[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 657: The Hope of the Navy (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The contradiction between Chen Shaokuan and Ouyang Ge has long existed, as early as when the Nationalist Government established the capital of Nanjing, a large-scale award ceremony was held, and Lao Jiang awarded the Nationalist Government a first-class medal for Chen Shaokuan's outstanding contributions in the Longtan Battle against Sun Chuanfang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Ouyang Ge believes that before Chen was attached to the National Revolutionary Army, when he was the commander of the Second Fleet and led the ship to Nanjing, he had a hot relationship with Sun Chuanfang, and sent a ship to assist Sun Chuanfang in attacking the Northern Expeditionary Army in Jiangxi, so he should not have this reward.

After Lao Jiang left the table, Ouyang Ge immediately accused Chen Shaokuan on the spot of being ashamed, and Chen Shaokuan was very angry when he heard it. When Lao Jiang learned of this, he reprimanded Ouyang Ge. After that, Ouyang Ge was treated coldly by Chen Shaokuan, so he had a grudge against Chen, and since then he has opposed Chen Shaokuan many times.

Ouyang Ge even enrolled the students of the marine engineering class who had been Kaige by Chen Kaige at the Mawei Naval School into the electric mine school, and after graduation, he sent them to Germany to learn water torpedoes, so as to cultivate backbones and gather anti-Chen forces. The admirals who were dissatisfied with Chen Shaokuan also tried their best to win over and bribe them, in an attempt to divide and disintegrate the Fujian naval forces. For those close to Chen Shaokuan, Ouyang Ge looked for a way to slander and frame them.

Especially in the battle of Jiangyin not long ago. Chen Shaokuan's confidant Chen Jiliang commanded the "Ninghai," "Pinghai," "Yingrui," and "Yixian" ships to fight on the Jiangyin front. Some people advised them not to fly the commander's flag in order to avoid bombing by enemy planes, but they were reprimanded, and all four warships were eventually blown up by enemy planes. When the "Ninghai" and "Pinghai" were bombed and stranded in the shallows, Ouyang Ge immediately sent troops to dismantle the antiaircraft guns on the ship.

Chen Jiliang was wounded in the bombing, and the Admiralty sent Zeng Yiding as the commander of the Navy's river defense to replace Chen Jiliang, and ordered Chen to retreat to the rear for medical treatment. Ouyang Ge actually lied to ****** that Chen Jiliang had escaped. Jiang immediately instructed: "Shoot on the spot." ”

Chen Shaokuan was greatly annoyed when he received the instructions, and immediately reported to Jiang that Chen Jiliang commanded the operation in Jiangyin, and Jiang Sheng said angrily: "Hey! You go find out and deal with it. ”

At that time, a German general adviser led a group of people to observe the naval and air battles on the Jiangyin Battery, and he said in a telegram to Chiang: "This is the fiercest battle of the navy and air force that I have seen since the First World War. Jiang was stunned after receiving the call, and immediately told Chen on the phone: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, comfort Chen Jiliang on my behalf." ”

Because Chen Shaokuan's relationship with the top leaders of the Nationalist Government was very tense, the navy was struggling, and the difference in the strength of the Chinese and Japanese navies was huge, so they were passive everywhere. From the beginning of the war to the present, the navy has not only lost almost all of its large ships, but also a large number of soldiers.

However, these lost soldiers could not be replenished in time, which made the already weak navy even weaker. Now that the navy has been replenished with so many ships at once, Chen Shaokuan is happy in his heart, but he is worried about the navy soldiers, according to the approved personnel of these dozens of large warships and a large number of gunboat patrol boats, there must be at least about 13,000 people, not counting the marines that should have been deployed.

Chen Shaokuan knew that if he applied in the normal way of the Ministry of Military Affairs, it was very likely that he would be suppressed before the Ministry of Military Affairs came out, and anyway, the navy was basically in that state of dispensability in the organizational establishment of the Nationalist Government.

To be honest, Chen Shaokuan at this time was quite resentful of Lao Jiang and the entire Nationalist Government. For a naval admiral like him, who had come from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the idea of building a powerful naval fleet to protect the country's maritime frontiers was extremely urgent, after all, China had been threatened by Western powers with huge ships and cannons for nearly a hundred years from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the present.

However, his ideas were repeatedly obstructed and even suppressed by the top level of the Nationalist Government, so that at this time his naval commander was almost a bare-bones commander, and if Ma Zheng had not handed over the captured ships to them for use last year, his naval commander would not even be as important as an army division commander.

