When Li Xuan saw the battleship design draft taken out by the navy people, he was a little dissatisfied, although these people in the navy said that they were going to deploy artillery in the battleship, but they obviously did not understand the spirit of his previous instructions!

More artillery, more mobility, stronger defense!

However, the ships made by these people in the navy are at most a strengthened version of civilian ships, the ships are too small, and they pay attention to the number of people on board, because they believe that in naval warfare, although artillery is also important, but broadside warfare is more important, so there must be a large number of personnel on board.

They don't want to think about it, there are only a few hundred people in their navy, where did they get so many people to engage in broadside warfare?

Besides, in the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, did they rely on a large number of people to win?

No, they relied on more advanced and numerous firearms, and developed corresponding tactics based on these firearms, so that the key to defeating the Ming army many times was combined.

Compared with the number of Ming troops? Is the Tang Dynasty worthy?

Therefore, even the navy must have strong firepower, use naval artillery as the main means of destroying the opponent, have high mobility, and at least run to win when it cannot win.

The defense must be strong and be able to withstand the situation of fighting more with less!

And these look like they are little guys at a glance, and what kind of warships are cheap to say, their navy can build hundreds of ships in one go, which is not in line with the warships in Li Xuan's mind at all, even if it is just an inland river warship, it can't be so cheap, and it will be a shame for the Tang Dynasty to say it.

Moreover, these warships reserved most of the space for personnel to live, and in the end they could only carry a few warships with one or two small-caliber guns, if they were battleships, or rather troop carriers loaded with limited self-defense forces.

It's even more tragic than the battleships of the Ming Dynasty's sailors!

The warships of the Ming Dynasty also had a large number of firearms, especially those large sea ships of their coastal sailors, such as Fu ships or something, which were typical gunboats!

After seeing the design of the navy, Li Xuan gave an evaluation to these people in the navy in his heart: a group of dirt buns in the ravine!

However, Li Xuan can't blame these people in the navy, most of these people in the navy are transferred from the army, and there are few officers in the navy who are professional, and their understanding of naval warfare is only based on group fighting, a group of small boats rush up, and then launch a broadside battle.

Compared with the Datang Army, which is already at the forefront of the world in terms of equipment and tactics, the Datang Navy is still too naïve.

Li Xuan felt that Biya had personally intervened in the development of the navy, otherwise, the navy of the Tang Dynasty would become a marine corps with hundreds or even thousands of small wooden ships in the future.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to put these design plans on a ×, and then put forward his detailed requirements for naval warships in detail.

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't know how to design battleships, he would have drawn a design drawing himself, but unfortunately he didn't know anything about battleship design, and he didn't know anything about shipbuilding technology in these years, so he could only make requests, and how to meet these requirements was a matter for the navy.

Otherwise, what do you want them to do!

In order to avoid the embarrassing things that they couldn't comprehend here, Li Xuan wrote the requirements of the navy warship in great detail!

First of all, he stressed that the warships of the Navy must have powerful firepower and be able to carry a large number of heavy guns of a huge caliber, as for how much? How big should the caliber be? Naturally, as many as you want, the firepower of one battleship can withstand the firepower of an entire fleet of the Ming Army's naval division.

On the premise of ensuring firepower, maintain mobility and defensive performance as much as possible.

As for the ability to engage in broadside combat, you can appropriately reserve some of the living space for personnel, and besides, broadside combat does not necessarily have to be played by professional marines, ordinary sailors and gunners can do it, why do you have to leave so much cabin space for marines!

After getting Li Xuan's feedback, the naval officers composed of those buns were a little incomprehensible, and a group of people looked at the head of the Privy Council, the director of the Naval Department of the Privy Council, and the number one captain of the navy of the Tang Dynasty, Lieutenant Commander Bao Yifen.

Bao Yifen looked at everyone's expressions, and he himself felt quite helpless!

Bao Yifen, like most of the naval officers here, is from the army, after he first studied in the martial arts academy, he first ran to the first corps to serve, and then while studying in the imperial academy, he went to the combat department as a staff officer, at that time he was mainly responsible for river transportation, at most it was a logistics specialty, but it was definitely not related to the navy.

But later, when the Tang Dynasty was about to establish the Tang Navy, Li Xuan was in the talent pool of the Tang Dynasty, especially in the military, and he couldn't find a professional naval officer.

