On July 10, Xia Jun was obviously not very calm in Jian'an, because Xie Baozhang had not replied to the letter so far, the letter was delivered, and there was no follow-up after a few days of consideration.

"Why hasn't Xie Baozhang come yet?" Xia Jun was depressed, picked up the phone and called the personnel of the Military Intelligence Bureau in Fuzhou, after the phone was connected, Xia Jun said: "Send someone to tell Xie Baozhang that if he can come to serve as the dean of our East China Military Academy Naval Academy, he will give as many people as he wants, and how much he wants to run the school will be discussed, and he will also be hired as the commander-in-chief of the Navy, and the Navy funds will also be discussed, so go immediately." ”

"Yes."

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Xie Baozhang received a letter from Xia Jun a few days ago, although he did not agree, he already planned to go to Jian'an, just to arrange the house.

Later, his student Zhou Xiulong wrote another letter informing him of the results of the Coastal Fleet's battle against Yuben, which sank five battleships in succession in a few days.

This made Xie Baozhang's blood boil, the shame of the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle was still imprinted in his heart, and he was thinking about defeating Yue Ben all the time, but it was a pity that with the degree of decay of the Qing political axe, it was a goal that could never be achieved.

At this time, the emergence of the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe made Xie Baozhang see hope again, and Xie Baozhang's impression of the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe can be described as excellent.

Xia Jun's series of actions in Fujian Xie Baozhang naturally also saw that Fujian's autonomous political axe is very good to the people, not only does not collect taxes, but also provides relief to poor households, and medical treatment is free.

Moreover, local towns and towns can be autonomous, and the public servants of the autonomous political axe are very honest, and what is even more rare is that the Fujian autonomous political axe has very financial resources.

It was possible to run so many factories without collecting many taxes, and to build a small navy, and with such financial resources, the development of the navy was very promising.

Therefore, Xie Baozhang has decided to make a comeback to help Fujian Autonomous Political Axe train naval talents.

On this day, when Xie Baozhang was just about to go to agree, the person who delivered the letter came again a few days ago and told him that the Fujian Autonomous Government should not only hire him as the president of the Naval Academy of the East China Military Academy, but also ask him to be the commander-in-chief of the navy, and the funds for running the school and the navy would be discussed.

Xia Jun's behavior of developing the navy at any cost moved Xie Baozhang very much, and he took his family to Jian'an that day.

When Xie Baozhang arrived in Jian'an, Xia Jun took his wife Li Shijing and more than a dozen senior army officers to welcome Xie Baozhang's arrival, which made Xie Baozhang even more moved.

But what was very surprising was that he didn't expect Xia Jun to be so young, unbelievably young, this is just a young man in his early twenties.

It's just that Xie Baozhang didn't despise Xia Jun because he was young, but felt that there was something unsimple about him because of his youth.

As soon as Xie Baozhang arrived, Xia Jun handed him the letter of appointment and military uniform, and also paid him a three-month salary on the spot, appointing him as the president of the East China Naval Academy and the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Navy.

This commander-in-chief of the navy, Xia Jun, gave it simply, because although the navy is more important than the army, even if the navy mutinies, it cannot shake Xia Jun's internal position, but there is basically no possibility for the navy to defect to other camps, because the navy has no reason for defection.

No matter how the navy personnel defect, they will only be the navy in the end, and there is no possibility of wanting to become the head of state, and they will defect to other forces, and other forces will only absorb them, and there is no possibility of ascending to the top. Therefore, the navy itself has no motive for mutiny, and with the control of national ideology, there is no possibility of mutiny and treason.

Therefore, Xia Jun simply appointed Xie Baozhang as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Navy, with full responsibility for the command and construction of coastal defense and the navy.

Then Xia Jun and Xie Baozhang talked about the plan to build the Naval Academy, and Xia Jun proposed to let Xie Baozhang help find people, and it is very likely that the students of the Naval Academy will be expanded, provided that these students must be of good character and not have loyalty to the Manchu political axe.

