The vast Pacific Ocean was covered with thick clouds, and the sea rose violently under the blowing of the storm. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info huge waves continue to roll, from time to time there are waves hit the deck of the battleship, the sky is pouring rain, the meteorological conditions at this time can be described as extremely bad, in this storm, the 2440 tons of "Jiyuan" armored cruiser and "Tongwei", "Tongji" training ship, in the stormy waves struggled to move forward, a big wave rushed to the bow of the battleship was suddenly suppressed, shaking the deck of the busy sailors with the undulating ship, Staggering and staggering.

This is the first voyage of the Northeast Naval Training Fleet, and it is also the first time to sail into this unfamiliar sea area of the Pacific Ocean. But in a way, many sailors are no strangers to these seas, because a significant number of them have served in fishing companies and have entered the Pacific Ocean with whaling ships.

However, for the fleet, this is the first time that the fleet has sailed into the Pacific Ocean, although the fleet's sail training ships have sailed to India and even the Mediterranean, but they are unfamiliar to the Pacific Ocean, and even this is the first time that the Chinese naval force has sailed into the Pacific Ocean.

As soon as the small fleet of armored cruisers and two training ships sailed into the Pacific Ocean, a violent storm was ushered in, and then the Pacific Ocean was no longer peaceful, one storm after another, and the fleet was facing several storms and headed for the target, Honolulu.

The swells in the Pacific Ocean are so large that even when there is no wind, the swells at sea are like a hill, causing the hull to rise and fall and sway from side to side in the swells, and the temperature in the narrow cabin with the portholes closed rises. It will make people feel sulky again. The feeling of seasickness fills everyone's nerves.

Since the fleet entered the Pacific Ocean, it has been in the cabin. There was a sound of vomiting, and although even the recruits recruited from the coastal areas had long since adapted to life at sea, seasickness and vomiting were still inevitable, especially since the training ship also carried 362 temporary marines, and this voyage was the first sea voyage for these marines, who had at most been trained in seaworthiness with the ship in the past.

"First Officer Song, go down to the cabin to check the situation of those recruits."

Huang Zhongying grabbed the windbreak and stood firm, and then shouted an order to the first mate beside him. As the former pilot officer of the "Jiyuan". As the captain of the "Jiyuan" armored cruiser, in the past eight or nine months, he has successfully completed the friction between dozens of retained officers and men with the officers and men of the Northeast Navy, and has made the "Jiyuan," which has been transformed into rapid-fire guns, initially form combat effectiveness.

However, this voyage order directly pushed him to the forefront -- to go to Honolulu to "protect overseas Chinese"! The voyage of 10,000 miles and the mission of protecting overseas Chinese are the first of their kind for China, and it is precisely because of this. He will train sailors desperately during the voyage, in fact, there are more than sailors who train hard. That's not the case with those Marines.

"A natural sailor doesn't get seasick!"

This is just a joke, or a proud self-praise of sailors, every sailor who does not seasick must start with seasickness, seasickness is the first lesson of sailors! Only after fainting to death will you not faint again! The so-called no more dizziness is not really not seasickness, but even if you vomit, it still does not hinder the battle!

The captain's order made Song Jie get up and walk from the bridge to the cabin, check in each cabin, and order the seasick sailors to drink water quickly and replenish water, any sailor knows that after seasickness, first vomit water and food, then begin to vomit gastric juice and bile, and then vomit blood until the body spasms and leads to coma.

Replenishing water is to prevent the body from becoming dehydrated, but also to make the stomach have something to vomit, compared to the sailors, the real worry is those marines, after all, the marines have never been trained to sail, and they are the only group of people who will vomit for more than ten days, the sailors have almost adapted to all this, only those marines, are still stubbornly adapting and contending with it.

The foul air in the cabin was filled with a thick sour smell, and the original shaved and lively marines in the cabin would have vomited sallow, and there was no anger that I was the boss of Hades. Unable to face the group of spitting shrimp-like marines, the sailors had to fill their cups with water and distribute them to them, and then the officers forced them to drink water to ward off seasickness and vomit.

I have to admit that orders are undoubtedly more effective for them than persuasion, and in the face of orders, even the Marines who are spitting on the floor will struggle to get up, and then stubbornly drink water into their stomachs with vomit.

In fact, the marines used to be the army, and the sailors on the ship had boarded training ships or ocean-going fishing boats, these marines used to be a member of the army units, after the commando seized Port Arthur, Port Arthur naturally became the first military port of the Northeast Navy, and it was precisely because of the experience of the commando team that easily seized Arthur that the establishment of the Marine Corps to defend the military port became one of the key points of the Navy's founding mission.

The defense of military ports and warships, and the conduct of land operations if necessary, is the starting point for the establishment of marine corps in various countries. In fact, the original idea of the Admiralty was to recruit a "sailor" to fight on land, but their idea was overturned when it was reported to the Governor's Palace.

In contrast to the idea of the Admiralty, the Governor's Office wanted to build the Marine Corps into an elite assault force that could be used for landing operations at any time and overseas, rather than just for "home care".

