"Teacher, the telegram has been translated."

Not long after Hirota Hongyi received the telegram, Liao Changfeng came to see Jiang Baili with a deciphered note. He is also a student selected by Liu Mingzhao's batch of National Defense University, even if he is now the commander of the Marine Corps, he has to be called a teacher when he sees Jiang Baili.

After the repeated seizures of Japanese cipher machines and codecs, Japan's radio communications were now almost one-way transparent to the Wehrmacht, and the Strategic Intelligence Agency's code-breaking team could translate a 100-word telegram in a matter of minutes using a computer. "Hehe, some people still don't give up." Jiang Baili sneered twice after reading it, and really thought that Su De could break the sky? If it weren't for the president's desire to seize the future ahead of Europe and the United States in order to revitalize the country's science and technology, a single bomb would have wiped Tokyo and Moscow off the face of the earth!

Liao Changfeng didn't know about the existence of nuclear technology, thought he was angry, and deliberately fanned the flames and said: "Teacher, why don't you go back and talk to the president and let me land." ”

"Hehe, I can't be the master of this matter." Jiang Baili smiled and put away the telegram: "You take down the islands of Sulawesi and East Timor as soon as possible, and be ready to interfere in Japan, even if you share the president's worries." The rest will be notified to you when the time comes, and in short, it will be a chance for you to go to Tokyo to show off your prestige. ”

"Look at what you said, I'm in my fifties, so I don't have the heart to play."

"Come on, don't play tricks with me. I'm going back to Beijing, and Guangtian will trouble you. Jiang Baili packed his briefcase and went out to prepare to return to Beijing. When I arrived at the airport, I remembered another thing and grabbed Liao Changfeng and said: "There is something you have to be prepared for, the president has decided to separate the Marine Corps from the Navy, and I am afraid that you will be asked to form a Marine Corps Command." ”

"Marine independence?" Liao Changfeng's body was shocked, and his eyes were bright: "Is it to learn from the United States and delegate our command to the president?" "Yes." Jiang Baili nodded. Yang Qiu and the General Staff have been thinking about the independence of the Marine Corps for a long time, and with the increase of China's offshore territory, there will definitely be many overseas missions in the future and even be involved in some regional conflicts. However, the current constitution stipulates that the use of the three armed services requires the authorization of the state. Therefore, Yang Qiu wants to learn from the United States to separate the Marine Corps and the Special Operations Command, and then delegate the power to mobilize these two forces to the president, so that he can quickly deal with external crises without going through cumbersome congressional authorizations. For this, he is also considering converting the next few Liaoning-class aircraft carriers into amphibious assault ships to bypass the trouble of the Marine Corps needing naval fire support.

In fact, this is the model of the rapid reaction forces of later countries, and of course it is also a symbol of interventionism. But because this matter involved the redistribution of power within the army, Jiang Baili said hello to Liao Changfeng early.

It was already afternoon when he returned to Beijing, and when he came to the president's office, he saw Yang Qiu and Song Ziqing whispering. Next to him, Bingwen and Bai Yutang and several other senior naval officers had bitter expressions. "Yo, why is the Navy on holiday today? Hey, Bingwen, why is it bitter, it hasn't been long since this year. ”

"Headmaster, don't answer me." Bingwen didn't have the heart to joke, but Yang Qiu laughed: "It's just in time, I just want to hear your opinions." ”

"What's the matter, Yue Peng and Chu Nan are not in Beijing?"

"Yue Peng went to Guizhou. Zhu Peide and Qin Zhangshu went to Persia, and Liu Mingzhao also went with him, and he then had to go to England to attend the Allied Conference. Chu Nan was not worried about the Urals, and went to inspect the northwest with Long Yun yesterday. ”

"This Yue Zi'an. Why did you go to Guizhou well, what about Yu Lei and Xu Huansheng of the Air Force? ”

"How can they have time, seeing that it is almost May, they will be busy just doing the bombing program of Baku and the western part of the Soviet Union." Song Ziqing pulled Jiang Baili to the side. Pick up a thick document and stuff it to him: "Let's take a look at this first." Jiang Baili picked up the document and looked at it, and understood why Bingwen and Bai Yutang were all full of sadness, it turned out that they were going to cancel the naval project.

