The two sister ships "Weiyuan" and "Megatron" serve as guard ships to protect the port. They usually only carry three days of supplies and a small amount of ammunition. After the alert was raised on Shenmi Island, it was increased to seven days and two additional supplies were added.

A base of ammunition. But no one expected that the Jin Dynasty would dispatch so many troops to seize the island and blockade the port so that they could not dock for replenishment.

Now the two ships have been dealing with the enemy outside the island for more than ten days, and have exceeded their self-sustainability for many days. Supplies have been distributed according to the minimum standards, and there is not much ammunition left, especially the fresh water is almost exhausted, and the Jin army has controlled

Several surrounding islands are completely inaccessible

In addition, when we have run out of ammunition and food, we dare not fire at will. The sailors who row the oars no longer have the strength to shake the heavy oars to maintain a high speed. Without these two advantages, their combat effectiveness is greatly reduced, and they can no longer compete with the superiority of troops.

of enemy fleets to contend with.

After communicating with the island through semaphore, He Wei allowed the two ships to withdraw from the waters of Mi Island, ordered them to find an opportunity to leave the battlefield and rendezvous with the Liaodong Bay patrol fleet, informed the base of the deployment and battle situation of the island and the Jinshui Army, and invited them again

reinforcements. But at this time, the good luck that had accompanied them for many days seemed to disappear. Shortly after returning, a hurricane blew up at sea. Navigating in huge waves was very dangerous for medium-sized warships...

After struggling in the wind and waves for three days, the Weiyuan finally ushered in a calm and sunny day, but it had been battered by the storm. The main mast had been blown off, and only one of the two auxiliary masts was left standing on the ship.

The hands had long since lost the strength to row the oars, and the warship was sailing slowly with only one sail. The food reserves had long been exhausted, but heavy rain temporarily alleviated the risk of water shortage, but the belt was already tight.

Except for the helmsman at the helm and the lookout post in the bucket on the mast, everyone else was lying lazily on the deck, drying their bodies that were about to get moldy. Some people lowered their hooks at the stern of the boat to try to see if they could catch a few fish like them.

Unlucky fish to satisfy hunger. Captain Song Yi

The man standing on the bow of the ship was observing the sea with a telescope. His face looked like the calm sea at this time, but his heart was not calm. Worry and anxiety were always with him, but he was now the backbone of the ship and wanted to encourage everyone.

Work together to complete the mission.

Both Song Yi and the captain of the USS Megatron knew that they would not be able to return to the Dengzhou base with no ammunition or food. The only chance was to rendezvous with the patrol fleet, so the two ships formed a formation along the west Korean Gulf.

Sailing offshore, they planned to go around the peninsula and enter the Bohai Bay to look for the patrol fleet. But just when they had just passed Tieshan and were about to enter,

Just as a hurricane was approaching, there was no port for them to take shelter on the coast of the Kingdom of Jin. The formation, unable to advance or retreat, had no choice but to risk crossing. The hurricane was stronger than Song Yi's expectation. The two ships were quickly blown away by the storm.

Contact was lost, and they were lost in the wind and rain, drifting in the sea with the wind and waves, not knowing where they would be blown.

"Navigator, where is our position?" Song Yi looked for a long time. The water and sky were all the same and he didn't find any islands, land, or even a small boat. He couldn't figure out where he was blown by the wind. He turned around and asked, who was playing with the sextant.

long sea route.

"Captain. According to my calculations, the position of our ship should be on the Bohai Sea!" the navigation captain replied after calculating on the paper for a while.

"Oh, are you sure?" Song Yi asked with some suspicion. The navigator was assigned to the ship just last year after graduating from the navy school. In the past, only people who had been walking on the sea for many years could be responsible for navigation. Formulate

He held an important position in the airline, so he did not trust this young man.

"Report Captain, I am sure. We are in this sea area!" The navigator recalculated and was sure it was correct. He marked the position of the Weiyuan on the chart and showed it to Song Yi.

"Haha, what a piece of luck. This strong wind did not blow us into the ocean, but sent us back to our hometown!" Song Yi looked at the chart and smiled, then gave the order, "Sail to the northeast, the target is lying in the sky

Dragon Island, Chief Guantong, pay attention and observe!"

"Understood, we are going back to our hometown!" Commander Guan Tong replied loudly, but the veterans who were lying lazily on the deck just now flocked to the bow of the ship and looked excitedly.

"Captain, what does hometown mean, and where is Fulong Island? Why isn't it on our charts?" The navigator carefully searched the charts for the name of the island mentioned by the captain, and asked in confusion.

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"That was the hometown of our group back then, and it was the first real base of our new navy!" Song Yi said proudly.

Fulong Island is a sea base that was established by Cheng Xishou's caravan when Zhao Tong was still a prince. Firstly, it was used to train sailors and reserve supplies; secondly, it was used as a place for garrisoning and repairing the fleet; thirdly, it was used as a base in the future.

