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I don’t know what the navy and warships of the Tang Dynasty were like.

Li Chengqian suddenly became curious.

We have come from Jinan to Donglai, and now the navy has its own eyes, so there is no one that we don’t want to see.

So Li Chengqian asked the captain of Cao Shuijun to take him to meet their general.

As the former crown prince, the current crown prince, his father, this identity is here. This lieutenant who lives by the sea of ​​Shandong and has never seen many officials, of course he dare not neglect it.

Under the leadership of Captain Cao, Li Chengqian met the navy general named Yan. General Yan was the Yan family in Langya, one of the four major gentry in Shandong. As for Li Chengqian's desire to see the navy training, especially as the inventor of artillery, he wanted to see how the cannon was used on the ship. He did not dare to object and took Li Chengqian to the military port to see it.

Seeing the tall warship, Li Chengqian couldn't help but admire the shipbuilding art of the Tang Dynasty. Now, I am afraid that no one in the world has no shipbuilding technology. People in later generations exaggeratedly said that the ships of the Tang Dynasty were built so big that they could not even enter the Red Sea, and they had to change small boats to enter. However, this is an exaggeration. In later generations, even American aircraft carriers could enter the Red Sea. How big would it take to enter the Red Sea? But it can also be seen that the ships built in this era were indeed large enough, beyond people's imagination.

From the shore to the boat, patrolled everywhere, and saw familiar artillery on the bow deck, and two familiar masters from the Gunpowder Bureau. I forgot these two names, but Li Chengqian remembered them familiarly, one from the practical school and the other from the elementary school mathematician. The two actually came here on a business trip together. It seems that they are also coming to proofread the practicality of artillery on the boat.

The ground artillery troops can be trained by Chang'an and sent out. However, if you want to install artillery on the ship, it cannot be temporarily dispatched by Chang'an. Instead, you need to go to the ship to practice and only then can you use it if you feel it is OK.

After saying hello to them, I asked about the current progress of the artillery. I heard that I had tried it out of the sea several times, and everything was being perfected.

Li Chengqian suddenly wanted to go out to sea and go and have a look.

General Yan next to him would flatter him and said, "At noon tomorrow, there will be a training trip. Can Your Highness go to the sea to provide guidance?"

Guidance. This word is well used.

I am the leader and I just like to guide others. Hahaha, I must go and have a look tomorrow.

He agreed to get off General Yan and stayed in the navy's tent, and would follow them on the boat tomorrow.

Although he has been in Shandong for almost a month and has been with Cheng Wenxiao, Li Chengqian has not eaten Cheng Wenxiao.

When two people truly fall in love, they will not rush to enjoy the satisfaction of the **. As long as they are together, they will be satisfied.

Of course, Cheng Wenxiao is now at the time of mourning, and it is not suitable for this.

So. Both of them sleep separately now.

When Li Chengqian was about to sleep separately from Cheng Wenxiao, he held Cheng Wenxiao's hand and said, "If you hold you to stay, will you dare?"

"Dare!" Cheng Wenxiao said without thinking, "Because you won't do anything you don't love me."

When Li Chengqian heard this, he couldn't help but smile on his face.

After a while of sleep, I heard the sound of drums outside. I sat up angrily, Damn, it was not dawn, and walked out of the tent and saw a large number of soldiers who had already begun to gather. This was a fuss.

There were four imperial guards guarding at the door, and Lao Long. They didn't know what happened after asking them, but judging from the reactions of the other soldiers, the drum sound seemed to be very common.

At this time, the others also woke up. Sister Hippo and Cheng Wenxiao came over for a while, and Monk Zhu also came over.

After a while, General Yan came over and said that this was a gathering call for training.

"Didn't you say noon?" Li Chengqian asked strangely.

Could it be that there was something wrong with my ear last night, or did General Yan go back on his word?

General Yan smiled and explained that the training at noon is now less than three or four in the morning. After everything is ready, he goes out to the sea to the training waters, and it is almost noon.

Well, Li Chengqian also began to wash and have breakfast. At dawn, he followed the soldiers onto the warship.

He got on the main general's ship with General Yan. After everything was ready, the sound of drums and thunder sounded, and the ship sailed out to the sea.

This is not the first time I took a boat. The last time I took a boat was my whole life, so now I don’t feel discomfort on the boat. However, Cheng Wenxiao, Zhu Monk, Lao Long and others soon became discomfort and became seasick.

Their seasickness did not affect this training. The navy troops carried out various trainings to attack imaginary enemies in an orderly manner. The important training was of course to take off the target ship and let the artillery aim at the target.

The whole process was like shouting when people were close to each other, and the sound of drums when they were close to each other.

Li Chengqian sat next to General Yan. Here is the main general's platform, and below is the war drum, or the command drum. It sounds like thunder, making the ears sound like Weng and Weng.

After more than two hours, the training course was completed and the warship returned to the port!

After getting off the boat, Li Chengqian did not vomit, and the others who followed him vomited. Li Chengqian had to help Cheng Wenxiao and Sister Hippo get off the boat together.

When he arrived under the boat, General Yan had already asked someone to prepare a carriage and wait here.

He prepared it because he considered that Li Chengqian was a land duck in Chang'an, but he didn't expect that Li Chengqian was not seasick or vomiting. Now the carriage was used by Cheng Wenxiao and the others. After sending Cheng Wenxiao into the carriage, Li Chengqian didn't have to help him. While walking towards the barracks with General Yan, he said regretfully: "The navy is not advanced enough. With this drum sound, I'm afraid that the navy will not be very good after the army is discharged!"

"Yes, yes, be loyal to the country!" General Yan was very good at speaking.

"Don't you know the flag order?" Li Chengqian asked strangely, "There are still lanterns?"

General Yan was stunned and then remembered a colleague who said that this former prince was a person who loved to invent new and useful things. Now he heard that he thought of a new way out of it. If he could get a new way to train a navy army from him, then his navy army would be even more powerful in fighting, and his military achievements would be his own. A good thing. So he asked quickly: "Your Highness, what is the flag order and the lantern word?"

"A flag order? It means taking flags of different colors and waving them from a distance to let the people on the other ship see them and understand what the order is here!" Li Chengqian said while walking.

General Yan lowered his head and thought about the role of the flag order that Li Chengqian mentioned.

"You can use red, blue and yellow colors, and then make any gestures and wave them at that time." Li Chengqian waved to him and said, "Do you know, like your drum sounds, no, if it is against the wind, the drum sounds will not be heard!"

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