Chapter 2271

But without permission from the military, no one dares to approach these warships that are classified as restricted areas. The management of naval bases is stricter than that of army bases. Guests who come to watch the competition can only follow the lead after disembarking.

The sailors went to designated places to wait, instead of being able to move around in a larger area as they did at the army base yesterday.

Of course, such measures are normal in Zhang Jinbao's view. After all, these warships are all treasures of the Haihan Army, and foreigners cannot buy them if they want. Naturally, they cannot be given the opportunity to learn the various technical secrets of the Navy.

Since it is a competition in naval sports, the content must be mainly water sports. The competition venue is located in a large swimming pool at the base. For most of the audience present, this is probably the first time to see such a competition.

huge swimming pool.

The large swimming pool in the naval base is built according to a standard competition swimming pool. It is 50 meters long and has eight swimming lanes. The pool is all paved with ceramic tiles. There are two swimming pools like this in the base, one in the south and one in the north. Sailors train their swimming abilities.

I started in the swimming pool, and then slowly transitioned to natural waters after gaining a certain foundation.

For safety reasons, the military did not put swimming events directly in the sea, but arranged them in the base's swimming pool. However, this is more convenient for the audience to watch, and they do not need to stretch their necks to find targets among the waves.

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The competition events arranged by the Navy are simple and crude. The morning is all about swimming, which is divided into several categories: speed swimming, water obstacle course, and armed swimming. Such a dense schedule will be a huge challenge for each team in arranging contestants and allocating physical strength.

Test, even a strong person will find it difficult to participate in multiple competitions in a row.

In the afternoon, there was a test event that required going out to sea, but it was just a single-man windsurfing race on the sea. To say that the confrontation was only average.

The navy's competition events mainly focus on physical fitness and water resistance, and the test indicators are mainly the physical fitness of the participants. However, advanced skills such as marching and fighting on the sea and commanding operations are difficult to achieve here due to limited conditions.

Arrangements are made during various competitions.

"Your Majesty, what do you think of today's competition?" Zheng Zha sat next to Li Xie today. After he sat down, he took the initiative to chat with Li Xie.

Li Zhi felt that he was not qualified to comment on the strength of other countries, so he said modestly: "Our country is not good at naval battles. Today, I am afraid that it is only at the level of running with others."

Zheng Zha smiled and said: "Your Majesty is quite humble... So between our country and Xu Jiajun, who is stronger?"

"This... the young prince is in such a difficult situation!" Li Xie felt that this issue was really dangerous, and he could easily offend people no matter which side he chose.

Zheng Zhao said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to feel embarrassed. Do you and I really regard this martial arts competition as a big deal? I just want to hear your views, but it doesn't matter."

Li Zhi silently thought about his words before he responded: "From the results of yesterday's competition, we can see that the strength of your country and the Xu family's army are about the same. It mainly depends on how you perform on the spot! In my opinion, it should be the same for you two today.

Everyone competes for the top spot.”

Zheng Zhuo laughed at himself and said: "The prince may have made a mistake. Our country is really no match for Xu Jiajun in these water sports... They are very strong, you will know later."

Li Zhi didn't know what he meant, but from Zheng Zha's tone, it didn't sound like he was speaking modestly. At the moment, he was also a little curious about how strong Xu Jiajun was, who could make Zheng Zha take the initiative to admit defeat.

Li Zhi didn't know that in the past few martial arts competitions, Xu Jiajun had always won the first place in the naval event. Although Annan Army almost always followed closely behind and got the second place, the gap between them was not

You can catch up if you work hard.

The reason why Xu Jiajun has such a big advantage in naval projects is mainly because they invested a lot in the early stage and have always attached great importance to introducing all military technologies from Haihan. The methods of training the navy are almost copied intact from Haihan.

Although the hardware of the Han Dynasty is indeed inferior to that of the Haihan Navy, the quality of its individual soldiers is actually far beyond the average level of the Ming Navy.

Although Annan also attached great importance to the construction of maritime armed forces, due to the civil war, the economic situation was not ideal, so he had to hand over the natural harbors on the coastline to Haihan to operate in exchange for Haihan's military assistance.

