In addition to the expansion and reorganization of regular combat units, the Central Military Commission has also made some arrangements for the three brigade-level combat units of the overseas corps. +X. The soldiers of the Overseas Legion are divided into three classes, namely the Knife Bearer, the Spearman, and the Musketeer. The 500 men of each battalion-level combat unit are composed according to the ratio of 100 swordsmen, 200 musketeers, and 200 spearmen.

In addition, the Central Military Commission also commissioned the arsenal and the machinery factory to develop a set of half-length steel plate cuirasses and a unified equipment system for the overseas corps of the three brigades, plus the grimace mask and Russian-style steel helmet, and the armor of the overseas corps is enough to face any opponent in this era.

The Military Commission will also "mobilize" 3,000 Japanese and Korean locals on Tanegashima and Jeju Islands, where they will undergo three months of basic training this winter, and will become auxiliaries of the Overseas Corps in wartime to provide service support for the overseas Corps' combat.

After the introduction of the plan for the reorganization of the troops and the plan for the equipment to be installed, the brigade-level scale of the Far East Brigade was also changed and upgraded to a division-level establishment. The unit was subsequently renamed the Far Eastern Division.

Under the jurisdiction of a teaching brigade, a garrison brigade, a death army wing, a mountain regiment, an engineer battalion, and a battalion-level unit directly under the division, the number of regular troops of the Far Eastern Company exceeded the 10,000 mark for the first time.

The officers and men of the War Department have also been reorganized once again, and a battalion-level unit directly under the Ministry of War has been set up, which will mainly be supported by artillery, automobiles, armor, communications, logistics, and other units.

Because there are too many new recruits in the unit and there is a shortage of grassroots cadres, this expansion has also had an impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops. However, this year's combat mission has basically come to an end, and in the next few months until next spring, the main task of the troops will be large-scale training.

After this reorganization and expansion, there will be no further major changes in the next few years. Because of the extreme shortage of grassroots cadres in the troops, even the cadres assigned to the Far Eastern Division by the War Department have reached the limit, and the lowest posts have reached the company level. If the platoon-level grass-roots officers can still let the non-commissioned officers take the top, the company-level cadres will not be able to deal with anything.

Wang Haiyang and the first batch of outstanding veterans of the 100 training corps who have experienced combat missions have entered the Army Command College of the Central Military Commission to participate in a three-year study. Of course, the learning process is only half a day a day. At other times, they still have to participate in the management and training of the troops. There are also 100 veterans of the teaching team. He will go to the overseas corps as a company commander, and after a year, he will return to the teaching team and enter the Army Command College to participate in the study.

At the same time, the Army Non-commissioned Officer School was also opened, and the non-commissioned officers of the Army and Navy will take turns to participate in the three-month non-commissioned officer study course. Trained as the future soldier backbone of the unit. If ordinary fighters are the flesh and blood of the troops. The non-commissioned officer is the backbone of the troops. Excellent non-commissioned officers are the key to supporting the combat effectiveness of the troops.

The reorganization and training of army units are in full swing, and good news has come from the Admiralty. The shipyard's two sailboats are shipped. Moreover, the sea trials have been completed and are awaiting acceptance by the Military Commission.

The company attaches great importance to these two sailboats, and everyone is full of anticipation. Hopes are placed on these two ships even higher than several modern ships now, after all, modern warships will be scrapped sooner or later. And these two newest sailing ships are the beginning of their battle for domination of the seas.

After months of assembly, the two sailboats were finally ready to be delivered to the Admiralty, much to the excitement of the entire company. For this reason, the company deliberately held a grand handover ceremony. Members of the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors and heads of various departments of the company attended the scene. The company's employees also came a lot.

After the various ceremonies and celebrations, everyone couldn't wait to go on the two sailing boats to visit. Li Qicong, director of the shipyard, accompanied Gao Jianguo, Li Ming and other members of the Standing Committee of the board of directors to visit the ship.

The names of the two sailing ships were also selected by the company in a large-scale naming campaign, and finally the two names that were selected the most among the more than 1,000 submissions participating in the activity, and the two sailing ships were finally named "Sheng Tang" and "Han Wu".

"With a displacement of 840 tons, the hull is made of iron-ribbed wooden hulls and twelve compartments. Three steel masts, up to three-quarters of the hull, and the foremast, mid-mast, with a crosssail design, are divided into five stages of boomers. The rear mast is a spinnaker with a two-stage boom with a triangular screw between the masts, and four spinnakers in the bow, similar to the design of the Buck sail.

Two large steam boiler units are installed in the middle of the hull, which are powered by pure steam power, and can reach a maximum speed of 8 knots, and can sail more than 5,000 nautical miles when sailing at an economic speed of 5 knots. The ship was loaded with 500 tons of refined coal from the coal washing plant, as well as a large amount of fresh water.

