The shock of the war in Vietnam to the Portuguese was far more than imagined, France had no way to take China, why should they make trouble on the territorial issue, so they obediently handed over their sovereignty, China won a good start, Portugal did not have any conditions, returned Chinese territory, which played a very beneficial role in the next Geneva negotiations, Gu Weijun has firmly grasped the initiative.

"President, China has taken another important step to recover its sovereignty, which is really gratifying!"

"Brother Baili, Hong Kong, Macao are all trivial, the key is a matter of face, the really fatal Taiwan and Sakhalin, these two big islands, one south and one north, happen to be the main route for China to go out of the Pacific Ocean, and now they are all in the hands of the Japanese, plus the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, and China's eastern maritime frontier are completely blocked, and they can't go out of the Pacific Ocean, China's navy will never be a real navy, and it can only be an inland sea fleet at its own doorstep!"

Jiang Baili is now the chief of the general staff, so he naturally has to carefully consider the country's security, and the question raised by Qiao Yu is very realistic, although China has a huge territorial waters, but it is firmly controlled by an island chain, and it is impossible to move forward, so it is naturally tied up and very uncomfortable.

"President, Taiwan Island and Sakhalin Island are not as good as Macao, Guangzhou Bay and other places, if you want to negotiate and deter, you don't want to take it back, you can only fight to the death with the Japanese, defeat Japan's maritime hegemony, and these areas will naturally be taken back!"

Speaking of this, Jiang Baili also hesitated a little, the speed of China's naval construction is not slow, China's first own battleship has begun construction, and the first aircraft carrier has also begun to lay keels, as for other destroyers and cruisers are also constantly launching like dumplings.

In addition, China has refitted two escort aircraft carriers, and the pilots of carrier-based aircraft have stepped up training, and it can be said that all parties have done their best, but at present, in addition to naval aviation, there is still a huge gap between the Chinese navy and Japan, and Japan has converted the battleship Tosa into an aircraft carrier, and the standard displacement of this rebuilt aircraft carrier has exceeded 30,000 tons. It's a sea giant in every sense of the word.

The Tosa was the second of the Kaga-class battleships. The first was the Kaga, which was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake and converted into an aircraft carrier and became one of the most notorious aircraft carriers of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

In today's time and space, the Tiancheng is still destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake. But the battleship Kaga was retained, while the Tosa replaced Tensei as one of Japan's largest carriers, and another aircraft carrier, the Akagi, was launched last year.

As a result, the Japanese Navy already has two aircraft carriers of more than 30,000 tons, and although China has long set a strategy of giving priority to the development of aircraft carriers, China still has only one starting point. Moreover, it is an old ship, which makes the Chinese Navy feel very uncomfortable, and there is an urgent need for a new large aircraft carrier to improve its combat effectiveness.

This is still the smallest gap between China and Japan, and the gap between other battleships, cruisers, etc. is even greater, of course, the Chinese Navy has another killer feature, that is, submarines, and China has put the most effort into submarines. At the moment there are already forty submarines of various types in China. And combat effectiveness has been fully formed.

Most of these submarines are the product of technical cooperation between China and Germany, and you must know that Germany dominated the world in submarine combat power at the time of World War I. Technology has far surpassed that of other powers.

At present, China's submarines have fully inherited the superior performance of German submarines, and have also carried out a large number of technological innovations, which have made China's underwater forces rapidly become stronger, and have been able to pose a huge threat to any enemy who dares to invade China's waters.

However, in any case, the particularity of submarines determines that they can only be used as hidden weapons, and they can be fatal with one blow, and if they want to truly seize sea supremacy, they are still inseparable from huge surface ships.

"President, do you think you want to speed up the naval construction operation?"

Qiao Yu shook his head slightly, he was more anxious than anyone else in military development, but Qiao Yu knew very well that some things could not be done quickly if he wanted to, although China's shipbuilding industry had German technical help, but the Germans could not do it without reservations, and China had to form its own characteristics.

Now it can be regarded as the first time that China has built a capital warship, and at the beginning it was a battleship and an aircraft carrier to build together, this pressure can be imagined, and the technical problems that need to be overcome are one after another, for young Chinese shipbuilders, they are not only a process of construction, but also a process of learning.

At such a time, we must not be in a hurry, we must not be fast, let alone a layman leading an insider, relying on imagination to do things will never work, we must be down-to-earth, give these engineers and designers enough time, so that they can thoroughly understand how to build a large warship, only by finishing the road that should be taken, can we speed up.

The Chinese Navy must wait at least until the next five-year plan, and they can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, but although the Navy cannot be expanded, there is no problem with the Army, "Brother Baili, the construction of the Navy is currently very fast, don't mess with your own position, but the expansion of the Army and Air Force is still very necessary, although all the Chinese army has exceeded one million, most of them are border troops and local garrison forces, and the real field troops are less than 300,000, such a number obviously cannot meet China's national defense and security needs, Expansion is necessary! ”

The problem that Qiao Yu said Jiang Baili has also considered for a long time, unlike the navy, the Chinese army and air force have mature technology and a huge talent reserve, and they can completely expand the army at any time.

