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※ The waves are calm, the sea is sparkling, and several gray warships spray a faint black condition, swimming on the mirror-like sea.

This is the Bohai Sea, the sea surface of Shanhaiguan.

The largest warship is the "Hai Zhe", which is not only the largest warship of the Tianjin Fleet, but also the largest and most effective warship in the Chinese Navy.

In the "Guangdong Incident". "Sea folding. The cruiser was also ordered to go south to quell the rebellion, but because of the transfer of personnel on board, the ship postponed the southbound date, and by the time the personnel adjustment was completed, the "Guangdong Incident" had already ended dramatically, so the cruiser "Haizhi" did not go south to Guangdong, but was immediately incorporated into the Tianjin Fleet by the Admiralty.

In fact, the "Tianjin Fleet" is just a convenient name, and in the Admiralty, the fleet is called the "Second Fleet", which is stationed in the port of Dagu in Tianjin, and is stationed in the north and south with the "First Fleet" stationed in Shanghai, jointly defending the country's long coastline.

The current Chinese Navy. All the large and small ships together are not comparable to a fraction of the naval powers, not to mention compared with the European powers such as Britain and Germany, and even compared with the navies of small countries such as Chile and Peru in South America, they are also dwarfed.

As commander of the Second Squadron, Huang Zhongmo is very familiar with the current predicament of the Chinese Navy; although he, like Tang Xiangming, chief of the Admiralty, Cheng Biguang, commander of the First Fleet, and others, is eager to make the Chinese Navy grow stronger as soon as possible, as a high-ranking officer who has a slight understanding of the central financial situation, Huang Zhongxi also understands that he is relying on the current financial situation of borrowing money to maintain the government's operation. The naval dream of these naval officers can really only be a dream now.

At the beginning, he led the cruiser "Hai Analysis" to revolt at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and turned the gun port to part ways with the Beiyang Group, which also had financial credit. Huang Zhongmo and the naval officers who were inclined to the Southern Revolutionary Party also successfully took advantage of the problem of unpaid salaries in the navy, and this was the only way to successfully pull the fleet to Hangzhou. Join the side of the United Front. And Huang Zhongyan himself became one of the revolutionary camps

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The financial problem is the fundamental problem of the country, and if this problem is not solved, not to mention the navy, even the 6th Army will not be able to develop, this truth Huang Zhongmo understands, so he understands the "military modernization" strategy that the center focuses on the construction of the 6th Army, and it is precisely because of this that when he learned that the center finally vetoed the "99th Fleet Plan" proposed by the Navy Chief Tang Xiangming, Huang Zhongyan was not surprised, in fact, when the "99th Fleet Plan" came out; He felt that this naval exhibition plan was too unrealistic, although the real intention of Tang Xiangming and others was to compete with the 6th Army for military spending and bargain with the central government, but this naval exhibition plan was still too exaggerated. It is understandable that the center will be angry and veto.

At least in Tang Xiangming's own view, the amount of naval funds approved by the central government and the Ministry of Finance is simply "used to beat up flowers", according to this naval funding amount, at least in the next four, the navy does not want to add a new warship, even if it is a gunboat.

Although the Ministry of Finance also said that in addition to the normal naval expenses, the central center also allocated a "special fund" for the purchase of submarines and aircraft from foreign countries to equip the navy, but this did not make Tang Xiangming calm his anger. Because in his opinion, the new weapons of submarines are too "mysterious." "I've never had a real record before. And it is said that there are frequent breakdowns, as for the plane, it is simply a joke, just with that kind of "rotten wood and canvas" thing, can enhance the combat effectiveness of the navy? That's not how the joke is made, and that's not how the Navy is fooled. In the 6th Army, aircraft could perhaps be used for reconnaissance missions, and even to drop a few "scaring bombs" on the heads of enemy troops. But in the navy, in this class of troops that only pay attention to "big ships and huge guns", the kind of aircraft that can be lifted by a few people may not even weigh as much as the main gun shell of a battleship.

Therefore, in the eyes of Tang Xiangming and his group of aides, the naval strategy of centering on submarines and planes is a "crooked and evil way." The Admiralty doesn't look down on things that don't go into the stream, they want cruisers, battleships. It's the kind of thing that can fight on the battle lines with the great powers in the oceans.

The head of the Admiralty is a little hot, but Huang Zhongyan maintains a calm in this regard, and he calmly accepts the "unfair treatment" suffered by the navy, because in his opinion, as a 6 major power, China really can't put its main energy on the side of the navy, the 6th Army, a modern and powerful 6th Army is the most urgent national force in this country, the navy can protect the coastline, but it can't protect the inner 6 cities 1 In such a chaotic era. The Sixth Army of foreign countries and their own national bandits are the main sources of threat to the vast majority of the country's territory, and only the Sixth Army can eliminate them and defend the country's territorial integrity, sovereignty and dignity.

Therefore, Huang Zhongmo has been in a very calm mood for some time recently, and he is not as angry as some naval officers.

At least. The arrears of salaries for the officers and men of the Navy have been paid. Moreover, the treatment of officers and men has also improved compared with before, although the symbolic meaning is far greater than the actual effect, but at least the warship does not have to be as rusty as before, the center and the Ministry of Finance have said that this paint "is enough." ”

Now, the commander of the Second Squadron, Huang Zhongmo, is in the machine room to urge the sailors to maintain and compare the machine and the engine room, and the rust that should be removed is resolutely removed. The lubricating oil that should be replaced should be resolutely replaced, and Xiaogang China's maritime frontier relies on these slightly obsolete warships to protect it, and its combat effectiveness must not be weakened because of human reasons.

