Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 178 Mixed Fleet
Zheng Chenggong is a person who loves face very much. He pays attention to ethics and decency. In fact, he didn't want to serve in the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army because his rebellious son Zheng Jing was still in Jinxia with 2 troops. Tune to act.According to the normal situation, Zheng Chenggong must be guarded, just like the Qing court treated his father Zheng Zhilong.

However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not control Zheng Chenggong very much. When he was in Guangzhou, he was allowed to walk around, even meeting old subordinates, visiting relatives and friends, and so on.During this period, Zheng Chenggong also tentatively asked to go to Nan'ao Island, saying that he would assist in supervising the construction of coastal defense, which was also approved.Zheng Chenggong knew that either His Highness the Crown Prince trusted him very much, or His Highness the Crown Prince actually didn't care much about his pettiness at all.

Anyway, Lord Guo Xing now sees very clearly that the Ming Dynasty Fuguo Army is definitely an invincible army, not to mention weapons and equipment, but in terms of training and organization, Zheng Sen knows that no army can hold a candle to it.He felt a breath of iron and blood from the military appearance of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army. Zheng Damu, who had led the army for many years, knew how terrifying such an army would be.

Today, the three kings with different surnames in Nanming all have military positions. Jin Wang Li Dingguo is the most prominent, with the rank of general above, and he is the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Military Region.Ying Wang Zheng Chenggong is also an admiral, but an admiral of the navy, but he did not lead the actual fleet, but served as the deputy commander of the Naval Command of the Ministry of National Defense-the commander-in-chief is Sister Lion.The original Gongchang Wang Bai Wenxuan was not valued by His Royal Highness, and he is still in Australia, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Australian Garrison.

The so-called garrison is actually something similar to the armed police or the National Guard. It only exists in Australia now. In fact, the total number of garrisons in Australia is only about a hundred people. Recently, the main task is to prevent forest fires.

With Zheng Sen's qualifications, it is not an exaggeration to be the commander of the navy, but Bai Mingxiu attaches great importance to the construction of the navy, and he still uses the lion sister who understands the modern navy to do this. But this time he went to the south of the Yangtze River. In addition to bringing a new flagship, Bai Mingxiu The iron-clad ship Donghai, plus two frigates to accompany the troop carrier operations, and the main naval combat missions were all delivered to Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong was also appointed as the captain of the mission mixed fleet for this operation, but in fact Bai Mingxiu also assigned a B-level naval talent from the system, the deputy commander named Chu Youxin, to assist Zheng Chenggong.

Even the fleet that Zheng Chenggong has commanded is much larger than the mixed fleet this time almost every time, but the mixed fleet is the largest fleet he has ever commanded.

His flagship is a second-class sailing battleship with 92 gun positions, the ship name is Pingman, and it is the second ship of the Pinggui-class battleship.The first-class ship Xiangfei (Xiangfei, Xiangyun) and the second-class ship Pinggui (Pinggui, Pingman) in Bai Mingxiu's navy were all prizes from the previous naval battle dungeon.At this time, Bai Mingxiu, who had about thirty sailing warships, would not continue to build these huge sailing warships even if he had the shipbuilding blueprints of the Xiangfei class and the Hepinggui class.Sister Lion has done calculations, and the most economical and practical ship type is the 74-gun Ninghai class, especially now that a mature shipbuilding method has been explored, basically it only takes eight months from the safety of the keel to the completion of service.

In fact, Bai Mingxiu did not need to quickly expand his fleet. With such a scale of [-] main battleships, it is quite enough to dominate East Asia.However, when Nanming's trade interests began to expand to more distant places, Bai Mingxiu was bound to build more such warships.

In Zheng Chenggong's fleet, in addition to the flagship Pingman, there are 7 Ninghai-class sailing warships and 4 Zhendong-class sailing warships.These ships are not only larger than the ships led by Zheng Chenggong, but also have even more firepower.However, these warships have basically not completed the replacement of naval guns. All the artillery of a total of 12 warships are old-fashioned bronze smoothbore guns.

He has spent most of his life at sea, but Zheng Sen is still in charge of the fleet at this time, which means walking on thin ice.He has made up a lot of new knowledge in the Navy of the Restoration Army, such as "battle line", "concentrated use of broadside firepower", "T prefix" and other terms, which sometimes make him confused. dizzy.But fortunately, in fact, the technical level of this fleet is not much higher than that of Zheng Chenggong's previous fleet, and it is easier for Zheng Chenggong to get started.

In the captain's room, Zheng Sen was dressed in a white admiral uniform with a heroic appearance.At the beginning, he was a little dissatisfied with the somewhat Western-like military uniform, but after wearing it too much, he found that the new military uniform of Ming Dynasty was good enough both in terms of action and appearance.The fabric is well cut and also has Chinese characteristics.

The deputy commander of the fleet, Chu Youxin, is quite young. He looks about 30 years old, but he is actually in his 20s. The main reason is that Chu Youxin has no beard and smooth chin, which makes people feel even more unreliable.

But after getting in touch with him for a while, Zheng Chenggong has clearly noticed that this deputy commander is much more capable than himself. Whether it is leading troops or sailing, Chu Youxin is very familiar with handling it.

Speaking of which, Zheng Chenggong was actually the only man with a beard in the entire fleet. For this reason, Zheng Chenggong also asked Chu Youxin. Chu Youxin replied that fresh water on board was scarce and it was difficult to maintain personal hygiene, so all naval officers and soldiers were required not to grow beards.That is to say, but Zheng Chenggong struggled and kept his long beard, after all, it is also a symbol of status.

Chu Youxin was lying on the table and was drawing pictures. Zheng Chenggong did not have the ability to draw pictures with one hand. He could also see that Chu Youxin, who was more professional in sailing skills, could throw himself two blocks away, even though Zheng Chenggong himself Not quite willing to admit it.

"Commander." Chu Youxin saluted as a greeting.

Many details in the navy made Zheng Chenggong uncomfortable. For example, in the fleet, no one called him the surname Ye, Wang Ye, or His Royal Highness Ying Wang, but he was called Commander or Chief.Zheng Chenggong also felt a new atmosphere in this fleet. The soldiers and sailors respected him, but these soldiers would directly express their opinions and opinions to him, and sometimes even invited himself, the prince, to have a meal with them Food.

That is to say, the sailors didn't feel any essential difference between their identities and that of the Prince of Ming Dynasty. Zheng Chenggong had already sensed to some extent that that monstrous prince was promoting the idea of ​​equality among the four peoples everywhere, even in In the army, even though the enforcement of military orders is very strict, soldiers still have the right to have the courage to face their commanders, speak out some questions, or express their opinions.

This made Zheng Chenggong very novel, and he couldn't help thinking about the benefits of this model.

　I want a monthly pass and a recommendation ticket, I want it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)