Chapter 382: New Ships Entered Service

The reorganization of the Dingbei Army Lin Daxin focused on strengthening the strength of the Guards Army, and the three Guards Corps that were reorganized, each Guards not only had three infantry divisions of 50,000 people, but also established one armored division for each Guards, and the armored division not only had tanks and armored vehicles, but also had an armored infantry regiment of 4,000 people and an air defense regiment equipped with 36 Gaoping dual-purpose 57-mm anti-aircraft guns and 36 Gaoping dual-purpose 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, making the strength of one Guards Army reach 160,000 people.

These 3 guards add up to 480,000 troops, all of which will be stationed near Shenyang City, as well as the cities around Shenyang City, the guards are the royal forest army prepared by Lin Daxin for himself, if war or rebellion breaks out, hundreds of thousands of guards will be the sharpest blade in Lin Daxin's hands. The commanders of the three major guards were Chen Ergou, Zhang Daxiong, and Ni Fan.

The commanders of the other ten field armies were Wang Hongjun, Zhang Limin, Deng Zichao, Hu Desheng, Wang Peng, Duan Qirui, Zhang Zuolin, Li Yuandong, Yu Lichen, and Xie Jun.

Although there are armored troops, the role of the cavalry can still not be ignored, so Lin Daxin on the basis of the original cavalry division of 50,000 cavalry, reorganized into 3 independent cavalry divisions, each cavalry division of 20,000 cavalry, each cavalry is equipped with 2 horses, independent cavalry division is equipped with 96 rifles, 96 pistols, 96 submachine guns, 96 light machine guns, sabers and 60 mm mortars.

The rereorganization of the Dingbei Army this time will further expand the number of the Dingbei Army, with 480,000 troops in the three major guards, 1.5 million in the 10 major field armies, 36 in the 12 garrison armies, 60,000 in the three independent cavalry divisions, and a regular army of 2.4 million in the Dingbei Army, which has surpassed the number of regular armies of the Russian Army and has become the country with the largest standing army in the world.

However, at present, there are only more than 1 million troops of the regular army in Lin Daxin's hands, and it is enough to double the strength of the army to complete this reorganization, but fortunately, there are millions of reservists in the four northeastern provinces. At the same time, the army is expanding, and there is still a very large gap in weapons, and the arsenal is needed for production, so although Lin Daxin and Wu Peifu issued an order for reorganization, it will take at least half a year or even one year to reorganize the final 2.4 million Dingbei Army.

However, Lin Daxin is not in a hurry, after the end of the war in Japan, his army should be able to recuperate for a period of time, defeated Russia, Japan, and even defeated the French and British navies, no one should come to their own trouble in the near future, unless they are impatient, even the Russians heard that Lin Daxin and Japan signed an armistice treaty, and the border between the two sides has also become stopped, and the Dingbei Army has enough time to complete this reorganization.

Lin Daxin couldn't help but think proudly, the 2.4 million elite Dingbei Army, if a war breaks out, he can definitely crush the other party, including Russia, which can mobilize millions of troops, and he relies on less than a million Dingbei Army to clean up the Russians, if the Dingbei Army completes this reorganization, can he consider directly driving the Russians back to Europe, so that the entire east of the Ural Mountains will become his own territory, well, this can be considered!

After issuing the order for the reorganization of the Northern Army, Lin Daxin shifted his attention to the Northeast Navy, in the sea battle near the Wild Boar River Wharf in the Far Eastern Province, although the Northeast Navy won the final victory, severely damaged the British Navy's Eastern Fleet and the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, but also suffered great losses, several main fleets sank a total of 6 all-steel battleships, 5 ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, 4 large fast armored cruisers, 9 anti-several fast protection cruisers, 14 destroyers of the destroyer class and 22 torpedo boats of the mine* class.

Another 1 ironclad battleship Tianlu and 1 large fast armored cruiser Xingye, although they were not sunk at that time, but when they returned to the Dalian shipyard, they found that there was no value for repair, and they could only be scrapped.

However, the good news from the Dalian Shipyard and the Weihaiwei Shipyard suddenly made the entire Northeast Navy excited, and the 12 large fast armored cruisers of the Trottle class with a full load displacement of 10,900 tons built by the two shipyards had completed the final sea trials at the end of October 1899 and were waiting for the Northeast Navy to take over.

In addition, 12 city-class all-steel battleships with a full load displacement of 15,300 tons, which have been built for two years, have just completed sea trials, and can be received by the Northeast Navy together with 12 large fast armored cruisers of the throttle-class with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons.

These 12 all-steel battleships and 12 large fast armored cruisers joined the service of the Northeast Navy, which not only made up for the losses of the Northeast Navy, but even raised the strength of the Northeast Navy to a higher level.