Three years after the Great War. The main battlefield was finally transferred to the Mediterranean Sea and the Western Front as desired, and the remaining tens of thousands of Japanese troops on the southeast peninsula were just a matter of water milling, and the Japanese troops in Korea were relatively numerous, but they had already cut off supplies and handed over to the North Korean side to fight slowly, as for Java Island and Rabaul, there was no landing plan for the time being, so Yang Qiu finally had time to make a major adjustment to the army and domestic affairs. Because the Japanese Combined Fleet has lost most of its combat effectiveness, and its current strength has far exceeded its actual needs, the Navy has become the first target for adjustment.

"Headmaster, you have something to say." Chen Shiying quietly pulled the corner of his clothes, hoping that he would say a few good words for the navy. After Jiang Baili carefully read the plan, he shook his head and said: "Don't blame me for talking too much, the president has supported you a lot over the years, so it's time for you to take the initiative to help the president and the country reduce some of the burden." As for the marines, this is prepared for the future, there is no room for negotiation! As soon as this sentence came out, it was equivalent to completely destroying the last hope of the navy, and Bingwen had no choice but to nod when he saw this: "Then listen to the arrangement of the president and the general staff." ”

So far, the stumbling Chinese Navy has gone through 60 years of ups and downs, and now it is hard to hit a piece of the sky, and it is understandable to hope that it will be a foot closer. Moreover, this adjustment plan not only involves a significant reduction in the number of naval ships, but also involves the independence of the Marine Corps and the abolition of the Navy's long-range bomber force, so the Admiralty is not very satisfied with this.

Yang Qiu also has no intention of reproaching, the reform of the military system is the easiest to touch the distribution of interests, and as for the ship-building plan, it must also be adjusted, because the situation is different now, he must give more limited manufacturing capacity to the army and air force, and gradually restore the people's livelihood and expand exports to Europe and the United States.

After everyone negotiated one by one, Yang Qiu signed his name on it, and then handed it to Song Ziqing to send to the Congress for final review. According to this bill, the navy will be expanded from the current three fleets to four fleets and one special detachment in northern Xinjiang. The First Fleet's home ports are located in Qingdao and the Ryukyus, with the Northeast Pacific as its main operational zone. The home ports of the Second Fleet are located in Zhoushan and Guam, with the southwest Pacific Ocean as its main operational zone. The Third Fleet is based in Singapore, with the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean as its main theater of operations. The new Fourth Fleet will be responsible for combat missions in the Persian Gulf, East Africa and the Red Sea, with its headquarters in Oman. The special detachment in northern Xinjiang is specially set up for the future coastal defense of the Arctic Ocean, and there is no clear establishment for the time being, and we will talk about it when there are ships and bases that can be deployed in the north for a long time in the future when technological development is available.

The Marine Corps will formally become independent from the Navy, and all of the Navy's 577 Hai-H-7 bombers must also be handed over to the Air Force within the year. This also means that the combat duties of the Navy will be simpler and clearer.

In addition to the preparation. Equipment and wartime shipbuilding plans are the items that have been adjusted the most.

At present, the Navy has a total of 32 aircraft carriers, including 2 "Beihai" class, 3 "Sichuan class", 6 "Liaoning" class and 21 escort aircraft carriers. After the adjustment, the remaining 6 Liaoning-class ships will all be suspended, of which the 4 with the highest completion rate will be converted into "Singapore"-class amphibious assault ships that can carry attack aircraft, helicopters and universal landing craft at the same time to be handed over to the Marine Corps, and 2 will be stopped but will not dismantle the hull in case of emergency. As for the three "Zhejiang-class" aircraft carriers with a standard displacement of 50,000 tons, which started construction at the beginning of last year, they will no longer be adjusted, and they will continue to be funded to complete their construction. After the end of the war, the two "North Seas" will be immediately transferred to the reserve, and all the escort aircraft carriers will be dismantled or sold, and only 14 fleet aircraft carriers will be retained.

