Zhang San came out of the Dengzhou Sailor, and immediately joined Shi Jin and Wu Song to go to Qingdao, the two of them have a great improvement after half a year of experience, because of Zhou Dong's careful teaching, the foundation is also quite solid, Zhang San plans to take them to Wang Jin to study for a period of time to become super first-class as soon as possible.

When I arrived in Qingdao, I saw Hua Rong in Laoshan Cottage here, although Zong Ze has been transferred, Hua Rong has also relied on his own to stand on his own, Lao Hua because of age, his health is getting worse and worse, Zhang San persuaded him to quit the things of Qingfeng Village, so that he could go to Ryukyu to recuperate for a while.

This time, I happened to pick it up together, let An Daoquan show it, as long as Lao Hua didn't die, Hua Rong would not have any problems, Hua Rong's sister also accompanied her father to Ryukyu this time, Zhang San was of course very welcome.

Zhang San's boat was waiting off the coast of Qingdao, and when several people set off from Qingdao on a Qianshi merchant ship, Hua Lao and Hua Xiaomei didn't think there was anything wrong, but Shi Jin and Wu Song felt that Zhang San's boat ride was a bit too shabby.

When he went to sea to an island outside Qingdao, he saw Zhang San's real ship, Wanshi's majestic body, which made these people look demented, and everyone has never seen a big ship, but everyone has never seen this kind of Wanshi's war machine.

The slender hull, the offensive and defensive weapons set up everywhere on the ship, and those cold and shining bed crossbows, even the super-first-class generals can't hold a shot, and the huge bronze cylinder that I don't know what to do, after the introduction of the operator, it was originally called artillery, which can hit more than a dozen pounds of lead bullets several miles away. After transferring the personnel to the big ship, the ship raised its sails and headed south.

Five days later, the boat successfully arrived in Tamsui City, and when they saw Zhang San's boat back, everyone naturally knew that Zhang San was back, and important people rushed to the dock to greet him.

Although there is no formal founding of the country, many of the regulations are more perfect than last time, for example, Zhang San went to the palace from the dock this time no longer on horseback, but instead sat on the king's seat, and the father and daughter of the Hua family and Shi Jin Wusong and others were dumbfounded.

When Zhang San returned to the palace, he immediately summoned everyone to discuss the situation that Zhang San had encountered in the past few days, and Xu Guanzhong, as the chief of the general staff, spoke first: "Back to the king, there were staff officers who raised this issue at the beginning, but our consideration is that when the war begins, the sailors and generals in various places will definitely put the ships and sailors scattered in various places. ”

Gongsun Sheng thought about it and said: "This may not be, you must know that in the eyes of those officers and soldiers, we are just some water cowards, so they may not gather all their forces to deal with us, maybe they think that they can just send dozens of ships to deal with us." ”

Sun Wu said: "Then it is better for us to have a big victory first, deter the officials and troops in various places, and let the officers and troops in all places pay attention to us, so that the naval division will accelerate the assembly." ”

Zhang San shook his head and said: "Our first goal is the Dengzhou Naval Division, and we must decide Dengzhou in a battle to control the Bohai Sea. ”

Wen Huanzhang nodded and said: "We can use the power of news newspapers, and when the war begins to focus on reporting on the bad deeds of the naval divisions stationed in various places, the naval divisions in various places will definitely feel the pressure of public opinion and will definitely assemble quickly." ”

Xu Guanzhong nodded and said: "We can also make the news that the imperial court is going to send people to inspect, not to mention other places, the Dengzhou Sailor will definitely be able to assemble quickly, and when the time comes, the Dengzhou Sailor will definitely be paid with all his might." ”

Seeing that everyone had thought of a way to deal with the Dengzhou Naval Division, Zhang San then discussed the next question, Zhang San said: "In this way, the size of our enemy is one-third more than estimated last time, so can our naval army deal with it?" ”

Xu Guanzhong frowned and said: "After this expansion, now the scale of our naval division has reached 180,000, and the number of warships has also reached 200. So we are no less than them. ”

Zhang San nodded and asked suspiciously: "Why is there only more than a hundred large ships of the Dengzhou Naval Division, and there are many small boats, why are there so many fewer ships of the same number than them?" ”

Xu Guanzhong thought about it and said: "In addition to the regular army, there are also auxiliary soldiers in the imperial navy, and there are also hired civilian sailors among the personnel who operate the ship, and the operators of one of their ships are less than half of ours. ”

Zhang San was stunned and asked, "Why are they half less than our operators?" ”

Xu Guanzhong looked at Zhang San strangely, and then looked at Gan Xingtai, Gan Xingtai touched his head and said: "Since we became an army, the ship operation positions are all one post and two people take turns on duty, and the imperial court sailors are generally only one post and one person, and some unimportant positions are part-time, so there are fewer people." ”

Zhang San then remembered that he had considered the hard work of seafarers and the purpose of training more sailors, so he had always set up a position like this at the beginning, but now he didn't expect to leave such potential for himself. Zhang San asked happily, "Then can we immediately double the number of ships now?" ”

Gan Xingtai thought about it and said: "We can only increase half of the ships, because the expansion is too fast, the sailors of the brother ship are not full, and some positions really need two people to rotate, so we can only transfer half of the extra personnel." ”

Xu Guanzhong said: "It is not enough to have operators, we now have 40,000 marines in the navy, and if we add 100 ships, I am afraid that 30,000 marines will have to be transferred to new ships, and then the ability of our navy to attack land will be limited." ”

Gan Xingtai continued: "And if it is transferred like this, the combat effectiveness of each ship will also decrease. ”

Zhang San asked, "Why?" ”

Gan Xingtai thought about it and said: "Just like in the past, our operators of the 2,000-stone ship were 180 people, and now we have 60 people, in addition to operating the boat, these 60 people were also responsible for preventing the other party from jumping out of the gang in wartime, and when attacking the island, we can also send fighters, and these people are responsible for guarding the ship." ”

Zhang San nodded, thinking about it, the extra people are not eating rice, if there are no these sixty people, not only will the number of people jumping from the gang be reduced during the ship battle, but the landing battle may have to send additional personnel to guard the ship.

However, the temptation to add a hundred ships still made Zhang San want to stop, and with these 100 ships, Zhang San's strategy would be implemented much more smoothly.

Le He, who had not spoken all this time, suddenly said: "Actually, we can completely pull out, and the impact on combat effectiveness should not be great." ”

Zhang San immediately asked with interest, "Oh? You talk about it. ”

Le He said: "First of all, the gang jumping operation, as far as I know, our navy has always relied on the tactics of kite flying to win, there are few opportunities to jump the gang to fight, even if one or two boats are besieged, then it will not affect the overall situation of the entire operation." So the disadvantages of gang jumping are negligible. ”