readx;?“ Get ready! As the officer at the bow of the Chunxiao shouted, the sailors on the ship began to start a series of operations according to the steps of their usual training. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sailors on both sides of the ship removed the cables from the dock that held the hull in place and threw them into the sea. The sailors at the pier quickly pulled the cable up, pulled up the cable that had fallen into the sea, rolled it up and put it on the pile at the pier.

A few sticks stretched out from the side of the hull, and the sailors who rocked the oars quickly began to shake according to the instructions of the officer on duty, and although the hull moved slowly, it had slowly moved away from the dock. A pilot boat came over, took the cable thrown from the bow and tied it, and began to sail with the ship towards the waterway out of the port.

The sailors on board the ship are all in their respective positions, and when they leave the port, it is a very important moment, and when entering and leaving the port according to the naval regulations, both the sailors and the officers should remain at their respective posts.

The sailors were now wearing no longer the white uniforms they used to wear - although white uniforms were both beautiful and relatively simple to make - and it was much easier to dye the cloth white than to dye it in other colors. However, judging from the feedback of the naval forces, especially the sailors, during this time, the white naval uniform is not suitable for wearing during training and combat, and the most important thing is that the white military uniform is easy to get dirty. Now it is a sail navy, and the soldiers mainly use sail ropes to control the ship, and if it comes to the era of steam engine ironclads in the future, the oil stain of the engine room and ammunition will be more likely to contaminate the white uniform. Therefore, the Ministry of Armament made a modification to the uniforms of the sailors. The sailor's top was changed to a light blue pullover collarless top, and the pants underneath were changed to dark blue with a thick cuff. There is also a shawl near the neckline of the jacket, this shawl is inherited from the sailor uniform of the old world, mainly to prevent the oil stain of long hair from staining the uniform, the sailors and sailors of other naval forces in this time and space are not restricted to hairstyles, and now they are mainly long-haired, even when the Fengrui ship was captured, many of the Maidnor sailors on the ship were long-haired. The long hair of the sailors on the ship was nowhere near as silky and supple as it was advertised in the old world, and the vast majority of their hair was so clumped that many were willing to have it blown into braids, so shawls were found in the clothes worn by many of the Meedno sailors when they were captured.

Although the Chinese Navy and even the entire five branches of the Chinese armed forces are now required to keep short hair or even shaved heads, these shawls have no practical meaning now, and they have to waste an extra piece of cloth, so most of the veterans of the armament department said that such a shawl is meaningless, but it has been supported in Xueman's garment factory - this makes the veterans of the armament department feel surprised, for no other reason, Xueman thinks this shawl is very good-looking, and also pulls a large group of female veterans to support the retention of the navy uniform shawl, As a result, the sailors now have this shawl on their uniforms.

However, the change of military uniforms to blue has also been criticized by many veterans, and the main problem is focused on the color of military uniforms. Although the sea water has no color, it appears as blue as the sky when reflected from the blue sky. In the past, the white sailor uniform worn by the sailors was not very conspicuous at sea, but now it is even more inconspicuous if it is changed to a blue sailor uniform. Once a shipwreck or something happens, then the search and rescue at sea will become a very difficult thing. Therefore, after discussion and certification, the shawl of the navy sailor's uniform was changed to white, because it is impossible for a person to float on the water entirely, as long as the head floats on the water, then the shawl must also float, so it can attract the attention of search and rescuers to a certain extent. In addition, the sailor's belt has also been changed, and the previous blue belt is now replaced by a white belt to make it visible.

Now the Senate Navy's first sail frigate has been refitted, and three 1629 smoothbore guns are installed on this frigate, which are not mounted on a bulky gun carriage like the previous guns and pushed to the two sides for firing, but are mounted on a gun carriage that can perform 270 degrees for rotary firing, and the gun carriage uses a geared base, which only takes 30 seconds to go from zero to 270 degrees.

