After dealing with this matter, Gao Huaiyuan left the capital again and rushed to Jingdong, where he had been away for several years, to inspect Jingdong's combat readiness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Along the way, Gao Huaiyuan also detoured to Qingyuan Mansion, Jiankang Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion and other places, inspected the armies there, and now in order to cooperate with the future Northern Expedition, the original palace division in Qingyuan Mansion has now been expanded again, and a Qingyuan Mansion Naval Division has been specially formed, and the original command level has also been upgraded to the capital control level, and the five thousand rear troops of Qingyuan Mansion have also been incorporated into the Qingyuan Mansion Water Division.

And when Gao Huaiyuan arrived at Qingyuan Mansion to inspect the sailors, he stood on the dock of the Qingyuan Mansion Sailors and looked at it, and suddenly felt his blood surging, the current Qingyuan Mansion Sailors are still under the control of the original palace division of the Navy, Wang Quan, and now his sailors have expanded to more than 10,000 people, and there are hundreds of large and small warships under his jurisdiction, including both wide sand boats, huge fortune ships, and a large number of small sea falcon warships, most of the ships have been replaced with ship types suitable for sea sailing, and they no longer bear more inland river operations...

In the past, although the Song army and navy were good and had combat effectiveness, the Southern Song Dynasty had always pursued defensivism, taking the Jianghuai as a moat, defending and fighting, and not attaching importance to the power of the sea at all, but the construction and use of inland river warships, so that the vehicles and ships were popular in the Song army's naval division, and the combat scope of the naval division was also limited to inland rivers and lakes.

And now Gao Huaiyuan's strategic thinking is offensive warfare, giving up the defense of inland rivers such as the Yangtze River and the Huai River, and turning to prepare for the Northern Expedition, so that there are not many rivers in the north, and the canal will no longer be navigable to the north after reaching Xuzhou, and the value of the sailor will be reduced, but Gao Huaiyuan saw the benefits of shipping, and began to turn to the sea. In this era, there is really no opponent in the Southern Song Dynasty on the sea to threaten them, so the Song Army Naval Division can be said to be invincible on the sea, when the Qingyuan Mansion Naval Division was first prepared, many people expressed their opposition and did not understand why Gao Huaiyuan wanted to do this, but Gao Huaiyuan still tried his best to override public opinion, allocated funds to form the Qingyuan Mansion Naval Division, and procured a lot of sea ships for Wang Quan.

His purpose in doing this was very simple, that is, to one day use the Song army's strong maritime capacity to transport supplies and soldiers to the north to attack the Bohai Bay, seize one or two territories there, as a forward base, he could directly threaten the Mongols' territory on the flank of the Mongols, and even attack the Liaodong region to the north, directly hit the rear of the Mongols, and contain the Mongol army's southward combat operations...

He not only supported the establishment of a large-scale Qingyuan Mansion Naval Division, but also secretly ordered Liu Chengyi to set up a naval division in Haizhou and Mizhou early on, and made preparations in advance, and it was not others who were directly responsible for this work, but Gao Huaiyuan's second brother Gao Huailiang, who reformed his evil and returned to righteousness, not only because Gao Huailiang and the two of them were brothers and took care of Gao Huailiang, but because when Gao Huailiang fled Shaoxing, he was at sea for a few years and worked as a sailor. From the Southern Song Dynasty smuggling materials to Haizhou to supplement the Flying Tiger military, Gao Huailiang has accumulated a lot of knowledge of sea shipbuilding, which is very suitable for this work. Now, after more than two years of preparation, with the support of the powerful shipbuilding capacity of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Qingyuan Prefecture Naval Division was soon able to grow, with a naval force of more than 5,000 people, and also strengthened them with an infantry of several thousand people, becoming a maritime force that cannot be ignored.

And the reason why there are so many infantry for the Qingyuan Mansion Navy is also because they now have so many warships and swords in the sea without any opponents, their main task is to transport supplies and soldiers and horses, in order to cooperate with possible offensive operations in the future, these direct infantry troops have become the world's first professional marines, directly responsible for seizing the beachhead with the fleet in advance, and after stabilizing the beachhead, hold on until more soldiers and horses are transferred over...

And now Gao Huaiyuan is standing on the dock, and the naval fleet he sees is the landing team he has wanted all these years, and most of the ships in the warships are also sand-proof flat-bottomed boats that can directly rush to the beach, such ships do not have to worry about being stranded on the beach, and they can easily unload the soldiers and horses to the beachhead after the beach, which is the tactic they need most at the moment.

After Gao Huaiyuan looked at the entire fleet of sailors, he directly ordered Wang Quan to conduct a landing exercise, and he also took the largest lucky boat in the fleet and watched the drill of the sailors with the fleet. . .

I saw Wang Quan standing on the stern tower of the ship, and as soon as he gave the order, the flagbearer in the hanging basket on the mast of the lucky ship immediately waved the flag.

