"Chips!"

Wang Hengyue smiled with a smile, and didn't care whether Chen Ce on the other side was willing to take care of himself or not, and said to himself: "Isn't it a pity that you don't have to be in the navy for this ability?" ”

"Generalissimo, please go back, Chen Ce is disheartened, he really no longer wants to join the army, he just wants to live here in peace." Chen Ce said lightly.

Wang Hengyue didn't mind: "I know that Chipshuo is angry about Sun Wen's affairs, but now that the Northern Expedition of the military and political axes is imminent, our army and political axes and navy urgently need officers to command." Brave and brave, please help me! I would like to ask him to be the commander of the Left Fleet of the Navy, so as to bring glory to the republic! ”

Chen Ce didn't speak, just looked at the book in his hand.

After waiting there for half an hour, Chen Ce's mind seemed to be attracted by the book in his hand, his eyes did not blink, and he did not raise his head.

Although Chen Ce was brave and made great contributions in defeating the rebels of the Dharma Protector Fleet, he was a young man after all with little qualifications, but now, Wang Hengyue sincerely wanted to invite him out of the mountain, but he ignored it with a shelf, and no matter how good his temper was, he had to be angry.

Wang Hengyue slapped the table and stood up: "Okay, if you want to follow your Sun Wen, if you want to read your books at home, just as Lao Tzu didn't come this time, Lao Tzu still doesn't believe it, without you Chen Ce, Lao Tzu can't build the Chinese Navy, and when Lao Tzu gets the submarine and aircraft carrier out, you just watch from the side, you beg Lao Tzu Lao Tzu not to let you touch it!" ”

A hand arched: "Farewell!" ”

Chen Ce suddenly raised his head: "What did you say?" ”

"Lao Tzu said that if you ask Lao Tzu in the future, Lao Tzu will not let you touch the side of the navy!"

"No, no." Chen Ce's attitude changed suddenly, as if he was not the same person at all as just now: "You said submarine, what else is there to do?" ”

Wang Hengyue suddenly realized that he had just said the word "aircraft carrier" in his mouth, and when he heard Chen Ce's question, he sneered: "This is a new type of ship, and it will definitely be the overlord of the sea in the future!" Chen Ce, you just read your books at home and do your learning, what Lao Tzu wants to do has nothing to do with you! ”

Originally, because he said this, Chen Ce must have been furious, but he didn't expect Chen Ce to frown there: "Battleships, cruisers, submarines, which ones I don't know?" What you are talking about, what mother, is unheard of among the major naval powers of the world! ”

Wang Hengyue sneered again: "Saying that you are lonely and unheard, you still refuse to admit it." Do you know the USS Pennsylvania and the American Eugene? ”

Chen Ce nodded.

On November 14, 1910, the American Eugene . Erie flew a Curtis biplane from the USS Birmingham. On January 18, 1911, he successfully landed on the 31-meter-long, 10-meter-wide wooden modified taxiway of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania.

Eugene also became the first pilot to land on a moored ship, the battleship "Pennsylvania".

"Chen Ce, what is built behind closed doors will only be outdated." Wang Hengyue's voice calmed down: "Soon, no, just this year, a kind of ship that can be used for aircraft to take off and land will appear on the battlefield, this kind of ship is called an aircraft carrier, it will inevitably become a nightmare for battleships in the future, and the era of battleships will soon become a thing of the past." ”

"Nonsense, nonsense!" Chen Ce said in a loud voice.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Chen Ce, ironclad giant ships and how many capital ships they have have have always been a symbol of whether a country's navy is strong or not!

Aircraft carriers have just started in the world, and their power has not yet been recognized, so it is reasonable that Chen Ce does not believe in this!

"Do you know why I'm desperately trying to get Canton?" Wang Hengyue sat down again: "Because I have a dream of a big navy, I want to strengthen China's navy and use ten or twenty years to make our navy worthy of war." When I was in Sichuan, there was no place for me to develop the navy, but now that I have Guangdong, it is completely different! ”

Wang Hengyue's words made Chen Ce's eyes fall on him, and the three words "Great Navy" pierced his heart like a needle.

The dream of the big navy, why not Wang Hengyue alone? Chinese naval officers, who doesn't have this dream?

It's just that this dream seems so far away and so unrealizable.

But the generalissimo in front of him put forward such an idea!

In all fairness, when Sun Wen was the generalissimo, he did not care about the navy, nor did he ever mention any concept of naval construction.

And now Wang Hengyue, who kicked Sun Wen out, has put forward the "dream of a big navy" so clearly!

"I know you have an issue with me." Wang Hengyue smiled faintly: "You worship Sun Wen, so you don't like what I do, oppose me, and don't want to help me, in fact, you are not helping me, but yourself, which is the dream of China's navy!" You say I'm ambitious? Yes, I am ambitious, but my purpose is only to unify the whole country and be a great president like Yuan Shikai, I don't need such a powerful navy, and half of China's naval ships are here! ”

Chen Ce nodded involuntarily, Wang Hengyue was telling the truth at this point.

