Xiao Letian must have not heard the Grandmaster's scolding. Half a month before Zeng Guofan entered Beijing, the Zhiyuan and seven other sail warships had set sail at the Naba National Military Port, Yang Fan set off south and headed straight for Malacca.

After a major cleaning, the Zhiyuan was painted all, the ammunition warehouse was reloaded, and even every rivet was carefully inspected.

There is really no such thing as Xiao Letian who uses battleships like Xiao Letian. When the earliest Prussian engineers fulfilled Xiao Letian's dream big toy, they said, "For weapons like Zhiyuan, try not to form combat power for a single ship. Only by forming an echelon can they enter the battle..."

The engineer is right. Unlike sailing warships, steel warships are more precise, have higher maintenance costs, and require more technical jobs.

If each warship is not in war, it should be overhauled once a year every cruise. If a war breaks out, then basically every naval battle will be repaired and maintained.

This is not something that can be repaired by finding a carpenter in the sailing warship. The maintenance of steel warships is a very professional discipline. Sometimes it is very common to have a major maintenance time of more than half a year.

In the rigorous Prussians, if such warships want to provide a country with safe military protection, they must be organized into the 33rd fleet.

One-third of the warships are maintained in the dry dock, one-third of the warships are in the best state for combat readiness cruise, and the other third is on standby maneuver.

Three batches of warships take turns to repair the battle preparations, so that a complete combat readiness system can be formed, and no faults will occur once a war breaks out.

Xiao Letian also agrees with this theory, but Xiao Letian cannot do it! After all, the Chinese are not British and French. After hundreds of years, there are various types of warships in hand that can complement each other and gradually upgrade.

Basically all the warships owned by the Chinese people were captured, and there were old models bought from the United States. They were OK as training ships, but they were really useless as warships.

Zhiyuan is the only weapon that the Chinese navy can make, and it is also the only killer weapon that can be looked up to by Europeans. This time, Zhiyuan has to bite the bullet even if it is tired.

Xiang Ying, Cai Bixia, Jin Sanshun, Lin Zhen... These earliest ironclad ship commanders of the Chinese navy were indeed enough to suffer. They started their bloody battles from last year's European return, fighting with the French on the Atlantic Ocean, Dakar Artillery City, and then supported the battle of the veterans of the Heavenly Kingdom in Iquik.

He traveled all the way and was harsh. After returning to Ryukyu, he immediately participated in the battle against Tsarist Russia. The artillery battle at the Minjiangkou was then reversed the situation and ambushed Amami until he pacified the Far East. The Zhiyuan was completely overloaded. Several times, Prussian engineer Kevin was furious. Many hidden dangers would cause major failures if they were not ruled out.

It was not until the war was pacified that Zhiyuan had one and a half months to carry out major maintenance!

Overload combat is a kind of harm to warships, but from another perspective, it is an excellent training opportunity for these naval talents.

It is precisely because the warships are overloaded that countless hidden dangers are exposed. In order to eliminate these hidden dangers, the officers and soldiers of the Zhiyuan have worked hard to work. They have become familiar with the maintenance, maintenance and operation of the ironclad ship as fast as possible.

Talent is too rare. If equipment wants to form combat effectiveness, it depends on talents. The Chinese are the first country to rely entirely on ironclad naval battles. Then the experience of Xiang Ying and his group of people is the best in the world.

Many of the tips they have figured out at work are valuable knowledge worth exchange for for those latecomers.

With this group of elites as the root, batch after batch of elite trainees can be trained in the future. Only with sufficient naval talent reserves can more warships form combat effectiveness.

Xiao Letian stood on the deck of the Zhiyuan. He could feel the changes in the temperament of these naval officers and soldiers. At the earliest, he could still see a little bit of hustle and anxiety. But now, seeing these young men manipulating the Zhiyuan, more of them were smiling relaxedly and confident.

Perhaps the state of unity between man and ship is cultivated little by little!

The Zhiyuan is not the only warship to visit Europe this time. Xiao Letian’s purpose this time is very clear. In addition to diplomacy, his more important task is to incorporate into the French-Prussian War.

The Zhiyuan was the flagship, and the other seven sail warships were used as supply ships and troop transport ships. Xiao Letian drew a total of 2,000 of the most elite veterans to form a special mixed force.

Four strengthening battalions, with a unit of 500 people being demoted by senior generals.

Xiao Hexin did not set out with him but stayed at the East Asian secret service, and the task of negotiating with Tsarist Russia and French ministers was also handed over to him.

Sima Yun is now on the rank of general, but he can only serve as the battalion commander of the first battalion in the special mixed company, and Chu Zhao is the deputy.

The second battalion commander Luo Huo and the deputy battalion commander Lu Ying were all veterans who followed Xiao Letian from the beginning.

The third battalion, Liang Kun, deputy battalion commander Jiang Lie, and the fourth battalion are all composed of foreign corps, battalion commander Heita No, and deputy battalion commander Bingtaro.

This is already a super luxurious team. Luo Huo and Sima Yun were originally generals at the level of the legion commander, but they also became first-line commanders in the special mixed company. From this point of view, the quality of the entire legion can be seen.

This can be said to be the most qualified group of soldiers in the world at that time. Basically, each company had a proportion of 20% of college students. Basically, each platoon could be assigned an English translator, a French translator and a German translator. There were even Italian, Russian and other translation talents in the camp.

The entire army is almost composed of reserve officers, with a literacy rate of 100%, and a mathematical popularity rate of 70%. Every squad leader can perform complex map work. Even if the real army is disbanded into squads and units and is spread on the European land, they can find their own battle direction and survive.

Perhaps in the minds of European military observers, these two thousand people are pitiful. The French-Prussian War is destined to be a super battle of more than one million people. What can you do with these two thousand people?

But if their intelligence personnel could see what arms supplies the casual warships brought, there would probably be no such mockery again.

"The war... will never go as you imagined... The soldiers I, Xiao Letian, will always win by breaking old rules. This is also the only way for the later nations to challenge the pioneers!"

"For this battle, I have been waiting for too long..."
Chapter completed!