The Huaxia Army continued to stay in Java and Sumatra for three months, repeatedly sweeping and exterminating the source of the native mobs, and according to Hu Zhen's meaning, the name of the Huaxia Army was to make the local natives dare not look up to the Chinese people for hundreds or even a thousand years in the future, and never dare to engage in discriminatory massacres against the Chinese people.

With the current battle of the Huaxia army, it has been fully able to carry out the task of clearing and suppressing given by Hu Zhen, and Hu Zhen did not bother to personally command the army to fight with a group of indigenous tribes, but quickly led the fleet brought back by Zheng Dingbang from England back to Pontianak.

Along the way, Hu Zhen asked Zheng Dingbang and others to lead the returning ships and the captured Dutch East India Fleet to conduct fleet navigation, surveying, tracking, shelling, and torpedo firing exercises.

Zheng Dingbang and others, who returned from studying in the English Navy, were meticulous in all their operations, so that the officers and men of the army who accompanied the ship nodded frequently and expressed their appreciation: "If the officers and men of the navy had come back earlier, our naval battle of Batavia would not have been so thrilling and arduous!" ”

The army officers and men said such words, so that Zheng Dingbang and other naval officers and men felt a little blushing when they heard it, and they couldn't imagine that under the command of Hu Zhen, they relied on army gunners and civilian sailors to beat the two fleets of the "sea coachmen" Dutch to the ground.

Hu Zhen was very curious to look here and there on the ship ordered by England, and almost every corner was walked, and he carefully observed every detail.

Zheng Dingbang followed Hu Zhen on the ship and introduced to him: "Our two cruisers customized from Britain have a fixed displacement of 3,200 tons, and their weapons are equipped with four 155-mm main guns, four 120-mm secondary guns, three 105-mm secondary guns, five 75-mm secondary guns, ten 37-mm secondary guns, 20 12.7-mm heavy machine guns, two front-firing torpedoes, and one rear-firing torpedo. According to Mr. Will, they were named Qiming and Qixing respectively, and now the cruiser that serves as the flagship under our feet is Qiming. ”

Hu Zhen paced on the deck, stroked the railing of the ship, and said: "The ships that captured the Dutch fleet are all old guys who were launched ten years ago, and the speed is too slow, and they only have a speed of fourteen or fifteen knots after fighting for their lives, and they may die directly when they will die." This is difficult to cooperate with the new ship in formation for artillery salvo combat, and after three or five years of use at most, it can only be used for patrol defense or as a floating battery. There are also many problems with the new ships purchased from England, and the caliber of weapons on the ships is too large and miscellaneous, which is inconvenient for logistics management. What is even worse is that it is difficult to command a salvo in a unified manner, and there is no shooting command and ranging instruments. After returning to Pontianak, it was necessary to immediately renovate its armament, install an artillery range-finding fire control system, and keep only two or three caliber guns. ”

"Shelling fire control systems? The English did not disclose this to us. It's just that this is not a very mature technical idea, and they have not yet been widely used in battleships! Zheng Dingbang was very puzzled when he heard this, and thought that the English had kept this military secret from them.

"It's not to blame the English, they really haven't used this thing a lot yet!" Hu Zhen knows that in the real history, it was only after 1888 that England really began to equip the original naval gun fire control rangefinder.

"And are we reliable?" Zheng Dingbang always felt that Hu Zhen often had some very magical weapons and equipment in his hands, which were not even available in the world's most advanced European countries.

Hu Zhen replied affirmatively: "Of course, our artillery and fire control systems are very mature, and they are guaranteed to be more advanced and reliable than those of the English, French, and Germans!" With the same quality of personnel, it is guaranteed that the ships of the enemy's fleet can be completely defeated in the same number or superior number. ”

How can something made by the 3D printing system of a nuclear submarine be immature? But Hu Zhen couldn't tell Zheng Dingbang about this.

