Like many officers, when Lin Daosheng walked towards the port, he was always guessing what the big task this time was, and he actually called back all the people who asked for leave and went out.

Behind and behind him, groups of North Navy sailors were walking slowly in the same direction. Some of them were wearing slim navy pants and training uniforms without military rank badges, while others simply wore short-sleeved blue striped sea soul shirts. In November, the average daily temperature in Ryukyu during the day was above 25 degrees. Although it was cooler than Southeast Asia, the wind was strong on the beach, so many people wore sharp straw hats or rattan hats.

Compared to those young officers with excitement, the sailors looked a little depressed. They finally had a chance to take a vacation, but it ended in just half a day.

Since Guo Xuexian heard that he was going to establish the East China Sea Fleet and he was likely to become the first commander, he began to rush to train. He knew that the sailors recruited from Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Southeast Asia had a poor foundation, so it was fine to let them operate ordinary Chinese sailing ships, but many people were immediately confused as soon as they got on the deck.

So these young sailors had to train during the day, memorize the operation theory of ships and weapons, and take literacy classes at night. They had to take small exams every Monday, big exams every month, and every other day, which made these people complain. Even sleeping and talking to each other was related to training and assessment.

There is a saying within the Northern Navy now, "If you enter the army, you will only take off three layers of skin, and if you enter the navy, you will take off every month."

That being said, the treatment of the navy is excellent. Compared with the pitiful salary of the European Navy, all the North Navy sailors can get 50 acres of land, and the monthly salary starts at 60 North Sea yuan, equivalent to 12 taels of silver. In addition, the diet and life ratio are far superior to the European Navy. They wear clothes, shoes and hats every year, which makes the army salivate canned braised pork every week, so many veterans now feel nauseous when they see the white fat.

When Lin Daosheng walked out of the market, he saw a narrow and long empty field covering an area of ​​eight acres, which was slightly larger than half of the football field in later generations. At this end of the empty field, there was a wooden fence set up by the Ryukyu government. Several soldiers holding swords and guns stood guard and patrolled at the entrance. When they saw officers and soldiers of the North Navy passing by, they would smile from time to time.

On the other end of the empty field, there is a six-meter-high wall with a wide gate; the base is two-meter-high steel cement, with red bricks on it. The walls on both sides of the gate are painted sky blue, and there are coconut trees, sea and seabirds on it, which are very tropical. However, the blades and barbed wire on the top of the wall and the gun-carrying ward at the gate remind that there is "no strangers to approach".

The entire wall is 600 meters long, and both ends extend to the narrow sea estuary guarded by a fort. Behind the wall, there is a wooden booth that is higher than the wall every 100 meters, and there are people standing guard 24 hours a day.

Beihai Town spared no effort to build high walls, with the purpose of preventing outsiders from spying on military facilities and military operations in the port. Such facilities are not only available in Naha Port, but also in Dolphin Bay and Bacheng. In the future, the military ports of Wendeng and Lushun will also be surrounded by walls.

You should know that in another time and space, in order to prevent peeping, some military ports have built a wall of 22 meters high, and they cannot prevent the spyers on the high-rise buildings.

When the wall project was launched the autumn of the previous year, Beihai Town specially sent an envoy to the Shuri Palace to give detailed explanations to King Shang Wen of Ryukyu and the third officer Cai Shichang of the Ministry of Justice. The biggest benefit of this incident to the Ryukyu Kingdom is that when the fleet moves away after the lease period expires, the Ryukyu Kingdom will obtain a port with complete facilities.

After checking the documents and fingerprints, Lin Daosheng walked into the base gate and saw a blue bay in front of him, where three modified Western warships and five large wide ships were docked, like towering castles. At the highest point of these "castles", the yellow and red naval flags were like ribbons, fluttering under the sea breeze.

Eight years ago, Lin Daosheng, who was still called "Shrimp Ball" at the time, followed Zheng Wenxian, who was unknown to the depth, and climbed onto the "Thor" while the night was dark. He wanted to do a big ticket, but as soon as he got on the ship, he was wiped out. Then, Zhao Xin and Zheng Wenxian's father Zheng Lianchang negotiated, forcing him to bow his head and admit defeat with force. He took more than a hundred Dan shipmakers, ship workers and family back to Beihai Town, including Lin Daosheng's family.

After arriving in Beihai Town, he was selected by Deng Fei to enter the Navigation School. He relied on his smart mind and hardworking efforts. He started as a trainee non-commissioned officer and was not until this year he became the deputy captain.

