In the following days, Chen Xin arranged for various departments to summarize and correct the problems exposed by the exercise, and at the same time began to slowly delegate authority to the heads of various departments who had begun to familiarize themselves with government affairs management. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the absence of Chen Xin, emergencies can be resolved by a staff group composed of ministers and heads of each hall.

On the military side, there is the General Staff and its subordinate divisions, which send troops to fight, and if there is no order from the General Staff, it is a rebellion, and there is no mercy for killing.

There are many important positions held by cyborgs, plus the various light and dark methods used in the reorganization of the troops, as long as Huang Taiji and Amin don't come to find trouble, Chen Xin definitely doesn't worry about controlling the entire collective.

In this way, I waited until the day of May 11, when the secret agents of the Military Intelligence Department in the western Liaoning region asked the Eagle Falcon to send information, and the battle of Jinzhou between Houjin and Daming began.

Chen Xin, who got the news, immediately ordered the execution of the long-planned voyage operation.

The staff officers, led by the heads of the ships, inspected the food and water on each ship one by one to ensure that there would be no supply when floating on the sea.

After that, the maintenance of the boat, the maintenance of the ship's guns, the wear and tear of various sail ropes and spare parts were checked.

The staff officers checked and there were no problems before signing the documents that passed the inspection.

After that, it was the assembly and boarding of the people who went to sea.

Chen Xin knew for a long time that in this era, the convenience of water transportation was by no means comparable to that of land routes, so he also added anti-vertigence training to his military training in peacetime, that is, the entry-level training of the Chinese armored infantry in later generations - abdominal circumference.

The first squadron that was first reorganized was not the most brilliant in the whole army in terms of other skills, but in the training subject of belly winding, all of them were excellent personnel, and they were able to ensure complete combat effectiveness at sea, which was more important than any other tactical ability.

All five companies of the 1st Squadron, which had been prepared for a long time, plus two companies of the firepower and reconnaissance and search units directly under their respective units, a company of the Ranger unit, a guard platoon, and some of Chen Xin's personal entourage, boarded 10 "Fast Crab-5" fast boats that had recently been transferred from the Southern Detachment.

Lijiang, which is occupied by the southern detachment, serves as Chen Xin's shipbuilding industrial base, and it has not stopped developing for several months.

Since there was already a shipyard there, there was a lot of wood to dry, and the southern detachment was systematically and continuously improving the performance of the ships in batches.

The first batch, only 1, was used to familiarize themselves with shipbuilding skills, and the centipede ship of the Ming Dynasty was selected as the imitation object, but the pulley group was added to the sail, which reduced the number of sail operators, and changed the name of this ship to fast crab.

In the second batch, there were 2 ships, which were about a third larger than the original fast crab boats, and the hull was also changed to a streamlined type, which was faster, and the original flat bottom was changed to a pointed bottom suitable for sailing at sea.

In the third batch, there were 5 ships, and a bow gun with 10 pounds of iron bullets was added, and a thin top deck was added to the hull on the basis of the original single deck, and 5 80-pound small Franc cannons that could rotate at a 360-degree angle were filled on the central axis of the top deck. In the last battle of the Yalu River, it was this batch of fast crabs that arrived in time.

The fourth batch, only 1 ship, was changed to a steel cast keel, the structural strength was comprehensively strengthened, and a larger caliber gun was replaced, and a long-barreled heavy gun firing a 20-pound large iron ball was fixed at the keel of the ship, and the original two masts were also changed to 3 masts.

The biggest change in this model is its auxiliary power, which used to be sailed in the wind, and when there is no wind or need to accelerate, 80 trained sailors swing the 40 oars on both sides.

The slender stern was now square, and a copper propeller was added to the watertight compartment at the stern, which was held to the lowest level by a set of bicycle-style drives.

This set of devices only needs 10 people as a group to drive the chain drive gear with the pedal and the gear drive the propeller, so as to save manpower and increase the speed of the ship.

This not only reduced the 80 trained sailors to 10 coolies, but also vacated the middle deck of the former paddle oars, which could be used to hold dozens of guns.

Thanks to the use of steel cast keels, the ship was more durable, and the ship was tossed and turned over by the Southern detachment, constantly experimenting with new ideas on it.

Finally, everyone was very satisfied with this model of ship, and finally decided to build a large number of new ships based on this model in the short term.

So when the fifth batch of ships was built, 10 ships were directly started, and all the timber in the stock was used up.

This batch of fast crabs is called Fast Crab-5, and the previous ones were also named after the batch.

Fast Crab - 5, 34 meters long and 5 meters wide.

Three masts, traditional Chinese stiff sails.

Thick double-layer plywood.

The back third of the ground floor is the transmission unit, and the front half is the cargo hold, which is used to store all kinds of supplies needed for the ocean.

The middle floor was a gun deck with portholes and a sailor's cabin, which was planned to be equipped with 30 10-pound guns, but due to the serious shortage of artillery production, each ship was temporarily equipped with only 2 10-pound guns.

However, the bow of this layer is also concealed a newly developed short-barreled heavy gun that fires 30 pounds of iron bullets, although the range is very short, but the power is absolutely powerful, any ship with a tonnage less than the fast crab-5 is fired and absolutely capsized on the spot.

The guns were moved to the middle deck, and the upper deck was suddenly much wider, and a stern building was added to the stern of this floor, which was not only used as an officer's quarters, but also installed a steering wheel on the upper floor, behind which was a slightly higher platform, in addition to protecting the safety of the helmsmen, a very light large-caliber shotgun could also be placed on it, which was specially used to sweep the enemy from a high place on the deck of the enemy ship ready to engage the enemy.

The whole ship needs 10 coolies, 10 deck sailors, and a few officers to be able to use it as a transport ship to start quickly, and has a strong self-protection ability, loaded with guns and gunners, it is a very powerful warship in this era, and if you add a group of rotating coolies, the speed can be even faster.

The officer on duty shouted for instructions, "Report to the general, all the expeditionary forces have boarded the ship, please instruct whether to set sail." ”

"You can set sail."

"Yes," the staff officer on duty took the order and left.

A quarter of an hour later, with the sound of trumpets, the ships lifted anchor and hoisted their sails, and sailed out of the rough temporary dock one after another.

This is one of the advantages of the Crab-5, which has been changed to a sea boat with a pointed bottom, but in the empty mode, it can sail in rivers with a water depth of about 1 meter.

In the mode of transporting ships without full artillery, it is possible to travel on rivers with a water depth of about 2 meters.

There is no need to worry about bottoming out and running aground, and a ship is multi-purpose, which plays a very big role in this era of scarcity of materials.