Chapter 20 Naval Academy

Ever since humans were able to drift freely on the seas, naval warfare seems to have become the object of study.

How were naval battles fought in medieval Europe? The main thing is to bang! Ramming enemy ships, followed by a heads-up between captains and sailors, or hand-to-hand combat. When there was artillery, it was first bombarded with artillery. Then when the ship approached, the muskets were fired, and finally the bayonets were fighting.

The breadth and speed of naval operations has expanded the breadth and speed of naval operations, from the careful wriggling of single-deck ships from port to port on galleons' ambitious expeditions around the world, and from the latter to the steam ships of our time. In modern times, with the advent of ironclad ships, the concept of naval warfare has completely changed. The formation and tactics in naval battles have almost become the key to determining victory or defeat.

On this day of December 9, the sun was shining and the weather was sunny in eastern Luzon.

Chen Zeyu was accompanying his uncle and a few others to inspect the newly built Sizhejiang Naval Ship Academy.

“．．．．．． To a large extent, if not all, we can say that the history of sea power is a record of the rivalries between nations, of mutual hostility, and of the kind of frequent end-of-war in the course of war.... The far-reaching impact of maritime commercial interests on the wealth and power of nations......"

“．．．．．． In order for the benefit of the population to be greater than the ordinary share, it is necessary to exclude other competitors for sea power with all its might: either by peaceful legislative means of monopoly or coercive caste decrees, or, if these means do not work, resort directly to violence, war! ．．．．．．”

In class, the German Yankee Heinrich, as the principal, is teaching a group of Chinese youths sitting in the classroom.

The guiding ideology of the Naval Academy is directly the Chinese translation of Chen Zeyu's "Theory of Sea Power". Except for some of the textbooks directly translated from the professional textbooks of the Flensburg Academy brought by Heinrich from Germany, most of the rest were provided by the Chinese Press under Chen Zeyu's name, and only Chen Zeyu himself knew the source.

Although the nascent naval academy has only been established for a short time, it has a complete set of courses, and the courses are divided into manufacturing majors, steering tube wheels, naval battle formations, artillery live firing, ship command, hydrographic surveying, nautical chart mapping, marine hydrology, combat command and other professional courses, but compared with other places in the world, there are two more mysterious grassroots politics and radio professional courses.

The founder of the college was none other than Chen Zeyu himself, and the hired president, Heinrich. Searle, a 47-year-old German graduate of the Royal Naval Naval Academy in Flensburg, Germany. He served in the Prussian Navy before the reunification of the German Confederation, and later served as a captain in a Saxony-class battle armored ship as a German Navy.

Before Chen Zeyu established this naval academy, he had been serving as an instructor officer on a steam gunboat affiliated to Sizhejiang to train sailors for Sizhet. Heinrich was an old-fashioned man, and he was extremely strict, even harsh, when he trained sailors, and the sailors who trained him were in awe of him. This former German naval colonel dared to act boldly on the ship, and the training gunboats under his command lost the most guns and coal, and the most frequent control of the ship. The accident rate is the highest among training ships, and they have both stranded ships in wind and waves, and also damaged the ship's propeller blades due to unfamiliarity with local hydrological conditions.

When others were full of doubts about this German, Chen Zeyu heard the news, but instead praised Heinrich's training method that was almost practical, and promoted Heinrich's training method throughout the training fleet.

As for Chen Zeyu's trust, the German Heinrich was also very moved, and he worked harder, making the new sailors on the ship complain.

When Chen Zeyu was studying in Boston, he serialized several articles in the local Times bureau. This guy plagiarized in advance the American Mahan's "Theory of Sea Power", which was only published in 1911.

Surprisingly, Chen Zeyu did not cause as much of a sensation as he imagined after publishing this article at that time, but later the former German naval officer Heinrich was shocked when he read these serialized articles, found a newspaper office in New York, and finally ran to Chen Zeyu. Later, because of his admiration for Chen Zeyu's naval strategic thinking beyond his time, Heinrich agreed to serve in the newly built naval school.

As the only academy in the territory that trains naval officers, the Sizhejiang Naval Academy will undoubtedly become the "cradle" of future naval officers in Huameng.

At noon, after having lunch with the instructors in the bright canteen of the Naval Academy, Chen Zeyu accompanied his uncle Chen Yanyu and his party to go around other places in the school.

Cao Jiaxiang, the bodyguard captain of the accompanying Blackwater Security Company, led two teams of team members to escort around, and these team members wore dark black uniforms with the Blackwater security logo, and the uniforms designed by Chen Zeyu with reference to the 21st Century Counter-Terrorism GSG combat uniforms were worn on these well-trained young armed team members, all of whom looked energetic.

Chen Zeyu waved his hand, and the team members dispersed one by one under the command of captain Cao Jiaxiang.

The Naval Ship Academy is located in the beautiful port area of Sizhejiang Province. Surrounded by mountains and trees, the campus covers a wide area.

The school has a number of high-standard teaching buildings, rich experimental equipment, supporting libraries, swimming training centers. In addition to these, the school has a special small arms shooting factory and a dock for training ships. In terms of physical training, Chen Zeyu did not relax, and specially requested that a special physical training field, 18 basketball courts, 1 plastic track and field field, 1 football field, 1 equipment field, 1 naval characteristic obstacle course and 4 tennis courts be set up according to his design. In addition, the Naval Academy also has more than 20 ocean-going training ships such as the "Zheng He", "Qi Jiguang", and "Li Huamei", which have been used earlier.

Accompanying his interested uncle Chen Yanyu walking on the campus where the sound of reading aloud could be heard everywhere, Chen Zeyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Hearing the coquettish movement of Aunt Helen behind them, the two turned their heads and couldn't help laughing.

Helen was sulking at the two little husky puppies on the grass on the side, "Whew-" Chen Zeyu whistled and called the two pure white puppies.

The two puppies dangled their young tails and stretched out their front paws to pounce on Chen Zeyu's legs, slapped them one by one, and sat down again.

"My dear Ben," Helen came over angrily, "it's so unfair, I've been raising it for weeks, and the two little things still recognize me like this"

Chen Zeyu smiled back at his aunt, "Dear Aunt Helen, I think you still need a little patience", scratching the chins of the two husky puppies with both hands, and the two little things suddenly lay comfortably on the ground and snored.

Helen's eyes lit up, "Oh-Ben, you should have given me this trick earlier...... Helen went shirtless again.

Uncle Chen Yanyu watched all this with a smile from beginning to end, how did he not know that his dear wife Helen was cooperating with his little nephew's gag.