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"Shizi, quick! I sent you a report two days ago, why didn't you come now, your time card is really tight enough! ”

"This, busy. I forgot about the poison, I was still in Fuzhou City just now, if you hadn't sent someone to hurry up, I would have almost forgotten about it, sinful and sinful! Geng Jingzhong said to the surrounding generals with some embarrassment, relatively speaking, the launching of this battleship is a more important thing.

The group came to the command platform, and Director Jason was already waiting here. For him, this is their hard work for more than half a year, and they are about to usher in the harvest moment, and the mood is undoubtedly excited. Before he could climb the steps, Geng Jingzhong saw him, smiled and took the lead in speaking: "Jason, it's been a hard work!" How are you feeling, aren't you excited! ”

"Yes, Your Highness the Prince, we are all very excited. Now all the qiē is ready and waiting for your order! Jason bowed sideways, then greeted the generals to the podium. Jason pointed to the first battleship on the left and said to Geng Jingzhong: "Your Royal Highness, please look, here are the four warships that are preparing to launch the first batch, Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, Fuyuan and Pingyuan!" ”

Geng Jingzhong looked at the four warships in front of him, their hulls sprayed with big Chinese characters, telling the people that they were their names! Zhenyuan and Dingyuan were named by Geng Jingzhong to commemorate the two heroic warships in history, and then formed a "Yuan" squad with two other ships, Fuyuan and Pingyuan. The other four branches are Yongfu, Zufu, Bufu and Shengfu of the "Fu" brand, Nianxi, Fuxi, Hexi and Xinxi of the "Xi" brand, Dewei, Xuanwei, Wuwei and Xinwei of the "Wei" brand, and Baoding, Dingding, Hongding and Zhongding of the "Ding" brand. After these 20 warships are put into service, the entire fleet battle group will be divided into five small detachments, with a detachment commander under the command, and the "Yuan" character in front of you is one of them.

"Gunshot!" Geng Jingzhong grabbed the order flag in his hand, waved it heavily, and shouted loudly to the audience at the same time.

The soldier who had been waiting in the audience for a long time raised the torch in his hand and lit the fuse of the cannon next to him. After the sound of "Bang Bang", there were three rhythmic cannon sounds, "Bang! "Knock! "Knock! Each sound is spaced one second apart.

Let the cannon sound, and with a loud cannon sound, tell the craftsmen of the shipyard that the battleship can be launched!

Under each battleship there was a long slipway leading to the river, and the slipway for launching into the water was very lubricated and covered with a thick layer of butter. For this launch, the butter prepared in advance reached 20,000 catties! The craftsman next to the battleship removed the partition, and the battleship began to slide down the sloping and lubricated slipway. The huge hull of the battleship, using its own gravity, is getting faster and faster, from the beginning of the invisibility like a person running, quickly sliding into the river, the first Zhenyuan was launched! Immediately after that, several other ships were also launched. At this moment, this is a huge milestone for Mawei Shipyard!

There was a huge cheer on the shore! Geng Jingzhong was also very happy, and waved the flag to the audience again: "Board the ship!" Suddenly, there were three more cannon shots below!

The admiral officer Mawei who was waiting on the shore had already waited impatiently, and when he heard the sound of cannons, the captain of the four ships immediately led his soldiers to start boarding the ship. At this moment, only the four battleships with the name "Yuan" were launched first, after all, the ceremony was still held. After the ceremony is over, the shipyard craftsmen will be free to take the other ships out of the water!

The naval soldiers who boarded the battleship quickly got busy, and according to the prior training, they immediately took their positions and took control of the battleship. Geng Jingzhong and his party were not idle, and they also left the command platform and quickly came to the embankment below, ready to board the ship in person!

The officers and men of the Navy approached the battleship, and the group happily boarded the Zhenyuan third-class battleship. Not only the officers of the navy, but also more than a dozen people in charge of the shipyard also boarded the Zhenyuan third-class battleship. For a time, the deck of the third-class battleship Zhenyuan was full of people.

These twenty warships were all brand new warships, and as soon as they approached the Zhenyuan, everyone smelled a strong fragrance of tung oil. In the past, everyone hated this smell, but now I feel that the fragrance of tung oil smells so wonderful. The group looked left and right, and walked through every part of the battleship. Especially the cabins below, various cabins were checked. A battleship is indeed a battleship, it was specially built for battle, and there is no place in the cabin that has nothing to do with the battle, except for the area where the soldiers live! The space distribution of the entire cabin is very reasonable, and the most satisfying thing for Geng Jingzhong is the watertight cabin and ammunition depot, which definitely greatly increases the power of the battleship!

