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The direction of the distribution of a large sum of war proceeds became a topic of debate within the American Congress in China before Wu Yuanyi's cabinet came to power. If it weren't for that big internal scandal, maybe the two houses of Congress would have been able to go ahead and do it, but this time, almost everyone would have to consider the military's feelings.

The austerity of defense spending, which began in 1630, had been going on for six years, and the overall effect of this policy of adjusting the state budget was good if the scandal of state-owned enterprises was not taken into account. In the past few years, a total of nearly 10 million yuan has been saved in military expenditures, and in a relatively peaceful environment, all aspects of domestic internal affairs have been greatly effective.

But from another point of view, both the army and the navy have suffered the consequences of the wars against England and the Netherlands in the past year.

The Wehrmacht Army bore the brunt of the attack, with military exercises on land reduced to once a year, and to this day all local National Guard units are still armed with 22A rifles, half of the Army's companies are using organ machine guns with paper shells, and the annual live-fire training subjects are also so-so. The Foreign Legion and the National Guard are even worse, with the training period for recruits being reduced from four months to three months, or even once every two years.

The siege of the cities of Recife made it clear that the consequences of these reductions in army spending were clearly felt. In fact, there were only more than 2,000 officers and men participating in the battle, but the total number of wounded, sick and dead exceeded 400, of whom 82 were killed and 37 were seriously disabled.

Although this was the first time that it had fought against a modern European army with hot weapons, and with the city siege in mind, the overall casualty rate in Brazil was as high as 20%, almost surpassing the Northern Campaign of 1622. There are dozens of lessons and lessons that have been summed up after the war alone that are directly related to daily military training.

The Navy is no exception, because of the tight military budget, in the past six years, in addition to some logistics support ships, the Navy has only added a total of seven combat ships. Four of them were built with temporary appropriations, and the number of construction started each year is less than half of that of previous years. In recent years, the average number of days for new recruits to go to sea for training has been only half of that of previous years, and the average number of days for combat readiness and cruising of the main warships has also been reduced, so as to reduce the maintenance cost of the ship's equipment.

According to the operational summary report of Colonel Sun Yang, commander of the European Expeditionary Fleet, the average hit rate of the officers and men of the warship artillery crews who went to Europe to participate in the war against low-speed moving targets at sea of 1,000 meters was reduced from 2.5 percent in 1630 to 1.8 percent in 1636, and the rate of fire was also reduced by 25 percent.

As the new nannies of the army and navy, Prime Minister Wu Yuanyi and Defense Minister Chung Quan, who have made certain promises to the military, unceremoniously used the war summary report as a magic weapon to ask the National Assembly for explanations.

Wu Yuanyi's compensation plan for national defense construction. It was to use 6,000,000 of the war proceeds of England and the Netherlands as a "compensatory military appropriation" for this year, and to restore the normal proportion of the annual defense budget from 1637 onwards.

The new House of Representatives gave the green light to the first round of review of the Cabinet's plan to "make up for the arrears," which finally appeased the Ministry of National Defense and the Chinese and US military, which were unhappy in the midst of the internal scandal. Wu Yuanyi's generosity won the favor of the two commanders of the army and navy.

Under the organization of Defense Minister Zheng Quan, Wang Tiezhu and Chen Liwen each brought their own helpers to argue fiercely in a small dark room for several nights, and finally the 6 million yuan compensatory allocation was divided up. Among them, the navy received the lion's share of 3.6 million, and the army also grabbed 2 million. And the National Guard Command under the Ministry of Defense can only drink 400,000 soup.

Lieutenant General Chen Liwen, who can only get less than half of the navy's budget at most every year, immediately turned into a local tyrant when he walked out of the conference room. According to the army's "compensatory military construction" plan submitted by Premier Wu Yuanyi and Defense Minister Zheng Quan, not only will the organ machine guns in the army be completely eliminated with expensive 32A rotary tube machine guns, but an infantry brigade of the Foreign Legion will be added again. He even had the code name of the unit in mind, and it was called the "Gray Wolf" Brigade, and the main force of the brigade will be stationed in South Africa for a long time to solve the troublesome transfer and waste of expenses caused by the painstaking rotation system of the garrison in previous years.

