The sun was shining and the sea breeze was encouraging, and Fang Yan and his party of nearly twenty people carried their bags and boarded the deck of the Emden along the gangway. A number of senior officers on the battleship, including the captain, first mate, chief engineer, and so on, were already waiting at the gangway, and looked back and forth at this group of young cadets who had come to the ship for training with scrutinizing eyes. Prior to this, the officers had already learned about the cadets through their colleagues on the shore, and had determined their training positions on the ship based on their previous performance. After a solemn and encouraging lecture, Captain Schmidt, who was nearly fifty years old, immediately announced the division of duties of each cadet on the battleship.

Not surprisingly, he had been performing well before, and he was assigned to the first detachment composed of the navigation department and the main gun operators. In addition, there is a second detachment responsible for secondary artillery, antiaircraft guns, and torpedoes, a third detachment responsible for the management of ammunition depots and daily security, and four other detachments responsible for power, damage control, communications, and logistics. The total number of officers and men on the ship has reached 650, which is more than 30 percent of the personnel of foreign ships of the same tonnage. This situation of super-large establishment is also unique to the current German Navy: after all, there are only a few ships in active service now, and if you can carry more people, you will naturally have to load more people!

Due to this factor, when Fang Yan came to his cabin with his personal belongings on his back, his face immediately fell. The small space is neatly arranged with layers of single wooden beds, which looks quite cramped and cramped, which is a huge contrast to the dormitory conditions in his barracks on the shore. However, Fang Yan, who had worked on battleship design himself, also understood that the precious tonnage on the warship should be invested in more valuable places, and the special cases such as the Veneto Palace and avant-garde yachts were simply unforgivable crimes. The worst real living conditions were the Japanese sailors, and it is said that all but 2 Yamato-class battleships were equipped with hammocks only for the sailors; In contrast, Fang Yan, a quasi-officer under Ou Ti, was already quite lucky.

After putting his personal belongings in order, Fang Yan quickly came to the navigation room and reported to the rough-faced first mate who was also in charge of the first detachment. Today is his first day on duty, and a good impression will certainly make him better taken care of in the future training. However, what Fang Yan didn't expect at all was that after a few brief introductions with him, the other party threw down the sentence "Let the warship set sail for the port in 20 minutes" and left the bridge; Fang Yan was stunned for a moment before he reacted, this was the test and task given to him by the other party!

Facing the strange gazes of the old birds of the navigation department around him, Fang Yan, who was standing in place, couldn't help but feel a little numb: the other party's action of not following the routine caught him off guard at all, and he could only rely on his own inherent quality to deal with it. Getting a warship out of the harbor may sound simple, but in the specific operation, it has to be detailed to many levels: boiler fire, purge the warm pipe, retract the anchor chain, sound the horn, rush the turbine, reverse and disengage, and steer the ...... If there is a guide ship ahead, the guide ship should be given a corresponding flag requesting to leave the port. Unless the commander is extremely familiar with the professional business of the navy, it is absolutely impossible to complete all these processes in a short period of time. Fang Yan, who had calmed down, took a deep breath, and his mind began to quickly recall everything he had learned in his previous internship training; After a few breaths, his eyes flashed, and he grabbed one of the intercoms above the communication center in front of him.

In the boiler room, deep inside the battleship, the lieutenant, who is responsible for managing the power system of the entire warship, is conducting a routine inspection in front of one of the boilers. Suddenly, a sharp phone rang from his office, and he immediately ran over in three steps and two steps, and grabbed the phone receiver. After a moment, there was a slight dazed expression in his expression, as a young voice on the phone was completely unfamiliar, and his brain briefly froze when it was giving orders to him. However, after a few moments, the lieutenant had already reacted, and when the other party had finished speaking, he hung up the phone in response to the answer, and immediately began to broadcast his relevant orders loudly to the sailors in the power room.

"Whew!" With the successive operation of the induced draft fan and the supply fan, a large amount of fresh air is fed into the No. 1 boiler, which is ready to be stopped; The viscous heavy oil atomizes through a high-pressure nozzle arranged on top of the boiler and ignites with a burst of ignition under the stimulation of an electric spark. Due to the huge technical advantages of oil-fired boilers over coal-fired boilers, even Germany, a country that is almost completely oil-poor, embarked on the road of all-fuel oil after the war. At the same time, the boiler water, which is lower than the impurity content of the drinking water, is also pressed into the boiler pipe by the high-pressure water pump; Its function is to absorb the heat generated by the combustion of heavy oil and convert it into superheated steam to drive the turbine turbine to do work, thereby driving the propeller shaft located at the rear of the battleship. The valve of the main steam pipe was opened, and the steam gushing out directly caused the bridge whistle to sound sharply, which was also a signature signal before the battleship set sail. These steam that is discharged in the early stage of boiler fire are steam whose parameters are not up to standard and cannot be used by the steam turbine, and it is only when the steam parameters reach the rated value with the continuous operation of the boiler that it really plays a role.

