The beautiful Mediterranean Sea is the transportation hub of Europe, Asia and Africa, and is a shortcut between the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, so it has an extremely important position economically, politically and militarily. For a long time, the Mediterranean Sea has been a place of contention among the great powers. At the beginning of the 18th century, the mighty British used the Mediterranean Sea as their "inner lake".

The Mediterranean Sea as a land sea, relatively calm, coupled with the coastline twists and turns, many islands, with many natural good ports, become the communication of the three continents of the traffic artery, such conditions, so that the Mediterranean Sea from ancient times began to flourish maritime trade, but also to the ancient Egyptian civilization, ancient Babylonian civilization, the rise of the ancient Greek civilization and more important an important role, became the ancient Egyptian civilization, ancient Greek civilization, Roman Empire and so on.

Because the Mediterranean Sea is the largest intercontinental sea in the world, the winter is warm and rainy, the summer is hot and dry, the sea temperature is high, and the evaporation effect is very vigorous, so that the salinity of the sea water is as high as about 39‰, which is a great corrosion loss for the weapons on the warship.

The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean to the west by the Strait of Gibraltar, to the east by the Turkish Strait, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. The western end communicates with the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar, which is relatively shallow at its narrowest point at only 13 kilometers, and connects to the Black Sea in the northeast by the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus.

This is not a good thing for Lin Haijiang, the key to whether he can leave the British Neihu safely!

Standing on the bridge of the Zhenyuan, Lin Haijiang looked at the apprentices who trotted all the way with the technicians, or the gunners who were constantly training in various gun positions, and nodded with satisfaction.

The atmosphere on the four ships was very pleasant, and everything seemed to be on track!

For the noisy engine room, the black slaves who are willing to learn and work have become the best candidates, but the technical apprentices in charge are all Chinese, Lin Haijiang can't wait to become a fat man in one bite, so that the two ships Zhenyuan and Dingyuan immediately have combat power, but this is obviously unrealistic.

After the number of ships increased, Lin Haijiang also realized his biggest crisis, that is, the lack of qualified naval officers, even if Lin Haijiang temporarily promoted a group of non-commissioned officers from the original sailors of the Taishan as the backbone, but the sailors have never been able to compare with the ability of professional deck officers who have undergone several years of professional training.

A well-trained naval officer in naval warfare is the soul of a battleship!

And Lin Haijiang wants a well-trained crew, not a rabble trained by non-professionals. More than a dozen of William's men were good former Royal Navy officers, and many even had experience in naval warfare.

But before leaving the Mediterranean, Lin Haijiang could not use this group of people now, and he had to systematically screen this group of people, and before that, Lawrence became the busiest person.

However, there are some surprises between the dullness, a middle-aged black man named Lahande has shown strong leadership skills, and Lahand, who can speak relatively fluent English, is also very quick to understand and comprehend new things!

It only took Lawrence a week to train Lahand, and the black slaves who came with Lahand, even those who couldn't even tell the difference between left and right.

In order to set an example, Lin Haijiang publicly declared Lahad to be a free man in front of all the officers and non-commissioned officers and black slaves, and awarded him a hundred pounds on the spot, and presented Lahad with his Dartmouth Naval School Medal of Merit and a sheepskin certificate with his signature as proof that he had become a free man.

Lawrence was already numb to Lin Haijiang's whims and ridiculous practices, and the only thing he could do was to participate in the so-called ceremony with a strained face!

Although many of the white crew members thought that their dear Captain Lin was just directing a farce, they also didn't think that Lin Haijiang would be so idiotic as to really give freedom to the.

The power of example is really endless, and the black slaves who were not in a good mood for passive participation in the training seemed to be as excited as opium smoke, and even wiped the deck with extra hard work and seriousness, and some people even almost wiped off the anti-rust paint on the bolts of the Zhenyuan ship......

Looking at the blacks who have led the Chinese people to start to make positive progress, as well as those whites who feel that they may be inferior to the blacks, the two ironclad combat ships Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, and the two armed comprehensive supply ships of Taishan and Huashan, have launched a large-scale training activity to learn the ship's position and professional skills.

Lin Haijiang selected one hundred and fifty black slaves from the black slaves who were not very bright, slow to accept new things, but had a strong physique, and asked the translator Aka to instill the concept of loyalty in them like brainwashing every day, and depicting a better future for them.

But most of the time Lin Haijiang personally trained these people on the deck, although Lin Haijiang had never served in the Marine Corps, but he had never eaten pork or watched pigs go, he developed a set of training programs on the ship decently.

Strict queue training and customized positioning are used to emphasize the discipline of the troops, the ship's shooting training is to adapt the team members to the battle on the ship, and the alternate shooting cover in groups of five is to coordinate the team's sense of cooperation.

The training plan formulated by Lin Haijiang Lawrence was half-understood, but Lawrence was very surprised! Because in this Lin Haijiang put forward the idea of a Marine Corps, with the support of naval guns, the naval infantry who can get rid of the interference and shackles of the army and complete the battle?

It can be said that at this moment, Lawrence really looks at Lin Haijiang differently!

However, Lin Haijiang is much smarter than Lawrence, he first trained ten seemingly smart guys, and then let them train his subordinates, roughly formed or said that these 150 team members have been mentally prepared to be trained, Lin Haijiang handed over these 150 people to Lawrence, and let Lawrence lead them to complete the almost torturous ship queue training.

Because Lin Haijiang always believes that only with strict discipline can learning have twice the result with half the effort.

The world-famous Suez Canal has not yet been dug yet, so Lin Haijiang's return journey is destined to be a long journey.

Lin Haijiang's hand moved slowly along the chart, and there were two roads in front of him to choose from, one was to cross the Tropic of Cancer to the American continent, through Tunisia through Lisbon, the British Virgin Islands, and the Las Vegas Islands, and after being resupplied in the French Clipperton Islands, he would go all the way east through the Marshall Islands, and the other was to go straight to Cape Verde after Tunisia, go around the African continent and cross the Cape of Good Hope, turn to the Maldives Islands after Mogadishu, and go straight to Southeast Asia to return home.

However, no matter which route Lin Haijiang takes to return to China, the first thing he faces is how to leave the Mediterranean Sea quietly!

Lin Haijiang's small fleet can be described as day and night sailing, choosing routes that few ships pass, or dangerous routes that pirates often frequent, and during the week's voyage, several groups of unlucky pirates became the target of the artillery test firing of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships.

In order to prevent the pirates from revealing their whereabouts, Lin Haijiang organized the pirates who had just fallen into the water to shoot the marines who had just walked the queue one by one with Henry rifles, and watched those marines who gritted their teeth and trembled to shoot the first bullet in their lives that took the lives of others.

According to the theory he instilled in these black Marines, it was better to kill than to be killed, and for the sake of a good life in the near future, for the sake of personal freedom, they had to kill.

Meanwhile, at the Governor's Mansion in Alexandria, the Governor of Cambenin was hosting a banquet for James, who had arrived first. William and his daughter, although very reluctant, Duke Markline still attended the welcome banquet and greeted Jenny. Miss William presented a five-carat diamond brooch.

In the face of the reconciliation signal sent by Duke Maclane, James . William gladly accepted, and the audience talked and talked about the future of the empire as if they had become the decision-makers of the British Empire.

An upper-class social dinner was naturally indispensable for a lively dance party, and as Jenny was surrounded in the center by a group of naval officers and army dragoon officers, James . William also walked onto the dance floor with the slender waist of a young woman.

Under the cover of beautiful waltz music, James. William's hand opened irregularly, and he seemed to hit it off with his dance partner?

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