To this day, the first fleet of the two fleets of the Fujian Navy Division has a total of 14 warships, the smallest warship is only more than 200 tons, and the largest warship Qingyuan is more than 600 tons. The warships of the Second Fleet belonging to Liu Xiang are much more complicated, although the Second Fleet has hundreds of ships in name, but in fact there are only more than 30 warships that can fight, and the smallest of these more than 30 warships is only more than 100 tons, and the largest is only more than 400 tons.

Ning Shuisheng came to Fuzhou with the battleship, and there were thousands of sailors from the Fujian Sailor Academy who came with Ning Shuisheng, and they were one of Yang Feng's powerful means to strengthen control over the Second Fleet.

Now Ning Shuisheng's battleship is called Zhenning, which is the second batch of sixth-level warships produced by Mawei Shipyard, this batch of sixth-class warships has a total of twelve, and this batch of battleships was divided into two equal parts by Yang Feng after launching, six each of the first fleet and the second fleet.

"Whoa......

Ning Shuisheng poured a bucket of sewage into the sea, then scooped up a bucket of water from the large water tank on the side and put it on the deck, then took out a rag and began to scrub the deck for the second round...... Scrub the deck.

People should bathe often, and so do warships. Seawater is very corrosive to ships, and even ships made of steel in later generations have to go back to the shipyard for maintenance after a period of time, not to mention ancient wooden ships. Especially in the days of wooden sail warships, deck washing was an almost daily necessity, because the durability of the ship could only be maintained by washing the deck frequently. 、

Scrubbing the deck is a very boring and physically demanding task, so every time the deck is scrubbed by all the sailors, and sometimes even the captain of a ship has to take the lead in scrubbing it himself to boost morale.

After scrubbing the deck with clean water, Ning Shuisheng and his companions took out a rectangular sand and gravel five inches long and two inches wide. The crowd lined up in a row, and at the command of the officers, dozens of people slowly pushed the sand and gravel together, from the bow to the stern and from the stern to the bow, and so on a dozen times, and this was completed.

After rubbing, washing, and drying in the sun, the deck will become extremely clean and white, and people will not feel any slippery and burr feeling when stepping on it barefoot, so it is qualified.

The process of scrubbing the deck lasted for a whole hour, and Ning Shuisheng, who was so tired that his waist almost couldn't straighten up, sat on the deck and took off the kettle on his waist and poured it into his mouth, drinking almost all the water in the half-kettle, which made him feel better, and Lu Dahai on the side was lying motionless on the deck, ignoring the dazzling sunlight on his face.

In fact, the situation of the two of them is not special, almost everyone is like this, scrubbing the deck is a manual work, even the strongest young man will feel tired after an hour of continuous bending labor, just look at the appearance of the deck lying all over the place.

Lu Dahai, who was lying on the deck, groaned weakly, and scolded hatefully: "The red-haired ghost of the dog day, this is a heart-tossing us." Tell me, we used to only need to clean the deck once a month on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, but since they came, they actually asked us to clean it once a day, and my hands have been worn out by sand and gravel these days, and now my hands are full of calluses, what a sin! Sometimes I can't figure out whether they are prisoners or we are prisoners, and if I am the captain of the fleet, I immediately order all these red-haired ghosts to be driven to the mines, and see if they are still arrogant! ”

Lu Shuisheng's angry squint rolled his eyes: "You kid knows a fart, Liu Junmen said, scrubbing the deck is not only the maintenance of the warship, but also a kind of sharpening for us." Don't admit it, those red-haired ghosts are better than us in some aspects, although they were defeated by us last time, but what was the situation at that time? Our three warships, the largest Qingyuan is worth the total tonnage of the two warships of the red-haired devil, if we can't win three or two, we can all go to the sea, but even so, we still lost more than ten brothers, don't you know what this means? ”

"yes!"

Lu Dahai muttered and stopped talking, perhaps at this moment he remembered the naval battle half a year ago.

It was the first naval battle since the formation of the Fujian Naval Division, and the Admiral Lu Guangbiao of the Naval Division met with two Dutch warships with thousands of sailors and three warships, and the two sides fought without saying a word.

A group of fledgling fleets that can be said to be all composed of rookies in terms of the tonnage of battleships, the number of warships and the number of artillery are superior, at first stunned by the Dutch suppressed without temper, if it weren't for Lu Guangbiao gritting his teeth and fighting the danger of shipwreck, taking advantage of the Dutch to turn and approaching the counter-supply, almost shooting at close range from a distance of less than 100 meters, this took advantage of the artillery to defeat the Dutch, and afterwards Lu Guangbiao and the sailors of the first fleet of the Fujian Navy Division were in a cold sweat, It was a fluke that the Dutch had not been careless, and they might have lost the naval battle.