It is said that the establishment of the Gray Wolf Brigade. It is also one of the contents of the settlement reached privately between Chen Liwen and Premier Wu Yuanyi. However, Wu Yuanyi, who had the power to directly transfer the cabinet of the Foreign Legion, supported the Army's proposal on the condition that the brigade must be stationed in South Africa.

Admiral Wang Tiehammer, whose face was ruddy, also instantly turned into a rich and handsome man. He had long been planning a successor to the Princess-class large light cruisers, as well as a number of mid-sized ships that would succeed the Republica-class in the future, and would convert most of the hybrid capital ships to pure steam power in the coming years.

The grand ceremony was held at the Long Island Stadium on July 31, and this time the Army and Navy gave up their bad tempers and joyfully ushered in their own big day.

Although it is supported by the overall situation of Rear Admiral Zhang Chunrui, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary fleet, Sun Yang's record in Europe is also solid, and the naval blockade of England has achieved brilliant results; Wen Tuo took the Southern Fleet this time to look a little "aggrieved", and the battle was extremely conservative, but he was very calm and successfully grasped the scale of military confrontation with the Dutch West India Company, adopted the classic "fleet storage zài" and blockade tactics, and completed the military siege of the Dutch West India Company fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Tromp almost at no cost, and half of the credit for successfully extorting a large amount of reparations from the Netherlands should belong to Wen Tuo.

Colonel Sun Yang, commander of the European Expeditionary Fleet, and Colonel Wen Tuo, commander of the Southern Fleet, both successfully and brilliantly completed the task of commanding the fleet, and both were promoted to commodore generals. Considering the problem of small factions within the Navy, Colonel Bai Jun, the president of the Long Island Naval Academy for several years, was also promoted to Commodore this time.

Lieutenant Commander Wang Zhihua, Commander of the South African Fleet, and Lieutenant Commander Andrew of the Asian Fleet were also promoted to Captain Colonel this time. By the standards of 17th-century European navies, Andrew, who was extremely experienced in naval combat, would have no problem conferring the rank of general. In particular, Andrew is 60 years old this year, and there are still a few years left before the maximum age of service, so more recognition should be given.

The Chinese Navy has three more senior officers at the commodore level, and Zhang Chunrui has also been successfully promoted to vice admiral. As a result, the number of admirals in the Navy reached five.

The Army did not lag far behind, and the commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Chen Liwen, had worked hard and made great achievements, and some people in the Congress were frightened a while ago. This time, Congress was "very generous" in promoting Chen Liwen to army general. Brigadier General He Yu, director of logistics and training, was promoted to major general, and Colonel You Nanzhe, chief of staff of the army, was promoted to brigadier general.

Four lieutenant colonels, including Scott, commander-in-chief of the African Brigade, Tang Wei, chief of staff of the African Brigade, Xu Hongyun, commander-in-chief of the Bison Brigade, and Liu Chenxu, commander-in-chief of the Brown Bear Brigade, have all participated in corresponding military operations in the past year, and they were all promoted to colonels this time.

As for the much-anticipated Congressional Medal of Honor after each heavy war, its recipients are embarrassing. At the Battle of Dublin, Ireland, a European second lieutenant gunners of the Provisional Marine Corps, who was cut in half in a surprise attack by the English cavalry, became the substitute recipient of the medal and the first Congressional Medal of Honor to be received by the Navy since the founding of the country.

When President Li Ping personally handed over the glittering pearlescent Congressional Medal of Honor to the families of the martyrs, the applause of the people in the audience lasted for a long time.

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It's only been a day. On August 1, when everyone in the Navy was rejoicing, the Navy Command announced the new one.

In accordance with the long-awaited plan of the Navy Command, the tonnage classification of the main combat ships of the Chinese and US Navy has been reclassified.

