At a time when the world was analyzing and assessing the impact of the Battle of Manchuria on the situation in the Far East, the KPA navy was already assembled in Shanghai to prepare for the implementation of the East China ** plan for the landing operation in Japan and the evacuation plan for Java. This is also the largest operation of the People's Army Navy after the initial participation in the Battle of Tsushima in East China

At this time, nearly one year had passed since the Battle of Tsushima, and compared with that time, the KPA Navy had also undergone considerable changes, with the addition of some new ships and new strengths.

First of all, the two battleships built by East China's **, the Cadre General and the Mo Xie have been officially put into service. These two battleships and the Chitu-class armored cruisers are the same hull, but the width of the ship has been increased by about 1 meter to ensure the stability of navigation and artillery shooting, with a displacement of 12,500 tons, and the armament arrangement is also the same as that of the Chitu-class armored cruisers, 4 twin 280 mm main guns are arranged along the central axis, and an integrated fire control system is installed, the secondary guns are 6 twin 155 mm guns, arranged along the port and port sides, and other weapons have 8 twin 105 mm guns, 8 twin 75 mm guns, and 10 50 mm rapid-fire guns, and canceledLaunch tubes.

The Ganjiang-class battleship actually has the main characteristics of a dreadnought, full firepower, unified fire control, but the power system is still a reciprocating three-rise steam engine, rather than a more technologically advanced steam turbine, mainly because the steam turbine jointly developed by East China ** and Germany is not yet mature, so it is not assembled to the Ganjiang-class battleship, but the steam turbine is not the standard configuration of the dreadnought. Moreover, through the optimization of the hull, the maximum speed of the Ganjiang-class battleship reached 20 knots, which almost reached the level of armored cruisers of this era. Even compared with the dreadnought, it is only one section slower, and the gap is not large.

Although the caliber of the main guns of the Cadre-class battleships is slightly smaller, the main guns of the current mainstream battleships are generally 305 mm, which is mainly due to the small tonnage of the Cadre-class battleships, according to the standards of the old time and space, the tonnage of dreadnoughts is generally close to 20,000 tons, and the smallest is not less than 17,000 tons. But considering that the naval battle distance in this era is 6-8 kilometers, and usually does not exceed 10 kilometers, at this distance, the lethality of the 280-mm gun can reach about 305 percent of 9 mm, which is completely acceptable. Moreover, the number of main guns of the cadre-class battleships is 1 times that of the mainstream battleships, so the firepower output can reach 1.5-1.8 times that of the current mainstream battleships, and the advantages are also quite obvious.

In addition to these two self-made warships, the Japanese battleships Shikishima, the Russian battleships Borodino, and the Eagle that were captured in the Battle of Tsushima have all completed the restoration work at this time and have been incorporated into the KPA Navy. Weiyang, so now the KPA Navy has a total of 8 battleships.

In this way, the two warships Kaihai and Tuohai in the original battleship detachment were adjusted out, because these two warships were originally armored cruisers, but at the beginning of the establishment of the People's Army Navy, there were actually only two battleships, Yuanyang and Yueyang, so they had to be incorporated into the number, and now that there are enough battleships, there is no need to replace these two armored cruisers.

However, although these three battleships have officially entered the list, only the Boyang and Feiyang have combat capability, and the Shikiyo still needs a period of grinding and training. This is because the Boyang and Feiyang are the Weiyang battleships that entered service earlier, that is, the improved version of the former Russian Navy's Crown Prince battleship, and there are many similarities in the hull structure and operation mode, so when the Boyang and Feiyang are still under maintenance, the Navy uses the Weiyang to train the crew, so that after the Boyang and Feiyang are repaired and put into service, the crews can quickly get started and form combat effectiveness, while the Shiyang does not have this condition, and the formation of combat effectiveness is much slower.

The other two real new battleships, the Cadre General and the Mo Xie, formed a separate team. Because these two battleships are newly designed, their firepower and speed are different from those of other battleships, and only by fighting in separate teams can they give full play to the combat effectiveness of these two warships.

Of course, the grouping of battleships in future wars is not fixed, after all, the Navy currently has only these few battleships, and their performance is also uneven, and it is impossible to use dogma, so it is still necessary to carry out flexible grouping according to the specific conditions of future wars, and when necessary, it is not impossible to form a team with armored cruisers.

