While talking about the report on the development of naval equipment drawn up by Ren Hao and Liao Hongpeng, Nie Renfeng also handed over a plan for the reorganization of the navy to Prime Minister Xue Xiyue. This plan was formulated by Nie Renfeng himself, and the core content of the plan was to comprehensively reorganize the establishment of the Imperial Navy!

From Marshal Satietin, news of the reorganization of the Imperial Navy came out. However, Saditin left before he had time to implement the plan for the reorganization of the Navy. During Jiang Bangguo's tenure of office, the focus was entirely on counterattack operations, and he did not bother with the reorganization of the navy at all. Now, Nie Renfeng has taken office, and the first thing he did was to comprehensively reorganize the navy and put the counterattack plan aside. Obviously, Marshal Nie Renfeng's attitude is more stable, and he attaches more importance to basic work, which is where the hope of the Imperial Navy lies.

The plan for the reorganization of the navy proposed by Nie Renfeng is very comprehensive, and almost everything has been taken care of, from the establishment of the naval headquarters to the arrangements for ordinary officers and men. Perhaps, only Nie Renfeng would be able to propose such a reorganization plan, because he knew the Imperial Navy better than anyone else, understood the problems existing in the navy, and knew what methods should be used to solve this problem. Of course, this also has to count Nie Renfeng's status and popularity in the navy, without his influence, then the naval reorganization plan he proposed would not have any possibility of success.

The decentralization of operational authority is the core of the reorganization plan. In the current system of the Imperial Navy, the control of the fleet, as well as the local bases, was actually in the hands of the naval command. This was a system inherited from the First World War by the Imperial Navy, which was originally designed to concentrate all the forces of the Navy to counterattack the enemy. This system allowed the empire to win several decisive naval victories in the latter part of World War I, thus avoiding defeat. Now, however, it is clear that this system is not well suited to the fast-paced approach to warfare.

In the plan proposed by Nie Renfeng, the sea area where the imperial navy operates is divided into four regions, namely the Western Pacific Theater, the Pacific Theater, the Indian Ocean Theater, and the South Atlantic Theater. In addition, in the future, new theaters can be appropriately added in line with the expansion of the scope of the Navy's activities.

In each theater, a theater commander will be appointed, and the theater commander will be responsible for the activities and combat operations of all naval fleets, marines, and naval bases in the theater, and has the power to decide the combat operations in the theater, and only needs to report the operational plan to the naval command, and does not need to be issued by the naval command. In fact, this means that some of the great powers that originally belonged to the naval command have been directly delegated to the hands of the theater commander, who can mobilize the fleet, base troops, and other combat forces in the theater according to the actual situation of the theater in which he is located, carry out combat operations, and complete the combat plan.

In each theater of operations, a main fleet was formed, as well as several patrol fleets. And the name of the fleet is the same as the name of the theater of operations. For example, the fleet to which the Western Pacific Theater belongs is the Western Pacific Fleet. Each fleet has a fleet commander (in the early days of the war, the fleet commander and the theater commander were basically the same person), who was specifically responsible for the fleet's combat operations and had actual fleet command power. And the commander of the fleet will be directly responsible to the Naval Staff.

In addition, each theater has its own base commands, and the base headquarters has a base commander, and these base commanders are directly responsible to the theater commander and are not responsible to the naval command. The theater commander can arrange the base commander within the scope of the theater's authority, that is, the theater commander has some personnel powers.

At the same time, Nie Renfeng also made adjustments to the structure of the Navy Command. The Naval Staff was retained, but its main task was to coordinate the combat operations of the various theaters of operations, as well as to coordinate operations, and to coordinate the actions of the fleets. For example, if a certain fleet performs a combat mission in the Western Pacific Theater, it is the Western Pacific Fleet, and if it later goes to the Indian Ocean to carry out a mission, it is the Indian Ocean Fleet (this is an important reason for setting up a separate theater commander in the middle of the war). Therefore, the main responsibility of the Naval Staff is to coordinate the actions of the fleets.

The Navy Command also has a separate Strategic Division. The main task of the Strategy Division is to formulate the Navy's strategic plan so that the theater commanders and fleets can cooperate in accomplishing the strategic plan. The Intelligence Division has been set up to be mainly responsible for processing intelligence and providing intelligence support directly to the theater headquarters and fleets. The Logistics Department was downgraded to the Logistics Department, which was responsible for preparing war materials for the Navy and distributing war materials for the theaters and fleets. The Personnel Department was downgraded to the Personnel Department, which was mainly responsible for the placement and assignment of new recruits and officers. The Equipment Development Division is mainly responsible for supervising the manufacture and development of naval ships, warplanes, ammunition and other equipment.

It can be said that Nie Renfeng carried out a comprehensive reorganization of the navy in accordance with the wartime system. The task of the new naval system is to bring into full play the combat effectiveness of the navy, defeat the enemy, and achieve the final victory. Among them, the biggest highlight is the new fleet establishment system.

In the new fleet establishment, the system with battleships and other main warships as the core has been directly abolished, and the basic composition of the fleet is various types of formations, such as aircraft carrier formations, battleship formations, cruiser formations, destroyer formations, and so on. The commander of the fleet, on the other hand, can select certain formations or warships from these formations according to the actual situation to form a task force and then carry out combat operations in the form of a task force. For example, the Western Pacific Fleet can form the first task force, and in the first task force can appear aircraft carrier formations, battleship formations, cruiser formations, destroyer formations, etc. The command authority of the task force is directly held by the commander of the fleet, or the commander of the fleet appoints other personnel as the commander of the task force, who directs the task force to carry out combat missions.

In this new fleet command structure, the authority of the fleet commander has been strengthened in some respects, although it has also been weakened in some respects. And in order to balance power, the commander of the fleet is still the lieutenant general, the commander of the task force is a rear admiral, or brigadier general, and the commander of the formations is a brigadier general. An important feature of the new fleet establishment system is that each fleet can flexibly allocate its combat strength according to the actual situation, with a view to winning the greatest victory at the lowest cost. This is much more advanced than the previous old fleet system.