At the same time, Geng Jingzhong cared for the officers and men of the navy and increased the rest area of the officers and men to maintain the health of the sailors. Geng Jingzhong was not worried about their sanitary conditions, but it was easy to get sick due to lack of nutrients during long voyages at sea, so Geng Jingzhong also increased the space for food storage and put more pickled vegetables, so that the sailors would be able to last longer.

Just as Geng Jingzhong and the others were carefully inspecting the Zhenyuan battleship, the warships of several other detachments were also successfully launched, and huge cheers continued to be heard from the shore. Every time the cheers came, everyone in the Zhenyuan smiled, they all knew that after all the battleships were launched, the navy's ocean-going battle group could be formed!

By the time Geng Jingzhong and the others came out of the cabin of the Zhenyuan, several other detachments had already lined up neatly behind the "Yuan" detachment! Geng Jingzhong stood on the deck and looked at it from a distance, and the twenty warships showed a slight arc-shaped queue along the river bank, which was very powerful!

"Out to sea!" Geng Jingzhong happily gave the order.

Wang Zhenbang, commander-in-chief of the navy, waved the banner, and the "Yuan" detachment slowly took the lead. Although it was an east wind, the battleship went down the river, and the speed of the start was also very fast, and after a while, all the battleships turned around the harbor and reached the range of Mawei Military Port, and then continued to sail towards the mouth of the Minjiang River to prepare to go to sea! After the twenty warships sailed out of the military port, the captured fleet of the former Zheng family, led by the No. 2 Fu ship, also quickly followed. The five warships bought back from Britain no longer have the strength to fight in the oceans, so they have long been turned into naval training ships, and they are not keeping up at the moment. Now twenty third-class warships are at the head, and the other seventy or eighty warships of various types form a huge battle group, which looks quite mighty and magnificent.

After the fleet sailed out of the mouth of the Minjiang River, it slowly continued to move eastward. After sailing past Baihouyu Island, the entire fleet began to conduct a queue exercise. These were all learned by Wang Zhenbang and other admirals from the old captain Steve and others. Because Geng Jingzhong's command did not use talents who knew naval warfare, and these veterans from Europe were all experienced. In particular, a few people led by Steve were senior commanders of the British fleet, but they were hired to the East with a lot of money only after the political struggle failed. Under their careful teaching, and after Wang Zhenbang's own extensive reading of military books, they also had their own understanding of naval warfare.

In China, there are no longer a few records of formations and queues about water battles, and of course, compared to the battle formations of the army, they are definitely much less. However, the formation method of the navy army was originally evolved from the army battle formation, and the two battle formations have a certain similarity, such as the cone-shaped formation, the goose-shaped formation, the hook line, the long-term snake formation, and so on. Because the two sides can use the most guns, the guns of the battleships are the strongest on the two sides. In naval battles, both sides would face the enemy on the side of the enemy, hence the formation of the famous T-shaped battle formation.

This is a common maritime tactic, and you can imagine that when your own fleet and the enemy fleet meet, your position is the horizontal side of T, and the enemy is the vertical side, then the enemy can only use the bow firepower, and only the bow firepower of the leading battleship. But it was the broadside fire that was used by the side, and it was the broadside firepower of each battleship. In this way, it is clear who has the advantage and who has the inferior!

Such tactics first emerged in the West, and there is no such tactical description in China's military books and war strategies. Now due to the arrival of Steve and others, the Mawei Navy has become the second Eastern Navy to learn these battle formations after the Zheng family in Taiwan! However, it was also the first time that the Mawei Navy was lined up at sea. The surface of the river is completely different from the surface of the sea, and the surface of the sea is vast. What's more, these 20 third-class warships are all new ships that have just been launched, and the soldiers are not too handy in maneuvering, and this first arrangement of formations is really unbearable, Wang Zhenbang and several senior naval officers are standing next to Geng Jingzhong, and they are also blushing at this moment.

It's one thing to learn theory from Steve and others, but it's another thing to actually operate, just look at the table of the Navy soldiers at this moment! In this vast sea, although the few battleships behind saw the flag order, they even turned wrongly, and several battleships almost did not collide with each other! If you meet the sailors of the Zheng family or the Shimazu family now, you will definitely be hit by a salvo and you won't be able to find the north! The basic skills of this sea queue must continue to be practiced hard, if you don't practice solidly, it will be to send food to others, let alone dominate China's waters!

"Damn, these rabbit cubs, they eat and drink all day long, and they train every day to train like this bear! Look back, Lao Tzu doesn't pick their skin! Wang Zhenbang was really annoyed and angry at this time, it was really embarrassing to be lined up like this.

"Lao Wang, after all, this is the first time to go to sea, and it is expected that something bad will happen. In this weather, there is no sun in the sky, and there is no land in sight, and the sea is exactly the same on all sides, and even I can't tell the direction myself! It would be nice to practice a lot in the future! Geng Jingzhong cheered up his subordinates.