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Chapter 585 The Young Ming Navy

The sea breeze blows on the face, with the usual salty smell; the sails are full, urging the battleship, cutting the waves and galloping forward.

Gan Hui stood firmly on the deck, despite the bumps of the ship, his feet seemed to have nails, and he remained motionless, holding up the binoculars to look into the distance.

As the commander of the First Squadron in the South China Sea, Gan Hui is only in his twenties, so he can be considered young and promising, but this is in the eyes of outsiders.

The officers of the Ming Navy are generally relatively young, and there are not a few of them who are about the same age as Gan Hui.

The reason is very simple, the establishment time is still very short, and it is only five or six years to complete the calculation.Moreover, not many were promoted from the original navy, and most of them were selected and trained by Shen Yourong through observation and testing.

Young, aggressive, courageous, quick to accept, even without much knowledge.

The emperor believed that if he wanted to build the Ming Navy into what he had in mind, it might not be effective to correct it in the old way.

Historically, the Zheng family was able to dominate the East China Sea, but in terms of ships, artillery, and tactics, there was also a big gap with the Western Yi.

It was only because of the large number of people on board and the geographical advantage that the Xiyi, including the Dutch, were forced to bow their heads.

To put it bluntly, it's just a navy that imitates cats and tigers by imitating Xiyi and learning nondescriptly.

And what the emperor needs is not only shape, but also spirit, and even a ship size that exceeds Xiyi, as well as tactics.

Therefore, his suggestion to Shen Yourong is to recruit and train more young people, hire Portuguese as coaches, build western-style sailing warships, and use new naval warfare methods for drills.

Semaphore signals, use broadside firepower, equip cannons, close-in bombardment, rocket salvo...

The current Ming Dynasty Navy has mastered it quite proficiently, and its advantages in weapons and equipment are also better than those of Xiyi. The only thing it lacks is actual combat experience.

Gan Hui slowly put down the binoculars, glanced at the staff officer beside him, smiled, and said: "The red hair can't beat six Galen ships, but Mr. Shen dispatched ten times as many ships as the enemy, isn't it a bit strange?" The feeling of slaughtering a chicken with a sledgehammer?"

Before the staff officer could answer, Gan Hui added, "The squadrons are not allowed to attack without authorization, and all must be assembled."

The staff officer thought for a while and replied: "It is understandable that Mr. Shen is cautious. After all, this is the first large-scale actual battle after the establishment of the navy. It is better to explain to the court if we can win a complete victory."

Gan Hui nodded, and said: "The Navy has spent a lot of money over the past few years. It's really hard to explain if it doesn't fight a good battle. But there are more wolves and less meat. You can't retreat with hundreds of warships twice and replace them with others." Hit it twice?"

"The general thinks that even watching the battle is a kind of actual combat training." The staff officer replied truthfully.

"Watching the battle—" Gan Hui shook his head slightly with an expression of unwillingness.

The staff officer shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and said: "Surrounded on three sides, Mr. Shen wants to wipe out the enemy completely and not let a single one escape. Most of the ones who can meet the enemy are our First Squadron. But if the enemy goes first Escape depends on which direction they go?"

Surround it on three sides and wipe it all out in one fell swoop, this is the battle plan that Shen Yourong led the officers to discuss and decide.The Dutch wanted to drill towards the Pearl River estuary, although there was no main fleet to intercept them, they also prepared fireboats to meet them.

In narrow waterways, fire attack is the most effective means.The Dutch galleons were unable to turn properly in the waterway, and they would be burnt to pieces by the fireboats.

Moreover, in a three-sided siege, it is difficult to judge which squadron will be the first to meet the enemy.

According to the judgment of the staff officer, the Dutch found that they were under siege, and most of them wanted to flee back to their nests.And this direction happened to hit the first squadron.

(End of this chapter)