Originally, our idea was to adopt the bagentin sail type, with a transverse sail on the foremast, and a longitudinal sail for the middle and rear mast sails, intermast-line auxiliary sails, and bow sails, but considering that when our fleet crosses the ocean in the future, if we adopt a crosssail-based design, relying on a strong monsoon, we can reach a high speed of about 9 knots, and if the sails are used together, it can reach 12-14 knots. In the past few days, when we were in sea trials, we also proved our ideas.

The advantage of the shanger is that the sail can be rotated around the mast almost arbitrarily, allowing it to travel against the wind without being affected by changes in wind direction under any wind force. In addition, there are fewer people who need to operate the sails. However, when the sail is sailing downwind, the speed has no advantage, and if the wind is too strong, the impact on the sail is also greater.

The reason why Western full-sail sailing ships cannot sail against the wind is that the wooden mast is high, and in order to fix and effectively support the mast against wind and waves, side support cables, front support cables, and rear support cables are set to limit the rotation of the sail boom. Although the crossbow of the sail can be deflected to the left and right, the sail truss will be blocked by the side support cables, so the mainsail is far from being able to rotate to the longitudinal position.

Therefore, when the wind is headwind, it is impossible to make full use of the wind, so it can only take a zigzag sailing line, and use the change of the hull angle to make the sail truss form a longitudinal direction, so that the full-sail sailing ship has the ability to sail against the wind, but in this way, the speed can be imagined. Therefore, most of the schooners in this era took advantage of the change of the monsoon to sail between the continents, and could only run once a year, and if they missed the monsoon, they could only wait until next year.

That's not a problem for us. We used a one-piece steel mast, which is tightly connected to the steel keel of the hull, which greatly increases the strength. Therefore, in the foremast, only the front and rear support cables are retained, and the side support cables on both sides of the mast are canceled, so as to realize the ability that the crosssail can be freely deflected to the longitudinal direction.

Moreover, the backsail adopts a longitudinal sail design, which not only retains the high speed of the downwind, but also has the ability to sail freely in the sea area with variable winds, and even makes better use of lift than a full-sail sailboat when the wind is headwind, and the speed is naturally faster.

As for the number of sail operators, there is nothing to do, after our optimization, a large number of modern social bearings, alloy material pulley sets, wheels and other modern technology sail rigging systems are adopted, not only the number of sail sails is nearly half less than that of full-sail sailboats, but also the efficiency has been improved several times. ”

Gao Jianguo looked around on the boat, he didn't know much about sailboats, so he asked Li Qicong next to him: "The boat you built is no different from those captured foreign devil boats, I remember that there is a kind of clipper called a clipper, which is said to be very fast." Why don't we build a couple of clippers. ”

Without waiting for Li Qicong to speak, Qiao Haipeng said with a smile: "Although the flying clipper ship is fast, in order to increase the speed of the ship, the hull is designed to be slender, sacrificing the stability of the ship in the sea, and the amplitude of the sway and pitch is very large. Especially when crossing the oceans, often the wind and waves are high, and the hull is not suitable for modern artillery fire. We are armed with two D-44 85mm cannons on board, and the accuracy of the shooting cannot be guaranteed by the artillery sighting system we are equipped with. ”

Li Qicong also said with a smile: "In fact, our boat has borrowed a lot of technology from the clipper, except for the wider hull, the design of the hull has many similarities with the clipper. There are still significant differences from the sailboats of this era. Did you notice that the deck of our boat is very flat from bow to stern, without any additional structures or steps.

The hull is also lower than that of a sailing ship of the same tonnage, and the width of the hull is much narrower, with only one deck on the waterline. The bottom of the ship also adopts some modern ship science fluid design, and the anti-roll fin is added, which greatly reduces the roll amplitude of the ship.

In the bow, we also used a steel hollow bow that is much longer than that of ordinary sailboats, which not only improves the stability of the hull, but also has enough space to install four triangular sails. The top mast sail is hung with a moon sail and a support sail, and there are also overhang sail truss sail bars on both sides of the hull, which can also be hung with wing sails, which increases the lateral extension area of the sail and can make more use of wind power when downwind.

When I was in the modern society, I used to take the physical model of this ship, entrusted a lot of old relationships, did a lot of tests in different scientific research institutions, and cheekily asked some experts and professors of the ship, just the hull was changed several times, and the sail layout was changed again and again, which led to the current ship.

We also designed a pure clipper with a displacement of about 350 tons, which was later used as our company's liaison mail ship for communication between islands in overseas territories and for the transportation of some important items. The ship adopts a hollow bow with a length-to-width ratio of 1:6.5, and adopts a longitudinal sail-based design, and the maximum speed downwind is conservatively estimated to reach 14 knots. The stern is equipped with two sets of marine engine powertrain systems modified from two Soviet-style truck diesel engines, and the speed of pure engine power can reach 6-7 knots. (To be continued......)

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