Like many officers, when Lin Daosheng walked towards the port, he kept wondering what kind of big mission this time was, and actually called back all those who had asked for leave.
Around him, small groups of sailors from the Northern Navy were walking leisurely in the same direction. Some of them wore slim-fitting navy blue trousers and training uniforms without rank badges, and some simply wore
I wore a short-sleeved blue and white striped sea shirt. The average daytime temperature in Ryukyu in November is above 25 degrees. Although it is cooler than Southeast Asia, the wind on the beach is very strong, so many people wear pointed straw hats.
Or a cane hat.
Compared with the excited young officers, the sailors looked a little depressed. They finally got a chance to go on vacation, but it ended in only half a day.
Ever since Guo Xuexian heard that the East China Sea Fleet was to be established, and that he was likely to be the first commander, he began to train like crazy. He knew very well that the sailors recruited from Guangdong, Guangdong, Fujian and Southeast Asia had poor foundation, so he would not let them operate
There is no problem with ordinary Chinese sailing ships, but for those Northern Navy ships that have been modified from Western-style sailing ships, many people are confused as soon as they get on the deck.
So these young sailors have to train during the day, memorize the operating theories of ships and weapons, and take literacy classes at night. They have a small test every week, a big test every month, and surprise inspections and drills every three to five.
People complain constantly and even talk in their sleep are related to training and assessment.
Nowadays, there is a saying within the North Korean Navy: "You only shed three layers of skin when you join the Army, but you shed your skin every month when you join the Navy."
Having said that, the pay in the navy is very generous. Compared with the pitiful salaries in European navies, every sailor in the Northern Navy is allocated fifty acres of land, and the monthly salary starts at 60 North Sea dollars, which is equivalent to 12
Two taels of silver. In addition, the food and living rations are far superior to those of the European navy. They wear two sets of clothes, shoes and hats every year. The canned braised pork that makes the army salivate is distributed every week, so much so that many veterans now feel nauseated when they see the white fat.
When Lin Daosheng walked out of the market, what he saw was a long and narrow open field covering an area of eight acres, slightly larger than half a football field in later generations. At this end of the empty field was the Muzha checkpoint set up by the Ryukyu government.
A soldier armed with a sword and gun stood guard at the entrance and would smile from time to time when he saw North Navy officers and soldiers passing by.
At the other end of the empty field, there is a six-meter-high wall with a wide gate. The walls on both sides of the gate are painted sky blue, with coconut trees, the sea and seabirds painted on it, which is very tropical.
However, the dense razor wire fence on the wall and the gun-carrying checkpoint at the gate are always reminders to "keep strangers away."
The entire wall is 600 meters long. The two-meter-high base is made of reinforced concrete, and the upper four meters are made of red bricks. Both ends of the wall extend to a narrow seaport guarded by forts, with masts lined with masts not far away.
The civilian port is divided into two worlds. Behind the wall, there is a surveillance box higher than the top of the wall every 100 meters. The sentry on duty above looks around with a telescope from morning to night.
Just like the military port in another time and space, Beihai Town spared no expense in building high walls in order to prevent outsiders from snooping on the military facilities and troop movements in the port. Such walls are not only found in Naha Port, Dolphin Bay and Bacheng.
In the future, Wendeng and Lushun will also need to enclose land and build walls.
You must know that in another time and space, some military ports had walls built to a height of 22 meters to prevent peeping, which could not prevent peeping from those high-rise buildings.
When the wall project was launched in the fall of the year before last, Beihai Town specially sent an envoy to the Shuri Royal Palace to give a detailed explanation to Ryukyu King Shangyin and the Third Secretary Cai Shichang to seek their approval. The biggest benefit of this matter to the Ryukyu Kingdom is that after waiting
When the fleet base is moved in a few years, this military port and ancillary facilities will be left to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and two ships will be given away for free.
It was too late for the Ryukyus to be happy about this pie-in-the-sky thing, and Beihai Town was a great benefactor of the Ryukyu royal family. So Cai Shichang was very generous and set up an empty space outside the gate of the military port and set up a separation fence; at the same time, he used King Shang On to
A notice was posted in his name, warning Ryukyu people not to cross the wooden fence, and violators would be severely punished.
Lin Daosheng quickly passed the inspection post outside the gate. When he walked into the gate, he looked up and saw three modified Western-style warships and five large Guangdong ships docked in a blue bay, like ships.
Towering castles. On the highest points of these "castles" hang huge and bright red military flags, fluttering in the sea breeze.
Eight years ago, Lin Daosheng, who was still known as "Shrimp Ball Boy" at the time, followed the ignorant Zheng Wenxian and a dozen followers to climb aboard the "Thunder God" at night, hoping to do something big, but the whole army was wiped out as soon as they boarded the ship.
