Throne of Vientiane Civilization

During the time when Zhou Xu's order was sent, another large ship was built at the South Border Harbor Shipyard.

However, the impact was not great. Next, they followed the order and started to build fast ships with all their strength.

In addition, the appearance of the enemy at sea also made the navy of Da Zhou change the previous gradual expansion plan and began to expand rapidly.

According to their original plan, they planned to do it step by step. After the corresponding sea ships have been built, they will start to recruit the required number of soldiers and train them.

The advantage of doing so is that it can save labor as much as possible.

After all, the labor force in Da Zhou is relatively fixed at this stage. If you recruit them to serve as soldiers, the number of people as labor will be reduced.

But now the situation is different. The appearance of the enemy at sea has brought them more urgency, which forced Zhou Xu to start pursuing some efficiency.

The original navy of 300 people was directly expanded to 1,000 people in one go, and continued to recruit if there were not enough in the future.

It doesn't matter if there are not enough ships for the time being. A lot of the newly recruited soldiers still need to start from swimming and balance bike training, so there is no rush to let them go on board for sea training.

When they have almost completed the basic training, the harbor shipyard must have built more ships.

Under this premise, in order to improve the efficiency of shipbuilding, the manpower of the harbor shipyard has undoubtedly been further expanded to obtain more labor.

In this way, Zhou Xu's order made the coastal fortress busy for the whole second half of the year.

At the end of the year, Zhou Xu received a report from the southern garrison again. After reading it, he was thoughtful.

Since then, the unidentified ship has never appeared again.

It is not difficult to see from this that the other party should be a little afraid of them, or lack of confidence, and can't figure out their details, so they dare not provoke them easily.

[Is it because of the number of ships? Or is there any other reason? 】

At that time, the Great Zhou directly dispatched three ships. If the number of ships of the other side was not as large as theirs, they would definitely not act rashly.

As for other reasons...

Zhou Xu did not have no idea at all.

Don't forget, there is a ruin of a city on the coast of the southern border.

The location of the ruins of the city is so close to the sea, the other side cannot be unaware that there is a sea next door.

Cities near the sea will inevitably develop fishing industries, and naturally there will be ships.

Suppose the natives of that city were not completely wiped out by the rats, but fled by boat?

After escaping, they were unwilling to give up and wanted to take back the territory occupied by the rats, so they came back to inquire about the situation...

Although there is no direct evidence between the two, it can prove that the suspected Japanese ship that appeared on the sea and the city destroyed by the rats are the same force.

But think about it from another angle. Is there really such a coincidence in this world that the other side can find them here in this vast ocean?

If the other side escaped from here, then everything makes sense.

As his thoughts raced, Zhou Xu wrote down a new order.

In the spring of next year, send out a fleet to search for the enemy's position!

When Bai Tu received this order, there was not much time left until the spring.

Fortunately, when the previous order was issued, the training of the Great Zhou Navy had not been slack.

Now that the order has been received, the whole situation is not so urgent. It can only be said that this preparation has been made long ago!

In the blink of an eye, the new year has come.

After the expansion of the scale and the increase of labor force, the shipbuilding efficiency of the harbor shipyard is also quite high.

Now their Great Zhou Navy has a full twelve speedboats, plus two large ships.

This battle, spread out on the sea, is also in good shape.

Standing on the reviewing stand, Bai Tu is now in high spirits.

Starting from leading troops to support the southern border and defeating the ratmen, he finally seized the opportunity and began to gradually show his ability and was reused. Now he directly led their Great Zhou Navy, which was considered to be completely successful.

Now their Great Zhou Navy, with a large ship plus six fast ships as a fleet, is divided into the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, forming two fleets to facilitate more flexible command and dispatch.

A simple search for the enemy naturally does not require their navy to send out all its forces.

Bai Tu directly ordered the First Fleet to sail to perform the mission.

Here, it is worth mentioning that on the large ship as the main flagship of the First Fleet, in addition to transporting the supplies needed for the fleet to sail, it is also equipped with two pterosaur riders.

As mentioned before, the pterosaur itself has limited physical strength. If it can't find a place to rest at sea, it will be a big trouble.

This also limits the range of activities of the pterosaur riders at sea to a large extent, and they dare not fly too far.

But as long as they have the cooperation of the Great Zhou Fleet, the pterosaurs can directly land on the deck of the big ship to rest when they are tired of flying, and the physical problem that troubles the pterosaur riders will naturally be solved.

At the same time, this also allows the pterosaur riders' aerial reconnaissance capabilities to be more thoroughly utilized in the next operation.

According to the direction of the opponent's ship's escape at that time, although they were able to lock a general direction, the sea is endless after all.

How long will it take for them to search with just a few ships?

But as long as there are two pterosaur riders to assist, the whole situation will be completely different.

At sea, high-altitude reconnaissance is particularly useful because there are no obstacles that can block the vision of pterosaur riders.

Not to mention that what they are looking for is not a person or a ship, but an island!

Even if they fly at high altitude, they can easily see it, which is enough to greatly improve their reconnaissance efficiency.

In comparison, the status of the navy soldiers inside the fleet is more worrying.

Although they have already conducted a lot of simulation training on sea life in previous training, training is training, and there is still a little difference when it comes to practice.

This also makes the little problems that occur on the ship every day, so that they basically have no time to rest.

Fortunately, as a leading general, Bai Tu is still capable. He stabilized the situation in the chaos and quickly accumulated experience in going to sea, so that his entire state gradually improved.

In this way, five days passed.

The days at sea were undoubtedly boring. Many soldiers who had never experienced this before were obviously affected in their mental state, but they were still able to keep their composure.

Another day passed, and at this moment, accompanied by the setting sun, a pterosaur rider quickly landed on the deck of their main flagship.

"Report! An island was found ahead. There was a port on the island, and there were many ships nearby. Among them was a 30-meter-class sea ship with a white background and a red group flag, which was very similar to the one that appeared before!"