The two treasure ships were fully hung with sails, but the wind was still a little weak, and the treasure ships moved much slower.
Zhang Yu asked Lieutenant General Zhang Lang: "How long will the water and food on the ship be enough to last?"
Zhang Lang replied seriously: "The water can still last for half a month, but there is still enough coal on the ship. We can distill seawater day and night to get some water. Save some water, and it will not be a problem to last for twenty-five or six days. As for food, there is enough. , a lot of fish were caught in the past few days, and all the fish that should be dried have been dried, so it will not be a problem to sustain it for a month, but in the past two days, there have been much less fish, which is quite strange."
The ship's doctor, Zhao Miaozi, walked over barefoot and said: "Some big seas have more fish, and some big seas have less fish. It can't be called strange. But the wind is weak, which is a problem."
Zhang Yu raised his head and looked at the sail. It was fully hung, but it didn't swing at all. It hung softly, seeming very lost and decadent.
"Continent, there is a continent ahead!"
The lookout stood high and looked into the distance with a telescope. He saw a green continent in the distance, like a prairie covered with green grass.
The grass is endless, one after another, which is spectacular.
Zhang Yu, Zhang Lang, Zhao Miaozi and a group of sergeants all ran to the side of the ship, stared at the grassland in the distance, and laughed.
"Quick, sergeant, shake the oar and speed up!"
Zhang Lang was extremely excited and ordered sternly.
"We see the mainland, brothers, hurry up!"
The sergeants were all excited. Needless to say, the final mission place ahead was the continent of South America!
The boring and dangerous navigation in recent months has made the sergeant extremely tired. Who can not be surprised and excited to see the mainland now?
Even Zhang Yu, who had always been steady, turned red and commanded the treasure ship to speed up. The captain Kang Zhe and the deputy captain Liang Si of another treasure ship also saw the mainland in the distance and followed Zhang Yu's ship to speed up.
"It's so beautiful here."
Zhao Miaozi lowered his head to look at the sea and couldn't help but sigh.
The water becomes extremely clear, as if the treasure ship is walking on the clouds. The too clear water makes people feel that the sea has become very shallow, and there is even an illusion that the treasure ship may hit the bottom and run aground.
Zhang Yu rubbed his hands, with a smile on his face, and said to Zhang Lang and others: "We have lived up to the emperor's trust!"
Zhang Lang nodded repeatedly, grabbed the side of the boat and stared at the grassland ahead, licked his lips and said: "After life and death, we are finally here! The remaining task is to find those magical plants and seeds!"
Zhang Yu is not worried about plants and seeds. The most difficult thing about this voyage is not finding things, but getting here.
If you come, you will win 90% of the time.
The treasure ship lowered its sails, and with the oars swayed by the sergeants, it began to quickly approach the mainland.
"what is that?"
The smile on Zhang Yu's face suddenly froze, and she raised her hand to point to the grassland in front of her.
Zhang Lang stared intently, and a creepy feeling suddenly arose, and he shouted sternly: "No, that's not the mainland! Stop the boat, stop!"
The order was passed on, and the crew members were at a loss and stopped one after another.
But the treasure ship was too big. Even if it stopped, under the inertia, it still plunged into the blue sea and grassland in front of you! The ships "tear open" the grasslands, and then the grasslands surround the treasure ship.
Kang Zhe and Liang Si's treasure ships responded more slowly, and actually went deeper than Zhang Yu's treasure ships.
It's calm here, and the treasure ship is surrounded by greenery.
But this is not a grassland, not a continent, but algae!
"Could this be the sea of death that the emperor mentioned - the Sargasso Sea?"
Zhang Miaozi's face was extremely ugly.
Zhang Yu looked down at the large amount of sargassum floating on the sea, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. There were so many sargassums, like huge green bamboo rafts, and like patches of grassland, spread directly on the sponge. Above, from a distance, it looks like a prairie scenery!
It's like a huge green wasteland, spreading into the distance, boundless.
Zhang Lang was trembling a little.
Zhu Yunwen repeatedly warned the navy to sail around the Sargasso Sea and pass through the southern edge of the Sargasso Sea, and not to go deep into it to avoid being unable to escape.
But now, the navy mistakenly thought it was approaching the mainland, so it forgot the danger and rushed all the way. It has always been about looking far and traveling far, but here it has become a matter of seeing far and traveling near. As a result, the ship was unable to even control its speed and plunged into it.
"The emperor said that sargassum is edible, how about we try it?"
Zhang Miaozi calmed down.
Zhang Yu and Zhang Lang glared at Zhang Miaozi. How long has it been since this happened? Do you still have the intention to make this joke? !
Zhu Yunwen said that sargassum is edible. He also said that if you fall into it and get hungry, you can cook some sargassum and eat it. It is not poisonous and will not kill anyone.
But the point Zhu Yunwen said was not that Sargasso seaweed is edible, but that the Sargasso Sea is a sea of death and a graveyard for ships!
According to the information provided by Zhu Yunwen, there are two desperate places in the Sargasso Sea:
First: This is a windless zone!
Second: Sargassum can damage ships, cling to them, and may even “drag” them into the sea!
Zhang Yu raised his hand and felt it. There was really no wind at all.
There is no wind in the treasure ship, so there is only one driving force left, and that is the sergeant shaking the deep oar. But this method is not suitable for long-term use. The more the sergeant exerts force, the more he sweats and becomes thirsty.
Water resources are extremely precious to the navy and are related to the life and death of sergeants.
It is unrealistic to move forward and cross the Sargasso Sea. It is said that this so-called sea is more than five or six thousand miles long. It is unrealistic to cross it and tire everyone.
The only way is to retreat and withdraw from this Sargasso Sea!
It's still too late now, after all, it's only on the periphery. If we go deeper, we won't be able to go back even if we want to.
Zhang Yu made a decisive decision and ordered people to shout to Kang Zhe and Liang Si, flagging them and ordering them to retreat quickly.
Kang Zhe and Liang Si received the news and realized the danger. Zhu Yunwen emphasized several times that he was not allowed to go deep into a place. He also mentioned "Bermuda", which sounded like "as big as a hundred graves", so It is better to evacuate early from unlucky places.
But if retreat was so easy, the Sargasso Sea would not be called the Sea of Death, the Sea Cemetery, or the Demonic Sea.
When the treasure ship stretched out its long oars and prepared to retreat, Kang Zhe felt the treasure ship shake. Just as the smile on his face rose, Liang Si poured cold water on him: "The ship seems to have not left."
Kangzhe grabbed the side of the ship and leaned over to look. He saw that although the sergeant on the treasure ship was rowing hard and the treasure ship was trying to move back, the dense sargassum around it was like a huge net, surrounding the entire treasure ship!
When the ship took a step back, more sargassum accumulated and the resistance was greater. At the back, no matter how hard the crew tried, the treasure ship seemed not to retreat.
In the vast green sea, two treasure ships were trapped...
