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Gu Rong has been active in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea for a long time, and according to him, there are still some suitable places for ambushes on the sea.

The endless sea is theoretically passable, but in practice this is not the case.

If you don't follow a fixed route, it is very dangerous to sail in unfamiliar waters, such as reefs, storms, complex currents and other factors, it is easy to destroy the ship and kill people;

Even if you don't encounter these things, it is easy to get lost in the vast sea, or you will not be able to find fresh water and food supplies in time, and you will die of thirst and starvation.

Therefore, when sailing at sea, it is usually followed by a fixed channel, and since the channel is fixed, it is much easier to ambush the enemy.

It is said that Gu said that if the Zheng family's fleet went north, it would be easy to ambush them in the sea off Zhoushan.

"King Qin, it would be better if you could lure the Zheng family's fleet around the sea and wait for their supplies to run out of urgency before ambushing them."

"Okay, let's consider this matter first, and make a careful plan for the operation."

After the meeting ended that night, Qin Mu meditated hard for most of the night, so that he woke up a little refreshed the next day.

Early in the morning, he sent someone to order the North Sea Fleet to which Di Zhongxing belonged to cooperate with these actions.

Although the Great Qin Navy has divided the East China Sea Fleet and the North Sea Fleet, its main areas of activity are in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and the North Sea Fleet's current home port is temporarily located on Chongming Island, and its scope of activities is in the area around the mouth of the Yangtze River.

In the early morning, the water in February was still very cold, Qin Mu, who was a little lacking in energy due to lack of rest, took off his coat on the shore and plunged into the cold sea water.

No one expected that this move attracted enthusiastic cheers from the naval soldiers, "Long live King Qin!" "Long live King Qin!" Many gangsters screamed, and they also jumped into the sea for a while. The harbor was like dumplings, and the water was boiling.

Qin Mu was a little puzzled, he went to the sea to sober up, why are these guys so excited?

Later, I learned that among the training subjects formulated by Gu Rong for the soldiers, the first training every day was swimming, but it happened that Qin Mu was the first to go to the sea today, and the soldiers thought that Qin Mu personally took them to train?

Think about it, Qin Mu, as the king of a country, not only scooped food in the same pot with them. Sleeping in the same ordinary barracks, and taking them to the sea for training, how can you not be excited?

After Qin Mu and the soldiers swam freely, they went ashore to change their clothes, and then went to sea with the fleet to watch them train.

A total of 129 large and small warships were dispatched, including 4 ships of 800 materials and 18 ships of 400 materials; Although the other bluffers, eagle boats, and sand ships were not equipped with artillery, many of them actually had 200 materials. Two masts, sixty or seventy feet long, ten feet wide.

More than 100 warships gathered on the sea, with white sails like clouds. It is extremely spectacular, with seagulls flying in the sky, wind and clouds, and the sea surface is boundless. The bow of the boat ploughed out white waves.

Qin Mu stood on the tall flagship, holding a telescope to watch Gu Rong command the fleet training, and there were three sets of contact information between the ships: drums, flags, and lights. During the day, it is usually a combination of drums and flags, and it is very lively.

Qin Mu is a layman in naval warfare, especially in the era of sailing, as the so-called layman looks at the excitement, and the insider looks at the doorway, he comes to see the excitement.

Gu Rong practiced a lot of subjects, including grabbing the "T-shaped head", "battle line", "walking zigzag", as well as wolf pack tactics, dividing and attacking together, and so on.

Among them, Qin Mu has a little understanding of the tactic of seizing the "T-shaped horizontal head",

Before artillery was not used in naval warfare, the actual thing in naval warfare was to grab the vertical under the "T", to have one's warship aim its bow at the side of the enemy ship, to hit the hull of the enemy ship by the angle of the bow of the ship, and then to get on the enemy ship and engage in hand-to-hand combat, which was the most conventional and effective method of combat before the appearance of artillery;

After the artillery was used on the warship, the situation changed, the artillery was arranged on the two sides of the warship, and only when the side was facing the enemy, the guns on one side could exert their maximum power and fire all of them, while when the bow was aimed at the enemy ship, their own guns could hardly fire at the opponent;

Therefore, when the fleet is fighting, it should try its best to seize the horizontal line above the "T" and strive to aim its own side at the enemy's bow, so that the two fleets fighting each other will form a "T-shaped horizontal head."

