Chapter 556: The Great Nautical Chart
Chapter 556: The Great Nautical Chart
Relatively speaking, the whole thing is much simpler!
"Since that's the case, you probably have the environment around the archipelago in your mind, right?"
He asked Shi Lang with a half-smile.
Shi Lang was stunned, and then he realized that although Lu Bu didn't know about Zheng's possession of the Three Treasures Eunuch's navigation chart, but he lamented his helplessness here, but he deliberately made it his own!
"Your Highness, can we speak directly about something? Even if you ask me for the chart directly, I won't give it to you!"
Shi Lang said with a wry smile.
Lu Bu raised his eyebrows: "What if after getting your chart, we didn't meet the pirates under Liu Xiang's men on the road, but met the pirates under Zheng's men instead?"
This sentence completely stopped Shi Lang, Shi Lang's face changed, and when he looked at Lu Bu, his expression was obviously a little unnatural.
He pondered for a moment, and then walked to the table on his own initiative, readjusted the spread out chart, and then made three routes on the chart with his side's current location as a mark.
"Around the area of Liu Xiang, there are usually only these three routes as their patrol routes. Among them, the northern one is a double patrol route, with two patrol fleets of up to 30 ships going back and forth!"
After Shi Lang finished drawing, he pointed to the three routes and explained.
"North? It seems that the Zheng family should have taken root in the north near the coast?"
Lu Bu asked with some surprise.
Shi Lang was conflicted in his heart at this time, so naturally he would not take up this kind of conversation, but just made a vague sound.
"As for the two routes in the southeast and southwest directions, it is the kind of patrol fleet I told you before. The number of ships does not exceed fifteen, and only about ten of them are capable of combat!"
At this time, when Shi Lang talked about the situation of the other party, there were obviously some discrepancies in the details, Lu Bu heard it very clearly, but he didn't point it out directly, he just chuckled, "Then listened in detail.
Although Shi Lang was expelled by Liu Xiang's subordinates before, the two sides have become enemies.
But from the perspective of pirates, Lu Bu is obviously their enemy.
So Shi Lang will inevitably hide some things that must be concealed for his 'insiders'.
At this time, Shi Lang actually changed his tone a lot, which is enough to show that he is now moving closer to Lu Bu!
"The fleet in the southeast direction is farther away from the opponent. After all, our three fast ships are slightly weaker, so we choose this route!"
Lu Bu smiled, pointed his hand lightly to the top of the chart, and continued.
"Your Highness is very calculating!"
Shi Lang looked at Lu Bu, feeling helpless.
At this moment, he finally understood that the recklessness that Lu Bu showed before was just a joke!
He patted his head and smiled wryly.
I was really played and applauded by Lu Bu, and I actually thought that Lu Bu didn't want to use brute force to kill pirates and use it to coerce (aeea) myself!
Thinking about it now, if this is the case, even if this prince is a general who leads the army, he is not a good emperor suitable for governing the country!
After wiping away the last bit of arrogance in Shi Lang's heart, Lu Bu's attitude changed quite a bit.
Consciously or unintentionally, Shi Lang also began to base himself on the position of Lu Bu's adviser.
It would be unrealistic for him to directly lead the fleet to attack Liu Xiang at this time, but it would be most suitable for him to be a naval think tank.
At this time, they were still a full ten nautical miles away from the route of the patrol fleet in the southeast direction.
At this time, with the wind down, their speed had reached the general limit of wooden sailboats, and it would take more than half an hour to cross this distance at a speed of eight knots.
What's more, according to Shi Lang's knowledge of the opponent's patrol time, they still have at least one hour to pass the corresponding point.
So at this time they have plenty of time to prepare.
After arguing in the cabin for a long time, Lu Bu and Shi Lang walked out of the cabin. Both of them are people who are used to sitting on warships. Everyone stood extremely steady "It looks like walking on the ground!
"If you follow your thinking, although the three fast ships can intersect in the shortest time, at most they can sink the opponent's four warships in the first time!"
Lu Bu frowned, and said loudly to Shi Lang.
"That's right, although we can only sink four warships, we will gain the upper hand in this way, and the opponent will definitely mess up first!"
Shi Lang tried to persuade Lu Bu to use the horizontal penetration formation for a long time, but to no avail, and he is still insisting at this time.
Lu Bu snorted lightly, and gestured with his hands in the air.
"But after the interlude is over, our surprise advantage will disappear, and we will not be able to turn around and move around in the wreckage of the opponent's warship, and will expose ourselves to the opponent's guns!
"The firepower of our artillery is not enough. We can only sink the opponent's warship, but not destroy it. Of course, they will be concerned about their own people who fall into the water, and they won't..."
Having said this, Shi Lang's eyes darkened!.
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