At present, there is still a huge gap in the number of personnel of the KPA Navy, there are not even 4,000 soldiers on board, and not a single warship is fully staffed. Relatively small warships have a more complete crew, which can reach seventy or eighty percent, while large warships are four warships with a capacity of more than 10,000 tons, and the soldiers on board cannot even reach half of the normal establishment.

Of course, there must be at least two or more people in each post of a warship, so as to ensure the rotation in the performance of tasks and the replenishment of personnel in the war; therefore, under normal circumstances, when a warship reaches about 40 percent of its establishment, it can be started, but it cannot carry out ocean-going missions and combat missions, and it is difficult to even spend the night at sea.

Although the navy has robbed most of the literate recruits, the proportion of literate recruits in the navy is less than 30 percent, and literacy is only the most basic condition for being a ship crew, and corresponding training must be carried out; for example, navigators must learn to read nautical charts, debate directions, use sextants, and helm the helm; engine room soldiers must learn the working principles of steam engines and boilers, daily maintenance, and maintenance; and gun and artillery officers must know ballistics. Therefore, if a recruit wants to go on the ship, he must go through at least 6-12 months of study and training, and some are even longer, otherwise it is useless to get on the ship, which is the main reason for the large shortage of soldiers on the ship.

In addition, large warships are more technically complex and difficult to operate, and it is best to serve on small warships for about half a year to a year, be familiar with the habits of navigation and warships, and then transfer to large ships to serve, so strictly speaking, even one percent of the soldiers on several large warships of the People's Army are really qualified, and at present it is only to temporarily ensure the most basic needs of warship operation, but the vast majority of the crew members are actually temporary, and after the soldiers on the small and medium-sized warships replace them, they must be sent back to the small warships for further training。

However, despite this, the navy still did not relax its training, and large warships could not go out to the far sea, and even could not go to sea overnight, so they would go to sea every day, and even if they could practice any dagger, after returning in the evening, as long as the weather was good, they would not enter the port, but would anchor and anchor on the sea near the port for the night, and at least feel the feeling of staying overnight at sea. All the warships with an establishment of 60 percent have gone to sea for training, and by the way, they have to complete coastal patrol tasks during the training. On the one hand, we are also stepping up the training and education of the personnel on the reserve ships, striving to get them on board the ships as soon as possible, so as to make up for the current situation in which the personnel on the ships are not leaving. However, it is still difficult to achieve significant improvement in a short period of time.

It is expected that by the middle of next year or so, these four newly built warships will enter service with the People's Army one after another, and at least the two warships built in Germany will definitely be able to enter service, which will require at least 1,000 or more crews, and if the four newly built warships can be trained normally, about 1,600 new crews will be needed. Although at that time, there will also be a group of new recruits who will be trained to go on ships, but not only will they not be able to make up for the current shortfall, but they will also make the shortage of personnel more serious, and they will face the embarrassing situation of being incompetent in the ship.

Moreover, there are now a large number of industrial projects on the ground, and the financial situation of the East China government is not optimistic, and the navy's shipbuilding plan is an extremely large expenditure, if this situation is not effectively improved, then after the construction of these four warships, the follow-up shipbuilding plan is likely to be postponed, after all, even the people are not together, what to do in a panic to build warships, it is better to wait first, and use the funds where they are more needed, but in this way, the development of the navy is of course to be temporarily stagnant, and more importantly, the development of shipbuilding technology that the East China government has just started will also be seriously hit。 Therefore, it is now necessary to find a way to deal with the current situation.

In addition, there is another matter that is not too serious, but it must be decided immediately, that is, the naming of these four warships, the warships of the People's Army Navy are all captured enemy ships, and the current naming rules are also formulated for the captured warships, which are divided into four classes, but the newly built warships of their own obviously can no longer be named according to this set of naming rules, and a new set of naming rules must be formulated.

The Admiralty also urgently convened a meeting, attended by all the principal officers, to negotiate a solution to these two problems.

After Shang Jinfeng talked about the current difficulties encountered by the navy, the other officers also felt very embarrassed, relatively speaking, the naming of the warship is easy to handle, how can you get a set, but what about the staffing on the ship? To be honest, the headquarters of the various detachments are also having a headache about this problem, and Wang Hailong, the commander of the battleship detachment, is the commander of the battleship detachment, because the four warships he commands are the four largest in the current People's Army Navy, all of which exceed 10,000 tons, and of course the personnel gap is the largest, and even half of them cannot be reached, so it is difficult to guarantee even basic training.

