Zhu Linmiao stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the blue sea and blue sky in front of her, taking a breath of salty sea breeze, and only felt relaxed and happy.

In a moment, he heard the faint and dull sound of cannon on the east side of the sea, and more than a dozen sailors behind him began to lower their sails with ropes, and the speed of the sentinel ship under his feet immediately slowed down.

"Your Highness," said one of the officers of the Naval Division, "we have reached the vicinity of Gaden Island. The last general has sent someone to contact the Admiral. ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded, and raised his eyes to look at the outline of the mountain peak in the distance, where it was Jiashan Mountain. As the outlet of Mawei Port, it is also the training ground of the Daming Sailor and the Fujing Sailor School.

He waved his hand and said, "Don't alarm Damu, let's go to his side." ”

"The last will obey." The officer then ordered the sailors, who were reeling their sails, to change to half-sails and continue eastward.

After another meal, Zhu Linmiao could already see the smoke blown by the sea breeze on the sea in front of her. He took out his binoculars and looked over there, and saw two teams of warships entangled in each other, and they were inseparable.

Most of these ships are of the type of Fukubune, but they have been changed to soft sails, apparently to simulate the Galen warship.

On the side of the blue flag, there were seven other warships, all of which were connected end to tail, always facing the enemy on the side of the ship. It is the standard naval battle line play.

However, the side flying the yellow flag has thirteen warships, which seems to be overwhelming. Its large ship was in front, unfolding in an arc and encircling its opponents. In the cracks of the big ship, there were also a dozen or so small arson clippers. It should be simulating the traditional tactics of the Ming army's naval divisions.

As soon as the two sides approached, they immediately began to shell in turn. At the same time, the yellow team's arsonist ship quickly rushed up, ready to look for the opponent's broken fire.

However, the BLU formation was extremely flexible, constantly turning to the upwind position, and using the dense artillery on its side to bombard the yellow team.

The yellow team was only equipped with heavy guns in the bow of the ship, and only three or four guns on the side of the ship, although there were more ships, but the firepower in the process of firing was less than 30% of that of the blue team.

Not long after, two of the Yellow Team's boats were judged to be "sunk" and then sailed out of the battle circle. The blue team immediately inserted through the gap formed by the two ships, splitting the enemy battle formation into three parts.

The Yellow Team only relied on the arson boat to cause some trouble for the Blue Team. Fortunately, the BLU warship was equipped with a lot of small-caliber guns and Franc machine guns, and it was barely able to block the arsonist ship that was rowing rapidly at close range.

The Yellow Team quickly fell into passivity, but their commander was obviously very experienced, and decisively ordered the largest flagship, Gu Fan, to rush towards the middle of the BLU formation, not only blocking nearly half of the BLU team's firepower, but also had a tendency to disrupt its formation. The other warships took advantage of this gap and quickly gathered upwind.

The BLU team immediately stopped firing and recessed back in the middle of the formation, forming a U-shaped encirclement of the incoming enemy ships. Subsequently, the BLU command ship ordered the flag to wave, and all the ships opened fire at the same time, instantly "blasting the yellow team's flagship to the bottom of the sea".

After eliminating the interference, the BLU team quickly resumed formation and clung to the yellow team in a straight line to shoot. The Yellow Brigade continued to have warships sentenced to "sink", and until the last ship was lost, only two arsonist ships were "burned" an "enemy ship".

Although it was just a naval battle drill, and all the cannons fired pine blocks, it still made Zhu Linmiao's blood surging.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is the Age of Discovery, an era of using sails and cannons to dominate the world! Historically, the Ming Dynasty was only a spectator, watching the European powers complete the great geographical discoveries and grow rapidly. But this time, I will never let Daming miss this opportunity again!

Before the "fierce battle" over there was over, the alert ships discovered that there were two sentinel boats on Zhu Linmiao's side, and quickly surrounded them.

After the two sides confirmed their identities, one of the warning boats immediately split up and rushed to report to Zheng Chenggong.

Soon, more than twenty warships lined up in a neat triangular queue and sailed to the front of the sentinel ship.

Only then did Zhu Linmiao see clearly that most of them were sixty or seventy ton lucky boats and ten or less ton fast boats, which should have been purchased by the sailors from the private sector for training.

Only the two warships stood out from the crowd, not only the hull was several times larger than the other ships, but the shape was also obviously different, and there were eleven gun firing ports on both sides of the ship, which looked very powerful. It was exactly the same as the 300-ton Galen warship on the slipway yesterday, and it was the latest Galen warship built by the shipyard.

Then Zheng Chenggong boarded Zhu Linmiao's sentinel boat in a communication boat, and Shi Lang, Liu Guoxuan, Zhang Guoxuan and others followed him. At the back of the group were two foreigners, one of whom Zhu Linmiao even knew, the Portuguese naval officer López, whom he had captured in Macao a few months earlier.

Zheng Chenggong first led the crowd forward to salute, and said: "If your subordinates are not welcome, please forgive your sins." ”

Zhu Linmiao said with a smile: "I was just afraid of delaying your military training, so I didn't inform you." They are all their own people, so they don't have to be polite. ”

He looked at the warship still with the yellow and blue flags, and praised: "I just watched your drill, and it has only been a few months, and I have already practiced in a neat formation and skillful cooperation, which is really good!" ”

You know, in the era of sailing, ship control is all about experience, coupled with the low level of communication, it is absolutely extremely difficult to keep all the ships connected to each other in a straight line and fire at the same time. This is one of the reasons why the navy is the most difficult to train in all arms.

Zheng Chenggong hurriedly said: "My lord has an overreputation. Most of the sailors of the sailors originally lived on the sea, and they were extremely familiar with boats, and they could become an army with a little training. ”

He looked at López behind him again, "It's that these Yiren sailors found by your lord are very good at water warfare, and they are also quite familiar with the battle line tactics taught by His Highness. With them accompanying the drills, the soldiers advanced very quickly. ”

The sailors he was talking about were the Portuguese navy captured by Zhu Linmiao in Macao, and now these people are working as prisoners of war as sparring partners for the Daming sailors.

Since the Portuguese began to use Galen ships very early, their experience helped the Daming sailors a lot. In addition, Zhu Linmiao gave them some wages, which made them even more happy.

Liu Guoxuan continued: "What Lord Admiral said is extremely true. If it weren't for the help of these Yiren, it would have taken a lot of work just to skillfully manipulate the sails. ”

Daming has always used hard sails, which are very easy to operate, but the disadvantage is that the wind area is small. On the contrary, the Western-style soft sail has a large wind area and can increase the speed of the boat, but it is extremely cumbersome to operate. It takes a dozen people to barely control a sail, and it is not easy for inexperienced novices to handle it.

Zhu Linmiao praised López a few more words, then walked back to the cabin with a few people, and asked Zheng Chenggong: "Da Mu, how many available soldiers does the Navy Division have at the moment?" ”

"Lord Hui, in recent months, my subordinates have trained more than 3,700 sailors, and more than 30 generals can lead ships."

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