The guns are also mounted in a special position, located in the foremast, midmast, and aft tower, so that they can also be able to return fire when encountering and being followed. Compared with the Medeno ships, which are equipped with twenty or thirty guns, the Chunxiao, with three 1629 smoothbore guns, will definitely not fall behind in battle. Although the 1629 gun is still a smoothbore gun, it uses integrated packaging ammunition in loading, and the firing is also fired by pulling the fire tube, and the loading time can be reduced by more than 60% compared with the Medeno gun. These guns use friction-controlled buffers, which do not require the effort to return to their positions after firing, reducing the physical wear and tear of soldiers when firing. In addition, the production of these steel cannons adopts the boring method, which is far superior to the copper cast cannons of Medeno in terms of material and manufacturing level, so the range of the steel cannons is also a few streets away from the copper cannons.

In addition, Chunxiao and some other Fuchuan frigates have adopted "modern" modifications, such as the use of soft sails, rudder wheel modifications, and the reduction of the number of guns on board, which can travel at speeds of up to ten knots on the sea, and can reach speeds of about eight knots in normal times. Although this speed is still not enough in front of the veterans of the navy, it is still one of the best speeds on the surface of the South China Sea.

Now the captain of the Chunxiao is already Zhong Bin, and Zhong Bin was directly promoted from deputy captain to captain in just a few months, which is definitely the speed of a rocket. However, this is also a unique situation to the Senate now, you must know that although the Senate Navy is the largest of the five branches of the Chinese armed forces, compared to the current scale, it is still less monks and more porridge, and it can also be said that there are fewer wolves and more meat. Many naturalized civilian officers go straight to the frigate after their initial training, and if the frigate is normal, they can go on other larger warships in five to six months. Of course, such a method is no less than pulling out seedlings to help them grow, which is unfavorable to the development of the Navy as a whole, but it is a method that has to be adopted. Therefore, the navy can only adopt this method to cultivate talents, and many captains lack cultural education, and the reading and writing standard of more than 2,000 Chinese characters has been lowered to the standard of 1,500 Chinese characters. Many captains could not read sextants, could not read charts, and even naturalized captains appeared on their own ships who withheld the blood of soldiers - although they were soon reported by the "informers" among the sailors and dismissed from the military and sentenced to re-education through labor, this incident still had a very bad impact on the navy. This is still happening in the patrol fleet of Vostochny Harbor, which returns to port every day, and if it comes to conquering the seas and establishing various overseas bases on other continents in the future, won't such a captain want to go to heaven?

However, Zhong Bin doesn't have to worry about these things now, now every day is a very novel experience for Zhong Bin, to say that although he was one of the best pirates in this area before, with hundreds of ships under his command, he could only raise his arms and wait for someone to vote, he was far behind in the command of the naval fleet and the level of combat. If it weren't for this, it wouldn't have been defeated quickly under the fight with Liu Xiang. Even if there is no Chinese, he can escape to Wenshan Port with such a rabble, and sooner or later he will not be able to escape being pursued by Liu Xiang or falling into the hands of the Medeno bandit fleet, and in the end it will be difficult to escape death.

At present, although the Chinese are still very small, but now the strength displayed has made his jaw drop, six Fuchuan frigates and two Guangchuan frigates have formed the main patrol force within thirty nautical miles of Dongfang Port, and the main task of the 8154 cruiser has now been reduced to offshore fishing ships; A three-masted ship captured from Liu Xiang is still moored on the beach, and a group of admiralty veterans watch the ship on the beach every day, and from time to time they have to board the ship to investigate. Zhong Bin glanced at the three-masted ship that was still parked on the beach in the distance, the three-masted ship was more than twice the length of his own, it should be almost fifty meters, and the width was much wider. He was surprised that the veterans were so interested in this small ship, and it stands to reason that there are still two large ships of the Fengrui class that are still in a dilapidated state and urgently need to be docked for rest, and now they are still stranded on the beach waiting for the dry dock to be completed. It stands to reason that if the Senate wants to repair ships, it should first repair these two big ships, right?

