After inspecting Xinjin City, Ouyang Xuan rushed to the Navy Brigade Headquarters with a black face. After listening to General Huang Dagen's briefing on the recent situation of the naval brigade, his anger finally broke out. Everyone had never seen Ouyang Xuan make such a big fire, and they were all silent. Because it was a closed-door meeting, Ouyang Xuan unceremoniously severely criticized the Shui Junlu and Huang Dagen.

The reason why Ouyang Xuan lost his temper was because he only saw the navy fishing along the way, only the sporadic sailor ships were on guard, and even some sentry guards couldn't bear the loneliness and went to the river to fish. If it's a second-line army or militia, it's fine, but this is the elite unit of the Perak Army, and even Liao Loach, who is the deputy brigade commander of the Navy Army, actually left his post for the sake of good luck. "Industry is good at diligence and famine", during this period of time, the water is shallow and the river is narrow, which is a good time to practice the tactics of light boats. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, how would he believe that this was the elite of the Thunderbolt Army.

What made Ouyang Xuan angry was the ineffective implementation of the requirements of the naval army. In order to cope with the rapidly expanding Mongolian naval forces, the military and political conference clearly asked all shipyards to speed up the transformation of ships and tactical drills in addition to building more light and fast boats. Ouyang Xuan had brought Li Shuang and Li San'er here to coordinate the firearms and equipment for the light boat. While on the road, Li San'er complained that the naval personnel were not interested in the equipment of the boat, and the cooperation with the designers of the arsenal was not in place. They were more interested in heavy ships and heavy artillery. Ouyang Xuan saw with his own eyes that only Xia Dagen was in the transformation of small boats, and when asked about the transformation of the ships of the naval brigade, Huang Dagen squeaked and knew that the situation was not optimistic.

The main reason for the above situation is that there is a feeling of arrogance and arrogance within the Perak army, especially the naval army, which believes that with firearms, especially artillery, it can be invincible in the world. In fact, the main reason why the Thunderbolt Army performed well was because it was fighting a defensive war, and most of the targets were new annexes with low morale. With the current strength of the Thunderbolt army, it is simply not possible to fight against the Mongol army in the field. Not to mention that the number of the Mongolian army far exceeded that of the Thunderbolt army, even in a field battle with the same strength, the Thunderbolt army could not have an advantage, as evidenced by the fact that the cavalry battalion of the field brigade was suppressed by the Mongolian cavalry with similar strength at Guankou Village a few days ago. Moreover, the Mongolian army was very good at learning, and they not only learned the new use of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder in the Battle of Jiading, but also developed a new weapon, the Burning Thunder. Although the quality of its firearms is not good, it can offset many of the advantages of the Thunderbolts. If they rely on their huge financial resources and troops, the Thunderbolts will gradually fall into disadvantage in the confrontation.

Take the most outstanding record of the Perak Army and Navy - the Battle of Raid on Chengdu, the reason why it achieved remarkable results is because the Mongolian soldiers of the Chengdu Army were all on the shore at that time, and most of the ships were transport ships full of grain, which were also taken by the Thunderbolt Army. In the battles of Hengyuan Fort, Sandushui and Guan Kou Village, the Mongolian army had no naval army at all, and had no means of countermeasures, so they could only be beaten on the shore. In fact, the Thunderbolt navy does not have the strength to crush the enemy. On Ouyang Xuan's way to Diaoyu City, he was raided by water bandits at the border of Xuzhou, and even attacked Ouyang Xuan's ship. Although he eventually repelled the bandits, he was also in danger.

Ouyang Xuan knew very well that on the surface battlefield, artillery warships had an advantage over cold weapons, but there was no absolute advantage. The Hunan army sailors of Zeng Guofan, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, were equipped with new foreign guns and foreign cannons, but the large artillery warships of the Hunan army were still defeated in front of Shi Dakai's light boats, and even Zeng Guofan was forced to commit suicide by jumping into the water. Although the power of firearms is extremely great, it is never the weapons that determine the victory or defeat of a war, but also factors such as time, terrain, morale, and tactics.

