Another female relative of the Hai family was originally a maid, and she lived in the same cabin with Miss Hai that night.

The next day, the wind and rain continued. After breakfast, Chen Shouxu was going to give lessons to the students in the officer's cabin. Hai Shuzu and Cao Junfu felt that it was inconvenient to stay in the cabin, and they had the intention to leave, but they were not at ease to leave the two female dependents alone in the cabin.

Chen Shouxu saw that the simple math class was not a military secret, "Mr. Hai, you can stay." ”

Hai Shuzu immediately pushed the boat down the river and stayed in the cabin.

The officers set up blackboards and chalk, two things that could already be produced in Jincheng. Chen Shouxu began to explain according to the syllabus. Speaking of interest, he threw away the handouts and wrote two blackboard board books. The interaction with the students in class is also a lot of fun.

Chen Shouxu didn't notice that behind him, a door quietly opened a thin crack.

The whole class was like listening to the book of heaven, and Cao Junfu yawned even more. It wasn't until the end that Chen Shouxu assigned the students the application problems of measuring the height and distance of the target and the simplified model of artillery shooting, which made Cao Junfu frightened.

The storm lasted only two days, and on the third day it was calm. The weather cleared, and the fleet set sail to continue its voyage to the southeast.

Harris, the commander of the fleet's daily formation, will be in charge, and the battleship itself will not have to worry about Chen Shouxuan now.

If there are no special circumstances, he reads books every day, walks on the verandah, and rarely even goes up to the stern deck. Hai Shuzu is now a regular visitor to Chen Shouxu's office. This famous minister did not have a high degree of education after that, and he gave up his career after being admitted to the student. He relied on his family's profound political resources to start a maritime trade business.

The Nankai is the lead ship of the cruising fleet. The South Sea was followed by the Raphael, and several officers who had just graduated from the Naval Academy were lying on the bow and pointing with binoculars.

It's just that there's something strange about what they're looking at.

"It's out, it's out." A red-haired officer shouted excitedly.

A group of people all pointed their binoculars at the verandah of the Nanhai.

"The daughter of that wealthy Chinese businessman came out, wow, wearing an officer's uniform."

"I didn't cover my face this time, it's so beautiful."

"Brother, show me, show me." A few cadets of the sea academy who were interning on the ship stood on tiptoe and tried to snatch the telescope from the senior brother's hand. ”

"The little ones are going to stay on the side." The officer with the binoculars pushed the juniors away.

The Admiral talked to her. But the distance between the two of them is still a bit far. Someone sighed.

"Do you think the Admiral will use the downwind position to fight at medium and long distances, or will he directly grab the upper wind position and stick it up for melee combat?"

"It doesn't matter what tactics he uses, just don't hang up the full sails and run away like last time."

Several people were happily discussing the scene they saw, but they couldn't help but hear a loud shout from close range. Several people's faces turned pale, and they all turned around, only to see the acting captain, the first mate, Pierre. Morality. Medina slapped the officer on the head who had taunted the Admiral for running away.

"What nonsense," Medina said, with an angry face, "get back to your posts." ”

The captain was furious, and everyone hurriedly dispersed.

Chen Shouxu naturally didn't know about the farce that had just happened on the Raphael behind him. He was enjoying the sun, green tea and the view of the Karimata Strait on the verandah.

Miss Hai stood at the other end of the verandah, dressed in a blue and white officer's uniform. The luggage of the Hai family sank into the sea with the ship, and only a few of the young cadets of the sea academy on this battleship had uniforms of barely suitable size. Although he is not wearing an armed belt, he has a bit of a heroic spirit.

She seemed to have a pair of big eyes that could speak, and she looked at Chen Shouxu with a flicker, and looked at him with a hairy heart.

Chen Shouxu began to think that women in ancient times did not go out of the door, and ran away when they saw a man blushing. Until one time he was comfortably smoking a cigarette in the aft verandah, Miss Haijia took the initiative to come up to talk to him, and a bunch of questions from the curious baby made him run away in the end.

That night, he called Cai Yuanding and asked him what the situation was that made him subvert the three views.

Cai Yuanding felt a little funny, "Adults don't know, most of the wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty don't care about those etiquette traditions anymore." Men and women are confused, and there is no longer a difference. There is no other reason to be subtle, and it is common for women to show their heads. ”

"You mean it's not an isolated case?"

Cai Yuanding had read the sage book for a few years, and sighed slightly, "In the words of adults, now Daming is also in an era where everything looks to money. The world religion is declining, and women are abandoning the religion and ignoring it. Talented, they often fiddle with Wenmo Yale and socialize with some young scholars. If you are a little less talented, you will also learn some vulgar words. ”

As if verifying Cai Yuanding's words, in the next few days, Chen Shouxu felt that he had been defeated. Every day I was forced to explain to Miss Hai on the verandah what is sine and cosine, what kinetic momentum is, what is orca, what latitude and longitude are, and how far away is the moon from the earth......

