Schneider carried his luggage and walked profusely in the already scorching spring sun. As a captain officer from the navy, who was well-dressed, courteous, and graceful, his image of being so hands-on with his luggage was striking on the road: the navy's use of orderlies was a set of special regulations.

Navy Captain Schneider was the original Shi XIV. Because a certain veteran of the naval circles felt that Shi Shi's name was too unlucky and too prosaic—there were too many people called a certain dozen or so among the naturalized people. So I changed his name to him. Schneider was pleased with the new name, much better than the original fourteen, and he had secretly begged the calligrapher in Dongmen City to start writing a family tree for him.

The so-called writing a genealogy is actually compiling a genealogy. Schneider came from a poor background, and he knew that his ancestors had been fishing people for generations, and that if the family tree was to look good, he had to attach famous people. This is where you have to find a learned "gentleman".

The first elites had already been born among the naturalized people, who either took up military administrative positions or made their fortunes. After turning over, it is inevitable that the vulgar want to make up a family tree and glorify the ancestors.

Because they knew that the "chiefs" were very disgusted with ancestral halls, they did not dare to start the idea of building ancestral halls - and most of them were outsiders who had not been in Lingao for a long time, and there was no way to build any ancestral halls in the local area. However, making up a genealogy of their own illustrious ancestors can bring them great psychological satisfaction. There are a few ghostwriters in Dongmen City, who have made a little fortune with this small amount.

Compared to other seasons of the year, Schneider prefers winter in Lingao. In winter, when the temperature is low, he can wear a navy winter coat with a good pen. It made him feel like a superior person: the winter clothes were made of thin tweed bought from Westerners. The military uniform has no pleats at all. The Navy Excellent Service Medal is polished and hung in front of the XNG, which was awarded for his counter-action and combat performance in the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary. The Navy intends to completely distinguish the line between the medal and the Army's native buns, resolutely refrain from engaging in a few meritorious services, and pursue gorgeous and professional medal names. Now Schneider must be neatly dressed in a naval officer's uniform and a full set of medals when he goes out, and all kinds of admiring and awe-inspiring eyes around him as he walks down the road make him feel a sense of pleasure in his heart.

As part of the award, and also as preparations for the military struggle before the upcoming engine operation. Schneider was recommended for a naval officer promotion training at Bopu.

Schneider preferred courses in navigation, which he mastered, and leadership courses, which made him feel like an officer, to courses in naval engineering and tactical command, which made him feel like an officer. Compared to the exercise on the map, Captain Schneider was so good that the chicks knew what a veteran is. However, those little rabbit cubs learned a lot after suffering a few losses.

At the end of his three-month intensive training, he was promoted to captain in the Navy. Within two days of returning home, he was summoned to Fort Margaret for a short-term training - in the words of the chiefs on-the-job training.

Schneider knew it was for "secrecy", but he knew that the temporary training was related to the recent active preparations.

The ambush army is preparing for war -- although this time the preparations for war are not as vigorous as before the second anti-encirclement and suppression. Every time Schneider took a Navy soldier to the shipyard to "support the workers", he already understood: he had never seen so many large ships being built at the same time. Some of the new ships were not comparable in size to the Holy Ships, but they surpassed the largest splint ships he had ever seen. All kinds of ship materials are piled up in the factory, and the workers are busy day and night.

The sailors have been training since the Chinese New Year, and in the squadron he commands, the number of sailors on each spy has been reduced by half, and the shortfall is filled by new recruits who have just come out of the recruit team. Obviously, the sailors who were transferred out were for the purpose of preparing the personnel of the new ships.

Schneider discovered in the recruit that some of his old friends from his time as a pirate had been recruited during the recent recruitment. Even with the men and horses of the old Zhucai veteran, there are also other subordinates of the sea lord who have been defeated, and many people have fled back to their hometowns after the defeat of the "big guy", but they have no plan to live. Based on the information obtained during the interrogation of the prisoners and interviews, the recruiters, led by the former pirate leaders who had defected to the naturalized country, recruited such former stragglers along the coast of Guangzhou.

Obviously, if it were not for the expansion of the navy, the chiefs would not have recruited so many people at once.

It seems that there is another war. Schneider thought to himself.

By the time he arrived at Fort Margaret by Navy Transport, it had been renovated. The Mayuan Peninsula is now the core heavy industry base of the Senate, and the original Mayuan Army Base has also been officially upgraded to "Mayuan Fort".

