Lu Ming

Chapter 487 Prince Charming and the New Flagship
After a hasty three-day holiday, the barracks began to work normally.

This made Young Master Mei very painful: the young man who felt the taste of love for the first time couldn't stand parting.

Fortunately, the purpose of running this student camp was to show the advanced nature and use the industrialized society to frighten and infect the natives, so there was no closed training.

The normal training time for trainees is from six to seven, and they can ask for leave after dinner and on weekends.

During this process, the battalion will also take the initiative to organize students to go to the kiln area arsenal, naval battleship, large agricultural demonstration base, and the Central Mountain Reservoir Group under construction and other places to play and study.In short, any project that can demonstrate the "advanced nature of the empire" will bring newcomers to visit.

So Young Master Mei and Zhu'er lived a hard life as a salaryman, getting tired of getting off work at night, and only going out on weekends.

But these are impossible.Soldiers, defending their homes and the country, may not even have to guard the border in the future.Unless you switch back to the rear, meeting at this frequency is already very good.

Mei Fuxi naturally knew this, but he didn't worry too much.Young people who are in the stage of passionate love can't care about the future. Young Master Mei doesn't even plan to ask for the marriage that his father prepared for him. Who knows if the daughter of Ma Baihu's family is a salt-free ugly woman?
I want to fall in love freely, and here in Yizhou, it is Cao Dashuai who has the final say!
In this way, after Mei Fuxi came to Yizhou, half a month passed in a hurry.

It is already June of 1630, the temperature in Tainan has risen slightly, and the scenery is beautiful, which is the best season of the Little Ice Age.

Mei Fuxi also became more and more busy.

Because he has received cultural education since he was a child, he is ahead of most of the students in military knowledge.Including map recognition, communication, geography, weapon parameters, etc., which require cultural subjects, Master Mei learned quickly.

This led to his early exposure to the next advanced subject: riding.

Most of these students from the north will return to the north to form a cavalry unit in the future.In the process of training, how to fight cavalry units that mainly use hot weapons is a key subject.

On this point, Mei Fuxi also learned quickly.Because in the previous Battle of King Qin, he was responsible for the sniping, so he had already mastered the small-scale Musketeer cavalry tactics.

What he needs to learn now is how to command a large cavalry force to fight a decisive battle with the enemy on the frontal battlefield.

This kind of subject is actually an officer course, because it needs to learn how to command and manage troops.In fact, if there is no accident, Mefusi will be awarded the official imperial rank after the training camp is over.And because of his previous military achievements, he will be awarded a lieutenant by skipping a grade.

The process of learning cavalry subjects is very novel.Mei Fuxi and some companions sat in the projection room and saw the magical projection screen for the first time.Accompanied by voiceovers and real camera shots, the young cavalry officers of the empire saw a novel tactical concept for the first time: cavalry wall attack.

Seeing the neat rows of cavalry on the screen holding their sabers high, colliding with the scattered formation of traditional nomads, and then winning a big victory, Mei Fuxi felt the horror of this tactic while being shocked.

After putting himself in his shoes and thinking about it, he immediately realized the key point of this tactic: Soldiers must have long-term training and extremely tenacious fighting will to fight the enemy in this formation.

Sure enough, in the subsequent tactics class, the instructor also made it clear that at present, only their forces are qualified to train and use this kind of wall-riding tactics.

But it is a pity that the wall-riding tactic is untimely in the plane of crossing the crowd-with breech-loading guns, it is difficult for the opponent's primitive cavalry to rush to the front, so there is no need to put up a melee formation.

So the fence-sitting tactic is not important in the current syllabus, it belongs to the kind that needs to be mastered, but the priority is low.

After the theoretical class in the morning, in the afternoon, Mei Fuxi changed her identity and became a riding instructor.

There are not only soldiers from the north in the training camp, but also many southerners.Mei Fuxi, who is skilled in riding, can understand the syllabus and knows what skills to train soldiers, has become an auxiliary instructor since the riding subject began.

Being an assistant teacher has its perks, of course: Mayfushi has a thoroughbred Arabian.

This pure white Arabian horse is called Lexus. It is tall, muscular, and well-proportioned. It is one of the excellent stallions that Emperor Cao bought from later generations.

After King Qin's army set off last year, the high-level people in the empire realized that horse breeding also needed to be treated with caution, and immediately increased their investment in this area.The Heihu Horse Farm privately run by the Army has been turned into a full-time official. At the same time, the breeding model of embryo transfer + a small number of stallions has also followed.

Now allocated to Mei Fuxi is one of the few imported stallions.This Lexus has a bare shoulder height of 1.6 meters, and it runs like lightning. Even if it comes from the north where horses are abundant, Mei Fuxi has never seen such a steed.

BMW, famous wine and beauties, these three things are naturally liked by heroes.Young Master Mei is naturally high-spirited when he won the BMW this time, and he needs to be happy and grieve.