.Then, Zhao Xin negotiated with Zheng Wenxian's father, Zheng Lianchang, and used force to force him to bow his head and surrender, and returned to Beihai Town with more than a hundred Dan family shipbuilders, boatmen and family members, including Lin Daosheng's family.
After arriving in Beihai Town, he was selected by Deng Fei to enter the navigation school. With his smart mind and hard work, he started as a trainee petty officer and became the deputy captain until this year.
Nowadays, in the navy of Beihai Town, there are many captains and deputy captains under the age of thirty. Many of them are sailors who were naturalized citizens of the island country on the early "Thunder God", and there are also young Dan family boatmen who followed Zheng Wenxian to join Zhao Xin.
No, Lin Daosheng, who had just returned to the base dormitory, had not had time to change into his military uniform when Captain Zhu Yiqun came over.
"Hey, Xiao Lin, have you heard? The fleet has a mission and is going to Wusongkou!"
This Captain Zhu is a naturalized citizen of the island country. He used to be an engineer on the Thor and worked as an apprentice with Deng Fei for two years. This man was short in stature and had a round face. At that time, Ding Guofeng always called him "
"Little Pig". As a result, when he was naturalized and changed his name, he decided to use the surname Zhu, and even gave him the nickname "Zhu Yiqun", which was quite proud of him. After Deng Fei found out, he felt that he was his apprentice no matter what, and he couldn't afford to embarrass this person.
It was changed to its current name.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Ah! Are you going to attack Jiangnan? Are you all going?" Lin Daosheng was a little surprised that such an important military operation had not heard a trace of news in advance.
"That's right? Otherwise, we wouldn't all be recalled."
"Jiangnan, I have long heard that it is a good place." Lin Daosheng said with a hint of fascination on his face.
"Haha, what good things are you thinking of? We are the navy, even if we fight, it won't be our turn to go ashore."
"Hey, it would be nice to take some time to go ashore after the fight."
While they were talking, someone knocked on the door from outside. Zhu Yiqun called out, and then a young sailor walked in. The person who came was the messenger from the Fleet Headquarters. After entering the door, he saluted and said: "Zhu Ship.
Captain, Captain Lin, Commander Guo wants you to report to the headquarters immediately."
Haha, what are you talking about? Lin Daosheng and Zhu Yiqun looked at each other with smiles on their faces.
Ten minutes later, in the East China Sea Fleet headquarters, the young commander Guo Xuexian held a telegraph newspaper and read out the order of the Northern Navy Staff Headquarters to six officers, including Zhu and Lin, in a serious tone, and then said to the six:
"The commander of this operation is Zhu Yiqun, the captain of the Hunchun, and the deputy commander is Xu Zhiqing, the captain of the Hulunbuer. You must keep the purpose of this mission in mind and explain it clearly to your subordinates when you return.
, it is a deterrent, not a fight! Sooner or later, Jiangnan belongs to us, and if it is broken, we have to clean it up ourselves! Do you understand?"
"Understood." When the six captains and deputy captains heard that they were not going to attack Jiangnan, but were just going to frighten the Qing navy, their interest suddenly lost.
Guo Xuexian's face was stern and he shouted: "You didn't even have lunch? I didn't hear you clearly!"
"clear!"
"Time is tight and the task is urgent, so I won't tell you more. Go back and seize the time to replenish supplies and set off early tomorrow morning!"
Guo Xuexian's prestige was not bragging, but was earned through battle after battle, and no one in the East China Sea Fleet was dissatisfied. He was promoted to acting captain right from the Battle of Changxing Island, and later fought with Deng Fei.
The Xishan pirates then led the second squadron to attack the Riau Islands and recapture the city of Malacca. Finally, they crossed Malacca and ran to the Bay of Bengal to fight the British.
Zhao Xin was right at first. This leader of the "South China Pirates" in another time and space was not only eager to learn, but also ruthless in fighting. Various abridged versions of the textbooks used by the North Navy for naval training - such as "Sea Power"
Theory", "Fleet Tactics", "Navigation", "Overall Ship Technology", "Weapon System Engineering" were all familiar to him. It is nonsense to say that he knows everything by heart. Anyway, he can answer questions at any time by turning to a page.
pretty close.
At dawn the next day, a fleet consisting of two frigates "Hunchun" and "Hulunbuyuer" and the "Xingkai Lake" supply ship set off. Their target was Wusong, 380 nautical miles away from Naha Port.
Export. Estimated arrival time, two days.
The predecessor of Lin Daosheng's "Hunchun" was the "Gertrude". It was originally a frigate affiliated with the VOC Navy Department. It has a total length of 47.22 meters, a width of 13.11 meters, a displacement of 1,253 tons, and is equipped with 40 artillery pieces.
Built in 1788 in the Ceylon Shipyards.
