The sea breeze blows, cloudy and sunny, and on the sea surface, a huge fleet is sailing northeast. This is the large army of Japan to attack the Hokkien, and it takes the sea route to the east of the island, which is the "East Kingdom".

The east of the eastern country is compared with the territory actually controlled by the Japanese imperial court. Its scope includes the eastern land (plain, mountainous area) of the island, as well as the "East Sea area" (coastal area).

Most of the Eastern Kingdoms were occupied by the Hokkien. The Japanese imperial court has been expanding eastward for nearly a hundred years, and it wants to take the abundant land from the so-called "eat raw meat and drink blood".

More land and more slaves are very valuable resources for the nobles of all sizes in Japan, and no one will think that there are too many. Therefore, the opinions within the Japanese court are basically very unified about the war in the East.

However, in previous years, due to the tenacious resistance of the Ekimai, the inconvenience of land transfer of food and grass, and the unsatisfactory fiscal revenue of the imperial court, the expansion of the East has been unsatisfactory.

But now it is different. Through trade and exchanges with Zhou, Japan's national strength has increased. The use of a large number of iron tools has turned many wastelands into fertile land. Therefore, the grain output has increased year by year, and it can feed more people.

By selling sulfur, silver and various specialties on a large scale, the Japanese imperial court accumulated enough materials to launch a larger-scale attack on the Hokkien.

At the same time, transporting troops into the Eastern Kingdoms region through sea routes can effectively reduce the cost of war and also enable various troops of the Emirate tribes to defend head-on. With the establishment of the General's Office of the Conquering Yi and the strengthening of the Zhou State's aid, the Japanese court, whose confidence has increased, decided to make breakthrough progress in the Eastern Kingdoms.

Several key coastal strongholds in the East China Sea region have been built. The troops who set out from the "Western Kingdom" can easily reach these strongholds by sea and then launch an offensive against the Essay.

This time, the army went to fight to defeat the coalition forces of the various units of the Emirate Army and achieve decisive victory. It officially established a controlled area in the hinterland of the Eastern Kingdom, built cities and opened military camps.

In this way, it is like stabbing a knife into a person's chest, causing the other party to lose blood and eventually die of exhaustion.

Therefore, in this battle, except for the efforts of the officers and soldiers, there should be no problems with shipping. For this reason, the Japanese imperial court did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to continue to ask the Zhou navy to undertake the maritime transportation task of food and grass.

In fact, Japan itself has the ability to cross the sea to fight. Over the past hundred years, the Japanese team has crossed the sea north many times and arrived in Baekje, and attacked Silla with Baekje.

However, such a battle does not take a long time and a large amount of materials are frequently transported on a large scale. Because the Baccarat provides food, supplies and various help, the Japanese teams need the help of Zhou to enter the Eastern Kingdom to fight on the sea route.

If the shipbuilding technology is not good, you can buy a brig sea ship from Zhou State to transport food and supplies after the war. You can ask the Zhou State fleet to serve. In a few years, the Japanese team will firmly establish a firm foothold in the hinterland of the Eastern Kingdom, and there is no need to invite the Zhou State fleet to transport food and grass.

The Japanese soldiers riding the wind and waves on a brand new brig sailboat were looking at the vast sea and imagined a bright future. They were full of confidence in this battle. Looking around, they found that their fleet was far away from the coast to the west, and basically could not see the coastline, while the waters to the east seemed a little black.

The fleet is far away from the shore to avoid various dangerous shoals and reefs. As for the dark sea area to the east, it is the famous "black tide".

Fishermen on the coast of Japan all know that the Black Tide is amazing. Although there are many fish in the Black Tide, the sea water flows very quickly in the Black Tide. If the ship accidentally enters the most turbulent sea area in the Black Tide, it will be easily taken away by the black sea water.

Except for a very few ships that can only break free, most of the other unlucky people will be taken away by the Black Tide and will disappear at the eastern end of the sea. The people on the ship will never come back.

Therefore, for fishermen, fishing on the edge of the dark tide is a very risky but highly profitable thing.

As for where those ships taken away by the Kuroshima, folk legends have been brought to the end of the world by the Kuroshima.

