Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 466 Naval Exercise
Bai Mingxiu cruised in the Persian Gulf on the battleship Fuqiang. Most of the time, the warships of the Ming Navy were relatively idle. Bai Mingxiu's avatar, Wang Kai, was still the commander of the Ming Navy after all. Therefore, Bai Mingxiu will arrange exercises of different subjects for the fleet as the voyage progresses.

However, the exercises of the Ming Navy Fleet were mostly relatively low-intensity subjects, such as escort, formation training, reconnaissance, boarding inspection, etc. The Ming Fleet practiced less real ship-to-ship attacks.

This time, Bai Mingxiu is planning to take advantage of the army and his entourage to build Dubai, and to take the naval fleet to conduct corresponding combat training in the Persian Gulf. For this exercise, Bai Mingxiu is very serious about letting the fleet staff make a scenario, and will 32 The ships were divided into two formations, evenly matched.Since the navies of various countries are too weak, then the Ming navy should simply imagine the enemy. This is similar to the fact that the US military and the PLA in the 21st century actually had combat plans for very offline situations, such as zombie outbreaks, foreign Alien invasion.

Exercise formations certainly won't actually fire at each other, but training for vantage points, fleet formation, and operational operations can still be conducted.

Even Bai Mingxiu personally led one of the formations to conduct exercises as the red team, and another group of officers from the staff commanded the other blue formation.

The formation of the blue team is a long snake configuration, the battleship with the strongest firepower is placed at the front, and other cruisers and frigates are arranged next.However, Bai Mingxiu's red team adopted a small team style of play. His command was somewhat unconventional and faced many risks. Bai Mingxiu hoped to give priority to attacking the blue team's capital ship and gain a certain advantage.However, the formation drill of the blue team was very successful. After the encounter between the two sides, the horizontal team turned to the vertical team, and then bombarded several teams of the red team. He lost his fighting power, and he himself was even "killed".

In the end, Bai Mingxiu, who adopted a non-mainstream strategy, led the red team to lose, but the loss of the blue team was not small.Bai Mingxiu himself has no intention of winning or losing. He did these things to train the navy.Basically, though, the Navy has no major problems, the skills are solid, and the officers are reliable.

In fact, this is also natural, because nearly [-]% of the navy officers and soldiers are system mercenaries recruited by Bai Mingxiu, and they are recruited at a relatively high level. Only those newcomers to the navy need a lot of training to become qualified. Marines.But under the leadership of many experienced naval seniors, the new recruits actually grow very fast.

The navy is a military service with a heritage. It is said that a century-old navy will take a long time to develop.But the golden finger Bai Mingxiu gave him was originally an experienced navy, so if he recruits new recruits, he will also pass on this professional spirit and tradition.

The last exercise is really about to see a little fire. The navy has put down dozens of floating targets and is preparing for a target-shooting exercise.In fact, for a navy at this technical level, it is much more difficult to hit a floating target than a ship, after all, the target of a ship is much bigger.The accuracy of artillery in this era is not so high. Even in the period of World War I and World War II, the impact points of naval guns were sometimes very outrageous.

What should be practiced still needs to be practiced, but Bai Mingxiu didn't expect that a group of unexpected guests came to a good artillery drill.

"Commander, the direction is 1-7-0, the distance is about 12 nautical miles, and there are multiple galley targets."

"The galley, uh, this should be the Ottoman navy."

The main force of the Ottoman navy is placed in the Mediterranean Sea, but they also have some power in the Persian Gulf, but this power is naturally so small that it can be ignored.Ottoman's shipbuilding technology is actually not bad, but the overall thinking is very old, and Ottoman's artillery technology is a little behind, so the current Ottoman navy is no longer competitive compared with the navies of European countries.

Bai Mingxiu sent out a soul torture: "What kind of guts and mentality can make these galleys come to us?"

In fact, if they knew that the Ming Navy was like this, this group of Ottoman navy would not dare to come.

At this time, Suleiman, the captain of the Ottoman Navy, was pale.

"How come there are so many enemy ships, and they are so huge, which country are they from?"

"It's the Chinese fleet."

"China...?" This word is ancient and unfamiliar to Suleiman. He knows that there is a country called China somewhere on the earth, and merchants sometimes go there to do business, but this is basically equivalent to Like the vocabulary of myths and legends, it is not used in daily life at all.

The words they speak in daily life are basically Greeks, Balkans, Cyprus, Aegean, etc. They never think that they have the opportunity to face the Chinese navy.Although in the past two years, it seems that Europeans have been referring to this country more and more, but Turks still know little about it.

Suleiman led the fleet to deal with the unknown forces that came to the south coast of the Persian Gulf, but they didn't know exactly who came here and how big it was.The Ottomans have a huge desire to possess the Persian Gulf. They have fought the Portuguese and Persians here before, striving for hegemony here.So when Suleiman heard that foreign forces had invaded the Persian Gulf, he immediately led the fleet and carried soldiers out. He was a Turkish pasha. Suleiman led his troops out without any hesitation.

It's just that he didn't know exactly what he was involved in.

Although Bai Mingxiu lamented that there were Turks who came to die, he was unambiguous and led the fleet to start encircling a few galleys.This is a completely unfair battle. Even the smallest frigate of the Ming Navy is more than half the size of the largest galley of the Turks.

When Suleiman saw the Ming warship, he wanted to turn around and run away immediately, but the speed of the galley was really too slow, while the Ming warship was burning its boilers and approached directly at an extremely fast speed.

"Warning bombardment, let the Turks surrender." Bai Mingxiu conveyed the order.

If the enemy was about the same size as him, it would be interesting to fight. After smashing these galleys, Bai Mingxiu really felt that there was no need to fight, so it was more appropriate for the Turks to surrender themselves.

The battleship Fuqiang opened fire first, and it was not even the main gun that fired, but the 57mm secondary gun. The secondary gun of the Ming Navy was already regarded as a machine gun, and the rate of fire was relatively fast. With great power.

(End of this chapter)