Chapter 32: Preparation
In the next few days, Namin entered the busiest moment of his life. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoThe military situation is urgent, and the Storm Fleet has compressed the installation time of the remaining 4 Emperor-class sail battleships to 5 days. At the pace of construction of the Conquest, it was simply impossible to complete the installation of the remaining four warships in 5 days. In this regard, Nanren reported the actual situation and hoped that the above would be graced for a few days.
The answer was that the military order was like a mountain, and the military did not listen to difficulties as long as the result was achieved. In the army, there is no word for difficulty. Anyway, as the chief engineer of the construction of the Emperor-class sail battleship, Nanren has to go up if there are difficulties, and if there are no difficulties, you have to go up if you don't have difficulties, and if you don't finish it in the end, it's your responsibility.
Helpless, Nanren had to enter the work of continuous rotation. I get up before dawn every day to start construction, and I basically work overtime at night until the second half of the night before going to bed. Nanren, who was angry, couldn't help but scold God for being unfair, and others were rich and honorable, with three wives and four concubines. Not only is he still a communication dog, but he is also more fortunate and troublesome than before.
He wakes up earlier than the chickens and sleeps later than the prostitutes.
As for the three wives and four concubines, not to mention, I haven't even had a girlfriend in a few months. An Xin, the only one who has eaten together and taken a little advantage, has a fiancé, there are so many traversers in the world, who else is worse than me.
Complaining is complaining, Nanren still has no choice but to continue working. Fortunately, thanks to the experience of the Conquest, the construction of the remaining four ships was significantly faster. Military technicians and storm communications engineers have also grown up in recent work, and are slowly able to work independently, which greatly speeds up the progress of the project.
The second Emperor-class sail battleship, the Tempest, completed the construction of the basic line in one day. Seeing that everyone was making progress, when the next two sail battleships, the Colony and the God of War, began construction, Nanren immediately ordered Mao Tianshi and Xu Weiwei, who had the best skills, to bring a pair of people to each to carry out the construction, and he himself guided the two warships back and forth to speed up the construction process.
By the third day, 100 men sent by the Storm Company to support the army reported to the Storm Fortress. The arrival of these technicians with rich experience in the line has also greatly increased the construction manpower, and Nanren is confident that the installation of all lines will be completed within 5 days to meet the demanding requirements of the military.
At the same time as the installation of the line was carried out, the scattered detachments of the Storm Fleet returned to port one after another. Every day at high tide, it has become the busiest time on the dock, and Nan Ren will see all kinds of sail warships of various sizes returning to the harbor with the direction of the wind, and anchoring to the dock under the command of the guide ship.
After docking, the sailors proudly stepped off the battleship and stepped onto the land to greet the officers who greeted them. And then, in accordance with naval tradition, the Chinese character military flag was re-raised on the warship.
On the third day, when it was dark, hundreds of warships, large and small, sailed into the anchorage of Stormhaven, moored on the dock in a dense and orderly manner, and the berths that were usually empty became vibrant. The sea breeze blew, and the military flags on the battleships fluttered in the wind. In the distance, warships can be vaguely seen waiting for the wind direction and tide level to enter the port and stand by.
Seeing that there were more and more warships around, Nanren deeply sighed at the depth of the strength of the Storm Fleet. The gathering of so many mighty warships made him, a man of the 21st century, feel shocked. And listening to Xu Weiwei's introduction, it is not all the strength of the Storm Fleet that is currently assembled in place. There are also many detachments cruising in the Atlantic Ocean or going to the Mediterranean, and they cannot return to port in a short time, and the current return to port is the offshore fleet that is defending the sea frontier of the Tang Principality in the nearby waters.
Everything in front of him made Nanren think. He had heard from the Wind Spirit that the Storm Fleet could only rank fourth in Europe. Such a huge fleet can only rank fourth, and the first-ranked fleet of the sun never sets is so large. In this era, if a naval war broke out, it would definitely be very terrifying.
On the fourth day, Nam in accepted a new appointment, and the Storm Legion officially announced the formation of a communications company, with Nam in as the company commander. The soldiers are 100 communication technicians from Storm Communications and 30 military technicians from the Storm Legion. The company's first military mission was to study how the telephone system would be used on the battlefield in the future.
