Another important component of the Marine Corps is the amphibious fleet, which uses the warships of the landing force.

Although in this era, all countries have set up special landing combat units in their navies, of course, with different names, such as the British Infantry Regiment, the United States Marines, and the French Marine Corps, but in essence they are all subordinate to the Marine Forces in the Navy. However, all countries did not design special landing ships for the marines of these navies, but used warships or ordinary transport ships to transport the landing troops to a position about 5,000 meters from the shore, and then put down the lifeboats on the ships or landing craft and rowed ashore. This was mainly due to the fact that there were no systematic amphibious landing tactics in this era, and it was simply agreed that landing operations were to send infantry from warships to land.

In this respect, the KPA Navy is undoubtedly far ahead of other countries, because the veteran officers were already soldiers of the Marine Corps in the old time and space, and they all have a very deep understanding of amphibious operations and landing operations, and of course they know the importance of professional landing ships to the Marine Corps.

Before the war in the Far East, East China built 4 special landing warships, and built 4 more during the war, this type of warship has a displacement of 1000-1200 tons, a speed of 15 knots, can carry 400-500 soldiers, and uses the beaching method to land, which can directly transport 1 battalion of troops ashore. In this war in the Far East, the Marines won three large-scale landing battles, and these eight landing warships really played a significant role.

However, this Bi Jing is the first type of landing warship designed by East China, and there are some emergency intentions, so in the process of use, some problems have also been found, first of all, the tonnage of these landing ships is too small, which is not conducive to ocean-going operations, and the soldiers only have seats on the warship, and there is no rest space, of course, the landing operations in the Far East War are all in the near sea area, that is, the farthest Vladivostok, but also along the coastline, the weakness of the small tonnage of the landing ship is not obvious.

But another weakness of small tonnage is the lack of transport capacity, which is more obvious in this war, although a landing warship can carry 400-500 soldiers and transport 1 battalion of troops directly ashore, but this does not include fire support troops, although the marines are not equipped with many artillery, but mortars, The support firepower such as machine guns is not less than that of the army, and without these support forces, it is just an ordinary soldier who carries rifles ashore, even if the warship has destroyed most of the firepower on the shore before landing, but it is quite dangerous, if the fire support force is included, a total of 4 landing ships are needed to transport the strength of a regiment ashore, and if a regiment of 75mm field guns is to be transported ashore, one more is needed. However, since the enemy's coastal defense forces were not strong in this landing operation, the weakness of the landing ship's insufficient transportation capacity did not affect the operation.

In addition, landing on a beach requires a very high landing site, and it must be a coast with flat terrain and few reefs, and there are not many such landing sites, and this war was due to the fact that the People's Army conducted a detailed survey of the landing site before the war, so a suitable landing site was selected.

Generally speaking, although the Marine Corps' Type 1 landing warship has so many shortcomings, it is a professional landing warship after all, and it is undoubtedly ahead of the landing methods of other countries in this era, so it still achieved great success. However, after the war in the Far East, the power of East China has expanded to Southeast Asia, and the marines also have a lot of room for armed use, but the sea area of Southeast Asia is broader and more complex, so the existing landing warships of this type are obviously unable to adapt to such an operational environment, and they need to be equipped with new landing warships.

Although Luo Yue is not a major in warship design or manufacturing, he knows a little bit and has actual combat experience, so he knows what kind of landing warships are needed in actual landing operations, so he also put forward some requirements and design ideas for new warships.

According to Luo Yue's requirements, the tonnage of the new landing warship should be about 5,000 tons, and only in this way can it meet the requirements of ocean-going operations and ensure that the soldiers have sufficient rest space on the warship. The landing method should no longer be a direct beaching landing, but a docking cabin method similar to that of Changbai Mountain, using landing craft to carry out beaching landings within 10-15 nautical miles from the coast, and it is required that a fully equipped Marine battalion can be sent to the shore at one time, which also includes an artillery company equipped with six 75-mm field guns. Therefore, not only the Type 1 landing ship was designed, but also the Type 1-2 assault landing craft.

And for escort and fire support warships, Luo Yue believes that there is no need to build them separately, and it is enough to use the Navy's surface combat ships, but for fire support warships, Luo Yue believes that the 200 mm caliber guns of armored cruisers are enough, and there is no need to use the 305 mm caliber guns of battleships, and the gap between the two caliber guns is not large, but in terms of rate of fire, the 200 mm guns are nearly 2 times that of the 305 mm guns, and the power is enough, but it is necessary to design a 200 mm caliber alone, which is used against solid targets on the shore.