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In terms of military budget, the Annan Army is far from being able to compare with the wealthy Xu Jiajun, so there is naturally a clear gap in training effectiveness. Zheng Zha himself also understands that this gap cannot be caught up in a short time.

Only when Annan's own economic situation improves and can spend more money to invest in naval training can he hope to catch up with Xu Jiajun.

In fact, among the ten teams participating in this competition, only Xu Jiajun started out as a navy, and his emphasis on sailor training is indeed unparalleled. Xu Xinsu's requirement for the navy under his command is to be in line with the Haihan Navy. Since the weapons

The equipment gap cannot be erased, so we can only make more efforts in training.

Sure enough, after the event started, Xu Jiajun's advantage was significantly stronger than yesterday. Almost no team could pose a real threat to him, and he quickly won the first place in several swimming and racing events.

"Where did your Xu Jiajun recruit such people with outstanding water skills?" Even Yan Chujie couldn't help but ask Xu Yuxing a question after seeing it. Every year, among the soldiers sent by Fujian for training, there are several experts who are proficient in water skills.

, whose level is even better than the swimming experts in his own navy. Yan Chujie also wants to know how Xu Jiajun trained these people.

Xu Yuxing smiled faintly and said: "Master Yan is exaggerating. In fact, most of these people are just fishermen and sailors. They have only been familiar with water since they were young. But as long as they get decent results here, they can at least become a general manager when they return to Fujian. You think

Can these people not work hard?"

Promotion and wealth are the simplest and most practical rewards for these people. The Xu family has enough resources to completely change their lives, so these people are naturally very dedicated.

But even so, Yan Chujie believes that such talents are not just picked up in large numbers. Before they were sent to Haihan for training, they should have been selected at all levels, and they had already received rigorous training for a long time in Fujian.

, only by being fully prepared for the subjects that will be tested during the training period can such outstanding performance be achieved.

Zhang Jinbao, on the other hand, didn't care at all about the soldiers from various countries splashing around in the swimming pool. When he saw Li Nai getting up and leaving the stands, he guessed that the other party was going for convenience, so he followed him out.

Zhang Jinbao took the initiative to chat with Li Nai on his way back, pretending to be concerned about Jindun's performance in today's competition, and then changed the topic to the matter of cooperative school running.

Li Nai heard the song and knew what it meant, and took the initiative to say: "After we finish the business here, how about we set off to Danzhou together tomorrow afternoon?"

Zhang Jinbao went around in circles for a long time just to finalize the matter with Li Nai. Since the other party took the initiative to bring it up, he responded calmly: "Then it's settled. If the third young master is free at noon tomorrow, can I do it for you?"

Dong, let’s have a casual meal together?”

Li Nai said: "I already have an appointment with Young Prince Annan at noon tomorrow, and I appreciate Dean Zhang's kindness. I will send someone to the inn tomorrow to pick up Dean Zhang and his party. Then you can board the ship first and wait for me.

Once everything is done, we will leave the port and set off."

Li Nai arranged things very carefully, and Zhang Jinbao couldn't fault him at all. He quickly bowed and thanked him, saying that he would entertain Li Nai as a landlord once he arrived in Danzhou.

The competition in the morning was uneventful. Xu Jiajun's performance was outstanding, while other teams could only compete for the second and third positions. Only the last one, armed swimming, because it was relatively closer to actual combat, finally made the audience interested.

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This event requires contestants to carry their own equipment, including rifles, and complete five round-trip races in the swimming pool. And after landing at the end, they must complete shooting at a target at a designated location - if the rifle gets water during the swim

, this task is obviously difficult to complete. Only when all tasks are completed can the final result be considered valid, so even if you complete the swim ashore first, you may not necessarily be ranked first.

Considering that the water in the swimming pool does not flow, the difficulty of this project is actually much easier than it actually is. The key lies in having enough physical fitness and swimming skills to complete this mile-long swim.

This project is of course also the original creation of the Haihan Army. The Marine Corps has included armed swimming in its training subjects and has used this special combat method many times in actual combat. However, the Marine Corps' equipment is even more advanced.

