Later, several live military exercises were carried out, Jeju, Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou and other military horses all appeared, and finally Lin Chong's Jeju military horses won the first place, and the list was obtained by Tang Bin's Laizhou military horses, both of which were skilled in the use of firearms, and won the first and second places.

The next day, in front of tens of thousands of soldiers and famous teachers and squires who watched the ceremony, Sanniang awarded medals to the top three soldiers, and gave the first place to the first rank of the soldiers to be promoted to the first level as a reward. Subsequently, Sanniang rewarded the three armies, and the soldiers who were injured due to acting were also particularly rewarded, and the soldiers of the three armies were overjoyed.

Through a big competition of the whole army, Sanniang achieved several goals, the first is to look at the training of military horses in various places, and have a clear judgment on the strength and weakness of military horses in each state. The second is to teach all the armies to understand the role of firearms in the subsequent war, and after several actual military exercises, all the victories are the military units that are proficient in the use of firearms and have a mixture of hot and cold weapons. The third is to show off the force to once again deter the gentry and wealthy of Shandong Road, so that the various policies implemented by Shandong Road can be better implemented in the next step. Fourth, under the combination of soft and hard, the attitude of the Confucian Mansion in Qufu was tested, and Sanniang began to prepare for the future emperor to be recognized by Confucianism. Finally, through the competition, the soldiers who were usually trained seriously were rewarded and the morale of the military horses of all departments was improved.

On the third day after the big competition, the military horses of each ministry returned to their stations one after another, and the gentry and rich Jia also went back to their homes, and Sanniang took the same general and the head of each state and county as well as the officials and generals of the prefecture and county, and the three thousand guards to go to Laizhou Port, and went to watch the naval drill of Li Jun and other departments.

There was nothing to say all the way, and within a day of arriving at Laizhou Port, the local generals of Laizhou caught it, and then welcomed them into the pavilion to rest, and the guards and horses were also stationed in the military camp in the city. This trip, Sanniang did not invite the squire rich Jia to watch the ceremony, just because there was also a privateer fleet under the Ruan brothers in the navy participating in the show, and Sanruan's current status was special, and it was not good for the squire rich Jia to know. The previous army drill was enough to show off its strength, so there was no need to invite them to see the navy.

The next morning, the sky was cloudless, the sky was clear, and it was good weather. Sanniang led a group of officials of Shandong Road to Laizhou Port, only to see that the military port here is densely layered inside and outside, and the three-layer trench barrier defense on land, Laizhou Port is built on the mountain, and more than ten forts on the hill are covered, and there are many artillery and rockets on it, and the dense layers are guarded from the land.

When I arrived at the port, I saw dozens of large and small wharves here, arranged in turn, the large and small ships inside and outside the wharf were docked there, the mast was like a forest, the flag covered the sky, the hull was like a wall, it was magnificent.

In addition to Lin Chong's department having seen the power of the navy before, many of the generals under the command of Shandong Road had only heard of the number of naval ships, but they didn't want to see it today, there were so many sea ships, and at a glance, there were no less than 1,000 large and small sea ships, which really surprised the officials of Shandong Road who had never seen the navy.

Chen Xi really saw such a large navy, and he was stunned, and Zhang Shuye on the side was also dumbfounded, and after a while, Zhang Shuye sighed and said: "It was Cao Cao's 800,000 army that marched south to Jingzhou, but I am afraid that I will not see so many warships." Chen Xizhen sighed: "It turns out that in the past few years, I don't know how much wood has been transported to Laizhou, and it turns out that these many warships have been built. With this mighty navy, I am afraid that there will be no opponent in the East China Sea. ”

Li Jun and other admirals went to the port to greet them, introduced everyone into the port tent, and after paying homage to Sanniang, the civil and military generals were arranged in two shifts. Li Jun reported on his shift: "The lord is on board, this naval exercise dispatched three 3,000 sea ships, 18 1,000 sea ships, 70 600 sea ships, 120 300 sea ships, and more than 300 small sand boats, flat boats, ships, and small boats, and a total of 35,213 naval officers and men participating in the exercise. ”

When Li Jun said this, the other generals and officers of the prefectures and counties present were secretly surprised, and they could not imagine that the Laizhou Port Navy had a scale of tens of thousands, and the number of officers and men participating in the exercise was more than 30,000. Everyone doesn't know that in fact, there is also the Sanruan fleet participating in the exercise, in fact, the two navies plus more than 50,000 people, and more than 1,500 large and small warships.

I only heard Li Jun continue: "The sea drill is divided into three days, the first day is a naval artillery drill, the second day is a broadside combat exercise, and the third day is a landing and island attack tactical exercise. Sanniang bowed slightly: "Okay, let's watch your navy drill." Li Jun received the order loudly, and immediately invited Sanniang and others to board the ship Liqing to watch the show, while Li Jun and other admirals boarded the naval flagship Laizhou to command the fleet for drills.

Zhang Shuye and Chen Xizhen also got on the Liqing sea ship, and boarded such a large sea ship, the two of them and the rest of the people were generally surprised, they didn't expect that the Shandong Road Navy could build such a large sea ship, and the hull deck was covered with a layer of iron armor, which was extremely strong. More than a dozen guns were lined up on both sides of the ship, and the ship was quite large, and more than 200 guards boarded it and threw it without crowding.