In this way, Lin Daxin redistributed the six main fleets of the Northeast Navy, and the battleship formation of the First Fleet will have eight city-class all-steel battleships Shenyang, Changchun, Harbin, Pyongyang, Vladivostok, Chita, Boli, and Kulun.

The First Fleet's armored cruiser formation has 4 large fast armored cruisers of the solar terminology class, namely the Lichun, the Rain, the Shocking and the Spring Equinox.

The Second Fleet's battleship formation will have eight city-class all-steel battleships Lushun, Qiqihar, Hohhot, Chifeng, Dandong, Weihaiwei, Baicheng and Dalian.

The armored cruiser formation of the Second Fleet has 4 large fast armored cruisers of the Solar Terms-class Qingming, Guyu, Lixia and Xiaoman.

The battleship formation of the Third Fleet will have 9 all-steel battleships, namely the beauty-class all-steel battleships Diao, Zhaojun, Feiyan and Zhen Mi with a full load displacement of 14,974 tons, and the all-steel battleships Qinghai Lake, Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and Hulun Lake with a displacement of 13,500 tons.

The armored cruiser formation of the Third Fleet has 4 large fast armored cruisers of the Temperary-class Mangzhong, Xia Zhi, Xiao Xia, and Da Xia.

The battleship fleet of the Fourth Fleet will have three German-class all-steel battleships with a full load displacement of 11,780 tons, the Yade, Yude, and Yide, and five ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 15,000 tons, the Flying Bear, the Flying Tiger, the Sky Bear, the Sky Tiger and the Aquila.

The armored cruiser formation of the Fourth Fleet has four large fast armored cruisers of the solar terminology class, such as Liqiu, Chuxia, Bailu, and Autumn.

The battleship formation of the Fifth Fleet has two all-steel battleships with a displacement of 11,693 tons, Weishanhu and Dongqian Lake, and two American-class all-steel battleships with a displacement of 11,565 tons, the Yami and Yumei, a total of four all-steel battleships.

The armored cruiser formation of the Fifth Fleet has 6 large fast armored cruisers of the general class with a displacement of 7,069 tons, such as the General, the Second General, the Third General, the Fourth General, the Fifth General, and the Sixth General.

The battleship formation of the Sixth Fleet had 2 ironclad battleships, the Flying Eagle and the Flying Fox.

The armored cruiser formation of the Sixth Fleet has 2 large fast armored cruisers Xingzhong and Xingning with a displacement of 10,500 tons, 1 large fast armored cruiser Xinghai with a displacement of 7,000 tons, and 2 large fast armored cruisers Xinghe and Xingsheng with a displacement of 7,900 tons.

The configuration of the other 6 fleets of other warships remains unchanged and is all the same, the protective cruiser formation has 12 anti-aircraft fast protection cruisers with a displacement of 4,500 tons, the destroyer formation has 8 destroyers with a displacement of 1,000 tons, and the torpedo boat formation has 16 mine-class torpedo boats with a speed of 34 knots.

The addition of the 24 new capital warships has not only made the Northeast Navy recover quickly, but even much stronger than before, but the strength of the main warships of the Fifth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet is slightly weaker, but Lin Daxin's shipyard is ready to start building the next batch of main warships.

In addition to Dalian Shipyard and Weihaiwei Shipyard, Lin Daxin has also put into use Huludao Shipyard and Nanpu Shipyard, especially Huludao Shipyard, which has begun to build a submarine developed by the shipyard itself, and it is six submarines being built at the same time.

Originally, Lin Daxin was ready to let the shipyard directly start building dreadnoughts, that is, the watershed of battleships, the kind of large-caliber main gun battleships with 8 to 12 guns, but the shipyard was afraid that the first construction of this kind of dreadnought would be a little uncertain, so he only prepared to build 2 at the same time, and later Lin Daxin strongly requested that he prepare to build 6 all-steel battleships with full main gun firepower at the same time.

Because the construction of this kind of battleship is the first time, and the displacement is relatively large, more than 20,000 tons, the construction time will be relatively long, and the shipyard told Lin Daxin that it may take nearly 3 years.

So many large-tonnage docks in the shipyard can't be idle, so Lin Daxin decided to let the shipyard continue to build city-class all-steel battleships, after all, this kind of all-steel battleship shipyard has already built experience, so there is no need to build another kind of all-steel battleship, as long as Lin Daxin's all-steel battleship similar to the dreadnought-class all-steel battleship comes out, the previous all-steel battleships will be outdated, and it is enough to build city-class all-steel battleships, and their own shipyards don't have to explore the technology of battleships, You just need to build according to the design drawings you give. R1152