To this day, the first fleet of the Fujian Navy has 14 warships, the smallest warship is only more than 200 tons, and the largest warship is more than 600 tons. The second fleet warships affiliated to Liu Xiang are much more complicated. Although the second fleet has hundreds of ships in name, there are only more than 30 ships in fact. Moreover, the smallest warships of these more than 30 warships are only more than 100 tons, and the largest one is only more than 400 tons. Now that six warships have been added, the power in Liu Xiang's hands has been greatly strengthened, which also makes Liu Xiang feel very satisfied.

Ning Shuisheng came to Fuzhou with the warships. As soon as Ning Shuisheng passed, there were thousands of sailors from the Fujian Naval Academy. They were one of Yang Feng’s powerful means to strengthen control of the Second Fleet.

The warship where Ning Shuisheng is now located is called Zhenning, which is the second batch of six-class warships produced by Mawei Shipyard. There are twelve of these six-class warships. After the launch of the water, these warships were divided into two equally by Yang Feng, six each of the first and second fleets.

"Crazy..."

Ning Shuisheng poured a bucket of sewage into the sea, then scooped up a bucket of water from the large water tank beside it and put it on the deck. Then he took out a rag to start scrubbing the deck for the second round. Next to Ning Shuisheng, more than a hundred sailors wearing light blue marine camouflage uniforms and vests were doing routine daily...scrubbing the deck.

People should take a bath frequently, and the same is true for warships. Sea water is very corrosive to ships. Even ships made of steel in later generations had to go back to the shipyard for maintenance during their journeys, not to mention the ancient wooden ships. Especially during the period of wooden sail warships, washing the deck was an indispensable task almost every day, because only by washing the deck frequently can the durability of the ship be maintained.

Scrubbing the deck is a very boring and physically consuming task, so every time you scrub the deck, all sailors act together. Sometimes, in order to boost morale, even the leader of the ship has to take the lead in scrubbing.

After scrubbing the deck with clean water, Ning Shuisheng and his companions took out rectangular sand and gravel five inches long and two inches wide. Everyone lined up, and dozens of people half kneeled together to slowly push the sand and gravel, pushing from the bow to the stern and from the stern to the bow. This was done more than a dozen times, and this was done.

After friction, rinsing, and then drying in the sun, the deck will become extremely clean and white. If a person step on it barefoot, he will not feel any slippery or burrs. This is how he can pass.

The process of scrubbing the deck lasted for an entire hour. Ning Shuisheng, who was so tired that his waist almost couldn't straighten up, sat on the deck and took down the kettle at his waist and poured it into his mouth. He drank almost all the water in the half-kettle. Only then did he feel better. Lu Dahai, who was on the side, was lying on the deck motionless, letting the dazzling sunlight shine on his face and ignore it.

In fact, the situation between the two is not special. Almost everyone is like this. Scrubbing the deck is a physical job. Even the strongest young man will feel exhausted after bending over for an hour. Just look at the appearance of the people lying on the deck.

Lu Dahai, who was lying on the deck, moaned weakly and cursed hatefully: "Dog red-haired ghosts, this is a deck that is deliberately tormenting us. Tell me, we used to only need to clean the deck once every day on the first day and fifteenth day of the month, but since they came, they actually asked us to clean it once a day. These days, my hands have been worn out by sand and gravel, and now my hands are full of calluses. It's such a sin! Sometimes I can't figure out whether they are prisoners or we are prisoners. If I were the fleet commander, I immediately ordered all these red-haired ghosts to go to the mine to see if they are still arrogant or not!"

Lu Shuisheng rolled his eyes in anger and said, "You guy knows nothing. Liu Junmen said that scrubbing the deck is not only a maintenance of warships, but also a kind of tempering for us. Don't refuse to admit that those red-haired ghosts are better than us in some aspects. Although they were defeated by us last time, what was the situation at that time? The three warships, the largest Qingyuan, is worth the total tonnage of the two warships of the Red-haired ghosts. If we can't win three or two, we can all jump into the sea, but even so, we still lost more than ten brothers. Don't you know what this means?"

"yes!"

Lu Dahai muttered and stopped talking. Perhaps at this moment he remembered the naval battle half a year ago.

It was the first naval battle since the Fujian Navy was formed. Navy Admiral Lu Guangbiao, with thousands of sailors and three warships, met with two Dutch warships in the waters near the Penghu Islands. Both sides started fighting without saying a word.

