Exploration Begins
Chapter 997:Exploration Begins
When the arrival of 50 ship shearing ships, it is equivalent to saying that the whole search work can be started, although the whole base camp, there are still some projects that have not been completely completed, but the initial capacity of the ship is still no problem.
After 50 detection ships entered, about 2 days later, at least 50 Spanish galleons, and with it, and with it, unlike before, they carried a large number of mechanical and essential supplies, the future, the opening of the navigation, the materials needed, and the construction of the base camp, is not the same, these materials did not arrive, the whole investigation work, it can not be opened.
These ships are from Hokkaido, not from cunnucky island, navigation, the most important thing is the distance, if according to the day of 200 kilometers, 1000 kilometers means five days, Hokkaido from cunnucky island, which is close to 4000 kilometers, here continue to the north, each step north, it means that the voyage is upgraded by two steps, really crossed the Kuril Islands, into the peninsula, and even the Aleutian Peninsula, the need for distance, almost doubled.
From the northern part of the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, at an absolute distance, at least 10,000 kilometers to start, or even more, so back and forth, the whole distance is very large.
From the beginning, Zhao Xin did not prepare, all rely on the cunnucky island, such exploration, simply come out once, the cost is very large, the main body of the island jumping tactics, is on the road, on the right island, built some supply port, in this supply port for supply and relay, you can continue to sail, without the need to return to the mainland.
In the era of navigation, the supply port is the root of everything, a route, if there is no supply port, it can not be sustained, even if it is a terrible warship.
The opposite example of this is that during the Russo-Japanese War, because the British and French powers, refused the supply and clean-up of Russian warships, the Russian army from the Mediterranean Sea, all the way around the tens of thousands of nautical miles, to Asia to participate in the war, even if it has not yet arrived, it has lost more than half of its combat effectiveness.
Portugal, Spain, the initiators of the age of navigation, took almost a few hundred years to gradually occupy the world, divided the colonies, and built a supply port, they almost used time, slowly, this was formed, but the Navy did not have this time, not to mention hundreds of years, decades of time, are very few, must speed up this speed.
At present, Ding Navy's exploration plan, there is no problem of time, 5 years for a point in time, has been very open, Zhao Xin can not allow, five years time, can not find this incident in North America.
It sounds like some greed has entered, but in fact, Zhao Xin's consideration is based on the fact that there is a reason to, on the one hand, ships that can cross the ocean, whether it is a Spanish sailing ship, or a ship shearing ship, are the top of the windsurfing warship period, after some modern modification, and the construction of some auxiliary facilities, the performance of these ships, with a huge improvement, is beyond the peak of the existence.
On the other hand, Zhao Xin given the Navy, drew a nautical chart, which has a strong instructive effect.
Don't underestimate this, this is actually the most difficult step in the whole voyage.
Why is it difficult to spend the sea, because the sea is vast, there is no reference, out of the familiar channel or familiar scenery, it is easy to lose direction, the six-pointer in the middle, played a huge role.
Similarly, without the prophetic vision, without the simple nautical chart drawn by Zhao Xin, they would either follow the old road recorded in history, along the way of India, the Middle East, and Africa, which has little gain.
Or it is not necessary to use countless lives in the Pacific Ocean to pile up the final result, rather than like the Navy, leisurely exploration.
Now the search, let them take a few detours, the previous, 360-degree, 180-degree detection range, shortened to a range of less than 50 degrees, or even 30 degrees, so the efficiency has increased a lot.
All-round, full-area exploration, this for the Pacific, to the future satellite remote sensing premise, but also only to explore the surface, in the era of navigation, there is no country, can completely explore the Pacific Ocean, not to mention this era.
Navigation and exploration are still not a pinch, the Navy has many prerequisites, for example, to open Hokkaido into a gradual base, and then, gradually northward, to find a suitable island, as a forward port, to determine the Navy's terrible transport capacity and construction capacity, can be very fast, perhaps ten or twenty days, you can build a small island, and then on this fixed route, based on, and then explore.
This speed will be relatively slow, but very stable, from the north, around the Pacific Ocean, how many miles, and even the approximate distance and coastline, has been drawn, this, perhaps in the later view, nothing, no one, can not draw a precise map of the world, which is difficult for everyone, but a large outline, as well as the entire earth above, the general location of the seven continents, or no problem, even in the Pacific Ocean, this series of island chains, is a specific arc.
There is no way to draw it accurately, but it is a general graphic, or there is no problem at all, which has helped a lot.
The most important thing is to find no direction, a sea, a piece of the sea, there is no mark everywhere, can try the same way to find, similar, at least saved tens of times the energy.
After the arrival of the ship, the next day, began to carry out tentative sailing around, and many of their training, even from cunnilings to Hokkaido, was unfamiliar with charts, starting from the central one, more than 100 kilometers later.
Because of the closer relationship to the base camp, they have a margin of safety, even if it is a little more than a little, there are six points and recorded things, but also enough to ensure that they come back and make the first wave of attempts.
The 50 ships, divided into two parts, part of the remaining, part of the search, are mainly gradually accustomed to the situation of the marine basin near the Kuril Islands, and the hydrological characteristics of underwater water to help the future, for the exploration of the ocean.
Ocean exploration, need some necessary equipment, the shear boat carrying some, but far enough, they are searching at the same time, but also waiting for the arrival of the follow-up fleet.
In the plan of the established navy, the fly-cutting ship is the core, his airworthiness, his speed, can help the first troops and explore the fleet, can the fastest speed to discover everything around.