Some, when performing armed swimming missions, each person will receive a leather inflatable float to reduce the load of soldiers in the water.

The military's requirement for foreign students is just swimming in swimming pools. As for whether they will practice more in rivers, lakes and seas after they return, Haihan doesn't care. In the end, Xu Jiajun still came out on top in this event, but his advantage was already greater than

The previous projects have been reduced a lot.

After lunch, the official arranged a small event for the guests to visit the Haihan Military Museum located here. For most people, this was their first time to step into this familiar yet unfamiliar military base, and for some

It’s hard to say if there is no next opportunity, so naturally I won’t miss this officially arranged event.

The Haihan Military Museum is not usually open to the public. Generally, only recruits and foreign guests are arranged to visit the place. During special periods, groups such as students are also organized to come here to receive patriotic education.

This place collects all the historical materials of military operations from the beginning of Haihan to Sanya. The earliest ones include the bows, arrows, waist knives and other weapons seized by the Ming army during the landing, as well as the first musket and the first gun that Haihan trial-produced.

Artillery, etc.

The most displayed items in the museum are the various trophies captured by the Haihan Army in various periods of combat operations, including pirate weapons captured after defeating Liu Xiang's fleet at the Pearl River Estuary, and the garrison flags captured after the Hue City in Annan was captured.

Later, there were various trophies from the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Japan and other countries, which were so diverse that it was dazzling.

Visitors from their own countries were naturally very proud and were even more convinced that the Haihan Army was invincible, while guests from other countries could not help but have some subtle emotions.

Su Keyi then noticed that the Dutch weapons and equipment left over from the Battle of Nanri Island and the Battle of Penghu were displayed here. Among them, there was even the saber of Van der Wegen, the commander of the Nanri Island Battle, and the armistice signed by Hans, the chief executive of Taiyuan Port.

Replica of the agreement - the original should be stored in Fort Victory.

These things all symbolize the many defeats that the East India Company suffered at the hands of the Haihan Army in its early years. It is precisely because of these wars that the special diplomatic relations between the two sides formed today. The Batavia authorities had to ask Sanya for many things.

Adopt a compromise attitude in exchange for being able to continue participating in trade in the northern region.

Su Keyi is not the only one who has such complicated emotions. Fei Cexian's mood at this time is not much better. There is a display at the entrance where Haihan was captured by the Ming army patrol when he landed here. Now it seems

It's full of irony. If the Ming army stationed in Yacheng could expel the Haihan people from this place, then there might not have been the Haihan Kingdom later.

But this idea only flashed through Fei Cexian's mind, and was rejected by him as too absurd. After all, the military strength of the Haihan people is here, relying on the few guards stationed in a remote small county.

None of the soldiers could defeat the well-equipped Haihan people. Just the few giant steel ships docked in the Victory Port were enough to scare people, so how could they still have the courage to fight with them?

Of course, Haihan's combat experience against the Ming Dynasty goes far beyond this. In fact, Haihan's main direction of expanding his sphere of influence has always been along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. And many of the exhibits in this museum are related to these

Historically related. Almost every Ming territory occupied by Haihan has related items displayed here. For Fei Cexian, it is a complete record of the process of Ming Dynasty being eroded by Haihan.

As an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, seeing such historical facts, it was naturally difficult for him to pretend to be calm, but he couldn't lose his temper in front of distinguished guests from various countries, as that would only make him appear to have a bad temper. In order to avoid embarrassment,

Fei Cexian could only choose to walk quickly to other parts of the museum to see the trophies captured by Spain, Manchu and Qing Dynasty and other countries.

Li Zhi saw it with gusto. He didn't know that there was such a place in Sanya, otherwise he would have asked Haihan to visit it. Especially the weapons and equipment of the Haihan Army of the past dynasties displayed here made him greedy.

Most of these guns, artillery and other equipment are not for sale by Haihan, and can only be enjoyed for a while.

Li Yan suddenly remembered that Haihan officials had announced at the dinner party a few days ago that a weapons display event would be arranged after the competition. He didn't know what novel gadgets he would see.
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