Xie Baozhang agreed in full, and when it came to the issue of the Navy's funds and the Naval Academy's running funds, Xie Baozhang said: "I don't know the situation of the Navy for the time being, and I'll talk about it later." ”

"Okay, time is pressing, I'll send someone to escort you to Ningde." Xia Jun said to Xie Baozhang, Xie Baozhang was not verbose, and directly agreed.

Second, Xie Baozhang went to Ningde with Xia Jun's instructions, and his task was to familiarize himself with the current offshore fleet as soon as possible, and to preside over Fujian's coastal defense and establish a naval academy.

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Xia Jun invested in the construction of the artillery regiment, at this time Xia Jun did not worry about the points at all, the progress of the summer harvest was very smooth, and the popular sentiment index rose to a height of 5.5.

At this time, the population within the administrative area had increased to 6.7 million, except for those county seats, which was basically equivalent to the autonomy of the whole of Fujian.

Under such a popular index, Xia Jun can get 36.85 million points every month, and he already has enough points in his hands to build artillery.

The artillery that Xia Jun chose to exchange was the 105 caliber howitzer used by Germany during World War II, and the German army's 105 mm le.fh18 howitzer was the German army in World War II with the largest number of productions, the most model changes, and was widely exported abroad. The 105mm howitzer was the standard gun of the Wehrmacht in World War II.

105 mm Le.FH18M howitzer

Surname can parameters:

Caliber: 105 mm L / 31

Length: 2.941 m

Width: 1.98 m

Height: 1.88 meters

Combat full weight: 1985 kg

Time of service: March 1943

Gun pitch angle: -5 degrees - +42 degrees

Artillery firing range: plus or minus 56 degrees left and right

Maximum rate of fire: 7 rounds / min (approximate equal)

Initial velocity of discharge: 540 m / s

Maximum firing range: 12325 meters

Staffing: 8 people

Production company: Rheinmetall-Borsigag

The price of a German 105mm rapid-fire gun is 50,000 points, and in order to cope with the possible invasion of Fujian, Xia Jun still chose this howitzer.

First of all, the howitzer is suitable for the terrain of Fujian, and at the same time, the terrain of Fujian is more favorable to the concealment of howitzers, even if the artillery training is not how to keep up, it is basically impossible to completely defeat the concealed howitzers.

At the same time, this is a howitzer of World War II, with a range similar to the farthest range of the current gun, or even a little farther, and the biggest advantage is the rate of fire.

If Ben invades Fujian without heavy firepower, the infantry will be very passive in fighting, and their morale will be greatly affected.

Xia Jun planned to build an artillery regiment first, one battalion equipped with 75mm French rapid-fire guns, and two battalions equipped with German 105mm howitzers.

Therefore, it is necessary to redeem 12 75mm French rapid-fire guns, as well as 32 German 105mm howitzers, with a cost of more than 1.6 million points.

The price of artillery shells is much cheaper than the price of artillery, of course, it is also because the German 105 howitzer exchanged by Xia Jun is from World War II, and the price has increased many times.

The price of a 105mm caliber artillery shell is 50 points, and Xia Jun bought 50,000 rounds of 150mm caliber grenades, which cost 2.5 million points, and then exchanged for 50,000 rounds of 75mm caliber shells, which is 1 million points.

Coupled with traction vehicles and other equipment, Xia Jun spent more than 500 points on the construction of this artillery regiment, although it is said that there are more points now, and it is not impossible to redeem these equipment, but in the long run, Xia Jun still has to take the road of self-reliance.

Exchanging equipment allows him to win any local war, but when it comes to a full-scale war, it will be a big loss, and when the time comes, he will spend all his points and invest in those big projects.

The so-called non-accumulation of silicon steps is difficult to reach thousands of miles, these seemingly do not need much points to spend too much, the points should be kept for exchange for high-quality products, what bullets, shells should be produced as soon as possible.

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The second update is here! Thanks ̈●Tianruo Youqing, Feiya, *Wei Xiaobao Ximenqing, and the three classmates for their rewards, bow!

Postponed to next week, hehe! Let's keep it two shifts a day this week!