Chapter 818: The Third Mobile Fleet
In November of the fifteenth year of Qiansheng, one month after the Ningyu battleship was put into service, the second ship of the Ningyu-class battleship, Quyang, also officially joined the new aunt of the navy, and together with the Ningyu battleship, it was incorporated into the first battleship fleet.
The first battleship fleet was the first battleship fleet established after the unification of the Daheng Empire, when the navy was comprehensively reorganized and classified according to the nature of the operation.
In the first ten years after the unification of the Great Heng Empire, it has always been the main fleet of the Great Heng Empire's navy.
Subsequently, the Endless Sea ironclad ship was decommissioned and dismantled, and the Pingbo and two Unity-class battleships were sold to the Orr Kingdom, so the first battleship fleet was successively replenished with two Yonglin-class battleships and two Endless Sea-class battleships, which are still the main sub-fleets belonging to the Daheng Empire.
After the Jingzhou-class battleships were put into service, the main sub-fleet of the Daheng Navy was organized into the third and fourth battleship fleets with the Jingzhou-class battleships, Gaoqing and Jinghe.
As for the First Battleship Fleet, because its warships were too old, it gave up the position of the main squadron after the Jingzhou-class battleships were put into service.
After all, the Yonglin-class, the Endless Sea-class and their improved versions of the early low-freeboard road-exposed battery battleships were already low-powered, and they were reluctant to even perform second-line combat missions, and could only serve as escorts, coastal defense and other tasks.
With the official commissioning of the Ningyu, the First Battleship Fleet returned to the position of the main sub-fleet of the Daheng Navy.
Because the Ning Yu battleship and its subsequent three sister ships, a total of four Ning Yu-class battleships, will be assigned to this detachment.
As for the original two Yonglin-class battleships and the two Endless Sea-class battleships, they were because of their low combat power, too old, and the high cost of upgrading, so although these old battleships had only been in service for about ten years, and the hulls were still usable, the navy still withdrew them all.
Even the name of the battleship was not retained, but it was changed to a shore defense ship, classified as a coastal combat vessel, and was reorganized into the Third Fleet.
The Third Fleet, in the Daheng Imperial Navy, is actually a reserve training fleet, except for a small number of newly built professional training ships, the rest are basically old ships, which come here to exert their residual heat, mainly used to train naval officers and soldiers, and to help defend their own coastal waters during wartime.
However, the First Fleet was different from the Second Fleet, the First Fleet was stationed on the east coast, and the Second Fleet was stationed on the west coast, which was an important cornerstone of coastal defense in the Daheng Empire.
Now, with the Ningyu-class battleships successively joining the first battleship fleet, it has also reshaped the glory of the first battleship formation after the unification of the Daheng Empire, and has become the main fleet in the Daheng Empire's navy.
Similarly, the Second Cruiser Fleet will also be incorporated into the Qiping-class battle cruisers next year, thus becoming the main sub-fleet of the Daheng Imperial Navy in the future.
In addition to the above two sub-fleets, in fact, the Daheng Imperial Navy also had other battleship fleets, cruiser fleets, and destroyer fleets, and there were quite a few of them.
The battleship fleet alone consisted of six, the cruiser fleet eight, and the destroyer fleet was formed into twelve.
The above-mentioned main fleets, together with other auxiliary warships, belong to the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, respectively.
However, the combat sequence of the Daheng Imperial Navy is not lost in accordance with the above-mentioned establishment standards. 、
The three major naval fleets of the Daheng Empire are all typical administrative institutions, only responsible for naval construction and peacetime training, etc., and in wartime or large-scale exercises, warships are drawn from the above three fleets to form a mobile fleet.
In the twelfth year of the reign of Qiansheng, the conflict between the Daheng Empire and the Gafia Empire broke out in Lieji, and the Daheng Empire formally established the first mobile fleet, and the first mobile fleet was not disbanded immediately after the war, but retained, and existed as a combat readiness force for a long time, and at the same time, the Daheng Empire Navy further improved the institutional setting of the mobile fleet.
It is clear that the mobile fleet is a wartime organization, and in wartime, it is necessary to command different types of warships to form a huge combat force and be responsible for ocean-going battles in one direction.
In this year's Kean oil field incident, as soon as the incident happened, the Great Heng Empire sent the first mobile fleet south, and then formed the second mobile fleet to reinforce the south.
By forming a large-scale mobile fleet, the Daheng Imperial Navy also perfected the structure within the mobile fleet.
At present, the mobile fleet of the Daheng Empire is based on battleships as the core, supplemented by battle cruisers, armored cruisers or heavy cruisers, and at the same time with light cruisers, destroyers according to a certain proportion, and finally with a certain number of high-speed supply ships.
Of course, on the secondary front, armored cruisers or heavy cruisers can also be used directly as the core.
However, the final goal is to form a fleet with complete ships and capable of completing combat missions independently.
And the parallel mode of the administrative fleet and the battle fleet of the Great Heng Empire is also relatively rare in the navies of the Blue Star countries, and the navy of the Krull Kingdom is much simpler, not to mess up such a mess, and directly divided into five fleets, the local fleet, the western fleet, the southwest fleet, the southern fleet, and the eastern fleet according to the different regions, each fleet is equipped with various types of ships, and can independently be responsible for the sea battles in the waters of the defense area to which they belong.
However, among their five fleets, the warships they belong to are also constantly changing, not to mention fixed configurations, which is very similar to the mobile fleet model of the Daheng Imperial Navy.
The First Battleship Fleet, after successively accepting the Ningyu-class battleships, its administrative establishment belongs to the First Fleet, but what is trained on weekdays belongs to the Third Mobile Fleet.
This third mobile fleet is also a brand-new mobile fleet that has only recently been established by the Great Heng Empire.
This is for better improvement and give full play to the performance of a unified all-heavy artillery battleship, after all, this thing is also the first time for the Daheng Imperial Navy to play, and if you want this kind of battleship to play a theoretical combat effectiveness, you still need to continue to explore, train, and finally form actual combat effectiveness, otherwise it is just an expensive big toy.
In order to give full play to the value of unified all-heavy artillery warships, the Imperial Navy specially selected a lot of new talents from all over the army, and began to train and conduct simulation training several years ago, and this time the backbone officers and non-commissioned officers in the Third Mobile Fleet are this group of people.
According to the predetermined plan, the Third Mobile Fleet will be incorporated into the first battleship fleet and the third cruiser fleet, the two main fleets, and will be accompanied by four destroyers.
Even the supply ships are specially built to match the large fast supply ships used by the new warships!
Once the entire Third Mobile Fleet is formed, then the combat power will be enough to sweep the Endless Sea!
It is enough to give the Great Heng Empire greater confidence to face any challenge!
In the same way, it is also possible that some people in the Great Heng Empire will have greater ambitions, such as completely seizing the Endless Strait!