In the 3872nd year of the Xia calendar,

nearly a thousand warships in Yunjiang were fighting on the water. On one side was the Datong Army Navy, with about 200 warships

of various sizes, of which five warships with a tonnage of 1,200 tons were the main warships, and the rest of the main warships were between 500 and 800 tons. On the other side was the Pingzhou and Qiaozhou navies, a coalition of navies from multiple states, with as many as 600 to 700 ships. Although they had a large number of warships, the largest was only 800 tons, and there were not many main forces of 300 to 400 tons.

Lin Jiang stood on the commander's ship, watching his ships firing fiercely. On the three decks, nearly a hundred crossbows were shooting arrows crazily, and the arrows almost cleared the personnel on the opponent's deck at a glance.

"Sink them, quickly, sink them"

Lin Jiang was not the captain, the captain had other things, and was shouting crazily at this time. Their warship had a tonnage of 1,200 tons and was equipped with a ram. Ramming was their strongest trick, and they had already sunk seven or eight enemy ships.

In addition to its large tonnage, the Datong Navy also has a leading technology, that is, watertight bulkheads. Watertight bulkhead technology has just emerged in Haizhou, but the shipyards in Fengzhou have completely surpassed them after Lin Jiang selected the technology tree, so they are not afraid of collisions at all.

Of course, the naval battles of this era are still mainly boarding battles. The warships of both sides are entangled together, and the soldiers on the ships of both sides begin to board and fight.

In this case, fire attacks are rarely used, because the cost of a warship is very expensive. For example, this 1,200-ton warship costs more than 50,000 gold for the hull alone. A fire burns it. Given the situation in their states, it will take ten years to recover. Most of their warships are inherited from the property of the State of Chen. In

the boarding battle, the most outstanding are a group of young people between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. They are extremely good at martial arts. A large number of them have broken through the innate martial arts, and they are good at group battles. Three or five people form a small team and cooperate with each other.

These people are the result of Lin Jiang's two years in Fengzhou. They are disciples taught by Lin Jiang himself. Not only did they master the most brilliant martial arts skills from the beginning, but they also have rich practical experience.

The source of students in the martial arts academy is very complex. There are children of generals of the Datong Army, children of ordinary citizens, and many recommended by the peasant soldier system.

Especially those promoted by the peasant soldier system are particularly fierce. They were originally members of the peasant soldiers. Most of them have practical experience in suppressing bandits. A few have participated in large-scale battles. In addition, they have superb martial arts talents and are recommended to enter the martial arts academy.

They are extremely excellent in martial arts talent, character, and diligence. Lin Jiang likes these people very much and often gives them special treatment.

The Datong Army can produce so many geniuses. As the saying goes, there is no lack of geniuses in the world, but a lack of eyes to discover geniuses. Give them an opportunity and platform to grow, and they will burst out with amazing power.

"The general is watching us, kill!"

"For the world of Datong"

"The general is looking at me, haha, the general saw me killing the enemy"

Lin Jiang just stood at the highest point, looking at the battlefield, the soldiers from the martial arts academy were extremely crazy, because they had a blind worship of Lin Jiang, they didn't need high positions and generous salaries at all, maybe just a few words or even a look were enough to make them fanatical, because Lin Jiang injected them with faith.

Faith, sometimes much more terrifying than material rewards.

After fighting for a whole day, the Datong Navy won a great victory, sinking more than a hundred enemy battlefield ships, capturing more than 300 ships, and the rest of the wounded escaped, but they were no longer able to form a climate. The surface of Yunjiang River was controlled by the Datong Navy from then on.

The warship entered the port, and the military doctor was already ready, going up to carry the wounded up, and there were also newly trained navy soldiers on board to supplement. The war was not over yet, and they would continue to chase the enemy.

In the shipyard of Fengzhou, more than a dozen thousand-ton warships were being built, and there were five shipyards similar to Fengzhou under the command of the Datong Army.