It is precisely because he understands that he won so much luck, so afterwards Lu Guangbiao and the officers worked hard to train the sailors as if they were crazy, not to mention, the governor of Zhengnan, the Marquis of Jiangning, and the Marquis Yang of Jiangning also assigned the captured more than 500 Dutch prisoners of war to the First and Second Fleets as instructors, so that these red-haired devils came to train them, at first the sailors were not very happy, but the army is a place that pays attention to strength after all, after seeing the Dutch in navigation, surveying and mapping, sailing, artillery and other technologies in an all-round way, Even those who are no longer convinced can only honestly bow their heads and accept the training of these defeated men.

Ning Shuisheng and Lu Dahai were fortunate to participate in this naval battle, and also realized the cruelty of naval warfare, unlike land warfare, the battle at sea is to twist hundreds or even hundreds of people on the entire battleship into a rope, only by working together to defeat the enemy can they survive, and the loser will either die or become prisoners like those Dutch. Of course, it's not impossible to escape, but it depends on your luck.

Thinking of the scene of the roar of artillery and gunpowder smoke in the last naval battle, Lu Dahai couldn't help but let out a long breath, sat up with a hard grip on the deck, spit into the palm of his hand, and quickly supported the mast beside him with both hands, and climbed up deftly like a monkey.

Lu Shuisheng asked curiously and loudly, "The sea, what are you doing?" ”

Lu Dahai's voice came from the mast: "It's nothing, I'll practice how to make this sail go up faster." ”

On the aft deck, Neham and Tajik, also dressed in light blue camouflage uniforms, were ...... with several Dutch prisoners of war No, it's time to call them instructors, standing together and smoking, and if someone looks closely, they will see that they are smoking cigarettes, and they are cigarettes with filters.

Well, this is another good thing that our Comrade Yang Feng has done. With the arrival of Yang Feng, this guy also brought some not very good habits to Daming, such as cigarettes being one of them.

Although tobacco had begun to spread in the Western world in the seventeenth century, at this time, whether it was the Western world or the Ming Dynasty, most people smoked dry tobacco or pipes, and cigarettes were not invented at all. But with the arrival of Yang Feng, a guy from the 21st century, cigarettes have also spread rapidly in the Jiangning Army, and now the Jiangning Army has a lot of smoking guns, and Tajiks and other Dutch people have also been shot.

It has been said that God invented loneliness, emptiness, boredom, and then the cigarette.

The army is the easiest place to produce smoking guns, after coming to the Fujian Navy Division as instructors, the welfare of Neam and Tajik and others is also the same as that of the officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division, they can receive a box of cigarettes every week, in line with the principle of not wasting, these people were quickly assimilated, and soon became addicted to smoking, but in less than half a year, many people can already skillfully spit smoke rings.

Tajik looked at the officers and men of the sailor division who were still busy on the deck, and said with some emotion: "These Ming people are really smart, their progress in just half a year is already so obvious, if they are given a few more years, I think they will soon be able to catch up with our Dutch navy." ”

Neam shook his head, "No...... They have caught up with us, at least in terms of will to fight, they are in no way inferior to our Dutch navy, and this is the most important thing.

Everyone on the side nodded, Neham was right, the most important thing in the navy is the will to fight. You can learn if you don't have enough experience, you can't practice skills, but if you don't have the will to fight, that's the worst, even if this army has a large number of people, no matter how hard you train, it's useless.

Then Neham shook his head and sighed, "I am only sighing that if this navy, which we have been taught, meet and go to war with our Dutch navy at sea one day, we will not become sinners of the Netherlands." ”

The crowd around them was silent, and after a while, Tajik smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Lieutenant, this question is too acute. But what I want to say is that now that we have accepted the employment of the Ming Kingdom, we naturally have to do it according to the requirements of the contract. I think...... Even without us, the Ming people can still find people like Spaniards or Portuguese to teach them, so your guilt is completely unnecessary. ”

"I hope so, maybe I'm too worried." Neam also shook his head with a smile, he turned his head and was about to say something, but his eyes were staring into the distance for a moment, and after a while, he said: "Tajik, it seems that what you said still makes sense, the Portuguese are really here......"