The day after leaving the shipyard, Qiao Haipeng led the 600 recruits of the Navy out of the training team and let them into the Admiralty station. All naval personnel, except for those on duty, all others also assembled at the Admiralty.

Everyone lined up next to the wharf of the military port and lined up according to each division. Qiao Haipeng walked to the front of the queue and paced back and forth for a few steps, then Yan Sù looked at everyone and said calmly: "The purpose of letting everyone come here today, maybe everyone already knows." I'm not talking nonsense, and whoever thinks they don't need to learn how to operate a sailboat can stand up now, and you can choose not to learn what you think is outdated.

Hum...... But I also said first, as long as I stay in the position of Minister of the Navy for one day, you don't want to get on the ship again, you just stay on the shore, when you figure it out, when you make up this lesson, and then consider whether you can get on the ship in the future. From this day forward, all Admiralty personnel, all recruits, including myself, will have to go to the sailboat to learn, and they will have to start with the most basic deck wiping.

Don't think that we are smarter than the ancients because we are modern people, there is no sextant in this era, there is no global positioning, and there is no wireless communication, but people can rely on sail power to carry out intercontinental navigation around the world. ”

Qiao Haipeng paced back and forth a few more steps, and found that no one raised any objections. He nodded with satisfaction, pointed to the twenty Dutch sailors in the distance, and said solemnly: "They will be our instructors in the future, and from today we will learn from scratch under their teaching." Let's not look down on these foreign devils. Don't look at us defeating them, we all know what we rely on to defeat others. If there are no modern warships, no modern weapons, even if we are given a "Victory" sail battleship, we may not be able to win, this is the gap.

We have come to this era, without global positioning, without wireless communications, without computers, if the diesel reserves brought from modern society are gone, maybe even a few modern ships will be decommissioned and mothballed.

The company does not yet have the ability to develop all-steam warships, and we have no choice until the company has mastered the technical reserves of all-steam power. For the time being, we can only rely on the combination of sails and steam power as the power choice for our naval warships in the future, and this stage may last for a long time.

More than 100 years ago, Europeans came out of the ignorant Middle Ages, sailing into the vast Atlantic Ocean and opening up the new continent of the Americas. Countless sea overlords competed to enter this magnificent Age of Discovery, and finally the greedy and hateful English pirates, with their desire to rule the world, quickly became the hegemon of Europe, and truly ruled the world for a hundred years.

This is the Age of Discovery, and it is also an era of plundering money. Our great nation had the opportunity to participate in this thrilling feast of the sea, but in the end we were absent.

Could it be that we carry a sense of historical mission, and when we come to this era, we want to guard one acre and three points of land, and live a hot life with our wives and children. Our nation has missed it once, should we miss it again? Therefore, I ask everyone to learn from those foreign devils with the mentality of a soldier when they get on a sailboat. ”

After he finished speaking, he beckoned to the twenty Dutch sailors in the distance, and Van Bit and the others ran over. Facing the majestic queue made them feel a lot of pressure and very nervous.

Van Bit is a person who has worked in the navy, and he judged from the temperament of these soldiers that the combat effectiveness of this unit is definitely not weak. Although those hundreds of people looked like new recruits, they must have also undergone rigorous military training. Such a force, even if it is the main force of many powerful armies in Europe, is nothing more than that.

Qiao Haipeng glanced at them, stretched out his hand and pointed at Van Bit, and said sternly: "The establishment of twenty of you is temporarily serving as the instructor team of our Admiralty, and you, as the captain of the instructor team, are responsible for managing the affairs of the instructor team. But you are also responsible for any problems that arise with the instructor team. ”

When Fan Bit heard Qiao Haipeng's words, his heart was suddenly excited, and he immediately said loudly in broken Chinese: "Yes, Your Excellency General, I will do my duty." ”

Qiao Haipeng nodded and said: "Your task is to teach us to master the sailboat skillfully, everyone here, including me, is your student soldier when you get on the sailboat, you must strictly manage it and teach it carefully." This is also the assessment standard for your probationary period. If anyone fails to fulfill his responsibilities as an instructor, he will return to the concentration camp and work as a coolie for the rest of his life. ”

Van Bit translated Qiao Haipeng's words to everyone, and all the Dutch people became nervous. They don't want to go back to that hellish place again, so they are all secretly determined to be good instructors for these people, saying that they can't go back to that hellish place again.

From this day on, twenty Dutch sailors began to work as instructors on board to teach all officers and men of the navy how to handle and use the sailboats. Navy recruits are divided into two classes, and they go on board for internship while they also conduct recruit training. The other officers and men of the Admiralty were also divided into two classes, Qiao Haipeng and Lu Gambo each led a team and began their apprenticeship careers in two sailboats.

Li Ming's work in the Military Commission also came to an end, and he returned to the Nationalities Committee. Ever since he heard Song Tao talk about the course of the battle that day, Li Ming has been pondering the issue of improving equipment for mountain warfare.