Now in the Navy of Beihai Town, there are many chief and deputy captains under 30 years old. Many of them are naturalized sailors from the island country on the early "Thor" and there are also young men of the Dan family who followed Zheng Wenxian to join Zhao Xin.

Look, before Lin Daosheng, who had just returned to the base dormitory, had time to change his military uniform, the captain Zhu Yiqun came over.

"Hey, Xiaolin, have you heard of it? The fleet has a mission and is going to Wusongkou!"

Captain Zhu was born in a naturalized native of the island country. He used to be a turbine player on the Thunder God. He followed Deng Fei for two years. This man was short and had a round face. At that time, Ding Guofeng always called him "Little Pig" on the ship. As a result, when he was naturalized and changed his name, he decided to have his surname Zhu, and even named him "Zhu Yiqun", which was quite proud. After Deng Fei found out, he felt that he was his apprentice no matter how he said that, and he could not afford to lose this person, so he changed it to his current name.

"Ah! Are you going to attack Jiangnan? Go?" Lin Daosheng was a little surprised. He didn't hear any slightest sound in advance for such an important military operation.

"It should be right? Otherwise, everyone wouldn't be recalled."

"Jiangnan, I have heard people say that there is a good place." Lin Daosheng's face showed a hint of fascination as he spoke.

"Haha, what are you thinking about? We are the navy, and even if we fight, it's not our turn to go ashore."

"Oh, it's great to take the time to go ashore after the fight."

While speaking, someone knocked from outside. Zhu Yiqun shouted in, and then a young sailor came in. The visitor was the messenger of the Fleet Command. After entering the door, he saluted and said, "Captain Zhu, Captain Lin, and Commander Guo asked you to report to the command center immediately."

Haha, I really thought about anything I was talking about. Lin Daosheng and Zhu Yiqun looked at each other, and smiles appeared on their faces.

Ten minutes later, in the command center of the East China Sea Fleet, the young commander Guo Xuexian held a telegram and read out the orders of the North Navy General Staff to six officers, including Zhu and Lin in a serious tone: "...... The commander of this operation will be Zhu Yiqun, the captain of the "Hulunbu Yuer", and the deputy commander will be Xu Zhiqing, the captain of the "Hulunbu Yuer". Do you understand?"

"clear."

Guo Xuexian had a stern face and shouted, "I haven't eaten lunch? I haven't heard it clearly!"

"clear!"

"Time is tight and the task is urgent, so I won't tell you much. Go back and hurry up and take the time to make up for supplies and set off tomorrow morning!"

Guo Xuexian's prestige was not a puff, but was fought through repeated battles, and everyone in the East China Sea Fleet was dissatisfied. He was "pulled to grow" from the naval battle of Changxing Island, and then followed Deng Fei to fight the pirates of the West Mountain, and then led the Second Squadron to attack the Riau Islands and recovered the city of Malacca. Finally, he crossed Malacca and ran to the Bay of Bengal to fight the British.

Zhao Xin read it right at the beginning. This "South China Pirate" leader in history in another time and space was not only studious, but also cruel in fighting. He was able to make all kinds of edited textbooks used by the Northern Navy for naval training - such as "Theory of the Sea Power", "Fleet Tactics", "Navigation Science", "Overall Technology of Ship", and "Weapon System Engineering" - were all turned over by him. It was nonsense to say that he could recite it like a page. Anyway, he could just say it almost exactly what he asked.

The next day, it was just dawn, and a fleet composed of two frigates, Hulunbu Yuer and the supply ship of Xingkai Lake, set off. Their destination was Wusongkou, 380 nautical miles from Naha Port, completely destroyed the fort group set up there by the Susong Navy, and brought Yuan Mei's family and the operation team of the Intelligence Bureau back to Naha.

The predecessor of the "Hunchun" where Lin Daosheng is located is called "Gertrude". It was originally a frigate affiliated to the VOC Navy. It is 47.22 meters long, 13.11 meters wide, has a displacement of 1,253 tons, and is equipped with 40 artillery pieces. It was built in Ceylon Shipyard in 1788.

Speaking of which, the reason why the "Thousand Islands Battle" won so quickly last year was not only because of the power of the North Navy's weapons, there was a very important reason that the Dutch's large ship was really not working, and the 75mm gun could penetrate the hull with one shot.

Dutch sailing ships belong to the straight type of Galen ship. In order to make the cargo hold as large as possible and retain manipulation, the hull is lighter, and the armed and sailors are reduced. The cargo holds below the waterline are expanded as much as possible to form a wide hull with an O-shaped shape. It is said that this shipbuilding route is because Spain and Denmark and other countries used navigation taxes based on the side width of merchant ships, so the designers of the thief came up with this method.

