"Thousand-year-old trees are used as clothes hangers, and thousands of miles of seas are used as bathtubs." This sentence is most appropriate to describe the current Jin navy.

The Quanzhou Shipyard of Jin State Navy recently launched a huge warship. Compared with the Dongwu Navy, which was far away in the Jiangnan region, the Jingzhou Navy took several laps. This is a new warship that craftsmen built according to Zhao Xing's ideas, which incorporated the later Zheng He treasure ship, equipped with paddle wheel power system, and could make full use of sails to help.

Zhao Xing named this new warship "Sea Dragon", which means the meaning of a dragon on the sea. The huge and mighty "Sea Dragon" is more than 20 meters long and five meters wide, and can carry twenty large long-range weapon bed crossbows. The bow is equipped with sharp impact angles made of steel, and the stern is equipped with flexible steering door-type rudder pages. The upper platform is also equipped with an even more amazing sky-blasting thunder catapult.

If it weren't for the fact that the displacement of the warship was still difficult to support the installation of iron armor, Zhao Xing really had the urge to make wooden iron armored ships.

To make such a huge sail paddle, the keel that needs to be used is a thousand-year-old ancient tree. As the most critical part of the entire ship structure, the keel is like the backbone of a man. In ancient times, when steel was not used as a shipbuilding, it could only use the whole huge tree with a tight texture. Therefore, the soldiers of the Jin Navy lived on the "Sea Dragon" warship. Perhaps somewhere where they hung clothes, they were made of the branches of the thousand-year-old ancient tree.

The rated capacities of the Hailong are 480 people, which is equivalent to the establishment of a battalion formally organized by the various military forces of the **. Among them, there are one pipe belt, two deputy pipe belt, several department leaders and several deputy positions, and they are officers.

According to functional division, these departments include the navigation and communications department, the power maintenance and control department, the combat department and the logistics support department.

The nautical and communication department is mainly responsible for observing and observing, determining maritime routes, drawing and correction of charts, mutual communication between warships, and communicating orders within the entire ship, which is equivalent to the eyes, ears, nose and mouth of a warship.

The power maintenance and control department is mainly responsible for providing self-generating power for warships, controlling sails and rudders to borrow water flow and wind power, and is responsible for the deployment of warships to docks, anchorages, etc. When the ship encounters danger, it is responsible for plugging and removing leakage. In normal times, it is responsible for the maintenance and maintenance of the hull to prevent decay and damage on the deck, cable breakage and rust on the anchor chain. This department is equivalent to the heart and legs of a warship.

The combat department mainly includes two types of long-range attacks and close-range hand-to-hand combat after close-range gangs, which is also the biggest difference between warships and civilian ships. Soldiers who can skillfully use large-range attack weapons and adapt to sea life will become long-range attack soldiers; while close-range hand-to-hand combat still tests the individual combat effectiveness of soldiers, but the premise is that they are not seasick and will not become "soft-footed shrimps" due to wind and waves at sea. After all, the enemy will not hang a high-level battle card with you because of bad sea conditions. This department is equivalent to the teeth and fists of a warship.

The logistics support department mainly serves the lives of the officers and soldiers of the ship, mainly including the food and drinking water group, the medical epidemic prevention group, the entertainment worries relief group, the financial and trade group, and the prisoner of war interrogation and detention group. It is easy to understand the food and drinking water group, the medical epidemic prevention and prisoner of war interrogation and detention group, but what are the entertainment worries relief and the financial and trade groups?

It turns out that when warships sailed on the sea for a long time, due to the harsh living environment and the distance from their family and land, the officers and soldiers were under great psychological pressure, which was prone to irritability and boredom, and even mentally abnormal behaviors that ordinary people could not understand, such as self-harm, bloodthirst, killing comrades and other cruel behaviors. Therefore, Zhao Xing specifically asked that there must be some soldiers on the large ship that could tell stories, sing songs, and make jokes to the officers and soldiers, so as to regulate the psychological pressure of officers and soldiers.

As for the financial and trade team, they are usually responsible for the procurement of food and other daily necessities of the ship, and distribute military supplies and military pay to the navy officers and soldiers. In addition to performing tasks, if the warship occasionally undertakes other tasks, such as escorting local merchant ships, or playing a guest fishing boat, there will be a reward or income. How to manage this property is the job of the trade team. The financial and trade team is equivalent to the steward of a warship.

Such a huge warship, equipped with scientific and reasonable organization and personnel, showed a completely different temperament from other troops from the beginning of its establishment.

"Stand together, wind and rain" is Zhao Xing's training for the first ship of the Sea Dragon, and his intention is self-evident. This big ship carrying Zhao Xing's dream of blue ocean and the hope of taking off in Jin, the first batch of 480 officers and soldiers were composed of soldiers from all over the world. Among them are Danyang elite soldiers who are familiar with water and brave in combat as the main force of the combat department; Donglai sailors who are familiar with navigation and experienced are the main force of navigation communication and power control; strong and powerful soldiers in the army provide power to drive the paddle wheel of the ship...

The "Hailong" warship carrying many sustenances and dreams, under the personal command and leadership of Taishici, left the dock of Quanzhou Shipyard on the eighth day of August and sailed towards the vast and vast sea. They had to sail on the sea for half a month, not only to test the comprehensive performance of the warships, but also to follow the coastline to the northeast, thoroughly understand the characteristics of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, and start preparing for the next step of protecting the **.

The heroic and powerful naval officers and soldiers of the Jin State used the "Water Twelve Miles of Sea as Bath Trophy" to express their determination and courage to conquer the sea. No matter whether the wind or waves are waiting in front of their route, I believe that with everyone's concerted efforts, they will be able to successfully pass through it.

Although Zhao Xing is now busy finishing the trade fair in Wohu City, his mind is also concerned with the launch and trial voyage of the "Sea Dragon". He often thinks that if the Chinese people's thoughts of lightening the sea and heavy land in this time and space can be influenced by his own eyes to see the world and pay enough attention to and understand marine rights and maritime threats, then after several years, robbers from tens of thousands of miles away and a few miscellaneous monkeys on the Japanese island in the east of China would not easily penetrate the defense line of the Han Empire from the sea.

For this lofty dream, Zhao Xing even transferred some of the most intimate products at the trade fair to Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Wuzhou, which were rich in shipwrecks, and exchanged them for 600 shipwrecks and urgently allocated them to Quanzhou Shipyard.

It was learned that in order to reduce the pressure on Jin Dynasty expenses, Taishici led the navy officers and soldiers to adapt to sea life while carrying out self-service production, fishing a large amount of fish and shrimps as meat, and selling seafood to Yuyang, Guangyang, Youbeiping and other counties near the sea. Zhao Xing issued a notice to the entire army without hesitation, praising the action of the Jin Navy, and allocating one million taels of silver from the treasury as the funds for the navy.

This shows how much Zhao Xing attaches importance to naval construction.

ps: The tenth volume, which is not very intense, ends in a slow and slow manner. For book friends who like to watch the battle scenes of two armies and the duel of ten thousand people, this volume seems boring, but for more book friends, this volume is an important volume that connects the past and opens the future, and Zhao Xing's power from Jiao to Long.

Everyone should know that the dragon is just a big snake with horns on its head. After all, it has to hide in rivers and lakes. The dragon is different. It can call the wind and rain and turn the rivers and seas.
Chapter completed!