The average rookie may think that when grabbing the T-shaped crosshead, their own warships are lined up in a horizontal line, but in fact, this is a huge mistake;

In a real naval battle, it is not in a straight line, but in an arc, passing through the top of the enemy in a half-quarter arc, so that you can really concentrate the most firepower and quickly cover the enemy.

The problem is that everyone knows that it is important to seize the "T-shaped horizontal head", and others will not wait for you to grab the horizontal head stupidly, so how to grab the T-shaped horizontal head, this is the key.

This involves a series of factors such as wind direction and ocean currents, sail and rudder, and only by improvising, making full use of all favorable conditions, so that your speed is better than the other party, it is possible to grab the T-shaped crosshead.

Under the command of Gu Rong, the drums were beating, and the fleet chased each other for a long time on the sea.

As the saying goes, when a cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold.

Live firing is extremely expensive, but in order to quickly improve the combat strength of the navy, Qin Mu has made a lot of money, and now the fleet has a subject of live firing in its daily training, with two shells per cannon as the ration, every day.

Today's live-fire firing took a reef in the middle of the sea as a target, and four 800-00 ships equipped with artillery and 18 400-ship-to-fortune sailed one mile away from the reef in turn, and each gun fired two rounds in succession.

For a while, the sea roared and the smoke was filled, and the seagulls in the sky were so frightened that they fled and flew away. Tongues of fire erupted, and projectiles roared towards the reef.

Qin Mu took the telescope and observed carefully, and found that out of the ten shells, at most only one fell within thirty meters of the reef, and none of the shots directly hit the reef, and some were even one or two hundred meters away from the remote reef.

This kind of shooting accuracy made Gu Rong's face a little unbearable, as soon as Qin Mu looked at him, he immediately pleaded guiltily: "The minister is incompetent, please ask King Qin to surrender." ”

To be honest, Qin Mu was also a little disappointed in his heart, he spent so much money to let the entire fleet practice live firing every day, this is not just the cost of shells, the barrel has a life limit, and the more times you shoot, the barrel will have to be scrapped.

But he wisely did not show his disappointment, and the fleet, which had just been formed, was like a child, and more encouragement was better than more criticism.

He said calmly: "Knowing shame is almost brave, after knowing his own shortcomings, as long as he faces it calmly and strengthens training, this king believes that the next time he comes, he will definitely be able to see more accurate live ammunition shooting." ”

"King Qin, minister" Gu Rong landed on one knee, suddenly knelt down in front of Qin Mu, and said with a choked voice, "King Qin's mind is broader than this sea, and the minister lives up to King Qin's high hopes today, and the minister will die." The next time the King of Qin comes again, if there is no improvement, the minister will raise his head and apologize. ”

"Get up, and don't forget that you are now the commander of the entire fleet."

"Yes, King Qin!"

Qin Mu faintly remembered that he had seen a saying before, saying that the British Navy during this period had regulations that the fleet must enter a distance of about 300 meters before it could open fire.

If this is the case, then it means that at a distance of 300 meters, the shooting accuracy of the British Navy is not much better, and now that the East China Sea Fleet is firing guns from a mile away, it should be good to have such a result.

Now the artillery accuracy of the Great Qin Army is very high, but the army and the navy are not the same, and the wind and waves at sea will make the ship sway, and this alone will have a great impact on the accuracy of shooting.

Thinking of this, the disappointment hidden in Qin Mu's heart also faded, maybe the shooting accuracy of the East China Sea Fleet was not much worse than others. And because I have just been in the army for two or three months, there is still room for improvement in my skills, and this is hope.

Qin Mu only stayed in Shuangyu Port for a day or two, and on the third day, he returned to Ningbo City and began to arrange a plan to lure the snake out of the hole;

The key to the Zheng family lies in the water division, if the Zheng family water division can be severely damaged, Fujian will not be defeated, but it is not easy to defeat the strong with the weak, this is not an easy thing, Qin Mu is extremely cautious about this plan

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(To be continued......)