While conveying the order to the power cabin, Fang Yan, who was in the navigation room, also gave a series of instructions to the leaders of the other detachments. Although his face was nervous and his teeth were slightly gritted, the instructions he issued were all precedented, concise and clear. The huge iron anchor was pulled out of the water and immediately placed in the depressions on both sides of the bow and fixed in place; A banner was pulled from the rope into the air, signaling to the battleship and the people on the dock what it was about to do. When the power system was fully lit, Fang Yan gave the command of 40% of the reversing power in a slightly hoarse, but loud and powerful voice; The battleship, which was more than 6,000 tons, began to move slowly backwards in a slight tremor, and completely left its original berth after about two minutes.

"Turbine reversal, 8 knots forward, rudder left turn 6 compass points!" Fang Yan's forehead was already faintly sweating, and his two hands were clenched into fists; The bright starry eyes were staring intently at the sea in front of the battleship, and less than a nautical mile away was the natural waterway through which all ships had to enter the port. Although it was more than 200 meters wide and there were only 2 non-sharp turns in total, Fang Yan, who was operating the ship for the first time, still felt his heart pounding. When he gave the order to straighten the rudder, the battleship shifted to the left for a short time under the action of inertia, and Fang Yan, who felt that the course was a little abnormal, immediately made up for it; And this time, with experience, he calculated the amount of advance, so that the course of the battleship was completely in his expectation. Eventually, the Emden sailed out of Kiel Harbour through the waterway, and Fang Yan, facing the scorching sun in the east, only felt that there was a bright light in front of him, as if the entire sea had been reflected in a brilliant golden brilliance.

I don't know when, the first mate with a full beard stood at the door of the navigation room, and the rugged face still showed the calm look that Fang Yan had when he first saw him, but there was already a faint appreciation in his eyes. He hadn't gone far at all, but had been keeping an eye on the movement inside, and if the rookie gave an order that would endanger the whole ship, then he would rush to the walkie-talkie to correct it as soon as possible. Seeing the young man with his hands propped on the bulkhead, obviously relieved, the first mate couldn't help but feel a little confused in his heart; The reason why he asked the other party who was on the ship for the first time to do this was more because of his preconceived disgust with the appearance of the vase, and he wanted to make the other party honest in the future training through a burst of killing sticks. However, now, he completely recognized Fang Yan's hard power: the other party was indeed the first person worthy of the name of practical training, except for the final steering and some lack of experience, all other orders could not find room for too much pickiness, after all, the other party was just a complete novice student!

"Well done. You have mastered the most basic stage of the sailing course. The first mate walked up to Fang Yan and nodded slightly. Although he admired the boy's first performance in his heart, he still maintained his figure on his face; In any case, the other side should not be allowed to get carried away after a success, not to mention that sailing the battleship out of the port was originally only the most basic subject in actual sailing. In the process of real sailing, you will encounter many variables such as wind, waves, rain, fog, etc., and it is not surprising that there will be unexpected yaws, and fighting with the waves in the depths of the raging ocean is an excellent test that can truly reflect the quality of a navigator .

Fang Yan saluted respectfully to the first mate, his expression full of joy and excitement after overcoming difficulties; After today's memorable experience, I am afraid that I will never be able to forget the process in the future. He bowed slightly, giving up the command post that he had been usurped for a long time. And the first mate didn't embarrass him anymore, and all he ordered Fang Yan to do was related affairs that focused on teaching skills and consolidating training.

The moon rose tomorrow, the stars shone brightly, and Fang Yan's first day of sailing training soon came to an end. What he had learned on the ship was fundamentally different from what he had learned on paper on the shore, and he had lived the whole day to the fullest, gaining a great deal of practical experience and knowledge that he had never touched before. After dinner, Fang Yan, who was not on duty, sat in the reading room of less than 15 square meters in the bow of the ship, and carefully combed through all his gains today. Seeing that there was still a lot of time left before the lights out time at 10 o'clock at night, Fang Yan, who was slightly moving in his heart, suddenly remembered the wish that Raeder had made to him before to publish a book; By the light of the light bulb, he began his writing on a blank piece of paper.

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