"Oding", before leaving, Chen Muzhi called Oding, "I'm going to accept you waiting."

"How to accept it?" Oding's eyes were filled with a strange glow.

Chen Muzhi smiled and said, "I'm going to tell you that in the last few naval battles between our country and Britain, our army won a great victory.

Captured hundreds of sailors, including their fleet commander William Payne."

"If there is no other big one, our country will soon get a stronghold in Ireland..."

"God!" Odin's face was pale. He naturally knew that this must be a deal between two great powers and betrayed Ireland, but he soon realized that there was a chance here. The two great powers were playing in Ireland, so the Irish people would have a chance to breathe. Now it seems that the Great Xia Kingdom is very harsh against pirates, but it is still quite good for the civilians that occupy the place, rather than just like the British, who just burned and killed and robbed.

"Don't worry, our country does not have much territorial requirements for Ireland. It's just that I want to find a stronghold to the European continent. Before that, I'm going to go to Pisachek Bay. I'll give you two flags. Whether it's a ship from the Hanhai Army or other countries, show these two flags. You leave a ship to cut down trees and build a stronghold here, and the remaining ships follow me north!"

"General", the glory in Odin's eyes became even more and more. "According to the route of the Europeans at this time, after departing from here, along the coastline, about two hundred miles north, there is a promontory, called Cape Canaveral, from there, leaving the coastline, along the strong ocean currents, and then turning to the east about one or two hundred miles south of Newfoundland Island, you can reach Europe."

"If you want to go to Pisachek Bay and leave Cape Canaveral, my poor Norman will definitely not be able to catch up with you. You might as well leave both broken ships here and let Connor build a stronghold here. If you allow it, I will bring more than a dozen old sea dogs familiar with this area to follow the north."

"His Excellency General, half of these people are sailors on private boats that followed me on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and are very familiar with the East Coast."

...

Chen Muzhi's small fleet set off and brought ten Irish people headed by Odin.

Odin's assistant, former Oster County nobleman John Connor, led the remaining people of the two pirate ships to build a pier and a camp that could accommodate 300 people in Miami as Chen Muzhi told him. Before that, Chen Muzhi left them with a considerable portion of food and supplies.

In order to save coal, Chen Muzhi drove to the northeast after the fleet arrived at Cape Canaveral and moved away from the coast along the ocean current.

Although according to Ouding's story, there is still about a thousand miles of coastline south of Virginia, which is still an uninhabited or a small place, when he thinks that the emperor who is highly respected is already in his mind, there are already a large number of people near the best place on the East Coast, how can he sit still?

"No white, black, or native, are worthy of occupying America! Only our Daxia country is qualified!"

A voice appeared in Chen Muzhi's heart. As the ship rowed through the waves and sailed towards the outer sea, the sound became louder and louder, and finally it was a little uncontrollable.

As mentioned earlier, if two machines are fully turned on, the Swift can travel at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, up to 500 kilometers per day. The Swift is loaded with 100 tons of spare coal. At this speed, it will consume ten tons of coal in a day. One hundred tons is ten days, and it can travel 5,000 kilometers!

Of course, this only considers the constant speed of driving. If high-speed maneuver is required during combat, the ship's head and tail rudder device will be connected to the machine, and the frequency and direction of the propeller rotation are constantly changed, which requires more coal consumption, not to mention that the return journey needs to be considered. In this way, her effective range is actually about 2,000 kilometers.

If these three ships need to be stationed in Chesapeake Bay on site, it will consume more coal.

So, Chen Muzhi decided to start only one steam engine from Cape Calavere. With Mexico's turnaround support, he still maintained a speed of about twenty kilometers (the speed of the Mexican warm current is about five kilometers per hour, and the steam engine only needs to maintain a certain speed at this time).

Three days later, the fleet arrived on the ocean about 300 kilometers east of Cape Hatteras in Pamlico Bay, North Carolina. According to the normal route, if you return to Europe, you will have to go further away from the mainland and head to a few hundred kilometers south of Newfoundland Island and then turn east.

Cape Hatteras, an iconic location. As Nikan, who has always dreamed of traveling to the North American continent to do something great, naturally remembered his location - 35 degrees north latitude!

The observer led by Chen Ziyun took about half an hour to determine the position, and the fleet turned around and headed straight west.

Not long after, they discovered the mainland!

At this time, Odin, who had been here several times, could use the navigation charts with a large number of references in their hands to guide the fleet north along the coastline.

Half an hour later, the fleet drove into Chesapeake Bay!

...

Just as Chen Muzhi's fleet was sailing along the North Atlantic warm current outside the sea, a slave ship that had just returned from Africa and belonged to the Virginia Company was sailing on the sea near later South Carolina.

This slave-catching ship was purchased from the local native chiefs in Guinea in later Africa, and some of the black slaves they captured on the shore. Then, in the Cape Verde waters, followed the North Equator warm current flowing from east to west, turned northwest outside the sea of ​​the Wind Islands, and arrived at the Wind Islands, the British could rest on the islands they occupied, and then continue to drive northwest, crossed the Levitra Islands, and entered the waters between the Bahamas and Florida, and then connected to the Mexican warm current.

However, for the British, they dare not drive on the coast about two or three hundred kilometers away from the mainland like Chen Muzhi, and then return to the coastline after reaching Cape Hatteras. Instead, they use the northeast trade wind and a weak current along the coastline, driving along the coastline.

