The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, but the temperature in Guangzhou, the first city in the south, is still very high. It's just that if you are on the beach, the sea breeze blows, which somewhat reduces the discomfort caused by the hot temperature, but the scorching sun in the sky is too unbearable for Chen Ding. The strong sunlight not only stimulates the skin, but also stimulates the eyes, standing in the sun, a pair of sunglasses is an essential preparation, and a cool hat is also necessary.

After Chen Ding returned to Nanjing from the northwest, he was kicked to the south by his son Chen Ming non-stop, and the task of his trip was to inspect the combat readiness of the Zhushui Division.

Chen Ming This is a kind of protection for him, since Chen Ming revealed the news that he will retire after next year, the Yuwang Mansion has been too lively.

Keeping Chen Ding in Beijing didn't do him any good.

Standing on the breakwater, Chen Ding wore a cool hat, a pair of ink crystal glasses on the bridge of his nose, a light blue shirt on his upper body, a pair of military trousers underneath, a pair of leather sandals on his feet, and a monocular on his chest.

Almost all the military and political bigwigs in Lingnan were present, plus the secretaries, retinues and security personnel of these people, there were hundreds of them. And also present with Japan, Siam and other countries in Guangzhou consulate consuls, before everyone has gathered together to have a big party, after the banquet, everyone together in the scenic spots near Guangzhou to enjoy the scenery, this is also to enhance the friendship between countries.

Chen Ding arrived at the breakwater at the Baili Island Naval Base at 4 p.m., and he had been wandering around here for half an hour now, and his interest was high.

Baili Island is one of the five major military bases in Lingdingyangli. The island is 7.5 miles long, 6.5 miles wide, with a total area of more than 10,000 acres, which is not small at all, and is the second largest island among more than 100 islands in Zhuhai.

This island is located at the mouth of the Pearl River and is the first gateway of the Pearl River. In the two opium wars in the original time and space, the Western invaders first invaded from the side of Baili Island at the mouth of the Pearl River, and this place is of great strategic significance.

In the new China of the original time and space, this place can be said to be one of the three major military bases in the South China Sea, and the entire project volume is very huge. Its main fortification is a 27 meters high, 70 meters wide, 500 meters long, the two sides of the hole are sidewalks, the end of the middle waterway is connected with the vast sea, through the island to prevent nuclear attack speedboat concealment, the hole can hide more than 20 speedboats and other ships, and there is a dock. The two stone doors before and after the main cave weigh 140 tons each, and on both sides of the main cave, there are more than ten auxiliary caves of more than 500 meters long, of which three underground caves that can store more than 1,000 tons of oil and a cave that can store 300 tons of fresh water, as well as a grain cave that is enough for hundreds of thousands of people to eat for three years. The main cave and the auxiliary cave are criss-crossed, and there are headquarters headquarters, soldiers' barracks, power stations and various supporting complex facilities. When the gate is closed, it is self-contained, relying on the auxiliary cave that extends in all directions to transport military and daily necessities such as oil, fresh water, and grain.

In addition, four piers and a 65,000 cubic meter freshwater reservoir have been built on the island. Countless barracks, as well as lookouts, office buildings, medical centers, basketball courts, auditoriums, movie theaters, etc., are hidden in the mountains and forests.

The construction of the Baili Island Naval Base, which Chen Ming personally signed, of course, could not be as huge and magnificent as it was during the Taizu period of the Red Dynasty.

The water depth around Baili Island is only 6~8 meters, and now it can still be used as a naval pier - the draft of the ships of the Red Dynasty Navy Division was enough, and only light warships can be parked in the future. And with Chen Han's current strength, the enemy is really going to hit the doorstep, and it doesn't matter if there is a Baili Island or not. Chen Han is not the rabbit of the year, the rabbit of the year did not know water, and the current Chen Han is a dragon in the sea.

The construction of the naval base on Baili Island is just a very ordinary base, and it does not have an overly complicated significance, it is not responsible for preventing nuclear bomb attacks, it only needs to play the role of a naval base.

As a point of the sailor's location at the mouth of the Pearl River, this is a 'sea' post station.

Let the passing sailor warships have a place to supply and settle, and even the gun forts at the dock are only four.

But Chen Ding was still very excited after coming to the island, he, the king of Yu + the prince, rarely had time to wander around like this, although he had just returned from the northwest. But the trip to the northwest is more like a fresh attempt for Chen Ding, the first time he walked out as a prince, the outside world's respect for him is much higher than the previous 'King Yu'.

Chen Ding is also so old, King Yu has been in charge for so many years, although most of the others stay in Nanjing, it doesn't mean that they haven't gone out once, it's just very little. And he didn't get the respect he has now for those outings!

If it was said that when he went out before, he felt more like going out to let off steam, then now Chen Ding's feeling is that he is really patrolling on behalf of the sky.

