Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Sa Zhenbing was confused, naval aviation?It's an airplane, but what's the use of this thing?Can you sink a warship?nonsense?At most, it is reconnaissance and reconnaissance!And that marine division, what the hell?In addition, the previous part of the naval ships was set aside to form the Coast Guard, nakedly digging the walls and mixing sand!No, absolutely not, this Wang Wenzheng is too bad, if the navy makes him toss like this, then he will be disbanded.

By the way, Wang Zhenyu said so much, in fact, he has already made up his mind to dismantle the Fujianese who are in the group. Don't you love the group?I'll break you up, and at the end, I'll add more than half of the people from other places to see how you hug them?

Seeing that Sa Zhenbing was about to speak up to object, Wang Zhenyu immediately said: "In addition, we have a five-year plan. The plan is to increase the total tonnage of the navy to 3.5 tons within five years. This [-] tons is really not enough, this is the idea of ​​our Military Commission, it is a set, what do you think, Mr. Sa?"

"One hundred thousand tons?" One sentence blocked Sa Zhenbing's objection.

Sa Zhenbing looked at Wang Zhenyu suspiciously: "Chairman, there is no joke in the army."

Wang Zhenyu said with a smile: "I can make a military order with Sa Lao, and if I can't reach it, I will go to the field."

Sa Zhenbing weighed the pros and cons, and in the end the interests of the country still prevailed over the interests of the small navy group in his mind: "Then, as the chairman said, as long as we can see the revival of our navy, my old Sa will die." And no regrets."

Hearing what Sa Zhenbing said, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help admiring this man. The naval problem that he thought was very troublesome was actually solved in this way.Feeling overwhelmed, Wang Zhenyu suddenly asked himself, in terms of patriotism, is he better than Sa Zhenbing?

Before the meeting ended, Sa Zhenbing suddenly got up and said: "Chairman, I am here on board the first ship of the Chinese Navy, Haiqi. The officers and soldiers on board implore the chairman to go and inspect it."

Wang Zhenyu thought for a while, nodded and smiled, "Okay, I'll go!"

The rising sun is in the sky, the river is breezy, and at the newly-built National Wharf in Wuhan, various cargo ships are constantly entering and leaving, and the newly installed tower cranes are also busy.At that time, Wuhan was a big construction site. Under the organization of Wang Zhenbang, Wang Zhenyu's fifth brother, [-] migrant workers gathered in Wuhan and were building an international metropolis.

At this moment, the 4-meter-long Haiqi ship was very majesticly parked near the National Wharf, causing the busy dock workers to stop their work unconsciously, pointing fingers at the huge ship, and passing by. The citizens also stopped to watch.The first thing Wang Zhenyu saw when he saw this big warship was that he had the desire to go shopping. It was like seeing Ai Crazy [-]s. Wow, no wonder the grandchildren of the Navy want to buy a warship every day. This thing is so comfortable to look at. .

The guards at the attendants boarded the ship first for a safety inspection according to the old rules, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal, Wang Zhenyu came out.

The sailors lined up along the side of the ship in beautiful sailor uniforms, with their feet spread wide, one hand holding a gun on the ground, and one hand behind their backs, looking very energetic.The moment Wang Zhenyu stepped onto the deck, the commander issued an order: "Salute."

All the sailors immediately stood upright, raised their chests, looked straight ahead, and saluted Wang Zhenyu with their guns.

这艘海圻舰是甲午海战后大清国购买的2艘大型巡洋舰之一，被誉为天朝海军第一舰。海圻舰造价计3(242英镑，排水量4300吨，舰长132。3米（434英尺），舰宽14。3米（46。8英尺），吃水深度6。1米，最大航速24海里／小时(24节)，马力17000匹。海圻舰的主要武备有 0mm舰炮2门，舰艏舰尾各一门；1 mm舰炮10门，左右舷各5门；47mm舰炮12门，左右舷各5门，舰尾下层甲板2门；37mm舰炮4门。鱼雷发射管7座，所配鱼雷为英制直径533mm白头式鱼雷。

Hearing that such a big guy can reach a speed of 24 knots, Wang Zhenyu suddenly became interested. He remembered a data in World War II. It is said that the fastest warship in Japan at that time was the Yamato, with a speed of 33 knots. The fastest in the world was The American battlecruiser Iowa can reach [-] knots.

"Old Sa, I think the navy's thinking needs to be changed. We have only one imaginary enemy in the future, and that is Japan. But if we don't have external help for the combined fleet of Little Japan, if we want to face it head-on, we will do it no matter what. However. So we have to change our thinking and compare ourselves with him. Our future warships will reach a speed of 30 knots. If we win, we will fight. If we can’t win, we can at least run! And we have to take Japan into consideration. It’s an island country, and it’s not necessarily a fleet battle with them when you want to attack it. It’s not better to attack his sea lines of communication and play with it. He is an island country and has no material input. I think he’s not good enough. In the powerful United Fleet, if the fuel is used up, he can only lie down."