Nanren had been mentally prepared, and he seemed calm when he got the official notice. In fact, deep down in his heart, he was very helpless, he didn't want to be this company commander at all. I was a temporary worker a few months ago, and I just listened to the company's leaders. Now that he has become the leader of hundreds of people, the change is a bit too fast, I don't know if I have the ability to lead more than 100 people, the key is to take them to the battlefield.
The battlefield is the playground of death, the forbidden place for the living, and their lives are in danger at any time, and if he becomes a commander, he will be responsible for the lives of more than 100 people in the future. With great power comes great responsibility, and that's no fun.
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"Captain Nan, why are you so sad, is it because the installation has been too hard recently?" In between work, Mao Tianshi walked to the deck of the Colony to smoke a cigarette, and saw Nanren, whom he admired, staring at the busy crowd on the shore with a face across the deck.
"It's Ensign Mao! How's the installation going down there?" Nanren replied listlessly.
After Nam Ren became the commander of the communications company, he was also granted a special right by Feng Yeol, because the newly formed communications company was not enough officers, and he was allowed to appoint officers himself. Nanren appointed Mao Tianshi and Jin Tao, who were closest to him on weekdays, as second lieutenants, and asked them to lead a communications platoon.
"Don't call me Second Lieutenant Mao, I can't afford it, you still call me Mao Tianshi, if it weren't for you and I would never have thought that I could be a second lieutenant in the Storm Legion in my life" Mao Tianshi's smiling face blossomed, he thought that the luckiest thing in his life was to meet Nanren. As a citizen of the Principality of Tang, he dreamed of being a soldier, but because of his stature, he was directly eliminated by the recruiting department. I didn't expect to become a second lieutenant one day, and I wanted to dream about it. When he called his parents to tell the news, his father, who was usually serious, couldn't cry on the phone, praising himself for having a good future, and he could also raise his head in front of those relatives who had sons who were soldiers in the army during the Chinese New Year.
Since then, Mao Tianshi has also made up his mind to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Nan in the future, and Feihuang Tengda will come.
"Huh! So many monks" Nanren, who was bored and staring at the dock, suddenly saw a different scene, only to see dozens of strangely dressed people in the crowd of busy people at the dock. These people all had their hair cut off, wore yellow monk's robes, wore apple-sized Buddhist beads around their necks, and wore large iron fist gloves on their arms. At first glance, they don't look like compassionate monks at all, and if it weren't for the ring scars on their heads, Nam Ren wouldn't have recognized them.
Mao Tianshi stepped forward and took a look and said, "They are the Dharma monks of the Holy Light Great Buddha Temple, haven't you recovered your memory yet?" You fought with them in qualifying".
"Dharma monk?" Nanren came to say with interest and continued to ask, "What is the monk doing in the barracks."
Mao Tianshi said as a matter of course: "They are all coming to the war with the army monks, and the war is about to start, of course they are coming." You have amnesia, maybe you can't remember any of this, I'll tell you."
It turned out that the warrior monks came to the barracks to participate in the war was a tradition that lasted for hundreds of years. I don't know when it began, when the Han army went on an expedition, the army would bring monks with the army. Their role was to recite Buddhist scriptures before the war and bless the soldiers from being invincible. After the battle, for the fallen soldiers, may they ascend to Bliss as soon as possible.
Faith brought spiritual comfort to the soldiers of the expedition.
This tradition was preserved until the 19th century, and every time the Storm Legion went out, the temple would arrange for the monks of the Dharma Monastery to accompany the army. As for why they all send warrior monks to accompany the army, it is very simple, it is very fortunate to go out with the army, and only the warrior monks who have been trained on weekdays can follow the whole process.
After listening to the explanation, Nanren became interested. He had seen in the movie that Americans had military priests, but he didn't expect that there were military monks in this time and space. He asked, "Is there a Taoist priest with the army?" ”
"Of course" Mao Tianshi nodded: "It mainly depends on the tradition of the legion, some legions believed in Taoism in history, and they were also inherited from the Taoist priests." Anyway, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism are a family, but it doesn't matter."
Nanren nodded approvingly, and thought of the key question again, "What Buddha did the battlefield warrior monks worship when they went out on the expedition, I really can't think of which Buddha blesses the war!" ”。
"Of course, it's a fight to defeat the Buddha!" Mao Tianshi replied.
Nanren patted his head when he heard this and exclaimed, "That's right! Right! You should worship him."