But today, he took the initiative to find Miss Haijia, and the fleet approached the war zone when it entered the Karimata Strait, so he had to remind the ladies on the ship.

"Miss, I have dozens of cannons on my ship. When it's time for a battle, the artillery salvo shakes the ground, please be prepared when you arrive...... "Chen Shouxu also thought about whether to send them away, but now in wartime, it is impossible to use valuable transportation capacity for a few people. And to stay in the fleet, there is no ship in better condition than the South Sea.

A pair of big smart eyes flickered, and a crisp voice asked Chen Shouxu, "Will you lose?" ”

"Of course not." Chen Shouxu thought for a moment and emphasized, "I have never lost. ”

"Then I'm not afraid, the general doesn't have to worry about me." She bowed slightly, turned and ran back to the cabin.

It's a little strange that this time she actually went back first.

Chen Shouxu touched his head, and he didn't care so much. Strode into the conference room, "Harris, gather the captains of the ships and the army battalion commanders to the flagship." ”

After receiving the flag order from the South Sea, the first to arrive at the flagship were Medina and Maiden, the acting captains of the Raphael.

While waiting for the others, Chen Shouxu asked about Maiden's recent situation.

In order to prepare for the expedition, Chen Shouxuan was so busy that he flew up some time ago. Since Maiden's resignation, the two have not communicated well. After going to sea, Maiden boarded the Rafael and did not share the ship with Chen Shouxu.

Chen Shouxu: "How have you felt these past few months? ”

Maiden smiled: "I've been busy for a few years, and it's rare to have a good rest recently." There's no pressure on your mind, and you just go around the department you're in charge of. Technology, agriculture, industry, and health care, I am only now discovering how important details that I have not paid much attention to before are to laying the real foundations of the country. ”

"You see, sometimes it's not a bad thing to step back from the cusp of the storm, and have the energy to calm down and learn something new." Chen Shouxu said, "You should have rested, right?" This time I intend for you to command a land battle against Karimata. "Although Maiden no longer holds a position, he is still a veteran, and there is no problem with his status and qualifications.

Maiden was a little surprised, "I've never commanded a campaign alone, aren't you afraid I'll mess up." ”

Chen Shouxu: "You crawled out of the pile of dead in the Battle of Lüzen, you have seen it all. An indigenous island, what's so terrible. ”

Maiden stroked the hilt of his sword, "I was a little itchy when you told me. No problem, I accept the appointment. ”

The officers arrived one after another.

At the military meeting, Hai Shuzu and Cao Junfu naturally couldn't stay, but it was difficult for the female dependents to arrange, so Chen Shouxu went with them.

On the naval side, Captain Allemão of the South Seas, Captain Edward of the Lima, Acting Captain Medina of the Rafael, Acting Captain of the Melville Rosilly, as well as the captains of the frigates, Robert, Rhaegar and Pelly, and the Chief Staff of the Fleet, Harris.

On the army side, there were fewer people, only the commander of the mixed field battalion, Ludwig. Filhoff, former commander of the Chezhidan battalion, João Jorge. Cunha.

Filhoff was the commander of the Army's Second Battalion, and Chen Shouxu transferred him along with a company of his subordinates.

Hara Masanobu used to be a samurai subordinate to Yamada Nagamasa, and Yamada Nagamasa gave the word "Masa" in his name to Hara Masanobu as a manifestation of the lord's grace. After the death of Yamada Nagamasa, Siamese officials expelled his subordinates, and Hara Masanobu was taken in by Lin Tongwen in Pattani.

Joao. Cunha was a Portuguese mercenary leader from Macau, with a multinational force of more than 100 men, whom Chen Shouxu had drawn out to mix with some of the Mon people.

In the face of this group of arrogant soldiers, Chen Shouxu first announced the personnel order. The commander-in-chief and deputy commander of the landing operation were Maiden and Filhoff, respectively. Qualifications and abilities, both of them are the most suitable candidates.

Attacking an island objective like Kalimata is a breeze for Kaneshiro, and there isn't much to watch out for. The ministries landed according to the plan and sequence. The first wave was the Chezhidan battalion, the second was a mixed guard battalion, and finally a mixed field battalion carrying field artillery.

All marines in the fleet were under the unified control of Chief Staff Harris as a reserve.

In terms of enemy situation, Karimata Island is the most important relay station on the Mataran rice route and is also a port of arms export. There will certainly be a regular army on the island of the most powerful country in Java.

Chen Shouxu did not plan to raid at night, he wanted to use a combined landing operation of various arms carrying heavy weapons to defeat the natives during the day.