Chapter 387
In the past two years, Jacques has sailed on the sea many times and even learned the art of nautical.
His favorite thing is to watch the sunrise at the bow of the boat, especially when the sky turns from blue to red. The sun jumps out of the sea. Every time he sees it, there are a few more clouds, or a gust of wind comes out of thin air, passing by a seabird, or even Jacques himself feels different, which is a brand new experience.
Therefore, every time there is a sunrise, he will keep on the bow of the boat and watch every time.
After only a few months, Jacques returned to the sea again and could watch the sun rise from the bow of the boat.
This voyage was Jacques' furthest voyage, and the destination was naturally Tavare in the middle of the New World.
He did not sail alone, and his fleet had nearly a hundred large warships, most of which were loaded with horses, boars, mandrills, and other strange beasts, while the rest of the space was filled with various supplies.
Human soldiers only used fifteen narrow-body warships to fill them up. These warships were cruising on both wings of the transport ship with faster speed.
This fleet sailed from east to west first bypassed the southernmost end of the Kingdom of Light, and then headed west, and did not follow the coast of the Eastern Continent to Castia or Stuart, but drove west into the ocean.
They set off a month earlier than the main fleet that wanted to travel east and was preparing to cross the windless fog sea. According to the prior agreement, it should be that after the main fleet landed on the west coast of the New World, the west fleet slowly arrived at the east coast of the central New World, and then took advantage of the empty defense to make a big fuss in the Stuart colony.
This is a route that no one has ever taken. The only basis is the coordinates of Tavare on the chart. Jacques checks the current location of the expeditionary army three times a day to avoid deviation.
These days, Jacques has been calculating the time to arrive in the New World, constantly reviewing the routes and observing hydrology. In fact, there are naturally full-time sailors responsible for these things. For Jacques, these things are just adding some adjustments to boring sailings.
Thinking about the situation where he and Lily landed in a mess two years ago, Jacques couldn't help but laugh at himself secretly, and drove the stolen pirate ship to find the place to land. However, he ran a rock on the shore and caused the two pirates to escape with a box of silver coins.
I don’t know how the two pirates were able to get silver coins from their hands. They were the only two pairs. Even the old leopard returned the thousands of silver coins they had forgotten on his ship.
At that time, I never expected to go to the central part of the New World again and lead the fleet.
It is not appropriate to say "leading". This fleet and the commander of thousands of wild boar knights are the leader of the Wujin clan, Shui Hanjin.
Jacques had a cabin on the flagship. No one knew its origin. He only knew that he would tinker with all kinds of navigation equipment every day, otherwise he would do nothing on the deck.
No one would arrange for Jacques to work. On the first day of boarding the ship, the crew knew that the young couple was the commander of the Wujinwei, who had only one department, and the distinguished guest of the leader of the Shuihanjinshi clan.
Unlike boys who are idle and like to watch the sunrise, girls in young couples hide in the cabin every day and only appear when they eat.
What the crew and the sergeant are more familiar with is the pet cat raised by the young couple. They wander around the warship every day, and there are always loving female warriors who provide them with warm arms and delicious dried fish.
Alisha probably knew that Lily would close the door to train her mental strength as soon as she got on the boat, so she simply went to another warship that Shui Zhao was responsible for.
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More than 2,000 warriors, three thousand sailors, and thousands of strange beasts, known as Wujinwei, all learned about the purpose of their trip before they set out - to go to the New World to seize land and create enough living space for the Kingdom of Light.
Whether it is out of faith in the God of Light, or gratitude and reverence for the God of Black and White Mountain, everyone in the fleet is full of fighting spirit, hoping to arrive at the New World, defeat the Stuart colonists who bullied the indigenous people, establish overseas colonies of the Kingdom of God, and treat everyone on this land equally, well, as long as they also believe in the God of Light...
But only a few senior commanders knew that the fleet's primary destination was not a direct landing on the east coast, but directly attacking the empty city of Tavare because of division of troops to rescue the west coast.
It is a small island with a very famous but few people know its specific location, Skull Island outside the sea of Tavare!
It is very coincidental that at that time, Jacques wanted to calculate when the pirate ship that fled back to Skull Island would arrive and when he could take other pirate ships to chase the pirate ship they snatched, so he forced the slaughter and bald man to give the specific location of Skull Island.
Skull Island is a mysterious island that is unknown to others, and for Jacques it is just a small spot on the chart.
Therefore, seizing Skull Island is the top priority of the westbound fleet.
Because the Ujinwei was tasked with fighting guerrillas in the Stuart colonies of the New World, attacking colonies and towns, and disrupting their rears.
The characteristics of guerrilla warfare determine that it is difficult for them to establish bases on land, so the stay and departure of this fleet has become a problem.
Therefore, occupying Skull Island can not only establish a base on Skull Island and preserve ships of the westbound fleet, but also provide support to the Ujin Guards who guerrilla on land when necessary.
Kill two birds with one stone!
Moreover, Jacques also heard that the huge wealth that the mirror group robbed for many years was also hidden in Skull Island!
This is another opportunity to get rich. War naturally consumes a lot of money. War is always in a state of shortage of money. Jacques will naturally not let go of this wealth.
Three wins in one go!
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After two and a half months of sailing, the westbound fleet of the Kingdom of Light finally approached the privateer area of the mirror group.
Jacques knew clearly that at this time, in the west coast area of the central New World, the main fleet led by Heishuo, 130,000 guards and 200,000 auxiliary personnel should have landed long ago.
Heiye should follow the established strategy to land on many places on the west coast, bloom at multiple points, and quickly go deeper into the inland, cut the coastal areas into several independent and difficult-to-connect areas, and then slowly divide and surround them.
At this time, the colonial governor's office should have known about the sudden war. Perhaps they were not sure which force the enemy suddenly appeared and how it fell from the sky.
Even so, the Stuart army on the east coast must have begun to march westward.
The war has begun!
Chapter completed!