A number of light combat vessels with a standard displacement of less than 500 tons will be downgraded to "patrol boats" and will all be handed over to the local coast guard to be responsible for daily defense patrols along the coast of the national territory, thus freeing up valuable naval forces.

With a standard displacement of more than 500 and less than 800 tons, it belongs to the class of "gunboats". It is a medium and offshore combat ship. The acting captain has the rank of lieutenant, and the official captain is captain or major. At present, there is only one type of "Raccoon"-class gunboat, which is still on paper, and in the future, it will be mainly deployed in the Caribbean Fleet and the Asian Fleet, which have many islands and many short-range routes.

With a standard displacement of more than 800 and less than 2000 tons, it belongs to the class of "frigates". It belongs to medium and ocean-going combat ships, which are subdivided into three classes. The acting captain has the rank of captain, and the official captain is a major or lieutenant colonel.

With a standard displacement of more than 2000 tons and less than 5000 tons, it belongs to the class of "light cruisers". Ocean-going combat ships are also divided into three classes according to their tonnage. The acting captain has the rank of lieutenant commander and the official captain is lieutenant or colonel.

The standard displacement is more than 5,000 tons and more than 10,000 tons. Naturally, it can only be obscene "heavy cruisers" and "battleships", with the acting captain being the lieutenant commander and the official captain being the colonel. It is a pity that no one in the Chinese and US navies will be able to see these two large capital ships for at least five years.

In this way, even the previous Republic-class light cruisers, the main force of the Navy, instantly fell to the level of first-class frigates. At the moment only the Princess class can be counted as a light cruiser, and it is only a light cruiser of the third rank.

The Navy Command's "farsightedness" and "crossing the river and demolishing bridges" have indeed made many officers and men unable to adapt to them for a while. Even if the two Alfalfa-class ships that had only been in service for less than a year were counted, the officers and men of the Republic-class, the Jewel-class, and the USS Constitution, which had been holding the title of light cruiser for a long time, became sullen one by one, and their morale was obviously affected.

However, there are so many "brothers and sisters" in the Hua-class sail frigate, and several captains can't help but gloat. All of a sudden, there was a sharp increase in the number of incidents of sailors causing trouble at the Mermaid Bar on the West Side of Long Island.

However, in any case, with the gradual improvement of shipbuilding technology and the increasingly prominent strategic interests of the country's ocean-going sea, in addition to the number and scale, large-tonnage cruisers that can carry out ocean-going combat readiness deployment for a longer period of time have become the core development direction of the Chinese and US Navy's next step.

At this time, the readjustment of the classification of warships also made the navy's armament and personnel management system clearer and clearer. Otherwise, it is inevitable that there will be 1,000-ton and 5,000-ton cruisers coexisting, and the captain and colonel are both cruiser captains.

Perhaps taking into account the situation of officers and men after the readjustment of the ship classification standard, in order to boost morale, the Navy Command issued orders for the construction of new ships to three domestic shipbuilding enterprises the next day.

The construction of the combat-tested improved all-steam-powered frigates of the Sativa class began in earnest, and a total of 6 are planned. The displacement of the new improved warship has been slightly increased, and in addition to the introduction of a newer naval thin-tube boiler, several technical improvements have been made to the transmission of the steam-driven turret, and the overall reliability has been improved by at least 50% compared to the Sativa class. Perhaps it is because the previous internal scandal has not completely subsided, or it may be that the number of starts at one time is relatively large, so the unit price of the construction contract for this type of warship is only 300,000 US dollars.

The Sativa Improved Warship will continue to be named after the herbaceous plant, and the three ships built are the "Rosemary", "Gyokuro" and "Mimosa", so some people in the Navy also refer to it as the Rosemary-class second-class frigate.

Another day later, in order to strengthen the security of the Far Eastern route and reduce the intensity of the Asian Fleet's daily combat readiness cruises, the two sail frigates of the Home Fleet, the Camellia and the Rose, as well as the transport ship Moby Dick, were ordered to be transferred to the overseas territory of Pearl Island, thus increasing the number of ships of the Asian Fleet under the command of Colonel Andrew to six. (To be continued)