After dinner, Zhou Weiying accompanied Zhou Ping out for a walk, while Qin Zheng and Luo Yue talked in the study.

Qin Zheng said: "Xiao Luo, you should know that our next focus is the Russo-Japanese War, and this will be the first battle of Guan Jian that we will rise, so we will make every effort to prepare for this war, have I read all the information I gave you about the Russo-Japanese War?"

Luo Yue nodded and said, "Dad, I've read it carefully." ”

Qin Zheng said: "That's good, there is still a big battle to be fought in the future, but for you, this war is also a good opportunity to make a contribution." ”

Luo Yue said: "Yes, this time in Java, I have summed up some combat experience, although we are fighting in the jungle in the south this time, but in the northeast, there are also a large number of forest areas, and some combat experience is not limited to jungle warfare, so in the future Northeast War, it should be useful." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Very good, you are a caring person, I am still relieved of this." However, the scale of the Russo-Japanese War is different from the wars we have experienced before, first of all, the army, the total number of troops invested by Japan and Russia is close to one million, and we must prepare at least 300,000 troops, and now we have formed 8 divisions, of which 5 divisions have been determined, and your first division is a division, and such a scale is definitely not enough, it is expected to be expanded to 15 divisions, and 10-12 reserve divisions will be formed, of course, this plan has not yet been finalized, but I think it will not be too bad, after all, to participate in the Russo-Japanese War, it is necessary to have so many troops。 ”

Of course, Luo Yue understood what Qin Zheng meant, the People's Army Army will expand by 7 more divisions, which means that there will be 7 more division-level commanders, so there will be another general promotion of the crossing soldiers, and they will definitely be promoted, and there is a great chance that they will directly serve as the division commander. The division level is already an independent combat unit, and he was able to be promoted from platoon commander to division commander in three years, which is indeed a rocket.

Qin Zheng said: "You should understand, with your combat exploits, it is certain that you will be promoted to division commander and command a division to fight, but you can only serve as an ordinary division, one is that the first division has been determined, and it is impossible to temporarily replace people, and the second is that your qualifications are still a little worse, and the resources that ordinary divisions can obtain are of course not as good as those of the first division, and Bi Jing is our trump card army." ”

Luo Yue said: " I am very satisfied with being able to directly serve as the division commander, the battle is fought by people, and in this era, people's subjective initiative is greater than the role of weapons, so whether it is a division or an ordinary division, in the final analysis, it is necessary to go to the battlefield to see the truth, the name of the ace army is based on fighting, not by the establishment of a division or an ordinary division, in the old time and space, several ace armies of our army are piled up with combat exploits, so as long as my division has outstanding performance on the battlefield, it can also become a trump card. ”

Qin Zheng was very satisfied with Luo Yue's answer, and said: "It's good that you can think like this, and I also believe in your ability, but now there is still a chance, the Admiralty has already planned to formally establish the Marine Corps, and the proposals have been submitted, just waiting for the approval of the Military Commission, but this is also a formality, because the Military Commission has reached a consensus that the Navy should have an independent Marine Corps, and it is even possible to separate the Marine Corps into a branch of the military in the future." Of course, at the moment the Marine Corps plans to have only one division, and the commander's selection, you are a candidate, I don't know if you are interested. ”

The Marine Corps is one of the important arms of the modern navy, and in some countries it is also called the marines, and it is an important force in the navy's operations on the other side of the coast; in most countries, the marine corps is a branch of the navy that is responsible for sea-crossing and landing operations and other specific amphibious combat missions; and it is an integral part of the country's maritime power and an important force for realizing the national maritime strategy. The main combat mission of the Marine Corps is to carry out sea-crossing and landing operations and anti-landing operations independently or in coordination with the army, and it can also cooperate with the army to undertake coastal defense tasks and important island garrison tasks.

Because it is the United States in the old time and space, due to its global military combat requirements, the Marine Corps is even an independent branch of the military, with the capability of amphibious operations on land, sea and air, and is directly commanded by the President of the United States, without being responsible to the Speaker of the Senate and House of Representatives, and is the main combat force of the United States Rapid Reaction Force.

In fact, the soldiers of the People's Army's army are all from the Marine Corps, and when the People's Army was first established, some people put forward the idea of setting up a Marine Corps, but whether it is the army or the navy, it has not been established for a long time, the construction of the military branches is not perfect, and there is no task of amphibious landing operations for the time being, so the Marine Corps was not established immediately, but the action of protecting overseas Chinese in Java made the Military Commission realize that it was time to set up a Marine Corps, and such a thing as protecting overseas Chinese should have been done by the Marine Corps, and in the future against Japan and Russia, it is very likely that there will be amphibious landing operations, so that the Marine Corps will be established in the Navy, which was also formally proposed for discussion.