Attack the Jurchen base;

The other thing is to leave a way out for yourself so that you can stay temporarily if something unexpected happens. This is because the island is shaped like a dragon, and Cheng Xishou thought that the prince was not only the son and grandson of the dragon, but that he would transform into a dragon one day, but the time was just not there.

, so it was named Fulong Island.

After the base was built, it undertook the training tasks of mid-level navy sailors and marines. It also once robbed Han Li and served as Zhao Shu's residence. What is not known is that the stolen 20 million taels were stored here.

There are still tens of millions of taels of silver.

As Zhao Tong ascended the throne, he took control of the political power. The navy, which had been hiding behind the scenes, came to the fore and established four major bases. After several victories, except for the Liaodong coast, all the Bohai Bay fell into the hands of the Song Dynasty.

, the role of the Fulong Island base began to decrease.

Under the emperor's instruction, Fulong Island slowly faded out of people's sight, and its mark was no longer visible on the new charts. It was gradually forgotten and became a mysterious place. But the old sailors could not find it.

Forget this overseas island,

If Xiangyi Beifu is the Whampoa Military Academy of the Army of the Song Dynasty, then Fulong Island is the "Beiyang Naval Academy" of the navy. It can be said that this place changed the course of their lives. They all bear the mark of Fulong Island.

It’s hard to erase in a lifetime…

After half a day of hard sailing, the Weiyuan finally saw a piece of land. Song Yi personally steered the ship around the reef, dodged the shoals, and drove into a narrow waterway slowly approaching the island. Looking at the once bustling and heavily guarded ambush,

Long Island fell into a deathly silence at this moment, and he couldn't help feeling a little emotional. It seemed that the base had been abandoned in a few years.

'Boom', when there was still three miles away from the island, there was a sudden muffled sound, and a shell whizzed past the Weiyuan battleship, smashed into the sea not far away, and stirred up a water column of more than ten feet.

The people on the ship were actually very knowledgeable. The shells must be at least 20 kilograms of solid shells to have such great power.

"Raise the flag, send a signal, and inform us that we are the Weiyuan of the Shenmi Island Task Force of the Dengzhou Navy. Due to damage from the storm, food and water were cut off, and we request to dock at the port for rest!" Song Yi felt happy when he saw someone bombarding him.

At least it showed that there were still people on the island, and this was a warning shot to them. He quickly ordered Guantong to contact him, and raised the general's flag to identify himself.

"Captain, we are ordered to fire fourteen times on the island, and then lower the sails and enter the harbor along the channel B!" Guantong reported after making some gestures with his hands.

"Damn it, the rules haven't changed yet!" Song Yi muttered and then gave the order, "Lower the two sails, withdraw all the artillery from live ammunition, and fire the surrender cannon with empty artillery!"

"Captain, why are the cannons firing?" the navigator asked curiously as he watched the captain skillfully steer the ship into the waterway.

"The military academy didn't teach you this, right?" Song Yi said, staring at the sea. Seeing him shake his head, he added, "Back then, our naval force was still weak. There were only a few cannons on a ship, so we were easily attacked at sea. This is

There is a danger of being captured, so the emperor made a special rule that when a single ship enters the harbor, all naval guns must fire, so as not to allow the enemy to sneak into the harbor and cause danger!"

"Oh, that's it, the emperor is really a god, he can think of such small things!" the captain said with emotion.

"Humph, you just knew that our navy was developed by the emperor from a few small merchant ships with thousands of dendrobium. Who would have thought that our navy would be where it is today!" Song Yi looked at the young man with admiration on his face.

People teased, in fact, I was not like this back then!

After the Weiyuan lowered its sails and fired its cannons, a small boat sailed out from the island to lead it into the waterway. It turned out that Fulong Island was not composed of one island, but a ring surrounded by several small islands.

It blocked the hurricane and blocked the outside sight, forming a natural harbor with a radius of dozens of miles in the center, which could accommodate hundreds of medium-sized warships.

"Oh..." When the Weiyuan sailed through the winding waterway between the two islands and entered the port, the vision suddenly opened up, but the scene in front of them made the sailors on the ship exclaim in unison, and they were simply shocked.

I forgot that I was still empty and exhausted.

"What a big warship!" The ship passed by the huge warship. Song Yi touched his head and looked up. The warship was about thirty feet long and more than six feet wide. The hull was exposed on the water.

It is seven or eight feet high, and the main mast towers into the sky.

It has three gun decks, each with gun windows. He roughly counted no less than forty, and it is equipped with at least eighty artillery pieces on both sides. Even the Shenzhou-class warship, the largest in the Song Navy, is comparable to it.

It also pales in comparison and is much smaller.

"Captain Song Yi, what I saw today is the top secret of the Song Dynasty navy. You are not allowed to reveal a word to outsiders. It will violate military law!" As soon as the Weiyuan docked at the dock and climbed onto the gangplank, two people boarded the ship without saying a word.

He said, saluted and warned them.

"Song Yi accepts the order and will never reveal a word about what he saw today!" Song Yi hurriedly replied, and then said something that was not on the stage, "It would be great if I could be the captain of this battleship...
Chapter completed!