Through extreme design, it took less than two years for the Dutch to build a merchant ship, and it only cost half of the cost of Spanish merchant ships, which made the number of Dutch ships expand as rapidly as the blowing balloons, and in just half a century it became the "sea coachman" empire that dominated the ocean.

However, the advantages of Dutch ships are also its fatal shortcomings. In the four British-Dutch wars, the Dutch drove armed merchant ships that were flexible and maneuverable but lacked protection capabilities to rush towards the maritime barriers composed of British battleships again and again, and were hit by ship-borne cannons. Later, the Navy of the United Republic learned lessons and built a batch of small heavy armed frigates in the local area and Ceylon to defend the maritime trade routes.

In fact, the real protagonist of the sailing battle in the Age of Discovery has never been a giant battleship with hundreds of cannons, but a small and fast frigate.

Therefore, although the "Gertrude" in the "Thousand Islands Battle" was riddled with holes and two of the three masts were broken, it was not sunk. After learning about this from the prisoners, the navy repaired and modified all the eight frigates seized, and upgraded them to replace the thousand-ton wide ships built by Siam.

Since Zhao Xin and his team captured two Russian merchant ships on Kuye Island and transformed them, the military-industrial complex under Zhao Liang spent five years to explore a set of standardized modification methods for European sailing ships.

The new method completely abandoned the copper tile covering method used before, and instead applied a layer of fluororesin anti-corrosion coating to the wooden hull. Secondly, a 1000-2200 horsepower marine diesel engine will be installed according to the tonnage of different ship types, a stern shaft and a liftable stainless steel propeller will be installed. The main deck will also have a bent neck exhaust chimney, a telephone, an electric winch and a sail lifter, and a radio antenna will be installed on the top of the main mast.

In terms of weapon equipment, 10 to 20 75mm naval rapid-fire guns produced by Beihai Town are installed according to different tonnages, and 6 to 10 50-caliber six-barrel cannons produced by Beihai Town.

After the above transformation, these sail frigates not only significantly improved their speed, but also reduced the number of sailors on the ship by nearly half. For example, the "Hunchun" was originally a capitulation of about 270 people, but now it is only more than 150.

Because the Bacheng Shipyard has limited capabilities, no problem in repairing ships, and no time to modify them, a thirty-person technician team was specially dispatched from Beihai Town. Even so, more than a year has passed, and only four frigates have been modified, two of which were distributed to the East China Sea Fleet.

The overall performance of the modified sailboat has been greatly improved, and the ship speed has also been increased to a maximum of 13 knots, but neither Deng Fei nor Zhao Liang were very satisfied. However, there was nothing we could do. The sailboats in the 18th century were all fat bodies with an aspect ratio of less than 4:1. If you want to increase the ship speed, you must make major changes to the hull and lengthen it to 5:1 or even 6:1.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the North Navy's navy is already an extremely terrifying existence in the entire East and South Asia, it is still too weak for the time travelers.

Taking Daemon as an example, although Ding Guofeng educated the British East India Company in the South Asian subcontinent, he still maintained a total naval tonnage of 486,000 tons, ranking first in the world. As for the mid-19th century and the era of dreadnoughts in history, it is even more unparalleled.

Those who are interested in the navy have already made some calculations. If they want to realize Boss Zhao's "Pacific Bath Bath Plan" - that is, controlling Malacca in the west, connecting Panama in the east, reaching the Bering Sea in the north, and Australia in the south, it is impossible without a million tons.

But what is the scale of the Navy now?

In addition to the three modern ships, "Thunder", "Thunder", and "Nanhua 1", the others are either the Guangbo ship bought by Siam or the captured Garen ship. The only self-built "Jaguar" One and the newly launched No. 2 are two armed cargo ships.

Moreover, for the travelers, the warships in their minds must be the same as those in another time and space, and the most time must be minesweeping boat of World War II, with more than 800 tons.

It’s okay, even if Zhao Xin can get a full set of drawings, it’s no chance to climb the tree of “modern ship manufacturing”. It’s definitely not a matter of one day or one night.

Take materials as an example. Boli's hot-rolled steel production line has developed to this day and can only roll ordinary steel plates. This thing is not a big problem in building inland river boats, but what is needed for building warships is high-precision alloy extra-thick steel plates, which are corrosion-resistant, and have good low-temperature toughness and good welding performance. Otherwise, when encountering typhoons and huge waves, they will be broken by a strong impact force in minutes.
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