After learning that they had reached the target waters.
Ye Yuan's senses had not stopped for a moment.
Under his command, the fishing boat kept circling the coordinates, steadily expanding its search radius.
At the same time, Ye Yuan extended his senses toward the seabed, searching for possible locations of sunken ships.
Heaven did not disappoint the diligent. At last, he found a clue.
The reason he had shown such delight just now—
Was that not far from here, on the seabed, he had discovered a ram protruding from the sand.
A ram, also called a beak, was an ancient naval weapon.
It was usually mounted on a ship's bow and used to ram enemy vessels.
Rams had once been widely used on ancient warships.
With the development of naval artillery, rams gradually fell out of use.
During the early era of ironclads in the nineteenth century,
Naval guns at the time had difficulty effectively damaging iron armor.
As a result, rams briefly saw a revival.
However, with the rise of breech-loading rapid-fire guns, rams ultimately vanished in the early twentieth century.
Although later warships no longer carried rams,
Even in modern naval warfare, ramming remained a common tactic.
Finding a ram meant that there had to be an ancient warship in that area.
And the coordinates Old Zhao had provided were so close to the location where he had found the warship.
That could not possibly be a coincidence, could it?
But Ye Yuan was also somewhat puzzled.
Old Zhao's information had made it very clear.
This wreck was supposed to be an ancient merchant ship.
Yet as far as he knew, ancient merchant ships rarely had rams installed.
It seemed that if he wanted to understand what was below, Ye Yuan had no choice but to go down