In the southwest of Liaoning, the beach with the surging waves has been filled with small rafts and the materials and personnel that have been connected.

On a higher platform, Zong Rulin, as the escort leader of this transportation mission, was also reporting to me. This bold and healthy former sea owl, since joining my command, is like a big child who has been given the toy of his dreams, and it seems to have been reborn, and he naturally glows with another spiritual outlook.

According to those close to him, as he took up his duties, he had not been to the Jade Tower since he had not been to the Jade Tower, and not only did he soak in the boat all day and refused to come down, but he also gave up most of his leisure and entertainment in his spare time, and carefully studied the books I had collected from the south on the maritime academy and the sailors.

This made me feel more impressed by his old impression of being wandering and hilarious.

In a sense, the navy is also a typical technical branch. Therefore, although it has only been a few years since its creation, out of consideration for the rigor of the modern model of army building, these exclusive warships and armed seagoing ships also have their own set of quite strict recording systems and evaluation systems.

Therefore, every voyage, every round of service, every emergency and important details must be witnessed by multiple personnel, and more than two copies of the record must be made for retention; And every important post on the ship, from the ship manager to the deputy managers, the officer, to the sergeant, the medical officer, the material officer, the fire chief, the book, the gun commander, the gun head, the non-commissioned officer of the sea with the ship, etc......

It is also required to have their own means of private record-keeping, and ordinary sailors and boatmen, after temporarily going ashore to rest or return to the camp to anchor, are also required to take turns to participate in the symposium according to the batch, corresponding to the aftermath of the discussion.

These are then synthesized and sorted into categories of materials that can be used as a basis for lessons learned and improvements by later generations.

In this way, as long as it can be held out for a long time, even if the ship will be lost, there will be casualties, and the equipment will be aged and damaged; However, the gradual accumulation of experience and knowledge related to the construction of sailors, and the resulting tradition and glory will not be easily discontinued.

In fact, at present, there is no shortage of all kinds of personnel who operate ships and sail in my hands, and gradually rotate through long-term joint ship groups in the triangular trade between the north and the south. Raise a large number of people from all walks of life.

However, trying to turn them into a suitable navy is another matter entirely. It is necessary to select suitable seeds from them and instill them with new concepts and three views; In the process of participating in local battles and anti-smuggling, it is possible to become the backbone and solid foundation of the navy in the future through the run-in of theory and practice.

After all, the modern navy is quite specialized, and it is also a branch of the military with a large number of detailed division of labor.

Having said that, although there are various on-site records and data, there are some specific things that you still have to listen to the narrative of the parties in person to have a more intuitive feeling and judgment.

At least this time when the enemy encountered the enemy at sea, in addition to some casualties, there were also eight additional sea ships that were roughly intact, and this result was really an unexpected joy and a little alarming.

Even if the Northern Dynasty is in decline, the operation and penetration of Andong Road is really not to be underestimated, I don't know if it was premeditated or responded so quickly, and the follow-up measures are almost one after another, and people have no time to deal with it.

Because, the enemy encountered this time was about thirty or forty ships, large and small, and in the end, one-third of the enemy ships ran away with their sails full; Mainly because these were all medium-sized ships with slightly faster speeds, and the total number of ships put into battle on the Huaidong side was limited, and they could no longer take care of them as they went farther and farther away when they were eyeing what seemed to be a bigger target.

After all, after the end of the battle and contact, the sails were raised again to speed up the pursuit, and the daylilies were already cold.

And a considerable part of the rest is due to the lack of manpower to handle the ship, coupled with the high degree of damage, abandoned or scuttled after capture; It also included seven or eight large ships full of soldiers, who had gathered in their cabins to resist desperately and refused to surrender.

If this were on land, it would be a tricky problem, but on an isolated sea, it would be a real dead end. In order to avoid increasing casualties, they were fenced off as targets for artillery training, and they were sunk into the sea one by one.

Then I watched these landlubbers who were lucky enough to struggle to escape, the whirlpools and currents that were sunk by the ship, and they were not able to stand between the waves, and after three in a row, the remaining ships finally raised the white flag in despair.

Therefore, in addition to the types of ordnance and materials on the captured ships, there were actually two ships of war horses and matching saddles, which was some kind of unexpected surprise.

