In mid-October, the terrifying basic military training finally ended after a ten-day exercise assessment. Oden won the first place without surprise, and Redel followed closely behind. Otaku King Heidi didn't know which god he worshipped, so he accidentally got into the fifth place. This was called Major Stenzel, who was not optimistic about King Heidi, almost pulled all his hair away.

Basic navigation training is not easier than basic military training. Even with the assistance of pulley rudders and careful teaching from veteran sailors, it is still not a very simple thing to control a schooner. Fortunately, sailing warships have been eliminated, and now it is the steam era. Sailing training is just an appetizer for primary navigation training.

At the end of October, accompanied by the morning mist of the Baltic Sea, the torpedo training ship Friedrich Karl, carried out of the port and sailed towards German West Africa.

German West Africa is thousands of nautical miles away from Kiel, Germany. Wang Heidi thought it was an easy trip, similar to an outing trip, but the facts were exactly the opposite. When the training ship approached German West Africa, the otaku was not only sighing at the awesomeness of John's cow, but his mind was full of land, beer, women, fresh vegetables and fruits and romantic holidays.

After leaving the Kiel Bay, Friedrich-Carl first bypassed the Skaglak Strait and crossed the English Channel, and made a friendly visit to the Portsmouth Port in England. After entering the Atlantic Ocean, Friedrich-Carl rested for about three days in Port Lisbon, Portugal, and conducted a small exercise with the Portuguese Navy. Then he headed south and headed towards German West Africa.

Since the Friedrich-Karl torpedo training ship went to sea, most of the ports or ocean-going transit stations that added coal and water along the way were British territory. You can see Royal Fleet warships with rice flags wandering around almost every water, and almost every island with development value has the people of the British Empire.

The awesomeness of the Royal Navy made the young and energetic German Navy blush. The naval cadets lay on the side of the ship, looking at the old cruisers that could cross the seven seas with the meter flag, and secretly planted the seeds of competition in their hearts.

"Silem, the training ship seems to have deviated from the route, we are heading towards the equator..."

The temperature near the equator was so high that it was so high that it would be possible to harvest fresh poached eggs in less than a quarter of an hour. If it were just like that, it would be fine, but the cabin was still very humid, and the newly changed clothes could be unscrewed a pool of water in less than a few minutes. The high temperature, humidity, the stench that could not be dispelled, and the steam engine that roared all day long, the Friedrich-Carl has become a purgatory on earth.

Wang Heidi huddled in the hammock, and a thick leg covered with leg hair hanged down obliquely, saying half-deadly: "Can you calculate it wrong? The equator is not on our route at all..."

Although it is the equatorial area, the angle of the sunlight shines will not be tilted, and there is almost no place to cool down on the deck, but this will not make the otaku. Wang Heidi spotted a small shade under the lifeboat hanging on the hull, and picked up Redel to set up a canvas hammock below.

Ship driving, anchoring down to the depth, anti-collision avoidance, loss control, light control, and endless learning of geographical coordinates and chart positioning, heading speed measurement, navigation beacon and signal flag signal light recognition, meteorological and hydrology and foreign military knowledge, endless exercises and training and teaching have almost breathless a group of young and active naval cadets. Wang Heidi and Sileme calculate the location of the training ship almost every day, comparing the military charts to calculate the days when nightmare ends with their fingers.

In the era without GPS, sextant is the best instrument for maritime positioning, and using sextant to quickly locate the sea chart is also an indispensable part of primary navigation training. Wang Heidi turned over and got out of bed, took the sextant handed over by Redell, and deduced it for a long time after getting the data.

"Redel, you are right..." The otaku couldn't stand the hot weather at all. He was not as shy as Redel, Oden, and Hermann. He cut his head and shaved it directly into a bald head. Wang Heidi touched his slippery and bright forehead and said hesitantly.

The Germans are famous for their conservative and rigidity. Once the plan is formulated, unless they encounter irresistible factors of manpower, they will be completed on time, with quality and quantity. The abnormal course of the Friedrich-Carl made the otakus with a lot of scent vaguely smell the smell of conspiracy.

During the period of voyage on the sea, the instructors and veterans who had been hiding on the sea for many years have tortured them, which is a common practice for the group of new recruits. It is normal to gather in an emergency at three or four o'clock in the morning, and there are countless practical exercises that are difficult to distinguish between true and false. Wang Heidi and Redel looked at each other, wondering whether this is another test of their ability to respond.