The army is what the warlords everywhere value the most, but the navy has been left out in the cold for too long. Some of the ships in the navy are already older than their grandfathers, and it can only be a fool's dream for such a navy to become a maritime power!

"If we are still divided into political parties, doctrines, and hostility to each other, then in another hundred years we will also be a weak country on the sea. We can only guard this acre and three points of land and play tricks in our own homes! Wang Hengyue smiled a little sarcastically: "Are you willing to do this?" At least I don't want that, and I won't allow that to happen. ”

Wang Hengyue then said very seriously: "Let's be honest with you, I have already ordered the development of my own aircraft carrier, and the first step is to buy a large passenger ship for refit." Of course, compared with the United Kingdom and the United States, we are just starting, I can't guarantee whether we can succeed, but I have to try to go bankrupt, and if you don't like to hear it, I am a doer, and I have to do it when I think of it, no matter what kind of result I face, but Sun Wen you follow is just an empty talker! ”

As he spoke, he stood up: "I've come to this point, as for whether you want to help me or not, I won't force you anymore, with or without you, I will develop my own navy!" ”

Seeing that Wang Hengyue was about to leave, Chen Ce suddenly said, "Wait! ”

Wang Hengyue stopped, could it be that this Chen Ce's temper is really a donkey, pulling and not leaving?

Chen Ce was silent there: "Do you really want to strengthen the Chinese Navy?" ”

"Of course." As soon as he saw that there was a door, Wang Hengyue was overjoyed, but he still said with a straight face: "I really want to build a strong navy, so I came to ask you to go out of the mountain." ”

"Well, I'm willing to serve as an officer in your navy"

Before Chen Ce's words could be spoken, Wang Hengyue was already smiling. Lao Tzu spent so much time talking, isn't it just to wait for your words?

Chen Ce said slowly: "I just hope that what you will do in the future can be the same as what you say now." ”

"Don't worry, I've always done what I say!" Wang Hengyue was really full of confidence when he said this.

In any case, now the foundation of his own navy is built. With Chen Ce, there is still one less Chen Shaokuan from Fujian, who is now serving as the naval attache of the Chinese Legation in Britain in the United Kingdom, and as soon as he returns, he will have to pull him in anyway

"Heng Shuai, we have already sent someone to negotiate with Li Houji, the overseer of Fujian, but Li Houji is a person from the Anhui family, with a lot of troops in his hands and the support of the arsenal, I am afraid he will not give in!"

After hearing this, Wang Hengyue said coldly: "This person will not give in, prepare to solve it by force, how about his specific request for leniency?" ”

"When Sun Yat-sen set up the Protector Army and Political Axe in Guangzhou, preparing for the Northern Expedition, Duan Qirui wanted to unify the whole country by force, and made every effort to prepare for the use of troops in the south, Li Houji was a cadre general of the Anhui Department, and actively expanded the army, made weapons and raised salaries, expanded the two brigades under his original jurisdiction into two divisions, and set up 18 supplementary battalions, successively expanded six arsenals, produced cannons, rifles, machine guns, bullets, shells, smokeless gunpowder, and purchased a large number of ordnance from Yueben. In order to meet military expenditures, he set up a mint to imitate the Guangdong Haoyang, issued a large number of bonds and securities, and borrowed huge sums of money from the Bank of Taiwan, Taiwan's large landlord Lin Xiongxiang, and the merchants, but they still felt that it was not enough, and they collected the province's money, grain, and taxes in advance for two years, and forced the peasants to plant opium so that they could smoke tobacco seedlings and donate money. As a result, tobacco and drugs spread throughout the province, and the people were not able to make a living, and his reputation in the local area was very bad, but he still had a certain strength! ”

"What else?" Wang Hengyue asked coldly.

After the attack of the Guangdong army, Duan Qirui appointed Li Houji as the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong army, and Li Houji set up a general headquarters in Xiamen, sat on his own, and deployed heavy troops in the southwest of Fujian to confront the Guangdong army. The Zhejiang army Tong Baoxuan also has heavy troops in Fujian and Guangdong, and I see that the Guangdong army on the front line is only afraid that it will be difficult to attack it for a while! ”

Wang Hengyue thought for a while: "The task of attacking Fujian will be handed over to Yang Sen to handle it, and the First Route Army will be formed, with Yang Sen as the commander-in-chief, under the jurisdiction of the fifth and sixth main divisions, the third and fourth two reading mixed brigades, and the Guangdong army that is already on the front line will be unified under its command and dispatch, before the Northern Expedition is completed, do not rush to attack, but to stabilize the current front, and at the same time reorganize the Guangdong army on the front line, and stand by!" ”

"Yes!"

"The rest of the ministries must also step up their reorganization, and send orders to the armies of Hunan and Hubei, and I have been appointed as the generalissimo of the military and political axe, and all the departments have been reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army and accepted the unified command of the generalissimo of the military and political axe."

"Yes!"

Wang Hengyue thought for a while: "Also, let Liu Zhaocheng come to Guangzhou!" ”

(To be continued)