After interrogating the captives, it was learned that the Northern Dynasty naval division that only encountered halfway along the coast was actually from Yongnu County, Haijin Town, which was under the jurisdiction of Youzhou, and was an important force in the history of Gongwei Beidi Caoyun.

Because Yongnu County is located at the intersection of Haicao and the river trough, in a series of military reforms in Taixing Zhongxing, as the hub and important town of the northern Caoyun, and the armed forces that specialize in patrolling Caoyun, such a Caoying water division was set up to fulfill the responsibility of patrolling and defending between the river and the sea.

Therefore, their ship type is also very distinctive, almost with a long head and a round belly and a flat-tailed middle building, so as to facilitate both offshore and inland navigation.

Then after changes to the present, although it has been abandoned and turbulent several times, it finally left a little legacy, as the only remaining water surface force of the river and sea in Pinglu Road, where Youzhou is located.

Although it was unable to compete with the great Tokaido naval divisions of the Southern Dynasty in the East China Sea, it was still enough to deter and suppress other forces along the Bohai Sea according to geography and climate.

It's just that a few years ago, when the Southern Dynasty Liang launched a major expedition to the north, this sailor had almost no real sense of existence, and it was almost ignored. I thought it was due to disrepair and lack of maintenance and its existence in name only.

But I didn't expect that there would be a sense of existence here. This time, they collected all the local river and sea transportation forces, just to advance by sea and land to help the needs of western Liaoning.

Then, I became my Huaidong Water Master, the stepping stone for the first time in the real sense. It's really a mistake, a bad debt.

"Ru Lin, I'm afraid I'll have to let you continue to run one more time......"

With that in mind, I spoke again.

"Head north along the coast and try to find the boats that escaped......"

"It's okay ......"

He grinned slightly.

"The boat is still sufficient, and the boys have just warmed up ......"

"Both morale and military morale can be used......

As a special ship between the river and the sea, although it also has the ability to sail at sea, it obviously cannot be too far from the coastline, which means that as long as the direction of their escape is determined, in fact, the range of activities will be determined, and as a former pirate, he naturally knows how to do it.

Then, Luo Fan's side also needs to communicate with someone, so as not to suddenly appear in the rear of the enemy, and mess up the formation.

Although I went south, the news from Luo Fan was still coming and going through the messengers who traveled back and forth day and night.

For example, according to the latest news, I heard that the battle situation in Kaiyi City has not changed, but the princes in the rear who are close to the Luo clan have formed a new coalition army, led by Luo Zhanrong, the younger brother of the feudal lord Luo Zhanji, and are on the way to converge.

Although the armed forces of these princes were somewhat mixed, it was not a problem to use them to clean up and suppress the places in a tailwind state, so that the main force of the Luo domain could be liberated from the local area and invested in more important main goals.

Of course, according to what the messenger from the peninsula saw and heard, this time Luo Fan really made a bloody investment for the follow-up war. Except for the vicinity of Liaocheng, the local youth and growth have been evacuated, so the fields and villages along the way are full of old and weak women and children and all kinds of feudal slaves undertaking all kinds of labor.

Then, all we have to do is think about facing the new enemy on land to the south.

This time, although the conditions were simple and rather hasty, the temporary supply still sent me a main combat battalion and a garrison battalion with complete equipment and personnel, as well as supporting materials to support the operation. After sending the wounded away in this way, the number of troops directly under my hands has once again reached 5,000, and the firepower of the accompanying army has also been strengthened.

In addition, I also resumed the exchange of information and indirect knowledge of Huaidong. This time, the fleet came from Laizhou Bay, and it was only about two days of sea travel against the wind and tide. If you use a special express delivery boat, this time can be reduced by half.

It's just that, it seems that some people from the government have made some trouble and movement on my territory recently, except for letting them act according to the plan, the rest can only wait until they go back and slowly calculate this account.

But what surprised me was that Liu Yanqing, who had not heard from me for a long time and was very close to me during the Northern Expedition, also came, and had been staying for a while.

"Enemy Attack ......"

Suddenly, a horse galloped and shouted.

Then, in the nearby mirror, I saw in the distance the camp behind the long robbery that was under construction, with sporadic fires and flint smoke coming out, as well as faint fighting and commotion.

As if it was some kind of echo, in the open field to the south, with the sound of the golden drum and snail horn, the figures and banners of the large group of men and horses began to appear, which was the picture of the dagger