But there is not enough logistics to supplement, even if the pilot fleet, to go some of the effect, can not be sustained and fixed down, must have enough support, this support, that is, by the Spanish sailing ship as the main body, issued by the transport fleet.
This fleet, from Hokkaido, the central island of the No. 1 base camp, from Hokkaido, almost 600 kilometers, this is transported by the Spanish sailing ship, the relative speed is also very fast.
Hokkaido is a very good island, whether it is resources, or fishing, are quite excellent, to the industry is a little weak, but in the current level of the Navy's industry and science and technology, the industry is weak, not without, Hokkaido is mainly fishing, and in the way of the developed cities under the control of the Navy, some necessary materials and small industries or some.
In order to explore the ocean, directly from Shenyang this side of the mobilization, too much trouble, too far away, part of the production capacity, as well as the new some industries, these industries, enough to support large-scale exploration.
These are opened in advance, and, also accumulated a part of the material, this part of the material will be placed in the middle of the first above, the future of the base camp, the child's face can produce part of the product forward base, similar measures, will continue to go all the way, before the real search for the whole route, all the bases on this road, will continue to produce, the output of the materials, will also use the relay method, passed to the front of the base.
At present, the whole large-scale exploration has not yet been completely opened, 50 ship cutters, but the early head of the team, the follow-up work, will gradually improve.
Two days later, there were at least 800 Spanish sailing ships, loaded in a large fleet of 600 to 800 tons, dedicated to this one work, 500 nautical miles of a detection field, for the Spanish sailing ship, is not a problem, take the entire central island of the core of the Central No. 1 as an example, in the past 40 days, a total of 2000 ships, docked around this, unloaded about 1.2 million tons of supplies.
A large number of personnel and equipment were unloaded here, the basic temporary port, which has been built, and the large-scale port is under intense construction, while part of the warehouse, residential housing, and port infrastructure, etc., are also under intense construction.
The 50-shipping ship is only a leading force, and the one responsible for this time is Zhuangji, he is not from the dragon's courtier, there is no him in the escort of Sun Ji and other people, the villagers in Baozhou Miaojiazhuang, there is no him, he is in the Navy opened, only came to the coastal bankruptcy fishermen.
From a nameless, even every day for life and struggle for the fishermen, once for his destination is the sea, countless fishermen, under the premise of encountering major events, will choose to go deep into the sea, in the smallest opportunity, to find so a line of possibilities.
For most of the fishermen, they are very clear, this time into the sea, the probability of ultimate success is very small, the ocean is boundless, the deeper the ocean, the greater the wind and waves, even if it is a large Chinese sailing ship, can not resist the attack of the waves, not to mention the fishing boats of these fishermen, but facing the level that can not be crossed, can only ask the ocean, go to a desperate road, which is the majority of the fishermen in the fishing village.
The emergence of the Navy, changed the fate of the fishermen, the fishermen chose to enter the fixed navy, the beginning, most of them changed the line, become a worker, Zhuang Ji is no exception, he has even been to achieve 5th-level workers, relying on high income, to feed a large family, to live a happy life.
In the beginning, the Navy was almost rarely involved in the sea, but with the stability of industry, the Navy everything developed smoothly, more and more attention to the sea, and began to large-scale pumping personnel into the sea, whether it is transportation, shipping, or fishing needs people.
Many fishermen have chosen to ignore, they have been fed up with the wind and waves at sea, do not want to live such a dangerous life, but the fishermen, including Zhuangji, they know the report, is to set the navy to let them live a happy life, now the family has lived a very good, do not worry about, even future generations can learn, take a road of knowledge, in the absence of worries, they are willing to set the Navy to share.
Zhuang Ji also found that his interest was in the ocean after he went to the sea, and he liked the feeling of fighting in the sea and enjoying the feeling of free galloping in the ocean.
Starting from the fishing boat, Zhuang Ji began to fight in the sea, and relying on hard work and solid level, step by step from the captain of the fishing boat, the captain of the squadron, the captain of the transport fleet, the captain of the commander, etc., when this expedition began, it became one of the three captains of the entire exploration fleet, and became the commander-in-chief of the vanguard.
The arrival of a large number of materials, the port, there is no need to run, perhaps after the future is built, he needs to dispatch, but now no, he only needs to manage the current 50 ship shearing.
The first unit is not only such a little ship, 50 is only the first batch, follow-up, there will be about 500, the three major fleets, the first troops of the ship is the least, but also more than 500, the follow-up two teams, are more than a thousand ships of the huge fleet.
Unfortunately, at the current naval production rate, it is impossible to produce such a large ship for the time being, and it is expected to last about a year.
This is very normal, even if Zhao Xin has a card system, is a traversal, and still remembers the general position of the Pacific Ocean, the four oceans of the seven continents, and will not think that this search fleet can find the Americas in a short time.
This is a very difficult and difficult road, short three years and five years, more than ten years, as long as in this time, to find it, this is a long-term war.
What the Navy can do is only to provide maximum support, and the rest depends on fate.
Zhuangji soon, the necessary supplies were distributed in place, 50 ships, in addition to the remaining 5, as a liaison ship, the rest were sent, before the foundation, coupled with this time to explore out, Zhuangji has a plan for the future, 45 ships, divided into 9 teams.
With a sector of about 35 degrees, spread out, between each fleet, will be separated by about 15 kilometers, and then, in a short period of time, explore the distance of at least 300 kilometers, explore more than 30,000 square kilometers of the sea.
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