So when he arrived at the Nationalities Committee, he plunged headlong into the military factory in the development zone. At present, two 30,000-square-meter light steel structure workshops of the military factory have been built, and one of them has been renovated internally, and various machines and equipment are being installed.

Because the troops are waiting for a large area to be reequipped with Type 1628 rifles, the military factory has already installed and debugged a batch of equipment in advance, and is concentrating its efforts on assembling, and the machinery factory adjacent to the military factory has also sent a large number of experts and technicians to support the arsenal, striving to complete the task of assembling 5,000 Type 1628 rifles in the shortest possible time.

The Type 1628 revolver, the Type 28 infantry gun, and the Type 28 mountain gun were also under intense assembly. At the same time, the equipment for bullets and shells of various calibers has also been installed and debugged, and it is constantly running every day, producing a large number of paper-shell bullets and shells.

Zhang Jiang, the director of the military factory, and a group of experts and technicians were not idle, and all of them went into battle in person, busy nervously on the production line. When they saw Li Ming, they put down their work and greeted them.

Zhang Jiangyi grabbed Li Ming's hand and said enthusiastically: "My Li Da Standing Committee, you came just in time, our first batch of Type 1628 rifles has just been assembled, can you take a look?" ”

After speaking, he pulled Li Ming to the side of a pile of wooden boxes next to him, picked up a rifle from a wooden box and handed it to Li Ming. Except for the wood of the butt, which was different from the one Li Ming had seen in Linhai before, there was no change in other places.

Li Ming pulled the bolt a few times, then raised his rifle and took aim, very satisfied. smiled and said to Zhang Jiang next to him: "Yes, you have tested it." ”

Zhang Jiang also picked up a rifle from the wooden box and said with a smile: "I have only tested a few of them, all to test the reliability of paper fixed ammunition." Because this batch of rifles has just been assembled, the accuracy of the rifles has not yet been tested. ”

After he finished speaking, he touched the butt of the rifle, and then explained to Li Ming: "It happened that a walnut tree was found on the side of the forest farm, so they stopped all the work and helped us process a batch of walnut rifle wooden components. More than 1,000 rifles have been assembled in the first batch, which can basically meet the comprehensive refitting work of the army recruits in the training team. ”

After Zhang Jiang finished speaking, he pulled Li Ming to the other side, and it was also a hot scene here. There were several assembled Type 28 infantry guns stacked on the ground, and Zhang Jiang led Li Ming to the side of a middle-aged man.

Li Ming took a closer look and found that he really knew this person, who was He Dada, whom he had received back then. Li Ming walked over directly and said with a smile: "Director Heda, you don't stay in the machinery factory, why did you come to the military factory?" ”

He Dada saw that it was Li Ming, and hurriedly put down the work in his hand, held Li Ming's hand and said with a smile: "Isn't this Lao Zhang, they need support, the change of equipment of the troops is a big thing, how dare we slack off." ”

Since coming to the company, He Dayi has changed the lost appearance when he reported and has become much more cheerful. Now he is the deputy director of the machinery factory in charge of production, conscientious, and busy on the front line in the morning. Although the work is very hard, the mental state is very strong. His son, who is also in the machine shop, is also very happy with the place.

He Dada said as he led Li Ming to the side of a Type 28 70mm infantry gun that had just been assembled, and introduced Li Ming with a smile: "Because many equipment has just been installed and debugged, we have assembled several Type 28 infantry guns. If you work at full capacity every day, you can produce and assemble four Type 28 infantry guns and two Type 28 mountain guns.

The main reason is that there is a shortage of manpower, and the equipment has just been commissioned, coupled with the fact that the work of the steam generator is still unstable, and several key equipment cannot be used temporarily, but with the continuous running-in of the equipment, the future work progress can be much faster. ”

Li Ming visited the ammunition production line next to it, and because of one reason or another, the output could not meet the needs of the troops for the time being. Then Zhang Jiang and He Dada, along with some technicians, took Li Ming to the technical department of the factory and showed him the series of mortars they were developing, and now a sample of a 60-mm mortar has been made.

Zhang Jiang said with a smile: "This is an imitation of our army's PP89 60mm mortar. The caliber is 60 mm, the gun weighs 5.25 kg, the maximum firing range is 2700 meters, the shell weighs 1.33 kg, and the rate of fire is 30 rounds / min. It has the advantages of light weight, good density, good stability of the seat sheet, and easy to use.

We will develop 82 mm and 120 mm mortars in the future, and now we have completed the drawing design work, because the various equipment of military factories, foundries and other enterprises has not yet been installed and debugged, and if we want to produce samples completely, I am afraid we will have to wait until next year. Even this simplest Type 29 60-mm mortar will not be able to achieve small-scale mass production this year. ”R1152