At that moment, Sanniang invited the head of Shandong Road to go up to the deck and watch the drill on the top floor, and the rest of the generals watched on the deck. The flag officer had no face Jiao Ting came to ask for his life, Sanniang gave an order, and after Jiao Ting received the order, he ordered the red flag to be hung on the mast. Seeing that the Liqing was flying the flag, Li Jun played the flag on the flagship of the fleet to start the exercise.

Seeing that the flagship had issued the flag of the general, the ships anchored in the harbor immediately set sail and left the harbor in turn, and an hour later, they had already lined up and anchored on the surface of the open ocean, and then a fast sail flying sail sailing ship dragged a target ship to come quickly, and the fleet Laizhou quickly raised the firing flag. Soon a thousand warships quickly came out of the ranks, and after setting sail to catch up, they turned sideways over the hull, and thirty guns on the gun emplacements on the side of the ship opened fire together, and after a burst of flames exploded, the target ship was shot and caught fire, and within a few moments, the target ship had been completely sunk.

After Sanniang opened the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, she slowly bowed her head and said: "In terms of teaching artillery alone, the navy is much more proficient in drills than the army. However, naval warfare first depends on the direction of the wind, and in a large-scale naval battle, how to form a joint force requires more planning. ”

Except for a few people behind Sanniang, except for a few people in Gongsun Sheng, the rest are army generals, and they don't know the point of water warfare, but watching the navy's ship hit the moving target ship, and it can still hit a few miles away, which is indeed convincing. Just because the artillery is later than the rocket army, the navy can hit a moving target on the bumpy sea, and this kind of artillery is indeed much more sophisticated than the army's artillery team.

Then eighteen large ships of thousands of materials were all on the field, all of which were towed by flying shear sail clippers with hundreds of materials, and then the ships of thousands of materials were sunk by artillery. In comparison, the previous warships had excellent gunnery, and the helmsmen, sailmen, and artillerymen were all skillful, and they could sink the target ships in a shorter time and with fewer shells.

Sanniang looked at it for a while, and when she looked back, she saw that the people behind her were all dumbfounded, and after thinking about it, she understood, just because most of them were army generals, and they had no concept of water warfare, let alone this kind of idea of fighting on the sea, Li Jun's naval drill had completely subverted their traditional concept. In the traditional concept, their water battles were still suppressed with bows and arrows at a distance, and they won by receiving ships when they were close. How could you ever see such a salvo from a battleship's guns at sea?

After reading it, Uncle Zhang muttered to himself dumbfounded: "This kind of water army, such a water battle, who can stop it?" Chen Xizhen frowned and said, "What's the use of spending so much money and building so many warships?" Although such a big ship is invincible at sea, it is afraid that it will not be able to go in the rivers and lakes. Uncle Zhang smiled bitterly and said: "This female Xuanfu is ambitious, what is her mind about the Central Plains Continent?" ”

Hearing the two muttering quietly, Gongsun Sheng suddenly interjected and laughed: "You don't have to guess, I have already rehearsed it when I went to Yanjing to meet the merchants, if the Song and Jin wars in the future, I will wait for the sea route to stand out, so what?" Hearing this, Zhang Shuye and Chen Xizhen were all bright-eyed, and Zhang Shuye said: "Does Song Jin really have a fight?" Gongsun Sheng twisted his beard and smiled: "It's not far away!" ”

In the naval battle artillery test on the day, 21 large war ships with more than 1,000 materials appeared on the stage, and the final first place was the flagship Laizhou, just because it was a 3,000 war ship, with a lot of artillery, and the crew was also the most elite, and Li Jun personally commanded it, so as to win the first place. The second was captured by the Flying Dragon, the flagship of the Sam Nguyen privateer fleet, which was also a large sail warship, and its crew was also an experienced crew, which stood out from the crowd.

The next day was the traditional sideboard combat exercise, Li Jun's fleet and the San Nguyen fleet were divided into half of the size of the warship, but this exercise did not fire artillery, and both sides commanded the fleet to charge and kill, and only the tactics of the sideboard were tested.

This day is also a cloudless good weather, only to see the blue sky and white clouds, above a blue sea, north and south, Li Jun and San Ruan each commanded hundreds of warships to complete the formation, Li Jun arranged in a goose-shaped formation, and San Ruan arranged in a circular formation. After three cannon shots, the fleets on both sides rushed to kill, and when they were engaged, they either lured the enemy, or outflanked, or besieged, in short, each with a strange plan in the naval battle.

The blades used in the broadside battle were also covered with swords and guns wrapped in lime to participate in the exercise, and each ship was judged by a staff officer in the army, but anyone with a white mark on his body was sentenced to death or wounded, and finally the side with the most remaining was victorious. In the end, the Sanruan fleet actually won a big victory, it seems that the Sanruan fleet in the south of the privateer merchant ships, or rely on the main fighting, otherwise only rely on artillery to sink the ship, you will not be able to grab anything.

After watching this day's drill, Sanniang smiled slightly: "It seems that it is really good at diligence and frolic, Li Jun's navy is a lot worse in actual combat, well, it seems that it is time for Li Jun's navy to rotate south to privateize." ”