Although he has been in a busy state since he put on the crown prince's hat, Chen Han now has a lot of information and details that Chen Ding needs to understand and know. This is like a large group with a big business, the previous president candidate was only a small department manager, and now he has been determined as the future president candidate, and has been promoted to the general manager of the group.

Although Chen Ding likes to be 'annihilated' like this.

"This breakwater is really neatly built, and such a thick cement is specially laid on it, do you want to use this place as a reserve dock?"

Chen Ding noticed the smooth road surface of the breakwater, the white lines drawn on the road, and the hangars on the shore, so he asked Ye Tingyang, who accompanied the inspection. This guy is now the right deputy governor of Chen Han's naval division and the commander of the Nanyang naval division. And his 'lifelong enemy' Zhu Lian has been in the position of the governor of Chen Hanshui for almost five years.

One step at a time, one step at a time, that's really a good point.

"Back to the crown prince, that's exactly what I planned to do. This section of the breakwater was originally a very long reef, but it was gradually widened with boulders, and now it is not only reinforced with steel bars, but also paved with cement, which can be used as a pier by sailors if needed.

If the tonnage of the iron ship is really more than 5,000 tons or 10,000 tons as His Majesty said, Baili Island will obviously not be able to dock such a large warship, but as far as the current situation is concerned, it can still be applied to the naval division within 20 years, and it can even be changed to military and civilian use in the future. ”

This is another general trend within Chen Han, a large amount of military land has been converted to civilian use, the latter includes fields, mountains, islands, docks, and so on. This trend was rejected by the military at first, but the huge benefits kept hitting the military's nerves, and now even the most stubborn soldiers have to face up to the 'military to civilian reform'.

Ye Tingyang's answer satisfied Chen Ding, because he was the beneficiary of the trend of 'military to civilian', and he was also one of the banner figures of this trend.

Of course, Ye Tingyang knows these things, Baili Island is located near the mouth of the Pearl River, there are islands on the left and right, and the island is rich in fresh water resources, and it has quite strong development prospects, and many people in Guangdong Province have already set their sights on Baili Island. But as Ye Tingyang himself, he has other plans in his heart.

The military significance of Baili Island has disappeared, but this does not mean that Baili Island has no existence value, just look at its location, which is the main link of the blockade of the Pearl River Estuary, if some small sail clippers are arranged, for the increasingly rampant smuggling in the Pearl River Estuary, is it curbed?

With a water depth of six to eight meters, Baili Island can be docked by a sail clipper.

With the success of the Chengtian experiment, a considerable number of propeller ships will be launched in China in the next three to five years, and they may not be purely steam-powered, but a change in the rules of naval warfare has already begun.

Why couldn't the paddle steamers before have a lethal effect on the sailing warships? Or does it show that the influence of the steamer did not really threaten the position of the sail warship on the sea?

That's because of the big wheels of the paddle steamer, which is not easy to cover and can be easily destroyed.

This could not be overcome - even the use of solid iron plates to create a casing for the wheels would ultimately limit the usefulness of paddle ships.

But now propellers have appeared, propellers for naval warships have appeared.

It was like a flash of light that illuminated the dark time and illuminated the future path of the Navy's warships.

In Chen Han's propeller warship manufacturing list, the small steam speedboat made him burn with a raging fighting spirit, the country is easy to change and the nature is difficult to change, Ye Tingyang has been consumed with 'small and fast' in his life.

On the seawall, in front of everyone, Chen Ding, Ye Tingyang, and Shen Yuan, the governor of Guangdong Province, and others talked about all open military and people's livelihood issues, but after dinner that day, Chen Ding and Ye Tingyang talked about real military secrets.

In this East-West War, the South Ocean Fleet has a huge burden on its shoulders. Chen Ming asked the Nanyang Fleet to select an elite detachment and rush to the Americas together with the Ryukyu and Japanese detachments under the East China Sea Fleet, which had been renamed the Oriental Fleet, and cross thousands of miles from the Strait of Magellan, the southernmost part of the Americas, to the east coast of the Americas. [The Strait of Magellan is more than 500 kilometers long]

"At present, all the naval powers in Europe are vigorously developing new warships such as steam warships, and although it is a very slow process to replace the old with the new, the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to our country." Chen Han is the country with the most steam warships today, although many steamships are hybrid with sails, and they are more transports than serious warships.

However, a ship with a hybrid engine and sail, dismantling the paddle wheel and modifying the rear propeller, although the action is not small, but it is always much faster than building a new ship, and it is expected that when the ships of the South Ocean Fleet and the East Ocean Fleet arrive in South America, the modification of these sailing ships will be almost completed.

The Chinese warships that rushed out of the Strait of Magellan would be a huge group of ships led by sail warships and followed by sail warships.

Perhaps the navies of countries such as Japan and Siam will also send warships to follow and see the world, which is not a big deal. What really matters is that this will be a crucial battle for whether Chen Hanshui can be recognized by the world.

Catch up with the time when the difference in naval power between the East and the West is the greatest.