The infantry who received the order immediately sounded the drums and trumpets, and then quickly lined up in the open space of the wharf, carrying all kinds of weapons and combat materials, and began to step on the trestle in an orderly manner, and boarded their boats in batches, although there was still a little chaos during the period, but there was not much chaos, and the entire boarding action of more than 5,000 people took only two or three hours, in this era this boarding speed is already quite fast, which is also due to the construction of the sailor wharf is very perfect, only to provide the trestle bridge for the ship to dock, here have built many strips, This is also the Southern Song Dynasty, if it weren't for the wealth of the Southern Song Dynasty, the general country wanted to build such a scale of sailor wharf in such a short time, I am afraid that the emperor would not be able to complete the construction of such a scale of sailor wharf even if he let the emperor lose his pants. When he saw that the infantry had finished boarding, Wang Quan then began to give the order to lift the anchor, and the auxiliaries on the dock quickly untied the thick cable from the mooring stake and threw it to the sailors on the ship, and the sailors on the ship immediately removed the gangplank, and shook the anchor that fixed the ship with a wheel and received it to the ship.

Immediately afterwards the small boats dragged the large ships, and the sailors on the small boats shouted in unison, rowed together with all their might, and dragged the large ships out of the piers and docks and into the fast water.

After the big ship was offshore, they also began to operate under the sailors, pulling the sail rope to raise the sail to the mast, and suddenly Hangzhou Bay formed a spectacular scene of thousands of sails racing, under the action of the wind, this huge fleet slowly sailed out of Hangzhou Bay, heading towards the sea. . .

The huge bow of the ship ploughed the waves on the sea, and as the waves continued to sway, Wang Quan stood majestically on the top of the ship with a big red cloak, proudly looking around at the powerful naval army he commanded.

After a while, Wang Quan realized that the protagonist today should not be him, the commander of the navy, so he hurriedly went down the shipbuilding to find Comrade Gao Huaiyuan, the first minister of power in the Great Song Dynasty, and asked Comrade Gao Huaiyuan how he was doing.

But at this time, Comrade Gao Huaiyuan was very angry, his face was pale, his hands were on the side of the ship, his eyes were slightly closed, after hearing Wang Quan's voice of request, he wanted to answer something, but it was a pity that he did not say anything, but immediately lay on the side of the ship, and looked at the sea under Wang Quan's stunned gaze and said "vomit......! ”

This morning's food was all cheaply given to the sea fish, and then Comrade Gao Huaiyuan was soon helped to the cabin by Erhu and Wang Quan, and lay on the bunk that originally belonged to Wang Quan, but Gao Huaiyuan still lay on the side of the bed from time to time and retched. . .

Don't look at Gao Huaiyuan often in the Yangtze River boat to and fro, but never seasick, but today he was high-spirited with the navy to the sea, he unexpectedly found that the feeling of taking a boat on the sea and taking a boat on the river is very different, the waves in the sea are much bigger than the waves of the inland river, and the day he chose today is not quite right, the wind and waves at sea are relatively large, when he first started to go to sea, he also looked around the fleet with great interest, and sighed from time to time, but not long after leaving Hangzhou Bay, He felt a little dizzy and nauseous, and he had a strong feeling of nausea...

So there was a scene of his embarrassment before, the great Great Song Privy Envoy Gao Huaiyuan was so seasick that he fainted and vomited, and he vomited so much that he almost vomited bile.

Gao Huaiyuan continued to faint while lying on the bed, regretting this in his heart! Blame yourself, you said you are a bastard, you can get seasick, why didn't you find it before? Also, you bastard, just stay and watch the drills, can't you? But they had to go out with the fleet, and what happened now? Shame on you! Lost the adult, right?

Although the exercise was very successful, but the Minister Gao was very embarrassed, and he didn't see the beach-grabbing exercise, and after the end, he was still carried down the majestic flagship by several personal soldiers, and then carried him back to Qingyuan Mansion in a sedan chair, and didn't even dare to praise Wang Quan, Comrade Gao Huaiyuan fled from Qingyuan Mansion in a gloomy manner, and ran in the direction of Jiankang Mansion.

The armies of Jiankang Mansion have been merged into an army, the soldiers and horses of the original guard horse army division and the army of the Jiankang Tun Division were merged into the Jiankang garrison army, Li Xiaotian served as the commander of the capital, and the number of soldiers and horses of the Jiankang garrison division after the merger exceeded 90,000, including 5,000 elite cavalry, 40,000 infantry troops, and 15,000 auxiliary soldiers, and they were assigned to the Jingxi Theater and under the command of Meng Heng.

The Zhenjiang Prefecture Metropolitan Division is under the jurisdiction of the Jingdong Garrison Army, as the reserve of the Jingdong Garrison Army, with a strength of 23,000 people, mainly responsible for the affairs of the navy in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River on weekdays, and is also responsible for transporting materials to Jingdong in the south, straightening out the subordinate relationship, facilitating the transfer of materials, and reducing the intermediate links.

Gao Huaiyuan would inspect the soldiers and horses every time he went, and he didn't pay attention to whether the queue was neat or not, but directly asked to choose a place to conduct a show, also using the cavalry as the imaginary enemy of the blue side, and conceding the army to attack or defend against the attack of the cavalry, so as to test the combat effectiveness of the armies.

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