After listening to Shang Jinfeng's words, Wang Hailong immediately said: "I can't take care of him, if I really pull everyone to the warship, at least I can get the establishment together, and if you want to train, you can also train on the ship, so you can practice it yourself and get started faster." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Wei, commander of the ironclad fleet, shook his head again and again, and said: "Nonsense, it's complete nonsense, your practice is simply to cover your ears and steal the bell, and the people are all together, but what's the use? If you can't go out to the far sea, you still can't go out to the far sea, let alone train with a warship, if you don't master the basic knowledge well, you won't be able to drag it out with a warship." ”

When Wang Hailong heard this, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, and said, "Isn't it easy to find faults?" But other than that, what else do you have to do?"

Zhang Wei shook his head and said: "I don't have any good way to get there for a while, but this suggestion of yours is too unreliable, and it is extremely easy to have an accident by letting unqualified soldiers on the ship, and once a major accident occurs, it will be even more unfavorable to our navy." ”

Wang Hailong said: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you can't think of a way and can't think of it, you have a bunch of ability to find faults." ”

Zhang Wei couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and said: "Lao Wang, I don't mean to find fault with you, but your method won't work at all, can you guarantee that nothing will happen? Besides, even if you do it according to your method, now there are four more warships, and 1,600 people are needed, so where will these people go up to find them? Just pull another group of people on the ship? Other people may not understand, but Chairman Xia and Speaker Qin are both old navy, and it is impossible for them not to understand, you are damaging the reputation of the navy." ”

Wang Hailong has been on fire in his heart these days, and when he heard this, he immediately couldn't hold it back, slammed the table, and said, "You tell me clearly, what do you mean by damaging the reputation of the navy......

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Shang Jinfeng said sharply: "Shut up, we are discussing a solution to the problem, not to quarrel, if you want to quarrel, get out of me immediately." ”

Whether it is seniority or military street, Shang Jinfeng is higher than them, so he immediately suppressed the two of them, and did not dare to quarrel anymore, this fashion Jinfeng said: "Also, Lao Wang, I also think that your suggestion will not work, it will work, if it doesn't work, if it doesn't work, our navy would rather develop slowly, but we must not engage in this kind of deceptive thing, so this kind of opinion, no one is allowed to mention it in the future, otherwise I won't be able to please him."

At this time, the commander of the 2nd Destroyer Detachment* said: "I have a suggestion, but it may harm the interests of some people, but you can discuss it." ”

Shang Jinfeng nodded, and said: "Let's say, the interests depend on how to measure, if it is for the overall interests of the navy, the interests of some people can be appropriately sacrificed for the time being, and I will do this work." ”

* nodded, and said: "Actually, we can convert some of the current warships into reserve warships or training ships, so that we can free up some soldiers and the soldiers who are being trained have training ships, which can speed up their growth, and after having the experience of training ships, they can skip or reduce the service time of small warships, and after the new ships are in place, they can also ensure that there are enough soldiers to take over the operation, and it is not a fraud, no one has anything to say." ”

Wang Hailong's eyes lit up and said, "This is a good way, I think this method is feasible." ”

Shang Jinfeng pondered for a while before he said: "This suggestion is feasible, and we really need to have special training ships, but what about turning those warships into training ships? Of course, capital ships can't be used, we have just a few warships that we can handle, and it's not enough to use them ourselves, so they can be converted into training ships, and the personnel of small and medium-sized warships are limited, even if we convert a fleet into training ships, the people vacated are not enough for a new ship." ”

Wang Hailong suddenly laughed, and said to Zhang Wei: "Lao Zhang, what I said is not to retaliate against you, but to talk about the matter, so don't be careful, I think your fleet is the most suitable to be converted into a training ship." ”

Although the two almost quarreled just now, Zhang Wei really didn't take it to heart, because he and Wang Hailong have not known each other for a year or two, knowing that Wang Hailong's temper is a little anxious, but he is not a cautious person, the matter is over, he will never turn over the small intestine, so he didn't think much about it, and said: "Why is it my fleet, although these warships are a little old and slow, but the tonnage is there, and the firepower is strong, The defense is not bad, for the current situation of our navy, it is still useful, because it is a line battle, the weakness of my fleet's speed can be covered up, to be honest, you really have to engage in line battles, your fleet may not be able to gain the upper hand, although your two battleships are stronger than me, but after all, there are still two armored cruisers, in line battles, their speed advantage can not be played at all, can only fight firepower armor. ”