Qin Zheng then said: "If you stay in the army, although you can only serve as the commander of an ordinary division, but the big war is imminent, there are many opportunities, as long as you have outstanding performance on the battlefield, ordinary divisions can also be transformed into ace divisions, and now the construction of the army has basically become a scale, the system is complete, you stay in the army, you can follow the line of army level, group army, and military region commander step by step, but whether you can go further in the future, it is difficult to say whether you will enter the military commission or the Ministry of National Defense, this will take the time." The Marine Corps will definitely have more resources than ordinary divisions in the early stage, but it needs to start from scratch and start from scratch, most of the resources you have accumulated in the Army may be wasted, so it will definitely be much more difficult than in the Army, but after the Marine Corps is built, you will be the head of an army, and in the future we will definitely expand to Southeast Asia, the Marine Corps will inevitably be useful, and in the future we will have more overseas interests, and the Marine Corps is also very likely to become an independent service like the United States, so you can also become the commander of the service, whether it is the Military Commission or the Ministry of Defense in the futureand there will be a place for you. ”

After listening to Qin Zheng's words, Luo Yue also pondered, emotionally speaking, of course, he was inclined to the Marine Corps, because Luo Yue himself was born in the Marine Corps, but now Luo Yue also has to consider his future prospects and development, after all, China is a country with both land and sea capabilities, and the Navy and Army are indispensable.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "You don't have to decide right away, you can think about it for a few more days, after all, the establishment of the Marine Corps still needs to be discussed and approved by the Military Commission, although it is basically decided, but this transition still has to go, and you are not the only candidate, so even if you decide to join the Marine Corps, it may not be the number one, if you are asked to be a deputy, are you still willing? You must consider these situations clearly, once decided, it is likely to determine your future development direction." ”

Luo Yue nodded and said, "Dad, I'll think about it seriously." ”

In the following days, Luo Yue and his wife lived in Qin Zheng's house, but soldiers and middle- and lower-ranking officers could enjoy long vacations, but high-ranking officers like Luo Yue were not treated so well, and they only rested at home for one day, and then started to work again to summarize the Javanese action to protect overseas Chinese. This is a good habit brought by the time-travelers from the old time and space, and after each military operation, they must seriously sum up, analyze the successes and failures, gain and loss, and then hand it over to the whole army to learn from the experience.

In the overseas Chinese fleet, the commander-in-chief Shang Jinfeng made a comprehensive summary, the navy was summarized by Zhang Wei, and Luo Yue was responsible for the army's summary.

Three days later, the summary report of the three people came out, although this operation in Java was very successful, but it did reveal many problems, on the side of the army, this is the first large-scale application of mortars in warfare, confirming that mortars, The grenadier with the army is very large, because the mortar is easy to carry, easy and flexible, so whether it is in jungle warfare or street warfare, can follow the army to fight, and the mortar can not only greatly increase the army's firepower, but also improve the army's ability to attack fortifications, but the disadvantage is that the range of the mortar is somewhat insufficient, by which the actual range of the 60 mortar is only 1200-1500 meters, in the actual combat this range is too close to the enemy's front, if it can be increased to more than 2000 meters, it will be able to play a greater role。

In addition, since there was no large-scale positional offensive and defensive battle in Java, and it was to attack the enemy's position, large-caliber mortars were not used much on the battlefield, and how to give full play to the role of large-caliber mortars in combat still needs to be further trained and tested in the future.

Compared with the mortar, which shines in battle, the light of the machine gun is much dimmer, because now the People's Army only has the Makqin machine gun, which is inconvenient to carry, and it is in the offensive war, which greatly limits the play of the machine gun, so Luo Yue put forward the hope of speeding up the development of the general-purpose machine gun.

Since the Navy has only fought one naval battle, there is not much experience to be learned, but this naval battle tested the performance of the two new warships, proving that the design of this type of warship was very successful, and it could be considered for mass construction. Of course, the course and results of this naval battle have proved that the combat mode of the protective cruiser is not necessarily like the battleship or armored cruiser, which is lined up in battleline, but should have its own set of combat methods. Flexible, in addition to the protection of the cruiser's firepower, the main gun does not need to be large-mouthed, but the rate of fire must be fast, to ensure the maximum firepower per unit of time, and not only to pay attention to the side fire, but also to strengthen the bow and stern fire. All these will be useful for the future naval construction of the KPA.