God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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Under normal circumstances, after so many years of development and effort, and with prior preparations and vigorous development of the navy, it shouldn't have fallen into its current predicament.

However, the actual situation is still somewhat different from the ideal state.

In particular, the training of naval soldiers has been increasing and expanding year by year.

The primary reason for this is the severe shortage of instructors.

To compensate for this shortcoming, a number of people had to be forcibly transferred from the active-duty naval forces to serve as naval instructors.

In addition to military instructors, there were also a large number of instructors from fishing vessels.

The vessels capable of fishing on the open sea are not small boats that can be propelled by just two oars; they are all large fishing boats that require coordination and command.

Therefore, these personnel also need to learn some naval instructions, information transmission, location identification, and so on.

It is precisely because of these commonalities that the shortage of instructors in the early development of the navy is also a gap that is difficult to fill.

Now, after so many years of development, the vacant positions for instructors have been filled.

"As long as the Navy's recruit training camp exists, it will be able to provide the Navy with a considerable number of new recruits every year." Recalling the Navy's recruit training camp that he was in charge of, Lu Su nodded slightly and spoke about the current progress and achievements.

Every year, new naval recruits are recruited and trained. They are then taught signals, coordination, commands, and other information. This is combined with physical and weapons training. After about a year, these recruits can leave the recruit training camp and enter the naval forces to begin actual ship control and battlefield command.

“We still have to wait…” Gan Ning sighed heavily and shook his head.

The navy is completely different from the army. The training time for new recruits and the related ideological education are much, much longer than those in the army.

Under some ruthless individuals, army training requires absolutely no time; a farmer buried in the land on the first day can become a soldier fighting on the battlefield on the second.

In the event of war, and of considerable intensity, a soldier can generally be considered competent after half a month to a month of understanding the situation.

The Navy is completely different. The Navy absolutely cannot, and dares not, play like that.

Even if an army soldier has no training, as long as he goes to the battlefield and can survive for half a month to a month, he will have learned everything he needs to know in that dangerous environment.

Apart from the relatively high mortality rate, this method has no other significant drawbacks.

Even if a soldier suffers an accident or defeat due to his or her individual incompetence, it will only cause a regional tremor, or even the death of an individual soldier, which is a minor issue.

At this cost, as long as one is not human, it is perfectly acceptable to give ordinary people a set of weapons and equipment and then have them used as soldiers.

But the navy is different. If a large number of soldiers who know nothing are deployed there, then entire ships will basically be wiped out. Especially for the commanders on board, large-scale recruitment and acceptance of new recruits is fine when there is no war, but once there is war, they can only pray that they die slowly.

“Once the naval system framework is established and corresponding results are achieved, qualified new naval recruits will enter the navy every year, which is much better than the previous recruitment methods.” Faced with Gan Ning’s statement, Lu Su’s perspective was completely different.

For an empire, a healthy, stable, and orderly military replenishment system is also a very important matter, especially from the perspective of the navy.

The approach taken by Gan Ning in the past, which involved recruiting directly along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers regardless of availability, was essentially based on chance. The number of people recruited could also be described as random.

It was neither stable nor efficient, which was quite unacceptable for the empire.

It can be said that the Navy's greatest achievement over the years is not the so-called shipyards, but the well-structured, stable and orderly naval soldier replenishment system.

As long as this system is perfected, and as long as the Han Empire's navy still has a coastline, it will be able to withstand defeat after defeat until the final victory is achieved.

The more Lu Su learned, the more he understood the difficulty of establishing a navy and the complexities involved.

Without a strong nation, sufficient logistics and stable internal affairs, and an existing and effective replenishment system, building a powerful navy is nothing short of a pipe dream.

However, the Han Empire itself met all the requirements, so the idea that it was just wishful thinking was simply unfounded.

"Replenishing the navy with tens of thousands of highly experienced technical personnel every year is truly impressive." Gan Ning wholeheartedly supported the system that everyone had built.

As long as the military's strength can be enhanced, we will naturally go all out to provide support when needed.

Tens of thousands of naval soldiers who understand some of the naval's technical logic can form combat capability in the shortest possible time.

Once these soldiers appear on the battlefield, their abilities are no less than those of veteran soldiers.

"It can be said that based on these things alone, and with so many years of hard work, we have achieved a pretty good result. Xingba, your efforts in this process have played a significant role." Lu Su nodded slightly, praising Gan Ning.

"Another ship has docked. What's its flag?" While listening and receiving instruction, Gan Ning glanced at the horizon to the northeast and saw a very familiar flag—the flag he had been waiting for.

"Xingba?" Before Lu Su could say anything more, he saw Gan Ning beside him rush out of the shipyard at top speed and fly towards the ship in the northeast direction.

It wasn't until the ships drew closer that Lu Su gradually understood their flags and flags, and his mindset calmed down somewhat.

"Ziyi, you're actually back. It's been a long time." Gan Ning landed directly on the deck from the sky, ignoring the gazes of the surrounding soldiers, and focused his attention on a familiar person.

"Yes, it's been a long time." Taishi Ci, who had also sensed Gan Ning's presence and had come to the deck, added gently, "After all this time, nothing has changed."

“How can you say there's been no change?” Gan Ning pointed directly to the Qiongzhou Shipyard and said skillfully, “This is where the biggest change is, and it's the change we need to implement. Only by doing these things can we embrace final victory.” (End of Chapter)