Of course, as the supreme military commander of the fleet, Huang Zhongyan did not need to carry a paint bucket to paint the bulkhead in person, which would damage the prestige of the commander. Although that Mr. President clearly intends to change it.

"Report to the Commander! The traffic boat called the signal and asked the ship to recover! And begged our ship to lower the course

The adjutant walked up to Huang Zhongheng and reported loudly, Wu Tu suppressed the roaring sound of the machine.

Huang Zhongmo didn't speak, just nodded, the traffic boat came out in the morning, and sent Li Yuanhong, Tang Hualong's group of congressional representatives ashore, it is said that they should have returned to the fleet a long time ago, but after staying on the shore for so long, it must be the president who is condolences to the officers and soldiers of the navy again, and the last time the president toured south to Shandong. When passing through Tianjin, he stopped by Dagu and met with all the senior officers of the Second Fleet. He also personally awarded medals to those who had made meritorious contributions to the uprising, including the most proficient sailors. On the "equality of officers and soldiers", President Zhao has always been stunned and exaggerated, which is probably another reason why Tang Xiangming's group of senior officers of the "returnees" have a lot of criticism about the center, after all, the navy of the European powers taught the sailors what is called "discipline" from the whip, and the Chinese naval officers who studied under the European navy of course also learned well, which is also the result of absorbing the painful teaching of the Beiyang Navy Division of that year. Most of the officers are from Fujian, either fellow countrymen or distant relatives, and this "iron-faced selflessness" can indeed only be shouted.

Now. The revolution and the republic are coming, and the center is going to rectify the military force, so I am afraid that the old ways of the past will be changed, so the Admiralty has abolished the flogging, and this is not enough. The navy simply sent some stunned blues to the first and second detachments of the airborne fleet. Most of these airborne officers are not from Fujian, and Huang Zhongio can guess what the Central Committee and the Admiralty want to do, after all, the current Navy Chief is from Hubei, the president's hometown.

Huang Zhongxu has two such "airborne troops" around him. "One is the fleet operations staff officer, named Qi Jinbo. A native of Shandong, he worked in the Beiyang Naval Academy, and Lu Ping, the deputy director of the Joint Staff Office of the 6th Navy, was in the same class, and the other was the chief engineer of the power room, named Zhang Guangyang, a native of Jiangsu, this person had never worked in the navy before, and he was originally a mechanical technician of the China Merchants Bureau. After the revolution, he gave up his high-paying job and went to Wuhan to join the revolution, and later he was transferred to the electric mine department to be in charge of all machine-related affairs. became the chief engineer, which is the most core position on the warship, and in the past, this was the ban on merchants sent by Fujian.

At the beginning of the network, Huang Zhongmo still did not trust Zhang Guangyang's technology, but soon, Zhang Guangyang became familiar with the work of the chief engineer, and he did a good job, better than the previous chief engineer, at least, Zhang Guangyang would not steal the high-grade lubricant used in the engine, and then resell it to the merchant ship that he had handed over

Now, this Zhang Tuyang is standing not far from Huang Zhongio, instructing several sailors to maintain the main shaft of the turbine, and judge whether the machine is working properly by listening to the sound.

"This guy. It's a toiling life

Huang Zhongyan looked at Zhang Guangyang busy with bricks with an expressionless face, and he now admires this young man very much. This point is very different from that Qi Jinbo, now, Huang Zhongmo's biggest headache is the airborne fleet operations staff officer, that person's biggest problem is not bragging, but commanding, not taking Commander Huang in his eyes, but this is understandable, after all, the Admiralty transferred these two people, this is to balance the command of the fleet.

Since ancient times. How many of the Qincha sent down from above are not holding chicken feathers as arrows? Huang Zhongyan understood. But he really can't get used to Qi Jinbo, who is a fox and a fake tiger, even if he is indeed a qualified combat staff officer, but Huang Zhongmo will definitely not have any good impression of him.

Thinking of the unruly combat staff officer, Huang Zhongxu suddenly couldn't stay in the engine room, so he hurriedly turned around. With several lieutenants left the machine room and boarded the deck.

Got to the deck. Huang Zhongmo heard the Qi staff officer shouting on the side of the ship.

"Did you skip a meal, or did you smoke too much? How did you grind? With your current work efficiency, it's strange that you can win a naval battle! Isn't it just a recovery dinghy between voyages, why is it so rusty? This is a regular scraping subject in the Navy. Small.

Qi Jinbo was shouting at the sailors, including a boatswain, who were hoisting the transport boat back to the warship with a crane. The problem of Chief Officer Qi is also here, he is a person who is very arrogant to the top and bottom, and he is not as easy to get close to people as Chief Engineer Zhang Guangyang, so he has almost no friends on the "Haizhi", except for being able to follow the same "Airborne Troops." Zhang Guangyang said a few words. Everyone else tried to keep their distance from him.

It is obviously impossible for such an unsociable person to handle the relationship with his superiors and subordinates, and perhaps, the position of a staff officer is the most suitable for such a person.