Although accepting Ma Zheng's conditions is likely to arouse Lao Jiang's suspicion, fortunately, Ma Zheng did not embarrass him, and directly gave him a way to get the best of both worlds. This method was to have Chen Shaokuan recruit soldiers on the spot in Tianjin on the grounds that there was a serious shortage of troops and could not sail such a large naval fleet to the port designated by the Chongqing side.

Ma Zheng took this opportunity to mix more than 1,000 people who had been prepared into the newly recruited soldiers and entered Chen Shaokuan's headquarters to fight, and when Ma Zheng needed them, these people left Chen Shaokuan's headquarters and returned to the battle sequence of the Eighth Route Army.

Chen Shaokuan agreed after a little thought, he knew Ma Zheng's idea very well, that is, to use these warships as tuition fees and let Chen Shaokuan train naval officers and soldiers on behalf of the Eighth Route Army. Although there is a feeling of conspiring with the tiger, Chen Shaokuan knows that the Chinese Navy at this time really needs these warships, all in all, this deal is still worth it, the only thing is that the risk is too great. Once the Chongqing side gets the news, I am afraid that he, the commander of the navy, will come to an end.

And Ma Zheng knew the situation of Chen Shaokuan and the navy at this time, so Ma Zheng made this request, and he knew that Chen Shaokuan would agree to him.

Although the Eighth Route Army does not have a foreign port now, and even does not have a small sampan after handing over these warships to the Nationalist Government, Ma Zheng knows that the Eighth Route Army will have its own navy.

And if you want to drive the little devils out of China and recover the occupied territory, you can't do it without a navy. But Ma Zheng knows one thing better, that is, it is far more difficult to develop a navy than an army, and the reason why Japan is so strong is not how confident they are in the army, but how confident they are in their navy.

The Japanese knew that even if China was given another thirty years, the Chinese navy would be far from the invincible combined fleet that they had developed in half a century. Therefore, even if the army is completely defeated in Chinese mainland, without a strong navy, the Chinese will not want to fight the Japanese mainland, and it can be said that the Japanese are invincible before they have fought this war.

There is a lot to gain when you win, and there is nothing to lose if you lose, so the Japanese will be so fearless.

The Eighth Route Army wanted to develop its navy, but first, it did not have port ships, and second, it did not have the talents who knew naval operations, and even if it had advanced naval equipment, it would be in vain, and it would still be sent to the bottom of the sea by the Japanese "Yamato" invincible battleship, and it would be crushed and sunk in the sand.

So Ma Zheng thought of Chen Shaokuan, he knew Chen Shaokuan's personality very well, this benevolent brother's temper was notoriously stinky in Chinese history, and he could not give Lao Jiang's face, and in the end he was seized by force and left the navy gloomily. But Ma Zheng admired this benevolent brother's level of naval warfare, and if he was given a naval fleet of the same strength, he would definitely send Yamamoto Fifty-six's big bald head to the bottom of the sea.

More importantly, Ma Zheng is familiar with history and knows Chen Shaokuan's later life experience. This benevolent brother was reluctant to fight a civil war after the Anti-Japanese War, when Lao Chiang ordered him to lead the "Changzhi" ship to the Bohai Sea to intercept the advance of the People's Liberation Army towards the Liaodong Peninsula. He went so far as to resolutely lead the "Changzhi" ship south to Taiwan for inspection under the pretext that "the vitality of the navy has not yet recovered after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Shao Kuan has not achieved much success in the anti-Japanese war, and he is ashamed of his countrymen, and if he participates in the civil war again, he will feel very guilty."

After hearing this, Lao Jiang was quite angry and scolded: "How can this be reasonable." ”

Later, Lao Chiang ordered the abolition of the Navy Command, the removal of Chen Shaokuan from the post of Navy Commander, and the establishment of the Navy Department in the Ministry of Military Affairs, with Chen Cheng concurrently serving as the director. Chen Cheng, who had long been suspicious of Chen Shaokuan, immediately sent the Army Guard to replace the Navy Guard Company to carry out the guard task of the Navy Department and take over the Navy Headquarters by force.

In this regard, Chen Shaokuan did not resist, nor did he write a letter to admonish, but resolutely moved out of the Admiralty. When Lao Jiang* felt that the handling was inappropriate and wanted to summon Chen Shaokuan, Chen Shaokuan avoided it, left Nanjing early and went south to Fuzhou, and lived in seclusion in his hometown of Yulei Township. Coarse tea and light rice every day, reading books and newspapers.

Such a person is completely possible in Ma Zheng's opinion, not to mention that Hu Yanbing once told him that he has worked under Chen Shaokuan for nearly 10 years, and the two have a good personal relationship. (To be continued.) )