"Ah, the quality of the personnel?" Cheng Dingbang realized that the burden on his shoulders was heavy. What the Huaxia Army lacks most now is the quality of naval personnel, otherwise how could it use army soldiers to ambush the Dutch naval fleet.

Hu Zhen continued: "The layout and caliber of the naval guns, double diameter body tubes, and gunpowder on the cruiser made by the English did not meet my requirements, and the naval guns had to be dismantled and reloaded, and we had to use our own cast naval guns, and we used our own smokeless explosive shells and armor-piercing shells. ”

"We ourselves are now able to cast cannons and produce smokeless gunpowder so quickly?" Although Zheng Dingbang knew that Hu Zhen had a mysterious ability to turn decay into magic, he could not have imagined that he would be able to produce the world's most advanced and powerful naval guns and shells in Borneo so soon.

"Don't worry, I promise you can fight with the best weapon systems in the world!" Hu Zhen was determined to use the 3D printing system on the nuclear submarine to make a batch of naval guns and produce shells, and put aside the matter of what lost parts first, and after building a fleet sufficient for self-protection for the Nanyang Huaxia Guild, the industrial construction of using the resources of this time and space to make its own artillery ammunition was gradually advanced.

I heard Hu Zhen say that he can use weapons and equipment that are more advanced than those of Europe. Zheng Dingbang was very happy: "Yes, we will definitely do our best to fulfill our responsibilities and use the best weapon system with the best personnel quality!" ”

"Zheng Dingbang, how many qualified skilled naval officers do we have now?" As a traverser. Of course, Hu Zhen knew the importance of the navy, and it can be said that from the first day of the crossing, he began to concentrate on developing the navy, but in addition to the navy to accumulate a large number of ships and equipment with real money, it also needed to train a large number of officers and soldiers for many years to operate, so Hu Zhen sent 300 sailors and crews who were proficient in ship operation technology to England to study. He also ordered Zheng Dingbang and others to search for sailors and sailors who were proficient in steam engines among the Chinese people all over the world to enrich the navy.

"Mr. Report, according to your intentions, we have three hundred backbone naval personnel in England, three thousand two hundred and seventy-nine naval sailors selected from the Pacific Shipping Company, and two thousand two hundred and eighty-six sailors from all over the world who are proficient in steam engine ships among the Chinese, and now there are five thousand eight hundred and sixty-five men, and as long as we are subjected to strict military training, our navy will have a combatable army in one year at most." Zheng Dingbang feels quite satisfied with the achievements he has achieved in just one or two years.

"Less than 6,000? Too little, too little! Without a navy of more than 100,000 people, how can we protect ourselves? How to dominate the world? Hu Zhen was very dissatisfied with this, how will this naval team of thousands of people compete for global hegemony in the future?

When Zheng Dingbang was studying the navy in England, he just thought that it would be good for the Huaxia Navy to protect itself, but he never imagined that Hu Zhen's ambition was to compete for hegemony in the grand scope of the world, and his expression immediately became solemn: "Sir, I'm sorry...... We've let you down......"

"It's not your fault, as the saying goes, there is a century-old navy, it takes time to build a strong navy, but we don't have time to accumulate bit by bit, we must go all out to violently expand our navy!"

Hu Zhen waved his hand and continued:

"From now on, we will continue to search for skilled sailors and sailors of steam engines among the Chinese people all over the world, and establish sailor schools, the navy must not spare any ship equipment, carry out the maximum intensity and maximum training, and train more and better skilled sailors, the weapons of the ships in the training are broken, and it is necessary to rebuild them, spending a little money is not a problem at all, and the problems that can be solved with money are not a problem, I will buy you a good ship or build the best ship myself, I want people, If you have to train a skilled crew of more than 100,000 skilled sailors in the shortest possible time, you will have a steady stream of new equipment handed over to the navy to fight in all directions, so that we can firmly occupy a place among the world powers! ”

"Yes, sir, we're going to do our best!" (To be continued.) )