Just as Wang Heidi and Redell were screaming, the warship buzzer sounded, which was the alarm of emergency gathering. Naval cadets with a little training came out of the cabin and gathered on the hot deck in panic.

I lined up and waited around but didn't see the instructors coming out. The students were impatient and complained to the group of instructors who had a bad conscience and had no descendants. At this time, the cold-faced naval instructors who were usually serious and serious were late and were late. They were wearing strange clothes, holding high-pressure water guns and crawling out from the corner with murderous aura. When they saw the students, they swept them around.

The trance-difficult Wang Heidi was first hit, and the jet-squirted water column swept straight down from the training ship and fell head-on into the sea.

The loose sailor suit quickly expanded. Wang Heidi grinned and crawled out of the sea, gently shaking her hands and feet to let herself float on the sea. Without the help of gangways and ropes, Wang Heidi could not get on the boat. Even if she could get on the boat, the scene of demons dancing and howling on the deck was discouraged by the timid otaku.

Just as Wang Heidi was staggering, the sound of water falling in his ears sounded again. Wang Heidi looked closely and found that it was his old rival Bernhard von Oden.

"Why are you washed down?" Wang Heidi reached out and wiped her wet face, spitting out a mouthful of salty sea water, and gloating.

"How do I know?" Oden was furious and said to Sky Nunu: "Look, Radell was also thrown away..."

With a plop, a black shadow fell from Wang Heidi, and a big wave splashed and rushed towards Wang Heidi.

"Why did I forget this..." Raidel, who was dizzy and had no time to complain about the world. He scratched his head and suddenly realized: "This is a newcomer's gift. Whenever the newcomer crosses the equator for the first time, the old sailors would pretend to be the sea gods and sea monsters and do some pranks on the newcomers. I said why did they let the ship deviate from the sailing? It turned out that they were going to mess with us!"

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William I died in 1888, and the iron-blooded prime minister stepped down in 1890. A glorious era ended. Germany, a war machine that made the Europeans fearful, began to turn. The emperor who had just ascended the throne tried to surpass the glory of his father and build a German empire that belonged only to him, Friedrich William Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, and the German Navy was sharpening his knife under William's wings, ready to rise to the ocean.

The old master had a deep understanding of diplomacy. Diplomacy is an art of balancing compromise. Bismarck knew the British possessiveness of the ocean and the war potential of John Bull. In order to create a good international environment, he promoted the alliance of the Three Emperors, tried his best to suppress the French and maintain the hegemony of the European continent. In order not to touch the sensitive nerves of the British, Bismarck deliberately ignored naval construction. Bismarck was very cautious about the development of the overseas colonies of the Empire, just as in 1890, he exchanged Zanzibar Island for the British back to the Bay of Helgoland from the hands of the British.

During the era of the old prime minister, Germany did not pay attention to its overseas colonies. Many colonial management agencies did not have official backgrounds, but were more of the business or personal behavior of some colonial merchants and missionaries. They went deep into Africa, ran and fled land in vast plains and rainforests, and then hired soldiers to protect their territory, formed management agencies on their own and paid a symbolic tax to the imperial government every year.

Unlike the old prime minister's foresight, Emperor William has an impetuous personality. He waved his sword as soon as he ascended the throne and couldn't wait to shout to the world: Germany wants to obtain its "territory under the sun" and "redividing" the colonies from the "dying" empire forces.

After Emperor William came to power, the Germans' attitude towards the colony quickly changed from the previous indifference to full of enthusiasm: the imperial government began to send governors to the colony, improve the colony's ruling institutions, and build new ports and cities. The imperial army, navy and police headquarters also sent a small number of soldiers to German East Africa to suppress the resistance of the local indigenous people, and the emerging industrial and commercial class also invested a large amount of money into the colony.

German West Africa (deutsch-westafrika) was a small colony located in western Africa acquired by the empire around 1884. Its territory is about the present Cameroon, Togo and other regions, and the capital is Cameroon City (now the port of Douala).

In mid-November, the aging Friedrich-Karl finally drove into the port of Cameroon, the capital of Catherine West Africa.

The voyage of nearly a month was definitely a great torture for Wang Heidi, so that his dreams were shaking. Now, the otaku can finally stand proudly on the solid land.

The captain gave the order to act freely with a smile. At this time, both the naval cadets and the instructor couldn't help but cheer and got off the boat with his arms around and he had fun.

"Two drinks?" Redel asked by changing his outfit and turning his head.

"I'm just thinking!";
Chapter completed!