Lin Feng saluted one by one, and during the period, it was only when he met Feng Yansi, the envoy of the Fuzhou Festival, that Lin Feng paused for a moment. The person in front of him was a middle-aged Confucian student, not fat or thin, with fair skin and a smile on his face, but he just touched the cup lightly with Lin Feng and didn't say a word.

When he was a little drunk, Lin Feng came to the last table. This table is full of young generals who accompanied him this time, Lin Renzhao and Chen Desheng, who were slightly injured, are also at this table, the two of them just bandaged the minor injuries on their bodies, they are eating and drinking, and everyone is in good spirits!

Before Lin Feng arrived, the apology ceremony arrived first: "General Lin, General Chen, I'm sorry!" Special training pays attention to actual combat, never leaves hands, and there are many offenses! Turning around, Lin held a banquet and made a special trip to make amends! ”

Lin Renzhao picked up a glass of wine, stood up and said with a strange smile: "Those guys, they are so ruthless, they even want to fight with their lives!" I like it, though! Fighting a war is afraid of blood, counting ball soldiers! Lord Lin, for the ruthlessness of these people, Ren Zhao respects you a cup! ”

Lin Feng laughed and drank it all. Chen Desheng followed closely, he directly copied a small bowl, and had to make a bowl with Lin Feng.

How could Lin Feng be afraid, he drank it all in a few sips. He also intended to make friends with these young generals, so he directly found an empty seat on the table and sat down.

After touching a bowl with all the generals at the table, Lin Feng turned to Lin Renzhao beside him and asked, "General Lin, are there many warships in Quarry Rock?" ”

"How many years have there been no wars, not much. Why, Lord Lin is also interested in water warfare? Lin Renzhao said a little lonely. The fierce general is most afraid of dying on his pillow, the Southern Tang Dynasty has not had a big battle for many years, and the battle to destroy Fujian has not been his turn, Lin Renzhao has already been cheated.

As soon as he heard Lin Feng mention the warship, Chen Desheng, Chen Decheng, and Zheng Yanhua, the deputy generals of the Loyal and Righteous Army next to him, all turned their heads.

The Loyal and Righteous Army is known as strong on land and water, and Erchen's father, the envoy of the Jianzhou Festival and the servant of Chen Xu, started from the head of a war. In that year, Cha Wenhui attacked Fuzhou in the spring, and Chen Zhi was responsible for attacking from the waterway, and he led the naval army to take a dragon boat along the turbulent Min River, driving more than 700 miles in one day and one night to reach the battlefield. Chen led the sailors to jump into the cold river and dived deep to scuttle the enemy ship. Wu Yue's navy saw that the big ship sank for no reason, and saw that there seemed to be a "dragon" (dragon boat) passing through the enemy's fleet, and was greatly shocked, thinking that the enemy had obtained divine help, and the Wu Yue navy, which had no intention of fighting, was then defeated, and the generals Ma Xianjian, Ye Ren'an, etc., were captured, and Zheng Yanhua, the former general of the Fujian army, also surrendered at that time.

"In Lin's imagination, the next special training will inevitably have a project of water combat, so I want to borrow the warship of Quarry Rock for training." Lin Feng explained bluntly.

"Oh, it seems that Lord Lin thinks that the future combat navy is also essential?" Chen Decheng asked.

"Of course, in Lin's view, the navy may even be more important than the army in the future!" Lin Feng nodded and said.

"Lord Lin, wait a minute!" Chen Decheng threw down a sentence, got up directly, ran quickly to the head table, and said a few words in his father Chen Xu's ear. I saw Chen Yu get up and confess his guilt to Li Jing and Li Jing in the main seat, and walked directly towards the table.

"Lord Lin, listen to Decheng's words, do you attach great importance to the water army?" Chen Yu sat directly beside Lin Feng and asked.

"Yes! Back to Lord Chen, Lin believes that the form of war in the future will not be confined to land warfare, supplemented by water warfare, and may even be a combination of land and water, and then water warfare will be the mainstay, supplemented by land routes! Lin Feng swore unexpectedly and said loudly.

"Oh, please explain in detail, Lord Lin!" Chen Yu clenched his fists and said.

Chen Xu's gesture of asking for advice not only made Lin Feng a little unbearable, and he avoided this etiquette sideways, but also attracted the attention of several old generals who happened to come to toast him.

"Lord Chen, please wait. General Lin, may I ask, have all the current warships achieved tail rudder and watertight compartments? Lin Feng didn't answer directly, but turned his head to ask Lin Renzhao.

"Well, now all ships have tail rudders, and larger warships such as the Sea Falcon, Double Car, and Lou Ship are built with watertight compartments to separate the cabins." Lin Renzhao replied immediately.

The invention and use of the rudder is a major contribution of the Chinese nation to shipbuilding and water transportation in the world. In the classics, the rudder is also written as 柁, etc., and its name began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Xi's "Release? "The release of the boat" said: "Its tail is called 柁." 柁, drag also, in the back see drag also. And he straightens the boat, so that he will not be disgraced by the current. This means that the rudder is located at the stern of the ship, which allows the ship to correct its course and not deviate from course.

Another major invention of the Chinese nation in shipbuilding is the watertight compartment. To put it simply, when building a ship, the cabin is divided into multiple compartments that are not connected to each other with planks, fillers, etc., so that if one of the compartments is hit into the water, it will not be poured into the other compartments, so as to avoid sinking. Since the early Tang Dynasty, Chinese wooden ships have adopted watertight compartment structures.

Hearing Lin Feng mention these two professional terms, Chen Yu knew that Lin Feng was not talking about it, and his eyes stared at Lin Feng even brighter.

