After receiving the order from Sun Xiurong to ask him to go to Fort Kiev, Suken's eyes were very serious.

He has six days left, and Batumi Port is three thousand miles away from Fort Kiev!

Three thousand miles away, the vast Black Sea was still separated by the middle. It was an impossible task for people at this time, and the same was true for the Sail Ye Jun, who had the ability to sail quickly at sea.

Despite this, Suken quickly discussed with Yuanfeng.

In the end, Yuanfeng, who also had the task, made the final decision.

"Since time is tight, you have to cross the Black Sea. In that case, it is not appropriate to use a Clipper. The Clippers can only travel along the coastline, so they can only use a large ship. In this way, you can take one of the four main battleships away."

"The main battleship is equipped with a cross sail, and it is full of wind. At present, the northeast wind has gradually gained the upper hand. It just so happened that the cross wind was used to cross the Black Sea and reach the Taurus Peninsula. Our army tried it once. After starting, keeping the angle between the magnetic needle and the compass unchanged, you can reach the middle end of the east coast of the Taurus Peninsula."

"Then sail southwest along the coastline, arrive at the southwest end of the peninsula and sail towards the northwest Odessa Port at the set angle. You can use crosswinds along the way. You know, crosswinds have the greatest thrust."

"I have calculated that if you sail like this, it will be about 500 miles less than sailing completely along the coastline. Even our country's ships will take a day and a night, so you can save a day."

"My navy battleship can reach thirty miles per hour when the sails are full and the wind is full. Considering the adverse factors, it will be 20 miles, 500 miles a day and night, and the whole journey is about 2,000 miles. In this way, it will take you four days to arrive."

"If you can encounter a storm on the way, it will be even slower, but no matter what, after you get ashore, you will only have two days to arrive at Fort Kiev! It is not less than a thousand miles from Odessa to Fort Kiev. There is no post station in the middle, so you can only carry three horses and run desperately."

"The horse's speed can reach fifty miles per hour, and can run for two hundred miles in a row. You have to rest five times in the middle. Each time you rest for a moment, and if you don't hesitate to the horse, if someone familiar with the road leads the way, it will be a day and a night, but if you run along the Dnieper River, it will be a bit of a force to do in two days."

"The people from the Kutba Trading Company once set out from Odessa and went straight into the inland, but these people definitely cannot ride on horseback for a long time, so you can only run along the river bank, and there are a large number of herders living on the river bank, and some places are even more where tribes gather. If there is an interception, it will be bad."

"Since it's a main warship, I'd better equip you with fifty cavalry, one man and two horses, and after getting ashore, you can rest and run along the river bank..."

"Inappropriate", this plan was rejected by Suken. "Governor, I happened to be there on the northwest coast of the Black Sea. After arriving in Odessa, I had to pass through many other rivers to the northeast to the Dnieper River. Although the water level of the river is generally low at this time, it takes time to find a suitable place to cross the river."

"Just like this. It is said that the boat can go directly to Kiev Fort via the Dnieper River. Just a main ship and a Clipper set off together. With the main ship there, the Clippers are not afraid of something. It is still autumn. The Black Sea is the most terrifying in winter, and the Clippers can also sail into the deep sea."

"After going around the Taurus Peninsula, don't go to Odessa, but go directly to Khlsson, which is where the Khanate of the Khanate and the Romans exiled prisoners. There is also a small port. After we get ashore from there, we can run directly along the Dnieper River."

(Kerson, the port of the Dnieper River, is close to the sea at this time, rather than going deep into the land in later generations, just like Atlau and Astrakhan)

"As for the manpower, there should not be too many. Too many will definitely attract the attention of Mazar people along the coast. Ten people are enough. They dress up as herders, one person and two horses. Because they save time to go to Odessa, they will probably still be able to arrive within two days."

"In order to complete the tasks assigned by the king and avoid being caught in one go, after arriving in Kherson, the Clippers continued to sail against the current. At this time, there was a northeast wind, and the Clippers' sails could also sweep. When the Dnieper River turns northwest, they can move forward with full sails."

(It means that the ship can maximize the northeast wind since Zaporoz.)

"There are artillery on the Clippers and dozens of sailors, enough to deal with the Mazar people along the coast. Their boats are helpless."

"Compared with horses, ships can sail day and night, and the speed of inland rivers is slower, but they can reach twenty miles per hour, making the sailors more difficult. With the oars, they will arrive at the fastest three days. Although they did not arrive within ten days as required by the king, they were only one day late and did not delay major events."

"What's more, if the land is blocked, the safest way will be"

Yuanfeng nodded, "No wonder the king asked you to go by by name. It's really right. However, Kelsson is now controlled by Mazar people. It's easy to get ashore, but it's very difficult to leave the pier."

