While the Southeast was performing the ceremonies, the other warships were carrying out the same rituals, except for two warships in the dry dock for maintenance, a total of ten warships: gathering for roll call, praying, reading military discipline and the captain's speech.

The damaged Kaohsiung No. 1 and Kaohsiung No. 3 are back in the team!

According to Yu Zhigao, the chief soldier of coastal defense, the two damaged warships in the southeast province will be able to be used for at least three months, and at that time, I am afraid that they will not be able to catch up with the battle of the summer solstice.

However, in just over a month, the two badly damaged ships were repaired, and the hard-working workers even took care of their maintenance everywhere!

In addition to the convenience of dry docking, the diligence of the workers occupies a major factor.

In three shifts, many people worked through the night, even without bonuses, and worked hard there!

Yan Changwu, the boss of the Southeast Mansion, was moved, and he remembered to discover the characteristic skills of the Chinese nation: infrastructure madness!

So he announced that when May Day (Gregorian calendar) arrived, he would set up a festival called May Day, and on that day, everyone would have a day off.

Advocacy: Labor is glorious, labor changes life!

It was decided to set up a May Day Labor Award, called "Model Worker", which will be evaluated by all walks of life and awarded bonuses and honorary certificates!

It has to be said that in the southeast province, an atmosphere of hard work is forming, and Yan Changwu said that his task is to ensure fairness!

Let the diligent get what they want, and resist the forcible seizure of the industrious: for example, the fishing tyrants belong to the underworld forces, they bully the market and forcibly seize the people's catch.

There was once a fishing tyrant in Beigang, but in less than three days, he was taken away by the police and sent to labor reform!

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The Southeast Fleet managed to gather enough of the required crews, and even the new British instructors were sent to the post of officers, and in addition to being instructors, they also participated in operations.

The British were aggressive, because there was an additional allowance for fighting, and it was high.

Now there are two third-class battleships (in fact, they are not really sail battleships, they are battleships, they have the power of later battleships, but the shape of the ships has not yet evolved), four fifth-class cruisers (in fact, they are large Dutch merchant ships, in the Far East, the Netherlands does not have real warships) and six sixth-class cruisers (they are modern battleships, which are evolutionary, while the first two types of battleships have not yet evolved, and their stern and bow towers are high), as the first strike group.

The captain of another third-class battleship "Taiwan", because the deputy captain Li De did not yet have a "post certificate", he had to work hard to obtain a post certificate, and now he is temporarily acting as the captain.

However, he did not train, and his battleship was being overhauled in the dry dock, and he was so anxious that he jumped up and down, urging the dock workers to hurry up every day.

Deputy Admiral Li Ying and Chief Instructor Storm were appointed as the chief and deputy commanders of the Second Strike Group, that is, to lead the old warships in battle.

Due to the wide opening of the road, the second strike group also has tens of thousands of soldiers, equipped with various bird boats (bird boats are small fast sea ships of the Fukubun type. The length of the ship is 10 meters, the width is 3.4 meters, it is a fast-attacking ship type), the reeling ship is transformed from the reeling net fishing boat, belongs to the medium-sized sea ship built in southern Fujian, is the main warship of the Ming Dynasty sailors, the length is 12-25 meters, the width is 3.6-6.4 meters), the double-sail ship (also known as the double-sail boat, is built in Zhang, Xiamen and other areas with a solid structure, flexible handling, fast medium-sized warship. The boat is 20 meters long and 5.7 meters wide, and is made of pine and fir timber. The ship can also be used as an ocean-going cargo ship, and the ship's family lives on the ship, with sleeping cabins, which can be transformed into hundreds of warships if needed, and its strength has expanded rapidly

Ships that had no other tasks or maintenance were actively trained.

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The big ship "Southeast" is about to set sail, and everyone is ready.

Captain Yan Donglai asked the captain Yan Changwu, he nodded in agreement, so Yan Donglai announced: "Southeast, start the ship!" ”

Wang Qiming, the sail cable chief on the ship, shouted: "Go on the sail!" ”

The sailors climbed up as quickly as they did on the steps of their own homes, and the ropes were immediately covered with men, and some climbed straight up the mast.

Yan Changwu pinched the bell, watched them go up to Fan Yan (that is, a horizontal strip of wood, hanging sails on it), and nodded slightly: "The speed is okay!" ”

"Hang the sails!" Orders came out again and again, and the men on the mast climbed onto the sails (which was relatively safe) and the sailors who climbed directly onto the masts (mostly veterans) untied the ropes that bound the winding sails, and held on, waiting for orders.

"Be careful to untie the ends first, then release the sail protrusion in the center of the sail!" The cable chief roared, checking back and forth.

Wang Qiming is not very old, only twenty-two years old, but he has been working on the ship at the age of eight, and at the age of twelve he dared to sail alone in a small sailboat, and he has a natural control over the sail control, so he is the only one who has the length of the sail cable of this giant ship.

"Zhang Fan!" Seeing that everyone was doing well, the sail rope chief ordered.

"The sail is in place, the sail is upside down, it is up, the spirit is a little bit, the foremast platform, make a little effort, the upper mast sail, pull the twist cable, the bottom, force, tie the sail rope tightly! ......" Wang Qiming roared repeatedly.

He flapped a piece of metal on the deck, and it led to the deck, where dozens of crew pushed the giant winch to tighten the calf-thick sail line.

Before Wang Dongming, the navigator was also shouting "Anchor!" ”

The southeast has a large tonnage, slow start, so it does not dock at the wharf, its anchor is not light, it weighs several tons, the anchor cable is 50 centimeters thick, when the anchor is set sail, in the double disc anchorage in the middle of the ship, lift the heavy iron anchor, hang on the anchor rod, the drum wheel of the anchor plate, equipped with many long locust wooden poles as the driving handle of the winch, dozens of people can push the winch at the same time, pull the anchor up, there is a non-commissioned officer standing on the drum wheel and shouting slogans, coordinating everyone to work together.

All in all, a sailboat is a physical job!

A gust of wind blew, the sails puffed up, causing the ship to tip to one side, and then the big ship slammed and left the anchorage, as the wind tightened, the hull accelerated, and Yan Changwu began to give orders:

"Turn left two compass points!"

"Keep course the same!"

"Subject to crosswinds, turn right to a compass point!"

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Under his guidance, the behemoth-like Southeast sailed into the sunny East China Sea.