It is precisely for this reason that when organizing the Marine Corps, it did not directly recruit new recruits, but recruited elites from various units of the Northeast Army, and selected more than 1,000 elites in a ratio of almost one in a hundred miles to form the Navy's only Marine Corps; as for the responsibility of guarding the military harbor by the "Guardian Courtyard," the "Base Garrison" was responsible, and the Marine Corps jumped from the gatehouse of the "Guardian Yard" to the "evil man" of the head of the family, and now it is more than 300 officers and men from the first battalion of the First Regiment of the Naval Marine Corps, and they are all the most elite.

It's just that this will be the elite of one in a hundred. At this point, it seems to be completely overwhelmed by the weather. It's all a mess of vomiting. But even then, no one doubted that as long as the order was given, they would still pick up their rifles and go into battle, as for now...... Let's let them vomit properly!

Vomit!

When the strong vomiting sensation hit again, it only made Li Ziyuan spit out the tea he had just drunk, and his face was already pale at this time. The tower-like body, which is extremely rare among the people of Guizhou, will be completely paralyzed.

"Fuck, kill me......"

This will make Li Ziyuan regret it, regret why he has to be a sailor, a marine, and how good it is to stay on land.

People will always be faced with many choices, and the reason why he joined the Marine Corps as an officer is because of an inland man's yearning for the sea, and even for warships.

He will never forget the excitement of seeing the sea for the first time and getting on a ship for the first time. He thought that the so-called marines were just sitting on ships. I even felt that the Marines were better than the infantry - when they were fighting, they were on ships, and they didn't need to march and walk.

But now, he has vomited all his gall and sweat, but he only has one wish - to be able to stand firmly on the land,

"Battalion commander, don't complain...... ...... vomit"

Before the battalion instructor finished speaking, he hugged the head of the bed and vomited, and the same thing he spit out was water, yellow and green water, as officers, they did not need to be crowded with ordinary soldiers, but there were not many cabins on the ship, and the two of them could only be squeezed into one cabin, which was obviously not comparable with the military camp on land.

Even, this small cabin is not only their dormitory, but also their conference room, and only when the battle plan is drawn up, or when the officers and soldiers are held in battle, will the dining room be temporarily requisitioned

"Didn't you see, then, those sailors don't vomit much better than us, but don't they still have to be trained......

The instructor's words made Li Ziyuan stunned, and when he heard that the sailors were training, he immediately struggled to stand up.

"No, no, let's, we have to train too......"

But before he could finish speaking, the man fell again with the swaying hull......

"Signal! Combat Alert! Each captain checks the preparation time! ”

On the bridge of the cruiser "Jiyuan", Huang Zhongying ordered expressionlessly. For the future development of the fleet, the scale of the training fleet is quite huge, and thousands of naval officers and men are training day and night on more than a dozen training ships of various sizes; although there is a serious shortage of officers like the army, compared with the army, a large part of the ground sailors on the training ships are new recruits.

Although the recruits had sailed before, most of them were really entering the ocean for the first time, and they were also battling the seasickness ship, but this did not mean that they should be put in bed.

In fact, for the sailors, the storm is not a cessation call, but a rallying call! The rallying call for training!

If we talk about hardship, I am afraid that the hardest sailors in the world are the sailors of the Northeast Navy Training Fleet, perhaps deliberately by those former Japanese naval officers who have been exiled in China, or perhaps at the request of the fleet, since the formation of the training fleet, high-intensity training has accompanied this nascent navy.

Even when some sailors die at their posts in the training ground due to high-intensity training, the death of sailors will not make the fleet stop the high-intensity training without rest days, and even a consensus is generally formed among the officer corps of the fleet -- the century-old navy can make up for the lack of time with training day and night.

In a word, the Chinese sailors did not have time to rest!

After all, no one knows whether the Westerners will give China plenty of time to train its navy, and under the pressure that war may break out tomorrow at any time, the intensity of training is naturally self-evident.

"Jingle ......"

The deck was filled with the sound of running in the midst of electric bells. The power of the sea breeze can only be felt at sea, the warship swayed forward in the sea, the sailors on the deck could not stand at all in the storm, and the sailors who came out of the cabin had to desperately tighten the windbreak, and then walked on the deck with great effort, and now they even forgot the fear that they could fall into the sea at any moment.

After the capture of the armored cruiser "Jiyuan", the armored cruiser was remodeled in the shipyard of Incheon in the northeast and the northern ocean, and the two 210 mm forward main guns in the bow and the 150 mm guns in the stern open battery were replaced with three 6-inch Armstrong rapid-fire guns, and even imitated the British warship. Four additional headsets were installed on the broadside. For the installation of 4 105-mm rapid-fire guns. Compared with before the transformation, its guns have a faster rate of fire and are more combat-effective.

After the transformation, its half-exposed turret completely exposed the sailors to the storm, and Sun Jiliang, wearing a raincoat, barely walked on the deck in the wind and waves, pulling the windbreak rope in one hand while struggling to rush to the No. 3 secondary gun where he was.