A fleet of fledglings, which are all composed of rookies, were dominated by warship tonnage, quantity and number of artillery, was suppressed by the Dutch at the beginning without being irritated by the Dutch. If Lu Guangbiao had not gritted his teeth and fought against the danger of the ship being destroyed and killed while the Dutch turned, he would have approached the opposition and shot at a distance of less than 100 meters, and then he used the advantage of artillery to defeat the Dutch. Afterwards, Lu Guangbiao and the sailors of the First Fleet of Fujian Navy were both sweating. The victory was too lucky. If the Dutch had not been too careless, they might have lost that naval battle.

It was precisely because they understood that winning was so lucky that Lu Guangbiao and the officers tried their best to train sailors as if they were crazy. This was not counting. The Grand Governor of the South and the Marquis of Jiangning, Marquis of Jiangning, and Marquis of Jiangning, allocated all the more than 500 Dutch prisoners of war captured to the First and Second Fleet as instructors, and asked these Red-haired Japanese to train them. At first, the sailors were not very happy, but the army was a place that paid attention to strength. After seeing the Dutch crushing in all aspects of navigation, surveying, sailing, artillery and other technologies, even those who were not convinced could only bow their heads honestly to receive the training of these defeated generals.

Ning Shuisheng and Lu Dahai were both fortunate to participate in this naval battle and also realized the cruelty of naval battle. Unlike land battles, the battle at sea is to twist hundreds or even hundreds of people in the entire warship into a rope. Only by working together to defeat the enemy can you survive. The loser either dies or becomes a prisoner like the Dutch. Of course, it is not impossible to escape, but it depends on your luck.

Thinking of the scene of gunfire roaring and smoke in the last naval battle, Lu Dahai couldn't help but sigh, and stretched out his strength to sit on the deck, spitting in his palm, holding the mast beside him with both hands, and climbing up skillfully like a monkey.

Lu Shuisheng asked curiously: "Dahai, what are you doing?"

Lu Dahai's voice came from the mast: "It's nothing, I'll practice how to make this sail rise faster."

On the stern deck, Neham and Tajik, who were also wearing light blue camouflage uniforms, were with several Dutch prisoners of war... No, they should be called instructors now, standing together to smoke. If a careful person observes, they will find that they are smoking cigarettes, and cigarettes with filters.

Well, this is another good thing our Comrade Yang Feng did. With Yang Feng’s arrival, this guy also brought some bad habits to the Ming Dynasty, such as cigarettes, one of them.

Although tobacco has gradually spread in the Western world by the 17th century, at this time, whether in the Western world or the Ming Dynasty, most people smoked dry tobacco or pipes, and cigarettes were not invented at all. However, with the arrival of Yang Feng, a guy from the 21st century, cigarettes quickly spread in the Jiangning Army. Today, the Jiangning Army has a lot of cigarette guns, and the Dutch people such as Tajik were also shot.

Some people say that God invented loneliness, emptiness, boredom, and then invented cigarettes.

The army is the easiest place to produce cigarette guns. After coming to the Fujian Navy as instructor, the welfare of Neham, Tajik and others was the same as that of the Fujian Navy's officers and soldiers. They could receive a box of cigarettes every week. Based on the principle of not wasting, these people were quickly assimilated and quickly became addicted to smoking. In just less than half a year, many people could already proficiently spit out cigarette rings.

Tajik looked at the navy officers and soldiers who were still busy on the deck and said with some emotion: "These Ming people are really smart. Their progress has become so obvious in just half a year. If they are given a few more years, I think they will be able to catch up with our Dutch Navy soon."

Neham shook his head, "No... they have caught up with us, at least in terms of fighting will, they are no more than our Dutch Navy. This is the most important thing.

Everyone on the side nodded. Neham was right. The most important thing about the navy is fighting will. You can learn if you don’t have enough experience and practice if you don’t have skills. But if you don’t have fighting will, it’s the worst. Even if this army has a large number of people, no matter how hard the training is, it will be useless.

Then, Neham shook his head and sighed, "I am just sighing, if this navy we taught meets and starts war at sea one day in the future, will we become sinners of the Netherlands?"

Everyone around was silent. After a while, Tajik smiled bitterly: "Mr. Lieutenant, this question is too sharp. But what I want to say is that since we have accepted the employment of the Ming Kingdom, we naturally have to do it according to the contract requirements. I think... Even without us, the Ming people can still find Spanish or Portuguese to teach them, so your guilt is completely unnecessary."
Chapter completed!