Chapter 96: Naval Base
Located on a construction site on the west side of the wharf in Chang'an Town, this was once a deserted beach with no trees, and the original conditions seen by the people who came to this place are unimaginable, but the environment is indeed cleaner and more beautiful than any beach in the previous time and space. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Now this barren and clean beach, piled with all kinds of building materials and construction waste, the first phase of the construction of the navy in Chang'an Town has been carried out for three months, and there is no wrinkle in sight here, only a mess and dirt.
Hundreds of Aboriginal Australians, dressed in simple clothes, worked hard under a group of heavily armed overseers, mixing cement, bundling steel bars, etc., to live a 21st century construction site scene that can be seen in many parts of Chang'an Town.
The first phase of the Chang'an Naval Base is a project personally undertaken by Navy Commander Wang Tiezhui during his tenure as a member of the committee, and the naval base is mainly used for training and docking military ships; it is about 10 kilometers away from the center of Chang'an Town, and it takes 15 minutes by car from the town to here, and it takes about half an hour to 40 minutes to walk from the town.
As the first military base of the naval department, the construction here is extraordinary, in addition to the coastal generation to build a seawall, several large-caliber cannons are also placed here, although the possibility of the military base being attacked is less than that of Chang'an Town, but as a qualified admiral, this basic defense system construction is still known.
From the Chang'an Naval Base, there are two lonely islands on both sides, and the two islands of less than a few thousand square meters have become the defense gateway of the naval base, and the 17th-century black powder cannon developed by local military researchers is placed here, and the distance has been tested to be at least 800 meters away from the shooting accuracy to reach high school.
Since resigning from his post as a member of the Executive Committee, Navy Commander Wang Tiezhu has taken his entourage to live at the temporary construction site here and start the task of focusing on construction; according to the requirements, the first phase of the construction of the naval base will be completed in March next year, and at least during this period, it will need to be put into use.
After the completion of construction, the first phase of the project will achieve the dual integration of training and operations, which can not only become a site for daily training, but also can play combat work in wartime.
The total investment in the construction of the base is about 600,000 yuan, and in addition to the necessary imported materials, the manpower is basically free, so the construction cost is relatively low.
However, compared with the public construction investment in Chang'an Town, this money is still relatively large, and the first phase of the construction project of the naval base is also attached to a naval academy, and the purpose of building the naval academy is to train more navigation talents.
It takes three to five years for a qualified naval soldier to develop, while a qualified officer takes even longer, and it is clear that Wang Tiehammer is planning for the future.
The need for the Australian Navy to build more ships in the coming years, and the shortage of naval officers and officers will widen, is already evident.
The Navy currently has less than a company, including some ground service personnel, which are clearly not enough to accommodate future military expansion.
The problem of lack of soldiers is relatively easy to solve, but the officers are more difficult, and the few people who can serve as naval officers are veteran seafarers or retired naval soldiers with some seafaring experience.
Take Sun Yang, who participated in the combat command of Zheng Zhilong, he was also a retired soldier in the navy before he crossed, although he was just an ordinary naval soldier, but he already had much more experience than ordinary people, and the experience of sea combat and sea navigation was several times that of other ordinary soldiers, not to mention anything else, just those who were trained in the army at the beginning were enough to use them.
So after Sun Yang came back this time, he was directly awarded the rank of colonel, and he is also the one with the highest military rank among his peers so far.
The main building of the first phase of the project is the Naval Officer Academy, which mainly has training grounds, simulation laboratories, and college dormitories, etc., which must be completed in March next year, and as a naval colonel, Sun Yang and several other officers with experience in maritime operations will take turns to teach and train the current naval soldiers for half a year.
During the dock of the Perfection, it can be said that the entire navy has no tasks, and their main task is to learn how to operate a sailboat and operate a steam turbine, and these necessary operational skills are the focus of their learning at present.
In order to let the students have a good learning environment, Wang Tiezhu attaches great importance to the construction work here, and in addition to the fact that he is a former committee member, many materials that were not in place also arrived in advance because of his reasons, which brings a lot of convenience to the construction work.
"Commander, with you personally sitting here to supervise the construction, I think the construction period is likely to be completed ahead of schedule." Sun Yang walked from behind him, took a coconut in his hand and handed it to Wang Tiehammer.
To say that Wang Tiehammer, the commander of the navy, has indeed accelerated the construction period a lot here, just the performance of the soldiers who manage the workers at the bottom is very hard-working, as long as there is any natives who dare to be lazy, the past is a stick.
"It's not okay to finish ahead of schedule, the quality must be guaranteed, and it won't help if there is no quality to rush the work, is the work done at the shipyard?"
"After processing, according to our requirements, Lin Gong will officially start the construction of a 1,000-ton sail steam warship next week, and at the same time, the mast modification of the perfect will also be carried out, this is the drawing, Lin Gong let you see, what needs to be modified can be proposed to him."
"I won't look at this drawing, Sun Yang, we are not experts in shipbuilding, we don't know how to submit suggestions less, what we can do is to respond to the problems encountered in the operation, and then hand it over to Lin Wendong, and he will make improvements, as for participating in this design, we don't want to mention it."
"Okay, I'll pay attention to this, and try not to cause trouble for the foresters." Sun Yang assured with an embarrassed face, obviously it was some unreasonable design plans he had proposed to Lin Wendong and them before, which reached Wang Tiehammer's ears, and Wang Tiehammer's words were obviously about him, although he didn't say it directly, but he also said it more bluntly.
Sun Yang is still more important to this person, Wang Tiehammer, at least as the future admiral of the main admiral training, so on some issues Wang Tiehammer will directly point out his mistakes, to avoid him in the future to go to a higher position, the greater impact it will bring, this kind of problem Wang Tiehammer has seen a lot before, because of this, he attaches more importance to it.