In fact, according to the naval regulations of the Star Sea Kingdom, after the warship is launched and outfitted, it needs at least 3 months of training to familiarize itself with the performance of the warship before it can be officially put into service.
But this time the actions of the Xinghai Military Affairs Ministry are an exception.
From the time the strategic capital ship is launched and outfitted, the Navy will send prepared sailors and officers on board to familiarize themselves with the performance of the battleship.
After the main guns, secondary guns, machine guns and a series of weapons and equipment were outfitted, the Ministry of Military Affairs couldn't wait to put these six strategic capital ships into official service.
As for getting familiar with the performance of weapons and equipment, power systems, etc., take your time after serving in the military.
In any case, these sailors and officers who have boarded the ship are all veterans who have served for more than three years. Although they are not familiar with this strategic battleship, at least there will be no accidents in which the ship capsizes.
After the joint meeting of major fleet commanders, the whereabouts of the six strategic capital ships were decided.
The Northern Fleet and the local garrison fleet each received one strategic capital ship, the Southbound Fleet received two strategic capital ships, and the newly established Tu'ao Fleet received the same two strategic battleships as the Southbound Fleet!
And other warships launched in the past six months have basically been assigned to the Tu'ao fleet!
To be honest, this distribution result made all the major fleet commanders a little dissatisfied.
This Tu'ao fleet has just been established and has so many warships. It is simply out of control!
But Navy Commander Wang Haitao insisted on this.
The reason is very simple, there is room for others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch!
With Taiyuan Island, Nanming, Jiaozhi, Malacca and other places either under direct control or becoming allies, there is only one security hole left around Nanhai Island.
Those are the Flemish people who occupied Lu Song!
To be honest, from time to time until now, whether they are the Putao people, the Helan people, the Nanming people, the Jiaozhi people, and other surrounding forces, the Xinghai Kingdom has dealt with them, either as friends or as enemies.
But the Folangji people are the most unfamiliar neighbors of Xinghai Kingdom!
Although the time-travelers all came from later generations and all know the history, no one knows what the Falangji people think of the Star Sea Kingdom.
And Xinghai Kingdom has never sent anyone to Lu Song to deal with Governor Fo Langji.
Well, Xinghai Kingdom actually doesn’t want to turn the Francons into friends, and it is impossible for the Francois to treat a small country that has just been established as a friend.
Lüsong has vast and fertile land, numerous gold mines and other minerals, and rich fishery resources.
The most important thing is that if Xinghai Kingdom wants to go to Tuao, it must pass through Lu Song!
This is also the key reason why the new fleet was named Tu'ao.
The main purpose of its establishment was to capture Tu'ao, not just Lu Song.
Of course, compared with Tuao, which had just been discovered by the Helan people, it would undoubtedly be much more difficult to capture Lu Song.
After all, Lusong is now the base camp of the Francois in the Far East, and it will take more than a hundred years for Tu'ao to start real colonization by sending prisoners from Britain.
After the establishment of the Tu'ao fleet, the first navigation training was to set off from Sanya Base and go straight to Lusong, 1,100 kilometers away.
However, the focus of this voyage was to conduct hydrological and climate observations along the way, so the sailing speed was not very fast.
In contrast to the Tu'ao fleet, which began to sail slowly towards Lu Song and moved its forward base to Suilan Island, the southward fleet waited for the arrival of the two strategic battleships and the transport fleet before setting sail on the third day.
Set off and head towards the Persian Gulf, 3,000 kilometers away.
This voyage can be regarded as the longest voyage of the Star Sea Kingdom Navy.
Fortunately, in this season, the climate in the corresponding sea areas is pretty good, and there are no strong winds or waves.
Hence, after sailing for a full week, the huge southbound fleet arrived at Mast.
Master is a name from later generations, which means oasis pearl.
This can be said to be the only oasis in the nearby desert, covering an area of more than 20,000 square kilometers.
Obviously, it is impossible for such a desert oasis to be without human life.
There is one of the only two castles in Putao.
This matter, Xinghai Kingdom has already discussed this with the Putao people in Haojing.
Puo Yaren handed over the castle to Xinghai Kingdom, and Xinghai Kingdom granted the exclusive right to sell several commodities in Ouzhou to Puo Yaren.
Well, actually this is an exchange of interests.
The Putao people sold the castle port, which was already difficult to hold, to the Xinghai Kingdom in exchange for some benefits and the right to sail and supply in the future.
After all, it is very difficult for grapes to overwhelm people at this time.
Many of their ports were overrun by the Hollanders and the Britons.
Here, the rising Ariba dynasty is constantly driving the grapes to suppress the people.
In just a few decades, more than 20 castles and ports located here were occupied by the Aliba dynasty.
This dynasty later even expanded to eastern Philippines.
Grape Pressure has long since ceased to want to fight in such a lousy war with no gains.
Now that Xinghai Kingdom is willing to take over, I almost cried with joy.
Besides, even if the castle and port are given to the Xinghai Kingdom, the Putao people, as allies, still have navigation and supply rights, and their trade routes will not be affected.
With the withdrawal of Putaoya and the settlement of Xinghai people, the Aliba people around the castle felt a little strange.
Under the huge military pressure of the Yaliba Kingdom marching at any time, the newly arrived Xinghai people calmly renovated and expanded the castle. They even used a kind of mud that can turn into rock to repair the port.
Expansion.
The giant, sailless, automatic ship sailed into the port and unloaded some strange machinery and a large number of refugees.
In the next few years, this place will become the home of these refugees.
There is no doubt that the Kingdom of Ariba, which had been in a state of utter disarray due to the grape crush, was very dissatisfied with the arrival of a new force.
At King Ariba's call, thousands of camel cavalry came from afar, like a whirlwind blowing towards the castle.
They will not attack the castle directly, but they will throw rotting animal carcasses into the castle to spread diseases in the castle. At the same time, they will cut off the communication between the castle and the outside world, so that those outsiders cannot persist and can only flee in panic. Then the camel cavalry will
Can easily cover up and kill from behind.
Well, in fact, there was a precedent for the camel cavalry to directly attack the castle, but the losses were so heavy that King Ariba felt distressed, so they changed their tactics afterwards.
What they didn't expect was that before they could get close to the castle, dense bullets were fired from the castle, knocking one of the camel cavalry to the ground.
In less than ten minutes, hundreds of camel cavalry were left and fled in panic, leaving behind a pile of corpses.
Such a high killing efficiency is entirely due to the new rotating barrel machine gun.