In the past year, in addition to repairing these three battleships, East China ** also repaired two armored cruisers, the former was a Japanese ship captured in the Battle of Tsushima and the Grombowie, the former was a Japanese ship captured in the Battle of Tsushima, and the latter was a Russian ship captured in the Battle of Vladivostok, as well as five protective cruisers Oleg, Aurora, Svetlana, Monomak, and Emerald.

Although the degree of damage to these warships is different, the damage is above the water surface, and the power system and the upper part of the waterline are basically intact, so the repair work is relatively simple, and the time is of course shorter. Therefore, in the order of repairing warships in East China, the repair was given priority, and the People's Army also captured several Russian battleships Retvizan, Postava, Victory, and Sevastopol, which were originally sunk by the Japanese in Port Arthur, and the armored cruiser Bayan, which was ranked behind due to the large damage and long repair time.

Battleships and armored cruisers, on the other hand, are the priority among the priority repairs of warships, so that the navy can acquire warships with stronger combat power in a short period of time and improve its combat effectiveness.

According to the KPA Navy's regulations on the naming of warships, the Nisshin was named the Irihai, the Grom Bowie was named the Baohai, and the Kaihai and Takumi, which had been reorganized from the battleship detachment, were reorganized into the 2nd Armored Cruiser Detachment; Oleg was named Haiao, Aurora was named Haifu, Svetlana was named Haiwei, Monomach was named Haihe, and Emerald was named Haibao, and these five warships were to be organized into the 5th Cruiser Detachment.

In addition to these repaired warships, there are not only two battleships built by East China's self-built warships, but also several new ships in service, including two Qingzhou-class protective cruisers that have been completed, named Caozhou and Yanzhou, respectively, and incorporated into the 2nd cruiser detachment, and the other 4 warships of the same class form a team.

Four Dongchang-class protective cruisers were also completed, named Hejian, Guangping, Shunde, and Daming, which were already the names of Hebei Province, because the place names of Shandong Province were almost exhausted, and these four warships were organized into the 6th Cruiser Detachment.

The construction of four Gaomi-class destroyers and Haiyang-class destroyers has also been completed, and they are divided into the 5th and 6th destroyer detachments.

Compared with a year ago, the strength of the KPA Navy has risen to a new level. However, up to this time, the construction of large and medium-sized warships in East China has been stopped, and there are only 4 destroyers at present, and 8 river boats are still under construction, and the shipyards are now mainly focusing on repairing warships captured in previous wars.

With the full-scale development of the war, the economy of East China has also been greatly affected, and some materials have been controlled. The production and operation of most enterprises and factories have also caused varying degrees of impact, but shipyards are the few factories in East China that have not been affected by the war and are running at full capacity, or even overloaded. And there are expansions.

At present, there are two shipyards in East China, Qingdao Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard, and after East China occupies Shanghai, it quickly controls the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, which is a rare large-scale new military manufacturing plant established in the Westernization Movement, in which ship manufacturing and maintenance are the main manufacturing projects of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. It was also the predecessor of Jiangnan Shipyard, one of China's four major shipyards, before the crossing.

Although the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau during the operation, and other enterprises established by the Westernization Movement, there are problems of excessive cost and serious corruption, but the results achieved are also remarkable, only in terms of shipbuilding, it has built more than 200 ships of various kinds, and can build nearly 3000 tons of warships, which is after more than 30 years of operation, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has trained a considerable number of skilled workers, which is the most valuable wealth of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, East China ** When the Qingdao Shipyard was established, a group of skilled workers were poached from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but most of the workers still stayed in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and the salary of Bijing Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was still relatively generous, enough for the workers to support their families, and there was still a small surplus, so most people were naturally reluctant to leave.

After East China occupied Shanghai, it immediately transferred a group of management personnel and a small number of technical backbones from Qingdao Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and carried out a major purge of the management of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. More work and more rewards, the capable and the mediocre, and replaced a batch of machinery and equipment for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, so in more than a month, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau took on a new look, and the enthusiasm of the workers increased greatly, so East China handed over some small and medium-sized warships that needed to be repaired to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau for completion.