In fact, the last in the restoration plan of the Senate are the two damaged sharp ships, although the damaged ships are still stranded on the beach, and the keel of the hull will inevitably be damaged after a long time, but once the dry dock is completed and the ship is docked normally, then it is not too difficult to replace the entire keel. The ship design department was ready to install the two future Victory ships with iron-ribbed keels, so it would take a long time to use.

The construction of these two 5,000-ton dry docks took almost half a year, and they have not yet been completed, and if the two seriously injured sharp ships are put on the dock as soon as they are completed, it will inevitably take at least another year or so to repair them. The problem facing the Senate now is not that there are no ships, but that there are no people, and instead of letting the ships wait for the people, it is better to start training talents, slow down the construction and maintenance of naval ships, and use existing ships to meet the orientation and operational needs. However, due to the small tonnage of the three-masted ship and the fact that the damage was mainly concentrated in the superstructure, the repair work was relatively easy, so the three-masted ship would be the first warship to dock for repairs.

In fact, there is another reason for not repairing the Fengrui ship first, the weapons factory does not have enough capacity to provide so many guns now. According to the equipment plan, the sharp ships must be equipped with hexagonal guns, the production of hexagonal guns is quite cumbersome, from the last time the Navy confirmed the order to the present three months, the gun factory has only provided ten hexagonal guns, one of which was delivered to the army artillery units, and the other three were delivered to the marines to be equipped with coastal batteries as fortress guns. Although the rest of the navy got the bulk of the six guns, they almost broke the heads of the senators in terms of distribution.

Lin Chuanqing and Yang Junbo both wanted to install the guns on their own ships, you must know that more than ten guns can be installed on the Shengli-class capital ship with the sharp ship as the main body, and the six guns allocated to the navy are simply not enough. Due to the weight of the gun, plus the weight of the gun carriage of more than one ton or two tons, the wooden deck of the hull itself could not bear such a weight, if the deck needed to be replaced, it would be no less complicated than removing the upper deck and re-outfitting, after discussion, it was finally decided that the two capital ships of Victory and ** would each be equipped with two hexagonal guns, and one on each of the two 8154 cruisers. Even so, in order to place the guns on the two capital ships of the Victory-class, steel beams for reinforcement had to be added in order to be able to use them normally.

Today is the day when Zhong Bin's Chunxiao is on patrol, he likes this kind of mission, and now on his port side, there is an 8154 cruiser pushing the waves on the bow of the ship towards the dock, and the sailors in sailor uniforms on the cruiser are waving at them. Zhong Bin glanced at the fish piled up in the aft compartment of the cruiser, and returned with a full load, he couldn't help but smile, now even he is a little tired of eating sea fish, the cruiser can bring back a large amount of fish every day, to ensure that there is always enough protein in the canteen of the Oriental Port, which is very important for the development of the entire Oriental Port.

The veteran captain of the cruiser beckoned at him and shouted, "Old bell! We've already patrolled Sea Area 4 for you, all you need to do is patrol along 2 and 6. Nothing happened over there. ”

Zhong Bin saluted over there and shouted loudly, "Thank you!" Although he said so, he didn't dare to take it lightly. He has a patrol plan at hand, and the area that needs to be patrolled is the 2463 sea area, even if the patriarch tells him that he has patrolled, he still has to go there to report it, otherwise if something happens, who is it?

These frigates are to carry out regular patrols in the waters around the port of Vostochny every day according to the patrol plan, of course, mainly to declare sovereignty, to declare to the ships cruising outside the sea area who has the final say, and at the same time to patrol the sea area to carry out a certain monitoring role of merchant ships passing and going, and also to be responsible for salvaging those who have fallen into the water and rescuing shipwrecked ships.

Zhong Bin looked back at the shipwrecker on the stern with the steering wheel, the young Maidno man was nervously holding the steering wheel, he had just been assigned from the Naval Academy. As a Maidno who had been on board since birth, he shouldn't have been so nervous, but today was the first time he had operated a frigate by himself. In front of him, Zhong Bin has also heard a lot of "rumors" about him in the Naval Academy, and he heard that he used to be a master who couldn't even command a ship, and if he really made some trouble, this ship would be in trouble.

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