What is the end of the world like? No one has seen it before.

But everyone believes that at the end of the world, at the easternmost end of the vast sea, is an endless waterfall, and all ships wrapped in black tides will fall into the bottomless abyss under the waterfall with the sea.

The bottomless abyss is scary just thinking, so the soldiers in the fleet looked at the black sea in the distance and were sweating protruding coldly.

The fleet was sailing at the edge of the Black Tide. With the help of the current driven by the Black Tide sea, Zhang Manfan quickly advanced to the northeast with the south wind. Just as the soldiers were worried about the fleet's adventure, someone suddenly discovered that a sea boat was approaching quickly in the rear waters.

Seeing the other party's position on the sea, he was actually sailing in the black tide, which moved the Japanese soldiers who had the color of hearing the black tide, but the crew's explanation made everyone relieved: this is the fleet of Zhou, who has the ability to sail in the black tide without fear of not being able to come back.

Zhou's fleet sailed in the black court. Because it was smooth sailing, it was very fast and gradually came up. The Japanese soldiers looked from a distance and found that these ships were all five-masted sailboats.

The hull is long and has five mast sails. This is the famous "Sea Patrol Yaksha". No wonder he dares to sail in the dark tide!

The Japanese soldiers were amazed and couldn't help but wonder: It is said that the sea ships that Zhou State transported food and grass to the court were all three-masted ships. Where are these eight five-masted ships now?

Seeing the fleet gradually turning along the direction of the black tide flowing, turning east, many people were stunned: Are you crazy? Going east, that's the end of the world!

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On the five-masted sailboat, Zhang Yu looked at the Japanese fleet to the west with a thousand-mile mirror. In a moment, he put away the thousand-mile mirror and looked in the direction of his ship's navigation.

It was the vast sea in the east, and there was no sight at all. Zhang Yu didn't expect to see anything, because he knew that there was no island ahead, except for the Black Tide, there was only ordinary sea water.

Black tide is a warm current with water temperature higher than the surrounding sea water. Because the water is darker in color and has a very fast flow rate, it is like a strong tide compared to the surrounding sea areas, so it is called "Black tide".

The black tide occurs outside the eastern sea of ​​Taizhou. It goes north, passes through Ryukyu and then forks near Zhuzida Island: branches flow through the west side of Zhuzida Island, then turn northeast, and enter the Whale Sea.

The main branch of the Black Tide flows from the east of Zhuzida Island, goes northeast, passes through the southeastern waters of the main island of Japan, turns around in the eastern waters of the so-called "East Kingdom" and turns eastward.

The dark tide flows all year round. In summer, the ocean currents are relatively strong, and in winter, the ocean currents become weak, but they still flow.

All signs indicate that the black tide that turns east does not flow to the end of the world, but turns south in the distant east direction, then turns back, and returns to the eastern part of Luzhou, Nanyang, and then turns north and flows to Taizhou, forming a return.

This is the result of hydrological observations that took twenty years. Zhang Yu believes that in the distant East, there is a new world that the emperor said, rather than an endless waterfall.

There is no bottomless abyss, nothing will never return, there is a vast continent.

The emperor said that there are very spicy "pilafel" there, red, and it feels spicy just by looking at it; there is a high-yield crop "corn", with the fruits like spindles, and rice grains are attached to the surface like fingernails, which can be planted in the mountains; there are "alpacas" that look like sheep and camels, which will spit on people.

There are also various strange flowers and fruits, as well as indigenous countries that like human sacrifices.

From the Central Plains to the New World, it is said that it will take months to sail on the endless sea. There is no island to be docked in the middle of the journey. The time is long, and even if the supply is sufficient, it is easy to make people desperate and crazy.

'But, I want to see the new world in my dreams, can you do it?'

‘My memory, Zhang Yu, I am willing to travel east for Your Majesty and see the vast new world with your own eyes!’

Zhang Yu, an observer of the East China Sea, took the map of the far east region drawn by the emperor, and with the help of the compass and sextant, commanded eight five-masted sailboats loaded with supplies and skilled seamen, and set off from Ryukyu in the late spring.

Before the hurricane season arrives, sail along the dark tide and head towards the other end of the sea.
Chapter completed!