Chapter 280: The Tradition of the Great Ming Sea Master Cannot Be Lost!
"Today is the day when the Naval Academy of Military University officially opens. From today on, the Navy of the Ming Dynasty is officially established. Although the navy is a newly established branch in terms of military name, the naval tradition of the Ming Dynasty has a long history. There are eunuchs of the Three Treasures who have sailed thousands of miles.
Our country is so powerful that there have been several naval battles in recent years. In the Liaodong and other wars, the maritime army also made many achievements. According to my research, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been few defeats in naval battles. Now the imperial court has officially established a navy.
, this tradition must never be lost. Whether we can keep this honor depends on your efforts today."
When unprecedented fierce fighting was taking place in the southeast, Zhu Youjian was giving flags and giving lectures to the newly established Naval Academy in Tianjin.
After arriving in Tianjin, Zhu Youjian's main work was on preparing to build a navy. Tianjin still retained a small fleet and sailors, but after seeing it, Zhu Youjian felt that it was embarrassing and useless. The warships were all old and small.
He said that there were not many usable soldiers inside, which meant that building a navy basically had to be started from scratch.
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If you want to build an army, you must first train generals. This is Zhu Youjian's old habit. Therefore, a new navy must start with building a military academy. The first batch of cadets at the Naval Academy are selected from the entire army, soldiers and generals with a foundation in maritime affairs. This is
There are new students who have just entered the military university, and there are also officers who are already serving in the military. Zhu Youjian's plan is to gather them together first, and conduct unified navigation knowledge and shipboard training. After they become familiar with the skills, they will be trained according to the current situation.
They are assigned positions based on their military rank, allowing them to learn and practice at the same time, or even practice while fighting.
"Why is it called the Ming Navy instead of the Ming Navy? It's because your main battlefield in the future will be on the sea, and you are a completely independent service, and you are responsible for independent combat tasks. Unlike the navy, during general operations,
They all fight together with the army and rarely deal with major wars independently. The Ming Dynasty has thousands of miles of coastline, and the sea area of the world is tens of thousands of miles vast. Maritime affairs will be as important as land affairs in the future. Let’s not talk about the distant affairs first, and then
In one year, the navy will undertake the war missions."
Taking out a nautical chart that was drawn by someone who combined the memories of later generations and current nautical charts, Zhu Youjian began to explain the next war plan to the first batch of trainees at the Naval Academy.
Originally, he did not have high requirements for the navy this year. If he could control Dengzhou Port, he would have completed the mission. But facing this group of trainees who had transferred from the army, Zhu Youjian had to make this year's pie bigger, otherwise this group of people would
There will be a sense of loss.
So he adjusted the tasks that the navy should do this year from one to three. In the first half of the year, the navy, with the cooperation of the army, took over Dengzhou and controlled Denglai and other ports. In the second half of the year, it will focus on Jinfu in Liaodong and Songjiang in the southeast.
Create a seaport area. Anyway, this is the plan. Whether it can be completed depends on the situation.
After teaching the first lesson to the students, Zhu Youjian took Chen Xinjia and others to the newly designated military port and shipyard area to carry out formal planning for the establishment of the navy. In order to complete the establishment of the navy, Zhu Youjian, General Huang Degong and others a few days ago
It spread from the capital to Tianjin, and even Mr. Song Yingxing also came over. There is no way that the navy involves both military and shipyards. Song Yingxing is now the only engineering all-rounder around him. If he is not called over, Zhu Youjian
I feel unreasonable.
"It takes a few years to build an army, but it takes decades to build a navy. Navy construction is a long-term task, which we must fully understand. But the current situation requires us to
The navy can quickly become an army. How to solve this contradiction? I thought about it for a while, and now I can only temporarily use the method of combining land with sea, integrating soldiers and civilians, and giving priority to the coast. In other words, the main tasks of the navy at the beginning are
It is similar to the navy in the past, and its main function is transportation and delivery. In fact, transportation mainly relies on civilian ships. The main function of the navy is to escort the fleet and protect the coast, at least to ensure that small groups of pirates and the like are not blocked.
Live shipping lanes and harbors.”
It should be said that there is currently no powerful navy in the northern seas. In the entire Daming Sea, only the Zheng family's fleet is a formidable opponent. Therefore, even though the navy is very weak, it can still defend the coastline with a little effort.
"Your Majesty, why is it necessary to spend so much effort building a navy? We can accomplish these things by hiring some civilian ships." After hearing the emperor's idea, Huang Degong raised his own question.
"Spending great efforts to build a navy is for the long term. Hushan, don't look at the seemingly calm sea in front of us. In fact, the real ocean is already rough. Among Western countries, at least there are thousands of large and small ships.
There are two or three of them, and they can come to harass our Ming waters from thousands of miles away, and even erode our territory. You can imagine how terrible it is. The near disasters of the Ming Dynasty are on land, but the long-term disasters of the Ming Dynasty are on the sea."
Is the disaster far away at sea? Huang Degong and others seemed a little unconvinced.
Regardless of whether they believe it or not, if the emperor believes it, they must follow suit.
"Jian Heng, you have to be stationed in Tianjin for a long time during this period, and you must set up the navy's airs in January or something like that. My idea is to use troops against Dengzhou within two or three months, using the method of combat training.
, quickly promote the formation of the navy."
Without training through combat, the Navy does not even have basic tactical concepts. Even if it suffers some losses and loses in the war, it is better than building a new army behind closed doors. At the beginning, Zhu Youjian's idea of recruiting the basic personnel of the Navy was to recruit from fishermen in Tianjin.
, but after arriving at the place, I found that this idea was not very feasible. The fishermen were good at water, but they were still far from the requirements of the navy. The final solution was to select more than 3,000 clever soldiers from the army to put up the frame.
Get up, then select three to five hundred people from the former sailors, and recruit one or two thousand people from the fishermen to form a navy of about five thousand people.
People can be gathered together, and there are small boats for training, but there are no serious large warships! We can't let these people row sampans to go to sea to fight, right? How to solve this problem? It can only be solved by buying first and building later.
The private shipyards in Fujian have actually been building big ships. There should be a way to get a few decent ships in the market. The best situation is of course that they can build ships on a large scale, but the Tianjin shipyard is already in disrepair.
, there is no way to recover in a short time.
Restoring the shipyard's production capacity is a very worrying matter. After communicating with Song Yingxing, Zhu Youjian felt that this matter was quite difficult to handle. Because Tianjin Shipyard wanted to benefit the ship and had nothing from craftsmen, materials to drawings. This thing did not
If you purely rely on yourself to explore production experience, you may not be able to understand it in a year or two. It is really speechless that the official shipyard is like this.
"Mr. Song, you still have to worry about the shipyard. Now the shipyard must concentrate on building the largest ship it can. It must first restore the morale of the craftsmen."
Chapter 280 The tradition of the Ming Dynasty Navy cannot be lost!