"President, it is indeed necessary to expand the army, China's territory is huge, and the pressure on national defense is also great, we can be said to be on fire everywhere on the land border, and we can't do it anywhere without heavy military groups!"

Jiang Baili drew a large circle on the map with his finger and said: "President, Japan has added a large number of troops in the direction of Korea and the Far East, and it is still expanding, the Japanese troops in both sides have exceeded 300,000, and the goal is to reach our northeast, now the border guards in the northeast are less than 200,000, and some of them have to cope with the pressure from the Far Eastern Republic, and it is very necessary to increase the troops."

The Soviets are expanding their forces even faster than Japan's, they have expanded their army to 1 million, of which nearly 200,000 are stationed in Central Asia, putting tremendous pressure on Xinjiang, and we are now at war with France. Regardless of the outcome of the Geneva negotiations. We have to face the pressure of Britain and France in the southwest border area, from the northeast to the northwest, and then to the southwest, China's land borders are full of enemies, and the president's decision to expand the army is really too wise! ”

As a representative of military forces, Jiang Baili's enthusiasm for army expansion comes from instinctive power, since Qiao Yu unified China. In fact, the number of troops has been decreasing, a large number of old and weak soldiers left behind in the former Qing Dynasty have to be dismantled, and some veterans have to be discharged home, and the number of new recruits is not very large, so the Chinese army has shown a shrinking trend.

Of course, this reduction in the number of people has not affected the combat effectiveness of the army, and China has not relaxed in the updating of military technology. The main fighters and main battle tanks, China can definitely enter the world's top level, and the Chinese army also attaches great importance to the configuration of firepower, and a large number of new artillery pieces have been enriched into the army!

"President, I don't know if you are preparing to expand the first-line troops or the second-line forces this time?"

"Naturally, it is a front-line force, and I am preparing to form a new armored division, and the tentative plan is four divisions. Expand later. The new armored division was abolished at the brigade level and had a total of two regiments. Two battalions per regiment, four companies per battalion, 21 tanks per company, plus some self-propelled guns, and other divisional units, with a total number of more than 20,000 people, forming a powerful torrent of steel! ”

As soon as Jiang Baili heard what Qiao Yu said, he silently calculated in his heart, such a division is three hundred and thirty-six tanks, these steel giants have to drink oil, and there will be various failures, so if you want to give full play to the advantages of armored forces, then you need a huge logistics support force, and it is normal for thousands of motor vehicles to act as nannies.

Just to make these machines move, the resources required are unimaginable, and it will cost countless steel materials to build such a steel torrent itself, and Qiao Yu is also preparing to build four together, it seems that he is still unfinished, is this big president bragging? You must know that the United States does not necessarily have such great courage, and this is too great a test of industrial capacity!

"President, isn't your hand a little big, I'm afraid that our current steel production can't meet the requirements at all!"

"Brother Baili, you don't have to worry about this, our steel production will soon have a huge jump! During the Second Five-Year Plan period, the annual output should reach at least 10 million tons, and by the Third Five-Year Plan period, China's steel output will exceed 50 million tons, catching up with the footsteps of the United States in one fell swoop and becoming the world's most important industrial power! ”

From the official implementation of the first five-year plan in 1924 to the end of the Third Five-Year Plan, that is, the outbreak of World War II, if China can achieve this goal in 15 years, it will be the world's second industrial power following the United States, becoming a decisive force, and its status is completely different from now!

Qiao Yu's estimate of steel production is not a satellite, but has full confidence, not long ago, Chinese technicians have conquered an important technology, that is, oxygen top blowing converter steelmaking technology, which is also Qiao Yu's confidence.

In later generations, this oxygen top blowing converter steelmaking method accounted for 60% of the world's total steelmaking volume, and has an absolute advantage in all steelmaking technologies.

The most prominent feature is that the efficiency is much more than the traditional open-hearth steelmaking, the oxygen top blowing converter due to the use of oxygen content of more than 99% for blowing, the reaction is intense, decarburization, heating is very fast, the smelting cycle is very short, generally only takes about half an hour, and the open-hearth takes five to six hours to smelt a furnace of steel.

In addition to the fast efficiency, the investment of this steelmaking method is thirty or forty percent less than that of the open-hearth, the quality of the steel is better, and because the top blowing method uses the temperature of the molten iron itself, it does not need additional heating, and the energy consumption can be minimized, it can be said that this is a cross-era technological progress, which is bound to greatly change the situation of the steel industry.

This is also one of the few important technologies that Qiao Yu knows, but it is also a half-baked level, starting from 1918, Sichuan workers began to study this area under the guidance of Qiao Yu, just a month ago, finally came the news of decisive progress, only one step away from large-scale industrial production! (To be continued.) )