"Then let's think about it, with the navigation technology of the watertight cabin, coupled with the great development of steel in the future, then we may invent a taller and wider warship in the future to transport the elite of the army from the water and sea to the enemy's rear, and then, with one hit, change the entire battlefield situation!" Lin Feng began to fool these generals of the navy who did not yet have the concept of joint operations on land and water.

The thing Lin Feng mentioned was not bizarre in itself, and it was also one of the major uses of the navy in the past: transporting troops. But the word "sea route" he mentioned made Chen Yu stunned, and he directly asked: "Can the vast sea also transport troops?" What to do if you get disoriented? What to do if the battle is delayed? ”

"The solution has been mentioned in Lord Lin's ten recruitment questions!" He Jingzhu, the envoy of Chuzhou Jiedu and the envoy of Chuzhou regimental training, who was standing behind and listening to the lecture, continued.

Lin Feng hurriedly got up and gave up his seat to a few old generals, but he refused, just urging Lin Feng to continue.

As Master He said, Lin mentioned in the ten questions of recruiting talents that pointing instruments and charts are precisely for the preparation of future maritime trade and sea warfare, and another basic condition for naval warfare is to build a large enough sea ship. What if in the future, we can build a building ship that is 40 zhang long and more than 10 zhang wide? Naturally, he is not afraid of the sea, and can carry more soldiers. Lin Feng continued to throw the pie out. However, these data were not made up by Lin Feng. According to the History of the Ming Dynasty? Zheng He's Biography records that Zheng He sailed in the Ming Dynasty with "sixty-two treasure ships, the big one is forty-four zhang long and 18 zhang wide", that is to say, the maximum can reach 148 meters, the width is 60 meters, the ship has four layers, the nine masts on the ship can hang twelve sails, the anchor weight is several thousand catties, and it takes two or three hundred people to set sail.

"Such a big ship? Can it be made? Can you sail? Huang Fuhui asked in surprise from the history of Shezhou Thorn and Fenghua Military Festival. Huangfu Hui was originally from Weizhou, and in January of the fifth year of Baoda (947 AD), after the Khitan destroyed the Jin Dynasty, he fled to Jiangnan with his family as the original Jin Mizhou Assassin Shi and defected to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Huang Fuhui has always led the army, and he never imagined that the navy could develop such a huge ship.

"The larger the object in the water, the greater the buoyancy. It stands to reason that even the largest ships can sail on the river or at sea. Chen Chengzhao, who was fifty-four years old in Baoyi Army, answered next to him. Chen Chengzhao, a native of Jinling, was born in 896 A.D. and loved water conservancy since childhood. According to historical records, Chen Chengzhao's deeds that left his name in history for building water conservancy were all after he was captured by Zhao Kuangyin when the Northern Song Dynasty attacked Huainan. Chen Chengzhao successively presided over the supervision of Huimin, Wuzhang and two rivers to pass through the water, and successfully governed the Yellow River many times.

Lin Feng smiled and continued: "Chen Xiangxiang, so insightful!" Please believe that Lin, after His Majesty will select talents from all over the country, Lin will definitely concentrate manpower on developing large warships that can be used in actual combat. Lin would like to ask you to imagine that the bow of this big ship can be equipped with iron armor to destroy the enemy ship with pears; The hull of the ship is covered with iron armor, and it is not afraid of enemy collision or attack; The ship is large and can accommodate a thousand soldiers; The ship can even be equipped with a ranged attack weapon, which is equivalent to a movable castle on the water! ”

"Wow!" The big cake that Lin Feng drew out of thin air suddenly made several veterans open their mouths wide, there are many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, if such a warship can be invented, it will be a war weapon with both defense and offense!

Seeing that there was a lively conversation here, many generals also gathered around.

Seeing that there were more and more people around him, Lin Feng consciously raised his voice a few degrees: "The army, the navy and the country are like the two legs of a person, it is difficult to support one leg, and it is difficult to support one. The naval fleet will be an important support for us to break away from the fetters of land, expand our influence to all corners of the world, and return wealth to the sea! ”

All the military officials present were really rare opportunities, and Lin Feng also took the opportunity to preach his ideals of overseas expansion and open up the minds of these people. He continued:

"Since ancient times, there has been a simplest truth: power is only within the range of the bow and arrow! Where the armed forces cannot reach the force, the state will not be able to achieve the strength of the country. If we Datang want to dominate the four seas, we must ensure that our military strength can reach the four seas! A mighty fleet of seas will be another fist to be reached! ”

"Good ambition! What a spirit! is also surnamed Lin, Lin only found out today that his 'Lin Huzi' is not worthy of the name at all, Lin Dacai is the real 'Lin Huzi' with great ambitions and proud mountains and seas! Lin Renzhao was aroused by Lin Feng's bold words, and shouted loudly.

"Okay, good, Lord Lin is young, but there are thousands of weather in his chest, and he really kills me and other old people!" He Jingzhu, the assassin of Chuzhou and the envoy of Chuzhou's regimental training, couldn't help but praise.

Although the other veterans were deep in thought, their eyes still showed unconcealed appreciation.

Alright, let's stop here. Lin Feng hurriedly made a circle, asking everyone to forgive himself for being abrupt and open-mouthed.

Li Jingsui, who was listening with great interest in the outer circle, came over and punched Lin Feng hard.

You've come just in time! Lin Feng leaned into Li Jingsui's ear and whispered a few words, Li Jingsui's eyes lit up, he turned around and beckoned Chen Xu, the envoy of the Jianzhou Festival and the servant, and the three of them walked into a quiet room next to the main hall.