Although the navy trained by Liu Heima is mainly small boats, it is also equipped with primitive firearms, which poses a serious threat to the Thunderbolt army. The firearms equipped with Mongolian ships are mainly incendiary firearms, such as ignition firearms, British firearms, rockets, etc., as well as fire-breathing tubular weapons, and even a small number of iron cannons imitated from the Thunderbolt army. In fact, both the Mongol and Song armies already had iron artillery, although due to the inferior casting technology, both the range and the lethality were far inferior to the Thunderbolt army, but as long as there were enough of them, the combat power was equally terrifying. When he was in Diaoyu City, Zhang Jue once mentioned that Jingzhou was one of the centers of firearms manufacturing for the Song army, and it was able to make 12,000 iron cannons in a month. The Mongol army controlled far more territory and population than the Song army, and if it were to be produced on a large scale, the output would be very staggering.

Of course, Ouyang Xuan was not afraid of the Mongolian army imitating grenades, or even the Mongolian army's imitation of iron cannons. The Thunderbolt Army cannot be copied in terms of scientific research, personnel training, industrial system, management system, etc., "painting a tiger does not become an anti-dog", with the Mongols' strict hierarchical slavery system, it may be possible to imitate some weapons, but without the support of the system, it is absolutely impossible to continuously promote scientific and technological innovation and continuous progress like the Thunderbolt Army. However, to reform the system like the Thunderbolt Army, it was unacceptable to the Mongol military aristocracy.

"The wind rises at the end of the green apple", arrogance will not only lead to failure, but will slowly evolve into self-supremacy above the people. For these bad signs, Ouyang Xuan was extremely vigilant. Therefore, he decided to use the navy army as a negative example, and focused on rectifying the internal style of the Perak army, including the army, the government affairs system, and the management of factories and mines. To this end, he proposed: Huang Dagen did not implement the decree effectively, did not govern the army strictly, suspended the post of commander of the navy, and the commander of the navy brigade was represented by Le Quanan; Liao Loach lax discipline and suspended him from his post as deputy brigade commander and battalion commander; Xia Dagen was promoted from platoon commander to company commander.......

Middle- and high-level official positions such as Huang Dagen and Liao Loach need to be approved by the military-government joint meeting in Perak, and Xia Dagen's appointment as a company commander only requires Ouyang Xuan to sign an appointment letter. In view of Ouyang Xuan's huge personal prestige, the military-political joint conference passed the proposal to suspend the two of them without objection, and even Huang Dagen himself voted in favor. This decision shook the management system of the Perak Army, and also promoted the next style rectification. In the eyes of everyone, Huang Dagen and Liao Loach are both generals with great merits, especially the former is not only a veteran of the Thunderbolt Army, but also one of Ouyang Xuan's most trusted people, and even he has been punished, which truly reflects the Thunderbolt Army's style of prohibiting and unifying the scale.

Ouyang Xuan started the discipline style from the navy brigade, not only because the navy was arrogant, but also because the navy would face major challenges and might suffer a heavy defeat in the future. When he heard that when the Mongol army of Guankou Village attacked the checkpoint, the clay pots thrown could be attached to the stones and burned, and they would not be extinguished when exposed to water, he subconsciously thought of another weapon - Greek fire. Byzantium used this weapon that could burn on the surface of the water to burn the ships of countless invading Arab, Ottoman and other hostile forces, and achieved a thousand-year-old empire. Although the Greek fire recipe is top secret and no outsiders can know, Ouyang Xuan judged that it was definitely based on petroleum, similar to extremely flammable gasoline. Judging from the interrogation of Mongolian craftsmen, the Mongolian army has used oil to make weapons, and if it is used in conjunction with the water warfare weapon in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", the fierce fire oil tank, it will definitely be the enemy of the Thunderbolt gunboats. The only way to deal with the Mongolian naval clippers equipped with oil weapons was to use a large number of light and small boats to prevent them from approaching the gunboats.