The official launch of the first destroyer from their Northeast Port was undoubtedly thrilling news for the Northeast Navy, led by Badler.
After all, many of the soldiers who had passed the tests and joined the Northeast Navy had come with dreams of the sea and warships.
The soldiers who served inland all suffered from the same basic problem: most of them had never seen the Great Zhou's steel warships or the sea with their own eyes.
At most, they had learned a few related tidbits from newspapers or storytellers.
Now they had seen the sea—but what about the warships?
Where was that enormous steel warship they had been promised?!
They were clearly part of the Great Zhou Navy, yet for more than a year afterward, they had spent nearly all their time training on land!
Of course, they had done some training at sea as well, mostly swimming.
Beyond that, they had made some crude rafts and sent the soldiers out on missions across the water, getting them used to the pitching of the sea.
The higher the training level, the more rudimentary the equipment became.
Toward the end, they were simply given a piece of driftwood and told to stand on it.
At first, quite a few recruits even wondered whether their commander was deliberately messing with them.
But they could not deny that their commander himself could really do it.
On the surging sea, he stood on a single piece of driftwood with ease. They had no choice but to be convinced.
Setting aside that painful memory, at least the Northeast Navy finally had a proper warship now, no matter how one looked at it.
If military discipline had not held them back, they would surely have been leaping and dancing with excitement by now.
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