It is this faint warm current that keeps the ports along the Pisachek Bay from freezing all year round, which is why Nikan chose there!

Since it is a Northeast trade wind, although it is generally a headwind, it is not a direct wind after all, but an angle. Coupled with the influence of a weak ocean current (with less than one knot), the ship can travel along the coastline at a lower speed and a small "zigzag" shape.

In this way, they originally walked a few days earlier than Chen Muzhi's fleet, but when Chen Muzhi's small fleet arrived at the exit of Pisachek Bay, the slave ship had just arrived!

Newport!

On the ocean east of the Pisachek Bay exit, a fishing boat, also affiliated with the Virginia Company, is returning from Chincotegue Bay, east of the Delaware Peninsula.

Virginia!

The three people were all in just enough time to control the time, and it was going to get dark in about an hour.

The current situation is that Chen Muzhi's small fleet is located in the middle of the sea mouth about forty miles wide. Newport is on the sea about one thousand meters to the south, while Virginia is on the sea about two thousand meters to the north!

Chen Muzhi's brain began to rotate quickly.

Needless to say, both ships belonged to the British. According to Ouding, only the British had strongholds along the coast of the entire Chesapeake Bay, either from Virginia Company, or from the British or the Caribbean Sea.

"What should I do? Although Odin has some understanding of the Chesapeake Bay, it happened a few years ago. At this time, in the entire bay, how many strongholds did the British have in it? Are there regular fleets? Even if there are no fleets, how many armed merchant ships are in it?"

"The sky is about to dim. According to His Majesty's mark, the estuary that leads directly to Harrisburg is still in the northernmost part of the Pisachek Bay, and there are about four hundred miles. If the ships travel overnight, they can arrive tomorrow morning or park in the bay overnight, but it is appropriate to park there? What if they encounter the siege of the British?"

He had asked Odin before that after entering Pisachek Bay, there were still many small coves where ships could be parked, but those who were not familiar with the place naturally could not stop directly on other people's docks. With the strength of the British at this time, I am afraid that his fleet with unknown land would not be allowed to dock. Needless to say, the preliminary agreement signed by the Kingdom of Great Xia and the British were still on the road. The British here probably did not know the movements in the Caribbean.

Furthermore, at this time, some British colonies on the East Coast dominated the party in the name of the governor after obtaining a charter in Parliament. They still had a loose jurisdiction with the British mainland, and the East Coast colonies may not recognize the matters in the Caribbean.

If I anchored in a quiet bay in a "quiet way" way, it would be bad if I was surrounded by enemies in the middle of the night, because it would be impossible for me to keep the steam engine on at night...

"etc"

Chen Muzhi suddenly thought of something.

"The 400-mile bay, with the British's mobility at this time, is the season when the Northeast trade winds occupy a major position. It is unnecessary to say that their ships have figured out their positions and then surrounded them in the night. Unless they are small boats that use oars, do they still have to worry about those boats themselves?"

"Besides, even if you hover somewhere, so what if you keep the steam engine on? Anyway, I have only used one steam engine along the way, and my daily coal consumption is only five tons. The consumption of one more day has no big impact on my plan."

"I drove north along the middle line of the bay. Calculate the time. It should be still daytime after almost the end. Then calculate the latitude and longitude and estuary to determine which estuary is still too late."

So he issued an order to ignore the two ships and head straight north.

At this time, both steam engines were all started, and the rumbling sound was very eye-catching in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

Behind them, the fishing boat called Virginia sailed straight to Newport News after three large ships "rising strange black smoke" disappeared, the British castle in Haikou, and the slave ship called Newport hesitated for a moment and actually followed the small fleet.

The Newport, captain David Watson, was retired naval major. He was originally the owner of a privateer. Later, he followed the Virginia Company to the East Coast. A considerable number of people who followed him were from the British retired navy and even the Army. Their "Newport" was also a fully armed merchant ship, otherwise it would not have been used as a slave ship.

According to the current weather, with the ability of Newport, he will have two more days to arrive at his destination - Baltimore. He should take one night in Newport News, then drive during the day, take another night in St. Marys City, in the middle of the bay, and finally arrive in Baltimore.

Baltimore is the territory of the Baltimore Baron Covert, who is also one of the directors of the entire Virginia company. However, Baltimore is still a place to be used as a plantation, and the black slaves of the Newport were transported there to strengthen the plantation.

There were 286 young and strong black slaves on the ship, originally there were 300, and fourteen died on the road. This death ratio was also a miracle in the history of trade across the Atlantic Ocean.

Watson bought it from the west coast of Africa and captured a black slave on average price of about 5 pounds, and sold it to Baltimore Baron Covert for fifty pounds, and the total number is more than 14,000 pounds. If you leave the salary to the crew, Watson, as the owner, can earn 10,000 pounds this trip!

Ten thousand pounds, Britain was a huge sum of money at this time. Most of the people with so much money were big merchants or nobles. Of course, this was the first time Watson had trafficked so many slaves and returned to the East Coast safely.

This is also the largest number of slave trades in the history of the entire East Coast. In the past, it was mostly sold for dozens or dozens. Before Watson, there were only 300 black slaves on the entire East Coast!

On the east coast of North America, the large-scale slave trade has just begun, and Watson is the initiator!
Chapter completed!