Ding Liang, who almost fell into the sea several times, only relaxed his defense line slightly, and a strong feeling of nausea came up. Several mouthfuls of bitter water poured out of the stomach that had already been emptied.

As a sailor on a former ocean-going fishing boat, Sun Jiliang did not regret his original choice, only by sailing on the sea, did he know the meaning of the navy, without the navy, there would be no sea.

The alarm is an order, and even if you die, you will die on the gun position. From the day he entered the Navy, the commander repeated this phrase in his ear more than once.

"Death is death!"

When the waves came, the waves almost washed Sun Jiliang off the deck and dragged him into the sea, the oncoming waves. It even reminded him of tracking whale waves when he sailed in the North Pacific last year. At that time, it was for wealth, but here it is to fight the wind and waves to master the sea.

Sun Jiliang is a third-gunner, and his task is very simple, just to carry shells for the artillery, and take out the shells from those iron boxes with green covers near the cabins behind the gun emplacements, because the rapid-fire gunning of the main guns has led to the limited ammunition compartment capacity cannot meet the needs of the whole ship's artillery, and the bomb bays for the side auxiliary guns are independent -- a row of temporary cabins is located in the bomb bay on the deck, in which hundreds of rounds of 105 mm high-explosive grenades are stored, and its only protection is the double-layer iron box. This may be the helplessness of the old ship to transform the new ship, behind the seemingly powerful transformation, but there is a little unknown soft threat.

"Ready for battle!"

"The three battle positions are ready!"

After the preparation for combat at each combat position is completed, they report to the bridge abutment through the microphone tube one after another. For the dizzy Sun Jiliang, there is no longer the excitement and excitement of the past. Maybe it's because of the relationship of idleness, he only feels that he feels weak when he holds the rope tightly, and his will will loosen when the psychological defense line is relaxed.

"Instigation! Stand up! Death will also die here! ”

When the soaking gunner, the soaking gunner, saw his third gunner slumped next to the bullet box, he shouted sharply, "Any sailor needs to pass this hurdle, and only by surviving this hurdle can he become a real sailor."

Although the artillery commander from the Beiyang Fleet clearly knew that no navy would choose to conduct naval battles in such harsh climatic conditions, he knew very well that the commanders were just trying to hone their will, perhaps this is the biggest difference between the Northeast Navy and the Beiyang Fleet, compared with the Beiyang, the Northeast Navy pays more attention to the tempering of will.

Sometimes, even during training, he did not doubt that even if he encountered a huge ship like "Zhenyuan" on the sea, once the order was issued, the sailors on the "Jiyuan" would rush forward without hesitation, howling excitedly, and the long-term training made them dare to challenge the strong.

"Click!"

Huang Zhongying, who was pulling the windbreak, rarely showed a smile on his face after receiving the last report of "preparations completed" when he pressed the stopwatch.

"Order to disarm;

"Dismount!"

With the order issued, the sailors who had used to operate guns in the wind and rain finally breathed a sigh of relief, but the ensuing reprimand made everyone's mood tense.

"It took seventeen seconds and eighty-six! Order the officers and soldiers to return to the cabin for review! If it is on the battlefield, they are already the souls of the enemy! ”

The smile on the corner of his mouth was fleeting, and Huang Zhongying's cold words seemed a little unsatisfactory, after all, he was not better trained than usual in harsh weather conditions, but as an officer, he could never be satisfied! Especially for him, he knows very well that among his old colleagues in Beiyang, I don't know how many people are watching his jokes, more precisely, watching the jokes of the Northeast Navy.

Thousands of miles to protect overseas Chinese!

This is such an immeasurable decision, even when receiving this order, Huang Zhongying himself felt a little immeasurable, if he is still in the Beiyang Fleet, it doesn't matter, after all, the Beiyang Fleet was once the largest fleet in Asia, in the Pacific Ocean, in addition to the Russian Pacific Fleet, the number of the Beiyang Fleet is the most powerful, and in the United Kingdom, in Germany, there are a number of new ships under construction, not to mention overseas protection, even in the future to challenge the Russian Pacific Fleet.

However, the orders to protect overseas Chinese were issued from the Governor's Office of the three eastern provinces, to be precise, from the Navy Department of the Military Command Department, and the current Northeast Navy is not so much a navy as a group of "students" who operate merchant ships, and even its most outstanding naval officers are still studying at the US Naval Officers Academy, learning from the US Navy.

But this group of students is now going to Honolulu to escort ships according to the orders of the Navy Department, and swear power in Honolulu to maintain the interests of overseas Chinese, and it is the US Navy that they are going to challenge.

But after the order was issued, Huang Zhongying was also like an ordinary sailor, without hesitation and without hesitation, he stepped on the warship and ordered the fleet to go on the expedition.

muttering like this in his heart, looking at the wind and waves outside the bridge, Huang Zhongying couldn't help but whisper.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow should be the ......"

(Yesterday my son had a fever and jumped the ticket, and today I will make up 5,000 words!) Ask for a commuter pass! Ask for a subscription! (To be continued.) )