Lin Jiang attached great importance to talents and directly granted titles and official posts to master craftsmen. His only requirement was that they should not hold back when teaching their apprentices. They taught their apprentices wholeheartedly and had trained thousands of craftsmen.

Lin Jiang granted the officers and soldiers of the navy official positions, titles, military flags, etc. on the ship, giving them a sense of honor. After doing all this, Lin Jiang returned to the Martial Arts Academy. The

current Martial Arts Academy is very different from before. Perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a comprehensive university. In addition to the original Martial Arts Department, Lin Jiang has opened dozens of other departments. For example, the military system has junior, middle, and senior officer departments to train junior, middle, and senior officers.

The same is true for internal affairs talents. The training classes in various places are the most basic, and they can only be low-level clerks. However, after these clerks have taken office for one or two years, if they perform well, they can go to the Martial Arts Academy for further studies. After further studies, most of them will be promoted to become low-level bureaucrats at the county level. Similarly, low

-level bureaucrats will come in to study and further their studies. At that time, the next level will be the middle level of the county government. As a local official, you don’t have to be proficient in everything, but you must have a basic quality.

However, such a martial arts academy is still a temporary transition. After unifying the country, Lin Jiang will set up martial arts academies in various places, and at the same time, he will come up with the imperial examination system. The specific design depends on the development of the current situation.

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In the autumn of the 3872nd year of the Xia calendar, Lin Jiang formed the third legion with 200,000 people. It set out from Fengzhou and crossed the Yunjiang River under the escort of the navy to attack Pingzhou.

So far, the Datong Army has three legions fighting outside, with more than 700,000 people and the territory it has occupied has reached 16 states, which is about half of the Southern Chen.

But Lin Jiang has not taken action in the past two years. It is all the credit of his subordinates. Lin Jiang knows that he will have to sleep after all and train his subordinates.

In the martial arts academy, Lin Jiang sat in the middle of an office, with more than a dozen officials on both sides. They are all the chief officers from various states and counties, and they are studying in the martial arts academy.

It's just that they are studying and working at the same time, which is actually to help Lin Jiang deal with political affairs. Although Datong Army has not established a country, it is actually almost the same. There are memorials sent from various states.

The affairs of the sixteen states are simply too many. If Lin Jiang does everything personally, he will not be able to do other things. Therefore, it is very necessary to form an institution similar to the cabinet.

These officials are all people in high positions and have practical experience in governing. The next step is that they only need to pass Lin Jiang's assessment to become cabinet leaders. Even if they fail, they can be promoted one or half levels and go to local positions.

Among the sixteen people, almost half of them are from noble families. These people from noble families have too many innate advantages. Even if Lin Jiang tries his best to suppress them, he can't stop them from emerging.

However, Lin Jiang is not worried that they will undermine himself. Whether it is the college system or the military system, as time goes by, a large number of talents will emerge, and the base number is larger than that of the noble families, and it will soon be balanced.

To some extent, Lin Jiang didn't really hate the noble families, because there was no way to solve this problem. Even in the modern system, the noble families still existed. All they had to do was set a bottom line for these noble families and let them not cross it.

The sixteen people handled the memorials quietly. Only when they encountered something that they couldn't decide would they hand it over to Lin Jiang for handling. Lin Jiang would occasionally check the memorials they had handled, and then take out some typical things to teach them why they handled it this way. The

sixteen people were all outstanding and very smart. In less than three months after arriving at the academy, they had completely adapted to Lin Jiang's way of thinking.

Time passed quickly and it was the 3873rd year of the Xia calendar. Just after the New Year, Lin Jiang received two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The good news was that the Datong Army had captured the 22nd state of the Chen Kingdom, and killed Prince Jing and three other princes of the Chen Kingdom who had proclaimed themselves emperors in the past two years. Seven or eight emperors had died at the hands of Lin Jiang, a true emperor killer.

The bad news was that the demons had occupied two more states of the Chen Kingdom, and the number of states that had fallen into the hands of the demons had reached eighteen.