Then he cools off.

On the Chikan Avenue, all eyes were on the young knight-errant riding a white horse, galloping through the busy city with a laughing beauty in his arms.In the end, Prince Charming, who had finished pretending to be aggressive, was forcibly stopped by the police and locked in a confinement room in the barracks.

Fortunately, Young Master Mei was not chaotic at that time. When he was pinned to the ground, he yelled at Zhu'er: "Go to the Western Paradise and invite the Tathagata Buddha." Second Lord!"

With Chen Erye coming forward, Young Master Mei's horses were confiscated in the end, he was locked up for a few days, and he was released after completing a series of in-depth inspections, but there was no sequelae.

But now he is famous.Not only is he famous in the training camp, but because of the newspapers, many people now know about Young Master Mei's feats, and they all gave him thumbs up and praised him from the air: You are kind, King Zhou You is full of vigor!

After Young Master Mei was released, he suddenly found that no matter where he went, he would encounter all kinds of meaningful smirks, which made him very distressed.

But the turning point came soon - one day in mid-June, the training camp received a notice to send people to the port to participate in the first voyage of the navy's latest flagship "Fuyuan" together with representatives of various departments of the army.

Fuyuan is the sister ship of Zhenman, which was completed not long ago.It is also an iron-ribbed wood-hulled sail warship. Because the Fuyuan was built a few months later, its tonnage is 200 tons larger than that of the Zhenman, reaching 1400 tons.

Although the volume is a circle larger than that of the Zhenman, the number of artillery on the Fuyuan has not increased, and the extra tonnage is all used for self-sustaining power.

This is the preparation for the next step to conquer Nanyang.

Since the successful launch of the Zhenman, the shipyards that have mastered the technology of building large ships have begun the process of making ships gigantic.The reason is simple: the larger the tonnage of the ship, the more efficient it is.The oil tankers that run all over the ocean in later generations are nothing but ordinary ships with [-] tons.

In this plane, the largest tonnage produced by the shipyard so far is only 1400 tons, which makes the travelers feel anxious.

You must know that the population transportation channel to Ming Dynasty has been opened. In addition, Taiwan's food has also achieved initial self-sufficiency.Not only that, every six months in the future, the production of food represented by potatoes will increase significantly, which will lay the foundation for absorbing a large number of people.

Therefore, the empire now urgently needs to build large-tonnage transport ships and cruise ships in order to go to the coastal ports of the mainland for trade and rush to transport people.

This process must be accelerated.Because according to the current development trend, within a few years, the Travelers will plan to send a fleet across the Pacific Ocean to America.At that time, the transport ships in the fleet should preferably reach the 5000-ton class in order to ensure the turbulence and smooth weathering of the storm.

Therefore, recently, in the major shipyards along the Taijiang River, 1000-ton and 1500-ton transport ships have been built.The previous 500 and 800-ton ships have been eliminated in this ever-changing society.

As for the battleship, the No. 1600 ship of the Zhenman class has already laid down its keel.The tonnage of this battleship will be increased to [-] tons again, catching up with the historic ship King of the Sea built by the British a few years later.

Of course, in terms of combat effectiveness, the warships that travel through the crowd can completely defeat any opponent in this era.

Mei Fuxi boarded the majestic battleship with a happy face.The golden blue painting, the huge white sails, and those cannons shining with metallic luster made the young people very excited.

This time he is really happy, he can run away from the limelight, and he can travel on a big ship, what more bicycle do he need?

The next moment, with the blaring of horns, the fleet set sail.

The Fuyuan sailed this time, surrounded by four frigates.The destination of the fleet this time is Huangpu New Port opposite Guangzhou, where it will be used to defend the Zhenman, which has been in Guangzhou for a while.

After the mighty fleet set off, it is natural to cross the strait first and go to Xiamen for a tour.A new big killer has been added, and all parties must always know that it is not.

So the fleet crossed the strait overnight.After arriving at the other side, the fleet purposely circled around Xiamen Port. After showing off its power enough, it began to go south along the coastline, passing by many merchant ships on the route.

In this way, it won't be long before all the forces along the coast will know that Cao has built another huge ship.

In this way, the fleet sailed south, Mei Fuxi compared the map in his mind along the way, and saw the southern world from Xiamen to Hong Kong one by one.

On the day of June 6th, after the fleet sailed across the ocean of Hong Kong, the drama came: the 20-ton Zhenman was taking a leisurely walk in circles off the coast of Macau, accompanied by two frigates.

The next moment, the two giant ships joined forces victoriously.The combined powerful fleet conducted a round of live-fire drills off the coast of Macau with impunity. After that, the two giant ships parted ways, and the Fuyuan swaggered towards the upper reaches of the Pearl River.

(End of this chapter)