It is said that the reason why the "Thousand Islands Battle" was won so quickly last year was that, in addition to the power of the weapons of the Northern Navy, another very important reason was that the large ships of the Dutch were really ineffective, and the 75mm cannon could penetrate the hull of the ship with one shot.
The Dutch sailing ship is a direct type of Galen ship. In order to make the cargo hold as large as possible and retain maneuverability, the hull is lightweight, the number of weapons and sailors is reduced, and the cargo hold below the waterline is expanded as much as possible to form an O-shape.
The ship has a wide hull. It is said that this shipbuilding route was due to the fact that in the early days, countries such as Spain and Denmark levied navigation taxes based on the width of merchant ships, so the designers of Chicken Thief came up with this method.
Through extreme design, it took the Dutch less than two years to build a merchant ship, and it was only half the cost of a Spanish merchant ship. This caused the number of Dutch ships to expand as quickly as a balloon, and in just half a century it became
The empire of "Sea Coachman" that dominates the ocean.
But the advantages of Dutch ships are also their fatal shortcomings. In the four Anglo-Dutch wars, the Dutch drove armed merchant ships that were flexible but lacked protection capabilities and rushed to the sea barriers composed of British battleships time and time again. They were attacked by ship-borne cannons.
The battle resulted in heavy losses. Afterwards, the Navy Department of the United Provinces Republic learned its lesson and built a number of small, heavily armed frigates in the mainland and Ceylon to protect maritime trade routes.
In fact, the real protagonist of sailing naval battles in the Age of Discovery has never been the giant battleship with hundreds of guns, but the small and fast frigate.
Therefore, although the "Gertrude" in the "Thousand Islands Battle" was riddled with holes and two of its three masts were broken, it survived and sank. After learning about this situation from the prisoners, the Navy
All the eight captured frigates were repaired and refitted, and upgraded to replace those thousand-ton ships built in Siam.
After Zhao Xin and the others captured two Russian merchant ships on Kuye Island and modified them, the military-industrial complex in charge of Zhao Liang spent five years figuring out a standardized modification method for European sailing ships.
The first is to apply a layer of fluororesin anti-corrosion paint on the wooden hull shell, and the previously used copper plate tile covering method is completely abandoned. The second is to install a 1000~2200 horsepower marine diesel engine according to the tonnage of different ship types, and at the same time install the stern shaft and removable
Lifting stainless steel propeller; curved neck exhaust chimney, intercom, electric winch and sail hoist are installed on the main deck, and a radio antenna is installed on the top of the main mast.
In terms of weaponry, 10 to 20 Beihai Town-made 75mm naval rapid-fire cannons and 6 to 10 Beihai Town-made imitation Gatling point 50-caliber ten-barreled cannons are installed according to different tonnages.
After the above modifications, these sail frigates have not only significantly improved their speed, but also reduced the number of sailors on board by nearly half. For example, the original capacity of the "Hunchun" was about 270 people, but now it only has more than 150.
Due to the limited capacity of Bacheng Shipyard, ship repairs are no problem, but refitting is not possible, so a team of thirty technicians was specially dispatched from Beihai Town. But even so, more than a year later, only four frigates were refitted.
Two of them were allocated to the East China Sea Fleet.
The overall performance of the modified sailing ship has been improved a lot, and the ship's speed has also been increased to a maximum of 13 knots. However, neither Deng Fei nor Zhao Liang are very satisfied. But there is nothing that can be done. The sailing ships of the 18th century are all in aspect ratio.
With a fat body of less than 4:1, if you want to increase the speed of the ship, you must make major changes to the hull and lengthen it to 5:1 or even 6:1.
Although the current navy of the Beihai Navy is powerful, it is still quite awkward in the eyes of the people in Beihai Town. To put it bluntly, there is not even a warship that meets their expectations!
In addition to the three modern ships "Thor", "Thunder" and "Nanhua No. 1", the others were either Guangzhou ships purchased by Siam or captured Galen ships, the only self-built "Jaguar" No. 1 and the newly launched
Number 2 is actually two cargo ships.
For time-travelers, the warship in everyone's mind must be like that of another time and space. At the very least, it must be a World War II minesweeper level, with more than 800 tons.
Well, even if you have a complete set of drawings, it won't work. The hot-rolled steel production line in Boli can currently only roll ordinary steel plates. It's no problem to build a few river ships, but building warships requires high-precision alloy extra-thick steel plates. It must be
It must be corrosion-resistant, have good low-temperature toughness and good welding performance, otherwise it will be broken by the strong impact force in minutes when encountering huge waves.
Therefore, if the navy wants to achieve real rapid progress and crush Europe in all aspects - especially the British navy, the fastest way is to use doctrine and wait for Boss Zhao to perform the "Great Shift of the Universe".