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This was followed by the adaptation of the Imperial Chinese Navy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At present, the Imperial Chinese Navy has five fleets, namely the Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, the Fujian Fleet, the Guangdong Fleet, and the Yangtze River Fleet.

The Beiyang Fleet is the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the strongest in strength, followed by the Nanyang Fleet, the Fujian Fleet and the Guangdong Fleet are overwhelmed, the fleet ships are mostly old-fashioned ships, and the Yangtze River Fleet has only 12 relatively advanced gunboats, but the gunboats are always gunboats, and the power is relatively weak.

In fact, the overall strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy is very weak, and compared with the Western naval powers, the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy is inferior to a detachment fleet of the Western naval powers.

If you look at the sea and air battles in Taiwan, the total tonnage of the Anglo-French Combined Fleet, composed of the British Far East Fleet and the French Far East Fleet, is close to 100,000 tons, which is almost twice the total tonnage of the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet.

Take Britain as an example, because the British colonies spread over the five continents, and the name of the "country on which the sun never sets", and its commercial power overrides all countries in the world, in order to ensure the safety of colonies and shipping, it is to station its Royal Navy in major regions of the world in a planned way, forming a global strategic network, from the name of its fleet, you can understand the distribution of its navy: Atlantic Fleet, Mediterranean Fleet, South African Fleet, East African Fleet, Cape Fleet, East India Fleet, West India Fleet, North American Fleet, Pacific Fleet, Far Eastern Fleet (Chinese Fleet).

This is the strength of the world's first naval power, the 10 naval fleets, the weakest Far East Fleet, has a total tonnage of 30,000 tons, and by 1889, the British Navy had a total of 254 armored and non-armored ships, totaling 890,000 tons.

At the same time, France, the world's second naval power, had 61 armored ships (350,000 tons), 102 unarmored ships (170,000 tons), and 194 torpedo boats (about 10,000 tons), totaling 530,000 tons.

This is the most powerful naval country in the world, with a strength far exceeding the navies of other countries, if it were not for the Chinese Empire's possession of such an unsolvable weapon as airships, I am afraid that the coastal areas of the Chinese Empire would be in ruins by the naval warships of Britain and France.

The Chinese Empire still has a long way to go before it can build a presence comparable to that of the British Navy or the French Navy.

However, the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire is starting rapidly, in addition to inheriting the Fuzhou Shipbuilding and Jiangnan Shipyard of the Yu Manchu Dynasty, there is also Yan Xueyi in the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire and Germany have reached a cooperation agreement, Germany will send a large number of technicians to help the Chinese Empire build two shipyards, namely Dalian Shipyard and Tianjin for breakfast.

In any case, the fact that the Imperial Chinese Navy was weak cannot be avoided now.

Yan Xueyi decided to abolish the Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, the Fujian Fleet, the Guangdong Fleet, and the Yangtze River Fleet, and replace them with the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet.

The former Beiyang Fleet will be promoted into the Pacific Fleet, the former Nanyang Fleet will be promoted into the South China Sea Fleet, and the Fujian Fleet, the Guangdong Fleet, and the Yangtze River Fleet will be integrated into the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet.

Since most of the navy of the Chinese Empire was inherited from the Manchu Qing, this was a not very good thing for the Chinese Empire.

The original Yangtze River Fleet will be dispersed and integrated into the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, and the Chinese Empire will also speed up the training of naval personnel and change the proportion of naval personnel.

In addition, it should be noted that all warships built before 1875 will be retired from active service and converted into training ships.

Although this has caused the total tonnage of the Royal Navy warships of the Chinese Empire to continue to decline significantly, it is enough for the current Chinese Empire, which has no noteworthy naval powers in East Asia, and as for Britain and France, these two countries are still trembling under the deterrence of the Chinese Empire's airships.

The Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Empire, which is the first air force in the world, the airships now owned by the Imperial Chinese Air Force are all subordinate to the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Empire, and the airships are deployed by the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force to perform various tasks.

At present, the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire is mainly divided into two parts, one is the transport airship formation of the autocratic transport mission, and the other is the bombing airship formation responsible for carrying out bombing missions, but the number of airships in the Chinese Empire is still a little small, most of the time, the bombing airship formation also needs to carry out transportation tasks to deliver various supplies for the land forces far away from the empire.

There were not many plans for the reorganization of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, only the addition of an additional brigade-sized airborne unit.

The requirements of the Airborne Forces are stricter than those of the Army and the Marine Corps, second only to the Special Forces, but the role of the Airborne Forces is very large, and the Airborne Forces can easily pass through wide rivers, high cloud mountains, impenetrable rainforests, and even reach the enemy's rear to give the enemy a fatal blow, and the airships with a large carrying capacity can carry more airborne troops.

The number of airships was an important factor limiting the development of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, which was always trying to build more airships, but the construction of such huge airships was slow.

At present, the Chinese Empire has only one airship factory in Yuanhe City, which is capable of building an average of five Kunpeng-6 light airships, three Kunpeng-7 medium airships, or one semi-Kunpeng-8 heavy airship every three months.

Airships are almost equivalent to warships flying in the air, with high cost and long construction periods.

However, the importance of airships to the Chinese Empire made it impossible for the Chinese Empire to stop building airships, but to build more airships.

A blimp factory has a limited number of airships to build, so build a few more airship factories to build airships.

Because of its fast transportation speed and large load, airships can be widely used in military and civilian use in the era when airplanes did not appear.

Just like in this war, the army of the Chinese Empire was equipped with a large number of advanced weapons and needed huge logistics to support.

However, there are hardly many railways on the land of China except for the four provinces, and there is no cement kilometer, and this difficult condition is simply a great torture for the army's supply transportation.

Fortunately, the Chinese Empire had airships that could quickly transport a large number of supplies to the front line, and with the speed of the airships of 80 to 100 kilometers per hour, it would take almost a day and a night to deliver supplies to the army farthest away from Siqi Province.

There is also the rugged road of Nishizo, and it is very difficult for people to walk on the road of Nishizai, and only airships can easily transport supplies there.

In terms of civilians, civil transport can also be carried out, the speed of the airship is much faster than that of the train, and the airship is more comfortable than the train, I believe that the rich will like to take the airship to travel far.

For the time being, the number of airships is limited to the development of airships for civilian use, and it may be a few years before airships are put into the civilian industry.