Chapter XVII: The Beginning of the Navy

December 3, 1914

Last night the whole town of Huashi was filled with gunfire and shouting, and hundreds of bandits ransacked more than a dozen large and small landlords in Huashi Town. Several notorious landlords were wiped out by their entire families, including the family of Li Liupi, the mayor of Huashi Town, and more than 100 soldiers in the town were also knocked unconscious and tied up, until dawn the next day, they were released by the residents of the town.

And I heard that after the bandits robbed the town, they wanted to run to Qinghe Village to rob, but they were completely annihilated by the security regiment led by the head of the Qinghe Village Security Regiment and killed the bandit leader Wang Haozi and Wang Ermazi. The three masters were in charge, and they were in charge of the dead, annihilating nearly 1,000 bandits and capturing more than 200 people.

This morning, he took 50,000 oceans and the heads of more than a dozen bandits and handed them over to the county magistrate of Huashi County. In the afternoon, the county magistrate's announcement came out immediately:

"There are bandits in the Laohushan Mountains of Huashi County as a disaster for the neighbors, because of yesterday's bandits, the family of the mayor of Huashi Town was unfortunately killed, fortunately, the head of the security regiment of Qinghe Village was not afraid of danger, annihilated the bandits who made trouble, and killed the leader of the bandits and more than a dozen large and small leaders such as the second, the third and the fourth. After reporting to the Nanning Governor's Mansion, the Qinghe Village Security Regiment is hereby rewarded for being officially incorporated into the Guangxi Governor's Office, and the regiment commander Chen Shao was promoted from major to colonel, and concurrently served as the mayor of Huashi Town, and the security regiment was expanded to the 18th Infantry Regiment of Guangxi...... December 3, 2nd year of the Republic of China, Nanning, Guangxi.

Looking at the letter of appointment in his hand in exchange for 50,000 oceans, he is really rich enough to make a grinding ghost! Chen Shao sighed for a while.

Chen Shao stood on the playground of the barracks, looking at the members of the security regiment who had finished the formation, Chen Shao shouted loudly: "From now on, the Qinghe Village Security Regiment will be officially changed to the First Regiment of the Chinese People's Army, with me as the head of the regiment and the deputy head of the first regiment: Kong Wenhong."

First Battalion Commander: Feng Tianxin

Second Battalion Commander: Qian Sihai

Third Battalion Commander: Mao Dajiang

Automobile Baggage Company Commander: Sun Xiao

Commander of the Reserve Regiment: Huang Bai

Artillery battalion commander: Wang Yunshan

Commander of the reconnaissance company: Liu Yunfei

Commander of the guard company: Wang Xiaoshan

Below the battalion level, the platoon leader is the company leader, the squad leader is the platoon leader, and the team leader is the squad leader.

All the reserve forces will be transferred to active duty, and the reserve regiment will be recruited from now on, and the personnel of the reserve regiment will be fixed at 7,000 people, and in the future, the reserve regiment will not only participate in military training and defend Qinghe Village, but also participate in construction labor. After three months, the reserve regiment will hold a big competition for the whole regiment, and those with the top results will be added to the regiment until the regiment is full.

The establishment of the first regiment, the second battalion and the third battalion is also the same as that of the first battalion, and the soldiers on active duty will be trained in closed mode in the future, and they will be allowed to visit their relatives twice a month. In addition, the family members of active duty soldiers will enjoy the right to purchase goods at half price in all stores owned by Longteng Group.

There is also a new batch of military uniforms that have been produced by the quilt factory and the helmet factory, and that costume will be used as one of your combat equipment in the future, and I think you will definitely like it.

Now the reorganization begins, and the new commanders and instructors of the second and third battalions go to receive equipment and new uniforms" "Yes"

Two hours later, there were three neat squares standing in front of Chen Shao, each dressed in grass green camouflage uniforms, camouflage helmets, camouflage boots, and a simple tactical vest, the vest was covered with small bags, and the soldiers could also adjust the position of the pouches, so that the soldiers could quickly take out the multi-bag vest with weapons, which could store bullet magazines, grenades, and other small weapons. The value of this equipment alone is 20 oceans, which is still the cost price. This equipment was prepared by Chen Shao for all the regular armies in the future, although it was a little expensive, but it was also worth it. The clothes have changed, but the weapons have not. Thinking that there are submachine guns and mortars in the barracks warehouse, there is no need to equip submachine guns for the time being, and the mortars are going to let the newly recruited reserve regiment start training, and after training, they will be directly assigned to a regiment. Although the formation of each battalion is not yet full, at least the shelves are erected." Lizheng, I am now going to announce a task, starting tomorrow, two battalions will be set aside every day to suppress bandits, and the system of rotation will be adopted until there are no more bandits within a radius of 100 kilometers from Qinghe Village, do you have the confidence to complete it?" Now that the family business is getting bigger and bigger, it also needs a stable development environment. Before, Chen Shao felt that the training of the soldiers was not in place, but after the battle of Tiger Mountain, Chen Shao completely changed, and there were only a few injured in the whole day of fighting, although the combat effectiveness of the bandits was not high, and their own equipment was good, but this kind of achievement has made Chen Shao very satisfied, and the time has come to completely solve the bandits around the base." Guaranteed to complete the task." The uniform sound made it seem that the fighters were excited." The morale is commendable and I am satisfied. Now, the deputy head of the regiment, Kong Wenhong, has arranged for everyone to familiarize themselves with the new military uniform."