No way, when the Tang Navy was established, the Tang Dynasty was still limited to Liping Mansion and Xingquan Mansion, although there were rivers such as the Lanjiang River in the territory, but the Ming Dynasty did not set up a professional sailor here, so it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to obtain the Ming Dynasty's sailor generals.

In the end, I had to choose Bao Yifen, a staff officer of the Operations Department who was in charge of inland river logistics and transportation at that time, and he was only a captain at that time!

Bao Yifen was found and appointed as the director of the Navy Department under the Privy Council of the Tang Dynasty, and promoted to the rank of major, of course, in order to show the difference between the army and the navy, Li Xuan directly added a naval prefix in front of his rank, so that he, the major, became a naval major, and at the same time distinguished from the army major on the army side.

When Bao Yifen arrived, he was also ambitious, and found a group of officers and soldiers in the Tang Dynasty who knew how to ship, and then recruited some ship bosses and sailors from the people.

In the end, when the southward army went south to Liuzhou, they successfully set up the shelves of the Datang Navy, and established the Datang Navy in the Liujiang River Valley, with a number of large and small ships and hundreds of personnel.

But although it is said that he has climbed all the way to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the navy, and there are hundreds of people under his command, if it comes to designing a brand-new warship, to be honest, he knows a fart of battleship design, not only him, but also a group of naval officers under his command who do not understand these things at all.

After thinking about it for a long time, they felt that it was not enough for them to build the car behind closed doors, and it was better to find professionals to discuss it together, so Lieutenant Colonel Bao Yifen said: "Regarding the new warship, we don't know how to design it ourselves, so please cooperate with the Ministry of Industry, didn't they say that they want to establish a shipbuilding workshop in Liuzhou City, it is said that they have collected a lot of craftsmen, and they know more about shipbuilding than us!" ”

He was right, because Xu Bingfu came to sell ships, and because the Tang Dynasty did not have a shipbuilding workshop, it could only watch the need for a large amount of silver to buy ships, Li Xuan had already personally ordered the Ministry of Industry to set up a shipyard belonging to the Tang Dynasty itself, it doesn't matter what big ships you can't build at first, you can always build small boats, right?

In the future, learn slowly, expand the scale, and you will always be able to build a big ship in the future!

The shipyards on the Ministry of Industry had not yet begun to be built, and the shipbuilders who had been recruited were idle, and they were immediately sent to the navy to help the navy design ships.

Anyway, the Ministry of Industry thinks that the Navy will build a lot of ships, and the large warships in the workshops under the Ministry of Industry will definitely not be able to build for a while, but there should be no problem with some small ordinary transport ships, and most of them will have to undertake a lot of construction tasks in the future.

Anyway, it will be designed in the future, and it is naturally better to design it with the Navy now, and it will be easier when the official construction starts later.

As a result, in the Navy Department of the Tang Dynasty, there was a very strange scene for a few days in a row, a group of naval officers wearing navy blue naval uniforms and a group of shipbuilders wearing ordinary clothes arguing and arguing every day, making the army colleagues next door feel that there must be something wrong with these navy people, our army elite, ashamed of the navy turtles!

It is not unreasonable for the army to think that these navies are turtles, how tall the army of the Tang Dynasty is, the first in the world in firearms, not to mention the first in the world, but it is definitely the first in East Asia.

But the navy is full of petty family spirit, and only plays some small sampans every day, and I heard that when His Majesty asked them to design a new warship, the designed battleship could not even fit a few guns, and was severely criticized by His Majesty for this.

This made many people in the army laugh secretly in their hearts when they heard it!

He deserves to be scolded by His Majesty!

Who let you navy buns change the color of our army's uniforms and treat them as navy uniforms!

Paralyzed, just change it, but you don't die, you just changed from dark blue to navy blue, and said that the color of the uniforms of the two branches of the military is different!

What is the difference between these two colors? You can't tell it with the naked eye, well, people treat these two colors as the same color every day, and the Ming Dynasty can't find a programmer in this year, but no one cares about the tail number of the code of these two colors, one is 0 and one is b.

Of course, if you look closely, look carefully, and observe repeatedly with the attitude of engaging in scientific research, you will still find that the dark blue blue is darker, and the navy blue is lighter?

But who cares about this, except for a very small number of specific groups!

Therefore, people will see that the color of the uniforms of the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty, especially the uniforms of the officers, is the same.

Many army officers want to play and ask the navy's uniforms to change the style and color of their uniforms, they are dignified army elites, and the army officers who are the core pillars of the Tang Dynasty can't wear the same as these navy turtles, and they can't afford to lose this person.