Since there was a shortage of cadres in any department after the fight, Li Hui only planned to set up a marine brigade as a model for the time being, and then further expand the organization when the time was ripe. In addition, each of the two naval bases will have a garrison brigade, which adds up to the strength of three brigades, and the pressure to expand the army is still not small.

"Dongyang is building a new naval base in Qingdao, and before it is completed, the Ocean Fleet will be transferred to the Lushun Naval Base, where the water is deep, the fully loaded Haitian-class patrol can enter and exit safely, and there is a ready-made dock, while the coastal defense fleet will continue to stay in Weihaiwei," Yan Fu continued, explaining Li Hui's arrangement.

Liu Buyun was quite satisfied with this, but there was one thing that he still had to ask, "When is Dongyang going to attack Lushun?" ”

"At first, Dongyang was worried about implicating your family, and planned to postpone the attack on Lushun and wait for you to take over the family before taking it, but after I explained the situation to him, as long as your letter was sent, I would do it. Taking advantage of the fact that Lushunkou did not know the situation, he sent troops to land behind it to block the retreat and cut the telegraph line, and then blocked the sea with a fleet, so that the defenders could not spread the news at all. Yan Fu explained in detail.

After hearing this, Liu Buyun nodded yes and said with a smile, "If the telegraph communication is interrupted, Lord Zhongtang will definitely be suspicious, but at most he thinks that someone has sabotaged it, and it is impossible to realize the seriousness of the situation, after all, the strength of the revolutionary army is really hard to believe unless you see it with your own eyes." By the time Li Zhongtang figures out the situation, it will be at least a few days later, and the Lushun base should have been taken down in its entirety by then, and once Haikou is sealed, Dongyang can rest assured that he will be able to take Tianjin directly."

The reason why Liu Buyun was so concerned about the capture of Arthur was that in addition to the need for bases for the Ocean Fleet, there was another important reason, that is, in Li Hui's arrangement, the naval bases to which each fleet belonged were under the jurisdiction of the fleet headquarters, and even the corresponding garrison brigades were no exception. Compared with Lao Li, in order to ensure the control of the Beiyang Naval Division, the base and the naval division are not subordinate to each other, and all kinds of nonsense, Li Hui's mind is simply like a cloud

However, no matter how large the amount of equipment is, it is inevitable that there will be differences between relatives and aliens, and the post of chief of general staff of the People's Navy was handed over to Yan Fu by Li Hui, in addition to Yan Fu's excellent theoretical level, his personal relationship with Li Hui is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

Because of the relationship with Yan Fu for many years, the relationship is irreversible, and he also knows his extraordinary talents, Liu Buyun is only happy about this, but there is no jealousy, "Congratulations, congratulations, a few ways, you finally got a chance to show your talents!" ”

Yan Fu is also full of red light, compared to teaching and educating people, he still hopes to have a higher platform to show his strengths! At present, the Admiralty has not yet been established, and the status of the chief of the general staff of the Navy is slightly higher than that of Liu Buyun, the commander of the ocean fleet, and Yan Fu can be regarded as a rising tide.

More importantly, although he has now become a well-known scholar in China, even if he goes to become a civilian official, he has a great future, but Yan Fu's love and sense of belonging to the navy has never faded, if Li Hui does not know him well enough, he would never have imagined such an arrangement, Yan Fu's mood when he heard Li Hui's promise, can really be described as "a soldier dies for a confidant".

At this point, Liu Buyun had no doubts, and returned to the lobby to announce his decision to the other officers of the Beiyang Naval Division, and everyone had no objections, even the officers who were more loyal to the Manchu Dynasty, such as Sa Zhenbing, also remained silent, which made Yan Fu and Liu Buyun somewhat surprised.

In the final analysis, due to the characteristics of its high-tech arms, the navy hated the corruption and incompetence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty the most, and the rebel army had already shown a terrifying strength far beyond imagination. After all, even the guys who still have some sense of belonging to "my Daqing" will not be willing to die for it.

After convincing the generals, Liu Buyun used the will of the people to suppress Deng Shichang, who was still isolated at this time, and it was naturally a matter of course. Although there was still some nostalgia for the previous raid on the venture capital company, Deng Shichang was still deeply excited after hearing Yan Fu's story, and everyone agreed that the uprising had relieved him of the psychological baggage brought by traditional morality, and finally Deng Shichang signed his name on the oath and accepted the position of commander of the coastal defense fleet of the Chinese People's Navy. Then, he immediately threw himself into intense work, as if to prove that even if he changed camps, he Deng Zhengqing was still the same Deng Zhengqing

Compared with Deng Shichang, Liu Buyun was even busier after the uprising, because there were many important tasks that needed to be completed urgently, and as the commander of the Ocean Fleet, he naturally couldn't be idle at all.

The most urgent task was undoubtedly to prepare for the attack on Lushun and the landing on Tianjin, but the most important and troublesome thing for Liu Buyun was the reorganization after the naval uprising.

The personnel on so many ships have to be assessed and selected, and then the eliminated personnel have to be trained in training courses, which is cumbersome enough to make Liu Buyun crazy.

But this task cannot be shirked, because this is obviously Li Hui's first test of Liu Buyun's work ability, if it can't be completed well, then he may have to consider replacing him to be the commander of the ocean fleet.

It is worth mentioning that the reorganization of the Beiyang Navy is not just as simple as personnel adjustment, because there will inevitably be vacancies after the personnel are eliminated, so it is necessary to recruit troops to fill them.

However, what relieved Liu Buyun was that due to the priority of the Ocean Fleet in the selection of personnel, Liu Buyun only needed to dig people from the original warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, and then leave the tiring work of recruiting troops to Deng Shichang.

Although the recruitment of the 1st (Lushun) Garrison Brigade and the Marine Brigade was nominally under Liu Buchan's responsibility, Li Hui considered that he might not know enough about land warfare, so he handed over this task to the biochemical officers he sent over

If the Weihai Garrison Brigade is also included, more than 20,000 new soldiers need to be recruited, but because Li Hui has already established a perfect military system and has so many biochemical soldiers who are proficient in business are directly responsible, he does not have to worry too much about this.

In particular, the requirements for the two fortress garrison brigades are relatively low, and it is almost impossible to let the biochemical soldiers serve as middle and senior officers and core technical backbones (such as the gunners of the fortress guns), retain those original base defenders who have passed the selection, and recruit a few thousand new soldiers to fill the vacancies