records of nautical charts and needle book.

When sailing, the route of sailing is determined, which is called needle path.The error of using a compass generally does not exceed three degrees.

However, this kind of error is still very large. Until the sextant began to be used on a large scale, the assembly of the Daming Navy became easier.

As long as it is not cloudy, all ships can accurately calculate their position regardless of day or night.

As long as there is a flagship roadmap, the assembly becomes easier.

All the assembled ships formed small battle formations according to their performance.

Each combat phalanx basically includes two assistant warships, eight frigates, eight attack ships, one supply ship, and two landing ships.

These combat squares, sailing around the flagship, formed the front battalion, the left battalion, the right battalion, and the rear battalion.

This also makes the voyage more majestic and spectacular. Looking up, the sea area stretching for dozens of kilometers is full of shadows of masts and giant sails, and even many ships can only see the top of the mast.

But Zhu Zhanji is very clear that what can be seen with the naked eye is far from all, because the entire fleet stretches for hundreds of kilometers, forming a huge encirclement.

(Caught a cold, today's update is late, sorry)

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On November 22, the closer the fleet was to Tamna (Jeju Island), the smaller the encirclement and the closer the ships were.

Just when Zhu Zhanji and his army were stationed on the sea [-] kilometers away from the south coast of Jeju Island, the second intelligence was sent again.

According to Zhu Zhanji's request, the information needs to be transmitted once a day, but the information was delayed for two days on the road, which exposed the inadequacy of the Navy's intelligence department in information transmission.

Today's Japanese pirate army is still reveling at the Tamna County Sheriff's Office (Jeju City). Because of the limited power on the island, the Japanese pirate army occupied the natural deep-water port of the Tamna County Sheriff's Office without much effort.

Most of the people on the island fled to the mountainous or hilly areas in the middle under the unified arrangement of the government.

People in Jeju Island live in poverty, and there is absolutely no oil and water in the interior, so the Japanese pirates just occupied the port and did not have the idea of ​​​​occupying the entire island.

The Japanese pirates had limited manpower, and they only used this place as a staging ground, rather than going into the mountains to pursue them, and lost manpower for the sake of not much oil and water.

Facing the sea on all sides, Jeju Island covers an area of ​​nearly [-] square kilometers, and relying on only a few thousand pirates is far from achieving the goal of occupation.

They plundered many young girls in North Korea, and at this time they only cared about spending time and drinking.Even the few remaining people on the island did not harm them, because the Japanese pirates knew better about the principle of fishing out of water.

For them, Jeju Island is not a fertile farmland, and they can get some harvest every year.If you kill everyone, you won't be able to grab anything in the future.

It was because Fan Dahong learned about these situations that he didn't run away the first time he was on the coast of the Japanese pirates.Instead, after recognizing Guo Zhong who was in contact with him, he offered a concubine he bought from North Korea to Jingji to hold the post.

For this reason, he also received a commendation from Kyogoku Jigang, who rewarded him with half a head of wild boar.

Obtained clues from Guo Zhong, and that night, he passed the complete information to several other colleagues who were hiding not far from where they lived.

All this was not noticed by the pirates.Even if they deployed a few defensive ships, they only defended the side facing North Korea.

In their past thinking mode, Da Ming would fight back only if they provoked them, but now they haven't gone to Da Ming, so they have no defense against opponents from Da Ming at all.

Large-scale military operations have never been kept secret.In this era, limited by the backwardness of communication methods, the transmission of information is often slower than military operations.

Therefore, apart from spies during military operations, there is no special spy training at all.

Especially in this kind of military operations at sea, the transmission of information is even more difficult.Across the vast sea, who would think of setting up spies on the island?How do spies convey information?

There is a bay twenty miles away from the Sheriff's Mansion. The beach here is a tidal flat. The deepest sea water is less than two meters deep. There is a dense jungle on the shore. Even the Japanese pirates have never paid attention to this place.

But a flat-bottomed order ship belonging to the Navy's Special Operations Division, with its sails fully inflated, stopped here.

If it weren't for the two heavy anchors firmly grasping the silt on the bottom of the sea, the ship could have sailed away at any time.

Two spies galloping over on pony horses blew their whistles on the shore, and after a while, a small boat was lowered from the herald boat and rowed to them.

After matching the cut, the boat slowly leaned against the shore, the two sides exchanged a few words quickly, and then the two minions quickly disappeared into the grass.

After receiving the small boat, the messenger ship quickly anchored, and then quickly disappeared into the vast sea.

It was dark at this time, and after leaving Jeju Island, two red lanterns were lit on the boat.

Relying on the bright starlight of Polaris for positioning, although the people on board could not see the sea surface clearly, they never deviated from the correct route.

About two hours later, on the vast sea, they saw two red lanterns. The people on the clipper finally distinguished that they were lanterns and not stars, and soon the two ships approached.

The positioning and route maps tied to a long bamboo pole were exchanged, and the two ships passed each other in the night quickly, and the lanterns on the ships were quickly extinguished.

Just to open a 120-kilometer transmission channel on the sea, the navy needs to use four messenger ships, and more than [-] navies are speeding back and forth on this route.

This is just a transmission channel, not counting the inner room and back room arranged in Jeju Island.

Although the cost is not small, compared to the huge cost of hundreds of warships, this cost is nothing.

In addition, Zhu Zhanji is the grandson, and Liu Jiang can be regarded as single-handedly promoted by him, so his arrangement was not opposed.

Moreover, in order to open up this information channel, the cooperation of Jin Yiwei and the navy is also needed.So unless it is his grandson's identity, other people can't arrange this information channel at all.

And this kind of arrangement is not limited to Jeju Island. In North Korea, Dongying, Ryukyu, and various countries in Southeast Asia, Jinyiwei has already deployed a spy team of more than 1000 people.

Having obtained the new positioning information, the messenger ship quickly adjusted its course and turned west to south again.

After another two hours, they finally saw the bright lights that stretched for dozens of kilometers in the vast night, like the stars in the sky.

This stretching light is brighter and more dazzling than the stars in the sky, and people can't help but feel a shock of wanting to worship.

This is the towering and majestic Ming Dynasty Navy, the most powerful sea force in this era.

Anyone who sees this scene will feel proud and proud of being a Daming person from the bottom of their hearts.

"Your Highness, the third report has also been delivered, and the reason why the second report was delayed has been investigated. It is because the secret ship used a sextant to test its positioning during the transmission of the order. There was an error and it traveled westward to the east coast of Jiaodong. , only to find out that the return sent the information to a new receiving location. How to deal with it, His Highness please decide."

"Delaying the military situation is a death penalty, and a living crime is inevitable. Each of the thirty sergeants received ten sticks, fifteen sticks in total, and twenty sticks for the sextant internal supervisor. But knowing the delay in the military situation, he didn't make mistakes. He went back and forth all day and night. For eight hundred miles, this feeling is pitiful, this ambition is commendable, and everyone will be promoted to one rank as a reward."