Suken smiled and said, "The Mazar people only have a temporary base there, with dozens of cavalry guarding them. We have a main ship and a hundred combat soldiers. If it really doesn't work, annihilate the Mazar people here and take down this port. Then we wait for ten people to ride on horses and leave calmly."

"Once they get ashore, they can't help it. How do they know where we are going? According to the speed of their message transmission, it may not be faster than us."

"You can return to Port Taman immediately after the main ship completes the mission"

"Well, since you have figured it out, I wish you a smooth journey."

......

Suken thought was really good. On the Black Sea, the wind and waves were the middle of winter. At that time, the strong northeastern wind from Siberia would make the ordinary waves of the Black Sea more than three meters. Not to mention the flatbed, even the Clippers with two meters of water from the Broken Ye Army were shaking.

Only the main ships and large ships, the former has been named "Zhenhai-class" and the latter has been named "Zhenhai-class". With a draft of three meters, it can sail on such a dangerous sea surface without any security. Of course, if there is no emergency mission, under normal circumstances, even Zhenhai-class and Zhonghai-class will sail along the coastline.

As for the smallest Clippers, it is the "Town River Level". Compared with the current Xhosa Khanate, the large galleys of the Roman Empire have a greater draft, but they still dare not cross the ocean. However, they can still take risks in the seasons other than winter.

Yuanfeng and Suken set out almost at the same time. He brought a whole Leaf Camp to carry out the raid issued by Sun Xiurong, occupying the Taman Port, and relying on this to attract the Xhosa army in the Taurus Peninsula and the western North Caucasus to attack, thus creating conditions for Bai Xiaode's army coming from Atlau to attack in the mobile operation.

In this era, all ships will not leave the coastline for more than ten miles. Once they exceed ten miles, if they are in danger suddenly, the probability of burying the fish's belly will be much greater than struggling to reach the shore to survive.

However, the ships of the Shattered Ye Army are not subject to this restriction.

When Suken's Zhenhai-class and Zhenhe-class ship sailed straight towards the Taurus Peninsula at the angle set on the compass, Yuanfeng followed them with the remaining dozen ships. However, after about an hour, about thirty miles from Batumi Port, they parted. Yuanfeng's fleet headed north, while Suken stepped into the abyss.

At this time, compared with the warm wind coming from the southern Mediterranean, the cold wind coming from Siberia had not had a strong wind, but it had already gained the upper hand.

The so-called prevailing wind is that in most cases of the day, northeast wind is the main wind, but in a few cases, the south wind prevails. In this case, the ten-sided cross sails (four sides of the main mast and three sides of the front and rear masts) on the three Zhenhai-level masts can be adjusted to receive wind forty-five degrees toward the northeast.

In this case, the wind will blow the ship slowly moving to the south. If there is no other means at this time, although the ship is roughly heading forward, it will eventually deviate from the Taurus Peninsula and will most likely dock in the southwest of the Black Sea.

However, the ship of the Shattered Ye Army only has an easy-to-control rudder and a sloping slug used to assist power, which allows the ship to continue to drive forward when it is blown by strong side wind!

The full sail makes the ship more powerful (much larger than the sail), and the use of a large rudder in front and back makes its direction controllable. In the case of a completely upwind, all the sails on the front and rear masts can be lowered down, leaving only the sails on the main mast in the middle. At this time, the extra trusses and ropes tighten the sails on all sides, making it roughly a seemingly overall sail. After adjusting the angle, you can sail in a zigzag shape against the wind.

But the crosswind state at the moment is not needed at all. However, the Zhenhe-class clutch only has one sail, and its speed is naturally not as fast as the Zhenhai-class three masts. So he could only connect it with the Zhenhai-class with a rope, so he let the Zhenhai-class lead him to run.

In this way, the Zhenhai level, which could have run forty miles, dropped to about thirty miles, while the Zhenhe level, which was originally only 25 miles, was increased to thirty miles.

Of course, this situation is very dangerous. If the Zhenhai Class in front suddenly encounters a strong wind blowing from the northwest, the ship temporarily loses its speed of progress, and the Zhenhe Class behind it is still rushing forward, it will hit the ship.

However, even in this case, whether it is a large ship or a small boat, the soldiers on duty will cut off the rope with a horizontal knife when the boat crashes, and then the small boat behind will quickly change direction.

Suken's luck was obviously good. The observers on the ship kept staring at the side that was specially used on the ship, setting up four directions, with a magnetic compass. Since the departure four directions are determined, the direction of the bow is determined. When the compass is operating normally, the remaining three directions are also determined. Then, the scale is engraved on it, and you can sail roughly in the specific direction.

Ancient China was able to follow this technique since the Song Dynasty. With a compass, compass, and identification of the starry sky, it was possible to start from Chaozhou and travel across the entire South China Sea to Luzon Island in the direction of the Philippines. People in the Song Dynasty could do it, and the Ye Jun, who was buffed by Sun Xiurong, could do it.
Chapter completed!