According to the new military system, all the locations of army bases are suffix "fort". This new regulation is believed to have officially infiltrated the army and navy system after the "German faction", "Soviet faction" and "Japanese faction".

The turret that used to be the headquarters of He Ming's field army has disappeared, replaced by a huge bamboo fence wall and huge buildings scattered inside. The Fort covers a large area, and there are several military camps and training grounds for various army technical departments inside and outside the walls. The road network is preliminarily complete. Army soldiers in the middle of a queue and tactical training can be seen everywhere.

The entire Fort of Horses is already a military restricted area. Schneider's orderlies were stopped back at the first post - there was no orderly's name on the check-in. So Captain Shi could only carry his luggage and continue to walk. When I came to the gate, there were two large wooden signs with black letters on a white background hanging at the gate: Mayuanbao Army Base and Joint Operations Command.

The Joint Operations Command is a recently established command structure that replaces the responsibilities of the Provisional General Command of the Field Army. At present, the field army has been in a state of public order warfare and security for a long time, and it cannot do without an organ that coordinates and commands the navy, army, and all other armed forces.

In fact, a similar demand was initially put forward during the Qiongnan security war. If it is said that in northern Qiongnan, the main task of the navy was to transport troops and supplies, then in southern Qiongnan, the navy's operations were no longer as simple as transporting the army ashore, and it was often necessary to personally join the battle -- almost all the villages in the prefectures and counties of southern Qiongnan were carried out along the coast, and bandits and powerful armed forces often used ships to maneuver.

In view of the fact that the next engine operation will require joint operations of the army and navy -- the General Staff has come to the conclusion in several strategic exercises that for a fairly long period of time, the military operations of the Fu Bo Army will be joint operations of the navy and the army operating along the coastline -- it is very necessary to establish a joint operational command across the services.

The newly established Joint Operations Command was established at Fort Mayuan. It is under the leadership and jurisdiction of the General Military Affairs Tribunal, and is composed of personnel sent by the Army General Staff Headquarters and the Navy Military Command Department, and is operationally under the command of the General Staff.

Schneider followed the newly paved road and followed the signs to the gate of the compound where the Joint Operations Command was located.

At the entrance of the headquarters stood several army officers with a number of paperwork in charge of reception. Yang Zeng is also among them. Due to the excellent performance in the Chengmai Campaign, Yang Zeng was also recommended to participate in the officer promotion training course at Mayuan Fort, and he also recommended his orderly Wei Darong to participate in the non-commissioned officer training.

After undergoing closed training, Yang Zeng felt that the life of the chiefs was too busy—none of the veteran officers had leisure time. Yang Zeng saw them at any time, either on the training ground, in the classroom, or in endless meetings.

Of course, he himself is also very busy, as a naturalized civilian officer who is about to be promoted to deputy battalion commander, Yang Zeng needs to make up too many subjects. It is necessary not only to make up for cultural courses, but also to master more advanced and complex combat subject training and logistical organization support.

He occasionally misses the leisurely days of boring basking in the sun with an arquebus in Goujiazhuang. Looking at the oncoming Schneider's penny navy dress and the eye-catching Navy Merit Medal, Yang Zeng unconsciously straightened his waist, and his second-class military merit medal and special marksman skill medal were hung in front of the XNG.

Schneider was the latest to arrive, and the entire Mayuanbao guest house was already full, so Yang Zeng had to arrange for Schneider and some other people to temporarily live in the vacated barracks.

Nearly 100 army and navy officers were summoned to Fort Ma at the same time, and they were all naturalized civilian officers who had been circled by the cadres of the General Staff to prepare for the engine operation.

The environment for the engine operation was very complicated, on the sea, they had to pass through the territory of Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong, and the Dutch and Spaniards also had Shili in the Taiwan Strait, which they had to pass through. With the exception of the Dutch, who had just signed a trade agreement, the other shili were all "unfriendly".

Although there is Zhao Yinggong's paving on the land to open up the relationship, if a large number of refugees are to be transported away under the nose of Daming, no one can predict what problems will arise when it is implemented. Especially when involved in the Dengzhou Rebellion, it was necessary to collect and transport refugees on the battlefield in which there was a shortage of soldiers.

In this environment, it is simply impossible to act without sufficient troops as protection. A well-trained army can also play a great role in organizing a large number of refugees to march and camp -- without the responsible organization and leadership of well-trained soldiers, thousands of refugees may not be able to form an orderly group of troops. When the plan for the engine was first formulated, the Planning Institute secretly consulted the People's Commissar of the Army and Navy about the number of ships and troops that could be mobilized at that time.