After receiving the report submitted by Luo Yue, the Military Commission quickly approved Luo Yue's plan for the reorganization of the Marine Corps, and formally established the Marine Corps Command, with Luo Yue as the commander, and before that, Luo Yue's official position was the commander of the Marine Corps.

The formal establishment of the Marine Corps Command also means that the Marine Corps is equal to the surface combat fleet, and it also shows the importance of the Marine Corps in the order of the People's Army.

However, the feasibility of the new landing warship proposed by Luo Yue needs to be determined by the technical department of the Navy and the shipyard.

In fact, the Navy's technical department already had a similar plan, because at the same time as the initial design of the landing warship, Huang Zhe, the director of the technical department who was still a major at the time, also believed that the defects of this type of landing warship were very large, but the shipbuilding capacity of East China was still limited at that time, and in order to deal with the upcoming Far East warships, it was first necessary to solve the problem, so the most prudent design plan was adopted. However, after the construction of the landing warship started, Huang Zhe presided over the design of several types of landing warships as a technical storage for the program.

After receiving Luo Yue's request for a new landing ship, Huang Zhe immediately selected the closest one from the stored schemes, made certain modifications, and handed over the preliminary design scheme to Luo Yue.

The preliminary design of the technical department is that the ship has a length of 110 meters, a width of 16 meters, a draft of 6 meters, a full load displacement of 5400-5700 tons, a power of 8000 horsepower, a speed of 18 knots, and a relay power of 12 knots of 5000 nautical miles.

The landing method is required by Luo Yue, and the dock is loaded with landing craft to charge and land, but unlike the Changbai Mountain ship, the dock is a dry docking cabin type, that is, the dock does not enter the water, but the opening of the dock is basically close to the water, and the landing craft taxied into the sea from the dock. This is because the technology of the inlet dock of the Changbaishan ship type is too complicated, so the undocking technology has been improved, so that the undocking technology is simplified, and the purpose of the docking tank is basically the same.

In addition to the landing method, the armament of this type of landing warship is also very impressive, the main gun is four twin 155 mm guns, the front three and the rear one are arranged, and the three main gun turrets on the front deck are according to the "product" The other firepower is 4 twin 105 mm guns and 6 twin 75 mm guns, which are arranged on both sides of the warship; in this way, whether it is the bow or the side of the ship, the strike fire of the 6 main guns can be concentrated to provide fire support to the landing force, and in addition, it also has a certain self-protection capability at sea, and it also has the power to fight a war when encountering small and medium-sized protective cruisers.

At the same time, the technical department also designed a type of landing craft supporting the landing ship, 14.5 meters long, 2.6 meters wide, 0.7 meters draft, driven by a diesel engine, with a speed of 18 knots, a range of 50 nautical miles, 3 drivers, and a load of about 10 tons, which can carry up to 55 soldiers at one time, or 2 75 mm field guns and supporting soldiers.

The dock width of this type of landing warship is 14.5 meters, the length is 45 meters, the slope is 2%, that is, the height difference is 0.9 meters, the height of the dock outlet from the water surface is between 0.5-0.8 meters, and it can carry 15 landing craft, in a group of 5 ships, it can carry an integrated company, of which 3 landing craft each carry a platoon of soldiers, a landing craft carries fire support troops, a landing craft carries 2 75 mm field guns, and 15 supporting soldiers.

In this way, this type of landing warship can send a consolidated battalion of troops to the shore at one time, or transport more than 100 tons of supplies, because this type of landing warship can also carry about 600 tons of materials, which can ensure the sustained combat capability of the troops.

After reading this preliminary design, Luo Yue was also very satisfied, because the requirements he put forward were met, so he quickly agreed to this plan, and asked the technical department to deepen the design, and at the same time asked to build a total of 12 warships of this type, built in two batches, each batch of 6, such a batch can project the strength of an integrated brigade, whether it is the number of people landing or the firepower, it is quite considerable. Once this type of warship is put into service, it can greatly enhance the landing capability of the Marine Corps.

In the five-year shipbuilding plan submitted by the Admiralty, the Marine Corps has reserved 10 warships of about 5,000 tons, although it exceeds 2, but the impact is not large, so it can also ensure that the plan of 12 new landing warships can be completed in this five-year cycle.

In addition, the original four marines' Zhenyuan-class fire support ships were all decommissioned, except for the Zhenyuan, which will be converted into a museum, and the remaining three will be dismantled and sold as scrap steel. The Admiralty gave these two warships to the Marine Corps as fire support ships, although the performance of these two battleships is backward and the age of the ships is more than 20 years, but the firepower is still considerable, and as the fire support ships of the amphibious fleet, they are also completely competent.