After Chen Shao finished speaking, he directly left the barracks with Wang Xiaoshan, the commander of the guard company, and the soldiers of a squad of the guard company. Outside the barracks, a sedan (bought, the base can't be produced yet) and a military vehicle, Wang Jie waited there, Chen Shao, Wang Jie, Wang Xiaosan sat in the car, the guard got into the military car, and the two cars drove to the shipyard.

The guard company is all composed of people who rank high in the monthly competition, and Wang Xiaoshan is Chen Shao's special favorite, because he is another third-level private in addition to Chen Shao himself, and he can change from a private to a third-level private in half a year, which is definitely talented. The guard company was not only equipped with new uniforms, but also with submachine guns.

Submachine guns and mortars are weapons and equipment that have only recently begun to be produced, and the prototype of the submachine gun is the Thompson M1928 model, but Chen Shao did not name it separately, and it was directly called the Thompson submachine gun. Mortar Chen Shao only valued 60 mortars, as a close fire support unit, and small, alternative curved rails can hit shells into the trenches. The role of mortars is still very large.

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Today, the whole shipyard is completely lively, 1,000 hopes for the future navy, under the leadership of the naval instructor, lined up at the gate of the shipyard early, and a group of workers and scientists in the shipyard, waiting for Chen Shao's arrival. The roar of the truck came from far and near, and slowly stopped at the door of the shipyard, and under the gaze of thousands of eyes, Chen Shao opened the door and walked down. Seeing Chen Shao get out of the car, the 1,000 naval cadets raised their guns in the instructor's gesture, and the naval cadets used a neat military salute to express their respect to Chen Shao, the greatest commander in their hearts." Students, are you happy to study?" Unfortunately bitter."" I believe that you must be the pride of China's future oceans, and when the navy is officially established, I will wear epaulettes for you one by one." I'm definitely going to work hard."

Chen Shao's two junior instructors took the trainees back to the barracks and asked the senior naval instructor next to them: "How long do they have to train to form real combat effectiveness?" Report to the chief, the basic knowledge of training on land for 1 year, and then it will take 3-5 years to train on warships, and it is estimated that it will take 3-5 years to form combat effectiveness."" Don't worry, I can afford to wait, China can afford to wait."

It seems that the speed of naval training should be increased as soon as possible, Chen Shao thought of the Second World War in the future, each country can make up hundreds of thousands of navies, what he has done is far from enough, and now these 1,000 people are just the seeds of the future of the Chinese Navy.

Chen Shao came to the shipyard today because the shipyard is ready to start building warships, all kinds of equipment and workers have been in place, and the construction of three ships has started at once, and the construction drawings are also ready, Chen Fu has been staying in the shipyard for a while, and a group of scientists and technicians are arguing hard, because he wants to start building the Nagato-class battleship immediately, but others are afraid that it will be difficult to build a big ship at once. Later, Chen Shao made the decision to build three destroyers, which ended the dispute, but afterwards Chen Shao also promised Chen Fu that he would build at least three shipyards within a year (one shipyard can build three warships at the same time), and build Nagato-class battleships.

The groundbreaking ceremony was very simple, with only a few hundred shipbuilders and twenty technicians plus warship experts led by Chen Fu. The destroyer that started construction was an American destroyer during World War II: the Alan Sumner-class destroyer, Chen Shao named this destroyer the city-class destroyer, the first ship Xiamen, and the other two ships of the same class were: Chongqing and Nanning.

The data for city-class destroyers are:

Full load displacement: 2800 tons;

Main scale: total length 114.85 meters, total width 12.34 meters, draft 3.81 meters;

Speed: 34 knots;

Crew: 345 people;

Main guns: 3 MK.32 twin 5-inch high-level dual-purpose guns;

Torpedo: 2 5-link 21-inch torpedo tubes

Air defense weapons: 2 quadruple 40mm Bofors guns, 2 twin 40mm Bofors guns, 11 single-barreled 20mm Erlikon guns;

Anti-submarine weapons: 2 depth charge throwing slots and 4-6 hedgehog bomb launchers.

This is a very advanced destroyer in this era, mainly for air and anti-submarine, which is why Chen Shao wanted to build this destroyer.

There is another reason for coming here today, Chen Shao plans to build an air force command center here, as for the aircraft, Chen Shao already has a way to come, Feng Ru came from there official news, Feng Ru promised to come over to help him establish China's first air force unit, and this place is remote, the place is level, and the air force can also guard the shipyard after the air force is officially formed, which is also the reason why Chen Shao wants to build an air base here, and also build barracks and air force instructors to recruit air force cadets.