When Sa Zhenbing heard this, his eyes could not help but light up. Only now did he really feel convinced of Wang Zhenyu, a junior.

He immediately became very enthusiastic: "Chairman, let me introduce you to a few colleagues from the navy. They are all young talents from the younger generation of the navy."

"Chairman, this is Vice Minister Liu Guanxiong, he is now the head of the Military Order Department of our Navy Department"

"Hello Chairman!" Liu Guanxiong was already in his early fifties, he was stocky, but still full of energy, and he was a very standard military salute to Wang Zhenyu.Wang Zhenyu returned a military salute, and shook hands with Liu Guanxiong very enthusiastically.

"Chairman, this is Vice Minister Cheng Biguang, whose name is Hengqi. He is the same year as Vice Minister Liu. He is from Xiangshan, Guangdong. He is now the commander of the 1st Fleet. My idea is that he will be the commander of the [-]st Training Fleet next. Take office?"

When Wang Zhenyu heard Sa Zhenbing's words, he was hinting to himself that the navy would no longer blindly reuse Fujianese, so he smiled secretly and nodded in unison.Then he shook hands with Cheng Biguang. Cheng Biguang is also considered a figure in history, but the ending was not good, and he was assassinated. As for the main murderer, there are many versions. Some say it was done by Lu Rongting, and some say it was done by Sun Yat-sen. God knows the truth?

But now that history has changed his face beyond recognition as a big butterfly, naturally there is no such thing as being assassinated.

"These two are newcomers to our navy. Chen Shaokuan, styled Houfu, is currently the captain of Hairong; Chen Shiying, styled Jiliang, is currently the captain of Jiangheng." Wang Zhenyu looked at the two of them, both of whom were still very young. He knew that he was from Fujian, he smiled and shook hands with the two: "Do it well!"

After getting off the Haiqi, Wang Zhenyu said to Sa Zhenbing and other five people: "I think this training fleet is mainly cruisers, and the ships are based on Haiqi as the standard ship. I don't want to do anything new. Tactics, our navy is weak, we will be pirates in future wars, we can block the Yangtze River estuary with river defense fortresses, and at sea we will build a fleet to break the war, and we will only make soft persimmons. Change the name of the ship, what I mean It can be named after a hero in history, such as the Yue Fei, but if these good names are used on a good ship, it would be a shame if it sinks after a dozen. As for the ship of the broken fleet, I mean to name it after the place name. The Changsha, the Hunan, and the Guangzhou are all fine. It is better to build the ship, but our shipbuilding industry will not be able to produce it for a while. We can buy three more warships of the Haiqi class, but I There is a request, including the current ship, the power must be replaced, 24 knots is still too slow, at least [-] knot. I will allocate one billion yuan to your navy first, and you will give me the shelf of this broken fleet Get up, pay attention to secrecy, I will send someone to form a Navy Department of Military Intelligence, responsible for your intelligence and internal security work."

Just after a visit like this, ten billion Chinese yuan came down. How can these five people in the navy not be excited? You must know that the National Government’s allocation to the navy this year is only 4000 million Chinese yuan, which is just enough to pay salaries and For the maintenance of the ship, even the fuel for training cannot be replenished.

With such a large sum of money, and three new Haiqi warships, what kind of separation, the Coast Guard, and the Navy don’t care about it at all, not only don’t care, but for the money to be in place sooner.When I went to the UK to contact the shipyard, the person in charge of the reform was also racing against time to carry out the reform. I was no longer afraid of offending people, and I didn't talk about the relationship with fellow villagers.In short, a large number of old-school military officers who are too old, have gradually lost their courage, and have a bad style were assigned to the Coast Guard of the Ministry of Public Security without hesitation during this naval reform. Pirates live.The navy subsequently recruited a large number of officers from Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Guangdong to study at Nanjing Naval University, and the atmosphere of the entire navy was renewed.

In any case, after such a small-scale review, the extremely weak navy of the national government finally began to stagger on the road.Fortunately, since the Battle of Jutland, the British Navy has been unemployed. This result naturally led to the unemployment of the shipyard.As soon as the Chinese orders for three warships and one ship's transformation arrived in the UK, Liverpool immediately injected a little vitality, because everyone had work to do.According to the agreement signed between the Ministry of the Navy and the British side on August 28, the fifth year of the Republic of China, the British side will deliver the goods to the Chinese side before May of the seventh year of the Republic of China.The Ministry of the Navy of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government also followed suit and named the four Haiqi-class destroyers: "Anjiang", "Wuhan", "Nanjing", and "Fujian".

Wang Zhenyu was very satisfied with the report submitted by the Ministry of the Navy, and he immediately instructed Ma Xicheng to include the one billion yuan for the navy in the budget and pay it off when the ship was delivered.As for the naval aviation and marine divisions, there are not many manpower now, so let's take it easy. Wang Zhenyu is already very satisfied with inserting the Military Intelligence Bureau and taking back the personnel rights through the Naval University.