Chapter 1144: Only keep the blood in your heart, leave it for the future, and the world will compete for the

The Mongolians' strategies and tactics, their personnel quality and weapons and equipment, all of this must be seen with his own eyes before he can rest assured.

After all, in this era, Shen Mo's ultimate enemy was the Mongolian army!

So he cannot develop behind closed doors now, but needs to thoroughly understand all the details of the Mongolian army. Then Shen Mo will develop equipment in a targeted manner and train the troops to build a strong army specially used to compete with Temujin for the world!

Shen Mo believes that one day, he and Temujin, the two beauties in the world, will confront each other head-on on the battlefield. Whoever wins will be the lord of the world!

By that time, whoever wins and loses depends on who is ready in advance.

So Shen Mo would never miss this good opportunity to watch the Mongolian army face to face. He decided to rush to Xixia before the war to see what his troops were like in Temujin, who swept the world and swept across Europe and Asia.

When he thought of this, even Shen Mo couldn't help but feel excited!

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Judging from Temujin's record, the Mongolian army at this time must have combat effectiveness far exceeding the military level of this era, which is beyond doubt.

As for where the Mongolian army is strong, how should Shen Mo develop himself in order to restrain the Mongolians in the future battlefield. This is the real urgent matter and is something that Shen Mo must understand.

It can even be said that his journey west this time will bring about a huge change in the direction of the entire Huainan East Road system!

So Shen Mo was ready to go to Xixia.

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But before that, he had a lot of things to be busy with. There were countless big and small things in Tongzhou.

The first thing is Ling Xiaozi's fleet to explore America, and he has prepared almost all of them.

When Shen Mo began to check the preparations they made, he immediately overturned all the plans and remade the expedition team plan handed over by Shi Baoying.

There is no way, people of this era don’t know what ocean voyage is!

First of all, they don’t understand that in such ocean voyages, the biggest enemy is actually not storm, but sepsis.

In the history of Shen Mo's previous life, from the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 17th century, Europeans began their large-scale sailing and discovered large areas of land and waters that had been unknown.

The Age of Discovery was marked by Columbus' first crossing the Atlantic Ocean and arriving on the American continent. At that time, sailors were quite hard and dangerous professions, and the days when seamen had to spend on sea were extremely long.

At the time of the ship's speed, it took more than two months to travel from Europe to the American continent, and a 4-5 month flight to India. So the diet on the ship was a big problem.

Due to the long-term inability to eat fresh vegetables on the boat and the body was seriously insufficient in vitamins, many sailors suffered from sepsis and embarked on the road to death. While on the way to Columbus' sailing, most of the crew members were killed by sepsis.

And Shen Mo now knows this.

So Shen Mo prepared a large amount of vitamin-rich orange juice on these ocean-distance ships. These orange juices were made with the preservative "sodium benzoate" added when making canned food to prevent deterioration. These are classic methods used by the European Age of Navigation to prevent sepsis.

In addition, Shen Mo had other solutions, the first of which was to bring a large amount of mung beans on the sea boat.

Although mung beans do not contain any vitamins, the bean sprouts grown when mung beans sprout are rich in vitamin C.

In the Ming Dynasty, when Zheng He sailed, there was no sepsis on his crew, because they ate a lot of bean sprouts on the ship every day.

Because the bulk porcelain used for trade at that time often collided and shattered when it encountered wind and waves on the sea. Therefore, when Chinese crew members placed these porcelains, they would sprinkle mung beans in the gaps of the porcelain and then sprayed them with water.

When bean sprouts grow between the stacks of plates, the whole box of porcelain will be connected into a tight piece. Even if it is bumped, it will not collide with each other.

It was because of this anti-collision method that the sailors of Zheng He's fleet at that time had a large number of mung bean sprouts to eat, which inadvertently avoided the occurrence of sepsis.

So this time, Shen Mo also used this method.

Secondly, in order to ensure the daily requirements of the crew members on the ship to eat vegetables, Shen Mo also customized a large number of wooden boxes and stuffed them with soil, allowing the crew to grow vegetables on the ship to eat anytime and anywhere to ensure their healthy diet.

Just to say that Shen Mo took this method from the point of supplementing vitamins, so you can imagine how meticulously they were in various aspects.

Shen Mo added watertight compartments to each of the sixteen large ships that were about to be sent to America to prevent the ship from entering the water when it hits the reef or encounters wind and waves, causing the entire ship to sink.

Also, he unloaded a large number of artillery on the ship, leaving only a portion of artillery that was enough to protect the fleet, greatly improving the buoyancy reserves of the entire ship.

Shen Mo also asked the industrial department to carefully develop high-precision compass, mirror-reflective kerosene lamps for night navigation. The crew used telescopes for looking at the sight, and even mosquito nets for mosquito bites and infectious diseases. There were also a large number of Chinese patent medicines and doctors. All of these things were arranged one by one under Shen Mo's instructions.

After that, the marine positioning instruments such as the nautical sextant made by Shen Mo, portable artillery used for land operations, and even the 500 Marine Corps. The Wumu Type 2 and Type 3 rifles used were all sent to the troops one by one, so that the personnel on the ship gradually became familiar with these equipment.

This long-distance voyage, the personnel training and equipment and materials needed were gradually taken into place as Shen Mo stepped up his work.

Then, when the summer southwestern Pacific monsoon slowly passed and the southeast monsoon from the Indian Ocean gradually began to become stronger and stronger, Shen Mo's ocean fleet finally arrived at the day of sailing.

On the day of departure, there were crowds of people on Shigangchang Military Port on that day.

Shen Mo personally led his guards, standing on the military port in full military uniforms, to see off these warriors sailing from the ocean.
Chapter completed!