The battleship remained the same. They are 2 "Anhai" class, 4 "Beijing" class and 2 "Shandong" class, the remaining 2 "Shandong" class will be delivered this year and early next year, respectively, and the 2 "Anhai" class will be decommissioned and dismantled immediately after the war.

At present, there are 1 "Wuhan" class, 2 "Taiwan Island" class and 7 "Xi'an" class heavy cruisers, 3 "Xi'an" class ships with a high completion rate will be completed, and the remaining 2 and 6 "Heilongjiang" class planned ships will be cancelled.

There are 3 light cruisers of the "Tumenjiang" class, 1 of the "Yangtze River" class, 7 ships of the "Xiangjiang" class and 10 ships of the "Brahmaputra River" class, and only the first three of the remaining 8 "Brahmaputra" class ships with a high completion rate are retained, and the last 4 and 8 "Qinghai Lake" class order ships are cancelled.

On destroyers and frigates, there are currently 4 ships of the "Changfeng" class and 20 ships of the "Woody Island" class. 6 "Taishan" class, 71 "Qinling" class and 122 "Territorial Waters" class frigates. The 11 "Qinling" class ships that have already been launched will be completed, and the rest will be cancelled. Of the 3,700-ton "Guam"-class destroyers that also started construction at the beginning of last year, in addition to the 17 that have already been launched and started, funds will continue to be allocated for the construction of 13 destroyers. The remaining 30 order ships and frigates of the "territorial waters" class were all canceled. After the war, the "Changfeng" class and the "Woody Island" class will be decommissioned immediately, and the "territorial waters" class frigates will be handed over to the National Guard 60 units, and the rest will all be sold or dismantled, and the three planned ships will be cancelled.

There are 132 submarines. Among them, there are 52 ships of the "Black Shark" class, which are comparable to the XXI class, and all of them will be retained. Of the 29 ships that have already started, only 12 remain, except for 4 experimental and 10 ocean-going special types. All were cancelled for post-war sales or demolition.

Funds will continue to be allocated for the construction of 15 auxiliary vessels, including 2 large icebreakers, 2 submarine cable-laying vessels, and 5 supply and medical vessels, and the landing ship project will not be reduced for the time being (because it is not 100% certain whether it will eventually land in Japan). The rest of the ships that are not included in the form, such as fire support ships, have also been suspended, and the slipways will be immediately removed to make room for urgently needed items such as wartime standard ships, and those that have already entered service will be processed after the war.

Dozens of ships that have already started construction, and more than 100 order ships and planned ships have been canceled one after another, which makes the Navy heartbroken. However, Yang Qiu did not talk about any sentiment this time, the new generation of strategic bombers, transport planes, tanks and other equipment have been finalized, and there is an urgent need to expand production capacity, the wartime standard wheels and industrial product orders of Britain and the United States are even more huge, the shrinkage of private economic activities, the production materials such as trucks and tractors urgently needed in the civilian market, as well as national construction, industrial transformation, etc., prompted him to gradually restore the people's livelihood and normal economic order as soon as possible, so that the country that has been under heavy pressure after the three-year war can transform early.

After sending away Bingwen and the others with a depressed face, Jiang Baili was just about to talk about Guangtian Hongyi, when he saw that Yang Qiu actually asked Miao Luo to pack his things and prepare to go out, he was surprised: "President, where are you going?" ”

"Take a trip to Guizhou." After Yang Qiu finished speaking, he asked, "By the way, why did you come back?" ”

"Well, see for yourself." Jiang Baili stuffed the deciphered telegram to Yang Qiu, and said in a sullen voice: "It seems that Hirohito has been too comfortable during this time, and I heard that the Soviet Union and Germany attacked Turkey and changed their minds again." ”

"Let's talk about it on the plane, Yue Peng is still waiting for me." What made Jiang Baili strange was that Yang Qiu didn't even look at the telegram when he took it, and pulled him into his pocket and rushed to the airport......